The combined British Expeditionary Force and American II Corps successfully pierced the Hindenburg Line during the Hundred Days Campaign of World War I, an offensive that hastened the war’s end. Yet despite the importance of this effort, the training and operation of II Corps has received scant attention from historians.Mitchell A. Yockelson delivers a comprehensive study of the first time American and British soldiers fought together as a coalition force—more than twenty years bef...

Your climate control is broken, the engine is overheating again, and the traffic has come to a dead stop amidst a swarm of horns. To top it off you're late for work. In a heartbeat, you find yourself in another place, another time. Just for a moment, your mind takes a break. Your subconscious decides to get out of the traffic and set sail along a coast of white sand beaches and palm trees. Later that night, you wake with a jolt but don’t remember what startled you. Your thoughts are racing...

The fourth edition of Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Social Equity provides both classic and recent contributions to the field, with a special accent on how these approaches can contribute to health and social equity. The 23 chapters offer conceptual frameworks, skill- building and case studies in areas like coalition building, organizing by and with women of color, community assessment, and the power of the arts, the Internet, social media, and policy ...

Discover The Legendary "Full Secret" to Living an Exceptional LifeWhat if you could unlock the full power of Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich? In this legendary book, Hill says there's a SECRET for success. But he'll only gives us half the secret. In The Missing Secret, John Mitchell finally reveals the full secret that bridges the gap between intention and extraordinary results.Drawing on groundbreaking science that he teaches at one of the "Top 5" busi...

Does the idea appeal to you of putting your dinner on to cook and then going visiting, or to the theatre, or sitting down to read, write, or sew, with no further thought for your food until it is time to serve it? It sounds like a fairy-tale to say that you can bring food to the boiling point, put it into a box of hay, and leave it for a few hours, returning to find it cooked, and often better cooked than in any other way! Yet it is true. Norwegian housewives have known this for many years...

Author John Hanson Mitchell recounts a marathon bicycle trek from Andalusia to the Outer Hebrides, tracing solar myths, sun cults, birds, and flowering plants all along the way.

Early in 1973 I was flying a normal Variable Stability System (VSS) flight at the Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent River, Maryland. The student in the right seat of the converted B-26 aircraft was Lieutenant Commander Sidney White. He was flying his third consecutive VSS flight. Sidney had successfully completed all his upper air work in the vicinity of 10,000 feet. He commenced making a series of approaches to the active runway, which was oriented northeast/southwest (04/22)1. Each approac...

The story is presented as a memoir written by Khan-li, a Persian admiral, recounting the discovery of the last surviving American, Captain Ishmael Ingots, who has been preserved in ice for centuries after a freezing accident. Ingots is revived and brought back to life in a futuristic world where Persia has become a dominant global power and the United States has long since disappeared.As the narrative unfolds, Captain Ingots, the titular "Last American," experiences the perplexing and vast...

For undergraduate and beginning graduate students, this textbook explains and examines the central concepts used in modern programming languages, such as functions, types, memory management, and control. The book is unique in its comprehensive presentation and comparison of major object-oriented programming languages. Separate chapters examine the history of objects, Simula and Smalltalk, and the prominent languages C++ and Java. The author presents foundational topics, such as lambda calc...

The story revolves around a young man named Willows, who is sent by his father to the fictional town of Lory, located in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. Willows' father hopes that the clean air and rustic environment will help his son recover from a recent illness and find renewed vigor.Upon his arrival in Lory, Willows becomes enchanted by the natural beauty of the region, particularly the majestic pine trees that dot the landscape. He soon finds himself drawn into the lives...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Diving deep into the intricate world of Remotely Piloted Aircrafts (RPAs), Lt. Col. John "Hawkeye" Mitchell paints a vivid canvas of aerial warfare in the 21st century in "The Reaper's Flight". Tracing the legacy of aviation—from the first unmanned crafts to the technologically superior drones of today—Mitchell's detailed expositions shed light on the myriad developments and strategic shifts.Amidst the backdrop of an evolving mi...

Walking Towards Walden is an exploration of the sense of place, what it means, how it developed, and why it matters. Based on an eighteenth-century literary device in which a group of friends undertake a walking tour and discuss a certain subject, this wide-ranging story emerges from the author’s fifteen-mile bushwhack through woods, backyards, and marshes—from a hilltop in Westford, Massachusetts, to the town of Concord, Massachusetts—trespassing all along the way. A mock epic, complete w...