| 161. Military Flight Aptitude Tests (Arco Military Test Tutor) | |
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by: Solomon Wiener List Price: $24.95 Amazon.com's Price: $16.97 You Save: $7.98 (32%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description This is a great book for preparing for the AFOQT. I was spooling up for a military pilot slot and took the Marine Corps flight test cold and did not do very well. I got this book before taking my first choice service (Air Force) flight test. I did quite well, that was back in '97, and I graduated USAF pilot training in Nov of '99. Take the practice tests under timed conditions. Just having seen the type of quesitons they ask having a feel for the time constraints of each section was a big help.  Read Reviews and Description
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| 162. Brothers In Arms : The Epic Story of the 761St Tank Battalion, WWII's Forgotten Heroes | |
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by: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Anthony Walton List Price: $24.95 Amazon.com's Price: $16.97 You Save: $7.98 (32%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description After finishing this book I found myself a bit disappointed. It seemed that the authors were trying to accomplish two goals; To chronicle the battle history of a distinguished unit in WWII and to tell the tale of the personal struggles of the men who made up the unit and fought for their country dispite the racism and bigotry of the times. Unfortunatly the book fell short on both goals. As has been previously mentioned; How can you tell a tale of war and heroism without a single map or diagram. ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 163. Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter | |
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by: Thomas Cahill List Price: $27.50 Amazon.com's Price: $18.70 You Save: $8.80 (32%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Thomas Cahill's Hinges of History series has illuminated several corners of history for the general reader, from medieval Ireland to the development of Judaism and Christianity. Now Cahill has turned to the ancient Greeks to demonstrate why they are important today. In a series of several chapters written in scholarly yet accessible to the general reader style, Cahill skillfully dissects Greek history, philosophy, drama, and morality. He shows us the Greek origins of many of our ideas about government, ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 164. A Venetian Affair | |
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by: ANDREA DI ROBILANT List Price: $24.00 Amazon.com's Price: $16.80 You Save: $7.20 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Andrea Di Robilant paints an evocative picture of mid 18th Venetian life and love through words. He scetches and draws to perfection as if painting a real life masterpiece - a Canaletto or Tiepolo. His words conjure up images full of color and depth. It is as though we are are eavesdropping while we follow the lives of these truly remarkable lovers. It gives us an insight into life in Venice during their times and as the author states, Venice has not really physically changed since. We can picture the cobbled streets, ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 165. Dawn over Baghdad: How the U.S. Military Is Using Bullets and Ballots to Remake Iraq | |
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by: Karl Zinsmeister List Price: $25.95 Amazon.com's Price: $17.65 You Save: $8.30 (32%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Excellent overview of our current (2004) situation in Iraq - both the successes and problems. A good antidote to the non-stop doom and gloom from the US media. The Iraq situation is far from perfect but not at all hopeless. It has the ring of truth. Read Reviews and Description
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| 166. The Lost Daughters of China: Abandoned Girls, Their Journey to America, and the Search for a Missing Past | |
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by: Karin Evans List Price: $14.95 Amazon.com's Price: $10.47 You Save: $4.48 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description I do not give five star ratings lightly. This book is a gem. As other reviewers have mentioned, this book is part Chinese adoption "how to" and part travel diary. Both those sections are admirably done, but I treasure this book because Karen Evans presents a succinct summary of the causative factors of child abandonment in China. I would strongly recommend that anyone who has adopted from China or may adopt in the future read this book, for the sake of your daughter. Ideally, adopted children should have some contact with their ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 167. King Leopold's Ghost | |
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by: Adam Hochschild List Price: $15.00 Amazon.com's Price: $10.50 You Save: $4.50 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description King Leopold's Ghost illuminates a nearly forgotten tragedy in human history: the exploitation of the Congo on behalf of one man during the late 1800s and early 1900s. King Leopold II of the Belgians enjoyed a reputation for humaneness due to his sponsorship of efforts to end the slave trade. As Adam Hochschild makes clear, the King's efforts were calculated so as to obscure from the world what was really going on in the Congo. Starting in 1885, Leopold's minions worked literally millions of people to death in the pursuit of profits in ivory and ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 168. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex | |
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by: Nat Philbrick List Price: $14.00 Amazon.com's Price: $11.20 You Save: $2.80 (20%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description "In the Heart of the Sea" is the story of the Nantucket whaleship Essex, which was sunk in the middle of the Pacific Ocean after having been rammed by an enormous sperm whale, leaving its crew to fend for themselves for three months in open boats. Most of them die. It's a famous story, having inspired Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. Nathaniel Philbrick relates the events of the ill-fated voyage through the accounts of some of its survivors. Hindsight is 20-20, and it seems easy to see how much of this disaster could have been averted. Culture, personalities, ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 169. The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace | |
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by: Dennis Ross List Price: $35.00 Amazon.com's Price: $23.80 You Save: $11.20 (32%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description "In the Heart of the Sea" is the story of the Nantucket whaleship Essex, which was sunk in the middle of the Pacific Ocean after having been rammed by an enormous sperm whale, leaving its crew to fend for themselves for three months in open boats. Most of them die. It's a famous story, having inspired Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. Nathaniel Philbrick relates the events of the ill-fated voyage through the accounts of some of its survivors. Hindsight is 20-20, and it seems easy to see how much of this disaster could have been averted. Culture, personalities, ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 170. Good to Great : Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't | |
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by: Jim Collins, Collins Jim List Price: $26.95 Amazon.com's Price: $18.33 You Save: $8.62 (32%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Jim Collins new book is titled Good To Great. If you haven't read it yet, buy, beg, or borrow it. It is that important if you are in any business. Collins and his team identified 11 companies that followed a pattern of "fifteen-year cumulative stock returns at or below the general stock market, punctuated by a transition point, then cumulative returns at least three times the market over the next fifteen years." Public companies were selected because of the availability of comparable data. Fifteen-year segments were selected to weed out the one-hit wonders and luck breaks. ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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