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The Greek and Macedonian Art of War

By: Frank E. Adcock

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The Greek and Macedonian Art of War

By: Frank E. Adcock

This informal history traces battle tactics and military strategy from the time of the city-states' phalanxes of spearmen to the far-reaching combined operations of specialized land and sea forces in the Hellenistic Age. The author first describes the attitude of the Greek city-state toward war, and shows the military conventions and strategies associated with it. He then recounts how the art of war gradually evolved into new forms through the contributions of such men as the great commander Epaminondas, Philip of Macedon, his son Alexander the Great, and others. He also discusses the independence of land and sea power, describes the first use of calvary, and tells of the ingenious Greek devices of siegecraft, including the "fifth column." This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1962. This informal history traces battle tactics and military strategy from the time of the city-states' phalanxes of spearmen to the far-reaching combined operations of specialized land and sea forces in the Hellenistic Age. The author first descr

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0520340795

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Precinct 19

Behind the Scenes at New York City's Most High-Powered Police Station

By: Thomas Adcock

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Precinct 19

Behind the Scenes at New York City's Most High-Powered Police Station

By: Thomas Adcock

A “fast-moving” true account of life in a New York City police station with “a rare understanding of officers involved in extreme situations” (San Diego Sun). Manhattan’s 19th precinct includes more than three dozen foreign consulates and the homes of some of the city’s richest and most powerful citizens, including Gracie Mansion—yet even these wealthy and sophisticated environs aren’t immune to bloodshed, brutality, and various dark dealings. In this book, a police reporter and Edgar Award-winning crime writer describes the day-to-day life of the law enforcement officers who patrol this Upper East Side neighborhood—and know the truth about what goes on behind the facades. “Fast-paced and dramatic . . . an effort that the famous chronicler of police life Joseph Wambaugh might envy.” —Minneapolis Star-Tribune “Moving . . . revealing . . . excellent.” —Newsday

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Open Road Media

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1504060040

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9781504060042

The Difficult Wheel

Poems

By: Betty Adcock

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The Difficult Wheel

Poems

By: Betty Adcock

In The Difficult Wheel, Betty Adcock writes about time, about losing the past yet never being able to lose it. Hers are poems about vanishings, about grief and about folly - our absurd attempt to cancel time and space, to abstract ourselves out of history and out of nature, and to distract ourselves from death's specter. Adcock's verses fuse formal pattern with the chaos of rapid change, music with grief, the world's presences - deer, bird, fox, all that shakes the "shuddering loom" - with the absences that time has dreamed and language must confront. Out of her personal losses Adcock imagines the larger ones we are facing at the end of the twentieth century. But there are celebrations here, too: a simple field of wild flowers on an Aegean island becomes music, memory, a "pearl of great price".

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LSU Press

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0807120227

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9780807120224

The Limits of Tolerance

Indian Secularism and the Politics of Religious Freedom

By: C.S. Adcock

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The Limits of Tolerance

Indian Secularism and the Politics of Religious Freedom

By: C.S. Adcock

This book provides a critical history of the distinctive tradition of Indian secularism known as Tolerance. Examining debates surrounding the activities of the Arya Samaj - a Hindu reform organization regarded as the exemplar of intolerance - it finds that Tolerance functioned to disengage Indian secularism from the politics of caste.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199995443

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9780199995448

Master Your Brain

Training Your Mind for Success in Life

By: Phillip Adcock

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Master Your Brain

Training Your Mind for Success in Life

By: Phillip Adcock

How to achieve the mindset and habits that help you reach your goals—in your work, relationships, health, and more. What do you aspire to that always seems out of reach—a choice promotion? A happy and enduring romance? That perfect home somewhere in paradise? Highlighting the latest discoveries in neuropsychology, Master Your Brain: Training Your Mind for Success in Life offers science-based solutions for overcoming your greatest obstacles. By demystifying how (and why) our brains function as they do and—crucially—how we can apply these insights to everyday situations, commercial psychologist Phillip Adcock provides us with the tools to dramatically improve our lives in every area, from work and relationships to health and athletics.

