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Leave No Man Behind

The Saga of Combat Search and Rescue

By: George Galdorisi,Thomas Phillips

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Leave No Man Behind

The Saga of Combat Search and Rescue

By: George Galdorisi,Thomas Phillips

Beginning with the birth of combat aircraft in World War I and the early attempts to rescue warriors trapped behind enemy lines, Leave No Man Behind chronicles in depth nearly one hundred years of combat search and rescue (CSAR). All major U.S. combat operations from World War II to the early years of the Iraq War are covered, including previously classified missions and several Medal-of-Honor-winning operations. Authors George Galdorisi and Tom Phillips (both veteran U.S. Navy helicopter pilots) highlight individual acts of heroism while telling the big-picture story of the creation and development of modern CSAR. Although individual missions have their successes and failures, CSAR, as an institution, would seem beyond reproach, an obvious necessity. The organizational history of CSAR, however, is not entirely positive. The armed services, particularly the U.S. Air Force and Navy, have a tendency to cut CSAR at the end of a conflict, leaving no infrastructure prepared for the next time that the brave men and women of our armed forces find themselves behind enemy lines. The final chapter has not yet been written for U.S. combat search and rescue, but in view of the life-saving potential of these forces, an open and forthright review of U.S. military CSAR plans and policies is long overdue. Beyond the exciting stories of heroic victories and heartrending defeats, Leave No Man Behind stimulates debate on this important subject.

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Zenith Press

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1616732253

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9781616732257

Field Guide to the Trees of the Gila Region of New Mexico

By: Richard Stephen Felger,James Thomas Verrier,Kelly Kindscher,Xavier Raj Herbst Khera

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Field Guide to the Trees of the Gila Region of New Mexico

By: Richard Stephen Felger,James Thomas Verrier,Kelly Kindscher,Xavier Raj Herbst Khera

Field Guide to the Trees of the Gila Region of New Mexico is the definitive guide for field botanists, researchers, students, and avid nature lovers who wish to explore the natural history of native and introduced tree species across the Gila. The book documents over seventy-five tree species in the first wilderness area in the United States--and the largest in New Mexico--known for its wildness, remoteness, and significant recreation opportunities. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, the authors feature detailed individual species accounts and special ecological and ethnobotanical information, providing full dichotomous keys to the families, genera, and species of all trees in the region. Color photographs of the species provide diagnostic clarity for easy identification, showing the whole tree, trunk, and foliage as well as macro photos of the flowers, fruits, or cones and other significant features. This comprehensive and user-friendly guide will be welcomed by residents and visitors studying and discovering the diverse trees of the Gila Region.

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University of New Mexico Press

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0826362370

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9780826362377

Colorado

A History of the Centennial State, Fifth Edition

By: Carl Abbott,Stephen J. Leonard,Thomas J. Noel

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Colorado

A History of the Centennial State, Fifth Edition

By: Carl Abbott,Stephen J. Leonard,Thomas J. Noel

Since 1976, newcomers and natives alike have learned about the rich history of the magnificent place they call home from Colorado: A History of the Centennial State. In the fifth edition, coauthors Carl Abbott, Stephen J. Leonard, and Thomas J. Noel incorporate recent events, scholarship, and insights about the state in an accessible volume that general readers and students will enjoy. The new edition tells of conflicts, shifting alliances, and changing ways of life as Hispanic, European, and African American settlers flooded into a region that was already home to Native Americans. Providing a balanced treatment of the entire state’s history—from Grand Junction to Lamar and from Trinidad to Craig—the authors also reveal how Denver and its surrounding communities developed and gained influence. While continuing to elucidate the significant impact of mining, agriculture, manufacturing, and tourism on Colorado, the fifth edition broadens and focuses its coverage by consolidating material on Native Americans into one chapter and adding a new chapter on sports history. The authors also expand their discussion of the twentieth century with updated sections on the environment, economy, politics, and recent cultural conflicts. New illustrations, updated statistics, and an extensive bibliography including Internet resources enhance this edition.

