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Ahead of the Curve: What Parents Need to Know to Get Their Kids Into College

By: Amber C. Saunders

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Ahead of the Curve: What Parents Need to Know to Get Their Kids Into College

By: Amber C. Saunders

Navigating the high school years and getting a student ready for the next step in their education can be challenging for everyone involved. Ahead of the Curve will be your "college adviser in a book," keeping you and your child on the successful path to college. It includes separate chapters for grades 9 through 12 for easy reference. Each section contains helpful checklists of tasks to accomplish each year including, questions to ask, tests to take, resources to take advantage of, and much more. Also includes a valuable section on financial aid and useful resources for study aids, tutoring assistance, test prep, choosing a major, and staying organized. This book will take the "Google-work" out of college preparation and give parents and students a comprehensive, but fun, guide to navigating the high school to college years.

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Peterson's

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076893916X

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9780768939163

South Africa

A Modern History

By: T. Davenport,C. Saunders

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South Africa

A Modern History

By: T. Davenport,C. Saunders

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Springer

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0230287549

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9780230287549

US Policy Towards Secession in the Balkans and Effectiveness of de Facto Partition

By: Evelyn N. Farkas,Beth L. Makros,Jeremy C. Saunders

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US Policy Towards Secession in the Balkans and Effectiveness of de Facto Partition

By: Evelyn N. Farkas,Beth L. Makros,Jeremy C. Saunders

In the first paper, US Policy Towards Secession In The Balkans And Effectiveness Of De Facto Partition, Evelyn Farkas addresses inherently non-military contextual challenges encountered by military forces during NATO efforts to make or enforce peace in Bosnia and Kosovo. She highlights significant problems that have emerged in both former Yugoslavian states; namely, that the initial progress towards establishing stable multiethnic states has been stalled by criminal networks and the lack of functioning central governments. She concludes that civil and military peace implementers must be more aggressive in administering the protectorates NATO has established in order to advance the political and economic reforms that are needed to achieve a lasting peace. Her efforts help to detail the struggle of institution-building that accompanies peace enforcement and peacekeeping efforts."--INSS website.

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USAF Institute for National Security Studies USAF Academy

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0971090033

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9780971090033

China's Global Activism

Strategy, Drivers, and Tools

By: Phillip C. Saunders

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China's Global Activism

Strategy, Drivers, and Tools

By: Phillip C. Saunders

Chinese leaders are pursuing a long-term grand strategy based on maintaining a peaceful international environment that allows China to build the econ. & technological foundations necessary to become a rich & powerful country. Econ. imperatives & strategic challenges are leading China to expand its internat. activities into different regions of the world. This paper analyzes the rationale & drivers for China's increased global activism; examines the tools China is employing & how they are being used; assesses the evidence about priorities & patterns in China's global activities; & considers whether these activities reflect an underlying strategic design. The paper concludes with an overview of likely future developments & an assessment of the implications for the U.S.

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142231619X

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Reliability, Life Testing and the Prediction of Service Lives

For Engineers and Scientists

By: Sam C. Saunders

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Reliability, Life Testing and the Prediction of Service Lives

For Engineers and Scientists

By: Sam C. Saunders

This book is intended for students and practitioners who have had a calculus-based statistics course and who have an interest in safety considerations such as reliability, strength, and duration-of-load or service life. Many persons studying statistical science will be employed professionally where the problems encountered are obscure, what should be analyzed is not clear, the appropriate assumptions are equivocal, and data are scant. In this book there is no disclosure with many of the data sets what type of investigation should be made or what assumptions are to be used.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387485384

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9780387485386

The Chinese Air Force

Evolving Concepts, Roles, and Capabilities

By: Richard P. Hallion,Roger Cliff,Phillip C. Saunders

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The Chinese Air Force

Evolving Concepts, Roles, and Capabilities

By: Richard P. Hallion,Roger Cliff,Phillip C. Saunders

Presents revised and edited papers from a October 2010 conference held in Taipei on the Chinese Air Force. The conference was jointly organized by Taiwan?s Council for Advanced Policy Studies, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the U.S. National Defense University, and the RAND Corporation. This books offers a complete picture of where the Chinese air force is today, where it has come from, and most importantly, where it is headed.

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1304084531

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9781304084538

South Africa

A Modern History

By: T. R. H. Davenport,Christopher C. Saunders

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South Africa

A Modern History

By: T. R. H. Davenport,Christopher C. Saunders

A survey of the whole of South African history from pre-colonial times to 1999, suitable for serious students of the subject. It handles all major topics, with special focus on the dramatic changes that have occured since 1990. It includes a chapter on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and information on the recent South African elections.

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Palgrave MacMillan

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033379222X

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9780333792223

A Dictionary of South African History

By: Christopher C. Saunders,Nicholas Southey

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A Dictionary of South African History

By: Christopher C. Saunders,Nicholas Southey

Thoroughly revised and updated, the second edition of this wide-ranging, authoritative and user-friendly dictionary incorporates the major events, personalities and processes that have shaped the history of South Africa.

