These pages contain all the gory details of the awful ends of nineteen awfully famous people

This sequel to Leil's international top selling "How to Talk to Anyone" makes you a master communicator with 96 all new cutting-edge communication "Little Tricks" for big success in business and social relationships-in person, by email, and on the phone.

Widely acknowledged as the most authoritative Victorian study of ancient Greece, George Grote's twelve-volume work, begun in 1846, established the view of Greek history which still prevails in textbooks and popular accounts of the ancient world today

The Mid-States Four This acclaimed international barbershop quartet brought a new element to this musical element.. and took it to Korea to entertain over 50,000 UN troops during the summer of 1951 to a highly responsive audience. What they said: " changed the barbershop style moving the melody line to a closer harmonic pattern.- Barb Truelsen considered one of the most entertaining and flat-out funny show quartets in Society history. They combined singing with polished madcap comedy routines in a career that span from 1942 to 1988.

Discusses the experiences of the 65th Infantry, a Puerto Rican infantry unit, during the Korean War. Formed at the turn of the nineteenth century to protect America’s strategic interests in the Caribbean, the 65th Infantry consisted of Puerto Rican soldiers and sergeants and American and Puerto Rican officers. Although in existence for almost fifty years, the 65th had not experienced intense combat until Korea

American leaders focused on defeating the enemy rather than creating a stable post-war environment. What happened in Iraq was only the most striking example of this phenomenon, not an exception to the rule. Drawing on extensive research, Rose recreates the choices that presidents and their advisers faced in the final stages of every major conflict from World War I to Iraq

In the book, Dewey shares his views on the role of the teacher in teaching students to think well, basing his statements on the belief that knowledge is strictly related to human interaction with the world, he considers the need for learning thinking, its use of natural resources and its place in school settings; inductive and deductive reasoning, interpretation of facts, concrete and abstract thinking; the functions of activity, language and observation in teaching thinking

This book contains eight lively conversations about defining the value of ethics, the foundations of ethics, including Divine command theory, relativism, egoism, utilitarianism, and deontology, as well as distinctive interpretations of the natural law approach to the ethics of virtue, and Carol Gilligan's widely discussed account of women's moral development in the context of the ethics of caring

An indispensable guide to how wars are fought. The updated edition features all the elements of traditional warfare, along with a discussion of terrorist techniques; nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons; and Third World ballistic missiles

With no little skill and imaginative flair, History's Greatest Deceptions chronicles the 50 most remarkable tales of fraud and forgery. Which includes over 80 photographs, paintings, and illustrations, shines a light on the compelling personalities inside the stories, and explores the motivations behind some of the most ambitiously dishonest acts known to humankind