Grey Feathers is the story of a combat platoon leaders role and responsibilities in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam from 1967 to 1970. The story is derived from the countless after-action reports, personal observations and experiences, interviews, and 4th division magazine articles about this period of the Vietnam War.----The unit served was the 3rd Battalion, 12th Infantry, 4th Infantry Division, which was a highly decorated unit marked by a cloverleaf symbol of the 4th Division. I...

The aim of this work was not an exhaustive review of all pediatric echo graphic problems but a presentation of our daily experience with ultrasonography in pediatric practice. Several teams of pediatric radiologists from France and Belgium have combined their experiences to produce a practical book. The different authors have been chosen for their specific experience and their special area of work. The different chapters express therefore personal opinions. Unresolved questions are posed a...

The definitive authoritative textbook on spinal deformities from the Scoliosis Research SocietySpinal Deformities: The Comprehensive Text, Second Edition, edited by renowned spinal deformity surgeons Christopher J. DeWald and his father Ronald L. DeWald, is a long-awaited, authoritative, one-stop resource that covers the breadth and depth of this specialized field. The first edition textbook edited by Ronald L. DeWald attempted to help formulate a Scoliosi...

This is a story about the 4th Division, 3rd of the 12th Battalion operations in Vietnam from 1967 to 1970. It is based on operation reports, observations in the field, actual experiences and interviews, "Espirit" magazine, an Army publication, and military procedures. Grey feather is a term from the tribes of Indians. It is awarded to each brave to insure all watch each other, are loyal to the tribe, and fight for the same causes. The values are the same. The Vietnam War was much like that...

Jessie Haverstein’s brutal rape sends her running. She encases herself in a “safe” cocoon of isolation. But endless nightmares send her back home looking for answers and peace. But a new danger awaits her when she gets there: Hunter Clements is a victim of life-long bullying who sees her and everyone else as his enemy. He wants Jessie dead, and his hardened heart is willing to go to any length to see that happen.A harrowing run for her life in the dead of night leads her on an incr...

A gentle fairy tale about two princesses. Two sisters with two opposite beauties, they clash in love, is it a love triangle? Can love overcome jealousy in love? Is there any mystery behind their magical beauty? Secrets about the past, present, and future will gradually be revealed. In the end, will there be a happy ending for everyone...

Starting a business is hard, but keeping an established company going can be equally challenging. In the long run, every business will need to adapt to changing market conditions, technologies, and competitive environments. Achieving Longevity explains how to manage those changes through entrepreneurial thinking.As Jim Dewald shows, the most successful companies thrive by establishing decision-making processes that constantly engage new opportunities, enabling the firm to ...

In Status, Power, and Identity in Early Modern France, Jonathan Dewald explores European aristocratic society by looking closely at one of its most prominent families. The Rohan were rich, powerful, and respected, but Dewald shows that there were also weaknesses in their apparently secure position near the top of French society. Family finances were unstable, and competing interests among family members generated conflicts and scandals; political ambitions led to other troubles, p...

Today’s interest in social history and private life is often seen as a twentieth-century innovation. Most often Lucien Febvre and the Annales school in France are credited with making social history a widely accepted way for historians to approach the past. In Lost Worlds historian Jonathan Dewald shows that we need to look back further in time, into the nineteenth century, when numerous French intellectuals developed many of the key concepts that historians employ today.A...

A blood feud.A ruthless patriarch.A secret hidden in the mountains.The untamed Transvaal Lowveld, 1886. Special Agent Len van Staden arrives on a routine mission to survey a path for the new railway. But in the isolated town of Waterval, he finds a community suffocating under the iron fist of the ruthless patriarch Paul Bakkes. Here, justice is a commodity, and anyone who threatens Bakkes’s power is silenced by a co...

This is an unedited collection of four e-mails I sent on September 11-14, 2001 from my home in the Williamsburg neighborhood of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. They were first drafts. I began with the first word and hit send after the last word in each of them.I am told these were printed and posted on a bulletin board at The United States Military Academy at West Point daily during the crisis.I offer them to add to the public record of this unique day in history....

He sat by the window, staring at the house opposite.That girl has big eyes, milky white skin, long black hair down to her back, she often wears a white dress, looking fragile and illusory.The girl pulled the curtain, turned around and turned off the light. Nguyen looked at him regretfully. That face, that figure had followed him into his dreams. Many times he wondered, could it be that he was in love? ...