There is an evident need to see things more clearly, but without simplifying what was inherently a very complex war, which engulfed not only the United States and Vietnam, but their respective allies and other countries in Indochina, namely Laos and Cambodia. This task is undertaken by The A to Z Guide of the Vietnam War , first in its chronology, then in its introduction, but mainly in a substantial dictionary section including hundreds of entries on significant military and political persons, places, events, armed units, battles and lesser engagements ...

Poems of the Erotic, the Romantic, the Violent, and the Grotesque.

Seventeen is another story of boyhood, coupled with romance. William Baxter is infatuated with baby-talking Lola Pratt. First love with all of its glories and pratfalls; called 'one of the superb comedies of adolescence' by Tarkington's biographer, James Woodruff.

The book provides an overview of the livestock and meat resources as well as the traditional African cuisines characteristic of the five divisions of the continent: Central, East, North, Southern and West Africa, respectively. Analysis of animal products (meat, milk, eggs and fish); their production, consumption levels and/or pattern of consumption relative to the various countries; clearly shows a dwindling per caput/year intake of meat in the continent ...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States ...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States ...

This compelling collection of correspondence between a father and a son documents the history of eighteenth-century America through the intimate story of a family and the journey from boyhood to political prominence of its most illustrious member, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the only Roman Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence. Beginning in the late 1740s, when "Papa" (Charles Carroll of Annapolis) sent "Charley" (Charles Carroll of Carrollton) away from his native Maryland to be educated in Europe, the letters present a new perspective on ...

Le but de ce travail était d'étudier l'effet des propriétés chimiques de surface des charbons actifs pour leur utilisation dans la purification de l'eau. Pour atteindre cet objectif, du charbon actif sous forme granulaire et en poudre, à savoir : du charbon tel que reçu et dévolatilisé, a été préparé. Une analyse approfondie des matériaux carbonés a été réalisée. Des expériences de titrage massique ont été réalisées ...

""Log Letters From The Challenger (1877)"" is a book written by George Granville Campbell that chronicles the voyage of the HMS Challenger, a British scientific exploration vessel that circumnavigated the globe from 1872 to 1876. The book is a collection of letters written by Campbell, who served as the ship's purser, to his family and friends back home in England. Through his letters, Campbell provides a vivid and detailed account of the Challenger's four-year journey, documenting the scientific discoveries made by the crew and the challenges they faced ...