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The Artillery of the Dukes of Burgundy, 1363-1477

By: Robert Douglas Smith,Kelly DeVries

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The Artillery of the Dukes of Burgundy, 1363-1477

By: Robert Douglas Smith,Kelly DeVries

A major new exploration of the history and development of gunpowder weapons in the 15th century based on the artillery of the Dukes of Burgundy. The four Valois Dukes of Burgundy created, in little more than a century, a fabulously wealthy and independent state. Their centralised control and chancellery have bequeathed to us a vast treasure trove of documents, including accounts and inventories of the Masters of the artillery under the later Dukes. Although many of these were extracted and transcribed in the late nineteenth century, modern historians have largely ignored their unprecedented insights into fifteenth-century guns and their use. When Charles the Bold, the last Valois Duke, took on the combined Swiss confederate forces in 1476 he lost not just the battles and his personal fortune, but much of his artillerytrain as well. Of the dozens of cannons captured, at least 25 pieces survive in Swiss museums. The documents that survive from the Valois state give us, almost for the first time in medieval Europe, the ability to see the course of history in a period when Europe was undergoing some of the most profound changes before the 20th century. The Artillery of the Dukes of Burgundy is the first attempt to combine all these sources, bringing newand fresh insights into the development and use of artillery in the fifteenth century. Moreover this is the first modern study of medieval cannon, one of the most important discoveries of the post-classical world. KELLY DeVRIES has authored numerous books and articles on medieval warfare. ROBERT DOUGLAS SMITH formerly Head of Conservation in the Royal Armouries, Tower of London, is an acknowledged expert on medieval artillery. This study is thefirst major fruit of their combined researches.

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Boydell Press

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1843831627

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Psychology: Australia and New Zealand with Online Study Tools 12 Months

By: Douglas A. Bernstein,Julie Ann Pooley,Lynne Cohen,Bethanie Gouldthorp,Stephen C. Provost,Jacquelyn Cranney,Louis A. Penner,Alison Clarke-Stewart,Edward J. Roy

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Psychology: Australia and New Zealand with Online Study Tools 12 Months

By: Douglas A. Bernstein,Julie Ann Pooley,Lynne Cohen,Bethanie Gouldthorp,Stephen C. Provost,Jacquelyn Cranney,Louis A. Penner,Alison Clarke-Stewart,Edward J. Roy

Psychology 2ed will support you to develop the skills and knowledge needed for your career in psychology and within the professional discipline of psychology. This book will be an invaluable study resource during your introductory psychology course and it will be a helpful reference throughout your studies and your future career in psychology. Psychology 2ed provides you with local ideas and examples within the context of psychology as an international discipline. Rich cultural and indigenous coverage is integrated throughout the book to help your understanding. To support your learning online study tools with revision quizzes, games and additional content have been developed with this book.

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Cengage AU

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0170386309

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Major League Turbulence

Baseball in the Era of Drug Use, Labor Strife and Black Power, 1968-1988

By: Douglas M. Branson

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Major League Turbulence

Baseball in the Era of Drug Use, Labor Strife and Black Power, 1968-1988

By: Douglas M. Branson

The decades between the late 1960s counterculture and the advent of steroid use in the late 1980s bought tumult to Major League Baseball. Dock Ellis (Pirates, Yankees) and Dick Allen (Phillies, Cardinals, Dodgers, White Sox) epitomized the era with recreational drug use (Ellis), labor strife (Allen), and the questioning of authority. Both men were Black Power advocates at a time when the movement was growing in baseball. In the 1970s and 1980s, Marvin Miller and the Major League Baseball Players Association fought numerous, mostly victorious battles with MLB and team owners. This book chronicles a turbulent period in baseball, and in American life, that led directly to the performance-enhancing drug era and the dramatically changed nature of the game.

