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When CIA director Irene Kennedy and Special Agent Skip McMahon receive damaging intelligence on Washington's most powerful players

even if it meant losing a scoring title • Forged successful teams out of players of varying abilities by getting them to trust one another and perform in sync • Inspired Dennis Rodman and other “uncoachable” personalities to devote themselves to something larger than themselves • Transformed Kobe Bryant from a rebellious teenager into a mature leader of a championship team

The diaries and interviews with surviving prisoners drawn on in SURVIVING THE SWORD will tell a new generation about that solidarity

brought her into the spotlight and galvanized fans around the world

Extreme Metaphors Condition:Very Good Half a century after theA startling and at times unsettlingly prescient collection of J. G. Ballards greatest interviews. J. G. Ballard was a literary giant. Best known for his controversial bestseller Crash and the memoir Empire of the Sun, he was a writer of unique talent always surprising, frequently prescient. Such acuity was not exclusive to his novels and, as this book reminds us, Ballards restive intelligence sharpened itself in dialogue. He entertained many with