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Union Square + ORM

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1454916362

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9781454916369

Millionaire Habits

How to Achieve Financial Independence, Retire Early, and Make a Difference by Focusing on Yourself First

By: Steve Adcock

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Millionaire Habits

How to Achieve Financial Independence, Retire Early, and Make a Difference by Focusing on Yourself First

By: Steve Adcock

Transform your financial present and future so you can give back to the people you care about the most In Millionaire Habits: How to Achieve Financial Independence, Retire Early, and Make a Difference by Focusing on Yourself First, popular personal finance educator Steve Adcock delivers a fun, insightful, and hands-on discussion of how to build financial security, retire early, and give back to the community. You’ll learn to focus on yourself and your family first, creating personal wealth for the purpose of giving back to others. In the book, the author explains that “saving money” isn’t a goal in and of itself, but rather the end product of the personal wealth equation: Wealth = Income + Investments – Lifestyle. You’ll discover how to pay yourself first with concrete guidance and practical advice drawn from people who built wealth on modest incomes. You’ll also find: Strategies for maintaining your physical and financial fitness so you can maximize the value of your assets Ways to turn your existing wealth into even more valuable investments that generate continued, passive income Methods to help you retire early and enjoy your financial independence at a young age Perfect for young professionals, working families, self-employed people, and anyone else seeking to increase their net worth and get more out of life, Millionaire Habits is the intuitive and engaging personal finance roadmap we’ve all been waiting for.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1394197306

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9781394197309

30 Things Everyone Should Know How to Do Before Turning 30

By: Siobhan Adcock

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30 Things Everyone Should Know How to Do Before Turning 30

By: Siobhan Adcock

Competence. Now in convenient book format 30 must-have life skills every capable adult should perfect before turning 30. You’re old enough to own property and have a family, but can you safely open a bottle of champagne? Or change a flat tire? 30 Things Everyone Should Know How to Do Before Turning 30 provides idiot-proof instructions for mastering these and other essential, face-saving, and possibly life-saving skills. You’ll learn how to... 1. wrap a present 2. start a successful fire in a fireplace, at a campsite, and in a barbecue 3. finish a piece of furniture 4. get a raise 5. order wine at a restaurant without getting stiffed 6. parallel park in three breathtakingly beautiful movements 7. dance a “slow dance” without looking like an idiot 8. use a full place setting properly, including chopsticks and Asian soup spoons 9. clean your place in under 45 minutes, when friends, relatives, or prospective lovers are coming by unexpectedly, and soon 10. hold your liquor 11. cure a hangover 12. do the Heimlich Maneuver 13. use a compass 14. change a flat 15. jump start a car 16. open a champagne bottle 17. send a drink to someone’s table 18. cook one “signature meal” 19. whistle with your fingers 20. take good pictures 21. fold a fitted sheet 22. remove common stains 23. sew a button 24. carve turkey, lasagna, and birthday cake 25. hold a baby 26. change a diaper 27. keep a plant alive for more than a year 28. make dogs and cats love you 29. help someone (an older or ill person, a woman you’re trying to impress, your mother) out of a car 30. write superior thank you notes

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Crown Archetype

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0767916433

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9780767916431

The Greek And Macedonian Art Of War

By: F. E. Adcock

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The Greek And Macedonian Art Of War

By: F. E. Adcock

This informal history traces battle tactics and military strategy from the time of the city-states’ phalanxes of spearmen to the far-reaching combined operations of specialized land and sea forces in the Hellenistic Age. The author first describes the attitude of the Greek city-state toward war, and shows the military conventions and strategies associated with it. He then recounts how the art of war gradually evolved into new forms through the contributions of such men as the great commander Epaminondas, Philip of Macedon, his son Alexander the Great, and others. He also discusses the interdependence of land and sea power, describes the first use of cavalry, and tells of the ingenious Greek devices of siegecraft, including the “fifth column.” “Here is a book—an all too short book—for the military specialist, the classicist, and the general reader who appreciates clear and sparkling prose.”—American Historical Review

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1786256649

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9781786256645

Thrown-Away Child

By: Thomas Adcock

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Thrown-Away Child

By: Thomas Adcock

This “irresistible” police procedural “bares the New Orleans underbelly few tourists get to see” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). NYPD detective Neil Hockaday has traveled to the Big Easy, hometown of his wife, African-American actress Ruby Flagg. Her family was driven from their home long ago by an evangelical church and fell on hard times, but Ruby fled and found a life for herself in New York. And this won’t be a peaceful visit for Hock. In a city famed as much for its corruption as its cuisine, he’ll become entangled in a web of not only family secrets but also politics and murder, dealing with a preacher, a scamming alderman, and even some voodoo, with only a little time left over to attend a jazz funeral or take in the other city sights . . . “Intelligent . . . sharp-witted and perceptive.” —Susan Isaacs, author of Compromising Positions “Compelling.” —Los Angeles Times “Marvelous characters.” —The Times-Picayune (New Orleans)

