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Practicing Virtues is about learning to be good in the distinct moral worlds of Quaker and military boarding schools. Both types of schools bind their communities with shared codes of conduct, the military schools' conservative tradition emphasizing discipline and hard work, the Quaker schools' liberal tradition favoring tolerance and togetherness. At the heart of this contrast are two sets of virtues: pride, loyalty, and leadership among the cadets; simplicity, equality, and concern among the students at Quaker schools.During the course of a year Kim Hays lived in six schools, attending classes and staff meetings, sharing meals and informal conversation, and participating in the nonacademic side of boarding-school life.Despite the outward contrast between the Quaker and military settings, Hays found surprising similarities. Both systems cherish individualism while encouraging group identification and service to the school community. Hays shows that orderliness, obedience, and harmony do not in themselves create a vital moral environment. To reach that goal, teachers, students, and administrators need to disagree, question rules, and fight for change.This book has much to say about the role of education in developing moral responsibility. Every educator, student, and parent who cares about the future of American schooling will find valuable lessons here. ... Read more

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Curious Juxtapositions
While I know very little about Quaker boarding schools, I have been studying the traditional boys private boarding military school (middle and high school level) in the U.S. for the past ten years. Very few of myfindings or conclusions agree with anything I find in this book.I believethe author probably understands Quaker schools far better than militaryschools.A curious study, but not recommended

A penetrating book.
While academic in nature, this book is a facinating comparison between two very different-seeming places.It is well written and very understandable, while still raising very interesting points of view. ... Read more

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In Two Volumes. Other ISBNs in this set include: 1432539086. This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Drawing heavily upon official documents, and encyclopedic in its treatment of most curricula, this massive volume is an invaluable source for the comparison of trends at a time when all countries were taking professional military education more seriously. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Military Police, published by U.S. Army Maneuver Support Center on April 1, 2005. The length of the article is 719 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Chief, Military Police Corps Regiment, and Commandant, United States Military Police School.
Author: Rodney L. Johnson
Publication: Military Police (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2005
Publisher: U.S. Army Maneuver Support Center
Volume: 5Issue: 1Page: 2(1)

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This digital document is an article from Armed Forces Comptroller, published by American Society of Military Comptrollers on September 22, 2004. The length of the article is 3225 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: ASMC visits ... the naval postgraduate school.(American Society of Military Comptrollers )
Author: John T. Raines
Publication: Armed Forces Comptroller (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2004
Publisher: American Society of Military Comptrollers
Volume: 49Issue: 4Page: 28(5)

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This digital document is an article from Military Police, published by U.S. Army Maneuver Support Center on September 22, 2010. The length of the article is 334 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Chief, Military Police Corps regiment, and commandant, U.S. Army military police school.
Author: David Phillips
Publication: Military Police (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2010
Publisher: U.S. Army Maneuver Support Center
Volume: 10Issue: 2Page: 2(1)

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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1874Original Publisher: Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor, ... Read more

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more

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In Two Volumes. Other ISBNs in this set include: 1432630776. This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature. ... Read more

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Experience the FIRST book to illuminate the bestleadership school in the U.S. Army - Ranger School. "Ranger School"puts you at ground level and drives home leadership principles throughimpactful first person anecdotes. Learn what ranger school islike. Feel the claustrophobia of the first night, the frustration ofexhaustion and the pain of hunger. Perfect in-depth source for tabseekers. Graduates will be reunited with their own extraordinaryexperiences and determintation. Leaders don't make excuses! ... Read more

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A book with reading
No Excuse Leadership is an excellant account of personal triumphs of everday individuals who enlisted in military service, challanged Ranger School, and graduated from this outstanding leadership course. I am not a Ranger, but did serve in the armed forces, and believe that these personal accounts of Ranger school demonstrates that people can over come physical obstacles and mental boundries to accomplish their goal. This book will motivate people to stay focused so they can overcome lifes challenges. One Ranger I work with says that "commitment" was one thing that Ranger School instilled in him and still lives by. You can read about these Ranger students "commitment" as the tackle this well respected school.

You Have No Excuse!
You have no excuse, not to read this book! As a 20 year vertan of the US Navy I know a little bit about Leadership and Teamwork. Brace Barber examines the complexities of Leadership and shows everyone how it is teamwork, team building and faith that makes a great leader. By Far the best book on leadership for the Corporate and Military world I have ever read. You do not need to be in or have served in the military to learn something from this book. For those who equate military leadership with not having anything to do with the corporate world, you are sadly mistaken. I have paralelled my personal corporate and military experiences with those that Brace has written into his book and I was amazed by the similarities and the lessons I learned through them. In some cases the lesson I have learned was to make better choices in my leadership style.A real Leader is also the Servant to those being led. Brace illustrates that clearly here!

A "MUST READ" FOR PARENTS
As the mother of a December 2005 Ranger School graduate, I recommend this book to parents.This book helped me to understand and support my son during Ranger School. I would not have known HOW to support him without this book.

