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This monograph examines General J. Lawton Collins' career and argues that his command style was characterized by technical and tactical competence, the practical ability to lead from the front and sound judgment. This monograph examines these key factors in three subsections. General Collins gained...

This work comprises an effort to answer the question of how an airman can be qualified to be a Joint Force Commander, using the biographical example of General Roy S. Geiger, USMC. Geiger was the fifth designated Marine Aviator, earning his wings in June of 1917. He then served as a squadron commander...

Backing up the pioneering medical researchers and experi­ menters are the phalanxes and cohorts of practising clinicians in district general hospitals and in general practice who may have to implement and apply any breakthroughs and advances in practical and realistic terms. This they cannot, and...

General Practice Today　explores the GP consultation in the context of external 'stressors' and 'helpers' that doctors use to make best clinical decisions. Over the last 30 years there has been a move towards mandatory training on legal aspects, risk scores and guidance. Additionally, with widespread...

Los serious games se singularizan dentro del campo de los videojuegos por su agenda educativa y su compromiso social. Por ello, suponen un interesante y novedoso ámbito de investigación y de actuación para el diseño, especialmente para aquel que defiende su misión de transformación y mejora...

Misconceptions, misunderstandings, and flawed facts finally get the heave-ho in this humorous, downright humiliating book of reeducation based on the phenomenal British bestseller. Challenging what most of us assume to be verifiable truths in areas like history, literature, science, nature,...

This collection of original papers on the special and general theories of relativity is an unabridged translation of the 4th edition of Das Relativitatsprinzip, together with a revised edition of an additional paper by H. A. Lorentz. CONTENTS: I. "Michelson's Interference Experiment" by...

Are you a Smarty Pants? Prove it with 10,000 general knowledge questions! Test your brain power with two hundred quizzes containing fifty random general knowledge questions and answers in each. Many genres are covered, notably entertainment. There's also a broad range of general knowledge trivia too, to really test if you wear the smart pants!  

Exactly a week after the general election, two men – ‘Call me Dave’ and ‘Call me Nick’ – walked side by side into the rose garden of No. 10 Downing Street to give their first press-conference as Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, looking for all the world like men in love. It was...

Includes the Aerial Warfare In Europe During World War II illustrations pack with over 180 maps, plans, and photos. Gen Henry H. “Hap.” Arnold, US Army Air Forces (AAF) Chief of Staff during World War II, maintained diaries for his several journeys to various meetings and conferences throughout...

To every member of the 82nd Airborne Division who dropped as part of the American paratroop landings during World War Two, they breathed a little easier knowing their commander “Jumpin’ Jim” Gavin would be dropping with them. General Gavin would drop into the fierce fighting along with his men...

The Nobel Prize is by far the highest recognition a scientist may receive and the only one with which the general public is familiar. Its prestige has reached improbable heights. At the same time a lot of myth surrounds the Nobel Prize, and this is compounded by the fact that people tend to view scientists...

General Falta de Respeto was an irritable old man who rented a room in the back of our house. He claimed to have fought in the Spanish-American War, but he never told me what side he fought for. He usually disagreed with everybody, so Im sure he could have fought against everybody in the Spanish-American War. He turned up missing in April of 2011 and he is presumed dead.

The English language edition of the autobiography of Jarl Wahsltröm - the twelfth General of The Salvation Army and the first Finnish officer to be elected to that role. In this book, first published in Finnish in 1989, the author describes in detail how, as one of God's pilgrims, he...