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Open Road Media

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1504060008

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9781504060004

Slantwise

Poems

By: Betty Adcock

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Slantwise

Poems

By: Betty Adcock

From the strangely epic fall of one longleaf pine needle in deep woods to the widening contexts of the Twin Towers' collapse and a spacecraft's deadly descent, from the lyric rising of light out of earthly things to the lyric movement of a dancing arborist and a clowning roustabout, these poems mourn, celebrate, rage, and remember. Slantwise fulfills the hope Adcock once expressed in an interview: "to tell the truth and find that it is music.'"--BOOK JACKET.

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0807133094

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9780807133095

The Completionist

By: Siobhan Adcock

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The Completionist

By: Siobhan Adcock

One of Entertainment Weekly’s “10 prescient new feminist dystopias to read after The Handmaid’s Tale”; one of the “11 Best Summer Books Of 2018” by Women's Health; this “perfect beach book” (Entertainment Report) follows the search for a missing sister in a near-future world where infertility has produced a dangerous underground. “Find her. You need to keep looking, no matter what. I’m afraid of what might’ve happened to her. You be afraid too.” After months of disturbing behavior, Gardner Quinn has vanished. Her older sister Fredericka is desperate to find her, but Fred is also pregnant—miraculously so, in a near-future America struggling with infertility. So she entrusts the job to their brother, Carter. Carter, young but jaded, is in need of an assignment. Just home from war, his search for his sister is a welcome distraction from mysterious physical symptoms he can’t ignore, not to mention his increasing escape into the bottom of a glass. Carter’s efforts to find Gardner lead him into a desperate underworld, where he begins to grasp the risks she took on as a Nurse Completionist. But his investigation also leads back to their father, a veteran of a decades-long war just like Carter himself, who may be concealing a painful truth, one that neither Carter nor Fredericka is ready to face. “Fans of dystopian novels will love Siobhan Adcock’s disturbing speculation on just how bad things can get when resources are rare and personal lives are heavily policed” (Booklist). In the tradition of The Handmaid’s Tale, The Completionist is speculative fiction at its very best: it will “transport you to an entirely new world” (PopSugar) while revealing our own world in bold and unexpected ways.

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Simon & Schuster

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1501183486

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9781501183485

Hipster Haiku

By: Siobhan Adcock

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Hipster Haiku

By: Siobhan Adcock

O, hipster nation: The dive bars, the vintage duds? Great material.

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162

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Crown Archetype

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0767926293

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9780767926294

Piseco Lake and Arietta

By: Frederick T. Adcock,Cynthia E. Adcock

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Piseco Lake and Arietta

By: Frederick T. Adcock,Cynthia E. Adcock

Mention the word Piseco to someone who has visited this Adirondack area, and it evokes a view of lush rolling mountains, a whiff of crisp fresh air, a scent of pine trees, and a touch of cool lake water. Piseco Lake and Arietta similarly rewards readers while also introducing them to early sites and time-honored people inherent in the history of Piseco Lake and the town of Arietta.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738554995

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9780738554990

Sea of Green

By: Thomas Adcock

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Sea of Green

By: Thomas Adcock

The first in the “beautifully written” Edgar-winning series featuring an NYPD detective working the mean streets of Manhattan’s West Side (The Washington Post). Detective Neil Hockaday, a son of Hell’s Kitchen who grew up to join the NYPD, had a promising meeting scheduled with a snitch—until his informant turned up dead. Meanwhile, a prominent Harlem preacher with a lot of followers, and friends in high places, has been receiving death threats—and Hock’s assigned to keep Father Love alive and find out who’s after him. But Hock’s harrowing work life hits close to home when he discovers a dead body in his own bathtub and must untangle whether—and how—all these events are connected . . . “A satisfying narrative . . . Adcock’s picture of the Big Apple is not pretty, but it is gripping and effective.” —Publishers Weekly

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Open Road Media

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1504060032

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9781504060035

Dark Maze

By: Thomas Adcock

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Dark Maze

By: Thomas Adcock

Edgar Award Winner: An NYPD detective navigates a lethal labyrinth in this entry in Adcock’s series of “gritty procedurals” (The New York Times Book Review). The old, shabbily dressed man who walks up to Neil Hockaday in the park one morning rambles on semicoherently, though he’s sharp enough to make Hockaday as a cop. He introduces himself as Picasso, makes snide comments about the policeman to an invisible companion—and issues a vague homicidal threat just before his bus leaves. Born and bred in Hell’s Kitchen and now an NYPD detective, Hockaday has been exposed to plenty of strange characters. But Picasso’s haunting words—and the killings that follow—soon have the officer searching the city for someone who considers murder his masterpiece . . .

