A collection of short story-like episodes about the lives of a group of footsoldiers in Vietnam: their present existence in the alien jungle, their childhoods, and their futures in America after the war is long over.
John Wade, a Vietnam veteran, loses the Minnesota gubernatorial nomination by a landslide. Humiliated and depressed, he takes off for a camping trip with his wife. Then his wife disappears. This novel about a man in torment was selected by the New York Times as one of the best books of 1994 and won the 1995 Cooper Prize for best novel on an ...
This text should engage law students through its use of relevant information and interactive methods. Students gain a practical understanding of the law and the legal system along with skills essential to full participation in a law-oriented society.
The winner of the 1979 National Book Award for fiction, GOING AFTER CACCIATO captures the peculiar blend of horror and hallucinatory comedy that marked this, the strangest of wars. Reality and fantasy merge in this fictional account of one private's sudden decision to lay down his rifle and begin a quixotic journey from the fields of Indochina to ...
Every kid has heard of Harry Houdini, the famous magician, but do they know that he was also a famous movie star and the first pilot to fly a plane in Australia? This well-told biography is full of the details of Houdini's life and illustrated throughout with beautiful black-and-white drawings.
For Introduction to State and Local Politics courses. This is the most authoritative text for state and local politics. State and Local Politics: Government by the People continually sets the standards for other state and local politics texts by anticipating instructors' and students' needs. Known for its esteemed author team who treat each new ...
A college professor and Vietnam vet named Thomas H. Chippering is 49, divorced, depressed, and obsessed with women--particularly with his ex-wife, whom he wants desperately to get back. He begins to spy on her and her new lover and, eventually, spins his fantasies into a series of vengeful acts ranging from the comic to the violent. A New York ...
The reunion of a group of friends from the '60s spurs the events of Tim O'Brien's eighth novel, which contrasts their lives in the present with their more colorful pasts, interweaving their stories into a mosaic of the last quarter of the 20th century. The group includes a femme fatale seeking a third husband, a female cleric, a cancer survivor, ...
This biography of New York City's celebrity real-estate tycoon reveals the man behind the casinos and hotels that bear his name. Although he wrote his book with Trump's cooperation, business reporter Timothy O'Brien pulls no punches as he tells a tale of a vast but sometimes shaky financial empire, propped up, it is reported, by some of Trump's ...
Explore the mysteries of the unfinished Maya murals, started a thousand years ago in Bonampak, Mexico. March along a wall in Northern England, built with fortresses and towers by the Roman Emperor Hadrian. The world is full of interesting walls, from the mighty dikes that keep the oceans and rivers from flooding the Netherlands, to the Wall of ...
Set in the frozen wilderness of north Minnesota, this novel concerns two brothers and explores the after-effects of the Vietnam War on those who served, and those they left behind.
This book of readings is designed to be both a stand alone reader as well as a companion title to Healey's Diversity and Society, Second Edition. The book is a unique mix of first-person accounts, competing views on various issues, and it includes articles from the research literature. The Narrative Portraits and most of the Current Debates ...
For courses in American Government. Grounded in the most authoritative scholarship available for the introductory course, Government by the People is a complete introduction to American Government and the discipline of political science. It is built around a simple goal-- to make students effective participants in our political culture by making ...
Responding to the need for a more meaningful study of American government, Prentice Hall proudly presents this new Teaching and Learning Classroom (T.L.C.) Edition. Building on a long tradition of clear and accessible writing, sound scholarship, and currency set forth in the authors' comprehensive Government by the People text, this T.L.C. Edition ...
The most authoritative text for American Government, Government By the People is always one step ahead. Building on a long tradition of clear and accessible writing, sound scholarship, and currency, it has become the most reliable, responsive, and respected text for today's American government course. Its distinguished author team addresses your ...
Building on decades of authoritative scholarship, this completely updated text continues to offer accessible, carefully crafted, and straightforward coverage of the foundations of American politics, as well consistent focus on the achievements of a government by the people In an increasingly cynical world, GBTP emphasizes that politics matters and ...
The most authoritative text for American Government, Government By the People is always one step ahead. Building on a long tradition of clear and accessible writing, sound scholarship, and currency, it has become the most reliable, responsive, and respected text for today's American government course. Its distinguished author team addresses your ...
William Cowling, driven to desperation by insomnia, the scorn of his wife, and a feeling that he is losing control of his life, begins to build a fallout shelter in his backyard. As he works, he looks back over his life and tries to decide if he's crazy--as his wife and daughter insist--or the only sane person he knows.
Building on decades of authoritative scholarship, this completely updated text continues to offer accessible, carefully crafted, and straightforward coverage of the foundations of American politics, as well consistent focus on the achievements of a government by the people In an increasingly cynical world, GBTP emphasizes that politics matters and ...
This updated, expanded second edition of the popular The Personal Trainer's Handbook, provides practical advice for individuals who want to start their own personal training business and for those who want to improve their existing practices. This second edition is an easy-to-use reference that covers everything from designing fitness programmes ...
While in war-ravaged Afghanistan, photojournalist O'Brien and his brother-in-law Sullivan met and photographed several children. This work includes profiles 30 children, presented in their own words, plus a map and background about the country. Full color.
Fun, contemporary and visually stunning, Naked Vinyl is guaranteed to act as a conversation piece, it lovingly brings together more than one hundred of the best album covers from that unique sub-genre of the music industry-the bachelor album. The collection focuses on the development of the "vinyl nude" from the adult-oriented eroticism of the ...
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