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Nuclear energy, X-rays, radon, cell phones . . . radiation is part of the way we live on a daily basis, and yet the sources and repercussions of our exposure to it remain mysterious. Now Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Wayne Biddle offers a first-of-its-kind guide to understanding this fundamental aspect of the universe. From fallout to radiation poisoning, alpha particles to cosmic rays, Biddle illuminates the history, meaning, and health implications of one hundred scientific terms in...

A major revision of our understanding of long-range bombing, this book examines how Anglo-American ideas about "strategic" bombing were formed and implemented. It argues that ideas about bombing civilian targets rested on--and gained validity from--widespread but substantially erroneous assumptions about the nature of modern industrial societies and their vulnerability to aerial bombardment. These assumptions were derived from the social and political context of the day and were maintained largely through cognitive error and bias. Tami Davis Biddle explains how air theorists, and those...

This book provides a Biblically-based, seven-month program to turn your son into a solid man of God based on the Seven Pillars of Manhood:

1. Identity in Christ

2. Love

3. Godly Wisdom

4. The Word of God

5. Purity

6. Character

7. Legacy

Churches are filled with well-meaning youth pastors and programs that promote Christian values, doctrine, and culture to today's youth. But it is rare to find a program that includes a comprehensive set of "pillars" that are specifically designed to bring a teenage boy into Christian Manhood. By...

Christians in public school are drowing in evolution teaching. This book is a great single resource for Christian students to get prepared! The book of Genesis describes an all-powerful God creating the heavens, earth, sea, and everything in them in just six days. God Himself even wrote this on the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:11). The genealogies in Genesis go straight back to Adam, spanning only about 6,000 years of history. Is this really what the Genesis account teaches, or is this just one of many possible interpretations? How do we know that we can even trust the Bible and its...

Published in 1937 and written by an Instructor to the US Marine Corps, this manual of close quarter combat shows students how to fight and kill with knife or bayonet; and how to use Jiu-Jitsu, Savate, and Boxing for those whose duties "may lead them into a 'Tight Spot'."