The Ultimate Military Literature Compendium: 40 Must-Reads maps the intellectual, technological, and imaginative history of warfare through forty influential texts. Its selection ranges from strategic theory, battlefield observation, and institutional history to memoir, popular fiction, and speculative narrative, revealing military writing as both a practical discipline and a cultural archive. Foundational reflections on command, morale, and the nature of war stand beside accounts of weapo...

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Amidst the labyrinthine streets of Venice, Julia has a revelation that will forever change her life.After the death of her longtime friend and flatmate, retired British history teacher Julia Garnet does something completely out of character: She takes a six-month rental on a modest apartment in Venice. She befriends a young Italian boy and English twins who are restoring a fourteenth-century chapel. And she falls in love for the first time in her life with an art d...

Training for the Trenches: A Practical Handbook Based upon Personal Experience During the First Two Years of the War in France is an invaluable guide for soldiers, officers, and anyone interested in the realities of World War I trench warfare. Written by Captain Leslie Vickers, this comprehensive manual draws directly from his firsthand experiences on the Western Front, offering a rare and authentic perspective on the challenges and demands faced by those serving in the trenches. The book ...

Decision Processes in Visual Perception explores the relationships between the organization of a complex visual pattern by the perception system and the molecular activity involved in the discrimination of differences in magnitude or intensity between two stimulus elements. The text discusses the basic principles of discrimination, identification, and self-regulation of the perception system; demonstrates how adaptive decision modules emerge from multiple constraints; shows how combination...

In its first ten years, a small Midwestern cinema has attracted some of the most intriguing and groundbreaking filmmakers from around the world, screened the best in arthouse and repertory films, and presented innovative and unique cinematic experiences.Indiana University Cinema tells the story of how the cinema on the campus of Indiana University Bloomington grew into a vibrant, diverse, and thoughtfully curated cinematheque. Detailing its creation of a t...

"Waterways of Mill Valley" is a visual examination of four water bodies located in the Marin County city of Mill Valley. Over 145 color images by photographer Marques Vickers trace the routings of the Pickleweed Inlet and Mill, Corte Madera de Presidio and Coyote Creeks.The creeks that eminently flow throughout Marin County are important draining outlets originating from the elevated mountain ranges that frame the skeleton of the region. Each creek becomes an important tributary th...

From executive mentoring to life coaching, more and more people are turning to and/or training as coaches.Confident Coaching covers the principles, theories and practices of this crucial skill. It covers the fundamentals for those looking for an introduction to the subject, and also offers practice and extension for people with some existing coaching experience, whether they work inside a company or in a freelance capacity, in life coaching or executive coaching, or are managers wi...

Avoid The Tourist Herds.What could be more uninspiring than seeing the identical attractions that everyone else has for decades?This Twisted Tour Guide escorts you to the places locals don't want to talk about anymore…the same places people once couldn't stop talking about. Long after the screaming headlines and sensationalism has subsided, these bizarre, infamous and obscure historical sites remain hidden awaiting rediscovery.Each visitation site in this guide is a...

Michael McCaffrey continues to wrestle with his own alienation and detachment from the teaching profession, direction of his life and personal relationships.He is compelled to deal with unexpected loss and abandonment on multiple levels. Throughout his ordeals, he maintains his sense of humor and perspective. His setbacks, distractions and inertia make forward progress challenging. He observes the similar difficulty and indecisiveness experienced by two of his former university cla...

Within a city, building structure or even landscape terrain there exists calamities, secrets and unexplainable mystery. One may never fully know or comprehend what has subsequently become concealed discreetly from public view. Paranormal activity lurks within the vacuum.Consequences from evil acts, vice and scandal may become whitewashed and ignored over generations, yet never fully obliterated. This edition documents events, personalities and tragedies that have resisted contempor...

First published in 1968. This re-issues the revised edition of 1979.The Artistry of Shakespeare's Prose is the first detailed study of the use of prose in the plays. It begins by defining the different dramatic and emotional functions which Shakespeare gave to prose and verse, and proceeds to analyse the recurrent stylistic devices used in his prose. The general and particular application of prose is then studied through all the plays, in roughly chronological order.