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McFarland

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1476640661

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Frontiers of Knowledge: Scientific and Spiritual Sources for a New Era

By: Douglas Kinney

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Frontiers of Knowledge: Scientific and Spiritual Sources for a New Era

By: Douglas Kinney

Frontiers of Knowledge is the story of unfolding developments that are revolutionizing our understanding of ourselves and our place in the universe. We are birthing a new era in which our ideas about the nature and source of reality are swiftly changing. Insights from quantum physics suggest that the basis of our physical world is actually mental—conscious thoughts. Other discoveries are causing us to redefine our concepts of mind and the elusive thing we call consciousness. All strongly hint that spirituality is the underlying source of everything. Frontier scientists and scientifically trained researchers are providing us with a rich and expanding base of knowledge through systematic investigations of startling phenomena that have been observed in quantum physics, cosmology, biology, psychology, disease and healing, death, near-death experiences, reincarnation experiences, and those occurring in spiritual hypnosis on the nature of the spiritual realm. New concepts of reality are especially needed to explain the incredibly finetuned characteristics and the mysterious nature of our physical universe. Ninety-five percent of the universe’s energy and mass are a mystery to scientists, and for the moment, we resort to naming them dark matter and dark energy. The last time a comparable knowledge revolution occurred was in the late sixteenth century when astronomers determined that the planets revolved around the sun, not the earth. Historians call it the Copernican Revolution because it led to modern Western science. From one perspective, the new era predicted in this book—a revolution in its own right—can be considered the completion of the quantum revolution by defining and explaining the role of consciousness in our universe. An underlying aspect of this new revolution is the sense that humanity is moving into a new era of rapidly expanding knowledge of the human spirit (our soul aspect) and non-physical realities. Until now, this emerging knowledge has not been organized into a coherent and comprehensive structure. Frontiers of Knowledge provides the first outline of this new structure of reality.

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Mira Digital Publishing

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0991226348

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The Pursuit Of The Valdakk

By: Douglas R. Maercklein

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The Pursuit Of The Valdakk

By: Douglas R. Maercklein

The Pursuit of the Valdakk. A spaceship is missing. It belongs to the alien Tasak, and they have come to the planetary commonwealth of Ancinnion to seek help. The provincial council minister is in no position to refuse the Tasak, and Anadar Tolarin, a political cogwheel with a checkered past, is persuaded to shepherd the recovery operation. It is a simple job that will return great patronage and large sums of money for everyone involved, but there are a few problems. The ship in question turns out to have been missing for eighty-five years. The Valdakk is a warship, and evidently, it carries some secret weapon. The Tasak cannot explain exactly how this ship has become lost, why it has taken so long for them to come for it, or what terrible cargo it contains; however, they are convinced they know where it is. Anadar embarks aboard a powerful new combat vessel, but his nefarious political career has produced enemies, and the selection of the crew has left him suspicious, if not fearful. The dark corners of such a large warship conceal myriad dangers, and he senses only resentment from everyone aboard except the ship physician, a woman without a past. Against his better judgment, he picks up an alien pilot for his quest into the Rim Nebula, and to no one’s surprise, they are shadowed by the ships of a notorious criminal syndicate, the Ultracaan. They locate the Valdakk , but the ship evades them, and recovery becomes pursuit. It is a race now against a treacherous competitor—a contest at gunpoint with each played against the other by a quarry that always seems to stay one step ahead. Every contact grows more perilous, every battle more dangerous, every confrontation more personal. Anadar’s future and the fate of his mission will ultimately depend on the skills and courage of people he cannot trust. The closer he comes to the vessel, the more he discovers about the fears of the Tasak, the motivations of the Ultracaan, and the real purpose of his quest. Anadar Tolarin will grapple with his enemies, his past, and himself before he can face the Valdakk. What begins as a routine military excursion will go beyond the exercise of ships cannon, and he will discover that although much is offered, much is also demanded in the pursuit of the Valdakk .

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1453503722

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All Canada in the Hands of the British

General Jeffery Amherst and the 1760 Campaign to Conquer New France

By: Douglas R. Cubbison

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All Canada in the Hands of the British

General Jeffery Amherst and the 1760 Campaign to Conquer New France

By: Douglas R. Cubbison

In 1760, General Jeffery Amherst led the British campaign that captured Montreal and began the end of French colonial rule in North America. All Canada in the Hands of the British is a detailed account of Amherst’s successful military strategy and soldiers’ experiences on both sides. Newly promoted general Jeffery Amherst took command of British forces in North America in 1759 and soon secured victories at Fort Duquesne, Louisbourg, Quebec, Fort Ticonderoga, and Niagara. In 1760 William Pitt, head of the British government, commanded Amherst to eliminate French rule in Canada. During the ensuing campaign, Amherst confronted French resurgence at Quebec and mounted sieges at Isle aux Noix and Fort Lévis, both of which were made difficult by French strategic placements on nearby islands. As historian Douglas R. Cubbison demonstrates, however, Amherst was well before his time in strategy and tactics, and his forces crushed French resistance. In this first book-length study of Amherst’s campaign, Cubbison examines the three principal columns that Amherst’s army comprised, only one of which was under his direct command. Cubbison argues that Amherst’s success against the French relied on his employment of command, control, communications, and intelligence. Cubbison also shows how well Brigadier General James Murray’s use of what is today called population-centric counterinsurgency corresponded with Amherst’s strategic oversight and victory. Using archival materials, archaeological evidence, and the firsthand accounts of junior provincial soldiers, Cubbison takes us from the eighteenth-century antagonisms between the British and French in the New World through the Seven Years’ War, to the final siege and its historic significance for colonial Canada. In one of the most decisive victories of the Seven Years’ War, Amherst was able, after a mere four weeks, to claim all of Canada. All Canada in the Hands of the British will change how military historians and enthusiasts understand the nature of British colonial battle strategy.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806145315

