Suchergebnisse

No Place for a Woman -- Dreams and Destiny -- War Comes to France -- Occupation -- Escaping the Gestapo -- The City of Light in Shadows -- Paris Broken, Paris Outraged, Paris Liberated -- In the Company of Modern Knights -- Into the Cauldron -- Sang Froid -- Trial Under Fire -- The Helicopter and How It Came to Vietnam -- The Corsican Pilot -- Évasan -- The Woman and the Dragonfly -- The Prestige of Men -- Roi Jean -- First Flight -- The Exhilaration of War -- True Believer -- The Woman Who Came From the Sky -- A Test of Will -- The Perils of Tenacity -- Operating in the Wilderness -- Ventilateur Calling -- Madamoiselle Ventilateur -- Allons-y -- On the Right Side of Luck -- No Place for the Dying -- Taking Command -- Breakdown -- Recognition -- Pyrrhic Victory -- To Breathe Again -- Dénouement Dien Bien Phu -- Challenges and Disillusion -- To Fight and To Save -- Triumph of an Indomitable Spirit.

"Set in British India soon after the Uprising of 1857, God's Word, Spoken and Otherwise explores the controversial and ingenious ideas of one of South Asia's most influential public thinkers, Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan (1817-1898). Bringing to light previously unpublished material from his exegetical commentaries on the Bible and Qur'an, this study explores the interplay of natural and prophetic revelation from an intertextual perspective. The book provides fresh insight into Sir Sayyid's life and work, and underscores both the originality of his ideas, and also their continuity within a dynamic Muslim intellectual tradition"--

"An updated and expanded edition of Tatum's Chicano Popular Culture (2001), touching upon major developments in popular culture since the book's original publication"--Provided by publisher

"From his early years as a small-town lawyer through his rise to the presidency, Abraham Lincoln respected the rule of law. Secession and the Civil War, however, led him to expand presidential power in ways that often put him at odds with the Supreme Court and Congress. In this incisive essay collection, recognized scholars from a variety of academic disciplines--including history, political science, legal studies, and journalism--explore Lincoln's actions as president and identify within his decision-making process his commitment to law and order and the principles of the Constitution. In so doing, they demonstrate how wartime pressures and problems required Lincoln to confront the constitutional limitations imposed on the chief executive and expose the difficulty and ambiguity associated with the protection of civil rights during the Civil War. Among the topics addressed are civil liberties during wartime; presidential pardons; the loyalty (or treason) of government employees; Lincoln's political ideology and its influence on his approach to citizenship; Lincoln's defense of the Constitution, the Union, and popular government; constitutional restraints on Lincoln as he dealt with slavery and emancipation; and how Lincoln's image has been used in presidential rhetoric. Although varied in their strategies and methodologies, these essays expand our understanding of Lincoln's vision for a United Nation grounded in the Constitution. Together, they provide an illuminating examination of the law as Lincoln applied it, the expansion of presidential war powers, and the foundation for the transformation of American society. "--

In one of the wealthiest nation's on the planet, one might expect the food we eat to be safe and free of deadly bacteria and other organisms that might make us sick, but the truth is that there is very little oversight of our food and its delivery, and that foodborne illnesses are at their highest levels in years. Here, Charles Duncan takes us on a tour of the food industry and its regulations reveals the dangers, suggests solutions, and encourages consumers to make better decisions and demand better safety.

"WASHINGTON - The Army official who managed the Pentagon's largest contract in Iraq says he was ousted from his job when he refused to approve paying more than 1 billion in questionable charges to KBR ..." (James Risen, New York Times, June 17, 2008). This book by that very Army official provides an eye-opening firsthand account of how the US Government hands over your tax dollars to support contractors like KBR and Halliburton, rather than supporting the troops. This authoritative and well-documented record of the LOGCAP contract in Iraq and Afghanistan is at the same time a study of US parti

"WASHINGTON - The Army official who managed the Pentagon's largest contract in Iraq says he was ousted from his job when he refused to approve paying more than 1 billion in questionable charges to KBR ..." (James Risen, New York Times, June 17, 2008). This book by that very Army official provides an eye-opening firsthand account of how the US Government hands over your tax dollars to support contractors like KBR and Halliburton, rather than supporting the troops. This authoritative and well-documented record of the LOGCAP contract in Iraq and Afghanistan is at the same time a study of US parti.