Product Description: Learning to Forget analyzes the evolution of US counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine over the last five decades. Beginning with an extensive section on the lessons of Vietnam, it traces the decline of COIN in the 1970s, then the rebirth of low intensity conflict through the Reagan years, in the conflict in Bosnia, and finally in the campaigns of Iraq and Afghanistan...read more

Product Description: OkCupid, Match, eHarmony, Tinder, Zoosk...you name them. Online dating is a modern phenomenon, and it is common to hear success stories about people saying "We met online". So why are so many people's online dating experiences terrible? The idea was supposed to be about meeting people quickly...read more

Product Description: What do governments do when much of their population simply gets up and walks away? In Mexico and other migrant-sending countries, mass emigration prompts governments to negotiate a new social contract with their citizens abroad. After decades of failed efforts to control outflow, the Mexican state now emphasizes voluntary ties, dual nationality, and rights over obligations...read more

Yucatan, an impoverished state in southern Mexico, has recently emerged as a significant source of US-bound migrants. Why did this state's indigenous population wait so long to enter the migration stream, and how do their experiences differ from those of earlier more traditional migrants?Mayan Journeys explores how internal migration to southern Mexico's tourist resorts serves as a springboard for international migration and how the new migrants navigate enhanced obstacles at the US-Mexico border and enter the US labor force. Drawing on an extensive 2006 survey of migrants and potential migrants in Tunkas, Yucatan, and its satellite communities in Southern California, the authors provide.

Using the states's rich musical history as a framework, an award-winning photographer and an Oklahoma journalist offer a unique and colorful portrayal of one of America's most diverse states, embracing the connection between the people and the land.

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Product Description: Fitzgerald and Wallis pay tribute to the ""Green Country"" in this stunning collection of photos, personal profiles, and stories from beautiful northeastern Oklahoma.

Product Description: Fitzgerald's spectacular photographs reveal the remarkable beauty and rich history found in places such as Big Spring and the Pea Ridge Battlefield and celebrate the life and culture of this fascinating region.

A brief profile of the state by its former governor accompanies photographs of the state's mountains, lakes, waterfalls, prairies, forests, farmlands, cities, historic sites, and people