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Joe Weber

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Keith Szarabajka

DEFCON: Defense Readiness ConditionDEFCON Five: normal peacetime activitiesDEFCON Four: increase intelligence watch and increase securityDEFCON Three: forces on standby, awaiting further ordersDEFCON Two: forces ready for combatDEFCON One: forces deployed for combatIn this explosive bestseller, the United States and the Soviet Union are poised on the brink of Armageddon. Glasnost has failed, Russia is economically desperate, and Gorbachev's successor has launched the first ...

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Max Weber, Keith Tribe

The definitive new translation of Max Weber’s classic work of social theory—arguably the most important book by the foremost social theorist of the twentieth century.Max Weber’s Economy and Society is the foundational text for the social sciences of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, presenting a framework for understanding the relations among individual action, social action, economic action, and economic institutions. It also provides a classifica...

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Keith Weber

Keith Weber recalls a lifetime of being an entrepreneur and living life to the fullest during his forty-five years in New Zealand and now forty years in Australia in this memoir. He grew up with his uncle and aunt, but he loved them as though they were his parents. When his mother remarried, he was told he could go live with her and his stepfather, but he decided to stay put. He enjoyed being a Boy Scout, went to Sunday School, loved Rugby Union, and observed with interest the happenings s...

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This book summarizes new directions in mathematics education research on proving at the university level, thereby providing contemporary extensions of the sub-fields of proof that Annie and John Selden introduced to the field. The chapters each describe an emerging new area of proof research, review the relevant findings in this area, present open research questions and the tools to address them. The book also discusses proof as a literary genre, and how students' feelings during the proof...

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Nicholas H. Wasserman, Timothy Fukawa-Connelly, Keith Weber, Juan Pablo Mejía Ramos, Stephen Abbott

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Getting certified to teach high school mathematics typically requires completing a course in real analysis. Yet most teachers point out real analysis content bears little resemblance to secondary mathematics and report it does not influence their teaching in any significant way. This textbook is our attempt to change the narrative. It is our belief that analysis can be a meaningful part of a teacher's mathematical education and preparation for teaching. This book is a companion text. It is...

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Thomas E. Weber

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Keith Brown

For millennia, humans have tried to understand and predict the weather. The Space Age helped usher in satellites and radar, while computers made it possible to plug all that data into complex equations that anticipated the atmosphere's future behavior. Now a new age of advances in forecasting is unfolding, driven by AI, drones, and satellites. The Internet of Things has turned everything from cellphones to cars into ubiquitous weather sensors. Equally significant are new efforts to underst...

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Joe Weber

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J. Charles

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Brad Austin

"A first-rate air-combat adventure by a master of the genre."-Publishers WeeklyJoe Weber follows up his best-selling novel Rules of Engagement with another high-stakes thriller about a secret war and the courage of the men who fought it.The Vietnam War is at its height, and the US has acquired a Soviet-built MiG-17. Marine aviator Brad Austin has been recruited to test-pilot it. The MiG is an aerial hotrod, crude yet lethally effective. But it's not what A...

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Joe Weber

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Alexander Cendese

From the New York Times best-selling author Joe Weber comes a thrilling novel of the Vietnam War.Marine pilot Brad Austin and his carrier-based F-4 Phantom group fly into the heart of enemy territory daily without fear, but the rules of engagement hinder them nearly as much as the North Vietnamese. Restricted from attacking the enemy's MiG bases, Austin and the other American pilots are vulnerable to attack without the ability to retaliate, a weakness that tragically leads...

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Joe Weber

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Alexander Cendese

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Scott Dalton & Jackie Sullivan

"Primary Target is a chilling scenario of global warfare. The suspense never stops."—W.E.B. Griffin“Weber weaves a frighteningly real story of international terrorism in America in his newest thriller.”—Publishers WeeklyAs the once-powerful Soviet Union descends into social and economic collapse, a group of hard-line communists has devised a strategy to return their country to its former glory. In league with the most ruthless militant extremists of the Mi...

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Joe Weber

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Bill Weideman

"Takes Michael Crichton's Rising Sun a step further . . . brisk and exciting."-Publishers WeeklyThe beautiful tranquility of the Hawaiian afternoon is shattered when a cruise ship filled with Japanese tourists is comes under fire. Unbelievably, a civilian helicopter is strafing the ship with automatic weapons.The shock waves from the tragic attack reach all the way to Washington and Tokyo. In retaliation for the attack, a group of American tourists is ambu...

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Joe Weber

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Alexander Cendese

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Scott Dalton & Jackie Sullivan

From the New York Times Best-Selling Author of DEFCON OneWhen traditional military tactics are no longer enough, new weapons must be found. Scott Dalton and Jackie Sullivan are those weapons—operatives so secret that they will be disavowed if ever caught.Equipped with cutting-edge technology and with extensive resources, only they can prevent a nuclear catastrophe that could destroy the United States.They do not lack for targets in their efforts to...

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Joe Weber

Narrated by

Dick Hill

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Scott Dalton & Jackie Sullivan

From the New York Times Best-Selling Author of DEFCON One"Weber's expertise on U.S. military matters is high, and his depiction of Chinese motives and methods well above the level of Yellow Peril fantasies. A solid accomplishment for thriller readers."-Library JournalIn the skies above the Pacific, a U.S. Navy F/A-18 from the USS Abraham Lincoln blows up. The question is why? But answers aren't easy to find.When another j...