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New Africa Books

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0864864965

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9780864864963

The Paradox of Power

Sino-American Strategic Restraint in an Age of Vulnerability

By: David C. Gompert,Phillip C. Saunders

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The Paradox of Power

Sino-American Strategic Restraint in an Age of Vulnerability

By: David C. Gompert,Phillip C. Saunders

The second half of the 20th century featured a strategic competition between the United States and the Soviet Union. That competition avoided World War III in part because during the 1950s, scholars like Henry Kissinger, Thomas Schelling, Herman Kahn, and Albert Wohlstetter analyzed the fundamental nature of nuclear deterrence. Decades of arms control negotiations reinforced these early notions of stability and created a mutual understanding that allowed U.S.-Soviet competition to proceed without armed conflict. The first half of the 21st century will be dominated by the relationship between the United States and China. That relationship is likely to contain elements of both cooperation and competition. Territorial disputes such as those over Taiwan and the South China Sea will be an important feature of this competition, but both are traditional disputes, and traditional solutions suggest themselves. A more difficult set of issues relates to U.S.-Chinese competition...

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1312044373

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9781312044371

The People's Liberation Army and Contingency Planning in China

By: Arthur S. Ding,Phillip C. Saunders,Scott W. Harold

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The People's Liberation Army and Contingency Planning in China

By: Arthur S. Ding,Phillip C. Saunders,Scott W. Harold

All militaries have a responsibility to plan for contingencies, and China's military, the People's Liberation Army (PLA), is no exception. PLA contingency planning takes place primarily within the General Staﬀ Department's (GSD's) First Department, also known as the GSD Operations Department. China's seven military regions participate in drafting and reviewing the plans relevant to their areas of responsibility, albeit under heavy supervision from the GSD. U.S. joint doctrine deﬁnes a contingency as "a situation that likely would involve military forces in response to natural and manmade disasters, terrorists, subversives, military operations by foreign powers, or other situations." U.S. doctrine distinguishes between deliberate planning (advance preparation of campaign and contingency plans in non-crisis situations) and crisis action planning (rapid planning in response to a developing incident or situation). Deliberate planning is typically used to develop campaign and contingency plans for a broad range of activities based on requirements identiﬁed in strategic guidance for military commanders. Crisis action planning is conducted with less advance warning (hours, days, or up to 12 months) and focuses on developing alternative courses of action or reﬁning existing campaign or contingency plans to adapt to current circumstances. Why publish a book you can download for free? We print this book so you don't have to. Some documents are only available in electronic format. The print versions may be 6 inch by 9 inch (or smaller) so they are difficult to read. We print books a full 8 1/2 inches by 11 inches with large text and wide margins so you can jot down notes. Some documents found on the web are missing some pages or the image quality is so poor, they are difficult to read. If you find a good copy, you could print it using a network printer you share with 100 other people (typically its either out of paper or toner). If it's just a 10-page document, no problem, but if it's 250-pages, you will need to punch 3 holes in all those pages and put it in a 3-ring binder. Takes at least an hour. It's much more cost-effective to just order the latest version from Amazon.com This book includes original commentary which is copyright material. Note that government documents are in the public domain. We print these large documents as a service so you don't have to. The books are compact, tightly-bound, full-size (8 1/2 by 11 inches), with large text and glossy covers. We publish short-run books (limited numbers) so they are not the least expensive available. However, we strive to issue a high-quality product with large text that is clear and crisp. Of course, color printing is expensive, so we pass that cost along to the customer. 4th Watch Publishing is a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) located in a HUBZONE. Feel free to contact me if there is a government publication you want to see printed. Our web site is: usgovpub.com

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1797426818

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9781797426815

The People's Liberation Army and Contingency Planning in China

By: Andrew Scobell,Arthur S. Ding,Phillip C. Saunders

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The People's Liberation Army and Contingency Planning in China

By: Andrew Scobell,Arthur S. Ding,Phillip C. Saunders

How will China use its increasing military capabilities in the future? China faces a complicated security environment with a wide range of internal and external threats. Rapidly expanding international interests are creating demands for the People's Liberation Army (PLA) to conduct new missions ranging from protecting Chinese shipping from Somali pirates to evacuating citizens from Libya. The most recent Chinese defense white paper states that the armed forces must "make serious preparations to cope with the most complex and difficult scenarios . . . so as to ensure proper responses . . . at any time and under any circumstances." Based on a conference co-sponsored by Taiwan's Council of Advanced Policy Studies, RAND, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and National Defense University, The People's Liberation Army and Contingency Planning in China brings together leading experts from the United States and Taiwan to examine how the PLA prepares for a range of domestic, border, and maritime...

