By definition, the unforeseeable cannot be seen, but one way to bring more variables under consideration when planning a military action is to review those instances where the unforeseeable changed everything. For professionals and enthusiasts alike, Imponderable But Not Inevitable: Warfare in the 20th Century does just that, reviewing specific instances in 20th-century warfare when things did not go according to plan.
Imponderable but Not Inevitable uses case studies to expose the "Inevitability Syndrome," exploring the role of luck, fate, and randomness in influencing both victory and defeat. In essays drawn from World War II, Konfrontasi, the Vietnam War, and the Gulf War, a distinguished set of military experts looks at real scenarios of inexplicable losses, illustrating why nothing—nothing—should be taken for granted in war.

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Laurence H. Tribe, Michael C. Dorf - On Reading th e Constitution (1993).jpg

Our Constitution speaks in general terms of "liberty" and "property," of the "privileges and immunities" of citizens, and of the "equal protection of the laws"--open-ended phrases that seem to invite readers to reflect in them their own visions and agendas. Yet, recognizing that the Constitution cannot be merely what its interpreters wish it to be, this volume's authors draw on literary and mathematical analogies to explore how the fundamental charter of American government should be construed today.

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Donald Ritchie - Press Gallery, Congress and the W ashington Correspondents (1992).jpg

'Press Gallery' examines the lives of Greeley, Horace White, Ben"" Perley Poore, Emily Briggs, Jane Grey Swisshelm, James G. Blaine, and others who were positioned in the hub of government when the Civil War, the purchase of Alaska, the Credit Mobilier scandal, and the Johnson impeachment hearings were making front-page news.

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Jon T. Hoffman - Silk Chutes and Hard Fighting, U. S. Marine Corps Parachute Units in World War II (1 999).jpg

This volume is a brief narrative of the development, deployment, & eventual demise of Marine parachute units during World War II. It is published to honor the veterans of these special units & for the information of those interested in Marine parachutists & the events in which they participated.

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Jon T. Hoffman - Silk Chutes and Hard Fighting, U. S. Marine Corps Parachute Units in World War II (1 999).pdf

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Kal Wagenheim - Babe Ruth, His life & legend (2001 ).jpg

Unparalleled by any other baseball star in history, Babe Ruth was a lively character remembered for his dramatic herioism on the baseball diamond and in his life.
Kal Wagenheim illustrates this larger-than-life athlete in his book Babe Ruth: His Life & Legend, and describes him as both a product of his childhood in Baltimore and of his formative years as a New York Yankee. He struggled desperately with the drastic contrast between the poverty of his youth and the glamour and stardom that his famed career brought him, and although his name became synonymous with wooing women and abusing alcohol, they didn't prevent him from becoming one of history's great est athletes.

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Colin Gordon - Dead on Arrival, The Politics of He alth Care in Twentieth-Century America (2003).jpg

Why, alone among industrial democracies, does the United States not have national health insurance? While many books have addressed this question, Dead on Arrival is the first to do so based on original archival research for the full sweep of the twentieth century. Drawing on a wide range of political, reform, business, and labor records, Colin Gordon traces a complex and interwoven story of political failure and private response. He examines, in turn, the emergence of private, work-based benefits; the uniquely American pursuit of "social insurance"; the influence of race and gender on the health care debate; and the ongoing confrontation between reformers and powerful economic and health interests.

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Jimmy Carter - Palestine, Peace Not Apartheid (200 6).jpg

The crowning achievement of Jimmy Carter's presidency was the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt, and he has continued his public and private diplomacy ever since, winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his decades of work for peace, human rights, and international development. He has been a tireless author since then as well, writing bestselling books on his childhood, his faith, and American history and politics, but in Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, he has returned to the Middle East and to the question of Israel's peace with its neighbors--in particular, how Israeli sovereignty and security can coexist permanently and peacefully with Palestinian nationhood. It's a rare honor to ask questions of a former president, and we are grateful that President Carter was able to take the time in between his work with his wife, Rosalynn, for the Carter Center and Habitat for Humanity and his many writing projects to speak with us about his hopes for the region and his thoughts on the book.