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Two Armies on the Rio Grande

The First Campaign of the US-Mexican War

By: Douglas A. Murphy

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Two Armies on the Rio Grande

The First Campaign of the US-Mexican War

By: Douglas A. Murphy

Winner, Clotilde P. Garcia Tejano Book Prize The opening campaign of the US-Mexican War transformed the map of each nation and shaped the course of conflict. Armed with a broad range of Mexican military documents and previously unknown US sources, Douglas Murphy provides the first balanced view of early battles such as Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma. He reassesses previously covered territory and also poses new questions. Why did Mexico establish its defenses south of the Rio Grande while claiming territory north of the river? What was Mexico’s strategy in the campaign against the United States? What factors most affected Mexico’s defeat? In confronting these questions, Murphy shows that the campaign was a complex chess match with undercurrents of political intrigue, economic motivations, and personal animosities as much as military action. Two Armies on the Rio Grande will transform our understanding of the US-Mexican War.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1623492254

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The American Northern Theater Army in 1776

The Ruin and Reconstruction of the Continental Force

By: Douglas R. Cubbison

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The American Northern Theater Army in 1776

The Ruin and Reconstruction of the Continental Force

By: Douglas R. Cubbison

The American War for Independence was under way before the signing of the Declaration of Independence, but the Continental Army didn't have the force to back up the words. This history explores the army's early failures in Canada, with desertion and disease common among the ranks, and how new leadership disciplined and reorganized the army and set the stage for a key victory at Saratoga in 1777.

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McFarland

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0786457201

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9780786457205

Tudor Warship Mary Rose

By: Douglas McElvogue

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Tudor Warship Mary Rose

By: Douglas McElvogue

The great warship the Mary Rose was built between 1509 and 1511 and served 34 years in Henry VIII's navy before catastrophically sinking in the Battle of the Solent on 19 July 1545. A fighting platform and sailing ship, she was the pride of the Tudor fleet. Yet her memory passed into undeserved oblivion – until the remains of this magnificent flagship were dramatically raised to the surface in 1982 after 437 years at the bottom of the Solent. Part of the bestselling Conway Anatomy of The Ship series, Tudor Warship Mary Rose provides the finest possible graphical representation of the Mary Rose. Illustrated with a complete set of scale drawings, this book contains technical plans as well as explanatory views, all with fully descriptive keys. Douglas McElvogue uses archaeological techniques to trace the development and eventful career of Henry VIII's gunship, while placing it in the context of longer-term advances in ship construction. This volume features: -The first full archaeological reconstruction of the Mary Rose, as she would have appeared when built and when she sank. -The concepts behind the building of the ship, along with consideration of the materials used and her fitting-out and manning. -The ship's ordnance, including muzzle loaders, breech loaders, firearms, bows,staff weapons, bladed weapons and fire pots. -Analysis of the contemporary descriptions of the Mary Rose's sailing characteristics and ship handling, whether general sailing, heavy weather sailing, anchoring, mooring, stemming the tide or riding out storms. -A service history of the Mary Rose examining the campaigns of the vessel: the battles she was involved in, when she held station in the Channel and the periods in which she was laid up.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472845749

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The Legacy

Of the Farm, the Family, and Old Chautauqua

By: Douglas Houck

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The Legacy

Of the Farm, the Family, and Old Chautauqua

By: Douglas Houck

The world has changed. Two hundred years ago most people lived in small rural communities. They walked or rode a horse when they traveled. Water wheels were their only source of power. Communication was restricted to the spoken and printed word. But everything changed. The change started slowly in the forests of western New York. Visionaries used the technology of the 1800's to manufacture potash from ashes, used the technology of the 1820's to collect and market natural gas, and used the technology of the 1840's to make kerosene from petroleum. Advances in engineering made it possible to dig canals and build railroads to get these products to market. These canals and railroads accelerated the pace of change. Merchants then learned to protect their interests by influencing public policy and funding decisions being made in the state legislatures and in the United States Congress. This resulting combination of technology, engineering, and public policy impacted the lives of those who lived in Chautauqua County many years ago, and it still impacts our lives today.

