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The United States Marine Corps was tasked to produce a greater number of Marines to meet the escalation of troops for the Vietnam War. Recruit training was reduced from 12 weeks to 8 weeks to provide those new Marines. Boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina, accommodated more Marines in a shorter...

A witch-cursed earring has seized the mind of a legendary sea captain. An uprising of bandits has seen a warchest attract freelances and mercenaries to the fief of Anatol and Cavis begins to doubt if they are truly bandits that the lords are warring against. Staifcairn tries to fulfill his pact with...

Crottle the burglar is being hunted. The vicious smuggler Jenk Sonner and his half-ogre enforcer want revenge. Crottle has one last mystery job before he can rescue the street-urchin Meeze from the walled-in squalor of Rum Town. When the brutal actions of a thug give Jenk a clue how to find Crottle,...

Volume therapy or infusion therapy is used worldwide for the treatment of hypovolemia caused by surgical blood and plasma losses, trauma, burns, or infections. Interestingly, significant differences exist between countries regarding the use of plasma substitutes. In the United States, crystalloids...

Living and Dying in Shorts is a collection of 24 tales that provide a look into the unique, inescapable, and irreducible features of being human.  From amateurs patrolling the border in the bleak Arizona desert (Borderline Minutemen,) to a dank cell in a Mexican prison (The Raindrops...

The figure of Prince William of Orange (1572-84) dominates the political landscape of the sixteenth century Netherlands, and in many ways personifies the Dutch revolt against Spanish hegemony. Yet despite the European significance of his struggle, there has not been a major English-language study...

Eltern und Trainer von Kindern und Jugendlichen im Leistungssport sehen sich mit einer Vielzahl von Fragen konfrontiert, so etwa mit Blick auf das Spannungsfeld von Sport, Schule und Freizeit. Wie können junge Athletinnen und Athleten auf ihrem Weg angemessen unterstützt und gefördert werden? Diese...

The Wall Street Billionaire as they call him has set his goal & knows his outcome before everyone else. He is not called the Wall Street Wolf or the Wall Street Billionaire for nothing because he is the one who invented the straight line closing pattern that made him & his partners richer...

What am I doing here? What should I do with my life? Is there a genuine and true path I can follow? The meaning and purpose of our life is one of the most intriguing questions we all ask ourselves. We are often aware of this meaning and purpose through society's perspective — acquiring wealth, success,...

WHEN GEORGE’S FATHER DIED, HE LEFT GEORGE HIS WATCHMAKER SHOP – AND MORE. But George has little talent for watches and other infernal devices. When someone tries to steal an old device from the premises, George finds himself embroiled in a mystery of time travel, music and sexual intrigue. The classic...

First British publication of the sequel to Infernal Devices, tomark the 30th anniversary of Steampunk. The world George Dower left when he went into hiding was significantly simpler than the new, steam-powered Victorian London. Dower is enticed into a web of intrigue with ominously mysterious...

He's both feared and admired, respected and despised.  Boba Fett is the galaxy's most successful bounty hunter.  Now he finds himself the hunted in the oldest game of all: survival of the fittest. The once powerful Bounty Hunter's Guild has been shattered into warring factions.  Now the...

Boba Fett fears only one enemy--the one he cannot see.... Feared and admired, respected and despised, Boba Fett enjoys a dubious reputation as the galaxy's most successful bounty hunter. Yet even a man like Boba Fett can have one too many enemies.... When Boba Fett stumbles across evidence...