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The Wizard of Oz FAQ is a fact-filled celebration of the beloved 1939 fantasy masterpiece starring Judy Garland. It's all here from L. Frank Baum and his Oz novels to the complete background story of the movie's conception, development, and shoot, with special attention given to the little-known parade of uncredited directors, casting difficulties, and on-set accidents and gaffes, as well as more than 75 sidebars devoted to key cast members, d...

Humans have emotions and at different points, we all struggle with them. As I sat on my couch one night in May of 2023, I realized that my new exercise routine, walking daily, was helping me in an unexpected way. The walking was helping me clear my head, process my anxiety and help me reduce day-to-day stress. Never before had I considered walking as a way to reduce stress and relieve anxiety. So the idea to put my technique out in a book to s...

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This is a curated and comprehensive collection of the most important works covering matters related to national security, diplomacy, defense, war, strategy, and tactics. The collection spans centuries of thought and experience, and includes the latest analysis of international threats, both conventional and asymmetric. It also includes riveting first person accounts of historic battles and wars.Some of the books in this Series are reproduction...

The Clarke lectures, sponsored by the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture, evidence that the Catholic tradition in medical ethics provides splendid resources for confronting both the dramatic life and death issues and the day to day challenges that confront medical professionals. The lectures and commentaries in this volume are written by some of the most distinguished physicians, theologians, philosophers and jurists working in medical e...

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Social media handles before the internet: a window into a unique subculture that prefigures online identitiesThe late 1970s and early 1980s was the golden age of British Citizens Band (CB) radio. Legal to own but illegal to operate, a CB radio and an antenna could connect you to other users nearby, creating a community for anyone with a rig and a desire to shoot the breeze. Entirely social, separate from the more technical HAM radio scene, CB ...

With the queasy U.S.-Soviet wartime alliance long dissolved into mutual suspicion, the House Un-American Activities Committee launched aggressive investigations of alleged communist activity in the Hollywood film industry in 1947--and again in 1951. Studio chiefs, terrified of scandal, scrambled to display their patriotism by producing anti-communist films, from melodramas to thrillers to animated cartoons. Twenty-one lively new essays by fil...

The Wizard of Oz FAQ is a fact-filled celebration of the beloved 1939 fantasy masterpiece starring Judy Garland. It's all here from L. Frank Baum and his Oz novels to the complete background story of the movie's conception, development, and shoot, with special attention given to the little-known parade of uncredited directors, casting difficulties, and on-set accidents and gaffes, as well as more than 75 sidebars devoted to key cast members, d...

Special operations - in this context, commando or guerilla activities - conducted by the U.S. Army in World War II have been the subject of a good many thrilling adventure stories but little sober, historical analysis. Only a handful of works have examined the critical issues underlying special operations, and the Army's historical series on World War II treats the subject only in passing. Yet special operations had a significant role that sho...

This history of the White Castle chain tells a "truly American success story (of) luck and hard work working behind one man to create an industry so pervasive that today it's an integral part of American pop culture" ("Publishers Weekly"). 23 illustrations.

How have the U.S. Army Rangers acted as special operations forces in military operations since 1942? Hogan's study examines the nature and purpose of the Rangers over the past fifty years and shows how they have served as scouts, raiders, assault troops, and elite infantry. They have spearheaded amphibious landings, raided enemy prison camps, patrolled behind enemy lines in Korea, served alongside Green Berets in Vietnam, and carried out speci...

FILM NOIR FAQ: ALL THAT'S LEFT TO KNOW ABOUT HOLLYWOOD'S GOLDEN AGE OF DAMES DETECTIVE

Since its offcial birth on 14 June 1775 over a year before the Declaration of Independence the United States Army has played a vital role in the growth and development of the American nation. Drawing on both long-standing militia traditions and recently introduced professional standards, it won the new Republic's independence in an arduous eight-year struggle against Great Britain. At times it provided the lone symbol of nationhood around whic...

Es ist die Nacht des 11. Septembers 2012 - genau 11 Jahre nach den verheerenden Anschlägen auf das World Trade Center - als das US-General-Konsulat in Bengasi, Libyen, überraschend mit schwerem Geschütz angegriffen wird. Als ein eindeutiger militärischer Rettungsbefehl aus Washington ausbleibt, entscheidet sich ein Team privater Sicherheitskräfte für den Alleingang. Sie, die in einem geheimen CIA Stützpunkt in der Nähe stationiert sind, wolle...

Es ist die Nacht des 11. Septembers 2012 - genau 11 Jahre nach den verheerenden Anschlägen auf das World Trade Center - als das US-General-Konsulat in Bengasi, Libyen, überraschend mit schwerem Geschütz angegriffen wird. Als ein eindeutiger militärischer Rettungsbefehl aus Washington ausbleibt, entscheidet sich ein Team privater Sicherheitskräfte für den Alleingang. Sie, die in einem geheimen CIA Stützpunkt in der Nähe stationiert sind, wolle...

Since its inception in 1973, The International Society on Oxygen Transport to Tissue (ISOTT) has provided a unique forum to facilitate and encourage scientific interaction and debate. Welcoming scientists and clinicians from a broad spectrum of disciplines, each with their own particular skills and expertise, ISOTT unites them under the common theme of oxygen transport. The successful blend of scientific presentations and informal discussion w...