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Noble Conflict

A Vietnam War Novel

By: Norman Pratt

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SOUTH VIETNAM--1965--INITIAL MILITARY BUILDUP Lieutenant David Jeffries is deployed with a company of army engineers to a backward country where foreign combatants have invaded rural areas and insurgents threaten urban centers. There, faced with conflicting goals of supporting allied combat units and befriending local civilians, he struggles to identify and deal with the principles of right and wrong conduct. Jeffries wants to be a good soldier, but he finds that difficult because of puzzling ethical choices he has to make. He unwittingly faces life-threatening combat situations with conditioned courage when called upon to support the 101st Airborne and the 1st Air Cavalry Division. He reluctantly becomes embroiled in political struggles over policies regarding civilians. Influenced by people with diametrically opposed philosophies--Captain John Slaughter, an Airborne Ranger, and Lieutenant Joe Goodrich, a self-declared peacenik--Jeffries tries to find acceptable common ground through a passed-over major who is due to retire and two trusted but misguided sergeants. From the battlefields to the brothels, from the tents to the temples, Noble Conflict gives a unique perspective of unconventional war through the eyes of a trained soldier trying to do his ethical best under unusual circumstances and preconditions established not by him, but by others.

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iUniverse

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0595332943

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9780595332946

Jonathan Edwards's Moral Thought and Its British Context

By: Norman Fiering

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Jonathan Edwards's Moral Thought and Its British Context

By: Norman Fiering

The problems of moral philosophy were a central preoccupation of literate people in eighteenth-century America and Britain. It is not surprising, then, that Jonathan Edwards was drawn into a colloquy with some of the major ethicists of the age. Moral philosophy in this era was so all-encompassing in its claims that it encroached seriously on traditional religion. In response, Edwards presented a detailed analysis and criticism of secular moral philosophy in order to demonstrate its inadequacy, and he formulated a system that he believed was demonstrably superior to the existing secular systems. In this comprehensive study, Norman Fiering skillfully integrates Edwards's work on ethics into seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British and Continental philosophy and isolates Edwards's particular contributions to the ethical thought of his time. In addition, Fiering traces the chronological development of Edwards's thought, showing the relationship between his wide reading and his writing.

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408

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1597526185

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9781597526180

Pearls for the Moment

Things We Should Have Learned a Long Time Ago

By: Norman S. Pratt

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Pearls for the Moment

Things We Should Have Learned a Long Time Ago

By: Norman S. Pratt

Do you really know the meaning of something someone says? Have you ever really understood calculus? How wide is a spiders web? How can you make more money? How do you find happiness? In a series of short essays on author Norman S. Pratts personal experiences, PEARLS FOR THE MOMENT offers answers to these and other fascinating questions. Presented as an easy-to-read guide filled with valuable tidbits of basic knowledge and understanding about such topics as religion, money, science, love, and truth, this guide serves as a convenient reference for those times when you need to learn about something you never knew, or that you might have forgotten. PEARLS FOR THE MOMENT is a thought-provoking, practical text for use in analyzing your own personal philosophy for consistency and completeness. Learn how to recognize and understand the basis for your own thought process and how to react to the many little unexpected situations in everyday life. This guide is not for wimps, religious zealots, the supercilious righteous, or those of Machiavellian leanings. It is for just plain folks who strive for and appreciate the best things in lifehealth, security, and happiness.

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170

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iUniverse

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1450266053

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9781450266055

Fighters Over the Fleet

Naval Air Defence from Biplanes to the Cold War

By: Norman Friedman

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Fighters Over the Fleet

Naval Air Defence from Biplanes to the Cold War

By: Norman Friedman

A tactical and technical history of the development of British, American, and Japanese naval air defense from the 1920s to the 1980s. This is an account of the evolution of naval fighters for fleet air defense and the parallel evolution of the ships operating and controlling them, concentrating on the three main exponents of carrier warfare: the British Royal Navy, the U.S. Navy, and the Imperial Japanese Navy. It describes the earliest efforts from the 1920s, but it was not until radar allowed the direction of fighters that organized air defense became possible. Thus, major naval-air battles of the Second World War like Midway, the Pedestal convoy, the Philippine Sea, and Okinawa are portrayed as tests of the new technology. This was ultimately found wanting by the Kamikaze campaigns, leading to postwar moves towards computer control and new kinds of fighters. After 1945 the threats of nuclear weapons and standoff missiles compounded the difficulties of naval air defense. The second half of the book covers R.N. and U.S.N. attempts to solve these problems, looking at the American experience in Vietnam and British operations in the Falklands War. It concludes with the ultimate U.S. development of techniques and technology to fight the Outer Air Battle in the 1980s, which in turn point to the current state of carrier fighters and the supporting technology. Based largely on documentary sources, some previously unused, this book will appeal to both the naval and aviation communities. “Fighters Over the Fleet provides more information about fleet air defense than any other work currently available. It is recommended for specialist as well aviation-minded readers.” —Naval Historical Foundation

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Casemate Publishers

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1848324065

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9781848324060

Pearls for the Moment

Things We Should Have Learned a Long Time Ago

By: Norman S. Pratt

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Pearls for the Moment

Things We Should Have Learned a Long Time Ago

By: Norman S. Pratt

Do you really know the meaning of something someone says? Have you ever really understood calculus? How wide is a spider's web? How can you make more money? How do you find happiness? In a series of short essays on author Norman S. Pratt's personal experiences, PEARLS FOR THE MOMENT offers answers to these and other fascinating questions. Presented as an easy-to-read guide filled with valuable tidbits of basic knowledge and understanding about such topics as religion, money, science, love, and truth, this guide serves as a convenient reference for those times when you need to learn about something you never knew, or that you might have forgotten. PEARLS FOR THE MOMENT is a thought-provoking, practical text for use in analyzing your own personal philosophy for consistency and completeness. Learn how to recognize and understand the basis for your own thought process and how to react to the many little unexpected situations in everyday life. This guide is not for wimps, religious zealots, the supercilious righteous, or those of Machiavellian leanings. It is for just plain folks who strive for and appreciate the best things in life health, security, and happiness.

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Noble Conflict

Noble Conflict

Jonathan Edwards's Moral Thought and Its British Context

Jonathan Edwards's Moral Thought and Its British Context

Pearls for the Moment

Pearls for the Moment

Fighters Over the Fleet

Fighters Over the Fleet

Pearls for the Moment

Pearls for the Moment

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