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Originally published in 1983. Illustrated with many maps and photographs. Presents the United States Air Force's use of one form of air power, tactical airlift aviation, in the changing limited warfare situation in Vietnam. Covers the period from the decision of President Truman to assist the French in 1950 to the end of United States involvement in 1975.

Novak Djokovic is not just one of the world's great tennis players - he is the de facto ambassador for his homeland, Serbia. Not an easy job, given the lingering resonance of Serbia's role in the 1990s Yugoslav wars. But through his on-court exploits and sportsmanship, Djokovic has become a true champion of his proud, if troubled, country.

In 1903, Louisa, an impoverished young widow, goes to Glastonbury to care for her ailing aunt. One day while sitting beside the ruined abbey church, she experiences a vision from the past of a woman who was guardian of one of the three sacred wells on the Isle of Avalon - the red and white wells situated at the foot of the Tor are known to this day, but the black well, which reveals the future, has lain unrecognized for centuries. Further visi...

Jane Bowers is associate professor of music at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the author of articles in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, the Women's Studies Encyclopedia, and various journals. Judith Tick is associate professor of music at Northeastern University and the author of American Women Composers before 1870. ¿

Updated to take into account access to correspondence with Cooke and Faraday, this second edition of Sir Charles Wheatstone's biography draws on information about the Wheatstone family business and celebrates the bicentenary of Wheatstone's birth.

Best of friends since college, Chance and Roberta Williams and Michael and Lauren Hubbs have perfect relationships, perfect careers, and perfect lives. Or do they? A freak accident takes Roberta's life, leaving the three remaining friends with a shattered reality: their perfect existence is nothing more than an illusion masked by secrets, deception, and jealousy. The loss of his wife and unborn child being too much to bear, Chance gives in to ...

Former North Carolina Poet Laureate Cathy Smith Bowers is celebrated with this impressive volume of her collected poems. Four complete collections: The Love That Ended Yesterday in Texas, Traveling in Time of Danger, A Book of Minutes, The Candle I Hold Up to See You, with an introduction by another former North Carolina Poet Laureate, Fred Chappell, who says, "Hardship, cruelty, heartbreak, bleak sorrow-these sad themes are plentiful in the p...

With natural systems being exploited at an unsustainable rate, with technologies displacing the need for workers and now even professors, with print-based technologies undermining the intergenerational achievements in the areas of civil liberties and the cultural commons, it is now time for educational reformers to question the idea that students must be educated to become change agents. The industrial culture, now driven by digital technologi...

The seventh volume of Q. David Bowers's multiple-book Whitman Encyclopedia of Obsolete Paper Money covers in great detail the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Texas. Bowers gives historical narrative for every town, city, and bank involved in producing notes in these states from 1792 to 1866, note-by-note values in multiple grades, current rarity levels, significant auction results, and other market...

Tied up with a bow just like a present, this cheerful trio of notebooks teeming with illustrated trinkets is as giftable as it is practical.

A colourful collection of illustrated objects adorns these notecards, perfect for any occasion.

The staycation of travel journals, this is a place to celebrate the beauty in the everyday objects all around us no matter where we are.

Correctly understanding and using medical statistics is a key skill for all medical students and health professionals. Keeping the level of mathematics to a minimum, this title clearly illustrates statistical concepts and practice with numerous real world examples and cases drawn from medical literature.

The False Promises of the Digital Revolution examines what currently goes largely unnoticed because of the many important uses of digital technologies. While many people interpret digital technologies as accelerating the global rate of progress, C. A. Bowers focuses attention on how they reinforce the deep and ecologically problematic cultural assumptions of the West: the myth of progress, the substitution of data for different cultural tradit...