Naval aircraft have played an ever-increasing role in wartime conflicts, and this illustrated directory includes key information, specifications and background history.
An imaginative and colourful series, with lovable and complex characters - Valerian an action anti-hero and Laureline an early incarnation of the strong, take-charge female. A series emblematic of sci
Filipino food is a revelation - chilli, galangal, garlic, shrimp paste and coconut milk combine in a wonderfully harmonious cuisine, explored in this inspiring giftbook.
From the author of In the Middle of the Future: Tom Plate on Asia—another substantial anthology of searching columns that tackle the really tough questions on where the U.S.-China rivalry and relation
This report describes the methods and findings of a large survey of marines who were preparing for a deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan in 2010 or 2011.
This report addresses the use of criminal sanctions to control corporate behavior—prosecutions both of corporations and of employees for actions taken on corporations’ behalf.
Did you ever wish that your story-time friends would come to life? With this book, they can! Mouse visits a lot of places in this story. He gets to know elephants and snakes in Africa. Bunnies pull hi
This report documents a study of baseline conditions and early progress of two educational efforts in Connecticut: New Haven School Change, a sweeping districtwide K–12 educational reform, and New Hav
This study formulates seven lessons from the past 13 years of war and identifies critical requirements for land forces, special operations forces, and partners to collaborate successfully.
RAND examined options to increase the mobility, protection, and firepower of U.S. Army airborne forces, given likely future missions and threats, and identified a concept for enhancing today's forces
Hong Kong is famous for its vibrant, busy street scene. This book introduces us to two dozen real people who provide its outdoor color. Here you'll meet a flower seller, a street musician, and a tram
This report examines the relationship between behavioral fitness and resilience, using key constructs found in the scientific literature that relate to sleep, alcohol use, and tobacco use.
Examines the usefulness, validity, and fairness of the Air Force’s Strength Aptitude Test, with a focus on its implementation at military entrance processing stations and the process for setting stren
This report describes energy-sector innovation that affects skill demand, describes postsecondary training programs that adapt to evolving demand, and makes recommendations for energy-sector training
Depression is an insidious enemy, gradually eroding confidence and willpower... but this book restores the spirit and strength to fight back - and win!
Through this collection of delightful essays and beautiful illustrations, Sharon Lovejoy shares the boundless joys of a country garden. Lovejoy has chosen to focus on the natural world to be found jus
In addition to counseling their clients on disclosure, registration and other basic franchising concepts, franchise attorneys must handle a wide variety of collateral, but essential, areas of law on a
Journey to Noble Ideals is a compilation of speeches Fethullah Gulen delivered in Pennsylvania, USA, between 2012 and 2013. The book provides guidelines to build our individual ladders to self-discove
A fun and informative introduction to wild animals and how they adapt to their environment, for 5 to 8 year olds, with all kinds of fascinating facts presented in a humorous question and answer format
The stories in When Zero Died aren’t ordinary: They draw on some of the oldest, classic forms in storytelling—allegory and myth—to explore what it means to live a thoughtful, selfless life in a chaoti
The good ship Cape Farewell is steaming out to sea, with a passenger-list and crew fairly littered with the shifty, the twitchy, the peculiar, and the up-to-no-good. Arguably the up-to-no-goodest is a
The village of South Mardian likes the old ways. This may be 1957, but South M. still features a blacksmith, a village idiot, and an elaborate fertility ritual performed at the winter solstice. There'
This powerful new guide provides the guidance you need to prepare you for success as a defense advocate within a team environment. This nuts-and-bolts resource provides solid information for your team
Thomas Michel explores how Fethullah Gulen, a Turkish-Muslim scholar who inspired a global movement of education, dialogue and charity, speaks in favor of a world community, where different faiths and
"It should be a routine job for Henry Gamadge: Examining the papers of a dead poet and playwright with some early promise but no commercial success. But it's not so much the life and letters as the de