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The Battle Within

By: Alastair Luft

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Major Hugh Dégaré never thought working a desk job could be worse than combat. But shortly after starting a new position in a bureaucratic military headquarters far from the front lines, he finds himself fighting to maintain his grip on reality. Amid sleepless nights and intense memories from his combat service, he does what he’s always done—takes action. Afraid of being stigmatized by his chain of command, he turns to a psychologist and an estranged friend, Daryl, now an ex-soldier. Despite his best efforts, Hugh’s rage continues to grow. When his support network starts to fall apart with no end to his symptoms in sight, Hugh finally turns to a questionable military medical system, desperate to do anything to save his career, marriage, and life itself. His last hope is that the system supposedly designed to help him doesn’t put the final nail into his coffin instead.

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1942645503

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The Battle Within

By: Alastair Luft

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The Battle Within

By: Alastair Luft

A soldier struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder, risking his marriage, career, and life itself in a bid for redemption.

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194264549X

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They Spread Their Wings

Six Courageous Airmen in Combat in the Second World War

By: Alastair Goodrum

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They Spread Their Wings

Six Courageous Airmen in Combat in the Second World War

By: Alastair Goodrum

What turns an ordinary man into an extraordinary one? The answer lies in the stories of six teenage volunteers for Second World War aircrew who exchanged school uniform for Air Force Blue and took a giant step into the unknown. Based on original research from flying log books, diaries and family archives, this collection of true tales describes the men's training for those coveted 'Wings'; the nervous excitement of that first sortie over enemy territory; and flying into the hell of an enemy flak barrage and fighters. From the skies over Europe to jungles and deserts, all endured hardship, adventure and danger. They experienced action under enemy fire, wounds, burns and crash-landings, escape and evasion in occupied territory, and the privations of life as a POW. Seventy years on and these brushes with death are by any measure hair-raising encounters that turned adolescents into men – some of whom survived the war, while others paid the ultimate price.

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The History Press

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0752492179

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9780752492179

Music in Germany Since 1968

By: Alastair Williams

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Music in Germany Since 1968

By: Alastair Williams

Alastair Williams argues that the social transformations of 1968 led to a new phase of art music in Germany.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521877598

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9780521877596

School of Aces

The RAF Training School that Won the Battle of Britain

By: Alastair Goodrum

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School of Aces

The RAF Training School that Won the Battle of Britain

By: Alastair Goodrum

This is the fascinating true story of RAF Sutton Bridge. Between 1926 and 1946, the base saw the development and implementation of a training system that turned inexperienced pilots into Top Guns. 400 graduates and staff fought with The Few to win the Battle of Britain.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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144568618X

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9781445686189

Six Weeks of Blenheim Summer

An RAF Officer's Memoir of the Battle of France 1940

By: Alastair Panton

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Six Weeks of Blenheim Summer

An RAF Officer's Memoir of the Battle of France 1940

By: Alastair Panton

Six Weeks of Blenheim Summer is a vivid and lyrical memoir of life as an RAF reconnaissance pilot in France during the hellish summer of 1940. It brings to life the fear, loneliness and pain that Alastair Panton and his comrades came to live with during those long weeks, as well as the bravery, camaraderie and humanity that made those unpredictable days more bearable. The aeroplane Panton captained throughout this intense period was a Bristol Blenheim Mark IV. He saw the Blenheim as his friend and saviour. It was the vehicle from which he and his crew were able to spot the enemy and save lives, repeatedly withstanding shooting and bombardment to facilitate dramatic landings and rescues. Yet despite these heroic adventures, culminating in his being shot down a fourth time, captured and made a prisoner of war, Panton describes Six Weeks of Blenheim Summer as a story of failure. Whilst he survived, so many of his friends and comrades did not, and this grief never left him. Panton's extraordinary book, written in the aftermath of the war but discovered posthumously, is edited and introduced by his granddaughter Victoria Panton Bacon. A candid and gripping read, this is very much the story of a pilot and his plane.

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Biteback Publishing

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1849547750

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Monitoring the Quality of Health Care

Issues and Scientific Approaches

By: Thomas T.H. Wan,Alastair M. Connell

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Monitoring the Quality of Health Care

Issues and Scientific Approaches

By: Thomas T.H. Wan,Alastair M. Connell

As the public in the U.S. has grown increasingly concerned over the gaps in the health care system's attention to quality, and as the health care industry itself struggles for stability in a volatile environment, a historic opportunity presents itself. This book reviews a variety of quality monitoring approaches, identifies critical issues pertaining to assessment, measurement, implementation, and evaluation of quality initiatives, and suggests scientific approaches to put in place a core set of performance measures that reliably identify the value-added clinical and managerial behaviors in health care - for both quality and cost efficiency. The key to quality improvement has to focus on physicians and other health professionals. This book is designed to identify issues pertaining to health care quality and to formulate appropriate approaches for improving quality. It can be used by risk managers and hospital executives to guide their development, implementation, and evaluation of quality improvement programs.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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146151097X

