By the end of the American war in Vietnam, the coastal province of Phu Yen was one of the least-secure provinces in the Republic of Vietnam. It was also a prominent target of the American strategy of pacification - an effort, purportedly separate and distinct from conventional warfare, to win the 'hearts and minds' of the Vietnamese. In Robert J. Thompson III's analysis, the consistent, and consistently unsuccessful, struggle to place Phu Yen under Saigon's banner makes the province particularly fertile ground for studying how the Americans advanced pacification and why this effort ultimately failed. In March 1970, a disastrous military engagement began in Phu Yen, revealing the enemy's continued presence after more than three years of pacification. Clear, Hold, and Destroy provides a fresh perspective on the war across multiple levels, from those making and implementing policy to those affected by it. Most pointedly, Thompson contends that pacification, far from existing apart from conventional warfare, actually depended on conventional military forces for its application. His study reaches back into Phu Yen's storied history with pacification before and during the French colonial period, then focuses on the province from the onset of the American War in 1965 to its conclusion in 1975. A sharply focused, fine-grained analysis of one critical province during the Vietnam War, Thompson's work demonstrates how pacification is better understood as the foundation of U.S. fighting in Vietnam.

The major challenges facing higher education are often framed in terms of preparing students for life-long learning. Society's 21st century needs require civic-minded individuals who have the intellectual and personal capabilities to constructively engage political, ethnic, and religious differences, work effectively, and live together with many different kinds of people in a more global society. In this volume, Robert J. Thompson aims to influence the current conversation about the purposes and practices of higher education. Beyond Reason and Tolerance adopts a developmental science basis to inform the transformations in undergraduate educational practices that are necessary to empower students to act globally and constructively engage difference. It synthesizes current scholarship regarding the nature and development of three core capacities deemed essential: A personal epistemology that reflects a sophisticated understanding of knowledge, beliefs, and ways of thinking; empathy and the capacity to understand the mental states of others; and an integrated identity that includes values, commitments, and a sense of agency for civic and social responsibility. Beyond Reason and Tolerance argues that to foster the development of these capabilities, colleges and universities must recommit to providing a formative liberal education and adopt a developmental model of undergraduate education as a process of intellectual and personal growth, involving empathy as well as reasoning, values as well as knowledge, and identity as well as competencies. Thompson focuses on emerging adulthood as an especially dynamic time of reorganization and development of the brain that both influences, and is influenced by, the undergraduate experience. Advances in our understanding of human development and learning are synthesized with regard to the direct implications for undergraduate education practices.

Anti-intellectualism to Anti-rationalism to Post-truth Era: The Challenges for Higher Education argues that emergence of the post-truth world is evidence that anti-intellectualism, long recognized as a characteristic of American culture, has morphed into anti-rationalism as a surging force in American society that threatens our collective commitment to rationality. A post-truth world, however, is not an immutable condition and cannot be accepted as the new norm. The author argues that American higher education take responsibility for combating anti-rationalism by promoting the development of student's personal attributes that constitute a rational mind-set and rationalist identity, such that they hold themselves accountable for commitments to seeking truth and the value of critical thought and reasoned discourse as defining element of their way of being in the world. Scholarship exists across many disciplines regarding anti-intellectualism and anti-rationalism in American society and the personal attributes that together constitute a rational mind-set, including an evaluativist personal epistemology, open-mindedness and conscientiousness, and a rationalist identity. The author brings the perspective of a psychologist to the analysis and synthesis of this scholarship and the implications for educational practices that are effective in promoting the development of student's rational mind-set and rationalist identity necessary to combat anti-rationalism and the post-truth world.

More than thirty years ago, a classic was born. A searing novel of the Mafia underworld, The Godfather introduced readers to the first family of American crime fiction, the Corleones, and the powerful legacy of tradition, blood, and honor that was passed on from father to son. With its themes of the seduction of power, the pitfalls of greed, and family allegiance, it resonated with millions of readers across the world—and became the definitive novel of the virile, violent subculture that remains steeped in intrigue, in controversy, and in our collective consciousness.

By the end of the American War in Vietnam, the coastal province of PhU YEn was one of the least-secure provinces in the Republic of Vietnam. It was also a prominent target of the American strategy of pacification-an effort, purportedly separate and distinct from conventional warfare, to win the "hearts and minds" of the Vietnamese. In Robert J. Thompson III's analysis, the consistent, and consistently unsuccessful, struggle to place PhU YEn under Saigon's banner makes the province particularly fertile ground for studying how the Americans advanced pacification and why this effort ultimately failed. In March 1970 a disastrous military engagement began in PhU YEn, revealing the enemy's continued presence after more than three years of pacification. Clear, Hold, and Destroy provides a fresh perspective on the war across multiple levels, from those making and implementing policy to those affected by it. Most pointedly, Thompson contends that pacification, far from existing apart from conventional warfare, actually depended on conventional military forces for its application. His study reaches back into PhU YEn's storied history with pacification before and during the French colonial period, then focuses on the province from the onset of the American war in 1965 to its conclusion in 1975. A sharply focused, fine-grained analysis of one critical province during the Vietnam War, Thompson's work demonstrates how pacification is better understood as the foundation of U.S. fighting in Vietnam.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1902 Edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1906 Edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1902 Edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1915 Edition.

