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Blood on the Risers

A Novel of Conflict and Survival in Special Forces During the Vietnam War

by Michael O’Shea ...

This artfully crafted saga depicts in vivid detail, the arduous journey of a young, impressionable patriot yearning to fulfill his destiny in the turmoil of the 1960's. The author draws you close to him as he encounters stiff challenges to his basic values, his character, as well as his faith in his fellow man. You'll taste the bitter prop blast as you stand in the open door beside him, holding ... Read more

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This artfully crafted saga depicts in vivid detail, the arduous journey of a young, impressionable patriot yearning to fulfill his destiny in the turmoil of the 1960's. The author draws you close to him as he encounters stiff challenges to his basic values, his character, as well as his faith in his fellow man. You'll taste the bitter prop blast as you stand in the open door beside him, holding
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Extremely Preterm Birth and its Consequences: The ELGAN Study

Edited by Olaf Dammann, Alan Leviton, Thomas Michael O’Shea ...

Series series Clinics in Developmental Medicine
This book reviews important findings from the Extremely Low Gestational Age Newborn Study (ELGAN), the largest cohort study ever completed involving individuals born extremely prematurely. With a focus on pre-, peri-, and post-natal inflammation, this study identified potentially modifiable risk factors and pathways antecedent to a broad range of neurodevelopmental impairments, as well as asthma ... Read more

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This book reviews important findings from the Extremely Low Gestational Age Newborn Study (ELGAN), the largest cohort study ever completed involving individuals born extremely prematurely. With a focus on pre-, peri-, and post-natal inflammation, this study identified potentially modifiable risk factors and pathways antecedent to a broad range of neurodevelopmental impairments, as well as asthma
... Read more
The Brain

A Very Short Introduction

by Michael O'Shea ...

Series series Very Short Introductions
How does the brain work? How different is a human brain from other creatures' brains? Is the human brain still evolving? In this fascinating book, Michael O'Shea provides a non-technical introduction to the main issues and findings in current brain research, and gives a sense of how neuroscience addresses questions about the relationship between the brain and the mind. Chapters tackle subjects ... Read more

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How does the brain work? How different is a human brain from other creatures' brains? Is the human brain still evolving? In this fascinating book, Michael O'Shea provides a non-technical introduction to the main issues and findings in current brain research, and gives a sense of how neuroscience addresses questions about the relationship between the brain and the mind. Chapters tackle subjects
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Dispute Resolution and Conflict Management in Construction

An International Perspective

Edited by Edward Davies, Peter Fenn, Michael O'Shea ...

Series series CIB
Many construction conflicts and disputes are not limited to particular jurisdictions or cultures, but are increasingly becoming common across the industry worldwide. This book is an invaluable guide to international construction law, written by a team of experts and focusing on the following national systems: Australia, Canada, China, England and Wales, Estonia, Hong Kong, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, ... Read more

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Many construction conflicts and disputes are not limited to particular jurisdictions or cultures, but are increasingly becoming common across the industry worldwide. This book is an invaluable guide to international construction law, written by a team of experts and focusing on the following national systems: Australia, Canada, China, England and Wales, Estonia, Hong Kong, Iraq, Ireland, Italy,
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The Brain

A Very Short Introduction

by Michael O’Shea ...

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4 hours 40 min

How does the brain work? How different is a human brain from other creatures' brains? Is the human brain still evolving?In this fascinating book, Michael O'Shea provides a non-technical introduction to the main issues and findings in current brain research, and gives a sense of how neuroscience addresses questions about the relationship between the brain and the mind. Chapters tackle subjects such ... Read more

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How does the brain work? How different is a human brain from other creatures' brains? Is the human brain still evolving?In this fascinating book, Michael O'Shea provides a non-technical introduction to the main issues and findings in current brain research, and gives a sense of how neuroscience addresses questions about the relationship between the brain and the mind. Chapters tackle subjects such
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The History of Life

A Very Short Introduction

by Michael J. Benton ...

Narrated by Peter Larkin ...

Unabridged

5 hours 12 min

Here is the extraordinary story of the unfolding of life on Earth, told by Michael J. Benton, a world-renowned authority on biodiversity. Ranging over four billion years, Benton weaves together the latest findings on fossils, earth history, evolutionary biology, and many other fields to highlight the great leaps that enabled life to evolve from microbe to human—big breakthroughs that made whole ... Read more

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Here is the extraordinary story of the unfolding of life on Earth, told by Michael J. Benton, a world-renowned authority on biodiversity. Ranging over four billion years, Benton weaves together the latest findings on fossils, earth history, evolutionary biology, and many other fields to highlight the great leaps that enabled life to evolve from microbe to human—big breakthroughs that made whole
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The Psychology of Music

A Very Short Introduction

by Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis ...

