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Queen Mary and the Cruiser: The Curacoa Disaster
Published in Hardcover by United States Naval Inst. (1997)
Authors: David A. Thomas and Patrick Holmes
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this book is incrdible
The QueenMary has to be the most incredible oceanliner to this day , no other ship has acomplished more in the past 60 years. the Titanic could'nt even compare to the history of the QueenMary.


Ranking Task Exercises in Physics
Published in Textbook Binding by Prentice Hall College Div (04 August, 1999)
Authors: Tom O'Kuma, David P. Maloney, Curtis J. Hieggelke, Thomas L. O'Kuma, Curtis J. Heiggelke, and Tom O'Kura
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A very useful book.
Students's preconcetions (misconceptions, alternative/naive/intuitive conceptions) are generally main obstacles of conceptual learning. This book merely aims to overcome that problem by providing a task of ranking for a set of physical situations. Topics are; Kinematics, Forces, 2-D motion, Work-energy, Impulse-momentum, Rotational motion, Properties of matter, Thermodynamics, Waves, Electrostatics, DC and resistive circuits, Magnetism and EM. An effective way in your teaching of physics.


Reluctant Valor: The Oral History of Captain Thomas J. Evans, United States Third Army, 4th Armored Division, 704th Tank Destroyer Battalion (Code Name--Harpoon)
Published in Hardcover by Saint Vincent College (1995)
Authors: Thomas J. Evans, Walter E. Mullen, Norman E. MacOmber, Richard David Wissolik, Gary E.J. Smith, St. Vincent College Center for Northern Appalachian Studies, Charles J. McGeever, and Richard R. "Doc" Buchanan
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Comments on the author by Gary E.J. Smith
Evans is a fascinating man to listen to. He is a decorated veteran, but shuns the recognition he rightly deserves. He admits that some of his actions during the heat of combat "might have been foolhardy." Evans was not interested in medals, only in trying to keep his men alive. As Evans' Third Army Com mander, General George S. Patton remarked, "No one ever won a war by dying for his country. He won by making the other poor bastard die for his country."

Evans met several truly historical figures. First and foremost was Patton. After the first day of the Battle of Arracourt, Patton visited Evans' command post to commend him on a job well done. That was just the first of many encounters with General Patton. After hostilities ceased in 1945, Evans was assigned to a Prisoner of War camp near Landshut, Germany. There, while interrogating prisoners, he briefly met General Vlasov, another larger-than-life individual. Vlasov was a former White Russian officer who was convinced (some say coerced) to help the Nazis against the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front. Later, in Switzerland, Evans was able to get a glimpse of a compound full of Nazi war criminals, most notable of whom was Herman Goering.

Evans was also fortunate to have been able to participate in the design, testing and eventual combat deployment of the M18 "Hellcat" tank destroyer. The United States Army found that its antitank capabilities were woefully inadequate against the masses of German armor, so a new tank destroyer was desired. Evans, along with a handful of other armor officers from various posts around the US, was invited to Detroit to the Buick Division of General Motors, to offer suggestions for the design of this new vehicle. There are precious few times in a soldier's career that he is given the opportunity to impact upon the equipment he will use in the performance of his duty. Evans and these other officers seized the moment and helped to design one of the most effective combat vehicles ever. In ju! st a few short months the M18 went from the drawing board to the maneuver field and then the European Theater of Opera tions.


The Rhetoric of Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes and the Politics of Cultural Transformation (Studies in Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy)
Published in Hardcover by Princeton Univ Pr (1999)
Authors: David Johnston and Thomas Hobbes
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The Ideology of Rethoric
The Rhetoric of Leviathan is a deep study about the systematic construction of Thomas Hobbes's political philosophy. The author leaves of an unusual analysis of the theory of history of young Hobbes and sustains, differently of classics like Leo Strauss, that effective rupture doesn't exist in uncoiling of the historical thought for the scientific-philosophical thought. Both base on the causal idea. Johnston notices Hobbes as the ideologist that indeed was. It demonstrates that the objective of its political theory was to do the common, ignorant and irrational man, to accept the idea of the state of nature, rational indicator of the need of an organized State. He sees the rhetoric of the political theory of Hobbes as a technique of cultural transformation that objectified to impede the sedition and the civil war in the England of seventy century. A fantastic and essential book.


The Sacristy Manual
Published in Paperback by Liturgy Training Publications (1993)
Authors: G. Thomas Ryan, Adam Redjinski, and David Philippart
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The Sacristy Manual
If you are involved in any way with setting up the church for Mass and if you work in the Sacirsty this manual is a God send!

There is a good history of the sacristy, excellent directions and guidance for each celebration, and it is well prepared.


Selznick's Vision: Gone With the Wind and Hollywood Filmmaking (Texas Film Studies Series)
Published in Paperback by Univ of Texas Press (1997)
Authors: Alan David Vertress, Alan David Vertrees, and Thomas Schatz
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Gone with the Wind
In 1928, Margaret Mitchell began writing a passionate story about a woman who dare to stand up to the old traditions and ways, a woman who is wild and carefree, a woman who changed through the war. It is a tale of unrequited love, of a man who desires this woman with all his heart but who can never obtain her. He is Rhett Butler and she is Scarlett O'Hara and this is Gone with the Wind. Read it and you'll see why Margaret Mitchell is regarded as the best writer of all time and why Gone with the Wind is the best selling novel with more than 40 million copies and made into a 8 Academy Award winning movie, Gone with the Wind is truly amazing.


Solutions Manual to Accompany an Introduction to Management Science: Quantitative Approaches to Decision Making
Published in Paperback by Southwestern Pub Co (1997)
Authors: David R. Anderson, Dennis Sweeney, and Thomas A. Williams
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An introduction to management science : quantitative approac
Quisiera que me pudieran enviar la solucion del caso problema: Yeager National Bank
que vien een el manual solucion.


Spiderman and the Uncanny X-Men
Published in Paperback by Marvel Books (1996)
Authors: Stan Lee, Peter David, Sal Buscema, Herb Trimpe, John Romita, Roy L. Thomas, and J. M. Dematteis
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For Spidey and the X-Men teamups, this is great!
For fans of both Spider-Man and the X-Men, this isn't one you want to miss! From Spidey's first encounter with the original five X-Men to his later adventures with the other members of the team, this has it all, and then some. Written with a great sense of humor and the characters, this is a real keeper!


Strategic Management
Published in Paperback by Addison-Wesley Pub Co (1996)
Authors: J. David Hunger, Thomas Wheelen, and Michael Payne
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Very useful, even after graduate school.
This was the book I used in my graduate consulting school in Arthur D. Little which was probably the most read of all my books, up to this time. I still used it as my reference now that I'm back here in Manila as a Financial executive and adopted it as my class textbook in my Strategic Management class.


The Structures of the Life-World, Vol. 2
Published in Paperback by Northwestern University Press (1989)
Authors: Alfred Schutz, Thomas Luckmann, David J. Parent, and Thomas Luckman
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Seeking after the meaning of our life
The life-world is a field of action. But action is not praxis. Acton should get meanings. Today, the life-world is faced with split.People are becoming one-sided. Schutz and Luckmann's research gave us a guide,they analied the sturcture of everydaylife, told us how to balance different aspects of our life. We'll know how to esteblish the meaning in the future. Shuguang,Yin.


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