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To Be a Friend Is Fatal

The Fight to Save the Iraqis America Left Behind

By: Kirk W. Johnson

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To Be a Friend Is Fatal

The Fight to Save the Iraqis America Left Behind

By: Kirk W. Johnson

The “searing” (The New Yorker), “must read” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) memoir of “one of the few genuine heroes of America’s war in Iraq” (Dexter Filkins). In January 2005 Kirk Johnson, then twenty-four, arrived in Baghdad as USAID’s (US Agency for International Development) only Arabic-speaking American employee. Despite his opposition to the war, Johnson felt called to civic duty and wanted to help rebuild Iraq. Working as the USAID’s first reconstruction coordinator in Fallujah, he traversed the city’s IED-strewn streets, working alongside idealistic Iraqi translators—young men and women sick of Saddam, filled with Hollywood slang, and enchanted by the idea of a peaceful, democratic Iraq. It was not to be. As sectarian violence escalated, Iraqis employed by the US coalition found themselves subject to a campaign of kidnapping, torture, and assassination. On his first brief vacation, Johnson, swept into what doctors later described as a “fugue state,” crawled onto the ledge outside his hotel window and plunged off. He would spend the next year in an abyss of depression, surgery, and PTSD—crushed by having failed in Iraq. One day, Johnson received an email from an Iraqi friend, Yaghdan: People are trying to kill me and I need your help. That email launched Johnson’s now seven-year mission to get help from the US government for Yaghdan and thousands of abandoned Iraqis like him. To Be a Friend Is Fatal is Kirk W. Johnson’s “truly incredible” (Ira Glass) portrait of the human rubble of war and his efforts to redeem a shameful chapter of American history. “It is difficult to imagine a book more urgent than this” (The Boston Globe).

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Simon and Schuster

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147671049X

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The Feather Thief

Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century

By: Kirk Wallace Johnson

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The Feather Thief

Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century

By: Kirk Wallace Johnson

As heard on NPR's This American Life “Absorbing . . . Though it's non-fiction, The Feather Thief contains many of the elements of a classic thriller.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air “One of the most peculiar and memorable true-crime books ever.” —Christian Science Monitor From the author of The Fishermen and the Dragon, a rollicking true-crime adventure and a captivating journey into an underground world of fanatical fly-tiers and plume peddlers, for readers of The Stranger in the Woods, The Lost City of Z, and The Orchid Thief. On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist boarded a train for a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History. Home to one of the largest ornithological collections in the world, the Tring museum was full of rare bird specimens whose gorgeous feathers were worth staggering amounts of money to the men who shared Edwin's obsession: the Victorian art of salmon fly-tying. Once inside the museum, the champion fly-tier grabbed hundreds of bird skins—some collected 150 years earlier by a contemporary of Darwin's, Alfred Russel Wallace, who'd risked everything to gather them—and escaped into the darkness. Two years later, Kirk Wallace Johnson was waist high in a river in northern New Mexico when his fly-fishing guide told him about the heist. He was soon consumed by the strange case of the feather thief. What would possess a person to steal dead birds? Had Edwin paid the price for his crime? What became of the missing skins? In his search for answers, Johnson was catapulted into a years-long, worldwide investigation. The gripping story of a bizarre and shocking crime, and one man's relentless pursuit of justice, The Feather Thief is also a fascinating exploration of obsession, and man's destructive instinct to harvest the beauty of nature.

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Penguin

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1101981636

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To Be a Friend Is Fatal

The Fight to Save the Iraqis America Left Behind

By: Kirk W. Johnson

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The Fight to Save the Iraqis America Left Behind

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Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, Blood, Coagulants and Anticoagulants to Cardiovascular Agents

By: Kirk-Othmer

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Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, Blood, Coagulants and Anticoagulants to Cardiovascular Agents

