In this excerpt from Combat Shooting, Massad Ayoob examines the experiences and teaching of three of the greatest gunfighters of all time. Learn how Wyatt Earp, Charles Askins, Jr., and Jim Cirillo approached the art and science of combat shooting.

"The book is easy to read and contains strategies that beginning teachers will find helpful."—Sylvia Rockwell, Professor of Special Education, St. Leo UniversityAuthor, You Can′t Make Me!"A needed addition to the professional library of teachers who are challenged to meet the needs of students with ADHD."—Mary Reeve, Director of Special EducationGallup-McKinley County Public Schools, Gallup, NMUnderstand key...

Discover the internationally acclaimed time management system that’s gone viral on TikTok and has already changed millions of lives!Francesco Cirillo developed his famed system for improving productivity as a college student thirty years ago. Using a kitchen timer shaped like a pomodoro (Italian for tomato), Cirillo divided the time he spent working on a project into 25-minute intervals, with 5-minute breaks in between, in order to get more done, ...

Dominick Cirillo was a maverick Mafioso. He shunned meetings and the high profile lifestyle common to mobsters of his era., i.e. John Gotti and Paul Castellano. Dom drove around in inexpensive cars and lived in a house in the Bronx that needed numerous repairs. Second in command to Vincent "the Chin" Gigante in the Genovese family ranks, Cirillo ascended to the title of acting boss in 1997. Gigante was imprisoned on a variety of charges. The Chin defended himself by insisting that he was u...

Foucault's thought finds innumerable applications across the social sciences, from studies in the social aspects of the medical practices and criminal sociology to juridical and economic sciences. Owing to their philosophical ramifications, his ideas have also impacted the spheres of literary studies, ethics, political thought, and "critical ontology." Few thinkers have left such an influence across such a diverse range of studies. Contributors attempt to pay homage to that diversity by pr...

This edited collection examines the role of the Fulda Gap—located at the border between East and West Germany—in Cold War politics and military strategy. The contributors analyze the strategic deliberations of the Warsaw Pact and NATO, the balance of forces, the role of the local peace movement, and various other topics, while weaving together the history of the Cold War at local, European, and global levels.

An enjoyable and entertaining way to measure brainpower.The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Self-Testing Your IQ provides readers with tests that can be used to estimate a realistic IQ score, as well as games, puzzles, and more for an engaging and exciting workout for the mind. Using an amusement-based approach, IQ expert Dr. Jean Cirillo presents fun questions and answers that are rooted in standard IQ testing.?Tests and games included are designed to measure ...

No longer preoccupied with the East-West divide, contemporary foreign policymakers now have to confront regional conflicts, peace-enforcing and humanitarian missions, and a host of other global problems and issues in areas such as trade, health, and the environment. During the Cold War a widely-shared consensus on national interest and security in the United States and western Europe affected news reporting, public opinion, and foreign policy. But with the end of this Cold War frame of ref...

Food Sustainability and the Media: Linking Awareness, Knowledge and Action is the first book to explore the roles that the media plays in raising awareness, spurring action, and increasing understanding about food security and global sustainability issues. The book addresses the means of leveraging traditional and new media to advance food and sustainability discourse by linking awareness, knowledge, and action. The book links sustainability and food security in media communication to addr...

One of the most wide-ranging studies of prejudice undertaken in a decade, The Outsider combines new research methods and rich analysis to upend many of our assumptions about prejudice. Noting that hostility toward immigrants has been on the rise throughout Western Europe, Paul Sniderman and his team conduct the first study of prejudice in Italy and offer insights applicable to nearly all countries worldwide. The study of prejudice, they argue, has been both stimulated and limited ...

"Provides the reader with a very clear understanding of the student with learning disabilities. This book addresses in detail all the possible processing weaknesses and provides strategies to help a student access the general education curriculum. It′s something you can pick up, locate valuable information in, and refer to time and again."—Esther M. Eacho, Special Education TeacherFairfax County Public Schools, VADiscover how to effectively meet t...

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the workshops held at the 29th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Euro-Par 2023, which took place in Limassol, Cyprus, during August 28–September 1, 2023.The 42 full papers presented in this book together with 11 symposium papers and 14 demo/poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. The papers cover all aspects of parallel and distributed processing, ranging from theory to ...