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9781461510970

It's Getting Later All the Time

By: Alastair McEwen

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It's Getting Later All the Time

By: Alastair McEwen

In It's Getting Later All the Time, an epistolary novel with a twist, Antonio Tabucchi—"internationally acclaimed as the most original voice in the new generation of Italian writers" (The Harvard Book Review)—revitalizes an illustrious tradition, only to break all its rules. From Italy, an epistolary novel like no other, full of Tabucchi's special "enchantment, which trans-figures even as it captivates" (TLS). In It's Getting Later All the Time, an epistolary novel with a twist, Antonio Tabucchi"internationally acclaimed as the most original voice in the new generation of Italian writers" (The Harvard Book Review)revitalizes an illustrious tradition, only to break all its rules. Seventeen men write seventeen strangely beautiful letterstender or rancorouslonely monologues which move in circles, each describing an affair, and each desperate for a reply which may never come. The letters plunge the reader into an electric, timeless no-man's-land of "this past that is always somewhere, hanging in shreds." And at last, collecting all their one-sided, remorseful adventures into a single polyphonic novel, an 18th letter startlingly answers the men's pleas: a woman's voice, distant, implacable, yet full of sympathy. It's Getting Later All the Time captures destinies which, though so varied in appearance, are at rock bottom all the same: broken. This is an anti-Proustian noveltime lost is lost forever: it is impossible to get back to the past no matter how it haunts the present. As Tabucchi remarked, "Broken time is a dimension you find lots of men living in...an ambiguous, impossible situation, because they are faced with a kind of remorse, a choice they never made.

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New Directions Publishing

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0811222624

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9780811222624

Economics of Health Care

By: John Henderson,Alastair Mcguire,Gavin Mooney

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Economics of Health Care

By: John Henderson,Alastair Mcguire,Gavin Mooney

Gives an understanding of the economic theory underlying health economics, supplemented with practical case study material to show how the theory has been applied.

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283

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Routledge

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1134963300

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9781134963300

Nazi Rule and the Soviet Offensive in Eastern Germany, 1944-1945

The Darkest Hour

By: Alastair Noble

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Nazi Rule and the Soviet Offensive in Eastern Germany, 1944-1945

The Darkest Hour

By: Alastair Noble

An examination of the final period of Nazi rule in Germany's eastern provinces at the end of the Second World War. It outlines the wartime role of this region and assesses the impact of Nazi 'popular mobilisation' initiatives during the closing months of the conflict.

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Liverpool University Press

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1836241976

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9781836241973

Can I Help You?

By: Alastair Fraser

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Can I Help You?

By: Alastair Fraser

As a manager you might be considering engaging an external consultant / coach to assist you with a specific challenge. This book is a wry, humorous but practical guide on how to select a coach or a consultant, what to look out for, some of the more common failings seen, and how you can avoid the pitfalls in making sure that you appoint the right person for you and your organisation. Alternatively, you might be a coach, mentor or consultant, curious about the original content of this book and to see if you can recognise some of the characters or traits contained in it. Alastair has worked for over 30 years as an external 'expert' for over 250 different organisations. Along the way he has worked with many 'coaches' and 'consultants' - some with their own interesting personality and behavioural features that may not be what the client actually needs!

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Lulu.com

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0244087008

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9780244087005

Who's Who in Naval History

From 1550 to the present

By: Joseph F. Callo,Alastair Wilson

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Who's Who in Naval History

From 1550 to the present

By: Joseph F. Callo,Alastair Wilson

This A-Z guide covers the life and careers of over 600 key figures in naval history, from the sixteenth century to the present day. Featuring influential figures from the UK, US and around the world, from the great admirals such as Nelson, to minesweepers, designers and administrators, it is an invaluable guide to those who have shaped naval history.

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Routledge

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1134395396

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9781134395392

Naked Airport

A Cultural History of the World's Most Revolutionary Structure

By: Alastair Gordon

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Naked Airport

A Cultural History of the World's Most Revolutionary Structure

By: Alastair Gordon

In "Naked Airport," critic Alastair Gordon ranges from global geopolitics to action movies to the daily commute, showing how airports have changed our sense of time, distance, style, and even the way cities are built and business is done.