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University Press of Colorado

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1607322277

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Charleston and Savannah

The Rise, Fall, and Reinvention of Two Rival Cities

By: Thomas D. Wilson

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Charleston and Savannah

The Rise, Fall, and Reinvention of Two Rival Cities

By: Thomas D. Wilson

Thomas D. Wilson’s Charleston and Savannah is the first comprehensive history of Charleston and Savannah in a single volume that weaves together the influences and parallels of their intrinsic stories. As two of the earliest English-speaking cities founded in America, Charleston and Savannah are among the nation’s top historic sites. Their historic characters, which attract millions of visitors each year, are each a rich blend of cultural, environmental, and socioeconomic elements. Yet even with this popularity, both cities now face a challenge in preserving their authentic historic character, natural beauty, and environmental quality. Wilson charts the ebb and flow of the progress and development of the cities using various through lines running within each chapter, constructing an overall character assessment of each. Wilson charts the economic rise of these port cities, beginning with their British foundations and transatlantic trade in the colonies through to their twentieth-century economic declines and resurgences. He examines the cultural and economic aspects of their Lowcountry landscapes and their evolution as progress and industrialization made their mark. Employing both quantitative and qualitative methodologies in his comparisons of the two cities, he considers their histories, natural landscapes, weather patterns, economies, demographics, culture, architecture, city planning, and infrastructure. While each has its own civic and cultural strengths and weaknesses, both are positioned as historically significant southern cities, even as they assess aspects of their problematic pasts.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820363200

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9780820363202

Modernism, Mass Culture and Professionalism

By: Thomas F. Strychacz

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Modernism, Mass Culture and Professionalism

By: Thomas F. Strychacz

A study of four modernist writers and their relationship to their critics and era.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521440793

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9780521440790

A Beautiful Sickness

Reflections on the Sweet Science

By: Thomas Hauser

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A Beautiful Sickness

Reflections on the Sweet Science

By: Thomas Hauser

This is the second collection of articles on professional boxing to be published in book form by acclaimed writer Thomas Hauser. It offers unique insights into Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Shane Mosely, Ray Jones Jr. and many more superstars, as well as an insider's critique of the sweet science today. Satirical, whimsical, and pungent, Hauser deftly maps the politics and poli-tricks of the world's only true universal sport.

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University of Arkansas Press

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155728718X

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Christianity Without the Cross

A History of Salvation in Oneness Pentecostalism

By: Thomas A. Fudge

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Christianity Without the Cross

A History of Salvation in Oneness Pentecostalism

By: Thomas A. Fudge

Grounded in primary source research, this boldly revisionist book examines the doctrine of salvation in Oneness Pentecostalism (United Pentecostal Church) from its origins through its several developmental stages. The gradual rise of a literal interpretation of Acts 2.38 eliminated a tradition of doctrinal diversity within Oneness thought which regarded salvation as occurring at repentance prior to water and Spirit baptism. With this development a main link to the wider stream of evangelical Christianity was severed. The "water and Spirit" theology resulted in a form of Christianity which does not necessarily require the cross in any meaningful sense for salvation. This study recovers the lost theological tradition associated with important figures such as Howard A. Goss, A.D. Gurley, W.M. Greer, C.H. Tadon, Wynn T. Stairs, Earl Jacques, E.P. Wickens, John Paterson and the Pentecostal Church, Incorporated. Combining traditional historical methodology and theological research with the principles of a broadly based oral history, this study argues for a theological diversity within the history of Oneness Pentecostalism and in so doing bridges an important gap in the history and theology of the United Pentecostal Church.

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Universal-Publishers

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1581125844

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9781581125849

The Bible and the Calendar

By: Thomas D. Campbell

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The Bible and the Calendar

By: Thomas D. Campbell

Planning and text selection are important ingredients in a preacher's work. "Saturday night specials" - sermons out of a frantic search for a scripture passage and possible message - are all to familiar with many. Lack of a systematic approach will exhaust the preacher and weaken one's pulpit ministry. This book can be a help to those who want to be faithful preachers rightly handling the word of God.

