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  • The Day We Lost the H-Bomb

    Cold War, Hot Nukes, and the Worst Nuclear Weapons Disaster in History

    by Barbara Moran ...
    In The Day We Lost the H-Bomb, science writer Barbara Moran marshals a wealth of new information and recently declassified material to give the definitive account of the Cold War’s biggest nuclear weapons disaster. On January 17, 1966, a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber exploded over the sleepy Spanish farming village of Palomares during a routine airborne refueling. The explosion killed seven airmen ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Library and Information Center Management

    by Barbara B. Moran, Claudia J. Morner ...
    Series series Library and Information Science Text Series
    This essential, single-volume textbook supplies a comprehensive introduction to library management that addresses all the functions of management, specifically within the ever-evolving modern library environment.Strategic planning. Facilities management. Leadership, ethics, communication, and motivation. Human resources and staffing. Change, library development, and innovation. Marketing. ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Consumption, Population, and Sustainability

    Perspectives From Science And Religion

    Edited by Audrey Chapman, Rodney L. Petersen, Barbara Smith-Moran ...
    The combined contributions of science and religion to resolving environmental problems are far greater than each could offer working in isolation. Scientific findings are central to understanding the impact of human populations on the environment, but a more ecologically sustainable future will require radical changes in values, lifestyle choices, and consumption patterns -- a revolution that ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Journey of Faith

    by Anthony Anei Majok ...
    Seven-year-old Anthony Majok was torn from his happy African village and began running for his life, due to ongoing civil war, sparked by religious and political strife. The Christian Majok family, along with many others, refused to take up the Islam faith. Over the next 17 years, Majok and thousands of lost boys and girls of Sudan battled well-armed soldiers, vicious animals, hunger and disease ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Caring for Families in Court

    An Essential Approach to Family Justice

    by Barbara A. Babb, Judith D. Moran ...
    In many US courts and internationally, family law cases constitute almost half of the trial caseload. These matters include child abuse and neglect and juvenile delinquency, as well as divorce, custody, paternity, and other traditional family law issues.In this book, the authors argue that reforms to the family justice system are necessary to enable it to assist families and children effectively. ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Continuous Improvement

    Intertwining Mind and Body in Athletic Expertise

    by John Toner, Barbara Montero, Aidan Moran ...
    How do great athletes defy the power law of practice, according to which improvements in skill eventually plateau? Commentators and spectators alike are fascinated by how athletes such as Roger Federer, Tom Brady, and Serena Williams are capable both of moments of exquisite brilliance and of sustaining such excellence over a prolonged period. But what separates these great athletes from those who ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

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    Buffalo Bill and the Overland Trail (Unabridged)

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    by Edwin L. Sabin ...
    Narrated by Jeffrey Mansi, Levi Dufrene, Barbara Stone, Bradley Moran ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 10 min

    Buffalo Bill Cody is one of the most colorful figures of the early American West. In these adventures we find Billy Cody at age 13 earning a man’s wage as an extra on a wagon train when he meets Davy, two years younger. Together they are in one adventure after another, fighting with Indians, and pressing on to Pike's Peak. They both prove themselves courageous in the face of danger as they ride ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    The Untold Story of a Soviet Submarine's Nuclear Strike Attempt on the U.S.

    by Kenneth Sewell, Clint Richmond ...
    This riveting New York Times bestseller tells of the shocking true story of a rogue Soviet submarine poised for a nuclear strike on the United States, “reveal[ing] the explosive facts about one of the best-kept secrets of the Cold War” (The Flint Journal).On March 7, 1968, several hundred miles northwest of Hawaii, the nuclear-armed K-129 surfaced and sunk, taking its crewmen and officers with it ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Steel Boat, Iron Hearts

    A U-boat Crewman's Life Aboard U-505

    by Hans Goebeler, John Vanzo ...
    The story of the German submarine U-505 and its dramatic capture by the US Navy during WWII—told by one of its crewmen.Hans Goebeler is known as the man who "pulled the plug" on U-505 in 1944 to keep his beloved U-boat out of Allied hands. Steel Boat, Iron Hearts is his no-holds-barred account of service aboard a combat U-boat. It is the only full-length memoir of its kind, and Goebeler was aboard ... Read more

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  • All Hands Down

    The True Story of the Soviet Attack on the USS Scorpion

    by Kenneth Sewell, Jerome Preisler ...
    A Cold War disaster that took ninety-nine lives, and was denied for forty years—what really happened to the USS Scorpion?May 1968: An American submarine is sent to investigate suspicious Soviet ships gathered in the mid-Atlantic. No one aboard the USS Scorpion was aware of the trap they rode into—that the Soviets planned revenge for the mysterious sinking of a Russian sub two months before…or that ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Red November

    Inside the Secret U.S.-Soviet Submarine War

    by W. Craig Reed ...
    “Red November delivers the real life feel and fears of submariners who risked their lives to keep the peace.”—Steve Berry, author of The Paris VendettaW. Craig Reed, a former navy diver and fast-attack submariner, provides a riveting portrayal of the secret underwater struggle between the US and the USSR in Red November. A spellbinding true-life adventure in the bestselling tradition of Blind Man ... Read more

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  • Lost Nuke

    The Last Flight of Bomber 075

    by Dirk Septer ...
    Just before midnight on February 13, 1950, three engines of a US Air Force B-36 intercontinental bomber caught fire over Canada's northwest coast. The crew jumped, and the plane ditched somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. The fact that the huge aircraft had been carrying a Mark IV nuclear bomb was kept carefully hidden. Three years later, the wreck of the bomber was found by accident in a remote ... Read more

    $12.99 USD