Narrated by Jen Zhao ...

Unabridged

4 hours 8 min

Music has been examined from multiple perspectives: as a product of human history, for example, or a product of human culture. But there is also a long tradition, intensified in recent decades, of thinking about music as a product of the human mind. Whether considering composition, performance, listening, or appreciation, the constraints and capabilities of the human mind play a formative role. ... Read more

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Music has been examined from multiple perspectives: as a product of human history, for example, or a product of human culture. But there is also a long tradition, intensified in recent decades, of thinking about music as a product of the human mind. Whether considering composition, performance, listening, or appreciation, the constraints and capabilities of the human mind play a formative role.
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We Few

U.S. Special Forces in Vietnam

by Nick Brokhausen ...

A Green Beret's gripping memoir of American Special Forces in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War.In 1970, on his second tour to Vietnam, Nick Brokhausen served in Recon Team Habu, CCN. Officially, it was known as the Studies and Observations group. In fact, this Special Forces squad, which Brokhausen calls "an unwashed, profane, ribald, joyously alive fraternity," undertook some of the most ... Read more

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A Green Beret's gripping memoir of American Special Forces in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War.In 1970, on his second tour to Vietnam, Nick Brokhausen served in Recon Team Habu, CCN. Officially, it was known as the Studies and Observations group. In fact, this Special Forces squad, which Brokhausen calls "an unwashed, profane, ribald, joyously alive fraternity," undertook some of the most
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Whispers in the Tall Grass

Back Behind Enemy Lines with Macv–Sog

by Nick Brokhausen ...

"[A n] exceptionally raw look at the Vietnam War . . . an excellent tribute to the generation that fought, laughed, and died in Southeast Asia." — New York Journal of BooksThis is the second volume of a Green Beret's riveting memoir of his time serving in Recon Teams Habu and Crusader, CNN, part of Military Assistance Command, Vietnam—Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG).Picking up where ... Read more

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"[A n] exceptionally raw look at the Vietnam War . . . an excellent tribute to the generation that fought, laughed, and died in Southeast Asia." — New York Journal of BooksThis is the second volume of a Green Beret's riveting memoir of his time serving in Recon Teams Habu and Crusader, CNN, part of Military Assistance Command, Vietnam—Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG).Picking up where
... Read more
Soldiers

A Global History of the Fighting Man, 1800–1945

by John A Haymond ...

A global study of how soldiers lived, worked, and fought, and how many died, spanning from the Napoleonic War to World War II.No matter the war, no matter the army, no matter the nationality, common threads run through the experiences of men at war. Soldiers highlights these shared experiences across 150 years of warfare, from the Napoleonic Wars through World War II and everything in between, ... Read more

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A global study of how soldiers lived, worked, and fought, and how many died, spanning from the Napoleonic War to World War II.No matter the war, no matter the army, no matter the nationality, common threads run through the experiences of men at war. Soldiers highlights these shared experiences across 150 years of warfare, from the Napoleonic Wars through World War II and everything in between,
... Read more
Thunder on Bataan

The First American Tank Battles of World War II

by Donald L Caldwell ...

"An incisive, readable account of a group of National Guard tankers who fought in the Philippines in the opening phase of America's war in the Pacific." —Robert S. Cameron, Ph.D., military historian and author of Mobility, Shock, and Firepower: The Emergence of the U.S. Army's Armor Branch, 1917-1945The American Provisional Tank Group had been in the Philippines only three weeks when the Japanese ... Read more

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"An incisive, readable account of a group of National Guard tankers who fought in the Philippines in the opening phase of America's war in the Pacific." —Robert S. Cameron, Ph.D., military historian and author of Mobility, Shock, and Firepower: The Emergence of the U.S. Army's Armor Branch, 1917-1945The American Provisional Tank Group had been in the Philippines only three weeks when the Japanese
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Vagabonds

Tourists in the Heart of Darkness

by Nick Brokhausen, Jeff Miller ...

Two ex-Green Berets recount their missions after two decades in Special Forces, from running counter-terrorism training to rescuing kidnap victims & more.A lot of confusion, a lot of humor, a lot of broken dreams and broken promises, an occasional triumph . . .1978—A chance meeting on a remote military airbase between two Green Berets involved in the same operation leads to a partnership that will ... Read more

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Two ex-Green Berets recount their missions after two decades in Special Forces, from running counter-terrorism training to rescuing kidnap victims & more.A lot of confusion, a lot of humor, a lot of broken dreams and broken promises, an occasional triumph . . .1978—A chance meeting on a remote military airbase between two Green Berets involved in the same operation leads to a partnership that will
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