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The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 276

The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line

For fans of Radium Girls and history and WWII buffs, The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line takes you inside the lives and experiences of 15 unknown women heroes from the Greatest Generation, the women who served, fought, struggled, and made things happen during WWII—in and out of uniform—for theirs is a legacy destined to embolden generations of women to come. From daring spies to audacious pilots, from innovative scientists to indomitable resistance fighters, these extraordinary women stepped out of line and into history, forever altering the world's landscape. This page-turning narrative, crafted with meticulous historical accuracy by retired U.S. Army Major General Mari K. Eder, provides ...

Leading the Narrative
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 301

Leading the Narrative

A primer on the art and science of strategic communication, this book offers a solid foundation of communication strategies that is both practical and theoretical. Like no other book, the manual provides practical advice on the tactics, techniques, and procedures necessary for successful media relations, campaign planning, crisis communication, and strategic communications planning. It takes a compelling look at how communication processes can be made to function more efficiently and with greater effectiveness, whether conducted by governments, organizations, or military units. The author points to such influencing factors as new technologies that flatten communication hierarchies, social media platforms that empower amateurs, generational divides, and the ebbing trust in mainstream media news. She also warns that a coarsening of public discourse contributes to the difficulty of communicating and results in a toxic information environment. Mari K. Eder is a communications professional with more than thirty years of communication experience in the U.S. Army. Publisher's note.

A Few Good Women
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 497

A Few Good Women

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-04-06
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  • Publisher: Anchor

In this riveting narrative history, women veterans from the world wars, Vietnam, the Gulf War, Afghanistan, and Iraq tell their extraordinary stories. Evelyn M. Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee spent fifteen years combing through archives, journals, histories, and news reports, and gathering thousands of eyewitness accounts, letters, and interviews for this unprecedented chronicle of America’s “few good women.” Women today make up more than fifteen percent of the U.S. armed forces and serve alongside men in almost every capacity. Here are the stories of the battles these women fought to march beside their brothers, their tales of courage and fortitude, of indignities endured, of injustices overcome, of the blood they’ve shed and the comrades they’ve lost, and the challenges they still face in the twenty-first century.

1001 Places to Pee Before You Die
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 536

1001 Places to Pee Before You Die

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-07-18
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  • Publisher: Unknown

OK, let's remember. Benson is a dog, no matter what he thinks you ought to think. He's a big-ish Miniature Schnauzer with the same goofy haircut all of his kin seem to affect, fuzzy at both ends and high-and-tight in between. He's bright, bossy, opinionated, demanding, and spoiled, a bit of a softy, an eternal teenager and an aggressive defender of his turf. He sees himself as a ladies man. He has his "papers" and retains all his original issue equipment and attitude. And, he writes, sort of. Make that "he dictates" in more ways than one to his human, Mari K. Eder. He calls her "Mama," because she's the Alpha dog in his pack, but he aspires greatly to his rightful status as Head Dog. All this is reflected in his monthly letters to his "grandparents," the North Carolina couple who were his breeders and caregivers. The letters are whimsical, autobiographical, filled with fantasy, wonder, and the reality of life as a geographically-circumscribed house dog.

Little Friends
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 166

Little Friends

Contributing to the growing debates on children and media worldwide, Little Friends explores the pervasive presence of film culture in the lives of children in China. The book also introduces the work of the little-known Children's Film Studio and the Film Course, a reform-period attempt by Chinese filmmakers and policy leaders to control the media to which schoolchildren were exposed. Stephanie Donald uses expansive firsthand interviews, children's drawings, and film history to tell a compelling cinematic story before it is forgotten in the onrush of globalized culture. She is especially careful to bring in the interests and experiences of children themselves. The book follows the trajector...

American Cyberscape
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 160

American Cyberscape

Trust is unraveling across American institutions, affecting not only government but also news organizations, trusted sources of information and, most critically, expertise and values. The impact is not just institutional, the decay also affects individuals, families and shared norms. The very foundations of American civic culture seem increasingly at risk. All the while, technology continues to act as an accelerant, speeding up societal change and challenging our abilities to keep pace while controlling our responses. Uncovering the multivariate sources of these challenges is work that demands rigorous, ongoing investigation. As with any investigation, a solid place to start is a requirement. In American Cyberscape: Trials and the Path to Trust, Mari Eder examines the sources of decay in trust and offers solutions to lead us to firmer terrains of shared truth. By grounding the topography of cyberspace and drawing on wide-ranging expertise and experience, both scholarly and practical, American Cyberscape shows pathways to improve outcomes for everyone.

Minefields and Miniskirts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 249

Minefields and Miniskirts

Presents the funny, tragic and intensely personal stories of over fifty women who were deeply involved in the Vietnam War, in both the combat zone and the home front. Moving, enlightening and sometimes shocking, ordinary women reveal how they surmounted crises, overcame abuse and discovered their real potential.

The Fold - A Collection of Poetry
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 27

The Fold - A Collection of Poetry

This collection of poetry speaks to a very common theme of real human experiences, and they are just a small part of mine. I expressed how I felt like an outsider, then realized, it's not always bad to be unusual. Me and my children suffered the utmost tragedy of being separated over my naivety, and the intentional betrayal of a neighbor I considered a friend. It's about loving someone and discovering you both want something totally different. Our circumstances are not who we are. They are not a direct reflection of our whole being. For anyone who has had to experience incarceration for any amount of time can understand where I'm coming from in two of these poems. It's when the reality of th...

If You Like Led Zeppelin...
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 187

If You Like Led Zeppelin...

It was, and it remains, the greatest rock band the world has ever seen, a giant from the moment of its inception until long after its demise. Even today, more than 30 years after its final flight, Led Zeppelin offers the final word in rock innovation – the one band that so many try to emulate and so few come even close to catching. If You Like Led Zeppelin... is the unique story of how Led Zeppelin came together not just as players, but as influences and ideas. It unearths the music that the musicians themselves were listening to, to open up an entire new world of experience and excitement for both casual and committed fans. It then travels beyond Led Zeppelin, to the bands and artists who in turn took their own lead from the Zep. Packed with exclusive comments from friends, contemporaries, and peers, If You Like Led Zeppelin... is a unique window into the world from which Led Zeppelin was born, and the one it created in its wake. From blues and beat bands to California, Morocco, Mali, and beyond, this is the ultimate guidebook for anyone who likes Led Zeppelin.

Wars that Changed the World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 537

Wars that Changed the World

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009
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  • Publisher: Unknown

The defining conflicts of world history from the ancient Greeks to the war on terror.