This book is top shelf.
I did a stint in the military in an artillery battery a long time ago, and now I enjoy middle age complancency, namely beer and barbeques in my back yard with my better two thirds and my friends and family. This book is top shelf. No, I was never a Ranger, in fact, I'm not even the patch of a Ranger's ass. But
the mental and physical toughness of these men are unbelievable.
The stories, ALL TRUE, will inspire you if you aspire to be the
elite and the best soldier on God's green earth. To you hopefuls
out there who want to wear a Ranger Tab, my hat's off to you and by all means get your hands on this book. Rangers lead the way.

Excellent Book!
I am planning on going through Ranger School next year. To kind of prepare (though you can't really prepare for it) I have been doing and extreme amount of PT. I have also been gathering as much material as I can read so I can toughen myself mentally as well as physically. This book is by far one of the best I have read!

I have not gone through Ranger School but the detail in which these Rangers describe their experience makes you feel as though you are an RI (without the yelling) watching these Rangers progress from phase to phase. You can almost feel the elements they are exposed to...the snow, the endless rain, the massive heat, no sleep, no food. You can almost hear the firing of guns, the helicopters, the rivers roaring and anything else they experienced during Ranger School.

As if that wasn't enough the way they have applied what they learned to everyday life is incredible. They live life as though they were in Ranger School everyday. Sure you get to eat and sleep, but they are always pushing their limits further than anyone can ever dream. They know nothing but themselves can hold them back. They have the confidence in themselves to continue on when times are good and when times are rough.
I dream for the day when I proudly wear that tab! ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Today's Air Force commanders face a wide-range of issues, many of which involve complex statutes, laws, regulations, and rules.Our commanders must deal with challenging legal matters ranging from military justice to environmental law to operations law.To assist commanders with these formidable tasks, we've created this helpful volume, The Military Commander and the Law.

This deskbook contains a series of papers that give commanders a head start on the wide array of issues they will handle.Each article is intended to give a commander the basics in the law on any given subject.The papers are not intended to make the commander a legal expert or to resolve specific questions relating to any unique problem.

Lance W. LordLieutenant General, United States Air ForceCommander, Air University ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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In the future, Humanity is in a seemingly endless war with an alien race. The struggle is dominated by giant war machines called Gear. Only the best and the brightest are allowed to drive these behemoths. The process of elimination begins in junior high. Thirteen-year-old Teresa Gottlieb has just entered the most prestigious military academy, known to all as Gear School, to try and become one of those elite. But on top of all the usual troubles that a seventh grader has to put up with - boys, social cliques, hellish instructors - she also has to deal with three-story-tall robots and alien invasions! Teresa needs to learn that when the bell rings, the adventure starts. ... Read more

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This is the school we all should have gone to
I had purchased another of Adam Gallardo's books, "100 Girls" and liked it, so I decided to buy "Gear School" and frankly, I liked it even more. It's a straight up aliens versus mankind book, with the twist of young, dare I say nubile? teens at the controls of huge, heavily armed warships. I loved the panel where an alien enters earth's space through a rift/unknown teleportation device. It's frickin' ominous and scary and perfectly drawn. I also grooved on the story's blend of reality (they're teens; they rebel, don't always obey orders, get frightened and fail tasks sometimes, etc). They are not robo-girls. But when it comes time to fight, at the end, some a** kicking takes place. and not without casualties. I love a good sci-fi epic and this is one. There will be more to this series so I am eagerly awaiting the sequels. In the meantime, buy one already! It's a good one.

PILOTING A GEAR
Sometime in the future, humans are at war with an alien race that pilots giant insectoid ships. The only way to fight this threat is to use "Gears", highly advanced fighter planes. 13-year-old Teresa Gottlieb is enrolled in the highly prestigious Gear School, which functions as a training ground for future Gear pilots. Though she is very devoted to her studies, she isn't having much luck in the pilot simulations. She's always getting chewed out by her superior, Captain Tsing, for her incompetence. Besides the academic and military challenges, she also has to put up with a bully named Becky who is trying to quash any hopes of a crush she has on another student named Ben Castillo. When she overhears some of the faculty reporting that the aliens might have some sort of teleportation power, she and her best friend Moira laugh it off. That is, until a large alien ship rips a gash in the sky during her first actual Gear flight!

I picked this book up on a whim at the comic store, owing to its in your face homage to manga and anime. I mean, you can't get more Japanese than having the fate of the world in the hands of a bunch of young kid pilots that have never even been in battle before! Can anyone say Evangelion, Stratos 4, Stellvia? The art is great and the panel layout and pace is done in a much slower pace than most American comics. Both the writing and the art allows for some much needed moments of reflection and depth by the main character. There is no volume number on this book, so I hope it's not just a one-shot because it feels like a beginning, not an end. This is a great read for girls and guys alike and strikes a middle road between American comics and manga. ... Read more