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Clark County

By: Dwight Connelly

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Clark County

By: Dwight Connelly

Text and vintage images from a variety of sources tell the history of Clark County, Illinois.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738560251

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9780738560250

The Road to Poverty

The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia

By: Dwight B. Billings,Kathleen M. Blee

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The Road to Poverty

The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia

By: Dwight B. Billings,Kathleen M. Blee

Kathleen Blee and Dwight Billings examine the social dynamics of persistently poor rural communities through the history of Clay County, an especially po or section of the Eastern Kentucky mountains in Appalachia. This book makes an important contribution to basic research on inequality pointing to the shortcomings of treating symptomatic problems of low income, while failing to address systemic ones at a time when American policymakers are struggling to design and implement effective programs to move people from welfare to work.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521655463

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9780521655460

Capturing Aguinaldo

The Daring Raid to Seize the Philippine President at the Dawn of the American Century

By: Dwight Sullivan

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Capturing Aguinaldo

The Daring Raid to Seize the Philippine President at the Dawn of the American Century

By: Dwight Sullivan

The “American century” began with the Spanish-American War. In that conflict’s aftermath, the United States claimed the Philippines in its bid for world power. Before the ink on the treaty with Spain had dried, the war in the Philippines turned into a violent rebellion. After two years of fighting, U.S. forces launched an audacious mission to capture Philippine president and rebel commander-in-chief Emilio Aguinaldo. Using an elaborate ruse, U.S. Army legend Frederick “Fighting Fred” Funston orchestrated Aguinaldo’s seizure in 1901. Capturing Aguinaldo is the story of Funston, his gambit to catch Emilio Aguinaldo, and the United States’ conflicted rise to power in the early twentieth century. The United States’ war with Spain in 1898 had been quick and, for the Americans in the Philippines, virtually bloodless. But by early 1899, Filipino nationalists, who had been fighting the Spaniards for three years and expected Spain’s defeat to produce their independence, were fighting a new imperial power: the United States. The Filipinos eventually abandoned conventional warfare, switching to guerilla tactics in an ongoing conflict rife with atrocities on both sides. By March 1901, the United States was looking for a bold strike against the nationalists. Brigadier General Frederick Funston, who had already earned a Medal of Honor, and four other officers posing as prisoners were escorted by loyal Filipino soldiers impersonating rebels. After a ninety-mile forced march, the fake insurgents were welcomed into the enemy’s headquarters where, after a brief firefight, they captured President Aguinaldo. At long last, the rebellion neared collapse. More than a swashbuckling tale, Capturing Aguinaldo is a character study of Frederick Funston and Emilio Aguinaldo and a look at the United States’ rise to global power as it unfolded at ground level. It tells the thrilling but nearly forgotten story of this daring operation and its polarizing aftermath, highlighting themes of U.S. history that have reverberated for more than a century, through World War II to Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0811771539

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9780811771535

Top Gun

50 Years of Naval Air Superiority

By: Dwight Jon Zimmerman

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Top Gun

50 Years of Naval Air Superiority

By: Dwight Jon Zimmerman

Fly with the best in Top Gun: 50 Years of Naval Air Superiority—the definitive, highly illustrated, in-depth look at the Navy's famous fighter unit, including its history, technology, and culture. Top Gun: 50 Years of Naval Air Superiority begins with a fascinating behind-the-scenes account of the blockbuster film that helped America shake off the trauma of the Vietnam War and once again take pride in its military. The book then launches into the even more incredible story of why and how such men consistently capture the imagination of children, adults, pilots, and audiences around the world. Chapters spotlight pivotal military movies and television shows that presaged the movie Top Gun, including edge-of-the-seat vignettes and anecdotes of pilots and their lifestyles, the origin of the Navy’s fighter pilot program and its rigorous training, and how it inspired the Air Force’s counterpart, Red Flag. Other chapters highlight what it takes to be a pilot in other branches of the armed forces, and takes a look back in time at the most notorious (and feared) pilots of World War I and World War II from all around the globe. Fast forward to the jet age, when the first aces flew hair-raising missions over Korea and Vietnam, and learn how past and contemporary aerial dogfighting really works. The book also reveals the many technological advances that transformed aerial combat from the dangerous, unsynchronized machine guns that bounced bullets off propellers in World War I to today, where air-to-air missiles are launched by pilots who have no visual contact with an adversary, and finally illustrates how drones are adding a new dimension to the meaning of Top Gun. Finish with an in-depth look at Naval Station Fallon, one of the most modern and renowned American naval stations, located outside Fallon, Nevada. Top Gun: 50 Years of Naval Air Superiority concludes with a look at Top Gun 2, the highly anticipated sequel to one of the biggest action movies of all time and the one that made Tom Cruise a worldwide superstar. Featuring over 200 photos, new interviews and stories from aces, engineers, commanders, and more, and written by best-selling author and president of the Military Writers Society of America, Dwight Zimmerman, Top Gun: 50 Years of Naval Air Superiority is the must-have guide to the fastest, deadliest, most storied aerial combat squadron the world has ever known.