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iUniverse

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0595282245

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Medieval Military Technology

By: Kelly Robert DeVries,Kelly DeVries,Robert Douglas Smith

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Medieval Military Technology

By: Kelly Robert DeVries,Kelly DeVries,Robert Douglas Smith

This thorough update of a classic book includes fully revised content, new sections on the use of horses, handguns, incendiary weapons, and siege engines, and new illustrations.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442604972

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Chomolungma Sings the Blues

Travels Round Everest

By: Ed Douglas

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Chomolungma Sings the Blues

Travels Round Everest

By: Ed Douglas

Everest, a mountain known all around the world and surrounded by the tragic romanticism of climbers risking everything for a dream. Although much has been written on the feats and accomplishments of these climbers, what about the people who actually live in the shadow of the mountain and the ways cimbers and trekkers affect their lives? Ed Douglas spent time traveling in Nepal and Tibet, talking to politicians, environmentalists and moutaineers, to local people who live around the mountain they call Chomolungma, Goddess Mother of the World. This sensitive account of Douglas' travels explores the issues facing a region struggling to develop and change-issues brought on by the growing mountaineering and trekking industries, issues that go far beyond how to clear up all the piling rubbish climbers leave behind. With honesty and humor Chomolungma Sings the Blues sheds a new and different light on the mountain and its people.

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0898868432

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In Search of Psyche

By: Douglas P. Crowne

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In Search of Psyche

By: Douglas P. Crowne

In Search of Psyche tells of a psychology professor who doffed his academic robes for a year to sit in on university classes. It gives a view of the fare students get in one of the largest courses in Colleges of Arts and Science at a nationwide sample of distinguished universities. From it come answers to these questions: What is the psychology taught to beginning students? How is it taught? How well? In Search of Psyche is, thus, introductory psychology at Berkeley on a Wednesday in October, Stanford the next Tuesday, Michigan and Ohio State in the same week in February, Harvard and Yale in early spring.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1465320679

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Counting the Public In

Presidents, Public Opinion, and Foreign Policy

By: Douglas C. Foyle

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Counting the Public In

Presidents, Public Opinion, and Foreign Policy

By: Douglas C. Foyle

The book examines the public's influence on foreign policy through case studies including the Formosa Straits crisis; intervention at Dien Bien Phu; the Sputnik launch; the New Look defense strategy; the Panama Canal Treaties; the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; the Strategic Defense Initiative; the Beirut Marine barracks bombing; German reunification; the Gulf War; and intervention in Somalia and Bosnia.

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Columbia University Press

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0231110693

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Physiological Foundations

By: Gellhorn,Douglas Thomas

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Physiological Foundations

By: Gellhorn,Douglas Thomas

Demonized by governments and the media as criminals, glorified within their own subculture as outlaws, hackers have played a major role in the short history of computers and digital culture-and have continually defied our assumptions about technology and secrecy through both legal and illicit means. In Hacker Culture, Douglas Thomas provides an in-depth history of this important and fascinating subculture, contrasting mainstream images of hackers with a detailed firsthand account of the computer underground. Addressing such issues as the commodification of the hacker ethos by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, the high-profile arrests of prominent hackers, and conflicting self-images among hackers themselves, Thomas finds that popular hacker stereotypes reflect the public's anxieties about the information age far more than they do the reality of hacking.

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452911061

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Cattle Kings of Texas

By: C. L. Douglas

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Cattle Kings of Texas

By: C. L. Douglas

This book comprises a fascinating and authentic look into the lives of some of the richest and most private ranches in Texas. This is a book that will greatly appeal to anyone with an interest in the historical singularity that is Texas, offering its readers a unique insight in to the ''real world'' of Texas ranch life and the ever-fading tradition of true ranching that made it what it is today. Many antique books such as this are increasingly rare and costly, and it is with this in mind that we are proud to be republishing this text here complete with a new introduction on the subject.

