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The Barracks Thief
The Barracks Thief is the story of three young paratroopers waiting to be shipped out to Vietnam Brought together one sweltering afternoon to stand guard over an ammunition dump threatened by a forest fire, they discover in each other an unexpected capacity for recklessness and violence. Far from being alarmed by this discovery, they are exhilarated by it; they emerge from their common danger full of confidence in their own manhood and in the bond of friendship they have formed. This confidence is shaken when a series of thefts occur. The author embraces the perspectives of both the betrayer and the betrayed, forcing us to participate in lives that we might otherwise condemn, and to recognize the kinship of those lives to our own..
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Last Man Out: Glenn McDole, USMC, Survivor of the Palawan Massacre in World War II
On December 14, 1944, Japanese soldiers massacred 139 of 150 American POWs. This biography tells the story of Glenn ("Mac") McDole, one of eleven young men who escaped and the last man out of Palawan Prison Camp 10A. Beginning on December 8, 1941, at the U.S. Navy Yard barracks at Cavite, the story of this young Iowa marine continues through the fighting on Corregidor, the capture and imprisonment by the Japanese Imperial Army in May 1942, Mac’s entry into the Palawan prison camp in the Philippines on August 12, 1942, the terrible conditions he and his comrades endured in the camps, and the terrible day when 139 young soldiers were slaughtered. The work details the escapes of the few survivors as they dug into refuse piles, hid in coral caves, and slogged through swamp and jungle to get to supportive Filipinos. It also contains an account and verdicts of the war crimes trials of the Japanese guards, follow-ups on the various places and people referred to in the text, with descriptions of their present situations, and a roster of the names and hometowns of the victims of the Palawan massacre..
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Master Techniques in Orthopaedic Surgery: The Hip
This volume of the acclaimed Master Techniques in Orthopaedic Surgery series is now in its completely revised Second Edition--with a new editor and group of contributors who represent today's foremost leaders in hip surgery. These world-renowned master surgeons describe their preferred techniques in step-by-step detail, explain the indications and contraindications, identify pitfalls and potential complications, and offer pearls and tips for improving results. The book is thoroughly illustrated with full-color, sequential, surgeon's-eye view intraoperative photographs, as well as drawings by noted medical illustrators. This edition has brand-new chapters on surgical planning and decision making, hip arthroscopy, and surgery for avascular necrosis, including hemiarthroplasty, core decompression, impaction, non-vascularized grafting, and vascularized fibular grafting. The primary total hip arthroplasty section includes new chapters on tapered, modular, cemented, and cementless stems and cemented and ingrowth sockets. The revision total hip arthroplasty section features a new chapter on the megaprosthesis and greatly expanded coverage of acetabular revision, including cement with roof rings, cementless, bulk grafts, and cages. .
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A Night in the Barracks: Authentic Accounts of Sex in the Armed Forces
Find out what really goes on after "lights out" in the homophobic yet intensely homoerotic world of masculine men in uniform! Tantalizing, explicit, sometimes disturbing, and always genuine, A NIGHT IN THE BARRACKS delivers the goods. Former Marine Alex Buchman lays it on the line in this steamy collection of real-life sexual adventures related by the men themselves -- including Buchman -- who lived them..
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Barracks Bad Boys: Authentic Accounts of Sex in the Armed Forces
Unmistakably original, utterly heartfelt, stranger than fiction, hotter than any off-the-rack gay fantasy! Building on the success of his extraordinary debut—the critically acclaimed, #1 "men’s interest" bestseller A Night in the Barracks—former U.S. Marine Alex Buchman presents a spellbinding, startlingly unique collection of erotic memoirs by or about "bad boys" in the Armed Forces. Buchman’s radical approach to an otherwise rigidly formulaic sub-genre: he does the legion of purportedly "true confessions" books with a military theme one better: the first-person narratives he has assembled actually are true. Boldly defying the conventions of gay male "one-handed reading," the unembellished chronicles Buchman brings us from the intensely homoerotic secret world of men in uniform are more erotically charged than any porn-by-numbers fantasy. The theme of Barracks Bad Boys is trouble. All-too-true stories of criminally sexy soldiers and sailors in trouble, who cause trouble, or who just plain are trouble. The unvarnished accounts of romance with baby-faced deserters bound for the brig make for riveting reading. Equally gripping is the disarmingly candid pillow talk of young military men whose trouble runs deeper than mere "unauthorized absence" or "indecent acts." Some of the surprises you’ll encounter in Barracks Bad Boys include: a straight, married soldier’s detailed description of his one and only sexual experience with another man
a seasoned military chaser’s review of his all-time favorite sailor-hustlers
a dazed gay studies author’s "I should have known better" journal documenting how young sailors half his age seduced him, gave him street drugs, and pressured him to videotape them performing lewd acts
Editor Buchman’s own offbeat and powerful story of being taken by surprise by the sexual advance of a Marine sergeant who began rubbing Buchman’s chest and asking him if he felt an "urge to be evil . . ." By turns hair-raising and wrenching, poignant and laugh-out-loud funny, these authentic accounts of sex in the Armed Forces are sure to elicit one universal reaction: no one could make this up! Barracks Bad Boys is compulsory reading for anyone interested in men in uniform; human sexuality in the military; and cutting-edge nonfiction literary erotica..
