More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and later in the bitter settlements of England's Ulster Plantation in Northern Ireland. When hundreds of thousands of Scots-Irish migrated to America in the ...
This title offers a step-by-step technique for sparking breakthrough creativity in advertising - or any field. Since its publication in 1965, "A Technique for Producing Ideas" has helped thousands of advertising copywriters smash through internal barriers to unleash their creativity. Professionals from poets and painters to scientists and ...
Originally published in 1978, Webb's classic novel of the Vietnam War follows three soldiers from different worlds who are plunged into a white-hot murderous realm of jungle warfare as it was fought by one Marine platoon in the An Hoa Basin in 1969. In the heat and horror of battle, they took on new identities, took on each other, and were each ...
Former Secretary of the Navy, Navy Cross recipient, and Marine officer James Webb lit the fires of controversy with this startling inside look at life at the U.S. Naval Academy when "A Sense of Honor" was first published in 1981. Some of his fellow Academy graduates attacked it as exaggerated and extreme, but Webb's portrayal of a gung-ho first ...
Our brightest, most creative children and adults are often being misdiagnosed with behavioral and emotional disorders such as ADHD, Oppositional-Defiant Disorder, Bipolar, OCD, or Asperger?s. Many receive unneeded medication and inappropriate counseling as a result. Physicians, psychologists, and counselors are unaware of characteristics of gifted ...
This book has the intent to increase the awareness of parents, teachers and others working with gifted children particularly to recognize that these children and their families have special emotional needs and opportunities that are quite often overlooked and, thus, neglected. Most often this neglect results "only" in unfulfilled potential and ...
James Webb, who burst on the literary scene in 1978 with the widely praised novel Fields of Fire, made front-page headlines around the country when he resigned as Secretary of the Navy over a matter of principle. Now Webb, who is a decorated combat Marine, an Emmy Award-winning journalist, and a former assistant secretary of defense, adds to these ...
Among the many new skills law students have to acquire, using legal method and solving legal problems are possibly the most important. Yet all too often these legal skills are ignored, and it is assumed that students will acquire them as they progress through their course. "Learning Legal Rules" brings together the theory, structure, and practice ...
This is an accessible, easily readable, and modern introduction to epidemiology for students of medicine and public health. It combines a strong public health perspective and rationale with modern methodological insights in a coherent and straight forward way. It emphasises the fundamental principles common to all areas of epidemiology and, unlike ...
A study of the ecological and economic impact of desertification along the southern edge of the western Sahara. A climatological trend toward increasing aridity has forced the desert 300 kilometers to the south, transforming ethnic identities and ways of life along the Western Sahel.
Narrated by a young member of General Douglas MacArthur's diplomatic team in the South Pacific during the final days of World War II, this story revolves around the investigation of the devastation of Manila by fleeing Japanese troops who left the city in ashes with 100,000 people killed.
Humanity's Burden provides a panoramic overview of the history of malaria. It traces the long arc of malaria out of tropical Africa into Eurasia, its transfer to the Americas during the early years of the Columbian exchange, and its retraction from the middle latitudes into the tropics since the late nineteenth century. Adopting a broadly ...
Before Charlie's Angels, Miami Vice, or NYPD Blue, there was Dragnet. From 1951 to 1959, Jack Webb starred as Sergeant Joe Friday in the most successful police drama in television history. Webb ("Just the facts, ma'am") was also the creator of Dragnet, and what made the show so revolutionary was its documentary-style format and the fact that ...
When he goes to Vietnam to recover the skeleton of an American MIA, ex-Marine Brandon Conley unexpectedly stumbles upon a chance to settle an old score from his combat days. What started as a routine mission becomes a deadly game of vengeance.
The classic novel of the Vietnam War The Philadelphia Inquirer hailed as "one hell of a good read". In the tradition of All Quiet on the Western Front, The Naked and the Dead, and Platoons, James Webb's savage, poignant novel, a classic of the Vietnam War, returns in stunning immediacy to seize a new generation of readers.
First printed in 1963, this book has stimulated thousands of long-term practitioners and neophytes alike to greater achievement by showing concisely with insight, wit and fact what advertising really is, how it works and what one must understand and do to be successful in its practice.
In 1800, the highlands of Sri Lanka had some of the most biologically diverse primary tropical rainforest ecosystems in the world. By 1900, only a few craggy corners and mountain caps had been spared the firestick. Highland villagers, through the extension of slash-and-burn agriculture, and British managers, through the creation of plantations - ...
Collected in book form for the first--and possibly the last--time are hideous hairstyles culled from the chairs of hairdressers around the world. Photos throughout.
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