One of the real-life heroes featured in HBO(r)'s "The Pacific" tells his own true story.
R.V. Burgin reveals his experiences as a Marine at war in the Pacific Theater, where Company K confronted snipers, ambushes along narrow jungle trails, abandoned corpses of hara-kiri victims, and howling ba[...]
Staying competitive and meeting the pressure of regulatory compliance requirements demands that information sources and business and analytic intelligence be accessible to a growing number of information consumers across the corporation and beyond. So investing in an information infrastructure is we[...]
Provides advice to help policy makers, researchers, and clinicians make the best decisions concerning topics such as: The Context of Women's Health: history of women's healthcare, employment and women's health, and the effects of intimate partner violence; and Health Challenges: smoking, alcohol, ea[...]
Provides the reader with a perspective on the efficient operation of complicated systems.
* Spreadsheets are used to employ and teach techniques.
* Includes the facets of probability that relate to decision making.[...]
A basic text-workbook for the food preparation lab portion of the foodservice fundamentals'' course. Twenty-two compact chapters offer information on cooking procedures and food categories. Features small quantity recipes with simple ingredient, equipment and procedure lists, mise en place (prep) sh[...]
Discusses the development of ethnic nationalism among Bulgars, Croatians, Serbians, and Macedonians
"Volume V" of this acclaimed series is now available in an abridged paperback edition. The result of years of work by scholars from all over the world, "The UNESCO General History of Africa" reflects how the different peoples of Africa view their civilizations and shows the historical relationships [...]
The authors examine relationships within the Chrysoxena group of the tortricid tribe Euliini. They define 54 species among six genera: Chrysoxena Meyrick; Vulpoxena Brown, new genus; Thoridia Brown, new genus; Dorithia Powell; Cuproxena Powell and Brown, new genus; and Bidorpitia Brown, new genus. U[...]
Karen Hansen's richly anecdotal narrative explores the textured community lives of New England's working women and men--both white and black--n the half century before the Civil War. Her use of diaries, letters, and autobiographies brings their voices to life, making this study an extraordinary comb[...]
From the historian's perspective, the Ottomans in their heyday could claim a more absolute monarchy than any of the truly European empires, a more successful record in quelling rebellion and the rise of national settlement, and the development and maintenance of more effective lines of communication[...]