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Lulu.com

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0557401135

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9780557401130

Seventy-six Years' Tussle with the Traffic Being a Condensation of the Laws

By: Thomas A. Goodwin

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Seventy-six Years' Tussle with the Traffic Being a Condensation of the Laws

By: Thomas A. Goodwin

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385337356

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9783385337350

Financial Accounting for Managers

By: Wayne Thomas

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Financial Accounting for Managers

By: Wayne Thomas

Students retain more information when they see how concepts are applied in the real world. Each chapter begins with a Feature Story that involves real companies and offers business insights related to the material in the chapter. As the chapter's topics are being presented, references to the companies in the Feature Story and other related companies help keep topics relevant. The authors understand that students are best engaged when the discussion involves companies that students find interesting and whose products are services are familiar, such as Apple, American Eagle Outfitters, Best Buy, Six Flags, Disney, and Zoom. In Chapter 12, full financial statement analysis is provided for Nike versus VF Corporation. The authors carry these real-world companies into the end-of-chapter material, asking students to analyze real-world situations"--

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McGraw-Hill Higher Education

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1264503245

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9781264503247

The Southern Textile Basketball Tournament

A History, 1921-1997

By: Mac C. Kirkpatrick,Thomas K. Perry

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The Southern Textile Basketball Tournament

A History, 1921-1997

By: Mac C. Kirkpatrick,Thomas K. Perry

In 1905 Lawrence Peter Hollis went to Springfield, Massachusetts, before beginning his job as the secretary of the YMCA at Monaghan Mill in Greenville, South Carolina. While there, he met James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, and learned of the fledgling game. Armed with Dr. Naismith's rules of the game and a basketball he bought in New York, Hollis returned to the mill and changed the face of athletics in South Carolina. Lawrence Peter Hollis was one of the first to introduce basketball south of the Mason-Dixon line, and the game quickly gained popularity in the textile mill villages throughout South Carolina. In 1921 Hollis and others organized a tournament to determine the best mill team, and thus the southern Textile Basketball Tournament was born. Over the years, some of the south's top cage talent played in the tourney, including "Smokey" Barbare, Lucille Foster Thomas, Bert Hill, Earl Wooten, Billy Cunningham, Pete Maravich, Sue Vickers and Tree Rollins. Decade-by-decade, the history of one of the longest running basketball tournaments is provided, along with profiles of many prominent participants. Full rosters for all teams in all tournaments are given in the appendices, along with all-tournament selections and members of the Southern Textile Athletic Hall of Fame.

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McFarland

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078642446X

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9780786424467

Moonshine Memories

By: Thomas Allison

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Moonshine Memories

By: Thomas Allison

For 25 years, Tom Allison was a revenuer, a federal agent charged with enforcement of the nation’s laws on taxation of liquor. His territory was the hills, hollows and deep woods of Alabama, and his quarry was the illegal whiskey makers. Allison remembers the stake-outs in the brush, the undercover assignments, the long waits to catch the distillery operators red-handed, and, of course, the chases as he and his fellow treasury agents ran down fleeing moonshiners in the dark of night. While Allison is a natural story-teller, the characters who populate this history are too strange to be fiction. Perhaps the only thing more striking than the ignorance of many of the moonshiners is the craftiness of some others.

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NewSouth Books

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1603060065

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9781603060066

Battle of Paoli

The Revolutionary War "Massacre" Near Philadelphia, September 1777

By: Thomas J. McGuire

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Battle of Paoli

The Revolutionary War "Massacre" Near Philadelphia, September 1777

By: Thomas J. McGuire

This first full-length treatment of the Revolutionary War battle of Paoli recounts the British surprise attack on a Continental Army division near Philadelphia in September 1777. A crushing defeat for the Americans, the battle became known as the "Paoli Massacre". Philadelphia fell to the British a week later. Reconstructs the battle from the maneuvering that preceded it to the bloody aftermath Explains how this relatively small clash affected the larger Philadelphia Campaign and shaped American strategy for the rest of the war

