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An award-winning historian portrays America's most famous frontier
hero. From Boone's extraordinary accomplishments and from the
conflicting accounts of his life and character, Faragher depicts
not only the hero but the uniquely American hero-making process.
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This book reveals the historical context and the evolution of the
technically complex Allied Signals Intelligence (Sigint) activity
against Japan from 1920 to 1945. It traces the all-important
genesis and development of the cryptanalytic techniques used to
break the main Japanese Navy code (JN-25) and the Japanese Army s
Water Transport Code during WWII. This is the first book to
describe, explain and analyze the code breaking techniques
developed and used to provide this intelligence, thus closing the
sole remaining gap in the published accounts of the Pacific War.
The authors also explore the organization of cryptographic teams
and issues of security, censorship, and leaks. Correcting gaps in
previous research, this book illustrates how Sigint remained
crucial to Allied planning throughout the war. It helped direct the
advance to the Philippines from New Guinea, the sea battles and the
submarine onslaught on merchant shipping. Written by well-known
authorities on the history of cryptography and mathematics, Code
Breaking in the Pacific is designed for cryptologists,
mathematicians and researchers working in communications security.
Advanced-level students interested in cryptology, the history of
the Pacific War, mathematics or the history of computing will also
find this book a valuable resource."
Secret Manoeuvres from the Guy who has mastered the Underground
Seduction System to take Unfair Advantage of Women in an Unjust
World. This is the down and dirty guide to seduction for the man
who has been hurt many times. This system is by all means unfair:
to all the other guys who don't have a clue - and to all those
women who have no idea what you are doing with them. This book will
teach you psychological tricks to draw the target to you. Seduction
is a mental dance. Learn to interact at an emotional plane, create
suspense and mystery - tantalise and play a passionate game
From John Mack, former CEO of Morgan Stanley, an intimate personal
memoir and riveting business story, recounting how he helped grow
the company from 300 to 50,000 employees over four decades,
transformed a notoriously competitive culture into a successful and
collaborative one, and lead the company through the 2008 financial
crisis. During his thirty-four-year tenure at Morgan Stanley, John
Mack's goal was to build the strongest and most productive team on
Wall Street. His ability to motivate his employees to do their best
work, especially in times of crisis, was fostered by his
willingness to slash through bureaucracy and stand up to powerful
interests. A forceful personality, one journalist said Mack was
"described as 'charismatic' so regularly that it could be part of
his name." In Up Close and All In, Mack traces his personal journey
from a one-stoplight North Carolina mill town to a fortieth-floor
corner office on Wall Street-and shares the life lessons he learned
along the way. He developed a titanium-strength stomach for risk,
stress, and competition while landing accounts early in his career,
as investment banks fought like wolfpacks to take advantage of new
deregulation, fielding business raids, booms, and busts. As he rose
through the ranks, he never forgot where he came from, relying on
his instincts, doing what was right, and listening to his people on
the front lines. This culture of trust and collaboration helped
Morgan Stanley anticipate future trends before other firms, adapt
quickly, and achieve record profits. This gripping memoir includes
both humbling lows-like when Mack made the difficult decision to
leave Morgan Stanley in 2001-and exhilarating highs-such as when he
made an eleventh-hour agreement with the Japanese bank Mitsubishi
to save the company during the 2008 financial crisis, having
refused to give in when top regulators pressured him to sell the
firm for $2 per share. With humor and honesty, Mack shares advice
on both business and life: how to create a culture of team players,
how to keep perspective during crises, how to make difficult
decisions when all eyes are on you, and more. From a singular man
who's as unafraid to cry publicly as he is to anger some of the
most powerful people in the world, this is an indispensable guide
to living and leading well.
CD and MCD spectroscopy can provide key information about the
conformations and electronic states of chromophore containing
molecules. However, the theory has remained too challenging and
inaccessible for many organic chemists and biochemists and only a
few researchers have carried out detailed quantitative analyses of
their spectral data. This is not surprising as people who excel at
spectroscopic theory usually lack the skills set required to design
and synthesise the molecules that would be most appropriate for
describing and explaining the theory of CD and MCD spectroscopy.
Most of the books that have been written on the subject have,
therefore, been based on very dense sets of mathematical equations.