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Open Road Media

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1504060024

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9781504060028

Accessing Information

By: Donald Adcock,Beth A. Pulver,Donald C. Adcock

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Accessing Information

By: Donald Adcock,Beth A. Pulver,Donald C. Adcock

Research can often seem overwhelming. Where should you start? What sources are trustworthy? How do you know if you have enough information? What is plagiarism, and how can you avoid it? Information Literacy Skills helps students get comfortable with the research process, providing helpful hints for organizing, taking notes, and presenting information. Special emphasis is placed on helping students consider, evaluate, and properly use the Internet and other electronic sources. In Accessing Information you will learn: How to identify the need for information, How to identify a variety of sources of information, How to use the Internet and print sources, How to avoid plagiarism and other problems in writing. Book jacket.

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Heinemann-Raintree Library

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1432912275

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9781432912277

Rough Fugue

Poems

By: Betty Adcock

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Rough Fugue

Poems

By: Betty Adcock

Betty Adcock brings fierce insight to her seventh poetry collection, Rough Fugue. Her elegant stanzas evoke bygone moments of beauty, reflection, and rage. “Let things be spare,” she writes, “and words for things be thin / as the slice of moon / the loon’s cry snips.” Adcock’s poems are often spare but never thin, shifting effortlessly from the eerie red of brake lights on a Texas highway to the fluorescents of an office building where a tired worker imagines a holiday in Spain. Adcock reflects upon her poetic forebears, chronicling the desire to write that led them to create cuneiform tablets, scrolls of papyrus, and ultimately vellum and parchment. She also recounts memories about the life with her late husband and tries to define herself in the bewildering new role of “widow.” In poems ranging in tone from playful to reverential, Rough Fugue showcases the work of a veteran poet at her masterful best.

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LSU Press

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0807166707

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9780807166703

Liberalism and the Emergence of American Political Science

A Transatlantic Tale

By: Robert Adcock

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Liberalism and the Emergence of American Political Science

A Transatlantic Tale

By: Robert Adcock

This book situates the origins of American political science in relation to the transatlantic history of liberalism. In a corrective to earlier accounts, it argues that, as political science took shape in the nineteenth century American academy, it did more than express a pre-existing American liberalism. The pioneers of American political science participated in transatlantic networks of intellectual and political elites that connected them directly to the vicissitudes of liberalism in Europe. The book shows how these figures adapted multiple contemporary European liberal arguments to speak to particular challenges of mass democratic politics and large-scale industry as they developed in America. Political science's pioneers in the American academy were thus active agents of the Americanization of liberalism. When political science first secured a niche in the American academy during the antebellum era, it advanced a democratized classical liberal political vision overlapping with the contemporary European liberalism of Tocqueville and John Stuart Mill. As political science expanded during the dramatic growth of university ideals and institutions in the Gilded Age, divergence within its liberalism came to the fore in the area of political economy. In the late-nineteenth century, this divergence was fleshed out into two alternative liberal political visions-progressive liberal and disenchanted classical liberal-with different analyses of democracy and the administrative state. During the early twentieth-century, both visions found expression among early presidents of the new American Political Science Association, and subsequently, within contests over the meaning of 'liberalism' as this term acquired salience in American political discourse. In sum, this book showcases how the history of American political science offers a venue in which we see how a distinct current of mid-nineteenth-century European liberalism was divergently transformed into alternative twentieth-century American liberalisms"--

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Oxford University Press

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0199333629

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9780199333622

Roman Political Ideas and Practice

By: Frank E. Adcock

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Roman Political Ideas and Practice

By: Frank E. Adcock

Studies Roman politics from the early kings, through the Republic, to the age of dictatorships

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University of Michigan Press