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163

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Motorbooks

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0760363544

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9780760363546

Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes

The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition

By: Dwight F. Reynolds

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Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes

The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition

By: Dwight F. Reynolds

An astonishingly rich oral epic that chronicles the early history of a Bedouin tribe, the Sirat Bani Hilal has been performed for almost a thousand years. In this ethnography of a contemporary community of professional poet-singers, Dwight F. Reynolds reveals how the epic tradition continues to provide a context for social interaction and commentary. Reynolds’s account is based on performances in the northern Egyptian village in which he studied as an apprentice to a master epic-singer. Reynolds explains in detail the narrative structure of the Sirat Bani Hilal as well as the tradition of epic singing. He sees both living epic poets and fictional epic heroes as figures engaged in an ongoing dialogue with audiences concerning such vital issues as ethnicity, religious orientation, codes of behavior, gender roles, and social hierarchies.

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350

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Cornell University Press

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1501723235

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9781501723230

2020s Foresight

Three Vital Practices for Thriving in a Decade of Accelerating Change

By: Tom Sine,Dwight J. Friesen

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2020s Foresight

Three Vital Practices for Thriving in a Decade of Accelerating Change

By: Tom Sine,Dwight J. Friesen

In 2020s Foresight, authors Tom Sine and Dwight Friesen seek to "wake up" Christian leaders and those whom they serve to the realities that leaders in other fields must deal with all the time. We are no longer simply living in changing times. We live in the reality that we are racing into a new world of accelerating change. The authors want to enable leaders in churches and Christian organizations to learn how to lead in this time of acceleration. They focus on three vital practices: foresight (analyzing the accelerating changes and anticipating new opportunities and strategies for addressing change); reflection (discerning biblical purposes for times like these); and creating innovative ways to engage new challenges so as to advance God's purposes in our lives, congregations, and organizations in the 2020s. The book is intended to equip Christian leaders to anticipate some of the new challenges in the 2020s; discover God's shalom purposes for our lives, the church, and God's world; and create innovative new possibilities for our lives, communities, and congregations that both engage new opportunities and advance God's purposes.

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262

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Fortress Press

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1506464874

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9781506464879

Drugs and Alcohol in the 21st Century

Theory, Behavior, and Policy

By: Dwight Vick

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Drugs and Alcohol in the 21st Century

Theory, Behavior, and Policy

By: Dwight Vick

Drugs & Alcohol in the 21st Century: Theory, Behavior, & Policy" examines the collective response to addictive behaviors in America, and its influence on the creation and implementation of national policy in the 20th and 21st century. A close look is given to America’s response to five drugs with ambiguous political histories – alcohol, cocaine, hallucinogens, marijuana, and opiates. The physical and psychological conditions that contribute to addictive behaviors are explored, as well as how those condition impact individuals, families and communities. Responses from politicians, the alcohol and drug industry, citizens groups, and bureaucracies including law enforcement, public health, schools and colleges are discussed.

