We Hold this Treasure
We Hold this Treasure

Author: Steven E. Koop

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13:

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Based Upon interviews and correspondence with more than four hundred former patients, We Hold This Treasure is the inspiring story of the first state-funded hospital in the United States to provide care for indigent, handicapped children.

Boots on the ground: Troop Density in Contingency Operations
Boots on the ground: Troop Density in Contingency Operations

Author: John J. McGrath

Publisher: Government Printing Office

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780160869501

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This paper clearly shows the immediate relevancy of historical study to current events. One of the most common criticisms of the U.S. plan to invade Iraq in 2003 is that too few troops were used. The argument often fails to satisfy anyone for there is no standard against which to judge. A figure of 20 troops per 1000 of the local population is often mentioned as the standard, but as McGrath shows, that figure was arrived at with some questionable assumptions. By analyzing seven military operations from the last 100 years, he arrives at an average number of military forces per 1000 of the population that have been employed in what would generally be considered successful military campaigns. He also points out a variety of important factors affecting those numbers-from geography to local forces employed to supplement soldiers on the battlefield, to the use of contractors-among others.

Schindler's List
Schindler's List

Author: Thomas Keneally

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-08-06

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 1476750483

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In remembrance of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and the Nazi concentration camps, this award-winning, bestselling work of Holocaust fiction, inspiration for the classic film and “masterful account of the growth of the human soul” (Los Angeles Times Book Review), returns with an all-new introduction by the author. An “extraordinary” (New York Review of Books) novel based on the true story of how German war profiteer and factory director Oskar Schindler came to save more Jews from the gas chambers than any other single person during World War II. In this milestone of Holocaust literature, Thomas Keneally, author of The Book of Science and Antiquities and The Daughter of Mars, uses the actual testimony of the Schindlerjuden—Schindler’s Jews—to brilliantly portray the courage and cunning of a good man in the midst of unspeakable evil. “Astounding…in this case the truth is far more powerful than anything the imagination could invent” (Newsweek).

The Child with a Spinal Cord Injury
The Child with a Spinal Cord Injury

Author: Randal R. Betz

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 910

ISBN-13:

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Aims to provide a contemporary review of pediatric SCIs in order to disseminate standards for optimal care of affected children and adolescents, identify areas of deficient knowledge, and encourage research. Contains 68 contributions in sections on etiology and prevention, management, medical issues, orthopedic problems, upper extremity management, rehabilitation, discharge and transition, habilitation, research and technological applications, and special considerations. Identified as the second in a projected series of symposia on the subject sponsored by Shriners Hospitals (though the series is not named). Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR