Reference - General

FM 3-18 is the principal manual for United States Army Special Forces (SF) doctrine. It describes SF roles, missions, capabilities, organization, mission command, employment, and sustainment operations across the range of military operations. Topics include: *The History of Special Forces-World War II, The Cold...

The 2013 printing. Field Manual (FM) 3-90-2 contributes to the Army and joint community by providing guidance on the conduct of reconnaissance, security, and other tactical enabling tasks. It provides guidance in the form of combat-tested tactics and procedures for tactical enabling tasks modified...

2014 printing. This Army Techniques Publication (ATP) 4-25.12 provides guidance for establishing, training, and employing unit field sanitation teams. Implementation of the techniques presented in this publication will enable commanders to maintain a fit and healthy force capable of accomplishing the mission in any...

2006 Printing. This publication outlines the functions and operations of each combat and operational stress control (COSC) element within an area of operations (AO). This field manual (FM) establishes Army doctrine and provides guidance for conducting COSC support for combat, stability, and reconstruction operations...

The 1987 Printing. This publication contains doctrinal guidelines for the employment and training of ranger units. The intended audience is intermediate and higher level commanders, staffs of those headquarters, and newly assigned officers and NCOs of the ranger regiment. It is to be used...

The N5HZR Correct Radio Amateur Answers Manual (CRAAM) presents the entire FCC amateur radio question pool, without the distractors for you to review. The Technician pool is valid until June 30, 2026, the General pool is valid until June 30, 2027; and the Amateur...

Apiculture (from Latin: apis "bee") is the maintenance of honey bee colonies, commonly in hives, by humans. A beekeeper (or apiarist) keeps bees in order to collect their honey and other products that the hive produces (including beeswax, propolis, pollen, and royal jelly), to...

The book is about Learning English Grammar in an easy way .It makes the concepts clear by various examples, formulae and tables. Numerous exercises are given with the chapters to make the concepts clear. The students will find it extremely helpful in learning English...

My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident. If, when I was a boy, and went forth into the world poor and friendless, a good fairy had met me and said, "Choose now thy own course through life, and the object...

In the year 1918 by Kerry Butters is a reference Book from that year, included in it are things in the News, Famous Births and Deaths etc. Great for birthday presents, Anniversaries, Retirements and lots more. Look out for other years in the series...

Circle Time Activities Handbook: Remember playing games & those silly circle time activities in summer camp or after school? They were good times in daycare, preschool, elementary school, and high school Whether you work with toddlers, young children, or teens, you'll find fun adaptable...

In the year 1986 by Kerry Butters is a reference Book from that year, included in it are things in the News, Famous Births and Deaths etc. Great for birthday presents, Anniversaries, Retirements and lots more. Look out for other years in the series...

Have you ever watched those late night Poker games and thought "I could do that ?"New Extended 2nd Edition with FREE bonus inside .You're about to discover how to make serious cash with small investments while playing a fun, simple yet challenging game. More...

In the year 1995 by Kerry Butters is a reference Book from that year, included in it are things in the News, Famous Births and Deaths etc. Great for birthday presents, Anniversaries, Retirements and lots more. Look out for other years in the series...

Eva March Tappan's "A Friend in the Library" series is a comprehensive guide to the writings of six seminal American writers, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. In volume six, Tappan...

Would you say your dog listens to you well? Does she come when you call her? Does he stay when you tell him to? Are you worried about his safety when you're out walking? Are you worried about YOUR safety when you're out walking...

The Buddhist Catechism is a Buddhist studies text that has been approved and recommended for use in Buddhist schools by H. Sumangala, Pradhana Nayaka Sthavira, High Priest of Sripada and the Western Province and Principal of the Vidyodaya Parivena. Olcott's "Buddhist Catechism", composed in...

The book will allow you to have all your contacts' information in one place. You can write information about 300 contacts: Contact name, Land phones, Mobile phones, E-mails, Fax, Postal Address. There's also space to write how you met each contact and any other...

John Atkinson Hobson (commonly known as John A. Hobson or J. A. Hobson; 6 July 1858 - 1 April 1940), was an English economist, social scientist and critic of imperialism, widely popular as a lecturer and writer. LIFE Hobson was born in Derby, the...

Secret Societies Vol. 3: The Collegiate Secret Societies of America, is a curated collection of articles and information about the collegiate secret societies of America. Including Skull and Bones, Raven's Claw, the Anak Society and more. This edition also serves as a useful reference...

Such a day made glad the heart. All the flags of July were waving; the sun and the poppies flaming; white butterflies spiring up and twining, and the bees busy on the snapdragons. The lime-trees were coming into flower. Tall white lilies in the...

"Into the Fold: A Primer for Beginning Book Collectors" is the most comprehensive introduction to the exciting world of book collecting. This valuable resource provides anyone new to book collecting with the fundamentals of building a first class book collection. "Into the Fold" addresses...

A simple paperback cash book ideal for small businesses, charities, voluntary work or home use. Includes columns for Date, Narrative, Debits, Credits and Balance. Contains 60 pages with space for 30 entries on each page. Bright red to make it hard to loseAuthor: Alex...

Successful projects need local government and community stakeholders to work together, collaborate in planning and decision making. Bridge Road TownCenter is an ambitious project that seeks to improve vehicular and pedestrian safety, increase on-street parking availability and parking safety, improve walkability and pedestrian connectivity,...

The Mica Shipwreck site lies in the Gulf of Mexico, Mississippi Canyon area, located 65 kilometers (40 miles) southeast of the Mississippi River mouth. This is an area that experienced heavy maritime traffic especially from the late 17th century onwards, as the importance of...

