 | Opera: Desire, Disease, Death - Linda , Hutcheon 10 Digit ISBN: 0803273185 13 Digit ISBN: 9780803273184 | | "A fascinating interdisciplinary study of the interconnected subtexts of erotic attraction, illness, and death in several 19th- and 20th-century operatic texts. . . . This is an extraordinary examination of how opera uses the singing bodygendered and sexualto give voice to the suffering person. Highly recommended."Library Journal "The authors argument is rich and complex; it draws on source, text and music; it is also medically sound. Opera is quintessentially an art of love and desire, of loss and suffering, of disease and death. Hutcheon and Hutcheon enrich our understanding of both content and context."Opera News "Linda and Michael Hutcheon have done a fine job of pulling together medical and literary sources to make sense of the changing depiction of disease in opera. . . . For opera lovers and for anyone interested in seeing good, synthetic reasoning at work, this is a fine study."Publishers Weekly Linda Hutcheon is a professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Toronto. She is the author of, most recently, Ironys Edge: The Theory and Politics of Irony. Michael Hutcheon, M.D., is a professor of medicine at the University of Toronto. His many articles have appeared in American Review of Respiratory Disease and other journals. |
 | Opera: Volume III: Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, Hippias Maior, Hippias Minor, IO - Plato , 10 Digit ISBN: 019814542X 13 Digit ISBN: 9780198145424 | |
 | Operacin Costa de Los Tifones - Joshua , Mowl 10 Digit ISBN: 8492429674 13 Digit ISBN: 9788492429677 | | After being lashed by a typhoon on their uncle's ship, THE EXPEDIENT, intrepid siblings Becca and Doug MacKenzie want nothing more than to escape from the volcanic island on which they're stranded and resume the search for their parents. But their uncle, Captain MacKenzie, seems more concerned with the missing gyrolabe than their missing mother and father, and he refuses to discuss the role the mysterious Guild of Specialists played in their disappearance. As the formidable Kalaxx warriors close in on their hidden cove, Becca and Doug unearth a riddle linked to a 1533 painting, which may hold the key to the Guild's dark secrets and to finding their parents. But how can they possibly solve the puzzle and escape with their lives before their enemies attack? |
 | Operas Every Child Should Know - Dolores, Bacon 10 Digit ISBN: 0766170497 13 Digit ISBN: 9780766170490 | | Found in this work are descriptions of the text and music of some of the most famous masterpieces. The opera is never more enjoyed than by a music lover who is incapable of criticism from lack of musical knowledge: music being first and last an emotional art; and as our emotions are refined it requires compositions of a more and more elevated character to appeal to them. The history of opera should be known and composers classified, just as it is desirable to know and to classify authors, painters, sculptors and actors. Contents: Balfe: The Bohemian Girl; Beethoven: Fidelio; Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust; Bizet: Carmen; DeKoven: Robin Hood; Flotow: Martha; Humperdinck: Hansel land Gretel; Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana; Meyerbeer: The Prophet; Mozart: The Magic Flute; Sullivan: Pinafore; Verdi: Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, Aida; Wagner: The Nibelung Ring, The Mastersingers of Nuremberg, Lohengrin. |
 | Operas of Michael Tippett: The Midsummer Marriage, King Priam, the Knot Garden, the Ice Break: English National Opera Guide 29 - Michael, Tippett 10 Digit ISBN: 0714540617 13 Digit ISBN: 9780714540610 | | English National Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original where appropriate. Although it is impossible to trace any one particular theme running through the operas of Michael Tippett, the libretti of his four operas are fascinating to compare. The dense allusions of "The Midsummer Marriage" (1955), here annotated, gave way to the classical formality of "King Priam" (1962); the psycho-analytical preoccupations of "The Knot Garden" (1970) hardly foreshadow the contemporary political commentary of "The Ice Break" (1977). Each work breaks new ground and provokes unexpected responses. The libretti offer unique introductions to the music. They incidentally throw a searching light on the direction of British theatre since 1945. |
 | Operating Globally - Amy, Zuckerman 10 Digit ISBN: 1841122289 13 Digit ISBN: 9781841122281 | | ExpressExec is a unique business resource of one hundred books. These books present the best current thinking and span the entire range of contemporary business practice. Each book gives you the key concepts behind the subject and the techniques to implement the ideas effectively, together with lessons from benchmark companies and ideas from the world's smartest thinkers. < |
