Grey Feathers is the story of a combat platoon leaders role and responsibilities in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam from 1967 to 1970. The story is derived from the countless after-action reports, personal observations and experiences, interviews, and 4th division magazine articles about this period of the Vietnam War.----The unit served was the 3rd Battalion, 12th Infantry, 4th Infantry Division, which was a highly decorated unit marked by a cloverleaf symbol of the 4th Division. I...

The aim of this work was not an exhaustive review of all pediatric echo graphic problems but a presentation of our daily experience with ultrasonography in pediatric practice. Several teams of pediatric radiologists from France and Belgium have combined their experiences to produce a practical book. The different authors have been chosen for their specific experience and their special area of work. The different chapters express therefore personal opinions. Unresolved questions are posed a...

A frontier without mercy.A vow that can’t be broken.A killer known only as The Mask***.***The Untamed Lowveld, 1885. Lone wanderer Johan Grimbeek arrives with a hidden purpose. To avenge the man who raised him by hunting down a ruthless phantom known only as “The Mask.”Left for dead after a brutal ambush, Johan is rescued by the fierce and beautiful Juanita Perreira. But as he recovers under...

Marriage is the ultimate goal of lovers, but it is also the starting point for a married life that is not always as rosy as lovers often try to paint it.When living together, the ambiguity between the other person's true self and the beautiful image that each lover creates in their mind will become clearer. There have been couples who could not accept the other person's true personality after marriage, leading to divorce, but there are also couples who, after learning the truth, ma...

He takes off my clothes and leads me to the only bedroom in our small trailer. He makes me lay on the bed while he undresses, all the while staring at my young nude body. I begin my mental escape. I’m in a vast field of tall grass where the air is fresh and clean and doesn’t smell like beer and cigarettes. The sky is a deep blue. I breathe deeply and begin to run. So free! But I can never make it last.

Starting a business is hard, but keeping an established company going can be equally challenging. In the long run, every business will need to adapt to changing market conditions, technologies, and competitive environments. Achieving Longevity explains how to manage those changes through entrepreneurial thinking.As Jim Dewald shows, the most successful companies thrive by establishing decision-making processes that constantly engage new opportunities, enabling the firm to ...

A gentle fairy tale about two princesses. Two sisters with two opposite beauties, they clash in love, is it a love triangle? Can love overcome jealousy in love? Is there any mystery behind their magical beauty? Secrets about the past, present, and future will gradually be revealed. In the end, will there be a happy ending for everyone...

He sat by the window, staring at the house opposite.That girl has big eyes, milky white skin, long black hair down to her back, she often wears a white dress, looking fragile and illusory.The girl pulled the curtain, turned around and turned off the light. Nguyen looked at him regretfully. That face, that figure had followed him into his dreams. Many times he wondered, could it be that he was in love? ...

Douchebags to Diamonds™ is a self-help book for women who want to heal a broken heart, take charge of their love life, and attract their Mr. Right. In this honest, tell-it-like-it-is book, author and entrepreneur Stacey Dewald explores the raw truth of her most painful relationships, delving into how she became stuck in a cycle of looking for love in all the wrong places, and she shares how she broke free from this pattern, revealing an empowering journey of doing the hard work to...

The world is confusing, isn’t it? Definitely no walk in the park. This rings particularly true for protagonist Curtis Miller - mildmannered realist and introvert. Curtis has had many views of the ever-churning fire that is our world - but the challenges, injustices and hypocrisies of the modern flame he has yet to decipher. As he faces many fronts he never imagined he would, Curtis soon discovers that logic, reason and justice seem to have an ever-diminishing habitat in modern society. Thi...

This is an unedited collection of four e-mails I sent on September 11-14, 2001 from my home in the Williamsburg neighborhood of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. They were first drafts. I began with the first word and hit send after the last word in each of them.I am told these were printed and posted on a bulletin board at The United States Military Academy at West Point daily during the crisis.I offer them to add to the public record of this unique day in history....

Herodotus' Histories is the first major surviving prose work from antiquity. Its range of interests is immense, covering the whole of the known world and much beyond, and it culminates in a detailed account of the Persian Wars of the early fifth century BC. Moreover, research has shown that Herodotus is a sophisticated and at times even ironic narrator, and a pioneer and serious practitioner of historical research at a time when the Greeks' traditions about their past were still the fluid ...