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0472060880

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9780472060887

Cct-The Eye of the Storm

Volume Ii – the Gwot Years

By: Gene Adcock

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Cct-The Eye of the Storm

Volume Ii – the Gwot Years

By: Gene Adcock

Almost as soon as the second hijacked 767 struck the south tower of the world trade center, Air Force Combat Controllers began to report to their bases and pack their gear. Spread around the world in special tactics squadrons, these airmen would provide the lightly armed U.S. Army Special Forces teams with a number of capabilities that would turn them into world-class killing machines." John D. Gresham Author, "Air Force Combat Controllers at War" Afghanistan 2001 "These single Americans had the power to conjure lightning bolts out of the sky......... ....what happened in Afghanistan is one of the most extraordinary stories in military history." Mark Bowden Author, "Blackhawk Down" Somalia, 1999 "Individually, they are specially selected, specially trained, and, in support of special operations, almost daily bring American airpower to bear on our nations enemies. Indeed, they are very remarkable warriors, and this book will help many understand why so many of us hold our Combat Controllers in such incredibly high regard." Dr. James G. Roche Secretary of the United States Air Force 2001 - 2005 "if you asked what tool of the trade would be the very last they would leave behind, you might be surprised at the answer. You would likely hear that it is not a tool that makes one nervous when it isnt there, but rather a capability that is not organic to a troop of Delta Operators or Navy SEALs" "Just because you are the best of the best does not mean you are the best at everything. Any Delta operator can vouch for the capabilities of the air force combat controllers, and very rarely goes on a hit without the men who wear the scarlet berets." Dalton Fury Delta Force Commander, Tora Bora, December 2001 Author, "Kill Bin Laden" - 2008

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Author House

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1477269975

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9781477269978

Evaluating Information

By: Donald Adcock,Beth A. Pulver,Donald C. Adcock

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Evaluating Information

By: Donald Adcock,Beth A. Pulver,Donald C. Adcock

Information Literacy Skills helps students get comfortable with the research process, providing helpful hints for organizing, taking notes, and presenting information. Special emphasis is placed on helping students consider, evalutae, and properly use the Internet and other electronic sources"--Page 4 of cover.

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Heinemann-Raintree Library

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1432912283

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9781432912284

Understanding the Importance of Information

By: Beth A. Pulver,Donald Adcock,Donald C. Adcock

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Understanding the Importance of Information

By: Beth A. Pulver,Donald Adcock,Donald C. Adcock

Discussions topics such as the right to information and free expression in different countries, the Internet, the Bill of Rights, censorship, plagiarism, book burning, and how to responsibly present information and use various electronic sources.

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Heinemann-Raintree Library

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1432912305

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9781432912307

Intervale

New and Selected Poems

By: Betty Adcock

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Intervale

New and Selected Poems

By: Betty Adcock

With a penetrating eye and a deep and spiritual intelligence, Betty Adcock writes poems that range from elegy to dark humor as they confront both loss and possibility. Intervale, selections from her first four books plus a new collection, traces the continuity of her vision and shows that lyric intensity can bring light to even the most obdurate darkness. Moving from the original loss of a world at her mother's death during the poet's sixth year to the world's loss of the arboreal leopards of Cambodia and Vietnam; from vanishing farmland to the endangered Sacred Harp music that once flourished in backwoods churches; from the difficult history of a little-known rural place to the weighted ruins of Greece -- these poems frame lessenings, divestations, and devastations in the midst of plenty. A wilderness disappears into cozy myth, farming into industry, tiger and elephant into zoos; the very ground underfoot, with its attendant necessities and contingencies, can seem to fade into fabrications we take for reality. The seam where such themes touch Adcock's personal history is the path these poems travel toward a harsh but luminous transcendence.

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LSU Press

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0807126640

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9780807126646

Grief Street

By: Thomas Adcock

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Grief Street

By: Thomas Adcock

A rabbi is killed and a Catholic procession is sprayed with gunfire in this crime thriller in the “beautifully written” Edgar-winning series (The Washington Post). NYPD detective Neil Hockaday has acted on his conscience by reporting a fellow cop for bias and brutality—but there’s a killer on the Manhattan streets who seems to have little concern with morality. First a rabbi is murdered by a shadowy figure right in front of his shocked congregation. Then a group of Catholics is gunned down on Good Friday. Now, while coping with tensions within the force and an ugly act of retaliation, Hock’s also under pressure from a panicked mayor, searching for a suspect whose motives may be rooted in hatred, madness, or dark secrets from decades past . . . “Adcock fills the shell of the detective story to the bursting point with Catholic guilt, self-laceration, and spiritual crisis, with a magnificent starring role for Hell’s Kitchen.” —Kirkus Reviews

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Open Road Media

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1504060016

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9781504060011

The Ganson Street Tigers Go to War

A Western New York Community's Commitment to Winning World War II

By: Frederick T. Adcock

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The Ganson Street Tigers Go to War

