May 14, 2013
New Arrivals · Government Documents
These titles were recently added to the collection of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County.
Dressing for altitude : U.S. aviation pressure suits-- Wiley Post to space shuttle
April 3, 2013
Jenkins, Dennis R.
Washington, DC : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, c2012.
526 p. : col. ill ; 24 x 29 cm.
Shipping list no.: 2012-0423-P.
Pursuit of Power : NASA's Propulsion Systems Laboratory, No. 1 & 2
April 3, 2013
Arrighi, Robert S., 1969-
Washington, DC : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA History Division, Office of External Relations, 2012.
xiii, 185 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Trailblazer 1964 : the Quill experimental radar imagery satellite compendium
April 3, 2013
Chantilly, Va. : National Reconnaissance Office, Center for the Study of National Reconnaissance ; Washington, DC : G.P.O. [distributor], 2012.
xx, 351 p. : facsims., ill., maps ; 28 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
Shipping list no.: 2013-0013-P.
"August 2012."
Fort Fisher, December 1864-January 1865
April 3, 2013
Kummer, David W.
[Washington, DC] : [United States Marine Corps History Division], [2012]
62 p. : ill., col. maps, ports. ; 28 cm.
Shipping list: 2013-0004-P.
Cover title.
NASA at 50 : interviews with NASA senior leadership
April 3, 2013
Washington, DC : NASA History Division, [2013]
vii, 350 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Michael Griffin (administrator) -- Shana Dale (deputy administrator) -- Rex Geveden (associate administrator) -- Charles Scales (associate deputy administrator) -- Bryan O'connor (safety and mission assurance) -- Christopher Scolese (chief engineer/associate administrator) -- Scott Pace (program analysis and evaluation) -- William Gerstenmaier (space operations) -- Scott Horowitz (exploration systems) -- Alan Stern (science) -- Jaiwon Shin (aeronautics research) -- Michael F. O'brien (external relations) -- Robert Cobb (inspector general) -- J T Jezierski (deputy chief of staff) -- S. Pete Worden (Ames Research Center) -- Kevin L. Petersen (Dryden Flight Research Center) -- Woodrow Whitlow (Glenn Research Center) -- Edward J. Weiler (Goddard Space Flight Center) -- Charles Elachi (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) -- Michael L. Coats (Johnson Space Center) -- William (Bill) W. Parsons (Kennedy Space Center) -- Lesa B. Roe (Langley Research Center) -- David A. King (Marshall Space Flight Center) -- Richard J. Gilbrech (Stennis Space Center).
The Chinese Air Force : evolving concepts, roles, and capabilities
April 3, 2013
Washington, D.C. : National Defense University Press for the Center for the Study of Chinese Military Affairs, Institute for National Strategic Studies : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 2012.
xxviii, 394 p. ; 23 cm.
Shipping list no.: 2013-0013-P.
"August 2012"--T.p. verso.
The concept of airpower : its emergence, evolution, and future / Forrest E. Morgan -- China's quest for joint aerospace power : concepts and future aspirations / Mark A. Stokes -- The PLAAF's evolving influence within the PLA and upon national policy / Xiaoming Zhang -- The organizational structure of the PLAAF / Kenneth W. Allen -- The missions of the People's Liberation Army Air Force / Murray Scot Tanner -- The development of the PLAAF's doctrine / Roger Cliff -- The PLAAF and the integration of air and space power / Kevin Pollpeter -- Equipping the PLAAF : the long march to modernity / David Shlapak -- Meeting the challenge of the upcoming PLAAF leadership reshuffle / You Ji -- Education and training in the PLAAF / Kevin Lanzit -- China's aviation industry : past, present, and future / Shen Pin-Luen -- China's quest for advanced aviation technologies / Phillip C. Saunders and Joshua K. Wiseman -- The employment of airpower in the Taiwan Strait / His-hua Cheng -- The U.S.-China military balances seen in a three-game framework / David Frelinger and Jessica Hart.
New approaches to nonstate armed actors
April 3, 2013
Quantico, Va. : Marine Corps University Press, 2012.
iii, 63 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Shipping list no.: 2013-0032-P.
"A joint publication of the Middle East Institute and Marine Corps University Press."
Introduction : new approaches to nonstate armed actors / Kenneth H. Williams -- Negotiating with terrorists / Mitchell B. Reiss -- State versus nonstate interventions in fragile states / David Kilcullen -- What are our objectives with nonstate actors? / Robert Malley -- De-radicalization and disengagement programs / Peter R. Neumann -- Discussion of new approaches to nonstate armed actors / moderated by Roger Hardy.
Non-international armed conflict in the twenty-first century
April 3, 2013
Newport, R.I. : Naval War College, 2012.
xxxii, 456 p. ; 24 cm.