 | Operating God's Private Lines: The Silent Prayer Frequency - Nicholas, Imoru 10 Digit ISBN: 1846852986 13 Digit ISBN: 9781846852985 | | Nick says: "You can provoke heavenly response without utterance." And "You can secure divine interventions without crying." Oh There is a level in prayers where you need not to shout on top of your voice before heaven will answer you. This is what is called the silent prayer frequency. And this is exactly where Nick is taking you to in this his amazing book. The book does not cancel or take the place of speaking and making utterances in prayer. However, it is equipped and loaded with five practical kingdom principles and time-tested keys that will deliver into your life a realm where you compel things to happen and answer to you on their own accord through your: Absolute Obedience. Positive Imagination. Undiluted Affection. Discernible Action. Addictive Praise This amazing book is guaranteed to change your prayer life and your walk with God forever. You may not be able to turn back the hands of time to make the desired changes. But Congratulations If you have bought or been given this book; you now have in your hands what it takes to operate in God's private lines for a turn-around in your life. Welcome on board You are about to enter the best day of the rest of your life. |
 | Operating Grants for Nonprofit Organizations 2005 - Grants Program , 10 Digit ISBN: 1573566144 13 Digit ISBN: 9781573566148 | | Few needs are more important to a nonprofit organization than funding for operating costs. In this new directory, nonprofits and other organizations seeking grants and funding opportunities to support general operating expenses will find over 1,300 current operating grants--organized by state--with contact and requirement information for each. Three user-friendly indexes (subject, sponsor, and geographic restriction) help grantseekers quickly find the ideal funding opportunity. All types of nonprofit organizations can benefit: - Arts and humanities - Community development - Health care - Children and youth - Education. Each entry includes: - Grant title - Sponsor name and address - Contact information (name and title, telephone and fax numbers, e-mail and Web site addresses) - Requirements and restrictions (where available) - Sample awards (where applicable) - Sponsor's areas of interest. |
 | Operating System Services for Task-Specific Power Management - Novel Approaches to Energy - Aware Embedded Linux - Andreas, Wei 10 Digit ISBN: 3836425637 13 Digit ISBN: 9783836425636 | | Mobile computing devices like PDAs, cell phones or laptops have become an indispensable part of everyday's life. As these systems are battery-powered and the user expects long operating times, energy-aware operation is crucial. Hardware components for mobile devices offer low-power operating modes that achieve energy savings at the cost of degraded performance or application quality, e.g., by reducing the CPU speed. This dissertation investigates software-controlled energy management and addresses these two, often conflicting goals: increasing the embedded system's runtime by saving energy and providing sufficient application quality. With a cooperative approach between the operating system and individual applications or the user, task-specific trade-offs between these goals can be made. Prototype implementations for embedded Linux are presented and evaluated with energy measurements, proving the feasibility of task-specific power management. This dissertation has a strong practical focus, being a valuable guide for computer scientists and software engineers both in academia and industry who deal with operating system design and low-power software architectures. |
 | Operating Systems: A Spiral Approach - Ramez , Elmasri 10 Digit ISBN: 0072449810 13 Digit ISBN: 9780072449815 | | Elmasri, Levine, and Carrick's "spiral approach" to teaching operating systems develops student understanding early and helps students approach the more difficult aspects of operating systems with confidence.While operating systems have changed dramatically over the years, the authors of most operating systems books use a linear approach that is difficult for students to follow and requires instructors to constantly put materials in context. Elmasri, Levine, and Carrick do things differently by following an integrative or "spiral" approach to explaining operating systems. The spiral approach alleviates the need for an instructor to "jump ahead" when explaining processes by helping students "completely" understand a simple, working, functional system as a whole in the very beginning. This is more effective pedagogically, and it inspires students to continue exploring more advanced concepts with confidence.. |