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Read Books Ltd

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1528760743

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Medieval Military Technology, Second Edition

By: Kelly Robert DeVries,Robert Douglas Smith

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Medieval Military Technology, Second Edition

By: Kelly Robert DeVries,Robert Douglas Smith

First published in 1992, Medieval Military Technology has become the definitive book in its field, garnering much praise and a large readership. This thorough update of a classic book, regarded as both an excellent overview and an important piece of scholarship, includes fully revised content, new sections on the use of horses, handguns, incendiary weapons, and siege engines, and eighteen new illustrations. The four key organizing sections of the book still remain: arms and armor, artillery, fortifications, and warships. Throughout, the authors connect these technologies to broader themes and developments in medieval society as well as to current scholarly and curatorial controversies.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442604999

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Voices from the Korean War

Personal Accounts of Those Who Served

By: Douglas Rice

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Voices from the Korean War

Personal Accounts of Those Who Served

By: Douglas Rice

Voices from the Korean War presents a collection of first-person accounts of those who served in the Korean War. The Korean War is often dubbed the Forgotten War, although more than 36,000 soldiers died in this three-year conflict. In Voices from the Korean War, author Douglas Rice makes certain the men who served are not forgotten as he shares first-person accounts from seventy-nine soldiers who fought in the war from June of 1950 through July of 1953. Voices from the Korean War follows the soldiers as they trek and fly over the mountainous terrain of the Korean peninsula. Through these eyewitness accounts, hear a soldier describe what happened to a small group of North Korean villagers who refused to divulge their location. Listen in as a wounded soldier tells a flight nurse the story of how he was rescued by American soldiers as he lay wounded in a North Korean home. Learn how some prisoners of war walked their imaginary dogs to irritate their captors. This compilation of different soldiers perspectives conveys what it must have been like to be directly involved in the conflict. It serves as a reminder of the challenges and the sacrifices the soldiers made in the name of war.

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iUniverse

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1450282571

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The Court Martial of Robert E. Lee

A Novel

By: Douglas Savage

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The Court Martial of Robert E. Lee

A Novel

By: Douglas Savage

On the first day of July 1863, Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia accidentally crossed swords with George Gordon Meade’s federal Army of the Potomac. They clashed at a tiny Pennsylvania crossroads called Gettysburg. Three days later, at least 22,000 Confederate men and boys were dead, wounded or captured, and the Yankees held the field when the river of bloodshed finally stopped. Gettysburg was General Lee’s worst defeat on an open field of battle. In The Court Martial of Robert E. Lee, a discouraged Confederate Congress summons General Lee to Richmond in December 1863, to face a board of inquiry on the Battle of Gettysburg. Through this speculative board of inquiry, the reader is drawn into the true history of the Army of Northern Virginia and the real political personalities and true political intrigue of Richmond in 1863. Will General Lee be relieved of command? Perhaps sent into retirement borne of catastrophic failure, leaving behind forever his beloved Army of Northern Virginia? The reader feels his pain and the anguish of a defeated general who wrote four months after Gettysburg that, “My heart and thoughts will always be with this army.”

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1589799402

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9781589799400

The Van Winkle War

The prequel to The Pursuit of the Valdakk

By: Douglas R. Maercklein

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The Van Winkle War

The prequel to The Pursuit of the Valdakk

By: Douglas R. Maercklein

A thousand years from now, a man revived from spaceship-failure hibernation is known as a Van Winkle. Marco Ledger, rescued and re-conscripted after eighty-five years, is caught in a future where the manipulation of war has become science. Arissa Barancour, owner of a deep space junkyard at the nexus of the next conflict is the only one who might save him. The fates of Marco and of Arissa are bound to a young mathematician, the artificial intelligence unit of mothballed warship, a cadre of double agents, and a crew of misfit aliens. The admirals have opened the door to that rare chance their schemes did not anticipate. After the dust settles they will discover the playing cards have refused to lie down, and they will have to fight the war they did not expect–the Van Winkle War.

