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Thick Luck is the riveting account of an Army Ranger's odyssey to lead a team of investigative experts on a quest to bring home America's POWs and MIAs still missing from the secret war in Laos and Cambodia. This telling details the intensive training and sacrifice required to serve in the mostly unknown and unseen world of POW and MIA recovery operations. Thick Luck provides an insider's view of the noblest American initiative … to account fo...

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From the way the Iragi rebuilding effort is carried out, it is clear that Westerners in general, and Americans in particular, do not understand Asians at all. Building hospitals and schools will not win hearts and minds in Iraq. From East Asia to South Asia to West Asia, the only way to establish peace and order, and subsequently win people over, is by coercion, or more precisely coercive persuasion. American approach to the Iraq effort has so...

All students want and need to participate in real discussions. Summit systematically goes beyond conversation model practice and has unique step-by-step discussion builders that enable students to prepare for successful discourse. This results in increased accuracy, increased fluency, greater complexity of expression, richer use of vocabulary, and much less fossilization.

Examines development in middle age from the perspective of baby boomers - a unique cohort in the United States defined as those individuals born from 1946 to 1962. This work provides contemporary and comprehensive perspectives of development of the baby boomer cohort as they proceed through midlife.

Thanks to its emerging markets, nuclearization and the internet revolution, South Asia is increasingly at the forefront of current affairs. This invaluable reference source seeks to make the region accessible to business travelers as well as to the general reader. The range of subjects to be covered includes major political processes and events of South Asia (elections and electoral politics, political slang, political parties, diplomacy and t...

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This book presents a series of researched biographies of professional accountants whose immigration and subsequent careers in the United States greatly influenced the Early American public accountancy profession.

Presents an account of the research and development in international military history. This title shows how the roots of US Air Force hypersonic research and development are grounded in Army Air Force General Henry H 'Hap' Arnold's identification of the need for advanced airpower weapon systems to meet the anticipated postwar enemy threat.

Alongside a revival of interest in Thomas Aquinas' thought (Thomism) in philosophy, this book reveals its contemporary relevance when addressing certain complex, morally difficult, issues in bioethics.

This accessible new textbook provides a thorough introduction to all aspects of groundwater systems and their management. Using straightforward language and analogies to everyday experiences, it explains the origins, nature, and behavior of subsurface water without resorting to complicated mathematics.

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Mollusks have been important to humans since our earliest days. Initially, when humans were primarily interested in what they could eat or use, mollusks were important as food, ornaments, and materials for tools. Over the centuries, as human knowledge branched out and individuals started to study the world around them, mollusks were important subjects for learning how things worked. In this volume, the editors and contributors have brought tog...

The authors are concerned with both the relationship between performance, music, and film and the specificity of national, historical, social, and cultural contexts. Subjects include: cinematic representations of music forms, celebrities, fan culture, and intertextuality, the importance of popular music and the soundtrack movie, and specific national contexts.