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Lavi

The United States, Israel, and a Controversial Fighter Jet

By: John W. Golan

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Lavi

The United States, Israel, and a Controversial Fighter Jet

By: John W. Golan

The Lavi fighter program, the largest weapons-development effort ever undertaken by the State of Israel, envisioned a new generation of high-performance aircraft. In a controversial strategy, Israel Aircraft Industries intended to develop and manufacture the fighters in Israel with American financial support. The sophisticated planes, developed in the mid-1980s, were unique in design and intended to make up the majority of the Israeli air force. Though considerable prestige and money were at stake, developmental costs increased and doubts arose as to whether the Lavi could indeed be the warplane it was meant to be. Eventually the program became a microcosm for the ambitions, fears, and internal divisions that shaped both the U.S.-Israeli relationship and Israeli society itself. But the fighter never made it to operational service, and until now, the full breadth and significance of the Lavi story have never been examined and presented. Lavi: The United States, Israel, and a Controversial Fighter Jet traces the evolution of the Lavi fighter from its genesis in the 1970s to its scrapping in August 1987. John W. Golan examines the roles of Israeli military icons and political leaders such as Ezer Weizman, Ariel Sharon, Menachem Begin, and Yitzhak Rabin in the program and in relation to their counterparts in the United States. On the American side, Golan traces the evolution of government policy toward the program, detailing the complex picture of the U.S. foreign policy apparatus and of U.S.-Israeli relations in general—from President Reagan’s public endorsement of the program on the White House lawn to Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger’s unremitting attempts to cancel it in succeeding years.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1612347223

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9781612347226

American Alliance Policy in the Middle East, 1945-1992

Iran, Israel, and Saudi Arabia

By: John P. Miglietta

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American Alliance Policy in the Middle East, 1945-1992

Iran, Israel, and Saudi Arabia

By: John P. Miglietta

Taking the friendly relations, at various times, between the United States and Iran, Israel, and Saudi Arabia as case studies, Miglietta (political science, Tennessee State U.) examines and critiques the development of U.S. alliance strategy during the Cold War and beyond. American alliance policy was forged in the crucible of the rivalry with the Soviet Union and it is suggested that the collection of alliances was considered a zero- sum game with the communist enemy. Too often, appeasing the needs of the ally was viewed as crucial for maintaining American credibility, argues Miglietta. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

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Lexington Books

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0739103040

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9780739103043

Mengele

The Complete Story

By: Gerald L. Posner,John Ware

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Mengele

The Complete Story

By: Gerald L. Posner,John Ware

Based on exclusive and unrestricted access to more than 5,000 pages of personal writings and family photos, this definitive biography of German physician and SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Josef Mengele (1911-1979) probes the personality and motivations of Auschwitz's "Angel of Death." From May 1943 through January 1945, Mengele selected who would be gassed immediately, who would be worked to death, and who would serve as involuntary guinea pigs for his spurious and ghastly human experiments (twins were Mengele's particular obsession). With authority and insight, Mengele examines the entire life of the world's most infamous doctor.

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Cooper Square Press

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1461661161

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9781461661160

Thrilled to Death Volume Two

Lookout, Paper Wings, and The Strait

By: John J. Nance,Les Abend,Dom Stasi

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Thrilled to Death Volume Two

Lookout, Paper Wings, and The Strait

By: John J. Nance,Les Abend,Dom Stasi

Buckle your seatbelts for three high-flying aviation thrillers—written by experienced pilots including a New York Times–bestselling author. Lockout Whoever has electronically disconnected the flight controls of Pangia Flight 10 as it streaks toward the volatile Middle East may be trying to provoke a nuclear war. With time and fuel running out, the pilots are forced to put animosities aside and risk everything to wrest control from the electronic ghost holding them on a course to disaster. “A wild ride through the night sky.” —Capt. “Sully” Sullenberger, #1 New York Times–bestselling author Paper Wings When a boat is found adrift off Fort Lauderdale, the investigation leads to more than murder—the evidence points to an “accident” that downed a passenger jet in Bermuda. Capt. Hart Lindy’s role in the NTSB investigation puts him on a flight path to danger trying to determine what really happened to Flight 63. “A masterful melange of deadly mysteries and desperate acts.” —John J. Nance, New York Times–bestselling author The Strait Upon learning that Swede Bergstrom, the hero who saved his life, has been killed during the commission of a crime, pilot Jake Silver agrees to follow Swede’s mysterious and beautiful sister, Christina, on a search to clear her brother’s name. Their odyssey will take them into the heart of darkness itself, dodging death every step of the way . . . “The Strait interrupted my normal sleep cycle . . . a page-turner for sure.” —Donald J. Porter, aviation historian and author of Flight Failure

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WildBlue Press

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1948239574

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9781948239578

501 Italian Verbs

By: Patricia Doyle,John Colaneri,Vincent Luciani,Marcel Danesi

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501 Italian Verbs

By: Patricia Doyle,John Colaneri,Vincent Luciani,Marcel Danesi

Barrons Test Prep Material that is now out of print.

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Simon and Schuster

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1438068166

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501 Italian Verbs

By: John Colaneri,Vincent Luciani,Marcel Danesi

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501 Italian Verbs

By: John Colaneri,Vincent Luciani,Marcel Danesi

The original and most trusted verb book in the market with over 50 years of proven excellence! Barron’s 501 Italian Verbs provides students, travelers, and adult learners with fingertip access to the 501 most common and useful Italian verbs in all 15 tenses and moods. Fluency in Italian begins with a knowledge of correct verb formation and usage. Having a quick reference guide such as this classic book is an absolute essential for those learning the language or those who just need a quick refresher. The authors provide clear, easy-to-follow instruction along with synonyms, antonyms and idiomatic expressions. Each verb is listed alphabetically in chart form—one verb per page along with its English translation. Highlights of this brand new edition include: One verb per page conjugated in all tenses and moods Synonyms, antonyms and idiomatic phrases for each verb The 55 most essential Italian verbs highlighted and used in context A pull-out reference card featuring the most essential verbs An extensive index including many more regular verbs conjugated like the book's 501 model verbs Passive and active voice formations Even more entries in the English-Italian verb index covering impersonal verbs, weather expressions, and more Online practice and exercises to reinforce verb conjugations and usage Audio program to model native speaker rhythms and intonation New pronoun chart on the inside front cover

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Simon and Schuster

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1506260675

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9781506260679

501 Italian Verbs, Sixth Edition

By: John Colaneri,Vincent Luciani,Marcel Danesi

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501 Italian Verbs, Sixth Edition

By: John Colaneri,Vincent Luciani,Marcel Danesi

Choose Barron’s for language learning--a trusted resource for over 50 years! This edition of 501 Italian Verbs provides language learners with fingertip access to a carefully curated selection of the 501 most common Italian verbs--in all tenses and moods! Each verb is listed alphabetically in chart form—one verb per page along with its English translation. Follow the clear, concise instruction, then take your language fluency to the next level with an all-new online activity center. This comprehensive guide also includes: Lists of synonyms, antonyms, idioms, and usage examples for every verb A concise grammar review for easy reference The popular 55 Essential Verbs feature, with an in-depth look at usage and formation for the trickiest Italian verbs Over 1,500 additional verbs conjugated like the 501 models Online content includes: Audio program modeling native speaker rhythms and pronunciation Four practice quizzes to help you practice German sentence completion, conversational dialogue, and word completion exercises Answer explanations for all questions plus a timed test option and scoring

