Rolling Coffins

Author : Brian Richard Esher
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781634171113

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Rolling Coffins by Brian Richard Esher Pdf

An infantryman's honest account of his experiences during the controversial Vietnam War, this book chronicles the courage and dedication that the American soldiers demonstrated while away from loved ones, in a foreign land where hanging by a thread was the norm every day. It openly discusses the challenges and sacrifices each man had to make in order to survive and protect the lives of his comrades, and it casts a light on the shortcomings of the US government and of those in authority who could

Author : B L MacCarthy,John R. Wilson
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780203305942

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Human Performance in Planning and Scheduling by B L MacCarthy,John R. Wilson Pdf

Understanding how to make the best of human skills and knowledge is essential in the design of technology and jobs, particularly where these involve decision-making and uncertainty. Recent developments have been made in naturalistic decision-making, distributed cognition and situational awareness, particularly with respect to aviation, transport and strategic planning, the nuclear industry and other high-risk industries. Despite the integration of computer-based support systems in production scheduling in recent years, the reality is that most enterprises consist of reactive re-scheduling, involving a high degree of human involvement. It is often with the insight, knowledge and skills of people that scheduling skills can function with any degree of success. Human Performance in Planning and Scheduling covers many industries, including clothing, steel, machine tools, paper/board, and the automobile industry. Using international case studies from various manufacturing industries, they highlight the fact that the human scheduler is a pivotal element in the scheduling process. Each section of the book includes an introduction with an overview of the material to follow, clearly identifying themes, discussion points and highlights inter-connections between the authors' work.

Author : Armando B. Rico
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173023655808

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Three Coffins for Nino Lencho by Armando B. Rico Pdf

Two Arizona men need to take their godfather's body to Mexico to be buried, and they do so through "unofficial" channels so as to bypass the fees that a Mexican tradition would require of them ... Comical, fast-moving fiction, the novel begins in the United States and ends deep in the interior of Mexico ... The story looks at Mexico, not through the eyes of the sunbathing tourists in Acapulco, but with the clear vision of two bright, resolved, colorful characters struggling across the back roads of a mysterious land. They breathe drama into every page with an unbelievably bizarre theme that - though delicate to handle in a novel - touched every human being at some station in life. --Amazon.com

Author : Carol Cole Martin
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2000-09-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595132515

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One Bubble Off by Carol Cole Martin Pdf

Another one’s quit! And Vicki Williams must abandon her fourth grade students and fly to south Florida to find another caretaker for her mom and her lifetime buddies. Only nine months before, Vicki helped the ornery group escape from Unenchanting Acres and find their own home, their Sugar Shack. Join in their adventures: when the blind and unlicensed geezers steal the Shack van, when eighty-four-year-old Maggie rekindles a sixty-year-old love affair, when the Judge loses his battle with a live lobster, when tampons become as precious as gold to rich-bitch Pauline. As Vicki establishes her life in Florida and rediscovers love. This is a gentle, timely story that takes a warm and funny look at how aging could be. Take your medicine and embrace longevity with the old group of friends in One Bubble Off with healthy doses of love, joy and laughter.

Author : United States. Patent Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1786 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C2539730

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Specifications and Drawings of Patents Issued from the U.S. Patent Office by United States. Patent Office Pdf

Author : Carl L. Steinhouse
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781524643720

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Heroes or Villains? by Carl L. Steinhouse Pdf

Heroes or Villains? is the true story of the Holocaust in France that started when France surrendered to the Germans and Marshal Henri Philippe Ptain arrived to form, under the German watch, a petty French dictatorshipthe Vichy governmentwith these Vichy villains intent on assisting the short-handed Germans (who lacked the manpower to round up the Jews because Hitlers troops had been thrown into the war on the Soviet front) by using French police to round up the Jews in France and turn them over to the Nazi murderers. In this exciting true story of how heroes from other countries faced up to the Germans and Vichy, risking their lives to help hide or spirit Jews out of France, heroes like the American volunteers and American consul in Lyon and heroes like French pastors, bishops, monks, nuns, the French Rsistance and Jewish underground. These, then, are some of their stories.

