Bright blue skies and fluffy white clouds. In the distance, thick white contrails stream behind formations of heavy bombers. Above, around, and to the front, smaller contrails are etched against the sky in a gently weaving pattern. At the front of each trail, are small silvery fighters, each suddenly shedding a pair of drop tanks and pulling around in a hard diving turn. The song of the Merlin and the rattle of machine gun fire and another Luftwaffe fighter begins its long smoking descent to the fields of Germany 25,000 feet below. One more that won't get to the bombers...
Mention the P-51 Mustang to any World War II buff and that, or a similar image, is what comes lo mind. It wasn't always that way. The Mustang started life as a private venture — some might say gamble — on the part of the fledgling North American Aviation Company to build a fighter for Britain's Royal Air Force. The RAF wanted North American to license build Curtiss P-40s, however, company president James H. "Dutch" Kindelberger convinced the British Purchasing Commission that he could build a fighter that was faster, more maneuver-able, and could fly farther than the P-40 while using the same engine. It was a tall order. Using data purchased from Curtiss and NACA, the North American design and construction teams worked around the clock. Some 120 days later, the NA-73X airframe was rolled out in September of 1940. Although lacking an engine, and being rolled out on borrowed wheels, the new ship looked every inch the fighter it promised to be.
Powered by an Allison engine, the first RAF machine rolled off the assembly line in mid-April 1941. The first RAF combat mission took place in May of 1942. The Mustang started it's combat life, not as a high altitude fighter, but as a low level reconnaissance and Army Cooperation aircraft. The Allison engine simply lacked power at higher altitudes — altitudes above 20,000. The problem was not so much with the engine as it was with the simple single stage supercharger.
Through 1942 and into 1943, the Allison-powered Mustangs evolved into a potent dive bomber, reconnaissance, and ground attack aircraft. At lower altitudes, they could hold their own and then some against enemy fighters, including the Luftwaffe's vaunted h'ocke Wulf Fwl90. Almost 1600 Allison engined Mustang I. P-51, A-36, and P-51A aircraft were built. Their homes ranged from the mud and fog of an English country airfield, to the blazing sands of North Africa, to the hot and humid sub-tropics of India and Burma.
Silvery? Not these aircraft. Despite their clean lines and racing plane looks, their world was down low where they used dull greens, browns, and grays to blend in with the terrain. Often at the end of the supply line, their drab, patchy, and faded colors were streaked with fluids and exhaust stains. The early Mustang and its Allison engine was a worker. Hard, dirty, and sweat stained, this was its world. It was Cinderella — Before the ball...

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Barry M. Pritzker - Native Americans; An Encyclope dia of History, Culture, and Peoples (1998).jpg

Featuring Native American groups from the northern reaches of Canada to the Rio Grande, this encyclopedia presents basic information about each tribal nation in a consistent manner. Organized geographically, each section begins with an introduction to the area and its original inhabitants. Tribal entries follow, with some smaller related groups discussed together. Each article includes sections on location, population, language, history, religion, government, customs, dwellings, diet, key technology, trade, notable arts, transportation, dress, and war/ weapons. A contemporary section follows, with information on government/reservations, economy, legal status, and daily life. Pritzker (the author of books on Ansel Adams, Mathew Brady, and Edward Curtis) is one of the few authors to attempt a work of this size alone. His presentation is even-handed, although some sections, like art, seem less thorough than others. Pritzker manages for the most part to avoid the extensive duplication found in the more expensive Gale Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes (LJ 5/15/98), but a few small groups, such as the Shinnecock, are excluded. Articles do not have bibliographic references, and citations of books on individual tribes are not included in the bibliography. Still, this is a good choice for public and school libraries that have other options for bibliographic sources.

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Colin Read - The Fear Factor; What Happens When Fe ar Grips Wall Street (2009).jpeg

The science behind and economic consequences of fear are explained by demonstrating how fear can drive markets to disastrous lows and how the financial industry profits most when fear and volatility are highest. The reader is offered recommendations that can resolve market fears and bolster world economies.