"Small wars" : the legal challenges / Kenneth Watkin -- Will-o'-the-wisp? : the search for law in non-international armed conflicts / John F. Murphy -- Defining non-international armed conflict : a historically difficult task / David E. Graham -- Self-defense targeting : blurring the line between the jus ad bellum and the jus in bello / Geoffrey S. Corn -- War and peace : where is the divide? / Charles Garraway -- The status of opposition fighters in a non-international armed conflict / Michael N. Schmitt -- Present and future conceptions of the status of government forces in non-international armed conflict / Sean Watts -- Toward a limited consensus on the loss of civilian immunity in non-international armed conflict : making progress through practice / Stephen Pomper -- Differences in the law of weaponry when applied to non-international armed conflicts / William H. Boothby -- Methods and means of naval warfare in non-international armed conflicts / Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg -- Perfidy in non-international armed conflicts / Richard B. Jackson -- Non-international armed conflicts in the Philippines / Raymundo B. Ferrer and Randolph G. Cabangbang -- Twenty-first century challenges : the use of military forces to combat criminal threats / Juan Carlos Gomez -- An Australian perspective on non-international armed conflict : Afghanistan and East Timor / Rob McLaughlin -- Detention of terrorists in the twenty-first century / William K. Lietzau -- Detention in non-international armed conflicts / Knut Dörmann -- International enforcement in non-international armed conflict : searching for synergy among legal regimes in the case of Libya / John Cerone -- Concluding remarks on non-international armed conflicts / Yoram Dinstein.
Strategic reflections : Operation Iraqi Freedom, July 2004-February 2007
April 3, 2013
Casey, George W.
Washington, D.C. : National Defense University Press, 2012.
xi, 215 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Shipping list number: 2013-0061-P.
"October 2012."
Among heroes : a Marine Corps rifle company on Peleliu
April 3, 2013
Ainsworth, Jack R.
Quantico, VA : [Center of Military History], 2011.
xiii, 83 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Shipping list no.: 2013-0079-P.
Jack Ainsworth's account tells the story of the Company C's ordeal, from the landing on 15 September to the withdrawal of its shattered remnant from the front line five days later. It is often written in the present tense, as the fighting raged around him. ... AInsworth's account is not only a unique combat narrative. It is also an important historical document that adds previously unknown details to our understanding of the battle itself, from the narrow but intense perspective of one rifle company of the 1st Marines.
Tomales Bay environmental history and historic resource study : Point Reyes National Seashore
April 2, 2013
Avery, Christy.
[San Francisco, Calif.?] : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Pacific West Region, National Park Service, 2009.
xvii, 233 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 23 cm.
Shipping list no.: 2013-0023-P.
Power of the river : the continuing legacy of the Bonneville Power Administration in the Pacific Northwest.
April 2, 2013
[Portland, Or.] : Bonneville Power Administration, [2012]
vii, 289 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 23 x 31 cm.
Shipping list no.: 2013-0009-S.
"DOE/BP-4461"--P. [4] of cover.
"On the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Bonneville Power Administration in 1987, the agency published a history,"BPA & The Struggle for Power at Cost." It covered the origin of BPA and the early days of electrical service in the Pacific Northwest to the mid-1980s. This book,issued for BPA's 75th anniversary,picks up roughly where that volume left off. It begins with the 1980 passage of the Pacific Northwest Electric Power Planning and Conservation Act,usually called the Northwest Power Act,a milestone that reshaped the region's energy picture and has influenced BPA's course ever since. The story then covers BPA,s march to the millennium and beyond"--P. vii.
A history of the U.S. Army's Residential Communities Initiative, 1995-2010 : privatizing military family housing
April 2, 2013
Godfrey, Matthew C.
[Washington, D.C.?] : Army's Residential Communities Initiative, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 2012.
xxviii, 349 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Shipping list no.: 2012-0383-P.
"Prepared for the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army, Installations, Energy & Environment."
Combat casualty care : lessons learned from OEF and OIF
April 2, 2013
Fort Detrick, Md : Office of the Surgeon General, Department of the Army, 2011.
xiii, 719 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Modern warfare / Alec C. Beekley, Harold Bohman, and Danielle Schindler -- Weapons effects / Sidney B. Brevard, Howard Champion, and Dan Katz -- Fundamentals of combat casualty care / Robert T. Gerhardt ... [et al.] -- Damage control resuscitation / Jeremy G. Perkins and Alec C. Beekley -- Damage control surgery / Brian J. Eastridge ... [et al.] -- Maxillofacial and neck trauma / Robert G. Hale ... [et al.] -- Ocular trauma / Raymond I. Cho and Eric Savitsky -- Traumatic brain injury / Scott A. Marshall ... [et al.] -- Extremity injury / John F. Kragh Jr, Jess M. Kirby, and James R. Ficke -- Spinal trauma / Raymond F. Topp, Eric Savitsky, and William P. Cranston -- Pediatric trauma / Philip C. Spinella, Jonathan Martin, and Kenneth S. Azarow -- Acute burn care / Evan M. Renz and Leopoldo C. Cancio -- Critical care / David Norton, Phillip Mason, and Jay Johannigman.
Celebrating 30 years of the space shuttle program
April 2, 2013
[Washington, D.C.? : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2012]
284 p. : col. ill ; 23 x 28 cm.
Shipping list no.: 2012-0334-P.
"NASA/NP-2012-01-835-HQ"--P. [4] of dust jacket.
The Civil War begins : opening clashes, 1861
December 26, 2012
Murray, Jennifer M.
Washington, D.C. : U.S. Army, Center of Military History, 2012.
63 p. : ill., col. maps, ports. ; 22 cm.
Shipping list no.: 2012-0413-P.
The first in a series of campaign brochures commemorating our national sacrifices during the American Civil War. Author Jennifer Murray examines the successes and challenges of both the Union and the Confederate forces during the early days of the Civil War. Notable battles discussed include: Fort Sumter, South Carolina; Bull Run, Virginia; Wilson's Creek, Missouri; Cape Hatteras, North Carolina; and Port Royal, South Carolina.
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