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Simon and Schuster

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1506293638

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9781506293639

Lockout

By: John J. Nance

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Lockout

By: John J. Nance

A passenger plane is electronically hijacked—and may be aimed at a target that could kill millions: “A wild ride through the night sky.” —Capt. “Sully” Sullenberger, #1 New York Times–bestselling author Over the Atlantic in the dark of night, the electronic brain of Pangia Airlines Flight 10 quietly and without warning disconnects all the cockpit controls and reverses course on its own. The crew of the huge Airbus 330 at first senses nothing, the flight displays still showing them on course to New York. But with puzzled passengers reporting stars on the wrong side and growing alarm over the sudden failure of all their radios—not to mention armed fighters pulling alongside to force them to land—the confused pilots discover that Flight 10 is streaking back toward the hyper-volatile Middle East, and there is nothing they can do about it. An alphabet soup of federal agencies struggle for answers. Messages fly between Washington and Tel Aviv as suspicions grow about a plot to spark a nuclear war. The presence of a hated former head of state in first class fuels fearful speculation. As time and fuel run low, flying at full throttle toward a hostile border, Capt. Jerry Tollefson and First Officer Dan Horneman have to put their personal animosities aside and risk everything to wrest control from the electronic ghost holding them—and perhaps the world—on a course to certain disaster. And in the war room in Tel Aviv, the interim Prime Minister of Israel grapples with a horrifying choice between three hundred airborne lives and the probability of millions more casualties . . . “King of the modern-day aviation thriller.” —Publishers Weekly

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WildBlue Press

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1942266618

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9781942266617

The Middle East in Turmoil

By: John V. Canfield

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The Middle East in Turmoil

By: John V. Canfield

Middle East in Turmoil, Volume 1

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Nova Publishers

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1590331605

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9781590331606

Works of John Donne, With a Memoir of His Life

Vol. IV

By: John Donne

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Works of John Donne, With a Memoir of His Life

Vol. IV

By: John Donne

Reprint of the original, first published in 1839.

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3385146666

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The Works of John Donne, D.D., Dean of Saint Paul's 1621-1631 with a Memoir of His Life in Six Volumes

Vol. 4

By: Henry Alford,John Donne

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The Works of John Donne, D.D., Dean of Saint Paul's 1621-1631 with a Memoir of His Life in Six Volumes

Vol. 4

By: Henry Alford,John Donne

Reprint of the original, first published in 1839.

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3368752987

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The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy

By: John J. Mearsheimer,Stephen M. Walt

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The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy

By: John J. Mearsheimer,Stephen M. Walt

Originally published in 2007, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, by John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen M. Walt of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, provoked both howls of outrage and cheers of gratitude for challenging what had been a taboo issue in America: the impact of the Israel lobby on U.S. foreign policy. A work of major importance, it remains as relevant today as it was in the immediate aftermath of the Israel-Lebanon war of 2006. Mearsheimer and Walt describe in clear and bold terms the remarkable level of material and diplomatic support that the United States provides to Israel and argues that this support cannot be fully explained on either strategic or moral grounds. This exceptional relationship is due largely to the political influence of a loose coalition of individuals and organizations that actively work to shape U.S. foreign policy in a pro-Israel direction. They provocatively contend that the lobby has a far-reaching impact on America's posture throughout the Middle East―in Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, and toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict―and the policies it has encouraged are in neither America's national interest nor Israel's long-term interest. The lobby's influence also affects America's relationship with important allies and increases dangers that all states face from global jihadist terror. The publication of The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy led to a sea change in how the U.S-Israel relationship was discussed, and continues to be one of the most talked-about books in foreign policy.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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1429932821

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9781429932820

16 Souls

By: John J. Nance

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16 Souls

By: John J. Nance

A pilot’s emergency maneuver lands him in court in this thriller by a New York Times–bestselling author who “knows how to keep his readers turning pages.” —Booklist On takeoff from Denver during a winter blizzard, an airliner piloted by veteran Captain Marty Mitchell overruns a commuter plane from behind. Bizarrely, the fuselage of the smaller aircraft is tenuously wedged onto the wing of his Boeing 757, leading Mitchell to an impossible life-or-death choice. Mitchell’s decision will land the former military pilot in the crosshairs of a viciously ambitious district attorney determined to send him to prison for doing his job. Despondent and deeply wounded by what he sees as betrayal by the system, Mitchell at first refuses to defend himself or even assist the corporate lawyer forced to represent him. Pitted against the prosecutorial prowess of a DA using Mitchell’s case to audition for a political appointment is young defense attorney Judith Winston. Her lack of experience in criminal cases could mean the end of Mitchell’s freedom, if he doesn’t end his own life first. But like the pilot she represents, she will not give up in the face of devastating odds—and she’s growing ever more determined to expose the corruption behind his personal nightmare . . . “King of the modern-day aviation thriller.” —Publishers Weekly “In the air, or in a courtroom, nobody writes a better thriller than John J. Nance.” —Steve Jackson, New York Times–bestselling author

