History

Baker, Mark

Asia

BERKLEY

Even now something is missing from the history of Vietnam. Behind the burning sense of horror and betrayal the personal stories remain untold. No one has bothered to talk to the men and women who went to Vietnam and fought the war.What happened to boys and girls straight out of school who were plunged from the basketball park into the napalm jungle? Who were they fighting for? How did conscripts and volunteers live through the war and how can they live with the scars?Mark Baker recorded conversations with dozens of Vietnam veterans. NAM is a unique and harrowing collection of those interviews, as raw and shocking as an open wound. This is the story of the human cost of a war that had no survivors, only veterans.

Even now something is missing from the history of Vietnam. Behind the burning sense of horror and betrayal the personal stories remain untold. No one has bothered to talk to the men and women who went to Vietnam and fought the war. What happened to boys and girls straight out of school who were plunged from the basketball park into the napalm jungle? Who were they fighting for? How did conscripts and volunteers live through the war and how can they live with the scars? Mark Baker recorded conversations with dozens of Vietnam veterans. NAM is a unique and harrowing collection of those interviews, as raw and shocking as an open wound. This is the story of the human cost of a war that had no survivors, only veterans.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Comics & Graphic Novels

Publishers

More than 150 interviews with Vietnam veterans, including military nurses, yield emotional, firsthand accounts of the Vietnam experience, from boot camp to homecoming

Nam: The Vietnam War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Fought There

Americas

Bad Guys: America's Most Wanted in Their Own Words

They lie, steal, kill and destroy. Cops chase them, Hollywood glamorizes them, and shrinks try to figure them out. Now, America's bad guys tell their own stories, from their childhoods to how they chose their victims to how they survive in prison. Mark Baker, the bestselling author of Nam and Cops, has gone behind the lines to find out why today's criminals started and why they won't stop. Their gritty, compelling tales are sometimes shocking, sometimes funny, and always bad to the bone.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Dell

Whether all human languages are fundamentally the same or different has been a subject of debate for ages. This problem has deep philosophical implications: If languages are all the same, it implies a fundamental commonality-and thus the mutual intelligibility-of human thought.We are now on the verge of answering this question. Using a twenty-year-old theory proposed by the world's greatest living linguist, Noam Chomsky, researchers have found that the similarities among languages are more profound than the differences. Languages whose grammars seem completely incompatible may in fact be structurally almost identical, except for a difference in one simple rule. The discovery of these rules and how they may vary promises to yield a linguistic equivalent of the Periodic Table of the Elements: a single framework by which we can understand the fundamental structure of all human language. This is a landmark breakthrough, both within linguistics, which will thereby become a full-fledged science for the first time, and in our understanding of the human mind.

The Atoms Of Language: The Mind's Hidden Rules Of Grammar

Baker, Mark C.

Science & Math

Basic Books

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Frommer's Eastern Europe (Frommer's Complete Guides)

Travel

Mastrini, Hana

Charlton, Angela

de Bruyn, Pippa

Bain, Keith

Olson, Karen Torme

Princz, Andrew

Coombs, Heather

Olson, Sanja Bazulic

Central America

Frommer's

The Grid: Core Technologies

Find out which technologies enable the Grid and how to employ them successfully! This invaluable text provides a complete, clear, systematic, and practical understanding of the technologies that enable the Grid. The authors outline all the components necessary to create a Grid infrastructure that enables support for a range of wide-area distributed applications. The Grid: Core Technologies takes a pragmatic approach with numerous practical examples of software in context. It describes the middleware components of the Grid step-by-step, and gives hands-on advice on designing and building a Grid environment with the Globus Toolkit, as well as writing applications. The Grid: Core Technologies: <ul>
<li>Provides a solid and up-to-date introduction to the technologies that underpin the Grid.</li> <li>Contains a systematic explanation of the Grid, including its infrastructure, basic services, job management, user interaction, and applications.</li> <li>Explains in detail OGSA (Open Grid Services Architecture), Web Services technologies (SOAP, WSDL, UDDI), and Grid Monitoring.</li> <li>Covers Web portal-based tools such as the Java CoG, GridPort, GridSphere, and JSR 168 Portlets.</li> <li>Tackles hot topics such as WSRF (Web Services Resource Framework), the Semantic Grid, the Grid Security Infrastructure, and Workflow systems.</li> <li>Offers practical examples to enhance the understanding and use of Grid components and the associated tools.</li> </ul>
This rich resource will be essential reading for researchers and postgraduate students in computing and engineering departments, IT professionals in distributed computing, as well as Grid end users such as physicists, statisticians, biologists and chemists.

Computers & Technology

Li, Maozhen

Networking & Cloud Computing

wiley

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Bruczkowski, Kit Fui

Europe

Frommers

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<li>Special interest tours focus on families, romance, Kafka's Prague, Communist Prague, and more</li> <li>Neighborhood walks wind through Old Town, the Jewish Quarter, Malá Strana, and the Castle District</li> <li>Side trips take visitors to the 14th-century Karlštejn Castle, Konopište, and the stunning Renaissance town of Ceský Krumlov</li> <li>With a Czech-English glossary of useful phrases and menu terms</li> </ul>
These attractively priced, four-color guides offer dozens of neighborhood and thematic tours, complete with hundreds of photos and bulleted maps that lead the way from sight to sight. Day by Days are the only guides that help travelers organize their time to get the most out of a trip. <ul>
<li>Full-color package at an affordable price</li> <li>Star ratings for all hotels, restaurants, and attractions</li> <li>Foldout front covers with maps and quick-reference information</li> <li>Tear-resistant map in a handy, reclosable plastic wallet</li> <li>Handy pocket-sized trim</li> </ul>

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