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432

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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076377488X

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9780763774882

Human Rights and World Public Order

The Basic Policies of an International Law of Human Dignity

By: Myres Smith McDougal,Harold Dwight Lasswell,Lung-chu Chen

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Human Rights and World Public Order

The Basic Policies of an International Law of Human Dignity

By: Myres Smith McDougal,Harold Dwight Lasswell,Lung-chu Chen

As a classic text of the New Haven School of International Law, this book explores human rights and international law in the broadest sense, taking into account social sciences research while embracing all values secured, or consequently fulfilled, or needed to thus be achieved. The re-issuance of this venerable title, unveils this work to a new generation of scholars, students, and practitioners of international law and human rights.

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1137

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0190882638

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9780190882631

John McMillan

The Apostle of Presbyterianism in the West, 1752-1833

By: Dwight Ray Guthrie

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John McMillan

The Apostle of Presbyterianism in the West, 1752-1833

By: Dwight Ray Guthrie

The first comprehensive biography of John McMillan, who "blew the Gospel trumpet", and spread Presbyterianism west of the Alleghenies. McMillan was a missionary, minister, politician, patriarch, and a founder of Washington and Jefferson College. The book also offers a colorful history of the Scotch-Irish pioneers who tamed a rugged and hostile region of early America.

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314

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University of Pittsburgh Pre

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0822975335

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9780822975335

Coping+Plus

Dimensions of Disability

By: Frank M Robinson,Doe West,Dwight Woodworth Jr.

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Coping+Plus

Dimensions of Disability

By: Frank M Robinson,Doe West,Dwight Woodworth Jr.

Everyone can learn new or more effective coping skills and strategies to deal with times of loss, crisis, and disability. Being aware of possible options or of how others fare in coping with difficult situations is better than groping in the dark. It is hoped that the real life experiences and coping skills presented here will help others in dealing with similar issues and challenges.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313005079

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9780313005077

The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower

The Presidency: Keeping the Peace

By: Louis Galambos,Daun Van Ee

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The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower

The Presidency: Keeping the Peace

By: Louis Galambos,Daun Van Ee

The final set of volumes (Vol 18-21 sold separately) of The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower contain 1,783 documents drawn from Eisenhower's second term as president from 20 January 1957 to 20 January 1961. Completing a monumental project that began with publication of The War Years in 1970, this final set of volumes of The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower contains 1,783 documents drawn from Eisenhower's second term as president from 20 January 1957 to 20 January 1961. In these years Eisenhower worked hard to hold the focus of American national politics on the two major objectives he had set for his presidency in 1952: to sustain the policy of containment without precipitating a war with the Soviet Union and to reduce the role of the federal government in U.S. domestic affairs. In both cases, events at home and abroad intruded—diverting attention to immediate problems, endangering the peace, and forcing the White House to devote most of its leadership to the crises of the day. As president during this tense period, Eisenhower maintained an extensive and revealing correspondence with prominent individuals as well as with personal friends. These letters, together with the occasional entries made in his diary, shed considerable light upon the major national concerns of the 1950s. The volumes also include private and secret correspondence previously unavailable to scholars. Some of these items have been only recently declassified, and many appear here in print for the first time. Taken as a whole, the Eisenhower papers from 1957-61 provide firm documentary evidence of the manner in which Eisenhower dealt with the complex internal and external problems faced by all of our modern political leaders.

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743

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JHU Press

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0801866383

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9780801866388

The Generals

Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee

By: Nancy S. Anderson,Dwight G. Anderson

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The Generals

Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee

By: Nancy S. Anderson,Dwight G. Anderson

Dual biography of the two greatest generals of the Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee.

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Wings

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0517118858

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9780517118856

Book's by Dwight Connelly

Clark County

Clark County

The Road to Poverty

The Road to Poverty

Capturing Aguinaldo

Capturing Aguinaldo

Top Gun

Top Gun

Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes

Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes

2020s Foresight

2020s Foresight

Drugs and Alcohol in the 21st Century

Drugs and Alcohol in the 21st Century

Human Rights and World Public Order

Human Rights and World Public Order

John McMillan

John McMillan

Coping+Plus

Coping+Plus

The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower

The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower

The Generals

The Generals

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