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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Martial Artists: Phenomenal Lessons to be the Ultimate Martial Artist From Day 1
Master Instructor Carl D. Stoldt
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2014
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The Battle of the Bulge lives in history as the U.S. Army's largest and bloodiest battle of World War II. This innovative study of American military leadership in action during the battle examines the performance of six generals in the days and weeks after the German attack in December 1944.Generals covered include Dwight Eisenhower and Omar Bradley, among othersFive levels of command are studied: supreme coalition, army group, army, corps, and division/armored combat commandA unique and important history that will appeal to buffs, scholars, and soldiers
The Battle of the Bulge lives in history as the U.S. Army's largest and bloodiest battle of World War II. This innovative study of American military leadership in action during the battle examines the performance of six generals in the days and weeks after the German attack in December 1944.Generals covered include Dwight Eisenhower and Omar Bradley, among othersFive levels of command are studied: supreme coalition, army group, army, corps, and division/armored combat commandA unique and important history that will appeal to buffs, scholars, and soldiers
Shakespeare's Sonnets Among His Private Friends
William Shakespeare; Carl D. Atkins
Small Latin Press
2021
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An exciting, innovative approach to reading Shakespeare's Sonnets "His sugared Sonnets among his private friends." That's how Shakespeare's Sonnets were described in the only contemporary reference to them. This brings up the image of a talented, young poet-with a penchant for irreverent fun-getting together with friends to read his new sonnet cycle. Numerous sonnet cycles were published that typically told the story of thwarted love. The same topics are repeated: a chaste and beautiful lady, a love-sick poet, unable to sleep, dreaming only of his beloved, sunk into despair by her cruelty (cruel only because she decides to remain chaste). Shakespeare's Sonnets are like this, but with a twist-increasing the reader's fun in trying to work out the details of the vague story they tell by adding a love triangle and intertwining two story lines into the typical tale. Perhaps Shakespeare wrote his Sonnets both as a literary exercise to show off his talents and as a form of entertainment for his friends to enjoy.Atkins invites you to join him in imagining that our poet has honored us with a few evenings of readings from his new sonnet cycle. We listen to the poems and discuss each one as he nods appreciatively but refuses to answer any questions-that would spoil all the fun Let's see what it might have been like to have Shakespeare read his sonnets "among his private friends."This book, complete with glosses of difficult words and phrases and a thorough explanation of each poem, is just as carefully edited as the brilliant variorum edition published by Atkins in 2007, Shakespeare's Sonnets: With Three Hundred Years of Commentary. It is also scattered with the same sensitive readings of verse that made his variorum edition so unique. (For those particularly interested in Shakespeare's use of meter in The Sonnets, Atkins has a complete metrical analysis of all 154 poems, which serves as an excellent companion to Shakespeare's Sonnets Among His Private Friends, which is available at amonghisprivatefriends.com.) Also unique to this edition is a look at how the last 28 sonnets about a "dark lady" may have been influenced by Christopher Marlowe's English translation of Ovid's erotic poems, Amores (Book 1 of which is included in an appendix).
German general Hermann Balck (1897--1982) was considered to be one of World War II's greatest battlefield commanders. His brilliantly fought battles were masterpieces of tactical agility, mobile counterattack, and the technique of Auftragstaktik, or "mission command." However, because he declined to participate in the U.S. Army's military history debriefing program, today he is known only to serious students of the war.Drawing heavily on his meticulously kept wartime journals, Balck discusses his childhood and his career through the First and Second World Wars. His memoir details the command decision-making process as well as operations on the ground during crucial battles, including the Battle of the Marne in World War I and his incredible victories against a larger and better-equipped Soviet army at the Chir River in World War II. Balck also offers observations on Germany's greatest generals, such as Erich Ludendorff and Heinz Guderian, and shares his thoughts on international relations, domestic politics, and Germany's place in history. Available in English for the first time in an expertly edited and annotated edition, this important book provides essential information about the German military during a critical era in modern history.