By: Kirk-Othmer

Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology The Third Edition of the Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology is built on the solid foundation of the previous editions. All of the articles have been rewritten and updated and many new subjects have been added to reflect changes in chemical technology through the 1970s. The new edition, however, will be familiar to users of the earlier editions: comprehensive, authoritative, accessible, lucid. The Encyclopedia remains an indispensable information source for all producers and users of chemical products and materials. In the Third Edition, emphasis is given to major present-day topics of concern to all chemists, scientists, and engineers—energy, health, safety, toxicology, and new materials. New subjects have been added, especially those related to polymer and plastics technology, fuels and energy, inorganic and solid-state chemistry, composite materials, coating, fermentation and enzymes, pharmaceuticals, surfactant technology, fibers and textiles. New features include the use of SI units as well as English units, Chemical Abstracts Service’s Registry Numbers, and complete indexing based on automated retrieval from a machine-readable composition system. Once again this classic serves as an unrivaled library of information for the chemical and allied industries. Some comments about Kirk-Othmer— The First Edition "No reference library worthy of the name will be without this series. It is simply a must for the chemist and chemical engineer…" —Chemical and Engineering News The Second Edition "A necessity for any technical library." —Choice

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Wiley-Interscience

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0471020400

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9780471020400

What Can We Do about Church Dropouts?

By: C. Kirk Hadaway

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What Can We Do about Church Dropouts?

By: C. Kirk Hadaway

Describes reasons for dropouts and offers specific programs to prevent dropouts through innovative and traditional approaches to ministry. An in-depth study of persons who have drifted away, fled, or been "pushed out" of hte church. Hadaway arranges church dropouts into distinct categores such as Estranged Mentals Members, Young Settled Liberals, Young Libertarians, and Irreligious Traditionalists. After describing each one's characteristics, attitudes, and behaviors, Hadaway shows how to reach the members of each group through innovative and traditional approaches.

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0687446058

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Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, Carbon and Graphite Fibers to Chlorocarbons and Chlorohydrocarbons-CSUB 1/SUB

By: Kirk-Othmer

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By: Kirk-Othmer

Contains a library of information for the chemical industry. The 4th edition has undergone a complete revision, with the inclusion of many new subjects which reflect the growth in chemical technology through the 1990s. The book includes expanded coverage of biotechnology and materials science.

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1112

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0471526738

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Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology - Index

By: Raymond E. Kirk

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Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology - Index

By: Raymond E. Kirk

This 27 volume print set represents the most comprehensive reference available on the subject of chemistry with nearly 1200 entries on 30,000 pages covering the entire scope of chemical technology. Includes basic chemical information as well as applications health and safety implications.This world renowned reference is now available in a convenient and updated online edition via Wiley InterScience. Updated monthly, this online edition keeps Kirk-Othmer up to date with all advances in chemical technology. For more information on the online edition and how to order, please visit:www.mrw.interscience.wiley.com/kirk

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0471526959

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Winthrop Rockefeller

From New Yorker to Arkansawyer, 1912-1956

By: John A. Kirk

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Winthrop Rockefeller

From New Yorker to Arkansawyer, 1912-1956

By: John A. Kirk

Why did Winthrop Rockefeller, scion of one of the most powerful families in American history, leave New York for an Arkansas mountaintop in the 1950s? In this richly detailed biography of the former Arkansas governor, John A. Kirk delves into the historical record to fully unravel that mystery for the first time. Kirk pursues clues threaded throughout Rockefeller’s life, tracing his family background, childhood, and education; his rise in the oil industry from roustabout to junior executive; his military service in the Pacific during World War II, including his involvement in the battles of Guam, Leyte, and Okinawa; his postwar work in race relations, health, education, and philanthropy; his marriage to and divorce from Barbara “Bobo” Sears; and the birth of his only child, future Arkansas lieutenant governor Win Paul Rockefeller. This careful examination of Winthrop Rockefeller’s first forty-four years casts a powerful new light on his relationship with his adopted state, where his legacy continues to be felt more than half a century after his governorship.

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1682261956

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To Be a Friend Is Fatal

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Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, Blood, Coagulants and Anticoagulants to Cardiovascular Agents

Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, Blood, Coagulants and Anticoagulants to Cardiovascular Agents

What Can We Do about Church Dropouts?

What Can We Do about Church Dropouts?

Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, Carbon and Graphite Fibers to Chlorocarbons and Chlorohydrocarbons-CSUB 1/SUB

Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, Carbon and Graphite Fibers to Chlorocarbons and Chlorohydrocarbons-CSUB 1/SUB

Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology - Index

Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology - Index

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