Download or read book Prime Rib and Boxcars written by Tom Blake and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Great Wartime Escapes and Rescues written by David W. Mills and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-05-17 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Students, military historians, and casual readers will all find this compelling collection useful in learning about escape strategies, hostage situations, and rescue operations during times of conflict. Great Wartime Escapes and Rescues tells the captivating stories of dozens of escapes and rescues from conflicts dating from the 16th century to present, with extensive coverage of the world wars of the 20th century and the Vietnam War. In addition, escapes and rescues related to terrorist activities and regional conflicts are featured. Some stories of escapes and rescues included in this work have been written about extensively and portrayed in films, including The Great Escape and Captain Phillips' rescue by Navy SEALs. Other stories are less widely known but just as absorbing. The book opens with a detailed introductory essay that illuminates the government policies and tactics various countries have used to rescue soldiers and civilians during wartime, as well as the diverse methods that prisoners of war have used to escape notorious camps and prisons. The entries, organized alphabetically, are augmented by engaging sidebars related to the escapes and rescues. The book also includes references to such sources as autobiographies, biographies, news accounts, and interviews with veterans.
Download or read book Saps Blackjacks and Slungshots A History of Forgotten Weapons written by Robert Escobar and published by Catoblepas Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Working the Waterfront written by Gilbert Mers and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eighty-year-old looks back on his life as a Texas longshoreman and radical labor activist in this “colorful and absorbing” memoir (The Southwestern Historical Quarterly). Somebody said, “History is written by the winners. The losers have nothing to say.” This book is by one of the losers, a bit player, not the star of the drama. So begins Gilbert Mers in these personal recollections of forty-two years on the Texas waterfront as a longshoreman and radical union activist. But far from having “nothing to say,” Mers reveals himself as a thoughtful philosopher of democratic ideals and eloquent agitator for union reform. He challenges the conventional wisdom that the leader is more valuable than the led. He contends that long tenure in positions of power dulls the union officer’s working-class instincts. Always one to row against the current, Mers believes the union exists for the benefit of its members! This is primary material of the best kind, vivid and evocative, and Mers, in his eighties at the time of writing the book, is an unusually vigorous and articulate spokesman for a democratic and humane unionism. Whether he’s describing the sweaty, dangerous, backbreaking work of loading cotton bales into the hold of an outbound ship or the gut-gripping tension of a face-to-face encounter with Texas Rangers bent on “law and order,” Mers writes with the voice and conscience of the rank-and-file worker. He paints the waterfront world as it was, and perhaps still is—full of peril, humor, dignity in demoralizing circumstances, frustration, struggle, and sometimes hope—and tells his story with such wry humanity that even those who disagree with his destination will enjoy the ride.
Download or read book Aspects of Digital Libraries Digitization Standards Open Access Repositories and User s Skills written by Liat Klain Gabbay and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-12 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today’s digital era, the emergence of digital libraries, collections, and repositories stands as a significant advancement. Across various organizations, there’s a notable shift toward digitization driven by both technological advancements and the proliferation of vast amounts of data, texts, artworks, and other collections. With information volumes reaching unprecedented levels, the imperative to organize it in digital formats becomes apparent. This digital transformation has given rise to a pervasive digital culture, particularly evident in academic libraries, museums, and nonprofit organizations. This culture profoundly influences how information is accessed, utilized, and organized. The book addresses key aspects of this digital paradigm, including digitization processes, open access principles, and the protocols and standards governing the utilization of digital information. It examines the broader landscape of digital libraries, repositories, and collections found in galleries and museums. Moreover, the book explores the evolving skill sets required by users in adapting to these digital advancements, as well as the standards necessary for implementing digital organizational structures. By taking a comprehensive view, it highlights both the advantages and challenges posed by these digital developments, offering insights into their multifaceted impacts on contemporary society.
Download or read book Interstellar Patrol written by Christopher Anvil and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The starship crew was stuck on a planet where the schemes of social engineers had created a nightmare of battling gangs. So they pretended to be the Royal Legions from a distant star kingdom. Things went better than they could have hoped, and the planet was rapidly becoming civilized--and then the real Royal flagship showed up.
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Download or read book On Systems Analysis and Simulation of Ecological Processes with Examples in CSMP and FORTRAN written by P.A. Leffelaar and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A system may be studied by distinguishing its major components, characterizing the changes in them by differential equations that form their simplified representa tions, and then interconnecting these representations to obtain a model of the original system. Developing the model is the systems synthesis phase. The behaviour of the model may now be studied and compared with experimental results obtained from the system. This research method is called systems analysis and simulation. Systems analysis and simulation can serve to make predictions, to improve the insight in systems, and to test knowledge on consistency and completeness. Predictive models are rare in ecology, simply because the underlying processes which form the basis of the models are seldom well known. A successful example of a predictive model was the work of van Keulen (1975). He showed that under semi arid conditions, where water is the main factor controlling primary production, the simulation technique could predict the production of natural grasslands. Fair predicti ons could also be made for the Sahelian pastures (Penning de Vries & Djiteye, 1982). Predictive models of populations of different pest and disease organisms are being used in biological control systems (Zadoks et aI., 1984).
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Download or read book Boxcar Joe written by Teresa Lee and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2012-12 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you think of the scariest person you have ever met, who comes to your mind? When you lay in bed at night and cannot sleep because you are scared, who or what are you afraid of? This is a story of one railroad town in the heart of Michigan. It tells of life and growing up with the railroad in the 1950s. Share in the tales of a tight knit group of young neighborhood friends who spend hours of growing-up years trying to figure out just why a familiar character in town is so mysterious and downright scary. It is the story of a man and the town that he changed just by being who he was: A loner who longed to be part of something bigger than himself. This is the story of a sorry soul who seemed to have nothing much to offer, yet ended up offering everything to some. This is the story of Boxcar Joe. Read it and remember.
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Download or read book And God Was Our Witness written by Alicja Edwards and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-09-20 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was only sixteen when my family and I were pulled away from our home and country. My name is Alicja (Moskaluk) Edwards. I was born and raised in Poland and now am 77 years old. For the last 17 years I have been writing a story or rather memoirs of my familys imprisonment in the Soviet Union during World War II, in Stalins bloody era. We were forcibly taken from our home in the eastern part of Poland to the Asiatic state of Kazachstan, where we were condemned to slave labor in the year of 1940. Over the three agonizing years we faced mistreatment and degradation, sickness, hunger and death, till our release from bondage and fight to freedom across the Caspian Sea to Iran, where I met my husband, an American Army lieutenant. My story was originally meant to answer many questions posed by my family and friends, but somehow the explanation of what happened to me and the other forgotten war victims grew into enlarged vignettes of nonfiction events and history, unknown or forgotten by the rest of the world. (I say unknown or forgotten because I have yet to hear or read about any of the atrocities inflicted on Polish survivors imprisoned in Soviet Russia during World War II ---- could I be the only one alive?)
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Download or read book The Kate Dawson Mysteries Books 1 3 written by John L. Flynn and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2022-12-27 with total page 839 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first three thrilling Kate Dawson mysteries, starring a tough San Francisco cop whose cases have more ups and downs than the city’s streets. Architects of Armageddon Det. Kate Dawson is called to investigate a mass murder and soon finds herself putting her life on the line to stop a doomsday cult from stoking the fires of Armageddon . . . Merchants of Death A car full of corpses on San Francisco’s subway system has Kate facing illegal arms dealers and racing to stop a runaway train loaded with deadly toxins as it speeds toward a packed stadium . . . Murder on Air Force One Kate is called to San Francisco International Airport after a corpse is found in the lavatory of Air Force One. Uncovering the truth as to how the body got there will require investigating all sorts of political conspiracies and cover-ups . . .
Download or read book America Sold Out written by Ray Hope and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2003-12 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