 | Operation Analysis - Harold B., Maynard 10 Digit ISBN: 1406742384 13 Digit ISBN: 9781406742381 | | OPEBATION ANALYSIS BY HAROLD B. MAYNARD, M. E. President, Methods Engineering Council formerly Super intendent of Production Department and Supervisor of Manufacturing Operations Department, West inghouse Electric and Manufacturing Com pany, South Philadelphia AND G. J. STEGEMERTEN Staff Supervisor, Time Study and Methods Department, Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, East Pittsburgh, Pa, FIRST EDITION SIXTH IMPRESSION McGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY, INC. NEW YORK AND LONDON 1939 COPYRIGHT, 1939, BY THE McGRAW-HiLL BOOK COMPANY, INC. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without permission of the publishers. THE MAPLE PRESS COMPANY, YORK, PA, PREFACE The importance of increasing the productivity of labor in industry as a means of enabling-a greater number of people to share in an ever-increasing material prosperity has recently received recognition from industry and the general public alike. Society as a whole can share only what it produces, and however much the machinery for sharing may leave to be desired, the importance of increasing the productivity of our producing units cannot be overlooked. The layman quite commonly associates increasing the pro ductivity of labor with the invention and use of new or improved machines or the discovery of new processes of manufacture. New machines and processes are important in this connection, of course, and have been since the beginning of industrial history. In many cases, new machines or processes are not avail able, or if they are, the money to purchase and install them may not be at hand. The idea of seeking to increase productivity need not bedropped in such cases, however. It has been demon strated repeatedly that existing methods and processes can be improved if subjected to searching and systematic analysis, and the results that are obtained in the way of production increases are often equal to or greater than those which would result from the installation of new machinery. It is the purpose of this book to describe the procedure for conducting operation analyses. Its application is inexpensive in comparison with the purchase of new equipment and once started it usually pays for itself many times over in the form of direct money savings. The application of the procedure is not limited to trained technicians, but it may be applied successfully by any industrial supervisor who wishes to bring about improve ments in operating methods. The book, therefore, will be of interest to all progressive men connected with the producing activities of any industrial enter prise, as well as to the serious student of the methods engineering procedure. The principles set forth are simple common-sense vi PREFACE principles which are readily understandable to the practical shop man. In all cases, the application of these principles is illustrated by numerous case examples drawn from many types of industry. The procedure itself was developed by the authors to remove the process of operation analysis from the indefinite status of something which should precede every motion and time study 77 and to make of it instead a specific, systematic procedure which would give results in the form of methods improvements. In so doing, the operation analysis procedure was developed into a tool which can be used by foremen, tool designers, inspectors, andother shop supervisors as well as by the methods engineer. The authors wish here to express their appreciation to those industrial organizations who so freely cooperated in furnishing illustrative material for the case examples given throughout the book, particularly the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, The Murray Corporation of America, The Pennwood Company, and The Mine Safety Appliances Company. Appre ciation is also expressed to Mr... |
 | Operation Chariot - Duncan, Harding 10 Digit ISBN: 1842622978 13 Digit ISBN: 9781842622971 | | In the formidable dry dock of St Nazaire lay the Third Reich's largest and most deadly warship: the "Tirpitz." Already two German battleships, "Scharnhorst" and "Gneisenau," had slipped through the English Channel under the bows of the British fleet. "HMS Rose," ex-whaler and jinxed destroyer, was detailed to join the daring mission to destroy the entire dry dock of St Nazaire. She found herself not, as planned, backing up Operation Chariot as a troop ship, but fighting alone, with her engines shot to hell and 30 miles between her and home... |
