Joseph Collins
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This monograph aims to provide military leaders, civil servants, diplomats, and students with the intellectual basis they need to prepare for further study or for assignments in Afghanistan, a nation that has been at war for 33-years...By analyzing the land and its people, recapping Afghan history, and assessing the current situation, this work hopes to set a foundation upon which leaders and scholars can begin their preparation for more specific...
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Modern Day AssassinsThe Black Hand - a shadowy organization that recruits, trains and supports assassins specializing in very specific murder techniques.A Father's legacyMax Jennings was trying to put his traumatic childhood behind him when he discovered that he had not only inherited his father's shooting talent but by default, his father's job as a professional killer. Both changed the path of his life.The Final mission.Max knows what he has to...
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The Black Hand...A shadowy organization that recruits, trains and supports assassins who specialize in unique methods of murder. A Talent for MurderWhen Jill Ringler learned that her uncle was abusing his young granddaughter, she put an end to it knowing that her family would close ranks around him and never suspect a precocious teen of murder by poison. A New CareerAfter college, Jill should be looking forward to mastering her own life but, instead...
4) Abnormal End
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A KILL CODE SURVIVOR In KILL CODE, Jackie Winn narrowly survived attacks by ruthless assassins Now, she's fighting for her life again HER ALLY Leo Marston, retired sniper assassin, is at her side; friend, lover and mentor. Despite their difficult pasts and uncertain future, they band together to combat the enemy THE CAUSE Terrorists directed by fiendish software unknowingly unleashed by Jackie in KILL CODE to cast an entire city into darkness and...
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The 1991 edition of this book introduced the concept that it is the repetitive-formation of Transient Linear Elements of Hydration on lipid and poly-ionic surfaces that, not only assist in the assembly of proteins and nucleic acids, but in interactions of all molecules in living cells. This edition provides structural evidence that the molecules of life function so smoothly and spontaneously together because they are all spatial homologues of the...
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How was it possible for the simple molecules that arrived on the early earth to be transformed into the extremely complex forms that compose living cells? If we are to believe the Second Law of Thermodynamics and the Laws of Probability, spontaneous assembly would seem to have been absolutely impossible! Based on that Second Law, systems move spontaneously from order toward disorder - not the other way around. Furthermore, there are simply too many...
7) Kill Code
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A Former Assassin Leo Marston is done with long-distance murder and he'll do anything to keep it in his past - even if it means he has to make one final kill shot. A Dead Man Nathan White seeks revenge from the grave – or so it seems when the computer program he wrote prior to his death begins a systematic killing of prominent U.S. Government officials whom White had deemed enemies of the State. A Woman in Trouble Jackie Winn – White's co-worker...
9) Dogwood
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Told from multiple perspectives and laced with startling twists, Dogwood by acclaimed author Chris Fabry is an emotionally rich tale of suffering, sacrificial love, and redemption. A single visit to a West Virginia prison can't resolve the tragic pasts of convicted child-killer Will Hatfield and his former sweetheart Karin. While she struggles with haunting regrets, Will vows to wait for her, no matter how long it takes.
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In post-World War II Mississippi, two families, one white and one black, struggle to survive in the Jim Crow south.
"In Jordan's prize-winning debut, prejudice takes many forms, both subtle and brutal. It is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm--a place she finds foreign and frightening. In the midst of the family's struggles, two young men return from the war to work the land....
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Occasional paper volume 5
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Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University Press
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[2008]
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"The goal of this case study is to outline how the United States chose to go to war in Iraq, how its decision making process functioned, and what can be done to improve that process."
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What You Have Left is an unforgettable story of love, loss, and, most of all, longing.
In 1976, on the day of his wife's funeral, Wylie Greer drops off his five-year-old daughter, Holly, at his father-in-law's dairy farm on the outskirts of Columbia, South Carolina. Wylie tells her he just needs a little time to clear his head, but thirty years pass before Holly sees her father again -- "time I spent wondering what I'd done to make him leave," she...
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From bestselling authors Frances Moore Lappé and Joseph Collins comes the 21st century's definitive book on world hunger. Driven by the question, "Why hunger despite an abundance of food?" Lappé and Collins refute the myths that prevent us from addressing the root causes of hunger across the globe. World Hunger: Ten Myths draws on extensive new research to offer fresh, often startling, insights about tough questions-from climate change and population...
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Ms. T's Music Factory volume 7
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Temmora's students compete for the opportunity to perform with a live band. After a heated confrontation with Temmora and her husband, Miesha and Kirsten settle in to their new apartment.
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Ms. T's Music Factory volume 2
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Temmora teaches her students about inspiration and takes the students on a sobering field trip to the National Civil Rights Museum.
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Ms. T's Music Factory volume 1
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Temmora introduces her hectic life as she runs "Arommet Academy," a music boot camp for talented children as well as managing her daughter, Miesha's R&B group, Karma.
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Ms. T's Music Factory volume 5
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Temmora has her students compete to join Karma on their "Stop The Bullying Tour." Students share their experiences with bullying and one admits being bullied caused her to attempt suicide.