Order in Chaos
Hermann Balck; Carlo D'Este; David T. Zabecki
The University Press of Kentucky
2017
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German general Hermann Balck (1897--1982) was considered to be one of World War II's greatest battlefield commanders. His brilliantly fought battles were masterpieces of tactical agility, mobile counterattack, and the technique of Auftragstaktik, or "mission command." However, because he declined to participate in the U.S. Army's military history debriefing program, today he is known only to serious students of the war.Drawing heavily on his meticulously kept wartime journals, Balck discusses his childhood and his career through the First and Second World Wars. His memoir details the command decision-making process as well as operations on the ground during crucial battles, including the Battle of the Marne in World War I and his incredible victories against a larger and better-equipped Soviet army at the Chir River in World War II. Balck also offers observations on Germany's greatest generals, such as Erich Ludendorff and Heinz Guderian, and shares his thoughts on international relations, domestic politics, and Germany's place in history. Available in English for the first time in an expertly edited and annotated edition, this important book provides essential information about the German military during a critical era in modern history.
In December 1942, 21-year-old Eugenio Corti, an officer in the Italian army, found himself, along with 30,000 Italians and 6,000 Germans, surrounded by Russians on Russian soil. To save themselves, they set out on a terrifying march through the desolate environment, where temperatures constantly hovered between -30 and -40 degrees Fahrenheit. The Italian troops were ill equipped and ill prepared for the struggle that followed. ""Few Returned"" is Corti's diary of his experiences during the month it took the troops to break through the Russian line to freedom. Each day brought brutal engagements with the Russians, and there was little time to sleep or eat. Many wounded, starving, frostbitten and delirious men were left to die. Corti paints a deeply moving picture of each scene as he experienced it. Through this detailed and compassionate telling of these events, the reader becomes aware of Corti's heroic struggles to save the sick and wounded. Although he helps many, he soon realizes that he must save himself. His heart remains heavy for those left behind. ""This is one of the reasons I am writing today: so that everyone may know about your sacrifice, my brothers, my thousands of brothers, who perished in that terrifying misery. But what chance do I have of receiving a more than ephemeral hearing if my voice is parched, after such treatment, and within me there is a desert?"" While Corti was recovering in an Italian hospital after the march, he began writing this diary. He was very careful not to include anything in it that he did not know for fact. After his convalescence, he rejoined the fighting forces. By this time there was among the Italians a realistic fear of house-searches by their former German allies; thus, Corti had his manuscript wrapped in a waterproof sheet and buried. After the war he recovered and transcribed the diary, which was first published in 1947 and has remained in print since then. Translated from Italian for publication in several other languages, ""Few Returned"" has until now been unavailable in English. This heart-wrenching account of the bitter fighting on the Russian front during World War II is certain to become a classic in America, as it already has become in Italy, Germany and Japan.
Della Commedia Di Dante Alighieri, Cantica 2 (1728)
Dante Alighieri; Carlo D' Aquino
KESSINGER PUBLISHING CO
2009
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State guarantees commonly function as financial panacea, allowing states to consolidate banking systems and create intergovernmental funds. Rules surrounding state guarantees were relaxed during the 2007-2008 financial crisis, allowing states to use them for financing small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and workers' severance payments. Despite many multi-level interventions in many areas after the financial crisis, from international treaties to EU regulations, no specific regulation has been put in place to control state guarantees. This book addresses the subject of state guarantees in the Eurozone, and questions the stability of the instruments implemented so far by states and by the European Union. Using a methodology combining law and finance, it examines the tools adopted by European institutions and Member States in the EU's evolving institutional context, in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the tools themselves as well as of the new European institutional framework. It also addresses the unconventional measures adopted by the European Central Bank, its role as safeguard for European state guarantees and its interaction with the European Union and national courts. In From Saviour to Guarantor the authors suggest that the absence of specific regulatory interventions and the variety and vagueness of existing rules has resulted in state guarantees further destabilising public international finance.