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Macmillan

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0805065180

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9780805065183

MacSween's Pathology of the Liver E-Book

By: Alastair D. Burt,Linda D. Ferrell,Stefan G Hubscher,Bernard C. Portmann

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MacSween's Pathology of the Liver E-Book

By: Alastair D. Burt,Linda D. Ferrell,Stefan G Hubscher,Bernard C. Portmann

MacSween’s Pathology of the Liver delivers the expert know-how you need to diagnose all forms of liver pathology using the latest methods. Updated with all the most current knowledge and techniques, this medical reference book will help you more effectively evaluate and interpret both the difficult and routine cases you see in practice. Compare the specimens you encounter in practice to thousands of high-quality images that capture the appearance of every type of liver disease. Efficiently review all the key diagnostic criteria and differential diagnoses for each lesion.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0702047546

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9780702047541

They Spread Their Wings

Six Courageous Airmen in Combat in the Second World War

By: Alastair Goodrum

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They Spread Their Wings

Six Courageous Airmen in Combat in the Second World War

By: Alastair Goodrum

What turns an ordinary man into an extraordinary one? The answer lies in the stories of six teenage volunteers for Second World War aircrew who exchanged school uniform for Air Force Blue and took a giant step into the unknown. Based on original research from flying log books, diaries and family archives, this collection of true tales describes the men’s training for those coveted ‘Wings’; the nervous excitement of that first sortie over enemy territory; and flying into the hell of an enemy flak barrage and fighters. From the skies over Europe to jungles and deserts, all endured hardship, adventure and danger. They experienced action under enemy fire, wounds, burns and crash-landings, escape and evasion in occupied territory, and the privations of life as a POW. Seventy years on and these brushes with death are by any measure hair-raising encounters that turned adolescents into men – some of whom survived the war, while others paid the ultimate price.

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The History Press

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0752492179

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Boy on the Wire

By: Alastair Bruce

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Boy on the Wire

By: Alastair Bruce

He is a man who lied, who told a story, a wild, fanciful story, about the death of a child, a hard and unyielding story. It is that, he finds, that he hates most. The story that was told.' In 1983 Paul Hyde, aged ten, dies falling from a ledge in the mountains of the Karoo. His older brother Peter, who falls at the same time, survives but loses all memory of the event. The youngest brother, John, is the only witness. Many years later, John is living in London. He and his wife Rachel, who knows nothing of the tragedy of his past and nothing of his family, make plans to have children of their own. Their life together is disrupted when Peter arrives in London and claims his memory is returning. Pulled back in spite of himself, John returns to South Africa and the home he grew up in. His return makes him question his recollection of the tragedy. Can we ever be certain of events that happened that far in the past, certain we have not completely changed their meaning and our part in them?

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Profile Books

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1782831614

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9781782831617

Six Weeks of Blenheim Summer

An RAF Officer's Memoir of the Battle of France 1940

By: Alastair Panton

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An RAF Officer's Memoir of the Battle of France 1940

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Hello and Goodbye, Horace Hardcover

By: Alastair Hannay

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Hello and Goodbye, Horace Hardcover

By: Alastair Hannay

Ranging from astrology to neuroscience and cosmology, from homelessness to love and the fragility of human fellowship, the scope of Horace Hardcover's browser is unusually wide for a philosopher these days. His iconoclastic message is that uncertainty reveals more than the elimination of doubt. The light irony of Alastair Hannay's novella hands on this truth to the reader: Does it matter that we cannot decide whether its portrait of a philosopher is pure fiction, drawn from life or not even fictionally real? One thing is made clear: the dynamic of doubt and certainty when ripped from the deadpan pages of philosophy can play havoc with a life.

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1849212295

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Body Balance

with other stories

By: Alastair Macleod

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Body Balance

with other stories

By: Alastair Macleod

Inga had never been to the Wednesday class until today. It was the school holidays and her husband was watching the kids. Although Lin Chan was probably about twenty-eight, she was small, and moved with a natural grace. She was dark and very slim. She had the body of a child, thought Inga. Lin wore a loose blue wrap over jacket and loose trousers, while on her feet were small blue embroidered slippers. When Lin spoke, her not quite perfect English made them listen attentively. Her routine appeared at first like one long warm up – slow studied movements carefully choreographed, using arms and legs. Inga soon found that it was as demanding the other sessions. It required strength; it left you energised as the other exercise did, but somehow without sweating or getting out of breath

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The Third Norn

at Bennibister

By: Alastair Macleod

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The Third Norn

at Bennibister

By: Alastair Macleod

The saga of Bennibister continues. There are tensions in the marriage of Isobel and Charles as the the land loses its total grip on him and the sea beckons. Near death brings love and new blood. Enter the third Norn, teller of tales, giver of wise council, guider of the fates. There are three novellas in the Bennibister series; Bennibister (the Place of the Horse), The Wedding at Bennibister, and the last in the series, The Third Norn (at Bennibister).

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