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Major Rusiecki tells the story of a pitched and decisive battle that unhinged the German plan for a swift and successful counteroffensive in December 1944 (a battle that was the key to the counteroffensive later called the Battle of the Bulge). A lone regiment of the 99th U.S. Infantry Division, the 394th, successfully defended a critical road intersection, the Losheimergraben Crossroads, for 36 hours from 16 to 17 December 1944. This valiant ...

This practical book on gathering electronic evidence and dealing with crimes involving computers contains an incredible amount of practical, directly applicable information.

Covering the origins, theories and explications of educational measurement, this second volume centres on the theories and applications of this field of study.

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This first volume of a comprehensive study surveys the political and diplomatic background of Israel's War of Independence. It describes how the Jewish Defense functioned in the 1948 War of Independence and charts the development of the Jewish militias and intelligence services.

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This is a series of 16 essays on famous Westerners in Japan from the mid-16th century to the present. Japan is seen through the eyes of outsiders at widely divergent points in Japanese history. The individuals detailed include Will Adams, Lafcadio Hearn and Isabella Bird.

From the testing of an atomic bomb in 1945 until the test ban treaty in 1963, there were 235 acknowledged detonations of nuclear devices by the US government. Using interviews and questionnaires, this book analyses the memories of military personnel involved and the effect it had on their lives.

This book is an investigation into the Western philosophical tradition to determine the balance struck between the knowing of science, and a more personal, intuitive, preconceptual or primordial knowing.

While most psychologists agree that understanding cause-effect relationships is fundamental to the study of cognition, exactly how those relationships should be interpreted is open to serious debate. In Causal Cognition, leading experts from a range of disciplines--including philosophy, anthropology, and comparative, social, and developmental psychology--come together to offer an interdisciplinary, cutting-edge account of the field. Reflecting...

Mary Hampton argues that a set of ideas that influenced American policymakers in the postwar era help explain the unique evolution of the Western Alliance and Germany's rapid unification in 1990. These ideas, called the Wilsonian impulse, derived from the historical lessons concerning World War I and the interwar years learned by prominent American policymakers. The most important lesson was that a trans-Atlantic community of nations must be b...

This book contributes significantly to the body of knowledge that deals with the Mande-speaking people of West Africa. It deals with the impact of religion and commerce on the integration of the Mandingo ethnic group into the political and social economies of Liberia.

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This work discusses the relations between the United States and Egypt, from Roosevelt to Eisenhower. To protect the free flow of oil, American policymakers looked to Egypt to provide the progressive, pro-Western leadership they believed would insure stability to the region.

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Examining a number of great historical breakthroughs, and comparing them to other more spurious ones, the author seeks to move political science beyond cold war mentality and practice, a narrow-minded political realism, and post-modernism's nihilism toward a more prophetic politics.

One of the main features of the contemporary environmental crisis is that no one has a clear idea of what is going on. The author uses an extension of Marx's theory of alienation to explain why people find it so difficult to relate their different knowledges of the natural and social world.He argues that nevertheless it is possible to relate these to the abstractions of ecological discourse. Emancipation can come only through embracing science...