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Joel Andreas - Addicted to War; Why the U.S. Can't Kick Militarism (2004).jpg

Addicted to War takes on the most active, powerful and destructive military in the world. Hard-hitting, carefully documented and heavily illustrated, it reveals why the United States has been involved in more wars in recent years than any other country. Read Addicted to War to find out who benefits from these military adventures, who pays—and who dies. Over 120,000 copies of the previous edition are in print. This new edition is substantially reworked and fully updated through the War in Iraq.

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Julian Granberry - A Grammar and Dictionary of the Timucua Language (1993).jpg

Taken from surviving contemporary documentary sources, this work describes the grammar and lexicon of the extinct 17th-century Timucua language of Central and North Florida, and traces the origins of 17th-century Timucua speakers and their language.
Julian Granberry has contributed to A Grammar and Dictionary of the Timucua Language as an author. Granberry is Language Coordinator with Native American Language Services in Florida.

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Peter Bogdanovich - Who the Hell's in It; Conversa tions with Hollywood's Legendary Actors (2005).jpg

Peter Bogdanovich, known primarily as a director, film historian and critic, has been working with professional actors all his life. He started out as an actor (he debuted on the stage in his sixth-grade production of Finian’s Rainbow); he watched actors work (he went to the theater every week from the age of thirteen and saw every important show on, or off, Broadway for the next decade); he studied acting, starting at sixteen, with Stella Adler (his work with her became the foundation for all he would ever do as an actor and a director).

Now, in his new book, Who the Hell’s in It, Bogdanovich draws upon a lifetime of experience, observation and understanding of the art to write about the actors he came to know along the way; actors he admired from afar; actors he worked with, directed, befriended. Among them: Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, John Cassavetes, Charlie Chaplin, Montgomery Clift, Marlene Dietrich, Henry Fonda, Ben Gazzara, Audrey Hepburn, Boris Karloff, Dean Martin, Marilyn Monroe, River Phoenix, Sidney Poitier, Frank Sinatra, and James Stewart.
Bogdanovich captures—in their words and his—their work, their individual styles, what made them who they were, what gave them their appeal and why they’ve continued to be America’s iconic actors.

On Lillian Gish: “the first virgin hearth goddess of the screen . . . a valiant and courageous symbol of fortitude and love through all distress.”

On Marlon Brando: “He challenged himself never to be the same from picture to picture, refusing to become the kind of film star the studio system had invented and thrived upon—the recognizable human commodity each new film was built around . . . The funny thing is that Brando’s charismatic screen persona was vividly apparent despite the multiplicity of his guises . . . Brando always remains recognizable, a star-actor in spite of himself. ”

Jerry Lewis to Bogdanovich on the first laugh Lewis ever got onstage: “I was five years old. My mom and dad had a tux made—I worked in the borscht circuit with them—and I came out and I sang, ‘Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?’ the big hit at the time . . . It was 1931, and I stopped the show—naturally—a five-year-old in a tuxedo is not going to stop the show? And I took a bow and my foot slipped and hit one of the floodlights and it exploded and the smoke and the sound scared me so I started to cry. The audience laughed—they were hysterical . . . So I knew I had to get the rest of my laughs the rest of my life, breaking, sitting, falling, spinning.”

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John Wayne to Bogdanovich, on the early years of Wayne’s career when he was working as a prop man: “Well, I’ve naturally studied John Ford professionally as well as loving the man. Ever since the first time I walked down his set as a goose-herder in 1927. They needed somebody from the prop department to keep the geese from getting under a fake hill they had for Mother Machree at Fox. I’d been hired because Tom Mix wanted a box seat for the USC football games, and so they promised jobs to Don Williams and myself and a couple of the players. They buried us over in the properties department, and Mr. Ford’s need for a goose-herder just seemed to fit my pistol.”
These twenty-six portraits and conversations are unsurpassed in their evocation of a certain kind of great movie star that has vanished. Bogdanovich’s book is a celebration and a farewell.

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Thomas F. Huertas - Crisis; Cause, Containment and Cure (2010).jpg

The current crisis is emerging as the most severe downturn since the Great Depression. This book examines its cause, the efforts to contain the crisis and proposes a cure that will limit the risk that such crises could recur in the future.