Il Disprezzo Uccide; Norma; Impara L'Arte; Fuochi Di Paglia; Fra Due Contendenti (1873)
Luigi Camoletti; Carlo D'Ormeville; Leo Di Castelnovo
KESSINGER PUBLISHING, LLC
2010
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Psychological Interventions in Sport, Exercise and Injury Rehabilitation
Craig Hall; Carly D. Mckay; Lindsay Duncan
Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.
2014
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Psychological Interventions in Sport, Exercise and Injury Rehabilitation provides an overview of psychological strategies that can be used as part of a Psychological Skills Training program, with emphasis on their use in sport, exercise, and injury rehabilitation.To further reinforce learning and comprehension, Psychological Interventions in Sport, Exercise and Injury Rehabilitation:Highlights the current gaps in our knowledge and provides suggestions for those wishing to implement these techniques in their own PST practice.Descriptions of all three areas (Sport, Exercise and Injury Rehabilitation) in every chapterReal-life case examplesAn accompanying instructor's resource package with PowerPoint slides and test bank
For Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., the battle for Lorraine during the fall and winter of 1944 was a frustrating and grueling experience of static warfare. Plagued by supply shortages, critical interference from superiors, flooded rivers, fortified cities, and the highly determined German army, Patton had little opportunity to wage the type of fast armored campaign of which he was so enamored. Author John Rickard examines Patton's generalship during these bitter battles and suggests that Patton was unable to adapt to the new realities of the campaign, thereby failing to wage the most effective warfare possible. Relying on a broad range of historical sources, including personal papers and division after-action reports, this treatment of Patton's operational performance in Lorraine goes beyond the official history. It describes Patton's philosophy of war and explains why it failed him in Lorraine. Supplemented by full orders of battle, casualty and equipment loses, and excellent maps based on Hugh M. Cole's official U.S. Army history of the campaign, Patton at Bay,/i> is a penetrating study of one of America's best fighting generals.
Seek Shelter: Stories to Soothe Your Spirit During Natural Disasters
Veronica Berry; Carl D. Colbert; Rose P. Evelyn-Hall
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2018
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You will encounter at least one natural disaster in your lifetime-directly or indirectly. Your natural reaction will be to seek shelter. And yet, the very thing you seek can feel most elusive.How do you cope in the wake of natural devastation? How can you recover? Will life ever be the same? Can any good ever come from something so bad?Seek Shelter is a collection of inspirational stories by authors who have uncovered the good in the rubble of natural disasters. Hurricanes. Blizzard conditions. Wildfires. Tornadoes. From the most violent side of nature can sprout rest, comfort, and peace. Seek Shelter offers you: Light-hearted stories to soothe your spiritScriptures to settle your internal strugglesSuggestions on how to stay encouraged after the stormSome of the writers in Seek Shelter have had to seek physical shelter from natural disasters while others have not. But all have sought shelter from life's storms in the warmth of family and friends-even strangers-and most of all, God.Seeking shelter? Stay with us a while.
Investigating the Thread of Linguistic Origins: (You Can't Un-See What You Have Seen)
Cathy Eaton; Carl D. Armstrong; Mark Eaton
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2018
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NEW LINGUISTIC DISCOVERIES ARE BROUGHT FORTH BASED ON 2000 BC EGYPTIAN CARVINGS AND 16TH CENTURY SCIENTIST PASCAL'S WORKS The authors have carefully researched the meanings and graphics of the alphabetical characters and the ancient texts containing them. However, this book brings forth a unique forensic dimension-that of the mathematics and science of an alpha-numeric system. This involves application of the works of Blaise Pascal, a French scientist and mathematician of the 1600's. His work is studied today by science and engineering students having an interest in hydraulics, hydrodynamics, pressure, barometers and calculators. His Pascal's Triangle is still marveled at by mathematicians today. The book examines the visit of patriarch Abraham to Egypt in the same general time frame as when the Wadi-el-Hol inscriptions were thought be made. The authors have followed the thread to the ancient Hebrew language that is consistent with the very parameters of science and mathematical patterns found in nature-an alpha-numeric language that transcends the centuries.