A Western New York Community's Commitment to Winning World War II

By: Frederick T. Adcock

During the dark days of World War II, forty-one individuals from Ganson Street in the industrialized Western New York city of North Tonawanda left all that was dear to battle the domination of the Axis forces. The Ganson Street Tigers bonded on the streets of an immigrant neighborhood during the Great Depression and their camaraderie was cemented forever on the ball diamonds and sandlots of their youth. This is their story, from the heart of Little Italy to the raging battlefields

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Page Publishing Inc

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1641380772

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9781641380775

Sometimes I Daydream

A Collection of Poetry

By: Richard Adcock

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Sometimes I Daydream

A Collection of Poetry

By: Richard Adcock

I see the world differently. I see famous people. Rich, poor, the great, And the not so great. Some die young, And others die old. Some have many friends, And others dont. Its not my purpose to ask why. Its not my purpose to understand. I must somehow find My own purpose in life. Since the death of his sister in 2013, Richard Adcock has been searching for the meaning of life and answers to lifes greatest questions through poems that explore grief, loneliness, and pain and consider whether God really understands the human heart. With a raw and emotionally honest style, Adcock shares poignant reflections that contemplate his search for a purpose, his past, the consequences of unhealthy choices, the joys of new life, and the journey of death. Through his moving poems, Adcock demonstrates to others that no matter what our challenges, we are all in this life together. Sometimes I Daydream offers a lyrical glimpse into one mans walk through his trials as he works through loss, questions his purpose, and learns to view the world differently.

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iUniverse

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149176970X

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9781491769706

Drown All the Dogs

By: Thomas Adcock

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Drown All the Dogs

By: Thomas Adcock

An NYPD detective travels to Ireland to investigate his own family’s past in this “smart, textured, immensely readable” mystery (The Washington Post Book World). Neil Hockaday’s father died in World War II before his son could ever know him, and now the police detective is visiting Ireland to meet his last living relative and try to fill in the blanks of his family history. But while he’s on vacation, death isn’t taking a holiday. The apparent suicides of a retired priest and two cops—and an Irish woman’s death in a bombing—combine to keep Hock busy on both sides of the Atlantic in this rich, riveting police procedural, filled with “lively and literate” dialogue, from an Edgar Award–winning author (The New York Times Book Review). “Unusual and engrossing.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review “Dense and vibrant . . . as charming as an Irish brogue.” —Publishers Weekly “One of the most lively and memorable novels to come out this year.” —Richmond Times-Dispatch

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Cold Cases

Evaluation Models with Follow-up Strategies for Investigators, Second Edition

By: James M. Adcock,Sarah L. Stein

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Cold Cases

Evaluation Models with Follow-up Strategies for Investigators, Second Edition

By: James M. Adcock,Sarah L. Stein

Because the investigation of cold cases is usually an arduous and time-consuming task, most law enforcement agencies in the United States are not able to dedicate the resources necessary to support the cold case investigation process. However, when those cases are fully pursued and prosecuted, they often result in convictions and lengthy prison terms. Cold Cases: Evaluation Models with Follow-up Strategies for Investigators, Second Edition saves law enforcement time by providing detailed guidelines for determining if a cold case is solvable, and if so, how to organize, manage, and evaluate the investigation. It also provides techniques for developing investigative strategies to complement the evaluation process and resolve the crime. This second edition features a new revised model and methodology for investigating cold cases suitable for all police and public safety agencies—large or small, domestic or international. This new model is more expeditious and convenient for departments that have less manpower and experience in dealing with cold cases. It emphasizes the prioritization of cold cases based on the availability of physical evidence and the chances of deriving matches from said evidence and an identified person of interest. Additional topics covered in the second edition include: How cases go cold Strategies for creating a cold case unit Cold case investigations in a Dutch educational environment—a chapter written by members of the Dutch Police Academy New forensic science technologies, including DNA, CODIS, and AFIS Case studies demonstrating advances in suspectology Strategies for effective investigative interviewing Challenges posed by staged crime scenes in cold cases How to craft a cold case evaluation report The expert authors of this book maintain The Center for the Resolution of Unresolved Crimes and conduct training and consulting worldwide. Their practical book is designed to help law enforcement agencies resurrect long-forgotten cases, bringing closure to victims and holding accountable those who are responsible. This book is part of the Advances in Police Theory and Practice series

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