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The Blue Cascade

Author : Mike Scotti
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781455503490

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In this searing and beautifully written memoir, Marine Lieutenant and CNN Op-Ed contributor Mike Scotti charts a course from the front lines of Iraq back home to New York, showing how sometimes the hardest battle is the one after the war. Sometimes the hardest battle is the one after the war. As one of the soldiers on the front line of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Lieutenant Scotti was taught that weakness is what gets you killed: no hesitation, focus your energies on your objective, and complete the mission. Upon returning from war, Scotti approached his new life the same way. He ignored the creeping depression and numbness he called "The Blue Cascade" and charged ahead toward his goal to get an MBA, secure a high-paying finance job, and retire young and rich. But he was being eaten away inside, and scenes of drunken emotion and raging violence were becoming more and more frequent. Years after returning from active combat, he eventually found himself contemplating suicide. Through a series of powerful events, Scotti was ultimately able to find a path to healing and begin his journey back to life, finally emerging with the following wisdom for fellow sufferers of post-traumatic stress:It's ok if you are not ok.

Signature Wounds

Author : David Kieran
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479892365

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The surprising story of the Army’s efforts to combat PTSD and traumatic brain injury The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have taken a tremendous toll on the mental health of our troops. In 2005, then-Senator Barack Obama took to the Senate floor to tell his colleagues that “many of our injured soldiers are returning from Iraq with traumatic brain injury,” which doctors were calling the “signature wound” of the Iraq War. Alarming stories of veterans taking their own lives raised a host of vital questions: Why hadn’t the military been better prepared to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI)? Why were troops being denied care and sent back to Iraq? Why weren’t the Army and the VA doing more to address these issues? Drawing on previously unreleased documents and oral histories, David Kieran tells the broad and nuanced story of the Army’s efforts to understand and address these issues, challenging the popular media view that the Iraq War was mismanaged by a callous military unwilling to address the human toll of the wars. The story of mental health during this war is the story of how different groups—soldiers, veterans and their families, anti-war politicians, researchers and clinicians, and military leaders—approached these issues from different perspectives and with different agendas. It is the story of how the advancement of medical knowledge moves at a different pace than the needs of an Army at war, and it is the story of how medical conditions intersect with larger political questions about militarism and foreign policy. This book shows how PTSD, TBI, and suicide became the signature wounds of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, how they prompted change within the Army itself, and how mental health became a factor in the debates about the impact of these conflicts on US culture.

Best Hikes Baltimore

Author : Heather Sanders Connellee
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781493038701

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Best Hikes Baltimore by Heather Sanders Connellee Pdf

It’s not necessary to travel far from home for a great hike. With these information-packed guides in hand, readers have everything they need for the adventure they seek, from an easy nature walk to a multiday backpacking trip. Each hike includes: location, length, hiking time, level of difficulty, and if dogs can come along. Other features include: Trail finder chart that categorizes each hike (e.g. for particular attractions such as scenic views and if it’s suitable for families with kids) Full-color photos throughout Information on the area’s history, geology, flora, and fauna Full-color maps of each trail

Advances in Biosensors

Author : Bansi Dhar Malhotra,Anthony Turner
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003-07-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 0080545092

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Advances in Biosensors by Bansi Dhar Malhotra,Anthony Turner Pdf

There is a worldwide effort towards the development of bioanalytical devices that can be used for detection, quantification and monitoring of specific chemical species. In this context, biosensors represent an emerging trend in the diagnostics industry. A biosensor is a device that has a biological sensing element either intimately connected to or integrated within a transducer. The aim is to produce a digital electronic signal that is proportional to the concentration of a specific chemical or a set of chemicals. Biosensors are specific, rapid, cost-effective and easy to use devices that can be employed with minimal sample treatment. Biosensors have applications in many areas such as biotechnology, healthcare, pollution monitoring, food and agriculture product monitoring, the pharmaceuticals industry and defense. This reference text is devoted to the principles and applications of biosensors and meets the needs of academic institutes, research laboratories and the rapidly developing biosensor industry. Discusses novel ways that can be used to fabricate biosensors for a variety of applications Biosensors have applications in many scientific areas Contributors are experts in their respective fields of research

Lost Future

Author : C. T. Phipps,Frank Martin
Publisher : Crossroad Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Lost Future by C. T. Phipps,Frank Martin Pdf

Three years ago, Rob Stone managed to survive time-traveling assassins from the future. Abandoned by his protector and daughter, Jane, he has decided to put his life back together. That means going to college and working for the corrupt Butterfly Corporation as an intern. Rob believes it is possible to change the dystopian company from the inside and avert the world where he becomes the infamous anti-coporate terrorist known as the Scorpion. Unfortunately, history isn't as easily averted as Rob might think. The forces that brought about the Scorpion are still present and Butterfly continues on its path to becoming the world's tyrannical ruler. Worse, his assassins may no longer be the only people attempting to tamper with the past.

Destiny's Paradox

Author : C. T. Phipps,Frank Martin
Publisher : Crossroad Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Destiny's Paradox by C. T. Phipps,Frank Martin Pdf

Ex-HOPE Activist and future dictator of the world, Rob Stone, is now a twenty-two year old college student at the ultra-high tech Conner University. Studying to be a corporate stooge in hopes of reforming Butterfly International from the inside, Rob has made some sociopathic friends as well as put most of his trauma behind him. All of that comes back when HOPE seemingly bombs his college to assassinate a bunch of future corporate fascists. Implicated in the bombings, Rob finds history has been changed and new time travelers are continuing to play havoc with reality. His pacifist plans ruined, Rob has to decide to embrace his punk roots and fight fire with fire to save tomorrow. Enjoy this exciting new chapter in the cyberpunk series by C.T. Phipps and Frank Martin!

Water Pollution Series

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Water
ISBN : UOM:39015007720736

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Middle Atmosphere Program

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Air
ISBN : UIUC:30112075700762

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The Most Interesting Galaxies in the Universe

Author : Joel L Schiff
Publisher : Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781643270043

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The Most Interesting Galaxies in the Universe by Joel L Schiff Pdf

Prior to the 1920s it was generally thought, with a few exceptions, that our galaxy, the Milky Way, was the entire Universe. Based on the work of Henrietta Leavitt with Cepheid variables, astronomer Edwin Hubble was able to determine that the Andromeda Galaxy and others had to lie outside our own. Moreover, based on the work of Vesto Slipher, involving the redshifts of these galaxies, Hubble was able to determine that the Universe was not static, as had been previously thought, but expanding. The number of galaxies has also been expanding, with estimates varying from 100 billion to 2 trillion. While every galaxy in the Universe is interesting just by its very fact of being, the author has selected 51 of those that possess some unusual qualities that make them of some particular interest. These galaxies have complex evolutionary histories, with some having supermassive black holes at their core, others are powerful radio sources, a very few are relatively nearby and even visible to the naked eye, whereas the light from one recent discovery has been travelling for the past 13.4 billion years to show us its infancy, and from a time when the Universe was in its infancy. And in spite of the vastness of the Universe, some galaxies are colliding with others, embraced in a graceful gravitational dance. Indeed, as the Andromeda Galaxy is heading towards us, a similar fate awaits our Milky Way. When looking at a modern image of a galaxy, one is in awe at the shear wondrous nature of such a magnificent creation, with its boundless secrets that it is keeping from us, its endless possibilities for harboring alien civilizations, and we remain left with the ultimate knowledge that we are connected to its glory.

The Sweet Pea Book

Author : Graham Rice
Publisher : Batsford Books
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-05
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781849942126

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The sweet pea is one of the most popular and evocative of summer flowers, loved for its unsurpassed fragrance, range of colours and ease of cultivation. Authoritative and inspiring, The Sweet Pea Book covers: History of sweet peas; Classification; Descriptions of all available varieties; Raising sweet peas; Growing and breeding sweet peas; Problems with sweet peas (peasts and diseases); Fragrance; Sweet peas in the garden; Sweet peas in the house (cut flowers); Exhibiting sweet peas; Sweet peas in the United States; Sweet peas in Australia; Illustrated in colour throughout by studio plates, plant portraits and plant association pictures by the author and the award-winning American garden photographer Judy White.

Poems from the Rocky Mountains

Author : A. Albert Aguero
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-19
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781490852003

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Poems from the Rocky Mountains is about situations people experience in their environment as they happen and at different times, using poetic language and imagery. This is not a run-of-the-mill-poetry book; neither will it make me famous. I was told that to be a famous poet, the poet has to be six feet under first, and at my age, I don't want to be famous at all. The book is the result of training and experience as an immigrant, adopting the language, the way of life, and the way of thinking in my adopted country for the last sixty-eight years, never forgetting that English is my daily means of communication. In order to believe the above statement, you have to read my book. I bring the flow of my Indian/Hispanic heritage and sensitivity to the American poetic stream, which produces out of the two factors, the oneness that makes Poems from the Rocky Mountains a unique book. This is why most of the topics in it are as American as baseball and apple pie, but spiced with tropical flavor: goal achievement, the Rocky Mountain landscape, the Old West tradition, patriotism, geographical wonders, personal, family and social problems, abstract and humorous poetry, the tropical landscape, international, romantic, lyrical, child-appropriate, rhymed and metered styles and elegies.

From the Puget Lowland to East of the Cascade Range

Author : Ralph A. Haugerud,Harvey M. Kelsey
Publisher : Geological Society of America
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-13
Category : Geology
ISBN : 9780813700496

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From the Puget Lowland to East of the Cascade Range by Ralph A. Haugerud,Harvey M. Kelsey Pdf

"This volume contains guides that geographically focus on the Seattle, Washington, area within the Puget lowland, and also includes descriptions of trips in the Cascade Range and the region east of the Cascades"--