**“Excellent . . . honest and realistic . . . Edward Murphy’s meticulous research is unflawed and his writing style is novel-like.”—San Antonio Express-News“A no-holds barred account . . . highly recommended.”—Military magazine**In June 1967, General William Westmoreland sent the 173d Airborne Brigade to Dak To, a mountainous region in the deadly Central Highlands. Here the 173d found itself locked in mortal combat, facing tremendous odds against a profess...

From 1967 to 1973, a period that culminated in the socialist project of Salvador Allende, nearly 400,000 low-income Chileans illegally seized parcels of land on the outskirts of Santiago. Remarkably, today almost all of these individuals live in homes with property titles. As Edward Murphy shows, this transformation came at a steep price, through an often-violent political and social struggle that continues to this day.In analyzing the causes and consequences of this struggle, Murp...

Coming to Terms: The Collected Works of Jane Blankenship, an edited collection from Jane Blankenship and Janette Kenner Muir, is the story of one academic journey through self-discovery, intellectual development, and mentorship. It is a conversation that illustrates how, in Mary Catherine Bateson’s terms, one composes a life that has meaning and makes a significant difference in other lives as well. Jane Blankenship was an active member of the speech communication discipline, starting with...

In the wake of the Great Recession, housing and its financing suddenly re-emerged as questions of significant public concern. Yet both public and academic debates about housing have remained constricted, tending not to explore how the evolution of housing simultaneously entails basic forms of socio-spatial reproduction and underlying tensions in the political order. Drawing on cutting edge perspectives from urban studies, this book grants renewed, interdisciplinary energy to the housing qu...

While the seventy-seven-day siege of Khe Sanh in early 1968 remains one of the most highly publicized clashes of the Vietnam War, scant attention has been paid to the first battle of Khe Sanh, also known as “the Hill Fights.” Although this harrowing combat in the spring of 1967 provided a grisly preview of the carnage to come at Khe Sanh, few are aware of the significance of the battles, or even their existence. For more than thirty years, virtually the only people who knew about the Hill ...

This book is the revised and updated 2025 edition of FINDING YOUR CALLING SIMPLIFIED, which explains how to discover your life's work, the career you were meant to have.It's the 37th volume in a forty-book series of a comprehensive Success Training Program (see OTHER BOOKS).Here, you'll learn how to use the most actionable tactics, techniques, and tools to enhance your ability to discover the career you were meant to have.Many people think that the career they start...

This book is the revised and updated 2025 edition of ACCOUNTABILITY SIMPLIFIED.Accountability is your ability to accept responsibility for your actions and in-actions and the obligation to report, explain, and be answerable for any adverse consequences.It's the 22nd volume in a forty-book series of a comprehensive Success Training Program (see OTHER BOOKS).Accountability is often confused with responsibility. They're related but different.It means taking own...

This book is the revised and updated 2025 edition of CHANGING CAREERS SIMPLIFIED, which explains how to transition from one career to another by identifying your true value added to any employer or customer.It's the 38th volume in a forty-book series of a comprehensive Success Training Program (see OTHER BOOKS).Here, you'll learn how to use the most actionable tactics, techniques, and tools to enhance your ability to transition from one career to another.Many people...

This recording has been digitally produced by DeepZen Limited, using a synthesised version of an audiobook narrator’s voice under license. DeepZen uses Emotive Speech Technology to create digital narrations that offer a similar listening experience to human narration.In this extraordinary book, Dr. Murphy reveals the inner workings of the subconscious mind, making it one of the most practical guides to overcoming the problems that beset humanity. The amazing results, "miracles," so...

The Politics of Compassion explores the manifold obstacles that hinder our individual and collective capacity to care for the vulnerable, offering insights from history, religion, ethics, cognitive and social sciences, international relations, public policy, and contemporary politics. It examines both how far we’ve come in addressing poverty and social injustice and how far we still have to go. It concludes by discussing strategies to help us achieve a more consistent practice of compassio...

This book is the revised and updated 2025 edition of BACKBRIEFINGS SIMPLIFIED.A Backbriefing is a Plan of Action briefing you give your boss or client explaining how you intend to accomplish their objective by identifying all their concerns and expectations before starting work.It's the 24th volume in a comprehensive Success Training Program (see OTHER BOOKS).In business, how do you know if your project meets your boss's expectations?Well, let's face it. No ...

Spiritual War is on the doorstep...Reggie, an Arizona native, is a photographer taking pictures far from his home in the Navajo Reservation. His path becomes intertwined with that of Joshua, a strange man that walks out of the hot sand not far from the John the Baptist Mountains.Joshua, having supernatural powers, can read minds and manipulate people and his surroundings. Eventually, he compels Reggie to take him on a journey over 200 miles to Apache Junction...Henr...