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Offers an authentic firsthand account of the daily nightmare that was Con Thien. An enticing and fascinating read featuring authentic depictions of combat, the book allows readers to fully grasp the enormity of the fierce struggle for Con Thien.

Presents a Marine's highly personal memoir reliving the hellish days of a pivotal conflict of the Vietnam War. Time in the Barrel offers an authentic firsthand account of the daily nightmare that was Con Thien. An enticing and fascinating read, it allows readers to fully grasp the enormity of the fierce struggle for Con Thien.

Throughout much of 1967, a remote United States Marine firebase only two miles from the demilitarized zone (DMZ) captured the attention of the world's media. That artillery-scarred outpost was the linchpin of the so-called McNamara Line intended to deter incursions into South Vietnam by the North Vietnamese Army. As such, the fighting along this territory was particularly intense and bloody, and the body count rose daily. Con Thien combines James P. Coan's personal experiences with information taken from archives, interviews with battle participants, and official documents to construct a...

Emotion research has become a mature branch of psychology, with its own standardized measures, induction procedures, data-analysis challenges, and sub-disciplines. During the last decade, a number of books addressing major questions in the study of emotion have been published in response to a rapidly increasing demand that has been fueled by an increasing number of psychologists whose research either focus on or involve the study of emotion. Very few of these books, however, have presented an explicit discussion of the tools for conducting research, despite the facts that the study of emotion...