Learning War

After a deadly attack in South Sudan left six-year-old Achut Deng without a family, she lived in refugee camps for ten years, until a refugee relocation program gave her the opportunity to move to the United States. When asked why she should be given a chance to leave the camp, Achut simply told the interviewer: I want life. But the chance at starting a new life in a new country came with a different set of challenges. Some of them equally deadly. Taught by the strong women in her life not to look back, Achut kept moving forward, overcoming one obstacle after another.

Whether you're struggling to balance work and life, facing overwhelming responsibilities, or yearning for a more profound sense of purpose, this book offers the roadmap you’ve been searching for. What makes "The War Within Us" unique is its comprehensive companion workbook, tailored to ensure you understand and actively incorporate the principles into your life. The exercises are designed to turn theory into action, transforming Musashi's ancient wisdom into your strategy for success.

Experience the Battle of Pea Ridge, also known as the Battle of Elkhorn Tavern, and experience the events of the American Civil War during the first half of 1862 in the Trans-Mississippi Theater in this captivating audiobook on the Arkansas campaign of Pea Ridge. The Pea Ridge campaign is considered the most important series of events in the Trans-Mississippi Theater. The Battle of Pea Ridge, which took place from March 6th to March 8th, 1862, was the climax of the campaign, in which the Union Army was ultimately victorious.

Forget the boring textbooks you’ve been using for years about movies, family, and sports! Download this audiobook with dozens of dialogues about this important topic.

Long before his finest hour as Britain's wartime leader, Winston Churchill emerged on the world stage as a brazen foreign correspondent, covering wars of empire in Cuba, India, the Sudan, and South Africa. In those far-flung corners of the world, reporting from the front lines between 1895 and 1900, Churchill mastered his celebrated command of language and formed strong opinions about war.

When the first settlers reached the United States of America and started to chip out a living in the wilderness that seemed so fierce and unfamiliar to their European eyes, they could never have dreamed that someday the land upon which they stood would become one of the most powerful countries in the entire world.

In the summer of 1940, Adolf Hitler and his henchman, Luftwaffe Commander-in-Chief Hermann Göring, began their attempt to clear the skies over England to invade Great Britain. Despite very long odds, the Royal Air Force stood its ground, prevented the German invasion, and helped turn the tide of WWII.

The attack of the US Pearl Harbor Naval Base changed the entire progress of World War II, and as a result, it was a very formative event both for the United States and Japan. Though the two nations seemed unlikely enemies at the onset of the Second Great War, bloodshed between them would be greater than anyone could have imagined. The future of the world at large was changed on December 7, 1941, when the Empire of Japan chose to make a preemptive strike on its most feared Pacific neighbor, the United States of America.

A lo largo de los siglos, España ha estado sujeta al señorío de otros países. Fue ocupada por los antiguos griegos y romanos, los visigodos, los franceses y los musulmanes. Ha sido el patio de recreo tanto de los respetuosos como de los despiadados. Las costas españolas han sido ocupadas por los imperios comerciales de Cartago y Roma. Durante todo ese tiempo, otros le dijeron a España cómo dirigir su país, cómo, con quién y dónde pelear.

The policy of Manifest Destiny said America was a morally superior nation that had the right to build an empire from the East Coast to the West Coast, much to the detriment of the Native Americans who stood in the way. This audiobook will document the Trail of Tears, bringing to light many events that occurred in the background while describing a few prominent Native American chiefs.

When gladiators fought in combat, there was usually only one winner. The victor may not have realized it, but he owed his success to science. Learn how science helped gladiators find victory in the arena.

Daphne’s world just isn’t fair. Determined to marry above her station and progress herself she is dismayed that World War One is determined to remove every eligible bachelor from her grasp and to slaughter them on the fields of Belgium and France. Meeting handsome Bertie on the top deck of an omnibus sees the start of her adventure. Inheriting as others are lost to the war and the Spanish Flu that followed, she finds herself on DAPHNE’S EGYPTIAN HONEYMOON where she is convinced that the forward-thinking Rose is either from another planet, or from the future. The novel explores the ...

Our DANTES study guides are different! The Civil War and Reconstruction DANTES/DSST Study Guide teaches you everything that you need to know to pass the DSST test. This study guide has more than sample test questions. Our easy-to-understand study guide will teach you the information. We’ve condensed what you need to know into a manageable book—one that will leave you completely prepared to tackle the test. This study guide includes sample test questions that will test your knowledge and teach you new material.

A few weeks after the planes crashed into the World Trade Center on 9/11, journalist Megan K. Stack, a 25-year-old national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, was thrust into Afghanistan and Pakistan, dodging gunmen and prodding warlords for information. From there, she traveled to war-ravaged Iraq and Lebanon and other countries scarred by violence, witnessing the changes that swept the Muslim world and laboring to tell its stories.

If you want to discover the captivating history of the Celts, then keep reading...while Celtic culture has stayed alive in Ireland, its roots run much deeper, and they extend much farther than the small island nation off the coast of modern-day Great Britain. The story of the Celts is one of a rapid rise to prominence followed by a slow decline due to the influence of the Romans. But even so, Celtic culture has remained strong in Europe and has been able to persist to this day.

The Wars of Scottish Independence were a series of conflicts between Scotland and England that spanned more than 60 years during the 13th and 14th centuries. These wars led directly to the establishment of Scotland as an independent, sovereign country and to the emergence of two of Scotland’s best-known national heroes, William Wallace and Robert the Bruce. Yet these wars are much more than a simple struggle on the part of Scotland to free itself from English incursions.

Americans' current trust in journalists is at a dismayingly low ebb, particularly on the subject of national and international politics. It might be tempting to look back to the mid-twentieth century, when the nation's press corps was a seemingly venerable and monolithic institution that conveyed the official line from Washington with nary a glint of anti-patriotic cynicism. As Kathryn McGarr's City of Newsmen shows, however, the real story of what Cold War-era journalists did and how they did it wasn't exactly the one you'd find in the morning papers.

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Prayer is also the most misused, misunderstood, and un-used resource we have available to us. God created us in his image. His image! Do you understand what that means? It means we are as like God as any aspect of creation can be. It means we are special. It means God very much desires to have a relationship with us - one that is deeply personal. It means he will listen and answer our prayers when we pray because of his desire to be close to us.

The true historical eye witness accounts of the horrors of the Sioux wars of 1862 in Minnesota, creates the background to this novel. When Emalia and her family move into a German community in Minnesota, she never dreamed she would be making friends with the Sioux. However, when the Sioux turn against her family and their neighbors she knows there is no escape. Becoming the slave of Odakotah, the man Emalia thought she once loved, opens her eyes to the cruelty of the Sioux people she thought she could trust. When she manages to escape and a friendly Pawnee scout for the U.S. Cavalry offers ...