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The English language draws from a linguistic melting pot of many
ages and cultures. Few can master all of the languages from which
English draws proverbial wisdom and bon mots; fortunately for the
rest of us, there is now The World Dictionary of Foreign
Expressions.
Alcohol and Ethics: The Myths and Facts explores commonly held
misconceptions about addictive diseases, especially alcoholism, and
how these misconceptions hinder the recoveries of alcoholics,
addicts, and their family members. Understanding that no addict
chooses his/her addiction and the terrible consequences that result
from the drug or alcohol induced behavior that alcoholics and
addicts usually display is the first step to solving the myriad of
problems that alcoholism and drug addiction cause in many people's
lives. As alcoholics, addicts and their family members themselves
often believe the myths, guilt, fear, shame, anxiety, denial and
other negative emotions often prevent the addicted person from
seeking help and family members from intervening in the addictions
until they have lost much of what makes life worth living, loving
relationships, careers, health and freedom. As employers, legal
personnel and some medical people also believe these myths, they
often treat alcoholics and addicts as morally inferior people. and
addicts are not bad people trying to get good, but are sick people
trying to get well. This book attempts to expose the myths as
misunderstandings and replace them with facts that can help solve
the problems that come with alcoholism and addictions for everyone
whose lives get touched by the alcoholic or addict. This book's
purpose is to help solve problems for anyone affected by these
terrible diseases.
The proceedings from Parallel CFD 2005 covering all aspects of the
theory and applications of parallel computational fluid dynamics
from the traditional to the more contemporary issues.
- Report on current research in the field in an area which is
rapidly changing
- Subject is important to all interested in solving large fluid
dynamics problems
- Interdisciplinary activity. Contributions include scientists with
a variety of backgrounds
"McDonough brings such passionate perspective to this amazing and
heretofore largely unknown story that it's nearly impossible to put
down."
--James R. Hansen, prizewinning aerospace historian and bestselling
author of First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
When Myron King of the U.S. Army Air Corps arrived in England in
1944, he fully expected to fly dangerous bombing missions over Nazi
Germany. What the twenty-three-year-old lieutenant had no way of
predicting, however, was that he would spend his last months in
Europe entangled in a bizarre affair born of the mounting tensions
between the United States and the Soviet Union. Ultimately, King
faced three wars: the monumental conflict between the Allies and
the Third Reich, the nascent Cold War, and a personal battle with
the military brass to clear his name after enduring a grossly
unjust court-martial.
This book presents an engrossing account of King's early life and
wartime service as part of the 401st Bombardment Group, U.S. Eighth
Air Force. As a child growing up in New York and Tennessee, he was
thoroughly captivated by the young field of aviation and dreamed of
becoming a pilot. Attending college when Pearl Harbor was attacked,
he realized his boyhood ambition by enlisting as an Air Corps
cadet. After completing flight training two years later, King and
his crew flew a B-17 bomber across the Atlantic to join their
fellow airmen at a base near the English village of
Deenethorpe--doing their first battle not with German fighters but
with a raging storm during the Greenland-to-Iceland leg of the
journey.
Once settled in Great Britain, the King Crew flew twenty missions
from November 1944 through February 1945. It was on their last
flight to Berlin that enemy fire crippled their plane and forced
them to land in Poland amid the Russian forces that were advancing
on Germany from the east. There events took a decidedly strange
turn as King became embroiled in an incident involving a young
stowaway and the increasingly complicated relations between the
United States and Stalin's regime. Scapegoated in the episode, King
would leave the Air Corps with his honorable record severely
soiled--a wrong that would take years to undo.
The Wars of Myron King is more than just a rattling good true-life
adventure story. Based on a wide array of published and primary
sources, including trial transcripts and interviews with King, the
book offers a unique view of the experience of air combat, the
intertwining of politics and military justice, and the complex
circumstances that inaugurated the Cold War.
James Lee McDonough is professor emeritus of history at Auburn
University. He is the author of ten books, including Shiloh--In
Hell Before Night, Stones River--Bloody Winter in Tennessee,
Chattanooga--A Death Grip on the Confederacy, War in Kentucky: From
Shiloh to Perryville, and Nashville: The Western Confederacy's
Final Gamble. This is his second book on a World War II
subject.
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