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Providing an indispensable overview of the American Indian Wars, this book focuses on Native American tribes and warriors and their varying responses to the onslaught of European colonists and American settlers in the centuries following contact. This work provides an overview of the Indian Wars from the arrival of Europeans until 1890. The work focuses primarily on Native American tribes and warriors and their role in battles and campaigns a...

This publication describes how robot innovations are adopted during a disaster using the COVID-19 response, both as a natural experiment and a case study. While the reports do not provide full details to ascertain gaps in specific algorithms or specific subsystems, the size and the pervasiveness of the data permits examination of three questions, namely: how the need for a robot arises during a disaster, whether those needs are met with existi...

In Your Children Are Very Greatly in Danger, the veteran journalist Justin Murphy makes the compelling argument that the educational disparities in Rochester, New York, are the result of historical and present-day racial segregation. Education reform alone will never be the full solution, to resolve racial inequity, cities such as Rochester must first dismantle segregation.  Drawing on never-before-seen archival documents as well as scores of ...

Let Me Tell You How It Isn't" follows the life of 22-year-old Justin Murphy as he searches for his estranged Lebanese father through London. Raised primarily by his Irish Catholic grandparents in Los Angeles, Justin struggles to identify with a Middle Eastern heritage he knows little about and refuses to accept. As a result, he embarks on a booze-fueled journey of self-discovery-but he isn't alone. His Jain girlfriend-a vociferous critic of hi...

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Cassidy is a long-haired, Choose Your Own Adventure author and part-time bartender. In an attempt to escape the haunting memory of an abortion, he and his wife Phoenix, a once free-spirited, pot-smoking poet trapped in a job as copywriter for a public relations firm, leave Los Angeles and move to the East Coast. Phoenix can barely function. Cassidy drinks too much and takes refuge in long-distance phone calls with his friend Cliff, still livin...

An in-depth history of the time when airpower became the great equalizer, changing military strategy forever and bringing once-safe targets in reach.

Langer Hals und meterhohe Beine? Was sind denn das für komische Schafe? Shaun entdeckt bei einem Jahrmarkt drei ungewöhnliche Tiere und freundet sich gleich mit den aufgeweckten Lamas an. Das immer zu Scherzen aufgelegte Dreierpack wird das Leben auf dem Bauernhof sicher viel lustiger und bunter machen! Shaun bringt den Bauern dazu, die Tiere zu kaufen. Doch kaum sind die Lamas im Schafsstall angekommen, regiert das Chaos, denn die neuen Bewoh...

Langer Hals und meterhohe Beine? Was sind denn das für komische Schafe? Shaun entdeckt bei einem Jahrmarkt drei ungewöhnliche Tiere und freundet sich gleich mit den aufgeweckten Lamas an. Das immer zu Scherzen aufgelegte Dreierpack wird das Leben auf dem Bauernhof sicher viel lustiger und bunter machen! Shaun bringt den Bauern dazu, die Tiere zu kaufen. Doch kaum sind die Lamas im Schafsstall angekommen, regiert das Chaos, denn die neuen Bewoh...

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An expert examination of the evolution of military aviation and its profound impact on warfare-from the employment of balloons during the French Revolutionary wars to the use of aircraft in World War I. Military Aircraft, Origins to 1918: An Illustrated History of Their Impact is a detailed, authoritative exploration of the role and development of military aviation, from its beginnings to the conclusion of World War I. Military history scholar...