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This book revisits representations of AIDS in the 1980s in the U.S. in order to highlight a discourse of trauma and witness that emerged in the wake of a crisis. The book also emphasizes the potential of literary language to call attention to historical trauma where other discourses may fail.

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In the immediate post-World War II period, Army aviation began to evolve from an observatory role to a mobility role. The outbreak of the Korean war assisted and accelerated the acceptance of greater helicopter air mobility within the Army.

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A survey of international air piracy and airline terrorism, this volume analyzes types of hijackers, offers advice for victims, discusses the politics of governments toward hijacking and describes the need for international co-operation to counter the danger.

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This essential book offers a compelling and original interpretation of the rise of military aviation. Jeremy Black, one of the worlds finest scholars of military history, provides a lucid analysis of the use of airpower over land and sea both during the two world wars and the more limited wars of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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A study of how people react psychologically to bombing raids. The author studies the Japanese who survived Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as those exposed to the air raids of England, France, and Germany.

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Argentina's continuing claim to sovereignty of the Falkland Islands, against Britain, was still in the hands of the United Nations when in 1982, Argentine troops seized the islands in a lightning raid. This title gives first hand accounts from combat veteran pilots of the battles that transpired.

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In August 1990 Saddam Hussein's Iraqi forces invaded and occupied the small Arab state of Kuwait. This title analyzes the ensuing Gulf War through the advanced aircraft such as British Tornadoes and US F-117A Stealth fighters, never before engaged in combat.

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A behind-the-scenes look at women's magazines for the millions of women who read them

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This vivid volume describes the fascinating history of aircraft carriers, first deployed successfully in World War I by the Imperial Russian Navy, and indispensable to the Allied victory in World War II, now the strategic centerpiece of the world's most powerful navies.

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What threat does Al Qaeda pose to the United States as it continues to evolve in the wake of the Arab Spring, and what are the group's evolving strategies for growth and survival internationally This book provides answers.

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In this work of narrative sociology, Zajdow (sociology, Deakin U., Australia) presents the stories that Australian women involved with alcoholic men tell, both in the contexts of interviews with the Zajdow and in the self-help group Al-Anon. She argues that the narratives reveal the cultural context

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This volume is the first book-length treatment of how the 9/11 attacks and the American political scene afterward have affected higher education in this country. lawsuits against universities by terror victims trying to get settlements from countries like Iran by seizing archaeological artifacts in American universities;

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'Al-Qaida's Jihad in Europe' unveils a new angle to the deadly international terrorist organization and includes recently declassified American and European intelligence reports, secret Al- Qaida records and international documents and interviews with figures such as Bin Laden recruiter Abu Hamza Al-Masri.

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'Al-Qaida's Jihad in Europe' unveils a new angle to the deadly international terrorist organization and includes recently declassified American and European intelligence reports, secret Al- Qaida records and international documents and interviews with figures such as Bin Laden recruiter Abu Hamza Al-Masri.