An Unexpected Christmas: Stories of Holidays Wrapped in Miracles, Mishaps, and Mischief
Veronica Berry; Carl D. Colbert; Rose P. Evelyn-Hall
Independently Published
2018
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Remember that Christmas everything went as planned? No one had an argument? No Christmas ornaments broke? And all the dishes turned out perfectly? Every Christmas, something unexpected happens. Sometimes, it's a little thing. Other times, it's a lot bigger. An Unexpected Christmas is a collection of the stories of Christmases no one ever expected. Read about Santa sprinkling coal dust on a child. Watch an elderly man relive his life through the ornaments on a tree. Bundle up for a freeze in an otherwise tropical city. Check out the time Santa wore sneakers. And read about the time baby Jesus went missing. Some stories are humorous. Others, introspective. Some, quirky. Others, sorrowful. But even in the poignancy of grief, you can discover the thread of hope and joy woven throughout each story. Enjoy An Unexpected Christmas: Stories of Holidays Wrapped in Miracles, Mishaps, and Mischief.
Pyomo — Optimization Modeling in Python
Hart William E.; Carl D. Laird; Watson Jean-Paul; Woodruff David L.; Gabriel A. Hackebeil; Bethany L. Nicholson; Siirola John D.
Springer International Publishing AG
2017
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?This book provides a complete and comprehensive guide to Pyomo (Python Optimization Modeling Objects) for beginning and advanced modelers, including students at the undergraduate and graduate levels, academic researchers, and practitioners. Using many examples to illustrate the different techniques useful for formulating models, this text beautifully elucidates the breadth of modeling capabilities that are supported by Pyomo and its handling of complex real-world applications. This second edition provides an expanded presentation of Pyomo’s modeling capabilities, providing a broader description of the software that will enable the user to develop and optimize models. Introductory chapters have been revised to extend tutorials; chapters that discuss advanced features now include the new functionalities added to Pyomo since the first edition including generalized disjunctive programming, mathematical programming with equilibrium constraints, and bilevel programming.Pyomo is an open source software package for formulating and solving large-scale optimization problems. The software extends the modeling approach supported by modern AML (Algebraic Modeling Language) tools. Pyomo is a flexible, extensible, and portable AML that is embedded in Python, a full-featured scripting language. Python is a powerful and dynamic programming language that has a very clear, readable syntax and intuitive object orientation. Pyomo includes Python classes for defining sparse sets, parameters, and variables, which can be used to formulate algebraic expressions that define objectives and constraints. Moreover, Pyomo can be used from a command-line interface and within Python's interactive command environment, which makes it easy to create Pyomo models, apply a variety of optimizers, and examine solutions.
Genomics in Rheumatic Diseases, An Issue of Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North America
S. Louis Bridges Jr.; Carl D. Langefeld
Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
2017
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This issue of Rheumatic Disease Clinics focuses on Genetics. Article topics cover: Genetic Influences on Susceptibility and Severity of Rheumatoid Arthritis; HLA-disease associations in rheumatoid arthritis; Autoinflammatory Syndromes as a Model of Monogenic Diseases; Genomic Influences on Hyperuricaemia and Gout; Genetics of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus; Genetics of Ankylosing Spondylitis;Genetics of Scleroderma; Genetics of Osteoarthritis; Genetics of Juvenile Inflammatory Arthritis; Genetic Influences on Treatment Response in Rheumatic Diseases; Integrative approaches/computational biology; Future directions of genetic research in rheumatic diseases; and Population genetics and natural selection in rheumatic disease.