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Philip Gould - Barbaric Traffic, Commerce and Anti slavery in the 18 th Century Atlantic World (2003).jpg

Eighteenth-century antislavery writers attacked the slave trade as "barbaric traffic"--a practice that would corrupt the mien and manners of Anglo-American culture to its core. Less concerned with slavery than with the slave trade in and of itself, these writings expressed a moral uncertainty about the nature of commercial capitalism. This is the argument Philip Gould advances in Barbaric Traffic. A major work of cultural criticism, the book constitutes a rethinking of the fundamental agenda of antislavery writing from pre-revolutionary America to the end of the British and American slave trades in 1808.

Studying the rhetoric of various antislavery genres--from pamphlets, poetry, and novels to slave narratives and the literature of disease--Gould exposes the close relation between antislavery writings and commercial capitalism. By distinguishing between good commerce, or the importing of commodities that refined manners, and bad commerce, like the slave trade, the literature offered both a critique and an outline of acceptable forms of commercial capitalism. A challenge to the premise that objections to the slave trade were rooted in modern laissez-faire capitalism, Gould's work revises--and expands--our understanding of antislavery literature as a form of cultural criticism in its own right.

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Alec M. Gallup - The Gallup Poll Cumulative Index, Public Opinion, 1998-2007 (2008).jpg

The Gallup Poll is the most comprehensive single source of American public opinion. It is the only work that captures the constantly shifting opinions and perceptions of Americans. The Cumulative Index allows researchers easy access to the results of polls conducted between 1998 and 2007.

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Ellen Fitzpatrick - History's Memory, Writing Amer icas Past, 1880-1980 (2002).jpg

Fitzpatrick, associate professor of history at the University of New Hampshire, surveys American historical writing of the past century. The author stands in contradiction to the received opinions of the historical community several decades back that, e.g., the revisionist historians gravitating around William Appleman Williams represented a clean break with the "consensus historians" of the immediate post-World War II years. Instead, she finds much more in common between the current crop of Braudel-like "bottom-up" historians and, say, the progressives of the earlier part of the century, whom many radicals consider anathema. That is, recent works by such historians as Stephan Thernstrom and Sam Bass Warner, while perhaps able to take advantage of more sophisticated research techniques and tools, harken back to contemporaries of Charles Beard and Frederick Jackson Turner, such as Carter Woodson and W. E. B. DuBois, who didn't swallow American "exceptionalism" hook, line, and sinker. Fitzpatrick urges younger historians not to jettison the influence of America's historical heritage in an effort to be "relevant." Allen Weakland

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James Dawes - The Language of War, Literature and Culture in the U.S. from the Civil War through Wor ld War (2004).jpg

USA Books - James Dawes - The Language of War, Literature and Cult... in the U.S. from the Civil War through World War 2004.jpg

This book is a meditation on the relationship between violence and language, not only in the ways that violence impedes, corrals, or squelches speech but also in the ways the assumptions embedded in words trigger, presume, or encourage violence. The book shows the ways -- potentially -- language can challenge violence and expose the terror and silencing of war.
--Lyde Cullen Sizer (Journal of American History )

The Language of War reminded me of my first reading of Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory. Dawes's intellectual history of how language was used for 100 years in thinking and writing about war gives us the critical tools to understand his inquiry into the difficulties of meaning inherent in formulations of modern laws of war.
--Thomas Palaima (The Times Higher Education Supplement )

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Lee Alan Dugatkin - Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Mo ose, Natural History in Early America (2009).jpg

In the years after the Revolutionary War, the fledgling republic of America was viewed by many Europeans as a degenerate backwater, populated by subspecies weak and feeble. Chief among these naysayers was the French Count and world-renowned naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, who wrote that the flora and fauna of America (humans included) were inferior to European specimens.
Thomas Jefferson—author of the Declaration of Independence, U.S. president, and ardent naturalist—spent years countering the French conception of American degeneracy. His Notes on Virginia systematically and scientifically dismantled Buffon’s case through a series of tables and equally compelling writing on the nature of his home state. But the book did little to counter the arrogance of the French and hardly satisfied Jefferson’s quest to demonstrate that his young nation was every bit the equal of a well-established Europe. Enter the giant moose.
The American moose, which Jefferson claimed was so enormous a European reindeer could walk under it, became the cornerstone of his defense. Convinced that the sight of such a magnificent beast would cause Buffon to revise his claims, Jefferson had the remains of a seven-foot ungulate shipped first class from New Hampshire to Paris. Unfortunately, Buffon died before he could make any revisions to his Histoire Naturelle, but the legend of the moose makes for a fascinating tale about Jefferson’s passion to prove that American nature deserved prestige.
In Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose, Lee Alan Dugatkin vividly recreates the origin and evolution of the debates about natural history in America and, in so doing, returns the prize moose to its rightful place in American history.