 | Operation Crescent Moon and the Magic of Love - Nestor R., Canoy 10 Digit ISBN: 1424198984 13 Digit ISBN: 9781424198986 | | Chris Rainey, a devout Baptist and nature lover, wandered in the Far East with his friends from college. In Bangkok, he decided to explore the surrounding countryside instead of joining the city tour. He was waylaid by brigands who tried to rob him while he was resting one beautiful evening. Their attempts were foiled when a jeep with bright lights and the sound of gunfire frightened them. One of them managed to hit Chris on the head and he fell unconscious. He recovered five days later, separated from his friends. His rescuer lured him to travel with him to the Republic of San Felipe. In San Felipe, he fell in love with a lovely activist who fought against the cruel dictator. Her name is Marianna, and is from an aristocratic Catholic family. When his friend who brought him to San Felipe was murdered, he was deported. In the U.S., he became a successful entrepreneur. But faith brought Chris and Marianna together again after a peaceful revolution in San Felipe deposed the dictator. As he was helping Marianna in the rehabilitation of the poor peasants, they were kidnaped by Muslim activists in that part of the country. A daring rescue was led by his business partner, a former U.S. marine. The love life of Chris and Marianna, with their denominational differences and the insurmountable crises they faced, was like gold tested in fire. But their unwavering faith and their deep Christian love made them conquerors through Christ, the center of their lives. |
 | Operation Death Watch - Leo, Kessler 10 Digit ISBN: 1842626078 13 Digit ISBN: 9781842626078 | | Britain's most powerful battleship, The Prince of Wales, had a hollow ring, for to reach their destination they had to cross the perilous U-boat infested waters of the Atlantic. This was Churchill's most daring mission. In a desperate attempt to force America into the war he and Roosevelt were to meet secretly off the coast of Canada, but German Naval Intelligence already knew of the meeting and were assembled in readiness for attack... |
 | Operation Desert Shield - Paul J., Deegan 10 Digit ISBN: 1562390228 13 Digit ISBN: 9781562390228 | | The "War in the Gulf" series will bring a unique perspective to the reader. While explaining the Desert Shield and Desert Storm operations, the series also gives an overview of the Persian Gulf nations and their problems. The reader will get a look at the destructive force war can have on peoples and nations. They will also get the feel of being behind the lines, suffering the day-to-day problems our men and women faced. |
 | Operation Emu - B. Brandon, Barker 10 Digit ISBN: 0977376338 13 Digit ISBN: 9780977376339 | | In 1992 NASA planet watchers discovered alien life in a nearby galaxy. Immediately they conducted a secret experiment called Operation EMU. Francine Dean, aspiring B-movie actress, saw it as a way to avoid tax evasion charges, and maybe a career boost. Legendary schlock director Enoch Jeffries signed on to avoid felony charges from his guerilla-style film shoots. And astronauts Nimrod T. Ashby, Erasmus J.T. Clark and T.W. Tongue faced the opportunity of a lifetime. At Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, the three astronauts underwent intense training, were sedated in a spacecraft and -- after eight months in space -- woke on an alien planet complete with cave people, woolly mammoths and a mind-boggling prehistoric society. Or, did they? Editorial Reviews "Sharp, fierce, and funny, Operation EMU is a wicked satire about the space program, low-budget filmmaking, and why Americans love to be told what to believe. Brandon Barker's first novel doesn't stop surprising or delighting. Imagine NASA run by pro wrestling's Vince McMahon -- or better yet, start reading this book." -- Douglas E. Winter, author of Run (Knopf). "I loved Operation EMU -- very, very funny and wicked at the same time, with nice digs at popular/unpopular culture. I think it could be, aside from the delightful novel it already is, a very amusing movie." -- Judy Bachrach, author of Tina and Harry Come to America: Tina Brown, Harry Evans, and the Uses of Power (Free Press). "Operation EMU is original, fresh, smart, funny, touching, and compulsively readable. Brandon Barker's take on man's first contact with life on another planet -- one suspiciously like our own in the age of the cave men -- could be a collaborationbetween Calvin Trillin and Philip K. Dick; but in the end, this fascinating novel is all Barker, a major new talent with a unique voice and a shrewd and compassionate eye on the human condition." -- Steven Spruill, author of Before I Wake (St. Martin's Press), Painkiller (St. Martin's Press) and Sleeper (Berkley). |
