Jon Cole: 6 books

It is 1967 Bangkok and teenager Jon Cole, son of a US Green Beret colonel serving in Vietnam, is coming of age in Thailand. Drawn to the underbelly of Bangkok by GIs on R&R from Vietnam, the army brat soon discovers ganja and opium, which leads to a career as an international drug smuggler and jail time...

Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts. Games with military themes date back to antiquity, and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the academic and trade literature on games and game...

Was Edward Snowden a patriot or a traitor? Just how far do American privacy rights extend? And how far is too far when it comes to government secrecy in the name of security? These are just a few of the questions that have dominated American consciousness since Edward Snowden exposed the breath of...

In Teaching America, more than 20 leading thinkers sound the alarm over a crisis in citizenship—and lay out a powerful agenda for reform. The book’s unprecedented roster of authors includes Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Senator Jon Kyl, Senator Bob Graham, Secretary Rod Paige, Alan Dershowitz,...

This reference offers a step-by-step, “how-to” approach on performing both open and arthroscopic surgeries for sports-related injuries of the knee, elbow, and shoulder. Leaders in sports medicine offer guidance on everything from patient positioning and the latest surgical techniques through pearls...

Tecniche chirurgiche di spalla, gomito e ginocchio in medicina dello sport descrive le più attuali e avanzate metodiche (open e artroscopia), utilizzate per intervenire sulle giunture che sono, di solito, le sedi più frequentemente lesionate durante la pratica sportiva. La chiarezza didattica di...