SHOTS HEARD ROUND THE WORLD is a new history of the American people, focusing on developments overseas and at home during the war years, from the French-Indian Wars to today's War on Terrorism. The history is centered in Boston, "the cradle of liberty," and connects Savin Hill, Beacon Hill, Bunker Hill and Dorchester Heights with Brooklyn Heights, Yorktown, Plattsburg, Vicksburg, Santa Fe, the Little Bighorn River, San Juan Hill, Belleau Wood, Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Saipan, Normandy, Tokyo, Inchon, Khe Sahn, Kuwait, London, Paris, Rome, Berlin, Moscow and Beijing. The closing chapter's heading, "The Triumph of Multi-Ethnic America," encapsulates the book's theme.

This title was first published in 2000: For its third edition, this text on knowledge organization and retrieval has been revised and restructured to accommodate the increased significance of electronic information resources. With new sections on topics such as information retrieval via the Web, metadata and managing information retrieval systems, the book explains principles relating to hybrid print-based and electronic networked environments experienced by today's users. The book is an accessible introduction to knowledge organization for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of information management and information systems.

Getting inside is easy; the stress comes in getting out clean. A case of breaking and entering escalates after Emile Cinq-Mars transfers from the Night Patrol. Montreal, 1975. Detective Emile Cinq-Mars is transferring from the Night Patrol - the notoriously tough department of officers in charge of watching over the city as it sleeps - to the day shift. His old superior has seen to it that he's assigned to partner Yves Giroux, another ex-Night Patrol detective some say isn't on the 'up and up'. Getting in a house is easy for thief Quinn Tanner. The stress comes in getting out clean. On finding her getaway driver dead after her latest heist, she goes underground. For his first case on the day shift, Emile is sent to the property that Quinn has just visited, and their paths are set to cross. But has she stolen something more valuable than she realizes . . . and who is hunting for her now?

Classic Western starring John Wayne. In 1874, cavalry despatch rider Hondo Lane (Wayne) decides to help white settler Helen (Geraldine Page) and her son when the Apaches begin to rise against the white man. Hondo feels his loyalties divided as he is half-Native American himself, but sets about helping the settlers and remaining US cavalry escape from the Apache region to safety.

"Remarkable stuff. Fans of Bill James' Harpur and Iles saga of cops and robbers are in for quite a treat" - Kirkus Reviews Starred Review Sergeant-Detective Emile Cinq-Mars fails with a task set to him by his former captain and the consequences look set to spark a gangland war in Montreal. Montreal, 1978. Newly promoted Sergeant-Detective Emile Cinq-Mars attends the scene of seventeen break-ins at an apartment complex. Nothing more than stolen toasters. Cinq-Mars suspects that the burglaries are a trial run for a bigger heist . . . until he discovers a body pinned to a wall with a machete in one apartment. When the former captain of Night Patrol, Armand Touton, receives a tip from an undercover informant in the Mafia, Cinq-Mars is ordered to intervene with a prisoner's release: the man must stay behind bars. He fails with the task and the immediate consequences are devastating. While trying to remedy his failure, solve the mystery of the break-ins and the case of the dead body, a chilling aspect emerges . . . gangland Montreal is bracing for war.

SHOTS HEARD ROUND THE WORLD is a new history of the American people, focusing on developments overseas and at home during the war years, from the French-Indian Wars to today's War on Terrorism. The history is centered in Boston, "the cradle of liberty," and connects Savin Hill, Beacon Hill, Bunker Hill and Dorchester Heights with Brooklyn Heights, Yorktown, Plattsburg, Vicksburg, Santa Fe, the Little Bighorn River, San Juan Hill, Belleau Wood, Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Saipan, Normandy, Tokyo, Inchon, Khe Sahn, Kuwait, London, Paris, Rome, Berlin, Moscow and Beijing. The closing chapter's heading, "The Triumph of Multi-Ethnic America," encapsulates the book's theme.

The great adventure of Damien the Leper began quietly over a century ago. Since then, his remarkable story has become legend throughout the world.

Joseph De Veuster left his secure life in Belgium, thrusting aside all thoughts of personal danger and spending the rest of his days as Father Damien comforting the sick and the dying. Though virtually entombed among the living dead of a leper colony on the island of Molokai, Father Damien managed to find beauty and enchantment in the lush surroundings. His extraordinary journey of the spirit comes to life in John Farrow's splendid biography, which has become a classic over the years and is sure to endure as long as people thrill to deeds of valor and pay homage to the great spiritual truths so perfectly reflected in this unforgettable story of courage, sacrifice, and devotion.

Getting inside is easy; the stress comes in getting out clean. A case of breaking and entering escalates after Emile Cinq-Mars transfers from the Night Patrol. Montreal, 1975. Detective Emile Cinq-Mars is transferring from the Night Patrol - the notoriously tough department of officers in charge of watching over the city as it sleeps - to the day shift. His old superior has seen to it that he's assigned to partner Yves Giroux, another ex-Night Patrol detective some say isn't on the 'up and up'. Getting in a house is easy for thief Quinn Tanner. The stress comes in getting out clean. On finding her getaway driver dead after her latest heist, she goes underground. For his first case on the day shift, Emile is sent to the property that Quinn has just visited, and their paths are set to cross. But has she stolen something more valuable than she realizes . . . and who is hunting for her now?

Sergeant-Detective Emile Cinq-Mars fails with a task set to him by his former captain and the consequences look set to spark a gangland war in Montreal. Montreal, 1978. Newly promoted Sergeant-Detective Emile Cinq-Mars attends the scene of seventeen break-ins at an apartment complex. Nothing more than stolen toasters. Cinq-Mars suspects that the burglaries are a trial run for a bigger heist . . . until he discovers a body pinned to a wall with a machete in one apartment. When the former captain of Night Patrol, Armand Touton, receives a tip from an undercover informant in the Mafia, Cinq-Mars is ordered to intervene with a prisoner's release: the man must stay behind bars. He fails with the task and the immediate consequences are devastating. While trying to remedy his failure, and also solve the mystery of the break-ins and the case of the dead body, a chilling aspect emerges . . . gangland Montreal is bracing for war.

'Hondo' (1953), 'McLintock!' (1963), 'True Grit' (1969), 'Rio Lobo' (1970), 'El Dorado' (1966), 'Big Jake' (1971), 'The Shootist' (1976), 'The Sons of Katie Elder' (1965) and 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance' (1962).