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The Prison Letters of Fidel Castro
Early in Ann Louise Bardach's Cuban voyage she came across Cartas de Presidio or The Prison Letters of Fidel Castro. Edited by Luis Conte Aguero, who was the recipient of most of these letters, they are cited in every important work from Hugh Thomas' opus Cuba to Tad Szulc's Fidel biography, and everything in between and since. These twenty-one letters (nine to Conte Aguero, six to his late sister and close collaborator, Lidia, one to his wife Mirta, one to his comrade in combat, Melba Hernandez letters, one to the great scholar Jorge Manach) are regarded as the single most valuable and revelatory document regarding Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution. Never before published in English, these letters were written when Castro was imprisoned for his failed attack on the Moncada from 1953 to 1955 and reveal a man of spectacular ambition and steely determination. A man, who despite being incarcerated to serve a lengthy prison term, never wavers in his confidence that he will one day rule Cuba. .
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The Barracks
One of the preeminent Irish writers of our time, John McGahern has captivated readers with such poignant and heart-wrenching novels as Amongst Women and The Dark. Moving between tragedy and savage comedy, desperation and joy, McGahern’s first novel, The Barracks, is one of haunting power. Elizabeth Reegan, after years of freedom—and loneliness—marries into the enclosed Irish village of her upbringing. The children are not her own; her husband is straining to break free from the servile security of the police force; and her own life, threatened by illness, seems to be losing the last vestiges of its purpose..
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Donald Judd: Architecture
One of the leading representatives of Minimalism, Donald Judd's "specific objects," made of steel, wood, aluminum, and Plexiglass, undertook a radical and revolutionary analysis and redefinition of sculpture as it exists in space. Somewhat less familiar are Judd's numerous architectural and furniture designs, works which are closely related in formal terms to his ubiquitous art objects but which much more successfully reflect his concerns with utility. To best understand this aspect of Judd's work, a visit to Marfa, Texas is in order. In 1971, Judd bought an old fort near this small town; by systematically acquiring and transforming more and more local property, he amassed the largest ensemble of contemporary art in the world, with permanent installations of his own work and that of Carl Andre, John Chamberlan, Dan Flavin, and others. "Donald Judd: Architecture" presents drawings, design sketches, ground plans, and photographs of the grounds and architecture of this Minimalist desert oasis, and bears witness to Judd's role as the visionary architect and stage director of his own oeuvre. This book first appeared in 1991, in German. It has been thoroughly revised and expanded for this, its first English edition. "Art and architecture--all the arts--do not have to exist in isolation, as they do now. This fault is very much a key to the present society. Architecture is nearly gone, but it, art, all the arts, in fact all parts of the society, have to be rejoined, and joined more than they have ever been. This would be democratic in a good sense, unlike the present increasing fragmentation into separate but equal categories." --Donald Judd Edited by Peter Noever, of MAK, Vienna. Essays by Donald Judd, Rudi Fuchs, Brigitte Huck. 8.75 x 11.5 in.
25 color, 84 b/w illustrations
English/German.
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THE FRAUD OF THE FRAUD: HAVE YOU BEEN TAKEN FOR A RIDE?
THE BOOK THAT THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO READ This Book (The Fraud of the Fraud: Have you been taken for a ride?) will change the way you look at the world for ever. You have heard conspiracy theories about 9/11, The Iraq war, The Freemasons, The 1995 Oklahoma City Bombings, The Shadow Government, and many other theories. This written documentary will teach you the undisputed facts about all these events. This explosive documentary is packed with declassified documents, congressional hearings, public statements, and mainstream news reports to prove as fact, what is normally written off as baseless conspiracy theories. Since this is a new day and time, we need a new approach on how to expose the criminal elite that run this planet. This written documentary offers that approach by exposing the criminal elite with cited credible facts and not just pretty colorful words..
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