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  • Assassins' Canon

    by Edwin Rydberg, Ken Goldman, Tyson Young, Jonathan Shipley, Douglas A. Van Belle, J. A. Powell, Ron Savage, Peter James McGuire, Suzzanne Myers, S. C. Hayden, Mark Onspaugh, Zachary Thede, Camille Alexa, G. Elmer Munson, Yvonne Pronovost, Michael Amos, Charlotte Bond, Murphy Edwards, Monique Frangi, Christopher Roy Denton, Megan Arkenberg, Karla Cruz, Jason Franks ...
    Few images evoke a more powerful or frightening reaction than that of the assassin.Silently creeping into your room while you sleep, they plunge a pick deep inside your brain, or fill your snoring nostrils with poisonous vapour. Or perhaps skilled fingers from the shadows strike a vital point during mid-step; the coroners say it was a heart attack.Assassins are people to be feared, no doubt. But ... Read more

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  • Dak To

    America's Sky Soldiers in South Vietnam's Central Highlands

    by Edward Murphy ...
    **“Excellent . . . honest and realistic . . . Edward Murphy’s meticulous research is unflawed and his writing style is novel-like.”—San Antonio Express-News“A no-holds barred account . . . highly recommended.”—Military magazine**In June 1967, General William Westmoreland sent the 173d Airborne Brigade to Dak To, a mountainous region in the deadly Central Highlands. Here the 173d found itself ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Fernando Coronil Reader

    The Struggle for Life Is the Matter

    by Fernando Coronil ...
    In The Fernando Coronil Reader Venezuelan anthropologist Fernando Coronil challenges us to rethink our approaches to key contemporary epistemological, political, and ethical questions. Consisting of work written between 1991 and 2011, this posthumously published collection includes Coronil's landmark essays “Beyond Occidentalism” and “The Future in Question” as well as two chapters from his ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Coming to Terms

    The Collected Works of Jane Blankenship

    by Jane Blankenship, Barbara Sweeney, Don Paul Abbott, Marie Rosenwasser, Edward Murphy, Eric Metcalf, Marlene Fine, Les Davis, Deborah Robson, Shelly James, Cindy White ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Political Communication
    Coming to Terms: The Collected Works of Jane Blankenship, an edited collection from Jane Blankenship and Janette Kenner Muir, is the story of one academic journey through self-discovery, intellectual development, and mentorship. It is a conversation that illustrates how, in Mary Catherine Bateson’s terms, one composes a life that has meaning and makes a significant difference in other lives as ... Read more

    $131.29 USD

  • The Housing Question

    Tensions, Continuities, and Contingencies in the Modern City

    by Edward Murphy, Najib B. Hourani ...
    Series series Global Urban Studies
    In the wake of the Great Recession, housing and its financing suddenly re-emerged as questions of significant public concern. Yet both public and academic debates about housing have remained constricted, tending not to explore how the evolution of housing simultaneously entails basic forms of socio-spatial reproduction and underlying tensions in the political order. Drawing on cutting edge ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • For a Proper Home

    Housing Rights in the Margins of Urban Chile, 1960-2010

    by Edward Murphy ...
    Series Book 349 - Pitt Latin American Series
    From 1967 to 1973, a period that culminated in the socialist project of Salvador Allende, nearly 400,000 low-income Chileans illegally seized parcels of land on the outskirts of Santiago. Remarkably, today almost all of these individuals live in homes with property titles. As Edward Murphy shows, this transformation came at a steep price, through an often-violent political and social struggle that ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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  • The Hill Fights

    The First Battle of Khe Sanh

    by Edward F. Murphy ...
    While the seventy-seven-day siege of Khe Sanh in early 1968 remains one of the most highly publicized clashes of the Vietnam War, scant attention has been paid to the first battle of Khe Sanh, also known as “the Hill Fights.” Although this harrowing combat in the spring of 1967 provided a grisly preview of the carnage to come at Khe Sanh, few are aware of the significance of the battles, or even ... Read more

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  • Ambush Valley

    by Eric Hammel ...
    AMBUSH VALLEYI Corps, Vietnam, 1967the Story of a Marine Infantry Battalion's Battle for SurvivalEric HammelIn the summer of 1967, the Marines in I Corps, South Vietnams northernmost military region, were doing eveything they could to lighten the pressure on the besieged Con Thien Combat Base.Still fresh after months of relatively light action around Khe Sanh, the 3d Battalion, 26th Marines, was ... Read more

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  • Never Without Heroes

    Marine Third Reconnaissance Battalion in Vietnam, 1965-70

    by Lawrence C. Vetter Jr. ...
    FOUR CONGRESSIONAL MEDALS OF HONOR,THIRTEEN NAVAL CROSSES,SEVENTY-TWO SILVER STARS . . .In four and a half years in Vietnam, the Marines of the Third Reconnaissance Battalion repeatedly penetrated North Vietnamese and Vietcong sanctuaries by foot and by helicopter to find enemy forces, learn the enemy's intentions, and, when possible, bring deadly fire down on his head. Heavily armed, well ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Acceptable Loss

    An Infantry Soldier's Perspective

    by Kregg P. Jorgenson ...
    In just ten months in Vietnam, he was overrun, shot up, but not underworked—he survived fifty-four missions as point man. He has one hell of a story to tell.You didn't get into the Rangers without volunteering, and you didn't stay on point unless you liked it. But after watching most of his buddies die in a firefight when his LRRP team was overrun by the NVA, Kregg Jorgenson volunteered to serve ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Abandoned in Hell

    The Fight For Vietnam's Firebase Kate

    by William Albracht, Marvin Wolf ...
    **An astonishing memoir of military courage at a remote outpost during the Vietnam War“A riveting, dead-true account in the tradition of Black Hawk Down and We Were Soldiers Once...and Young.”—Steven Pressfield, national bestselling author of The Lion’s Gate**In October 1969, William Albracht, the youngest Green Beret captain in Vietnam, took command of a remote hilltop outpost called Firebase ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • What A Life: How the Vietnam War Affected One Marine

    by Randy Kington ...
    As a young enlisted man, Randy Kington served on the front line with some of the first Marine combat units in Vietnam in 1965 and 1966. Kington describes his transformation from boy to man and the training that allowed him to survive nine months of some of the fiercest fighting of the Vietnam War. The good times of comradeship and of helping the underprivileged are contrasted with the life and ... Read more

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