 | Operation Fox Hunt - Charles, Whiting 10 Digit ISBN: 0750523743 13 Digit ISBN: 9780750523745 | | Field-Marshal Eugen von Schwartau, the Caucasian Fox, led his Nazi stormtroopers to the very gates of Moscow, striking terror into the heartland of Russia. Now, with the fortunes of war temporarily going against the Germans, von Schwartau had his troops poised for a crippling attack on the Russian oilfields. The Allies needed commandos that could be as cunning and as deadly as the Caucasian Fox himself. The Dirty Devils, led by the wild, one-eyed Mark Crooke, were the only men who could meet terror with terror, and their orders included the death of the Caucasian Fox himself. |
 | Operation Hotel California: The Clandestine War Inside Iraq - Mike , Tucker 10 Digit ISBN: 1599213664 13 Digit ISBN: 9781599213668 | | On July 10, 2002, more than eight months before the invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein's regime, eight American CIA operatives slipped into northern Iraq. They endured almost a year of being denied vital supplies by a NATO ally, Turkey, as they pursued a covert operation with profound consequences for both the War on Terror and the Iraq War: Operation Hotel California. "Operation Hotel California" tells the inside story of the dangerous mission that paved the way for the Iraq invasion--and delivers the most blistering indictment to date by any American counterterrorism officer of the Bush administration's blunders vis-a-vis Iraq and al Qaeda. Drawing on exclusive interviews with Charles Faddis, the operation's leader, and other team members, "Operation Hotel California" is a riveting work that will shake Washington to the core. |
 | Operation II Duce - Charles, Whiting 10 Digit ISBN: 1842622455 13 Digit ISBN: 9781842622452 | | In 1943 the one-eyed Lieutenant Crooke, VC, led his hand-picked suicide squad, the Destroyers, on a deadly mission. Their task was to penetrate the mountain fortress of Monte Corno, where the deposed Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini, was held prisoner, and plant evidence that would incriminate Admiral Canaris, head of the Nazi secret service, in a plot with the Allies. |
 | Operation Iraq - Leo, Kessler 10 Digit ISBN: 0727875078 13 Digit ISBN: 9780727875075 | | The master storyteller looks at a topical phase of World War II They called themselves the Pact of Steel. They were Germany, Japan and Italy, and in 1941 they dreamed up an audacious plan to take over the world. They would drive from east to west to destroy the British Empire and then the United States. Finally, Soviet Russia would fall too, and the earth would belong to them. And it was all to start in Iraq . |
 | Operation Leningrad - Leo, Kessler 10 Digit ISBN: 0727862367 13 Digit ISBN: 9780727862365 | | A new mission for the hardbitten men of SS Assault Regiment Wotan. Summer 1942. Leningrad, Russia's premier city after Moscow, has been besieged by German and Finnish troops for weeks in a siege that will eventually last 900 days. Leningrad, built by Peter the Great, is a prestige object for both the Russians and the Germans. Stalin will defend it to the last; Hitler will fight to the last to gain it. Now Hitler personally prepares a daring and ambitious plan. The city is surrounded save for a narrow corridor based on Lake Ladoga. There the Russians, not expecting a German armoured attack in the snow that's soon to come, had reduced their forces to three infantry divisions. Aware of this, Hitler decides to send in his elite Wotan. It will use Finland as its base, passing secretly through the immense forests of the area, and take the defenders of Lake Ladoga by surprise. The war a battle of the Titans has become a personal matter between Hitler and Stalin, and Wotan will undergo tremendous suffering and losses to make Hitler's dream come true. |
 | Operation Millennium - Eric, II, Taylor 10 Digit ISBN: 0753156652 13 Digit ISBN: 9780753156650 | | 'Operation Millennium' was the terrible culmination of months of pressure from 'Bomber' Harris to get this new and deadly strategy accepted. It was an extraordinary feat of organization involving 1048 bombers, over 6000 aircrew and 53 British airfields. To ensure success, 'maximum effect' was the order. The Royal Air Force waged a campaign against any airmen whom showed faltering commitment, ruthlessly trying them by court martial. The atmosphere of night bomber stations is vividly recalled - the comradeship, the pity and the fear. The raid on Cologne is remembered by the crews of Bomber Command and the unlucky citizens of Cologne who endured the night raids. Eric Taylor has interviewed Britons and Germans, whose eyewitness accounts testify to the horror and heroism on both sides. |