1915. This book comprises a series of letters addressed to the Secretary of State by Mr. Robert J. Thompson, recently American consul at Aix-la-Chapelle, Germany, who resigned his post, as the letters explain, purposely to be free from official restrictions in reporting facts of the European war situation as he has found them. Contents: Original Letter to Secretary of State; Resignation; Germany's Rise and England's Decline; Diplomacy's Isolation of Germany; Sea vs. Land Militarism; Certain Aspects of German Culture; Atrocities on the Field and in the Press; The Blood of America; and The Attitude and Duty of America.

1906. This volume contains a collation of opinions as to a future life by some of the world's most eminent scientific men and thinkers. Endeavoring to console one even nearer his brother than Mr. Thompson, he realized how unprepared, how barren is the average mind in the face of the seemingly great catastrophe of death. In the absence of absolute demonstration, at hand and ready at all times, the reasons, principles and inferences for this belief cannot be too numerous; for they must contend with the evidence of the world of sense, a world to which the greater part of mankind for the most part confines its activities. Most persons reading here the reasons and deductions given by those whose thought make up this symposium, will, it is Thompson's belief, close the book with satisfaction, and with the conviction of knowledge, rather than faith, of, if you prefer, as well as faith, that there is a life after death.

1902. A collation of opinions as to a future life by some of the world's most eminent scientific men and thinkers. Lodge was a physicist and writer involved in the development of the wireless telegraph. Lodge, in his Royal Institute lectures coined the term coherer and gained the syntonic (or tuning) patent from the United States Patent Office. Most controversially, however, he was a longtime researcher into psychic phenomena and a dedicated believer in Spiritualism, an understandable pursuit, given his huge contribution to scientific understanding of the unseen world. After 1900 he became prominent in psychical research, believing strongly in the possibility of communicating with the dead. After he lost his son Raymond during WW1 he was convinced to have established contact with him through a medium. Contents: The Scientists; The Psychical Researchers; The Philosophers; The Spiritualists; What the Editor Thinks About It; and Immortality from New Standpoints. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. His book Raymond or Life and Death ISBN: 156459632X.

1902. A collation of opinions as to a future life by some of the world's most eminent scientific men and thinkers. Lodge was a physicist and writer involved in the development of the wireless telegraph. Lodge, in his Royal Institute lectures coined the term coherer and gained the syntonic (or tuning) patent from the United States Patent Office. Most controversially, however, he was a longtime researcher into psychic phenomena and a dedicated believer in Spiritualism, an understandable pursuit, given his huge contribution to scientific understanding of the unseen world. After 1900 he became prominent in psychical research, believing strongly in the possibility of communicating with the dead. After he lost his son Raymond during WW1 he was convinced to have established contact with him through a medium. Contents: The Scientists; The Psychical Researchers; The Philosophers; The Spiritualists; What the Editor Thinks About It; and Immortality from New Standpoints. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. His book Raymond or Life and Death ISBN: 156459632X.

1915. This book comprises a series of letters addressed to the Secretary of State by Mr. Robert J. Thompson, recently American consul at Aix-la-Chapelle, Germany, who resigned his post, as the letters explain, purposely to be free from official restrictions in reporting facts of the European war situation as he has found them. Contents: Original Letter to Secretary of State; Resignation; Germany's Rise and England's Decline; Diplomacy's Isolation of Germany; Sea vs. Land Militarism; Certain Aspects of German Culture; Atrocities on the Field and in the Press; The Blood of America; and The Attitude and Duty of America.

This volume contains a collation of opinions as to a future life by some of the world's most eminent scientific men and thinkers. Endeavoring to console one even nearer his brother than Mr. Thompson, he realized how unprepared, how barren is the average mind in the face of the seemingly great catastrophe of death. In the absence of absolute demonstration, at hand and ready at all times, the reasons, principles and inferences for this belief cannot be too numerous; for they must contend with the evidence of the world of sense, a world to which the greater part of mankind for the most part confines its activities. Most persons reading here the reasons and deductions given by those whose thought make up this symposium, will, it is Thompson's belief, close the book with satisfaction, and with the conviction of knowledge, rather than faith, of, if you prefer, as well as faith, that there is a life after death.

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