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United States Army in World War II - M. Hamlin Can non - Leyte; The Return to the Philippines (1993).jpg

With the Leyte Campaign the War in the Pacific entered a decisive stage. The period of limited offensives, bypassing, and island hopping was virtually over. American troops in greater numbers than ever before assembled in the Pacific Theater, supported by naval and air forces of corresponding size, fought and overcame Japanese forces of greater magnitude than any previously met. Though the spotlight is on the front-line fighting, the reader will find in this volume a faithful description of all arms and services performing their missions. The account is not exclusively an infantry story. It covers as well the support of ground fighting on Leyte by large-scale naval operations and by land-based air power under the most adverse conditions. In addition, careful attention to logistical matters, such as the movement of supplies and the evacuation of the wounded, gives the reader a picture of the less spectacular activities of an army in battle.

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Ha-Joon Chang - 23 Things They Don't Tell You Abou t Capitalism (2011).jpeg

If you've wondered how we did not see the economic collapse coming, Ha-Joon Chang knows the answer: We didn't ask what they didn't tell us about capitalism. This is a lighthearted book with a serious purpose: to question the assumptions behind the dogma and sheer hype that the dominant school of neoliberal economists-the apostles of the freemarket-have spun since the Age of Reagan. Chang, the author of the international bestseller Bad Samaritans, is one of the world's most respected economists, a voice of sanity-and wit-in the tradition of John Kenneth Galbraith and Joseph Stiglitz. 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism equips readers with an understanding of how global capitalism works-and doesn't. In his final chapter, "How to Rebuild the World," Chang offers a vision of how we can shape capitalism to humane ends, instead of becoming slaves of the market. Ha-Joon Chang teaches in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge. His books include the bestselling Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism. His Kicking Away the Ladder received the 2003 Myrdal Prize, and, in 2005, Chang was awarded the Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought.
Thing 1: There is no such thing as free market.
Thing 4: The washing machine has changed the world more than the Internet.
Thing 5: Assume the worst about people, and you get the worst.
Thing 13: Making rich people richer doesn't make the rest of us richer.

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Garet Garrett - The Bubble That Broke the World (2 007).jpg

This book blows away the conventional interpretations of the crash of 1929, not only in its contents but that this book exists at all. It was written in 1931. He ascribes the crash to the pile of up debt, which in turn was made possible by the Fed printing machine. This created distortions in the production structure that cried out for correction. So what is the answer? Let the correction happen and learn from our mistakes.

Such is the thesis of the great Garet Garrett. But take note: this book was a big seller in 1931. In other words, two years before FDR arrived with his destructive New Deal, ascribing the depression to capitalism and speculation, Garrett had already explained what was really behind the correction.

It took Murray Rothbard to resurrect these truths decades later, and when he wrote this in 1963, it was a shock and we are still fighting an uphill battle to explain the true causes of the crash and following depression. But here in this wonderful book is an actual contemporary account that spelled it out plainly for the world to see.

No more can we say that people back then could not have understood. Garrett told them. And thanks to this new edition of this classic and important work, he is telling us again today.

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Martin A. Gardner - The Marx Brothers as Social Cr itics; Satire and Comic Nihilism in Their Films (2 009).jpg

The Marx Brothers' films are packed with slapstick and obvious jokes, gags, puns, pratfalls, and mimicry. But beneath the laughs is a serious and biting condemnation of American culture. This book examines historical events, political practices, economic conditions, manners and customs, literary subjects, and popular entertainment as satirized in the films and considers the ways in which the films were relevant in their era and remain so today.

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Melissa Smith - Campaign Finance Reform; The Polit ical Shell Game (2010).jpg

Campaign Finance Reform The Political Shell Game pres an in-depth look at the history of political campaign finance reform with special emphasis on legislative, FEC, and federal court actions from the 1970s to present. In particular, the authors examine the ways that campaigns and independent groups have sought to make end-runs around existing campaign finance rules.

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Headquarters, Department of the Army - United Stat es Army Survival Manual. Field Manual No. 3-05.70 (FM 21-76) (2003).jpg

01 - USA - Headquarters, Department of the Army - United States A...urvival Manual. Field Manual No. 3-05.70 FM 21-76 2003.jpg

Read what this manual says about survival in those particular areas and find out all you can about those areas. Read other books on survival. Develop a survival-training program that will enable your unit members to meet any survival situation they may face. It can make the difference between life and death. A must for campers, hikers, explorers, pilots, and anyone who wants to know how to survive in primitive conditions.

