Author: Bernard D. Rostker
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: stress, uncertainty, times, force, war, managing, america
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2007
ISBN-10: 0833039806
ISBN-13: 9780833039804

For more than three decades, the United States has relied on an all-volunteer force to meet its military needs. Today, the sustainability of that force is being tested with high levels of deployment and subsequent

Authors:Onoto Watanna, Sara Bosse,  Jacqueline Newma,
Publisher: Applewood Book
Keywords: cooking, america, book, cook, japanese, chinese
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2006-03-07
ISBN-10: 1557093717
ISBN-13: 9781557093714

Published originally in 1914, this is the first Asian cookbook published in America. The fascinating new introduction by Asian cooking authority Jacqueline M. Newman reveals the trickery at play from the two sisters of Anglo-Chinese descent who wrote the book. The Chinese recipes are simple Chinese-American ones using ordinary ingredients. Many are for chop suey and chow mein using lots of celery, bean sprouts, and gravy. The Japanese meat and fish recipes are also simple even though several use rabbit, pheasant, venison, pigeon, even whale; the vegetable dishes are more Chinese than Japanese.

Authors:Maryann Jacobi Gray, Elizabeth Heneghan Ondaatje,
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: higher, education, serve, america, program, learn, evaluation, service, combining, learning
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 1999
ISBN-10: 0833027255
ISBN-13: 9780833027252

This report presents results of a three-year evaluation of Learn and Serve America, Higher Education (LSAHE), a program sponsored by the Corporation for National and Community Service that aims to increase involvement in community service by higher education institutions and students. LSAHE emphasizes an approach to community service, called service-learning, that focuses on the development of service providers as well as service recipients. Between 1995 and 1997, about one in every eight higher education institutions nationwide participated in LSAHE by developing service-learning courses and

Author: Benjamin S. Lambeth
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: operation, enduring, freedom, conduct, america, power, terror, air
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2006
ISBN-10: 0833037242
ISBN-13: 9780833037244

The terrorist attacks of 9/11 plunged the United States into a determined counteroffensive against Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda terrorist network. This report details the initial U.S. military response to those attacks, namely, the destruction of al Qaeda

Author: Harry Turtledove
Publisher: Del Rey
Keywords: book, accounts, settling, engagement, return
Number of Pages: 656
Published: 2005-06-28
ISBN-10: 0345464052
ISBN-13: 9780345464057

Harry Turtledove’s remarkable alternative history novels brilliantly remind us of how fragile the thread of time can be, and offer us a world of “what if.” Drawing on a magnificent cast of characters that includes soldiers, generals, lovers, spies, and demagogues, Turtledove returns to an epic tale that only he could tell–the story of a North American continent, separated into two bitterly opposed nations, that stands on the verge of exploding once again.In 1914 they called it The Great War, and few could imagine anything worse. For nearly three decades a peace forged i

Author: David L. Hudson Jr.
Publisher: First Amendment Center
Keywords: speech, america, schools, free, preserving, student, voices, silencing
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2003-12-01
ISBN-10: 0965686353
ISBN-13: 9780965686358

America’s public schools face a litany of problems ? school violence, drugs, sexual abuse and others ? as they attempt to educate the nation’s youth. But some school officials’ responses to these problems, while well-intentioned, may go too far. Schools are clamping down on many kinds of student expression deemed different or unusual. New "zero-tolerance" policies impose harsh penalties on first-time offenders. Officials have controlled language, censored students’ personal Web sites, established strict dress codes, banned symbols and tossed out books. "The Silencing

Author: Barack Obama
Publisher: america.gov
Keywords: words, own, obama, barack, president
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2009-12-31
eBookDB-ID: EBDB032801

These pages share President Obama’s words with our global readership. This book includes the complete text of the 44th President’s Inaugural Address. Also featured are extended excerpts from eight other significant campaign and pre-presidential speeches. It is our hope that while the book itself is small, readers will discover that the vision captured in its pages is large. NEW! Receive daily highlights from this title. Point your web browser or mobile device to twitter