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.