 | Operation Millennium - Eric, II, Taylor 10 Digit ISBN: 0753156660 13 Digit ISBN: 9780753156667 | | Operation Millennium was the terrible culmination of months of pressure from "Bomber" Harris to get this new and deadly strategy accepted. It was an extraordinary feat of organization involving 1048 bombers, over 6000 aircrew and 53 British airfields. To ensure success, "maximum effect" was the order. The Royal Air Force waged a campaign against any airmen who showed faltering commitment, ruthlessly trying them by court martial. Eric Taylor has interviewed Britons and Germans, whose eye-witness accounts testify to the horror and heroism on both sides. |
 | Operation Moonlight Sonata: The German Raid on Coventry - Allan W., Kurki 10 Digit ISBN: 0275951049 13 Digit ISBN: 9780275951047 | | On a clear moonlit night in November of 1940, the Luftwaffe used hundreds of bombers, thousands of high explosives and tens of thousands of incendiary bombs to attack the industrial might of England by bombing Coventry. This book analyzes the raid in detail, reviews the actions of both the Germans and the British preceeding the raid, and investigates the impact the raid had on British as well as American public opinion. The book also investigates the controversial question of how much advance notice the British actually had concerning the raid. The Coventry bombing proved to be the most concentrated single air attack of the entire Luftwaffe bombing campaign directed against the British during World War II. |
 | Operation Oboe - Miller, Caldwell 10 Digit ISBN: 075520090X 13 Digit ISBN: 9780755200900 | | A Brahms concert in Hamburg in 1912 leads to romance. An escape behind enemy lines and a traumatic voyage follow. A second eventful voyage began a diplomatic career in the Second World War in West Africa and revealed a dark family secret. Throughout these decades of conflict and strife an oboe plays unaccompanied. Its notes would linger to entertain an independent Gold Coast |
 | Operation Pat Hand - Donald R., Waddell 10 Digit ISBN: 0977204839 13 Digit ISBN: 9780977204830 | | A secret undercover USAF Forward Air Controller pilot, Raven Four Five, is shot down while operating in Laos in 1969 in an O-1 aircraft. He is greatly disfigured during the crash and taken as a POW. He escapes. Twenty years later he is discovered in Thailand living a normal life having chosen not to return to the United States. He is accidentally located by a recovery team and asked to accomplish one last mission before returning to the States. He agrees to go to Hanoi, along with his North Vietnamese wife, in a plan to uncover a hidden archive of missing US fighting men.He is successful in the mission. The information he gained is used to account for numbers of missing US airmen.Revised edition. Formerly published as 'Forget Me Not ISBN 1-59113-441-2 |
 | Operation Praetorian - Edward, LLLI 10 Digit ISBN: 3836487829 13 Digit ISBN: 9783836487825 | | Police leadership development has evolved significantly over the past twenty-five years. The former "command-and-control" models of obsolete police leadership methods are simply no longer viable with the modern people that are currently joining police forces in North America. While there is copious amounts of literature available in terms of "best practices" and "core competencies" of effective leadership, contemporary thinking requires an improved approach to leadership practices that will be in alignment with the expectations of the newer generations of police officers in service today. This book resulted from academic research within a police force in North America. The significance of the findings may assist anyone interested in learning more about how the newer generations of officers view police leadership, what they will accept from their leaders and what they will not. This book may also be useful for officers wishing to learn more about developing police leadership qualities throughout an organization, how leadership has evolved from positions of authority to individual activities, and how every officer has true leadership potential regardless of position or rank. |
 | Operation Pretense: The FBI's Sting on County Corruption in Mississippi - James R. , Crockett 10 Digit ISBN: 1578064961 13 Digit ISBN: 9781578064960 | | During the 1980s fifty-seven of Mississippi's 410 county supervisors from twenty-six of the state's eighty-two counties were charged with corruption. The FBI's ploy to catch the criminals was code-named Operation Pretense. Ingenious undercover investigation exposed the supervisors' wide-scaled subterfuge in purchasing goods and services. Because supervisors themselves controlled and monitored the purchasing system, they could supply sham documentation and spurious invoices. Operation Pretense was devised in response to the complaint of a disgruntled company owner, a Pentecostal preacher who balked at adding a required 10 percent kickback