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  • HOW THE BRAIN WORKS
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    HOW THE BRAIN WORKS
    MICHAEL S.C. THOMAS / SIMON GREEN
    Delve into the intricacies of the human mind with this engaging and insightful guide to how the brain works. Written in a playful style and beautifully illustrated, this book is designed to support you as you embark on the beginning of your psychology degree. It provides an accessible guide to how the brain’s structures and functions determine how the mind works, and how this f...

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  • RED ARMY WEAPONS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
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    RED ARMY WEAPONS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
    MICHAEL GREEN
    While the Red Army’s arsenal at the start of the Second World War included weapons dating back to the Great War or earlier, the 1930s’ modernization program had introduced the automatic Tokarev pistol and self-loading Tokarev rifle. Its small arms were soon replaced by mass-produced sub-machine guns, such as the PPSh 1941, nicknamed the ‘PePeSha,’. Supplementing the submachine ...

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  • DIVERSE UNFREEDOMS
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    DIVERSE UNFREEDOMS
    SARADA BALAGOPALAN / CATI COE / KEITH MICHAEL GREEN
    The legacies of plantation slavery continue to inhabit, animate, and haunt the diverse forms of unfreedom that mark our present. Diverse Unfreedoms charts a new way of thinking through these legacies of unfreedom via a more entangled and multidirectional model of what makes for historical change and continuity in practices and relationships of subjugation. This volume troubles ...

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  • M1 ABRAMS TANK
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    M1 ABRAMS TANK
    MICHAEL GREEN
    This pictorial history of the legendary M1 Abrams Tank illustrates its versatility and advancement from the Cold War Era to the present day. The M1 Abrams has proved itself to be the finest main battle tank in the world since its introduction into US Army service in 1981. It combines the ultimate balance between firepower, mobility and protection as demonstrated by its superior...

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  • THEORIES OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
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    THEORIES OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
    MICHAEL G. GREEN / JOHN A. PIEL
    The authors have grouped the theories into three classical "families" which differ in their views relative to the prime motives underlying human nature. They show how theories are specific examples of more general points of view called paradigms. The theories chosen to represent the three paradigms (the Endogenous Paradigm, Exogenous Paradigm, and the Constructivist Paradigm) w...

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  • AIRCRAFT CARRIERS OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY
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    AIRCRAFT CARRIERS OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY
    MICHAEL GREEN
    This pictorial history of US aircraft carriers illustrates the many classes and types of carriers used by the navy from before WWII to the present day.   In 1922 the US Navy commissioned its first small experimental aircraft carrier. This was followed into service by two much larger carriers in 1927 with five more being built— including three large Yorktown class—prior to the J...

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  • THE SILENT SERVICE IN WORLD WAR II
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    THE SILENT SERVICE IN WORLD WAR II
    MICHAEL GREEN (ED) AND EDWARD MONROE-JONES (ED)
    From the naval battle of Guadalcanal to rescuing George Bush Sr. in the Pacific, here are the stories of US submariners in WWII.   The Silent Service in World War II tells the story of America’s intrepid submarine warriors in the words of the men who served and fought in the Pacific against Japan. When Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1941, the enemy had already deployed naval forc...

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  • THE PATTON TANK
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    THE PATTON TANK
    MICHAEL GREEN
    The military historian and tank expert examines the evolution of the Patton tank through archival photographs across four decades of armored warfare. In the early Cold War years, a tank more powerful than the Sherman or Pershing was needed. The first Patton tanks—the M46s—were converted Pershings which saw service in Korea. The M47, with a more effective 90mm gun and turret, wa...

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  • RUSSIAN ARMOUR IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR
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    RUSSIAN ARMOUR IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR
    MICHAEL GREEN
    This WWII pictorial history of Russia’s tanks and armored fighting vehicles provides a vivid look at the Eastern Front through rare wartime photographs. When Hitler’s armies advanced into Russia, it was Stalin’s tanks and armored fighting vehicles that finally pushed them back from the outskirts of Moscow. At the Battle of Kursk in the summer of 1943, the Soviet tanks and AFVs ...