This timely book rectifies that situation by summarizing the
relationship between the different types of spectra and by
describing in detail the qualitative and quantitative methods which
can readily be used to analyse CD and MCD spectral data. During the
last decade the authors have successfully synthesized several
molecules to illustrate key points related to the theory of CD and
MCD spectroscopy, resulting in this definitive book providing key
practical knowledge in a readily accessible style. It is aimed
primarily at organic chemists and biochemists and provides the
required reading for researchers active in the field. In the
introduction, the book describes the types of information that can
be derived from CD and MCD spectroscopy. After a detailed
explanation of the theory of electronic absorption spectroscopy, it
then provides practical in depth examples of the various analytical
methods that can be carried out with CD and MCD spectral data. This
makes the theory of these techniques much more accessible for
researchers who do not specialise in physical chemistry.
This book reveals the historical context and the evolution of the
technically complex Allied Signals Intelligence (Sigint) activity
against Japan from 1920 to 1945. It traces the all-important
genesis and development of the cryptanalytic techniques used to
break the main Japanese Navy code (JN-25) and the Japanese Army’s
Water Transport Code during WWII. This is the first book to
describe, explain and analyze the code breaking techniques
developed and used to provide this intelligence, thus closing the
sole remaining gap in the published accounts of the Pacific War.
The authors also explore the organization of cryptographic teams
and issues of security, censorship, and leaks. Correcting gaps in
previous research, this book illustrates how Sigint remained
crucial to Allied planning throughout the war. It helped direct the
advance to the Philippines from New Guinea, the sea battles and the
submarine onslaught on merchant shipping. Written by well-known
authorities on the history of cryptography and mathematics, Code
Breaking in the Pacific is designed for cryptologists,
mathematicians and researchers working in communications security.
Advanced-level students interested in cryptology, the history of
the Pacific War, mathematics or the history of computing will also
find this book a valuable resource.
This concise and beautifully illustrated book demonstrates the many
roles played by the horse in the lives of the Greeks, from its
place in myth and early history to its significance as a marker of
social status and its use in warfare, transportation, games, and
festivals. From their arrival in Greece, at the start of the Middle
Bronze Age (ca. 2000 B.C.), horses were a powerful symbol of rank.
Bridles and other horse trappings are often found in graves,
alongside vases depicting horses grazing, racing, and parading.
Sculpture is also full of horse imagery, from monumental equestrian
statues (a bronze leg and gilded sword are all that remain from one
of these) to tiny terracotta figurines, perhaps the toys of a
child. As well as presenting many examples of horse imagery found
in the Agora, the author reports on recent finds near the ancient
hipparcheion, the stables of the Athenian cavalry.
Eternity Street tells the story of a violent place in a violent
time: the rise of Los Angeles from its origins as a small Mexican
pueblo. In a masterful narrative, John Mack Faragher relates a
dramatic history of conquest and ethnic suppression, of collective
disorder and interpersonal conflict. Eternity Street recounts the
struggle to achieve justice amid the turmoil of a loosely governed
frontier, and it delivers a piercing look at the birth of this
quintessentially American city. In the 1850s, the City of Angels
was infamous as one of the most murderous societies in America.
Saloons teemed with rowdy crowds of Indians and Californios,
Mexicans and Americans. Men ambled down dusty streets, armed with
Colt revolvers and Bowie knives. A closer look reveals characters
acting in unexpected ways: a newspaper editor advocating lynch law
in the name of racial justice; hundreds of Latinos massing to
attack the county jail, determined to lynch a hooligan from Texas.
Murder and mayhem in Edenic southern California. "There is no
brighter sun...no country where nature is more lavish of her
exuberant fullness," an Angeleno wrote in 1853. "And yet, with all
our natural beauties and advantages, there is no country where
human life is of so little account. Men hack one another to pieces
with pistols and other cutlery as if God's image were of no more
worth than the life of one of the two or three thousand ownerless
dogs that prowl about our streets and make night hideous." This is
L.A. noir in the act of becoming.
The artifacts and monuments of the Athenian Agora provide our best
evidence for the workings of ancient democracy. As a concise
introduction to these physical traces, this book has been a
bestseller since it was first published almost 20 years ago.
