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1) The women
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"'Women can be heroes, too.' When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances Frankie McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins...
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America is a nation of immigrants whose contributions gave us America, and taught us what it means to be free. This book profiles three pre-1950 leaders and another nine contemporary ones (12 profiles); in a biography examinging where they came from, and their notable contribution(s) in America. From Sweden's John Ericsson who was a naval engineer and inventor of the first armoured turret warship and screw propeller, to Russia's Igor Sikorsky who...
11) Military robots
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"Investigate robots that are used in the military with leveled text, infographics, and dynamic photos"--
12) Armed forces
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Describes the role of each of the United States Armed Forces in the Persian Gulf War.
13) Military service
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"Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through grade three, this book introduces military service to young readers through leveled text and related photos"
14) Todoterrenos
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Simple text and photographs describe Humvees, their parts, and what they do. Presented in English and Spanish.
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The #1 New York Times bestseller that charts America’s dangerous drift into a state of perpetual war.
"One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier," Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1792. Neither Jefferson nor the other Founders could ever have envisioned the modern national security state, with its tens of thousands of "privateers"; its bloated Department of Homeland Security; its rusting nuclear weapons,...
"One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier," Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1792. Neither Jefferson nor the other Founders could ever have envisioned the modern national security state, with its tens of thousands of "privateers"; its bloated Department of Homeland Security; its rusting nuclear weapons,...
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