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  • AMERICAN WHEELED ARMOURED FIGHTING VEHICLES
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    AMERICAN WHEELED ARMOURED FIGHTING VEHICLES
    MICHAEL GREEN
    Numerous wheeled armoured fighting vehicles have seen service in the US armed forces on and off for over 80 years.There have been various changes of policy and twice, after the Second World War and Vietnam, they went out of favour but their use is now well established.This well researched and superbly illustrated book describes all the different types and variants since the fir...

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  • IMPROVISING THE CURRICULUM
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    IMPROVISING THE CURRICULUM
    MICHAEL CORBETT / ANN VIBERT / MARY GREEN
    Equipped with cultural tools like cell phones, computers and video cameras, youth are called upon to improvise and construct themselves symbolically in a continuously connected world; yet new teachers and students are still expected to learn and deliver standardized, placeless forms of scripted curriculum. This volume argues for improvisation as an approach to curriculum that r...

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  • UNITED STATES ARMY ARMORED DIVISIONS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
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    UNITED STATES ARMY ARMORED DIVISIONS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
    MICHAEL GREEN
    The routing of the British and French Armies in May and June 1940 by the Wehrmachts armored divisions caused a major rethink by the US Armys senior leadership. The result was the formation of the two armored divisions in July 1940; the first named Old Ironside and second designated Hell on Wheels.In 1941, a further three armored divisions were created; the third (Spearhead), th...

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  • UNITED STATES MILITARY HELICOPTERS
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    UNITED STATES MILITARY HELICOPTERS
    MICHAEL GREEN
    The helicopter came on the scene too late to play other than a minor role in the Second World War but by the Korean conflict the Bell H-13 Sioux, OH-23 Raven, and Sikorsky H–19 Chickasaw were in service.It was in Vietnam that the US military helicopters really came into their own and the best known were the Bell UH-1 Iriquois (known as the Huey), the Boeing CH-47 Chinook, and t...

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  • UNITED STATES NAVAL AVIATION, 1911–2014
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    UNITED STATES NAVAL AVIATION, 1911–2014
    MICHAEL GREEN
    From humble beginnings in 1911 with floatplanes, by the 1930s, the US Navy possessed dirigibles and were introducing fighter planes. By the start of WW2, monoplane fighters were replacing bi-planes and a major aircraft carrier build was underway.Fighters such as the Grumman FLF Hellcat and Vought F4U Corsair were joined by carrier attack aircraft such as the Dauntless, Devastat...

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  • UNITED STATES NAVY SUBMARINES 1900–2019
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    UNITED STATES NAVY SUBMARINES 1900–2019
    MICHAEL GREEN
    A “brilliant history of the USA’s underwater exploits,” filled with photos (Books Monthly).   In 1900, the US Navy took its first submarine, the Holland VI, into service. With a single torpedo tube, it had a crew of six, weighed eighty-two tons, and traveled submerged at 6.2mph at a depth of up to seventy-five feet.   Contrast this to the 18 Ohio Class nuclear-powered submarine...

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  • AMERICAN ARTILLERY
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    AMERICAN ARTILLERY
    MICHAEL GREEN
    An extensively illustrated history covering the artillery weaponry of the United States military from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. The first regiment of artillery in the American Continental Army was formed in 1775. During the American Civil War almost a century later, artillery evolved from the employment of individual batteries to massed fire of grouped batteri...

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  • SOVIET AIR POWER OF THE COLD WAR
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    SOVIET AIR POWER OF THE COLD WAR
    MICHAEL GREEN
    At the peak of the Cold War in the 1950s the Soviet Union possessed some 12,000 aircraft, making it the largest air force of all the protagonists. By the 1990s this had declined to around 8,000, the reduction largely reflecting the increase in aircraft capability. As well as fighters and bombers, the Soviet inventory included trainers, transports, seaplanes, electronic warfare ...

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  • NATO AND WARSAW PACT TANKS OF THE COLD WAR
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    NATO AND WARSAW PACT TANKS OF THE COLD WAR
    MICHAEL GREEN
    Led by the USA with Western European partners, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was formed in 1949 to counter the Soviet threat. In response the Soviet Union assembled and dominated the Warsaw Pact in 1954. The mainstay of both alliances’ groundforces were their main battle tanks (MBTs). Initially both sides relied on Second World War MBTs; in NATO’s case the Sherm...

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