The Dental Mission Manual is a comprehensive, practical guide for portable, short-term dental mission trips that is sprinkled with anecdotes. These field-tested hints by numerous dental missionary veterans will optimize the portable mission team experience from start to finish, summarizing information asked of the...

The U.S. Armed Forces used a variety of chemical defoliants to clear dense jungle land in Vietnam during the war. Agent Orange (named for the orange-colored identifying stripes on the barrels) was by far the most widely used herbicide during the Vietnam War. Many...

The Department of the Interior is failing to fulfill its stewardship responsibilities over museum collections second in size only to the Smithsonian Institution. The Department manages collections that are estimated to include over 146 million items of artwork, artifacts, and other museum objects at...

This report provides an overview of transnational security issues related to patterns of interaction among international terrorist and crime groups. In addition, the report discusses the U.S. government's perception of and response to the threat. It concludes with an analysis of foreign policy options.Author:...

The Senate may consider providing its advice and consent to U.S. ratification of the United Nations (U.N.) Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW, or the Convention) during the 113th Congress. CEDAW is the only international human rights treaty...

Lash Inc Issue 6. Professional trade journal for the eyelash extension industry.Author: Chrysalis House PublishingISBN-10: 150897649XISBN-13: 9781508976493Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/02/2015Pages: 72Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.19d

A 4-year-old Douglas-fir plantation in the western Washington Cascades was monitored for 8 years after fertilization with potassium (K), nitrogen (N), and K+N to determine fertilizer effects on rates of mortality from laminated root rot (LRR) and other causes relative to a nonfertilized control....

This paper synthesizes the existing literature about traditional and local ecological knowledge relating to biodiversity in Pacific Northwest forests in order to assess what is needed to apply this knowledge to forest biodiversity conservation efforts. We address four topics: (1) views and values people...

Oaks (Quercus spp.) currently dominate eastern deciduous forests, but are widely percei ed as declining, with regeneration inadequate to perpetuate many stands. Most stands regenerated following fire in the 9th and early 0th centuries, and a lack of recent fire is iewed as contributing...

Continuing difficulty in the successful natural regeneration of economically important oak species on highly productive sites has led to considerable research regarding the use of artificial oak regeneration to ensure recruitment of oak as an important component of future strands.Author: United States Department of...

I wish to thank the researchers who brought the Gulf of Mexico Offshore Petroleum Oral History Project to fruition and, particularly, I wish to thank the men and women who shared their testimonies with the researchers, Minerals Management Service (MMS), and the world. The...

With a sweep of Occam's razor, OMNISCIENCE cuts away obtuse philosophically-based systems and the highly complex library systems of the twentieth century. Instead, it reaches into the history of knowledge ab ovo, and from that beginning builds a structure unmoved by prejudice. This is...

This annotated bibliography is a synthesis of information products available to land managers in the western United States regarding economic and financial aspects of forestry-based woody biomass removal, a component of fire hazard and/or fuel reduction treatments. This publication contains over 200 forestry-based biomass...

This manual implements Air Force Policy Directive (AFPD) 15-1, Atmospheric and Space Environmental Support. It also implements Federal Meteorological Handbook No. 1 (FCM-H1) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Manual on Codes, Volume I.1, Part A (WMO 306, Vol I.1, Part A) aerodrome routine...

Examination of the charter choices made by the more than 1,600 new banks established from 1998 through 2008 reveals that since 2003 there has been a clear and persistent shift in preference away from national bank charters and in favor of state bank charters....

Need for Ethics in School Districts "Few U.S. school districts employ an ethics officer, and it's unclear how many have formal ethics codes. . . . It's not that wrongdoing is on the upswing. But in this era of budget cutting and high-stakes accountability,...

The Louisiana School was created by state law to challenge academically and artistically gifted high school students from throughout Louisiana. It was the second such residential school in the nation and served as a model for the creation of similar schools in other states....

There is no shortage of bridge books out there. And a good number of them are "tips". These books run the gamut, from evaluation to bidding, to declarer play and to defence. They are all helpful to the beginner player and to the experienced...

Consistent with Presidential Policy Directive 18: Maritime Security (PPD-18) and the National Strategy for Maritime Security (NSMS), the National Maritime Domain Awareness Plan (NMDAP) merges and supersedes the National Plan to Achieve Maritime Domain Awareness of 2005 and the Global Maritime Intelligence Integration Plan...

Section 19 of the Federal Reserve Act gives the Federal Reserve Board authority to impose reserve requirements on deposits of member institutions for monetary policy purposes and to define terms such as deposit, savings deposit, time deposit, nonpersonal time deposit, and transaction account. The...

Congress annually considers several appropriations measures, which provide discretionary funding for numerous activities-for example, national defense, education, and homeland security-as well as general government operations. Congress has developed certain rules and practices for the consideration of appropriations measures, referred to as the congressional appropriations...

The size and cost of federal vehicle fleets have been subjects of concern for many years. In 2002, OMB sent a memorandum to the heads of executive branch agencies directing them to examine the size of their vehicle fleets and report the size, composition,...

The Corps is one of the world's largest public engineering, design, and construction management agencies. The Civil Works program employs about 23,000 full-time equivalents, with staff in headquarters; 8 divisions, which were established generally according to watershed boundaries and are headed by a division...

The Clean Water Act establishes a nationwide approach to improve and maintain the quality of rivers, streams, lakes, and other water bodies, which involves different programs aimed at reducing pollution of the nation's waters. Under this approach, states are to set water quality standards,...

Wildfires, floods, hazardous material spills, hurricanes, earthquake, and tornadoes-emergencies, can strike anytime, anywhere. In face the number of annual federal disaster declarations has more than doubled over the past few decades. All juvenile justice residential facilities needs plans to prepare for, respond to, and...