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David W. Powell enlisted for a tour of duty in April 1966 with the US Marines after receiving an imminent draft notice. Believing he would be able to leverage his existing skills as a computer programmer, he never thought all they would see on his resume was his Karate expertise. Even less that he would wind up serving as a Rocket man in the jungles of Da Nang and Chu Lai for a 13 month tour in hell. David's journey from naive civilian to battle-hardened combat veteran shows us all how fragile our humanity really is.

La ansiedad puede sentirse confusa, abrumadora y difícil de entender. En este libro, la psicóloga Marina Mammoliti propone un mapa para comprender cómo funciona la ansiedad y aprender a atravesarla con más recursos y calma. A lo largo de las ocho estaciones de la experiencia ansiosa, combina historias reales, conceptos psicológicos explicados con claridad y herramientas prácticas basadas en evidencia científica para ayudar a reconocer lo que nos pasa y empezar a recuperar el equilibrio.

Alexander Lemons is a Marine Corps scout sniper who, after serving multiple tours during the Iraq War, returned home seriously and mysteriously ill. Joshua Howe is an environmental historian who met Lemons as a student in one of his classes. Together they have crafted a vital book that challenges us to think beyond warfare's acute violence of bullets and bombs to the "slow violence" of toxic exposure and lasting trauma.

"A majestic book." --Bessel van der Kolk, MD, author of The Body Keeps the Score A unique joint memoir by a U.S. Marine and a conflict photographer whose unlikely friendship helped both heal their war-wounded bodies and souls "The dueling-piano spirit of SHOOTING GHOSTS works because its authors...