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What We Could Have Done With the Money: 50 Ways to Spend the Trillion Dollars We've Spent on Iraq

Hyperion, 2008

The war in Iraq is not only controversial, it's also astronomically expensive. Now Rob Simpson answers the question many concerned Americans have been asking: Wasn't there some other way the government could have spent one trillion of our tax dollars?

What We Could Have Done with the Money presents 50 thought-provoking spending...

Going Back: How a Former Refugee, Now an Internationally Acclaimed Surgeon, Returned to Iraq to Change the Lives of Injured Soldiers and Civilians

Allen & Unwin, 2020

In Munjed Al Muderis's memoir Walking Free, he described his experience as a refugee fleeing Saddam Hussein's Iraq, his terrifying sea journey to Australia, and the brutal mandatory detention he faced in the remote north of Western Australia. The book also detailed his early work as a pioneering orthopedic surgeon at...

The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One

Oxford University Press, 2009

David Kilcullen is one of the world's most influential experts on counterinsurgency and modern warfare. A Senior Counterinsurgency Advisor to General David Petraeus in Iraq, his vision of war dramatically influenced America's decision to rethink its military strategy in Iraq and implement "the surge."

Now, in The Accidental...

Bint Al-Huda Collection: All Novels and Short Stories

Jerrmein Abu Shahba, 2019

Bint al-Huda Collection includes all the 4 novels and 24 short stories written by Martyr Aminah Haider Al-Sadr, the famous Muslim author popularly known as Bint Al-Huda. She played a significant role in creating Islamic awareness among the Muslim women of Iraq from the late 1950s to 1980. She was the sister of the great Islamic scholar,...

Multicultural Manners: Essential Rules of Etiquette for the 21st Century

John Wiley & Sons, 2005

Basically, this is still a how-to book—how to get along with others who are culturally different. As before, it is not targeted just to those who travel or conduct international business. Cultural information has many applications: To help interact more effectively with new populations from East Africa, the San Diego Police Department has...

Managing Security Overseas: Protecting Employees and Assets in Volatile Regions

Auerbach Publications, 2009

Written by a Certified Protection Professional (CPP), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), and FBI recognized subject matter expert, Managing Security Overseas: Protecting Employees and Assets in Volatile Regions details the dos and don’ts of protecting people and assets in hostile global settings. The author, Scott Alan Ast,...

Haunted by Combat: Understanding PTSD in War Veterans

Praeger Publishers, 2007

Across history, the condition has been called soldier's heart, shell shock, or combat fatigue. It is now increasingly common as our service men and women return from Iraq, Afghanistan, and other ongoing combat zones. Since 1990, Veterans' centers here have treated more than 1.6 million affected men and women, including an estimated...

Correspondents: A Novel

Grove Press, 2019

“Murphy artfully connects multiple narratives to produce a sprawling tale of love, family, duty, war, and displacement. It is above all a stinging indictment of the ill-fated war in Iraq and the heavy tolls it continues to exact on its people.”?Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner

The world...

Introducing Microsoft Windows Vista

Microsoft Press, 2006

Your insider's preview of the next release of Microsoft Windows.

What's new and improved in the newest release of the Microsoft Windows family of client operating systems? Which versions of Windows Vista are right for you and your organization? How will the new features and capabilities in Windows Vista improve security, make users more...

Franchising & Licensing: Two Powerful Ways to Grow Your Business in Any Economy

AMACOM, 2003

It is hard to believe that nearly 15 years have passed since the publication of
the first edition of Franchising & Licensing in 1991. The impact of technology
and globalization has had a permanent effect on the dynamics of the franchise
relationship. When the manuscript was being written for the first edition
in the late...

Attitudes and Opinions

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

Notable advances resulting from new research findings, measurement approaches, widespread uses of the Internet, and increasingly sophisticated approaches to sampling and polling, have stimulated a new generation of attitude scholars. This extensively revised edition captures this excitement, while remaining grounded in scholarly research....

Pride and Power: A Modern History of Iraq

Hurst, 2021

The story of Iraq is one of resistance. In this groundbreaking study, Johan Franzen offers a contextual modern history of the country, its creation and its struggle for sovereignty.

Iraq's contemporary history is a tale of a diverse people thrown together into a nation-state by imperialist statecraft. From the...

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