to his bid. Detailing the intricate story, this book gives an account of the FBI's stratagem of creating a decoy company that ingratiated itself throughout the supervisors' fiefdoms and brought about a jolting expose, sweeping repercussions, and a crusade for reform. The case was so notable that CBS's Mike Wallace came to Mississippi to cast the "Sixty Minutes" spotlight on this astonishing sting and on the humiliated public servants it exposed to public shame. The conditions that gave rise to such pervasive malfeasance, the major players on both sides, the mortifying indictments, and the push to finish the clean up are all discussed here. In the wake of Operation Pretense were ruined careers, a spirit of watchdog reform, and an overhauled purchasing system bared to public sunshine. However, this cautioning book reveals a system that remains far from perfect. This narrative report on the largest public corruption scandal in Mississippi history serves as a reminder of the conditions that allow such crime to flourish. JamesR. Crockett is a professor of accountancy at the University of Southern Mississippi. His work has been published in "Journal of Accounting Education," "Accounting Educator's Journal," and "Journal of Education for Business," among others. |
 | Operation Redwood - Susannah T. , French 10 Digit ISBN: 0810983540 13 Digit ISBN: 9780810983540 | | Clandestine e-mail exchanges, secret trips, fake press releases, and a tree house standoff are among the clever stunts and pranks the kid heroes pull in this exciting ecological adventure. Smiley Carter is a moron and a world-class jerkwhen Julian Carter-Li intercepts an angry e-mail message meant for his greedy, high-powered uncle, it sets him on the course to stop an environmental crime! His uncles company plans to cut down some of the oldest and last California redwood trees, and its up to Julian, and a ragtag group of friends, to figure out a way to stop them. This fantastic debut novel shows the power of determined individuals, no matter what their age, to stand up to environmental wrongdoing. |
 | Operation Reverse April Fools' - Rachel, Scanlon 10 Digit ISBN: 1604416491 13 Digit ISBN: 9781604416497 | | What happens when a harried group of teachers, sick of being pranked every April Foolsa Day by a set of mischievous twins, decide to fight fire with fire? A lot of chaos, loads of humor, and nothing but trouble for the educators. In Operation Reverse April Foolsa, Marcus and Miles McKay get the best of their scheming principal, Mr. Peabody; his right hand man, Earl the janitor; and several teachers, such as Mr. Phylum, the biology teacher (and his pet rat Mr. Snuggles). Interspersed throughout the book are some of Marcus and Milesa favorite pranksaprefaced with a tongue-in-cheek warning, of courseasuch as how to create the perfect April Foolsa Day breakfast and how to rig a bar of soap so it wonat produce any suds. This is a book both kids and parents will enjoy |
 | Operation Rock the Cradle: The Blake Walker Chronicles - Alex, Guimonde 10 Digit ISBN: 1424179025 13 Digit ISBN: 9781424179022 | | Operation Rock the Cradle is the second of the many missions Petty Officer Blake Walker participated in as a sniper for an elite team comprised from three branches of the United States military. The book starts off describing how his exceptional skills at survival, tracking, and shooting were developed from a very young age, with his great grandfather, to the time he entered into the Navy. This operation takes place in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1983, when the political unrest was at its peak. To counteract the inroads the PLO was making, the U.S. president sent two teams into Beirut to remove the leaders of the PLO so Israel could stabilize the region. It also focuses on the turmoil in the Walker brothers lives with the murder of their mother, at the hands of their father, and how they avenged her death. |
 | Operation Rollback: America's Secret War Behind the Iron Curtain - Peter, Grose 10 Digit ISBN: 0618154582 13 Digit ISBN: 9780618154586 | | Fascinating . . . well-documented . . . thought-provoking and entertaining" (Publishers Weekly), Operation Rollback is a tale of intrigue and espionage that reveals how and why suspicions on both sides drove the world into the Cold War. In 1945 the United States and the Soviet Union started secretly mobilizing forces against each other, building intricate intelligence networks of spies and digging in for the postwar era. America's secret action plan, known as Rollback, was an audacious strategy of espionage, subversion, and sabotage. Concealed for four decades by all involved, the dangerous episodes of the Rollback campaign have only now come to light. |
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