Scout Squad: Going Native

Scout Squad: Going Native
Author: Mark Owen Chapman
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 413
Release: 2009-01-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0595911935
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After being born genetically altered, Willy spent his whole life on the outside of society, working harder to be the best scout in the United World Councils military. While deployed to scout a new world, he and his twin sister, Sydni, encounter humans with the same genetic alteration as Willy; they discover a plot by unscrupulous politicians to have them removed from their homeland. Willy and Sydni will stop at nothing to ensure their safety.

Going Native

Going Native
Author: Tom Harmer
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2013-09-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0826329489
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In a spiritual autobiography shaped by years of living with a band of Salish Indian people after the Vietnam War, Tom Harmer shares his hard-won knowledge of their world and the nature spirits that govern it. Leaving behind college, military service, and years of living off the land as he drifted aimlessly and smuggled draft dodgers and deserters into Canada, Harmer came to the isolated Okanogan region of Washington state in the company of an Indian man hitchhiking home after Wounded Knee. Harmer was desperate to make something of his life. He settled down for nearly ten years close to his Indian neighbors, adopted their view of the world, and participated in their traditional sweatlodge and spirit contact practices. From his first sight of Chopaka, a mountain sacred to the Okanogan people, Harmer felt at home in this place. He formed close relationships with members of the Okanogan band living on allotments amidst white ranches and orchards, finding work as they did, feeding cattle, irrigating alfalfa, picking apples, and eventually becoming an outreach worker for a rural social services agency. Gradually absorbing the language, traditions, and practical spirit lore as one of the family, he was guided by an elderly uncle through arduous purification rites and fasts to the realization that his life had been influenced and enhanced by a shumíx, or spirit partner, acquired in childhood.

Gone Native

Gone Native
Author: Alan Cornett
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2007-12-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 0307415333
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On his first combat assignment, Cornett accompanied the Vietnamese Rangers on a search-and-destroy mission near Khe Sang. There he gained entree into a culture that he would ultimately respect greatly and admire deeply. Cornett's most challenging military duty began when he joined the Phoenix Program. As part of AK squad, he dressed in enemy uniform and roamed the deadly Central Highlands, capturing high-ranking VC officers in hot firefights and ambushes. It was there, deep in enemy territory, where the smallest mistake meant sudden death, that the Vietnamese fighting men earned his utmost respect. While offering rare glimpses of an aspect of the war most of the military and media never saw, Cornett tells the full, gut-wrenching story of his Vietnam. He also gives an unsparing view of himself - telling a no-holds-barred story of an American soldier who made sacrifices far beyond the call of duty . . . a soldier who, in defiance of the U.S. government, refused to turn his back on the Vietnamese.

Taking Southeast Asia to Market

Taking Southeast Asia to Market
Author: Joseph Nevins
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2018-09-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1501732277
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Recent changes in the global economy and in Southeast Asian national political economies have led to new forms of commodity production and new commodities. Using insights from political economy and commodity studies, the essays in Taking Southeast Asia to Market trace the myriad ways recent alignments among producers, distributors, and consumers are affecting people and nature throughout the region. In case studies ranging from coffee and hardwood products to mushroom pickers and Vietnamese factory workers, the authors detail the Southeast Asian articulations of these processes while also discussing the broader implications of these shifts. Taken together, the cases show how commodities illuminate the convergence of changing social forces in Southeast Asia today, as they transform the terms, practices, and experiences of everyday life and politics in the global economy.

Liberty's Dawn

Liberty's Dawn
Author: Art Theocles
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 395
Release: 2012-03-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1469751593
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The Liberty Trilogy contemplates the fragility of freedom and liberty by taking its readers on a fictional adventure through American history. Political and economic circumstance, patriotism, and faith guide the main characters through their unnatural journey. The first book, Libertys Dawn, occurs during the 1780-1781 years of the revolutionary conflict in North Americas southern colonies. In Libertys Dawn, three friends embark on a winter camping trip in the mountains of South Carolina, to escape the stark realities and absurdities of modern society. They have planned a weekend of camp fires, good eating, and target shooting at an outdoor rifle and pistol range. Abruptly, on the first days hike, an unseen force thrusts them back in time to witness the fall of Charleston to British forces loyal to King George in late spring of the year 1780. How did the friends get here? Why are they here? What should they do now? Nik, Sid, and John must wrestle with these questions and ultimately find their way as history unfolds before them. American history is Niks passion and seeing the Revolutionary war is like watching a living history of the events he has studied most of his life. John is an avid outdoorsman and Sid is a computer professional with previous contacts throughout the US military. The friends soon discover an evil from Americas past is in the wrong place and at the wrong time. Will liberty and freedom expire before it takes root? Will evil triumph?

Indigenous Peoples and the Second World War

Indigenous Peoples and the Second World War
Author: R. Scott Sheffield
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2018-12-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108424635
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A transnational history of how Indigenous peoples mobilised en masse to support the war effort on the battlefields and the home fronts.

Shadows in the Jungle

Shadows in the Jungle
Author: Larry Alexander
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2009-02-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1440687358
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From the New York Times bestselling coauthor of A Higher Call, an up-close-and-personal account of the Alamo Scouts in World War II. Determined to retake the Philippines ever since his ignominious flight from the islands in 1942, General Douglas MacArthur needed a first-rate intelligence-gathering unit. Out of thousands, only 138 soldiers were chosen: the best, toughest, and most fit men the army had to offer. Their task: silently slip onto Japanese-held islands, stalk through the thick jungles, and assess enemy locations, conditions, morale, and troop strength, all while remaining undetected. It was an impossible task, doomed to failure, but incredibly, the Alamo Scouts were a valuable success. Acclaimed author Larry Alexander follows the men who made up the elite recon unit that served as General MacArthur's eyes and ears during the Pacific War. Drawing from personal interviews and testimonies from Scout veterans, Alexander weaves together the tales of the individual Scouts, who often spent weeks behind enemy lines to complete their missions. Now, more than seventy years after the war, the story of the Alamo Scouts will finally be told.

Congressional Record

Congressional Record
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1078
Release: 1902
Genre: Law
ISBN:
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