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Progressive Relaxation Training

A Guide for Professionals, Students, and Researchers

By: Holly Hazlett-Stevens,Douglas A. Bernstein

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Progressive Relaxation Training

A Guide for Professionals, Students, and Researchers

By: Holly Hazlett-Stevens,Douglas A. Bernstein

Offers comprehensive guidance for practitioners, students, and researchers in psychology, psychiatry, and counseling to teach relaxation to clients. Two clinical psychologists widely known for their writings on relaxation present state-of-the-art methods for teaching clients to ease muscle and mind tension to deal with stress and anxiety disorders, as well as other conditions where stress and anxiety play a role. Bernstein and Hazlett-Stevens explain who the targets for Progressive Relaxation Training (PRT) are; the rationale, basic procedures, and variations of PRT; the setting and possible problems and solutions of PRT; and how to assess a client's progress. They also address hypnosis, drugs, and PRT, as well as PRT used in a mindfulness-based clinical practice. Case studies and evaluative research in PRT are also included. Students and practitioners in psychology, psychiatry, and counseling will find this work of interest. This book may also be useful supplemental reading for behavior modification courses and practicum courses in behavior therapy.

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Developing Arts Loving Readers

Top Ten Questions Teachers are Asking about Integrated Arts Education

By: Nan McDonald,Douglas Fisher

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Developing Arts Loving Readers

Top Ten Questions Teachers are Asking about Integrated Arts Education

By: Nan McDonald,Douglas Fisher

Ten questions, ten chapters, on such subjects as infusing arts into reading and language arts, as well as math, science, and social studies; teaching about artists and their craft; what works, and for whom; and assessment of student learning within integrated arts lessons.

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R&L Education

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0810843099

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9780810843097

Teaching Literacy through the Arts

By: Nan L. McDonald,Douglas Fisher

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Teaching Literacy through the Arts

By: Nan L. McDonald,Douglas Fisher

Accessible and hands-on yet grounded in research, this book addresses the "whats," "whys," and "how-tos" of integrating literacy instruction and the arts in grades K-8. Even teachers without any arts background will gain the skills they need to bring music, drama, visual arts, and dance into their classrooms. Provided are a wealth of specific resources and activities that other teachers have successfully used to build students' oral language, concepts of print, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, and writing, while also promoting creativity and self-expression. Special features include reproducible worksheets and checklists for developing, evaluating, and implementing arts-related lesson plans.

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Guilford Publications

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1462514928

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9781462514922

Cosmic Battles

The Holy Warriors

By: Douglas Shaw

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Cosmic Battles

The Holy Warriors

By: Douglas Shaw

Join General Stone, Commanders Pillar and Tower on a journey of love, death, self-sacrifice, and war. The three strong-willed, smart, and powerful Dunguchi warriors are devout followers of their faith. They soon find themselves traveling the known cosmos far from their home world of Dungurch Twelve. The three are a fierce fighting force guarded by a spiritual force that also drives their actions forward. They are capable of leaving compassion or destruction in their wake. Finally, they also come face-to-face with an ancient beast of great power and beauty in their quest to fight and save humanity from the very evil that seeks to destroy it. The many losses and pain they endure in their long journey can only end one of two ways.

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Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

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1640288910

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23 Roads to Mythville

By: Douglas McDaniel

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23 Roads to Mythville

By: Douglas McDaniel

The combined three books of The Mythville Trilogy in the one book, an apocalyptic journey across America and meditation on the imposition of order in space, both cyber and dirt real. By experiential author Douglas McDaniel, who explores the mysteries of American networked life.

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1411679148

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The Stranger-Kings of Sikka

With an Integrated Edition of Two Manuscripts on the Origin and History of the Rajadom of Sikka

By: E. Douglas Lewis

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The Stranger-Kings of Sikka

With an Integrated Edition of Two Manuscripts on the Origin and History of the Rajadom of Sikka

By: E. Douglas Lewis

The Stranger-Kings of Sikka is the first monographic study of an origin myth and history of an indigenous eastern Indonesian state and the first contemporary ethnography of the Ata Sikka of Flores. The book will be of interest to anthropologists, ethnologists of Austronesia, historians and political scientists whose interests include Southeast Asia. During the 1920s, in the regency of Sikka on the island of Flores, D.D. Pareira Kondi and A. Boer Pareira, two notable men among the first literate Sikkanese, began writing about the history and culture of their people. Among their many surviving manuscripts are two long works on the origin of the rajas who ruled Sikka until the end of the rajadom in the 1950s. The author of this book uncovered the manuscripts in 1994 and found among them versions of the myth of origin of the Sikkanese rajas, an epic tale of immigrant-kings that was lost to living memory and as oral tradition by the 1970s. Drawing on Boer’s and Kondi's texts and his own field research in the regency of Sikka, Lewis presents an abridged English translation of the origin myth and constructs a history of the Sikkanese rajas and the organization of the society they ruled.

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9004253777

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