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This title provides readers with a fascinating look at military gear. Vivid photographs and easy-to-read text aid comprehension for readers. Features include a table of contents, two infographics, fun facts, a sidebar, Making Connections questions, a glossary, and an index. QR Codes in the book give readers access to book-specific resources to further their learning.
11) The Pentagon's brain: an uncensored history of DARPA, America's top secret military research agency
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Since its inception in 1958, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, has grown to become the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science research and development agency. Created by President Eisenhower to prevent another Sputnik, and to focus primarily on defensive programs against nuclear weapons, the agency--and its imagination and scope--has expanded enormously with each passing year....
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I was trying to start over after a bitter divorce when I met the lieutenant.
I didn't care that his hazel eyes burned with an inner fire and sadness, and I tried not to notice how his black shirt clung tightly to his well-defined muscles.
My ex-husband had taken pleasure in telling me no one would want a thirty-some divorcee, but the next thing I knew the good lieutenant had me down on the stairs, ravishing me within an inch of my life.
He's an enigma...
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Both a resource for struggling veterans and a useful tool for their loved ones or anyone looking for ways to support the veterans in their lives.
Too often American veterans return from combat and spiral into depression, anger and loneliness they can neither share nor tackle on their own. This guide seeks to aid our troubled, returning forces by dissecting the numerous mental health problems they face upon arriving stateside. The authors detail not...
14) Military History
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Military History is the nation’s oldest and most popular war magazine devoted to the history of warfare. Topics include naval history, army, infantry and foot soldiers from all branches of the military.
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From the end of World War II until 1980, virtually no American soldiers were killed in action while serving in the Greater Middle East. Since 1990, virtually no American soldiers have been killed in action anywhere else. What caused this shift? Andrew J. Bacevich, one of the country's most respected voices on foreign affairs, offers an incisive critical history of this ongoing military enterprise--now more than thirty years old and with no end in...
17) Military planes
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Contains photographs and text that look at the history of military planes and provide information about how they work.
20) Military robots
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"Engaging images accompany information about military robots. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--
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