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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The drop off the cliff was only about 5 or 6 feet but I hit with a thud and lay momentarily on the ground. My mind was spinning over what had happened in the past few minutes. I had been shooting rather wildly in the dark, trying to stop the onslaught coming at us from the north. Just as I started t…o get up, someone kicked one of my feet, I heard a very loud explosion, very close to my ears, and some dirt splattered on the side of my head. There were a number of people around me speaking in what to me was completely unintelligible language. I felt no pain so I guessed that I was unhurt. I stayed still for a few moments as the people left the area I was in. I was suddenly alone in a small Korean farmyard that I had seen a number of times in the past two days. I tried to collect my thoughts since I needed to develop a plan if I were going to survive. I was somewhat stunned. My thoughts were a bit confused. I knew that there were many, many enemy soldiers all around me. And I knew that they would be trying to kill me. The war had become quite personal. I was sure that my team of forward air controllers had all been killed as we were run over by the apparently thousands of enemy soldiers attacking our front lines. My mind was now racing and I knew that I had to do something very soon or I would become a prisoner of war. That was something I had always told myself would never happen. I had never really been afraid of being shot. I figured whatever pain came would quickly go away. But captured I had read accounts of people who had been captured, particularly by the North Koreans, and it really wasn't fun. And then there were those stories of friends who had been captured and then used for bayonet practice. Stories about the Bataan Death March in the Philippines just a few years before had convinced me that being captured, particularly by someone from an Asian culture, was an invitation to slow torture. I suppose that I was really not that brave. I quickly decided that if I were to go down, it would be fighting all the way. I still had my carbine and still had ammunition. Whatever came next, I would either go out in a blaze of glory or I would get back to my own troops. But where did this all start This book is about a year in the life of a lieutenant in Korea in 1950-1951. I had been trained as a fighter pilot and I did indeed fly a number of missions as such. However, some of the most interesting times came when I was on the ground and with the infantry. I had been fairly well trained to do that as well. It doesn't make much difference whether you are a soldier, sailor, airman or marine, you are sometimes asked to fight and risk your life for your country. This just happens to be my story as a lieutenant. The Korean War is in a real sense the forgotten war. It appears in the memory as a strange interlude sandwiched between World War II and Viet Nam. For the great majority of Americans who did not experience the intense cold, the indescribable misery of the Korean people, north and south, or the horror of the devastation beyond description, the war remains a blank. We should remain eternally thankful that we Americans have not experienced anything like the terrible reality of two great armies moving like devouring locusts back and forth across our country. Our Civil War remains the only marker by which we could measure the hopelessness and suffering of the Korean War. I recall Korea vividly. While I had been in the Army (West Point) during World War II, this was my first combat experience. I could certainly put down the various statistics about the Korean War, and try to impress upon you how bad it was. This is not a story about statistics, however. I could tell you about what happened on that awesome very early morning of 25 June 1950 when the North Korean army leaped across the border between the North and South, with artillery firing and tanks moving rapidly southward. And some of that is ne.
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - After some years using published material to teach newcomers the rudiments of bridge bidding, the author became somewhat disillusioned with the approach advocated in the majority of beginning bridge texts. The matters that particularly concerned him were related to the view espoused by many bridge t…eachers that it is important to keep all bidding 'natural' so as not to confuse beginners. The author felt that if confusion exists, it is likely to be the teaching approach that causes the confusion, rather than the subject matter itself.The proponents of this 'natural' bidding approach, decline to teach beginning students Jacoby Transfer Bids, Weak Two Opening Bids and, in some cases, Stayman. The reason often given is that teaching 'natural' bidding is difficult enough for beginning bridge students, and we should not confuse them by teaching them conventions or treatments that say something different. These same teachers seem to see no inconsistency in their approach of saying, when the students are doing a second (or third) class with them - 'oh, remember when I told you that when your partner makes an opening bid of 1NT and you have 7 points and a five card ? suit, that you should bid 2? Well, I want you to forget that, because I am going to teach you now that, with that same hand, you should bid 2.'The author has two problems with that approach.Firstly, it seems to downplay the ability of students to understand these specific bids. The author contends that it is most likely that this is a 'teaching failure' rather than a 'learning failure'! The author has found that once students fully understand that it is desirable to have the strong hand as Declarer, most of them have little problem understanding the rationale behind Jacoby Transfer Bids. Putting the bids in context seems to make the task of learning Transfer Bids much easier.Secondly, if teachers are hoping to encourage their students to become duplicate bridge players, it makes sense for them to be using a bidding system that other players are using. As almost all duplicate bridge players use Stayman, Jacoby Transfer Bids and Weak Two Opening Bids, the author's students are introduced to these bids in their first series of lessons. And it is important to note that an understanding of these 3 aspects of bridge bidding will not prove to be a disadvantage in social bridge.The theme throughout the book is one of providing clear, consistent guidelines for a relatively simple modern approach to bidding. The author repeatedly emphasizes that once newcomers have a reasonable understanding of basic bidding, they, and their partner, can 'tweak' the approach taught in this text.The author is an avid duplicate bridge player and encourages all of his students to try that form of the game. However, the reality is that many bridge players enjoy the game in its more social form, and have no real desire to go past that form of the game. This is perfectly understandable, and the bidding style taught in this text is consistent with either form of the game.This book is organized into nine Chapters.CHAPTER 1 - The Basics.This Chapter is really 'Ground Zero'. It recognizes that some people who wish to learn to play bridge have had little, if any, experience of playing card games. The text introduces students to the absolute basics: the suits the rank, or hierarchy, of suits how to count points what is a 'game' in bridge dealing arranging the cards in your hand the process of bidding the process of playing scoring.In this first, very basic, Chapter, students have a hand of bridge to play. At the end of the Chapter there is a brief test to enable students to check their mastery of the material provided in the text.Clearly not all students 'need' this Chapter. Nevertheless as the purpose of the book is to provide a text to enable ALL students to be introduc.
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Of Men, Women and Horses is a collection of stories about one of history's most enduring relationships; those of men, women and, the most noble of animals, horses. The collection includes the touching and inspiring true stories of Rosa Bonheur and The Horse Fair (1853); Capt. Myles Keogh and Comanch…e (1876); Anna Sewell and Black Beauty (1877); Richard Stone Reeves and War Admiral (1937); Jacqueline Bouvier (Kennedy) and Danseuse (1940); Lt. Ed Ramsey and Bryn Awryn (1942); Gen. George S. Patton and the Lipizzaners (1945); Marguerite Henry and Misty of Chincoteague (1947); Sir Winston S. Churchill and Colonist II (1949); Dick Francis and Devon Loch (1956); Sir Alfred J. Munnings: An Artist's Life (1959), and the champion Thoroughbred race horses Exterminator (1918), Black Gold (1924), Gallant Fox (1930), Omaha (1935), and Assault (1946).
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This study explores the relationship between economic development and political evolution during a decisive period of modern Sudanese history. During the first half of the 20th century, Mahdists competed with nationalists in shaping politics and forcing independence from the British in 1956. The nat…ionalists sought independence for reasons of country. The Mahdists sought independence for reasons of God. But economic development was important, too. It fueled the secular nationalist movement, and it influenced the Mahdist movement in diffuse but significant ways. Readers will find this study valuable for understanding how economics and politics interacted during an important period of Sudan's history and what that ongoing interaction portends for the future of Sudan.
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Dear Jennifer Imagine finding a shoe box filled with letters in an attic dresser. By piecing together information in letters written to Jennifer Maxwell over the years from relatives, teachers, friends, and lovers, the reader comes to know her. Jennifer's family is New England blue blood. Her father… is distant and preoccupied. Her mother is domineering and controlling of Jennifer and her sister, Gail. Her friendship with Michael began the first time he wrote Jennifer a note in the first grade. Michael and Jennifer remain close through high school even after he tells her he is gay and having an affair with a choreographer in New York City. His father, finding the boy's letters, beats him and Michael, at sixteen, leaves for California to become a dancer. Michael and Jennifer continue to write to each other; he regales her with his fledgling dance career and many lovers and she writes of her studies and the sexual feelings she is having toward a female graduate assistant, Fran. In California, Michael suffers a career ending knee injury forcing him to start over, this time in Chicago with a much older lover who supports him financially. Disillusioned and disappointed in her family, Jennifer leaves school before completing her graduate studies and relocates to California. Michael and she continue to write. Finally, Jennifer meets someone who adores her, Claire. Though their lives are closeted from most of the world, Claire's family is as supportive as Jennifer's is unknowing. Jennifer gets a promotion and returns to Pittsburgh with Claire. A letter, postmarked Atlanta, arrives from Michael that would change all of their lives. Michael has AIDS, a relatively new problem in the early eighties. He is alone now without any means of support. Jennifer offers to marry Michael. With her health insurance in effect he would be covered, but more than that, he would stay with her until he died. The next few months Michael and Jennifer's feelings, and the sacrifices they make are a test and a revelation of the true meaning of friendship. In spite of every effort, her mother finds out about the sham of a marriage and what she considers the unacceptable lifestyle of her daughter. Father, mother, sister, and lover each try in their own way to understand, but only Jennifer and Michael know the special love they share.
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When the Mayflower embarked on her famous voyage to America in 1620, she was carrying 102 passengers. To most, they are simply known as 'the Pilgrims.' Perhaps the name of Governor William Bradford, Elder William Brewster, or Captain Myles Standish are vaguely familiar; but the vast majority of the…Mayflower passengers have remained anonymous and nameless. In The Mayflower and Her Passengers, I have attempted to resurrect the unique individuality of each passenger by providing short biographies for each person or family group. Also included is a groundbreaking new biography of the Mayflower ship itself.
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The readings in this volume explore the tensions between the individual and society and the even greater tensions between solitude and community. The first two readings reveal these tensions already present in the earliest classic of the Western tradition-Homer's Iliad-in sharp contrast to the ideal… harmony between society and the individual epitomized in the Confucian classics of the Eastern tradition. Excerpts from Max Weber, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ruth Benedict, and Dominique Zahan provide examples of classic analytical descriptions of human society from sociological and anthropological perspectives. Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria Stewart, Olaudah Equiano, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton reflect the solitude inflicted by oppression. Alisdair MacIntyre and Octavio Paz offer very different theoretical visions of community as antidotes to the dehumanizing fragmentation of modern societies. Fictional narratives by Marie de France, Marguerite de Navarre, and Gabriel García Márquez create their own communities through imagination. The readings suggest a tentative conclusion that a healthy interplay between solitude and society may lead us to achieve true community, but only if each individual in the community is free to develop to his or her own full potential. Society, Solitude, and Community is the fourth in the 10-volume series, Lynchburg College Symposium Readings, 3rd edition. Each volume presents primary texts organized around an interdisciplinary, liberal arts theme such as education, politics, social issues, science and technology, morals and ethics. The series has been developed by Lynchburg College faculty for use in the Senior Symposium and the Lynchburg College Symposium Readings Program (SS/LCSR). While these programs are distinctive to Lynchburg College, the texts are used on many college campuses across the nation, as well as by readers interested in significant original texts on important topics.