Showing how tribal identity was central to all aspects of civic
life, the text guides the reader through the duties of citizenship;
as soldier in times of war and as juror during the peace. The
checks and balances that protected Athenian society from tyrants,
such as legal assassination and ostracism, are described. Selected
inscriptions are illustrated and discussed, as are ingenious
devices such as allotment machines and water clocks, which ensured
fairness in the courts. The book ends with some of the lasting
products of classical administration; the silver coins accepted
around the known world, and the standard weights and measures that
continue to protect the consumer from unscrupulous merchants. Now
illustrated entirely in color, with updates and revisions by the
current director of excavations at the Agora, this new edition of
an acknowledged classic will inform and fascinate visitors and
students for many years to come.
In 1755, New England troops embarked on a "great and noble scheme"
to expel 18,000 French-speaking Acadians ("the neutral French")
from Nova Scotia, killing thousands, separating innumerable
families, and driving many into forests where they waged a
desperate guerrilla resistance. The right of neutrality; to live in
peace from the imperial wars waged between France and England; had
been one of the founding values of Acadia; its settlers traded and
intermarried freely with native Mikmaq Indians and English
Protestants alike. But the Acadians' refusal to swear unconditional
allegiance to the British Crown in the mid-eighteenth century gave
New Englanders, who had long coveted Nova Scotia's fertile
farmland, pretense enough to launch a campaign of ethnic cleansing
on a massive scale. John Mack Faragher draws on original research
to weave 150 years of history into a gripping narrative of both the
civilization of Acadia and the British plot to destroy it."
A concise edition of the authors' definitive history of the
American West, updated and rewritten for a popular audience "From
the Caribbean to Canada and from the Atlantic to the Pacific, this
marvelous survey spotlights the unexpected twists and turns that
occurred when peoples met and mingled and how from these cultural
encounters emerged today's American West. Hine and Faragher find in
our frontier history the key to 'our common past' and a 'blueprint
for our common future.'"-Stephen Aron, Department of History, UCLA
Published in 2000 to critical acclaim, The American West: A New
Interpretive History quickly became the standard in college history
classrooms. Robert V. Hine and John Mack Faragher here offer a
concise edition of their classic text, freshly updated. Lauded for
their lively and elegant writing, the authors provide a grand
survey of the colorful history of the American West, from the first
contacts between Native Americans and Europeans to the beginning of
the twenty-first century. Frontiers introduces the diverse peoples
and cultures of the American West and explores how men and women of
different ethnic groups were affected when they met, mingled, and
often clashed. Hine and Faragher present the complexities of the
American West-as frontier and region, real and imagined, old and
new. Showcasing the distinctive voices and experiences of frontier
characters, they explore topics ranging from early exploration to
modern environmentalism, drawing expansively from a wide range of
sources. With four galleries of fascinating illustrations drawn
from Yale University's premier Collection of Western Americana,
some published here for the first time, this book will be treasured
by every reader with an interest in the unique saga of the American
West.
A concise and lively history of California, the most multicultural
state in the nation  “A masterful history.”—Kirkus
Reviews (starred review)  “Faragher takes the reader on a
captivating journey through myriad twists and turns of
California’s multicultural history, enlivened by stories of
people who rarely penetrate our traditional state
chronicles.”—Carlos E. Cortés, University of California,
Riverside  California is the most multicultural state in
America. As John Mack Faragher explains in this new history,
California’s natural variety has always supported such diversity,
including Native peoples speaking dozens of distinct languages,
Spanish and Mexican colonists, gold seekers from all corners of the
globe, and successive migrant waves from the eastern United States
and from Europe, Latin America, Asia, and the Pacific Islands.
 Faragher tells the stories of a colorful cast of
characters—some famous, others mostly unknown—including African
American Archy Lee, who sued for his freedom; Sinkyone Indian woman
Sally Bell, who survived genocide; and Jewish schoolgirl Marilyn
Greene, who spoke up for her Japanese friends after the attack on
Pearl Harbor. California’s diversity has often led to conflict,
turmoil, and violence but also to invention, improvisation, and a
struggle to achieve multicultural democracy.