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WildBlue Press

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1947290126

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9781947290129

The Sermons of John Donne, Volume V

By: John Donne

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The Sermons of John Donne, Volume V

By: John Donne

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1959.

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Univ of California Press

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0520346270

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9780520346277

Blood on the Earth

By: John Lavi

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Blood on the Earth

By: John Lavi

Explosive and riveting! "The story moves at a steady clip thanks to brutal and concise confrontations. A riveting but grim and unflinching tale of two assassins." --Kirkus Reviews In this dark thriller, gifted but disgraced former FBI special agent Ben Hawkins has a chance to redeem himself when he takes over an organized crime task force. He soon faces two lethal killers unleashing a spree of terror across the country. One of his targets lives a double life as suburban dad and shadowy assassin who only hits Mob targets and seems to operate under his own code of honor. The other is a monster who strikes with harrowing savagery. Hawkins must hunt them both and finds he is caught in a firestorm. His sense of duty drives him into a deep darkness from which he may never emerge. Full of unforgettable characters, from psychotic Mob bosses to conflicted heroes, the relentless pace of this hard-boiled crime saga does not let up until the final surprise.

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Fulton Books, Inc.

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1638606285

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9781638606284

Introduction to Smooth Manifolds

By: John Lee

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Introduction to Smooth Manifolds

By: John Lee

This book is an introductory graduate-level textbook on the theory of smooth manifolds. Its goal is to familiarize students with the tools they will need in order to use manifolds in mathematical or scientific research--- smooth structures, tangent vectors and covectors, vector bundles, immersed and embedded submanifolds, tensors, differential forms, de Rham cohomology, vector fields, flows, foliations, Lie derivatives, Lie groups, Lie algebras, and more. The approach is as concrete as possible, with pictures and intuitive discussions of how one should think geometrically about the abstract concepts, while making full use of the powerful tools that modern mathematics has to offer. This second edition has been extensively revised and clarified, and the topics have been substantially rearranged. The book now introduces the two most important analytic tools, the rank theorem and the fundamental theorem on flows, much earlier so that they can be used throughout the book. A few new topics have been added, notably Sard’s theorem and transversality, a proof that infinitesimal Lie group actions generate global group actions, a more thorough study of first-order partial differential equations, a brief treatment of degree theory for smooth maps between compact manifolds, and an introduction to contact structures. Prerequisites include a solid acquaintance with general topology, the fundamental group, and covering spaces, as well as basic undergraduate linear algebra and real analysis.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1441999825

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9781441999825

501 Italian Verbs

Fully Conjugated in All the Tenses in a New Easy-to-learn Format Alphabetically Arranged

By: John Colaneri,Vincent Luciani

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501 Italian Verbs

Fully Conjugated in All the Tenses in a New Easy-to-learn Format Alphabetically Arranged

By: John Colaneri,Vincent Luciani

Regular and irregular Italian verbs are presented alphabetically for quick reference. Includes all in table form and conjugated in all tenses, one verb per page, with English translations.

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576

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Barron's Educational Series, Incorporated

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0764113488

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9780764113482

Soviet and East European Major Combat Aircraft

Including the World's Non-aligned Nations

By: Michael John Haddrick Taylor

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Soviet and East European Major Combat Aircraft

Including the World's Non-aligned Nations

By: Michael John Haddrick Taylor

In addition to those aircraft built in Eastern European nations for domestic use and export, warplanes of the non-aligned nations are also described and illustrated. Descriptions are complimented by high-quality three-view drawings and large photographs, assisting positive identification.

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Howell Press

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1854880020

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9781854880024

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