As a soldier, you can be sent to any area of the world. It may be in a temperate, tropical, arctic, or subarctic region. You expect to have all your personal equipment and your unit members with you wherever you go. However, there is no guarantee it will be so.
You could find yourself alone in a remote area—possibly enemy territory—with little or no personal gear. This manual provides information and describes basic techniques that will enable you to survive and return alive should you find yourself in such a situation.
If you are a trainer, use this information as a base on which to build survival training. You know the areas to which your unit is likely to deploy, the means by which it will travel, and the territory through which it will travel.

This manual is based entirely on the keyword SURVIVAL. The letters in this word can help guide your actions in any survival situation.
Learn what each letter represents and practice applying these guidelines when conducting survival training.

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Robert D. Kaplan - Monsoon; The Indian Ocean and t he Future of American Power (2010).jpg

An inveterate traveler and author, Kaplan recently toured the rim of the Indian Ocean to inspect its geopolitics. Perspectives on the balance of power vary from country to country and speaker to speaker, but most agree that India and China are the ascending powers in the region. As Kaplan’s passages about Indian Ocean history reflect, the two countries can refer to tradition (to the fifteenth-century fleets of Zheng He, in China’s case) for their contemporary activities in the Indian Ocean, but the plain fact is they are busy for one reason: access to resources. As Kaplan journeys from Oman to Pakistan to Burma and Indonesia, the specific raw material comes into focus, as does the geopolitical angle of safely shipping it to the interested country. Touching on what could threaten maritime traffic, such as piracy, ethnic conflicts, or hostile control of choke points like the Strait of Malacca, Kaplan is guardedly optimistic that interested powers, including the U.S., can benignly manage their Indian Ocean affairs. A better-informed world-affairs reader will be the result of Kaplan’s latest title.

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Jerome A. Greene, Douglas D. Scott - Finding Sand Creek; History, Archeology, and the 1864 Massacre Site (2004).jpg

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The 1864 Sand Creek Massacre is one of the most disturbing and controversial events in American history. While its historical significance is undisputed, the exact location of the massacre has been less clear. Because the site is sacred ground for Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians, the question of its location is more than academic; it is intensely personal and spiritual.
In 1998 the National Park Service, under congressional direction, began a research program to verify the location of the Sand Creek site. The team consisted of tribal members, Park Service staff and volunteers, and local landowners. In Finding Sand Creek, the project's leading historian, Jerome A. Greene, and its leading archaeologist, Douglas D. Scott, tell the story of how this dedicated group of people used a variety of methods to pinpoint the site. Drawing on oral histories, written records, and archaeological fieldwork, Greene and Scott present a wealth of evidence to verify their conclusions. Greene and Scott's team study led to legislation in the year 2000 that established the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site.

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Charles Royster - The Fabulous History of the Dism al Swamp Company; A Story of George Washington's T imes (1999).jpg

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The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company begins, appropriately, amidst a time of extraordinary popular delusions. The mania surrounding the Mississippi Company and the South Sea Bubble was just properly breaking around 1720, leaving countless speculators broken and penniless. But any lessons to be learned from these legendary schemes seem lost on the principals of Charles Royster's historical epic, including such august figures as George Washington and Virginia's William Byrd. They--apparently like all other men of means at the time--were driven to convert the vast tracts of America into cold, hard cash. Speculation on land, along with the various ventures intended to exploit it profitably, is the central theme to Royster's interconnected patchwork of stories that spans some hundred years and sprawls the better part of the globe. Nearly all these tales relate to, if sometimes obliquely, a particular company and the men (including a young George Washington) who founded it to "save" the impassable, frog-infested marsh on the Virginia-North Carolina border known as the Great Dismal Swamp. (Never mind that local folk thought of it as "a low sunken morass, not fit for any of the purposes of Agriculture.")
Fortunately, Royster, an accomplished historian and author of the Francis Parkman Prize-winning A Revolutionary People at War, had more luck getting something valuable out of the Dismal Swamp than his Colonial predecessors. His richly detailed, circuitous saga makes for dense, satisfying reading.

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