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Stackpole Books

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1461750687

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9781461750680

1927

A Day-by-Day Chronicle of the Jazz Age's Greatest Year

By: Thomas S. Hischak

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1927

A Day-by-Day Chronicle of the Jazz Age's Greatest Year

By: Thomas S. Hischak

The first solo transatlantic flight. The release of the first talking picture. The invention of the jukebox. These are just a handful of milestones that occurred in one momentous year. In a decade of historic firsts, 1927 stands out as the peak year of the Roaring Twenties, a span of time in which dozens of significant events took place—in America and around the world. The economy was booming, the Jazz Age was in full swing, social mores were looser than ever, and the nation was celebrating new dances, gadgets, and heroes. In sports, records were broken, and several champions in different fields thrilled fans with outstanding feats. In 1927: A Day-by-Day Chronicle of the Jazz Age’s Greatest Year, Thomas S. Hischak provides a daily account of this pivotal period in history. Every major news story—on the national and international stage—is accounted for, from popular culture phenomena to minor news items that would prove to be more important later. In addition to Charles Lindbergh’s historic flight, the book recounts such events as the discovery of the Peking Man, the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, the Shanghai Massacre, the Great Mississippi River Flood, and the advent of talking pictures with the arrival of The Jazz Singer. From the world of entertainment—the debut of the classic musical Show Boat and the formation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences—to headlines that gripped the country, this book focuses on a diverse and complicated year. Scattered throughout the book are interesting statistics and pieces of information regarding life during this era. Highlighting the people, inventions, discoveries, and milestones that made these twelve months so special, 1927 will appeal to armchair historians everywhere.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538112787

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9781538112786

EBOOK: Rethinking Documentary: New Perspectives and Practices

By: Thomas Austin,Wilma de Jong

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EBOOK: Rethinking Documentary: New Perspectives and Practices

By: Thomas Austin,Wilma de Jong

From a boom in theatrical features to footage posted on websites such as YouTube and Google Video, the early years of the 21st century have witnessed significant changes in the technological, commercial, aesthetic, political, and social dimensions of documentaries on film, television and the web. In response to these rapid developments, this book rethinks the notion of documentary, in terms of theory, practice and object/s of study. Drawing together 26 original essays from scholars and practitioners, it critically assesses ideas and constructions of documentary and, where necessary, proposes new tools and arguments with which to examine this complex and shifting terrain. Covering a range of media output, the book is divided into four sections: Critical perspectives on documentary forms and concepts The changing faces of documentary production Contemporary documentary: borders, neighbours and disputed territories Digital and online documentaries: opportunities and limitations Rethinking Documentary is valuable reading for scholars and students working in documentary theory and practice, film studies, and media studies.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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0335236278

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9780335236275

Fishes of Arkansas

By: Henry W. Robison,Thomas M. Buchanan

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Fishes of Arkansas

By: Henry W. Robison,Thomas M. Buchanan

The second edition of Fishes of Arkansas, in development for more than a decade, is an extensive revision and expansion of the first edition, including reclassifications, taxonomic changes, and descriptions of more than thirty new species. An invaluable reference for anyone interested in the state’s fish population—from professional ichthyologists, fisheries biologists, and managers of aquatic resources, to amateur naturalists and anglers—this new edition provides updated taxonomic keys as well as detailed descriptions, photographs, and line drawings to aid identification of the state’s 243 fish species. There is also much information on the distribution and biology of each species, including descriptions of habitat, foods eaten, reproductive biology, and conservation status. This project and the preparation of this publication was funded in part by a grant from the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission.

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University of Arkansas Press

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1682261034

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9781682261033

The Supreme Court Compendium

Data, Decisions, and Developments

By: Lee Epstein,Jeffrey A. Segal,Harold J. Spaeth,Thomas G. Walker

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The Supreme Court Compendium

Data, Decisions, and Developments

By: Lee Epstein,Jeffrey A. Segal,Harold J. Spaeth,Thomas G. Walker

The Supreme Court Compendium provides historical and statistical information on the Supreme Court: its institutional development; caseload; decision trends; the background, nomination, and voting behavior of its justices; its relationship with public, governmental, and other judicial bodies; and its impact. With over 180 tables and figures, this new edition is intended to capture the full retrospective picture through the 2013-2014 term of the Roberts Court and the momentous decisions handed down within the last four years, including United States v. Windsor, National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, and Shelby County v. Holder.

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873

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CQ Press

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1483376613

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9781483376615

College Hockey Guide Women's Edition

By: Thomas E. Keegan

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College Hockey Guide Women's Edition

By: Thomas E. Keegan

College Hockey Guide is the ultimate reference for hockey players, parents, counselors, educational consultants, coaches and administrators as they investigate scholarship and non-scholarship college hockey opportunities. Discover when and where coaches regularly scout and recruit, what traits and qualities they seek in prospective players and what they recommend for maximum development and exposure. Includes scholarship, financial aid, admission requirement, application and aid deadlines by school and coach contact information, complete player roster and analysis.

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Athletic Guide Publishing

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1601791011

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9781601791016

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