Author : Kathleen M. Madigan
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739134641

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Senegal Sojourn by Kathleen M. Madigan Pdf

Senegal Sojourn: Selections from One Teacher's Journal is a personal account of everyday interaction while collaborating for a year with foreign language teachers and writers of fiction in Dakar. A unique and passionate contribution to interdisciplinary conversations, the journal is the record of one teacher's encounters with African education, politics, languages, etc. Traditions and tensions, practices and yearnings, struggles and feats are described, along with literature, religion, film, music, and art which transcend timeframes.

Author : Robert van Gulik
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780226848983

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Judge Dee at Work by Robert van Gulik Pdf

The eight short stories in Judge Dee at Work cover a decade during which the judge served in four different provinces of the T’ang Empire. From the suspected treason of a general in the Chinese army to the murder of a lonely poet in his garden pavilion, the cases here are among the most memorable in the Judge Dee series.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1492 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Manufactures
ISBN : IND:30000096177336

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Biennial Census of Manufactures by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Electronic
ISBN : DMM:057002671671

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English Patents of Inventions, Specifications by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : AK-INTERACTIVE, S.L.
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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EXTREME MODELLING 38 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Fred Kofman
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781427098184

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Conscious Business by Fred Kofman Pdf

Presents techniques for organizational success that involve embracing such qualities as integrity, authenticity, accountability, and honesty.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Armored vehicles, Military
ISBN : SRLF:D0001604735

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Armor by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert M. Citino
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700617913

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Death of the Wehrmacht by Robert M. Citino Pdf

For Hitler and the German military, 1942 was a key turning point of World War II, as an overstretched but still lethal Wehrmacht replaced brilliant victories and huge territorial gains with stalemates and strategic retreats. In this major reevaluation of that crucial year, Robert Citino shows that the German army's emerging woes were rooted as much in its addiction to the "war of movement"-attempts to smash the enemy in "short and lively" campaigns-as they were in Hitler's deeply flawed management of the war. From the overwhelming operational victories at Kerch and Kharkov in May to the catastrophic defeats at El Alamein and Stalingrad, Death of the Wehrmacht offers an eye-opening new view of that decisive year. Building upon his widely respected critique in The German Way of War, Citino shows how the campaigns of 1942 fit within the centuries-old patterns of Prussian/German warmaking and ultimately doomed Hitler's expansionist ambitions. He examines every major campaign and battle in the Russian and North African theaters throughout the year to assess how a military geared to quick and decisive victories coped when the tide turned against it. Citino also reconstructs the German generals' view of the war and illuminates the multiple contingencies that might have produced more favorable results. In addition, he cites the fatal extreme aggressiveness of German commanders like Erwin Rommel and assesses how the German system of command and its commitment to the "independence of subordinate commanders" suffered under the thumb of Hitler and chief of staff General Franz Halder. More than the turning point of a war, 1942 marked the death of a very old and traditional pattern of warmaking, with the classic "German way of war" unable to meet the challenges of the twentieth century. Blending masterly research with a gripping narrative, Citino's remarkable work provides a fresh and revealing look at how one of history's most powerful armies began to founder in its quest for world domination.

Author : Loren D. Estleman
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453248591

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Motown by Loren D. Estleman Pdf

DIVIn the tense summer before Detroit’s 1967 race riots, a former cop faces off against some of the city’s most dangerous forces/div DIVRage simmers beneath the tranquil surface of 1960s Detroit. As the auto industry enjoys its last moments of prosperity, widespread discrimination infuriates the city’s black middle class. One of the most destructive riots of the twentieth century is around the corner, and Rick Amery is going to be right in the middle./divDIV /divDIVA longtime cop forced out of the department on trumped-up graft charges, Amery shares Detroit’s obsession with muscle cars. It was the temptation of a white ’64 Thunderbird that cost him his badge, and it is for the sake of General Motors that he takes his first job as a private investigator, digging up dirt on a consumer advocate who calls GM cars death traps. Amery must work quickly, for no hot rod on Earth is fast enough to outrun the trouble that’s gaining on the Motor City./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Loren D. Estleman including rare photos from the author’s personal collection./div