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Paul Whitfield - The Rough Guide to Yosemite (2008 ).jpg

Make the most of your time with The Rough Guide to Yosemite, the ultimate guide to California’s most stunning park. The full-colour section introduces Yosemite’s highlights, from hiking the Mist Trail and rock-climbing in the Valley to insight into the lives of the Ahwahneechee at the fascinating Yosemite Museum. The guide takes a detailed look at the parks fabulous natural features including the immense rock wall of El Capitan and the towering sequoia trees of Mariposa Grove. There’s expert advice on seeing the park up close, whether you are hiking to the top of Half Dome or exploring the backcountry from Tuolumne Meadows. Rely on practical tips and information on all the best lodges, campgrounds, hotels and restaurants in and around the park. Discover every corner of Yosemite with the clearest maps of any guide.

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Laurence A. Canter, Martha S. Siegel - U.S. Immigr ation Made Easy (2003).jpg

Written by two expert immigration attorneys who have obtained legal entry for thousands of foreign nationals, U.S. Immigration Made Easy covers every possible way to legally enter and live in the United States. Attorneys Canter & Siegel explain how the U.S.immigration system really works, and show you how to qualify for:
*visas
*green cards
*citizenship
Step-by-step instructions show how to fill out and file forms and how to approach the enormous INS bureaucracy. The 10th edition covers current topics, including tightened security and how it affects all visa and green card applicants, the "Child Status Protection Act," new requirements for J-1 visa holders, new work-permit opportunities and much more.

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Laurence A. Canter, Martha S. Siegel - U.S. Immigr ation Made Easy (2003).pdf

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Eugene Schroder, David Sechter - War, central plan ning, and corporations, The corporate state (1997).jpg

War, Central Planning and Corporations, a new book by Dr. Eugene Schroder and David Schechter, was the basis of Dr. Schroder's presentation at the Western Economic Conference in Seattle July 12. Dr. Walker F. Todd, formerly with the Federal Reserve, served as editor.

Provocative acumen into how government control,

Bureaucracy, centralized supremacy and the gigantic corporations operate together as a team. The book Details how

they affiliate to use egregious and unconstitutional powers accepted during feigning of national emergency.

Extremely well researched, footnotes from Senate Studies, the Congressional Records and Rulings from the Supreme Court.

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Anderson Cooper - Dispatches from the Edge, A Memo ir of War, Disasters, and Survival (2006).jpg

From one of America's leading reporters comes a deeply personal, extraordinarily powerful look at the most volatile crises he has witnessed around the world, from New Orleans to Baghdad and beyond. "Dispatches from the Edge of the World" is a book that gives us a rare up-close glimpse of what happens when the normal order of things is suddenly turned upside down, whether it's a natural disaster, a civil war, or a heated political battle. Over the last year, few people have witnessed more scenes of chaos and conflict than Anderson Cooper, whose groundbreaking coverage on CNN has become the touchstone of twenty-first century journalism. This book explores in a very personal way the most important - and most dangerous - crises of our time, and the surprising impact they have had on his life. From the devastating tsunami in South Asia to the suffering Niger, and ultimately Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Cooper shares his own experiences of traversing the globe, covering the world's most astonishing stories. In his first book, that passion communicates itself through a rich fabric of memoir and reportage, reflection and first-person narrative. Unflinching and utterly engrossing, this is the story of an extraordinary year in a reporter's life.

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Patrick J. Charles - The Second Amendment, The Int ent and Its Interpretation by the States and the S upreme Court (2009).jpg

USA Books - Patrick J. Charles - The Second Amendment, The Intent ...nterpretation by the States and the Supreme Court 2009.jpg

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Legal historians, analysts, judges and commentators have long disagreed about the original scope and intent of these words, making up the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. Individual right theorists interpret it as protecting the personal privilege to own and carry firearms, while collective right theorists interpret it as only protecting the privilege of a collective society to bear arms in relation to militia service. This book examines the contentions of both groups and concludes that the amendment is meant only to protect the right of an individual to "keep and bear arms" for the purpose of defending the country in a militia force against standing foreign or domestic armies. In crafting his argument, the author examines the Second Amendment in exacting detail.

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