Authors:Chris Kidder, The Outer Banks History Center, Associ
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: history, series, postcard, postcards, banks, vintage, outer
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2005-04-11
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 0738517682
ISBN-13: 9780738517681

The Outer Banks of North Carolina have been a destination for seasonal visitors since Algonkian Indians hunted and fished on the islands. In 1584, English explorers arrived and before long were promoting the area as a land of natural abundance and beauty, pleasant weather, and kindly natives. Not much has changed in that respect. By the beginning of the 20th century, visitors and residents alike were using postcards to share the things that make the Outer Banks unique with family and friends in other places.

Author: California Center for Military History
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: america, california, images, obispo, san, luis, camp
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2004-11-22
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 073852915X
ISBN-13: 9780738529158

Camp San Luis Obispo, founded in 1928 amid the starkly beautiful rolling hills north of San Luis Obispo, has an ideal central California location. It is the original home of the California National Guard and remains today the Guard’s principal training facility. In 1941 the U.S. Army commandeered the post, enlarging it to over 10,000 acres for the training of half a million soldiers and 42 infantry divisions. Salinas Dam, 20 miles away, was built to provide a dependable source of water for the troops. Reverting to the state after major conflicts, the camp is also the headquarters for the

Author: Center of Military History (U.S. Army)
Publisher: Dept. of the Army
Keywords: war, world, campaigns, army, papua
Number of Pages: 22
Published: 1992-04-06
List price: $0.50
ISBN-10: 0160358833
ISBN-13: 9780160358838

Author: Mary C. GillettCenter of Military History (U.S. A
Publisher: Dept. of the Army
Keywords: army, historical, hardcover, department, medical
Number of Pages: 668
Published: 2009-12-01
List price: $68.00
ISBN-10: 0160839696
ISBN-13: 9780160839696

Mary C. Gillett’s fourth and final volume The Army Medical Department, 1917–1941, provides a long-needed in-depthanalysis of the department’s struggle to maintain the health and fighting ability of the nation’s soldiers during both World War I—a conflict of unexpected proportions and violence—and the years that preceded World War II. In 1917, unprepared as a result of the widespread conviction that to prepare for war is to encourage its outbreak, the Medical Department faced confusion exacerbated by a shortage of both equipment and trained personnel. While bringing to b

Author: Center of Excellence Defence Against TerrorCenter
Publisher: IOS Press
Keywords: peace, security, science, nato, cyber, terrorism, responses
Number of Pages: 145
Published: 2008-05-15
List price: $161.00
ISBN-10: 1586038362
ISBN-13: 9781586038366

The one issue touched on repeatedly by the contributors of this publication is the difficulty of arriving at a definition of cyber terrorism. A NATO Office of Security document cautiously defines it as ’a cyber attack using or exploiting computer or communication networks to cause sufficient destruction or disruption to generate fear or to intimidate a society into an ideological goal.’ But the cyber world is surely remote from what is recognized as terrorism: the bloody attacks and ethnic conflicts, or, more precisely, the politically-motivated ’intention to cause death or s

Author: Committee on Alternatives for Inspection of Outer
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: shelf, operations, continental, outer, inspecting, alternatives
Number of Pages: 122
Published: 1990-01-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0309042275
ISBN-13: 9780309042277

Aggressive, effective safety inspection programs are key elements to ensuring that oil- and gas-producing platform operations on the outer continental shelf are conducted in a safe and environmentally sound manner. Although the oil and gas leaseholders themselves are primarily responsible for the soundness of their operations, the Minerals Management Service (MMS) of the Department of the Interior is charged with prescribing safe practices and inspecting platforms. In response to an MMS request, this book examines possible revisions of MMS’s inspection system, appraises inspection practi

Author: Committee to Review the Outer Continental Shelf En
Publisher: National Academies Pre
Keywords: program, physical, oceanography, studies, environmental, outer, continental, shelf, assessment
Number of Pages: 154
Published: 1990-01-01
List price: $33.75
ISBN-10: 0309041813
ISBN-13: 9780309041812