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Cover of A Century of Misunderstanding: The History of the Development of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Understanding in the United States Military - World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018

This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This study examines the development of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) understanding within the United States Military. The study follows the progression of PTSD from its roots...
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Welfare Reform in Persistent Rural Poverty

Dreams, Disenchantments, and Diversity

by Kathleen Pickering, Mark H. Harvey, Gene F. Summers
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2006

Since the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 was enacted, policy makers, agency administrators, community activists, and academics from a broad range of disciplines have debated and researched the implications of welfare reform in the United States. Most of the...
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by Philip Sheridan
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013

2 works of Philip Sheridan Career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War (1831-1888) This ebook presents a collection of 2 works of Philip Sheridan. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents:...
Cover of Waking The Sleeping Giant At Pearl Harbor: A Case For Intelligence And Operations Fusion
by Major Blanca Reyes
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015

Despite the fact that for many years the United States conducted detailed planning the Japanese were still able to conduct a successful attack at Pearl Harbor. The 1907 war scare with Japan led to the initiation in America of war planning against the threat of Japanese aggression, and the establishment...
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Pax Americana

How and Why Us Elites Turned Global Primacy into a Silent Empire

by Manuel Lopez-Linares
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016

Pax Americana: How and Why US Elites Turned Global Primacy into a Silent Empire turns to the recently written pages of the history of the United States. Looking at them with a fresh perspective to test against the record of critics that claim the country has changed the character of its global involvement,...
Cover of The Complete Works: Autobiography, Correspondence, Messages, Speeches and Other Official and Private Writings

The Complete Works: Autobiography, Correspondence, Messages, Speeches and Other Official and Private Writings

Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Speeches and Other Official and Private Writings

by Thomas Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018

This eBook edition of the Complete Works of Thomas Jefferson has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was an American Founding Father who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served...
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by John Drinkwater
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018

John Drinkwater was an early 20th century English poet and playwright. After writing the drama Abraham Lincoln he wrote similar plays, Mary Stuart and Oliver Cromwell. Abraham Lincoln is a somewhat fictionalized play by John Drinkwater about the 16th President of the United States. Drinkwater's first...
Cover of State of the Union Addresses of George Washington
by George Washington
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013

The State of the Union is the annual address presented by the President of the United States to the United States Congress. The address not only reports on the condition of the nation but also allows presidents to outline their legislative agenda (for which they need the cooperation of Congress)...
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The Cuban Connection

Drug Trafficking, Smuggling, and Gambling in Cuba from the 1920s to the Revolution

by Eduardo Sáenz Rovner
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009

A comprehensive history of crime and corruption in Cuba, The Cuban Connection challenges the common view that widespread poverty and geographic proximity to the United States were the prime reasons for soaring rates of drug trafficking, smuggling, gambling, and prostitution in the tumultuous decades...
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Emory Upton

Misunderstood Reformer

by David J. Fitzpatrick
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017

Emory Upton (1839–1881) is widely recognized as one of America’s most influential military thinkers. His works—The Armies of Asia and Europe and The Military Policy of the United States—fueled the army’s intellectual ferment in the late nineteenth century and guided Secretary of War Elihu...
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by Charles Nordhoff
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018

Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation. The Communistic Societies of the United States is a history of utopian communities such as the Amana community and the Shakers.
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The United States Marine Corps

The Expeditionary Force at War

by Paul Westermeyer
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2019

Many think of the United States Marine Corps as a second land army, and while it has been employed in that capacity, it is foremost a naval expeditionary force able to seize, secure, and defend advanced naval bases in support of major campaigns. The Corps dates back to the Revolutionary War,...
Cover of Spies: The U.S. and Russian Espionage Game From the Cold War to the 21st Century
by Sean N. Kalic
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019

For more than four decades after World War II, the quest for intelligence drove the Soviet Union and the United States to develop a high-stakes "game" of spying on one another throughout the Cold War. Each nation needed to be aware of and prepared to counter the capabilities of their primary...
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Churchill in North America, 1929

A Three Month Tour of Canada and the United States

by Bradley P. Tolppanen
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014

Churchill took a three-month vacation to North America in the summer and fall of 1929, a little known event in his long career. In the company of his son Randolph, his brother Jack and his nephew Johnny, he toured Canada and the United States. Notable are Churchill’s meetings with political, business,...
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