Three Wise Men

Three Wise Men
Author: Beau Wise
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2021-01-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1250253454

From Beau Wise and Tom Sileo comes Three Wise Men, an incredible memoir of family, service and sacrifice by a Marine who lost both his brothers in combat—becoming the only "Sole Survivor" during the war in Afghanistan. Three Wise Men details the fate of three brothers intertwined when they voluntarily enlisted in defending their homeland after the devastating 9/11 attacks. Their extraordinary tale unfurls the severe toll of the Afghan war, particularly on a single family, underscoring the profound significance of the sacrifice and the indomitable resilience of a family's courage. While serving in Afghanistan, US Navy SEAL veteran and CIA contractor Jeremy Wise was killed in an al Qaeda suicide bombing that devastated the US intelligence community. Less than three years later, US Army Green Beret sniper Ben Wise was fatally wounded after volunteering for a dangerous assignment during a firefight with the Taliban. Ben was posthumously awarded the Silver Star, while Jeremy received the Intelligence Star—one of the rarest awards bestowed by the U.S. government—and also a star on the CIA’s Memorial Wall. The legacy of their sacrifice lives on in Beau Wise's account, the only “Sole Survivor” pulled from the battlefield, forging an enduring testament to the value of loyalty, service, and familial bonds.

Database and Expert Systems Applications

Database and Expert Systems Applications
Author: Gerald Quirchmayr
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 932
Release: 1998-08-14
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9783540649502

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA'98, held in Vienna, Austria, in August 1998. The 81 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from a total of more than 200 submissions. The papers are organized in sections on active databases, object-oriented systems, data engineering, information retrieval, workflow and cooperative systems, spatial and temporal aspects, document management, spatial databases, adaptation and view updates, genetic algorithms, cooperative and distributed environments, interaction and communication, transcation, advanced applications, temporal aspects, oriented systems, partitioning and fragmentation, database queries, data, data warehouses, knowledge discovery and data mining, knowledge extraction, and knowledge base reduction for comprehension and reuse.

Language Development: Foundations, Processes, and Clinical Applications

Language Development: Foundations, Processes, and Clinical Applications
Author: Brian B. Shulman
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Total Pages: 538
Release: 2010-11-15
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1449659705

Your ideal textbook for undergraduate speech-langauge curriculum courses in language development and language acquisition! This comprehensive resource, written by experts in the field, offers an accessible overview of language development to the undergraduate student. The book's 15 chapters are divided into two parts: Basis of Language and Communication Development and Language and Communication Development. A key feature of the book are the clinical practice applications, which will help your students prepare for the situations they will face in their careers. Companion Web site with the following helpful resources: Instructor Resources: PowerpointTM Slides, Discussion Questions, Chapter Quizzes, TestBank, and Assignments and Activities. Student Resources: Flash Cards, Crossword Puzzles, and an Interactive Glossary.

Interior Salish tribes of British Columbia

Interior Salish tribes of British Columbia
Author: Leslie H. Tepper
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 1987-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1772822752

These photographs were taken during fieldwork carried out between 1877 and 1961 by employees of what is now the Canadian Museum of Civilization. The collection consists primarily of photographs taken by James A. Teit between 1911 and 1922 for the Geological Survey of Canada.

TMS 2014 143rd Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Annual Meeting Supplemental Proceedings

TMS 2014 143rd Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Annual Meeting Supplemental Proceedings
Author: The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS)
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 1152
Release: 2016-12-16
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319482378

These papers present advancements in all aspects of high temperature electrochemistry, from the fundamental to the empirical and from the theoretical to the applied. Topics involving the application of electrochemistry to the nuclear fuel cycle, chemical sensors, energy storage, materials synthesis, refractory metals and their alloys, and alkali and alkaline earth metals are included. Also included are papers that discuss various technical, economic, and environmental issues associated with plant operations and industrial practices.

Lattice Engineering

Lattice Engineering
Author: Shumin Wang
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2012-11-27
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9814316296

This book contains comprehensive reviews of different technologies to harness lattice mismatch in semiconductor heterostructures and their applications in electronic and optoelectronic devices. While the book is a bit focused on metamorphic epitaxial growth, it also includes other methods like compliant substrate, selective area growth, wafer bonding, heterostructure nanowires, and more. Basic knowledge on dislocations in semiconductors and innovative methods to eliminate threading dislocations are provided, and successful device applications are reviewed. It covers a variety of important semiconductor materials like SiGe, III-V including GaN and nano-wires; epitaxial methods like molecular beam epitaxy and metal organic vapor phase epitaxy; and devices like transistors and lasers etc.