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This survey by the Library of Congress collects a broad range of information detailing the enormous costs-in human and material resources-incurred as a result of the war in Indochina. The compilation of this information will, I hope, serve to bring into perspective and to clarify the stark implications of United States policy toward this region. The casualty and refugee figures are sadly familiar from the daily newspapers. However, many of the...

CONTENTS:Foreword -- IntroductionBefore the Cease-FireU.S. Organization for the Cease-FireLandgrab 73Consolidating and RebuildingThe Third Indochina War: First Half-YearCease-Fire II in MR 1 and 2Cease-Fire II in MR 3 and 4The Decline of U.S. Support 1974, Year of DecisionStrategic RaidsThe Highlands to the Hai VanThe Ring Tightens Around HueThe Last Christmas: Phuoc LongOn the Second Anniversary of the Cease-FireThe Central Highlands, March 1...

CONTENTS:ACKNOWLEDGMENTSINTRODUCTIONUNIT I. ORCHARD SOILSA DefinitionSoil ClassificationSoil FertilitySoil and Water RelationshipsSoil and Plant RelationshipsSoil OrganismsFertilizersUNIT II. BOTANY OF HORTICULTURAL PLANTSClassificationAnatomy of Plant GrowthFunction of Plant Parts (Organs)Reproduction and Fruit Set in PlantsUNIT III. INSECT AND DISEASE CONTROL IN ORCHARDSClassification. Damage and Control of InsectsClassification. Damage and ...

CONTENTS:PrefaceIntroductionHistorical Overview of Striped Bass Culture and ManagementLife History and Biology of the Striped Bass and Striped Bass HybridsCulture Requirements for Striped BassReview of Striped Bass Brood Stock Acquisition, Spawning Methods and Fry ProductionStriped Bass Culture at Marion Fish HatcheryObservations on Pond Production of Hybrid Bass FingerlingsIntensive Culture of Striped Bass: A Review of Recent Technological De...

In this volume the author develops the thesis that burgeoning technology in communications faced a severe test in Vietnam. He analyzes the advantages and drawbacks of new communications systems and the effects these systems had on decision making and on command. In so doing, he describes the difficulties that communications systems had in keeping pace with the information explosion and shows that command and control do not necessarily improve ...

Every thing you want to know about the Aaron Burr Conspiracy, the Triad, General Wilkinson, of Louisiana, the probe of the West into the Mexican Territories under Jefferson and the famous trial of Aaron Burr.

One of the most execrated literary figures of his day, Baudelaire has emerged in the judgment of moderns as a poet who led the revolt against the Romanticists, who founded a new school of poetry, who produced verse of surpassing beauty. This portrait of Baudelaire is a sympathetic and revelatory picture of the "poète maudit"-a psycho-analytic interpretation of the life and poetry of the great French symbolist poet.His work has lived. Of all th...

Does the idea appeal to you of putting your dinner on to cook and then going visiting, or to the theatre, or sitting down to read, write, or sew, with no further thought for your food until it is time to serve it? It sounds like a fairy tale to say that you can bring food to the boiling point, put it into a box of hay, and leave it for a few hours, returning to find it cooked, and often better cooked than in any other way! Yet it is true. Norw...

Howard Overing Sturgis (the brother of Julius Sturgis) also is the author of Tim which received an asterisk in Young. This title was much admired by E. M. Forster who praised it as "a classic" in Abinger Harvest in 1936.

This Manual is intended primarily for use by foundry personnel aboard repair ships and tenders. The recommended practices are based on procedures proved workable under Navy conditions and are supplemented by information from industrial sources.The Manual is divided into two general sections. The first section, chapters 1 through 13, contains information of a general nature, such as "How Metals Solidify, " "Designing a Casting, " "Sands for Mol...

The Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn is perhaps the most remarkable document of the kind known to exist. The letters appear to have been written after Anne Boleyn had been sent away from court, in consequence of reports injurious to her reputation, which had begun to be publicly circulated.Her removal indeed was so abrupt that she had resolved never to return. The king soon repented his harshness, and strove to persuade her to come back, b...

Now, for the first time in print, a complete book about Missouri Foxtrotters, including the full history of the breed! A must read for anyone interested in gaited horses, particularly the Missouri Foxtrotter.

In The Rise and Fall of Dr. Mom, Angela Lowe Heider describes in raw detail her short career as an obstetrician and gynecologist. She highlights the many challenges female physicians and their families face and draws attention to the delicate balance all working women must achieve to ensure peace on the home front while allowing for professional pursuits outside the home. Through vivid personal accounts, Dr. Heider invites the reader into the ...

In The Rise and Fall of Dr. Mom, Angela Lowe Heider describes in raw detail her short career as an obstetrician and gynecologist. She highlights the many challenges female physicians and their families face and draws attention to the delicate balance all working women must achieve to ensure peace on the home front while allowing for professional pursuits outside the home. Through vivid personal accounts, Dr. Heider invites the reader into the ...

AUTHOR'S NOTE For the blind, disabled, "golf widow" and disillusioned golfer the author desires to impart the mental and physical skills required to achieve a good golf game on par with his/her sighted peers. An overall view of the golf game is followed by a very detailed knowledge of the grip, alignment and swing (GAS) and golf shots required to play a successful and enjoyable game of golf. If there is any point of knowledge that is not under...

This is a unique compilation of poetry and lyrics written by an individual who has been able to piece together a tempestuous life. Writing about her memoirs and experiences bringing to you her words with a tangy flavour of zaniness mixed with a dash of spirituality, sprinkled with a ray of fantasy and then shaken together like a strange cocktail. A read trip if you dare! "Children" this was quite beautiful and inspiring . . .Fairy "Grounded St...

The shotgun would have been no use without its cartridges. Much has already been written about the histories of shotguns but very little about the cartridges themselves. This comprehensive work has been produced to help to rectify this situation. Contained within the book are alphabetical listings of more than 1100 firms and their cartridges from the British Isles, including the Republic of Ireland. These range in time from the first years of ...

A love story you won't be embarrassed to read in public! Hopefully Ever After is a love story. You won't be able to help falling in love with the main characters as they develop, grow, discover their faults, their strengths and most of all the realization that God is the only ever after, everything else is just hopefully ever after. This story is centered on two African American middle class professionals, Tony and Vlylee and the people who en...

Strong Faith submerged in prejudice, deception, imprisonment, Satanism and romance. This journey of faith evolved in Belize and traveled to the United States. Raven the daughter of a local Belizean woman and an English Soldier was born in a culture, which rejected her. At the age of eighteen, she traveled to the United States, where her naiveté landed her in prison. After years in prison, she entered college, and was introduced by a very close...

In this far-reaching discussion of curriculum and liberal education, William A. Reid compares curriculum making to the idea of "pursuit." Like justice, Reid argues that curriculum is not something that we own or possess in a material sense, rather, it is an achievement that anyone involved in schooling must and should pursue. Drawing upon the acclaimed work of Joseph J. Schwab, Reid discusses four traditions within curriculum theory (the sy...