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Lulu.com

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1365073726

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9781365073724

Nurses Bred for Business

The Awakening of Legions of Nurse Entrepreneurs

By: Robert C. Saunders

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Nurses Bred for Business

The Awakening of Legions of Nurse Entrepreneurs

By: Robert C. Saunders

If someone were to ask me: What one defining moment prompted me to write this book? I would have to say it was when I attended small local business networking meeting and the guest speaker said "If you have been punching a clock for the last 10 years or more, then you have been asleep at the wheel of your own life, and working on achieving someone else's dream and not your own!!" That statement hit me right between the eyes. Most of us are breathing but not truly alive, so it is high time that we awaken from the blissful slumber of the routine and mundane. Awaken from the fanciful notion that someone else is ultimately responsible for making our dreams come true as nurses. The reality of a free market world economy has always been that each of us is ultimately responsible for our personal financial future. We should not have to face another stock market crash, real estate bust or massive health industry shakedown to realize that each of us must learn to take the helm of our own economic ship. The days of working for and employer till retirement is a stone age model of exchanging time for money. The title of the book makes the assertion that not only must we think along entrepreneurial lines in an age of entrepreneurism, but our unique skill sets as nurses have groomed us for financial independence in ways one may have not thought possible. Throughout the pages of this book the author asserts that, indeed and in fact, more and more nurse are awakening to a transitional and transformational shift to nurse entrepreneurs as a natural course of our training. Nurses Bred for Business is not theoretical notion, it is an identifiable statement as to the natural progression of who and what nurses have always been. The question is; will you awaken to your rightful destiny and join the ever growing legions of nurse entrepreneurs? In the pages that follow, unfolding challenges rapidly altering the healthcare community beg the need to completely rethink the present and future direction of nurses and, by extension, all healthcare workers. Part 1 of the book delves into what exactly are entrepreneurs and seeks to equivocate the daily nursing hospital experience to daily real world business experience. In Part 2 of the book the author takes you on a fantastic journey of his own entrepreneurial failures and the hard lessons learned. All of us can and should wisely capitalize upon the failures of others instead of own. ( the very definition of wisdom) Utilizing the raw materials from these hard lessons as a foundation upon which to build ever greater personal and professional successes. Part 3 of the book provides a glossary of business terms by chapter that seeks to expand upon the concepts and ideas introduced. Like any new learning, the goal should be to continually expand ones money making vocabulary. Lastly, the author gives a delicious synopsis of what are his 25 favorite financial books that when properly applied will exponentially and continually expand the fiscal dimensions of each individual's business philosophy. Your entrepreneurial journey begins....now.

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0998269220

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9780998269221

New Opportunities and Challenges for Taiwan’s Security

By: Roger Cliff,Phillip C. Saunders,Scott Harold

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New Opportunities and Challenges for Taiwan’s Security

By: Roger Cliff,Phillip C. Saunders,Scott Harold

On November 7, 2009, the conference "Cross-Strait Relations: New Opportunities and Challenges for Taiwan's Security" brought together leading experts on political and military issues from both the United States and Taiwan to consider how a range of political, economic, and military factors are likely to shape Taiwan's security over the coming decade. The panelists' papers, included in these proceedings, represent a variety of views and analyses.

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RAND Corporation

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0833051490

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9780833051493

Foodie Dessertations

Bite Sized Recipes of Foodielicious Poetry

By: Robert C. Saunders

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Foodie Dessertations

Bite Sized Recipes of Foodielicious Poetry

By: Robert C. Saunders

I want to say up front that I am not on any psychiatric medications, yet, though my wife thinks I need something. I admit that these poems are somewhere between genius and insanity. As you read on you will encounter puns, spoofs, prose and any other literary device I could employ. Food based poetry with recipes seem like the perfect party platter.

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099826928X

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9780998269283

Region-building in Southern Africa

Progress, Problems and Prospects

By: Christopher C. Saunders,Gwinyayi Albert Dzinesa,Dawn Nagar

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Region-building in Southern Africa

Progress, Problems and Prospects

By: Christopher C. Saunders,Gwinyayi Albert Dzinesa,Dawn Nagar

Pt. 1. Historical legacy -- pt. 2. Governance and military security -- pt. 3. Economic integration -- pt. 4. Human security -- pt. 5. External actors.

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1350222216

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9781350222212

Sasha

An Historical Novel

By: Lorin C. Saunders

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Sasha

An Historical Novel

By: Lorin C. Saunders

Sasha is a deep love story and a great tragedy. It is an historical novel that takes place in the early stages of Communist totalitarian rule in Russia, mostly between 1917 and 1933. The story centers around the life of a modestly-successful peasant farming family and how they lived through those tragic times. It speaks of a time when the Bolsheviks watered the land with the blood and tears of their countrymen and women. It was a time when it is said that, "The lakes filled and the rivers ran from the tears of the people." Sasha is a story that could be told of millions of people who lived out their lives during the Bolsheviks reign of terror. The reader will experience the importance of faith in the lives of people, and what happens when an unrestrained godless tyranny rules a country. The story clearly portrays the tragedy of restricting the innate propensity in humanity for achievement and reward, and how denying this vestige of purpose is one of the greatest travesties against the dignity of men and women that a nation can inflect upon its citizens. Sasha is also about the importance of friendships. It is a story of a period in history that a Russian historian, who lived through and participated in those tragic years, has said, "It is a sin to forget this, a great sin." Sasha remembers this period in a way the reader will never forget. It speaks a warning to the West, and to our own lives if we do not learn from the lessons of history.

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