Product Description: EPA747K-99-001 or later number.. Prepared in cooperation with the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Prepared for owners, buyers and renters of homes. Discusses how to recognize and prevent lead hazards, especially from painted surfaces and from water...read more

Product Description: The Air Almanac contains the astronomical data required for air celestial navigation. The CD-ROM contains the same data found in the previously published book.  It provides the following data tabulated at 10-minute intervals to a precision of 1 arcminute: the Greenwich hour angle and declination of the Sun, Moon, and three navigational planets; the Greenwich hour angle of Aries; rise and set times of the Moon for a range of latitudes; and other data...read more

Product Description: NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRINT PRODUCT-- OVERSTOCK SALE -- Significantly reduced list price  This study addresses the ability of the U.S. Government  to cope with four plausible, far-reaching weapons of mass destruction (WMD) crises, any one of which could occur today and adversely affect the foreign and national security policies of the United States for many years to come:collapse of the nonproliferation regime, in which  a number of unresolved nuclear proliferation challenges threaten to unleash a sudden and destabilizing wave of proliferation a failed WMD-armed state, creating unprecedented  risks that radical actors will obtain WMD and unprecedented challenges for preventiona biological terror campaign, in which terrorists employ deadly biological pathogens to strike at multiple cities a nuclear detonation in a U...read more

Product Description:  Begun in 1959 as a result of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, the Thailand SEATO Cholera Research Project in Bangkok, later the Medical Research Laboratory, and finally, AFRIMS (in 1977), was a collaborative research effort between the US Army Medical Department and the Royal Thai Army...read more

Product Description:  Tells a compelling story of the secret weapons city of China Lake, California, a secluded Navy base in the middle of the vast Mojave Desert that has been quietly delivering weapons that work since 1943. The book also provides an inside look at Point Mugu, California, a DoD (Department of Defense) premiere electronic warfare site and home of the world’s largest instrumented over-water range where most Navy targets are tested...read more

Product Description: Mary C. Gillett's fourth and final volume The Army Medical Department, 1917–1941, provides a long-needed in-depth analysis of the department's struggle to maintain the health and fighting ability of the nation's soldiers during both World War I—a conflict of unexpected proportions and violence—and the years that preceded World War II...read more

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Product Description: The Astronomical Almanac contains a wide variety of both technical and general astronomical information. The book is a worldwide resource for fundamental astronomical data. The material appears in sections, each section addressing a specific astronomical category...read more

Product Description: Bayer’s book addresses the question of how the United States can engage international partners more effectively to address worldwide manifestations of destabilizing violence, often indiscriminately labeled “terrorism.” This work advocated solely for the legal and legitimate exercise of the rule of law through international police cooperation, whether through formal channels or through the much more powerful and effective informal networking...read more

Product Description: Provides a lasting homage filled with photographs and memoirs of STRIKE Soldiers, past and present from its founding in August 1917 through the current conflict in Afghanistan. Year/pages: 2011: 339 p.; ill.

Product Description: Chapters include the Hill Battles of 1967, The Seige of 1968, Operation Pegasus and the Relief of Khe Sanh, the Deep Air Battle and the B-52, Radar Controlled Tactical Air Support, Close Air Support, and Conclusions. Mixed within the text are black and white photographs, charts, and figures...read more

Product Description: Established during World War ii to advise the President on the strategic direction ofthe Armed Forces of the United States, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) continued inexistence after the war and, as military advisers and planners, have played a significantrole in the development of national policy...read more

Product Description: Provides a concept of operations and tactics, techniques, and procedures for joint forces at the operational and tactical levels tasked to perform foreign disaster relief operations in support of the Department of State and US Agency for International Development and in coordination with International Organizations such as the United Nations and International Red Cross and Red Crescent...read more

Product Description: The story of the Marine Corps U.S. Special Operations Command Detachment, which became known as Det One, is an extraordinary tale. On its face, the story would not rate a minute’s glance. One small group of Marines, about a hundred in number, formed, trained, and went to war...read more

Product Description: Edited by James L. Mooney. Volume 6 of an eight volume set. This volume covers ship whose names start with the letters "R" and "S", and in the case of submarines, the "R Boats" and the "S Boats." Appendices provide data on submarine chasers and Eagle boats, two types initially designed for antisubmarine operations in World War 1...read more