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Get a life: you don't need a million to retire well
Par Ralph Warner. 1996
Advises the reader not to focus exclusively on finances when preparing for retirement, but also to consider such equally important…
factors as health, spiritual life, interpersonal relationships, and interests outside of work. Interviews with retirees illustrate the importance of this approachMy Louisiana sky (Major And Mrs Holt's Battlefield Guide To Ser.)
Par Kimberly Holt. 1998
Louisiana, 1950s. Twelve-year-old Tiger Ann Parker begins to feel embarrassed in front of the other kids about the "slowness" of…
her parents. Her grandmother is the one who keeps the family intact. After Granny dies, Tiger has a chance to move to the city with her sophisticated aunt, but she is reluctant to abandon the parents who love her. For grades 6-9Reminiscences (A Da Capo paperback)
Par Douglas MacArthur. 1964
Memoirs of the twentieth-century American combat general whose fifty-year career brought him both glory and condemnation. His service spanned the…
administrations of eight presidents and provides a view of military history in this centuryGreat careers for people interested in communications technology
Par Julie Czerneda, Victoria Vincent. 1996
Discusses careers available in the field of communication including mapmaker, Internet marketer, systems analyst, microwave dish installer, and teacher. Describes…
typical workdays, duties involved, getting started in the field, and writing a resume. For junior and senior high readersTwo incomes and still broke?: it's not how much you make, but how much you keep
Par Linda Kelley. 1996
Describes how job-related expenses can devour a couple's second income. The author discusses taxes, childcare, timesavers, rushed shopping, personal upkeep,…
and other factors to be considered when deciding whether both spouses should workGreat careers for people concerned about the environment
Par Lesley Grant. 1993
Profiles careers in environmental protection and related fields, including engineering, science, enforcement, law, and health. Describes a typical day in…
the lives of workers and the educational requirements of each profession. For junior and senior high readersGreat careers for people who want to be entrepreneurs
Par Jim Lang. 1994
Profiles of individuals who have become successful entrepreneurs include a hot air balloonist, a jewelry designer, tree nursery owners, and…
a ceiling cleaning franchiser. Suggested activities and tips on entrepreneurship are included. For junior and senior high readersGreat careers for people fascinated by government & the law
Par Anne Males. 1996
Discusses careers available in government and law, including police officer, law librarian, forensic technician, and foreign service officer. Describes day-to-day…
activities, training needed, and related fields. Includes sample application letters and interview tips. For junior and senior high readersBlood rites: origins and history of the passions of war
Par Barbara Ehrenreich. 1997
The author theorizes that the origin of human propensity for war is linked to the fear that the earliest people…
had of predators in the wild, rather than an innate aggressivenessFirst-hand accounts by communications intelligence practitioners in the Southwest Pacific theater during World War II. Tells how the breaking of…
enemy codes aided in the timing and planning of Allied campaigns and "shortened the ground war in the Pacific."Aftermath: the remnants of war
Par Donovan Webster. 1996
Depicts the enduring, harmful remains of twentieth-century wars, including unexploded mines and artillery shells, radioactive soil and water, and bomb-ravaged…
landscapes. Assesses inventor Alfred Nobel's dynamite and other efficient explosives for their role in amplifying the devastation of modern warfareThe last battle
Par Cornelius Ryan. 1966
Recounts the last three weeks of the war against Germany in April 1945 from the viewpoint of the Allied and…
German Armies locked in battle and of individual soldiers and civilians who survived the final horrors of the siege and fall of Berlin. Companion to A Bridge Too Far (RC 44181, BR 10974)A bridge too far
Par Cornelius Ryan. 1974
Recounts the 1944 battle of Arnhem and the daring Allied airborne assault on Nazi-occupied Holland. The attack, which was intended…
to capture a crucial bridge and end the war early, resulted in heavy losses and a defeat for the Allies. Companion to The Longest Day (BR 09765). ViolenceI'll work for free: a short-term strategy with a long-term payoff
Par Bob Weinstein. 1994
Instead of spending time searching for a job, the author suggests deciding which job you want and offering to work…
at it for free for a few months to prove you are worth a salaried position. He explains how to sell yourself in letters and interviews, how to ensure that you won't be stuck with gopher-type work, and how to pay the bills while working for freePower interviews: job winning tactics from Fortune 500 recruiters
Par Neil Yeager. 1990
Gives tips on fine-tuning a personal presentation, researching the interviewer, and identifying and controlling personal stressors. Also explains major business…
trends of the 1990s, describes seven key evaluation factors interviewers use, and gives answers to fifty most commonly asked questions. Includes practice activitiesBrainstorm!: The stories of twenty American kid inventors
Par Tom Tucker. 1995
A look at twenty inventions, covering more than two hundred years of history, by young people ranging in age from…
five to nineteen. The inventions include earmuffs, colored car wax, popsicles, flippers, resealable cereal boxes, a rotary steam engine, and a safety device to keep children from getting their fingers mashed in doors. Includes a section on how to protect your own great ideas. For grades 5-8What the taliban told me
Par Ian Fritz. 2023
A powerful, timely memoir of a young Air Force linguist coming-of-age in a war that is lost. When Ian Fritz…
joined the Air Force at eighteen, he did so out of necessity. He hadn't been accepted into college thanks to an indifferent high school career. He'd too often slept through his classes as he worked long hours at a Chinese restaurant to help pay the bills for his trailer-dwelling family in Lake City, Florida. But the Air Force recognizes his potential and sends him to the elite Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, to learn Dari and Pashto, the main languages of Afghanistan. By 2011, Fritz was an airborne cryptologic linguist and one of only a tiny number of people in the world trained to do this job on low-flying gunships. He monitors communications on the ground and determines in real time which Afghans are Taliban and which are innocent civilians. This eavesdropping is critical to supporting Special Forces units on the ground, but there is no training to counter the emotional complexity that develops as you listen to people's most intimate conversations. Over the course of two tours, Fritz listens to the Taliban for hundreds of hours, all over the country night and day, in moments of peace and in the middle of battle. What he hears teaches him about the people of Afghanistan—Taliban and otherwise—the war, and himself. Fritz's fluency is his greatest asset to the military, yet it becomes the greatest liability to his own commitment to the cause. Both proud of his service and in despair that he is instrumental in destroying the voices that he hears, What the Taliban Told Me is a brilliant, intimate coming-of-age memoir and a reckoning with our twenty years of war in AfghanistanRoman warfare
Par Adrian Goldsworthy. 2023
From an award-winning historian of ancient Rome, a concise and comprehensive history of the fighting forces that created the Roman…
Empire Roman warfare was relentless in its pursuit of victory. A ruthless approach to combat played a major part in Rome's history, creating an empire that eventually included much of Europe, the Near East and North Africa. What distinguished the Roman army from its opponents was the uncompromising and total destruction of its enemies. Yet this ferocity was combined with a genius for absorbing conquered peoples, creating one of the most enduring empires ever known. In Roman Warfare , celebrated historian Adrian Goldsworthy traces the history of Roman warfare from 753 BC, the traditional date of the founding of Rome by Romulus, to the eventual decline and fall of Roman Empire and attempts to recover Rome and Italy from the "barbarians" in the sixth century AD. It is the indispensable history of the most professional fighting force in ancient history, an army that created an Empire and changed the worldBlack eagles: African Americans in aviation
Par James Haskins. 1995
A look at the difficulties faced by black Americans who wanted to become pilots and astronauts. The pioneers discussed include…
Eugene Bullard, who flew in World War I; Bessie Coleman, who became the first female African American pilot; and Guion Bluford and Mae Jemison, who became the first African American man and woman in space. For grades 5-8