Sudoku Strategizer--The Visual Aide and Strategy Game
Sudoku is the new puzzle sensation more and more people are
discovering and playing everyday. The rules are simple: Fill in all
the blank cells in such a way that each of the numbers 1-9 appear
only once in each column, row and box. It is widely believed that
Sudoku develops logical reasoning and helps to stimulate brain
cells in most players especially children and seniors. Completing a
puzzle can increase a player's self esteem tremendously. The
chances of completing a Sudoku puzzle greatly increase when using
the "Sudoku Strategizer."
If you have enjoyed solving Sudoku puzzles before, you will enjoy
solving them even more after you have played "Sudoku
Strategizer-The Visual Aide and Strategy Game." This game uses a
patent pending tracking system, which will revolutionize the way
Sudoku puzzles are solved forever. One of the many visual aides
this game offers is that it provides a long awaited solution to a
problem that many puzzle solvers face while trying to solve Sudoku
puzzles...keeping track of all unused numbers in each column and
row. Even the more advanced puzzle solvers will benefit when their
current techniques are applied together with the "Sudoku
Strategizer."
If you haven't tried to solve a Sudoku puzzle yet because you
thought it was to difficult--"Fear No More" because the "Sudoku
Strategizer" not only aides the player in solving Sudoku puzzles
faster and easier, it also serves as a teaching aide to show others
how to solve these type puzzles.
"Offers students insight into how diverse communities and different
regions have shaped America's past." For the two-semester U.S.
history survey course.
Out of Many, brief edition, reveals the ethnic, geographical and
economic diversity of the United States by examining the
individual, the community and the state and placing a special focus
on the country's regions, particularly the West. Each chapter helps
students understand the textured and varied history that has
produced the increasing complexity of America. This book is the
abridged version of Out of Many, seventh edition.
Teaching and Learning Experience "Personalize Learning"-The new
MyHistoryLab delivers proven results in helping students succeed,
provides engaging experiences that personalize learning and comes
from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep
commitment to helping students and instructors achieve their goals.
"Improve Critical Thinking"- Seeing History images and critical
thinking questions help students use visual culture to make sense
of the past.
"Engage Students"- Each chapter begins with an American
Communities feature that shows how the events discussed in the
chapter affected particular communities for a well-rounded
understanding of American history.
"Support Instructors"- MyHistoryLab, ClassPrep, an Instructor's
Manual, MyTest and PowerPoints. Note: MyHistoryLab does not come
automatically packaged with this text. To purchase MyHistoryLab at
no extra charge, please visit www.MyHistoryLab.com or use the
following (VP ISBN-10: 0205134491, VP ISBN-13: 9780205134496)
A fully revised and updated new edition of the classic history of
western America The newly revised second edition of this concise,
engaging, and unorthodox history of America's West has been updated
to incorporate new research, including recent scholarship on Native
American lives and cultures. An ideal text for course work, it
presents the West as both frontier and region, examining the
clashing of different cultures and ethnic groups that occurred in
the western territories from the first Columbian contacts between
Native Americans and Europeans up to the end of the twentieth
century.
During the last half of the nineteenth century, thousands of men
went west in search of gold, land, or adventure - leaving their
wives to handle family, farm, and business affairs on their own.
The experiences of these westering men have long been a part of the
lore of the American frontier, but the stories of their wives have
rarely been told. Ten years of research into public and private
documents - including letters of couples separated during the
westward movement - has enabled Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith to
tell the forgotten stories of "women in waiting." Though these
wives were left more or less in limbo by the departure of their
adventuring husbands, they were hardly women in waiting in any
other sense. Children had to be fed, clothed, housed, and educated;
farms and businesses had to be managed; creditors had to be paid or
pacified - and, in some cases, hard-earned butter-and-egg money had
to be sent west in response to letters from broke and disillusioned
husbands. This raises some unsettling questions: How does the idea
of an "allowance" from home square with our long-standing image of
the frontiersman as rugged individualist? To what extent was the
westward movement supported by the paid and unpaid labor of women
back east? And how do we measure the heroics of husbands out west
against the heroics of wives back home? Based on the experiences of
more than fifty women - from Abiah Hiller, whose business sense
equaled or excelled her husband's, to Emma Christie, who knew
virtually nothing about the matters she was called upon to manage -
Women in Waiting in the Westward Movement offers a rare glimpse
into life on the home frontier and provides new insights into
fairly common, though poorly documented, aspect of the history of
the settling of the American West.
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