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  • Project Syringe

    A Russian diplomat is unconscious. He is lying on the examining table as doctors and scientists desperately try to revive him. A political group has taken control over the entire fleet of Russian atomic bombs and plans to blow up an entire third world country or Russia. The diplomat has vital information that the Pentagon scientists need to stop the destruction. The doctors and scientists have ... Read more

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  • Philosophy of Childhood Today

    Exploring the Boundaries

    Series series Philosophy of Childhood
    Although philosophy of childhood has always played some part in philosophical discourse, its emergence as a field of postmodern theory follows the rise, in the late nineteenth century, of psychoanalysis, for which childhood is a key signifier. Then in the mid-twentiethcentury Philipe Aries’s seminal Centuries of Childhood introduced the master-concept of childhood as a social and cultural ... Read more

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  • Inoperative Learning

    A Radical Rewriting of Educational Potentialities

    by Tyson Lewis ...
    Series series Theorizing Education
    Inoperative Learning embodies a weak philosophy of education. It does not offer a set of solutions or guidelines for improving educational outcomes, but rather renders taken-for-granted assumptions about the theory-practice coupling inoperative. By arguing that such logic reduces education to instrumental ends, this book presents a challenge to contemporary notions of education as outcomesbased, ... Read more

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  • Cultural Studies, Education, and Youth

    Beyond Schools

    Cultural Studies, Education, and Youth: Beyond Schools, edited by Benjamin Frymer, Matthew Carlin, and John Broughton, addresses the new cultural landscapes which increasingly "educate" our youth. With essays from both emerging and established scholars, the book explores the ways media and popular culture have a growing impact on our youth, their identities, and everyday lives. In our highly ... Read more

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  • Art's Teachings, Teaching's Art

    Philosophical, Critical and Educational Musings

    Edited by Tyson Lewis, Megan Laverty ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This volume examines the interface between the teachings of art and the art of teaching, and asserts the centrality of aesthetics for rethinking education. Many of the essays in this collection claim a direct connection between critical thinking, democratic dissensus, and anti-racist pedagogy with aesthetic experiences. They argue that aesthetics should be reconceptualized less as mere art ... Read more

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  • The Battle of Midway (True Combat)

    by Al Cimino ...
    One bomb hit the Japanese carrier Akagi amidships, ripping through the hangar deck and exploding amidst the stored torpedoes, carelessly stowed bombs and refuelling tanks, setting off secondary explosions. A second set the planes on the flight deck ablaze. The stern was shattered, the rudder useless and, as the huge ship lurched drunkenly around, Japanese officers begged the stunned admiral to ... Read more

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  • The Things Our Fathers Saw-The Untold Stories of the World War II Generation from Hometown, USA-Voices of the Pacific Theater

    Over thirty survivors who fought from Pearl Harbor to the surrender at Tokyo Bay give firsthand accounts of combat and brotherhood, of captivity and redemption, and the aftermath of a war that left no American community unscathed. Includes maps, photos, and never-before-seen portraits. Here are the real stories that LOOK Magazine could not tell.292 PAGES.Volume 1 of The Things Our Fathers Saw® ... Read more

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  • Out of the Depths

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    At age thirty-eight, Navy Dr. Richard Jadick was too old to be called up to the front lines-but not too old to volunteer. This is the inspiring story of one man's decision to enter into the fray-and a compelling account of courage under fire. Both wrenching and uplifting, On Call in Hell is a portrayal of brothers-in-arms that few will be able to forget. Awarded a Bronze Star with a Combat V for ... Read more

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  • Battlefield Angels

    Saving Lives Under Enemy Fire From Valley Forge to Afghanistan

    by Scott McGaugh ...
    The history of medicine in the United States military.Author, journalist, and USS Midway Museum spokesman Scott McGaugh reveals the riveting stories of the men and women who save lives on the front lines in Battlefield Angels, the first book about battlefield medicine in the US military.Told from the point of view of the unsung heroes who slide into bomb craters and climb into blazing ships, this ... Read more

    $16.49 USD

  • Band of Sisters

    American Women at War in Iraq

    Twelve American women serving in the military share their gripping personal stories of combat in Iraq.In Iraq, the front lines are everywhere—and everywhere in Iraq, no matter what their job descriptions say, women in the U.S. military are fighting. More than 155,000 of them have deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan since 2003—four times the number of women sent to Desert Storm in 1991. More than 430 ... Read more

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