1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454228203321

Autore

Fantina Robert

Titolo

Desertion and the American Soldier 1776-2006 [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Algora Publishing, 2007

ISBN

1-281-39566-8

1-875864-54-7

0-87586-454-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (268 p.)

Disciplina

355.1334

355.1'334--dc22

Soggetti

Desertion, Military

Military deserters

Peace movements

Sociology, Military

Sociology, Military - History - United States

Desertion, Military - History - United States

Military deserters - History - United States

Peace movements - United States

Military & Naval Science

Armies

Law, Politics & Government

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; Chapter 1: The Revolutionary War; Chapter 2: The War of 1812; Chapter 3: The Mexican-American War; Chapter 4: The Civil War; Chapter 5: The Philippine-American War; Chapter 6: World War I; Chapter 7: World War II; Chapter 8. The Korean War; Chapter 9: The Vietnam War; Chapter 10: The Gulf War; Chapter 11: The Iraq War; Chapter 12: Other Conflicts;  Peacetime Desertion; Chapter 13: Summary and Analysis; Bibliography; Index



Sommario/riassunto

Despite the government's continued insistence on linking desertion with cowardice, the motivations for desertion are many and complex, and are either rooted in or encouraged by military policy. This history and analysis of military desertion from the Revo

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463191903321

Titolo

Mussels [[electronic resource] ] : ecology, life habits and control / / Jarek Nowak and Michal Kozlowski, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hauppauge, N.Y., : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2013

ISBN

1-62618-084-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (182 p.)

Collana

Marine biology

Altri autori (Persone)

NowakJarek <1962->

KozlowskiMichal <1960->

Disciplina

594/.4

Soggetti

Mussels - Ecology

Mussels - Life cycles

Mussels - Control

Mytilidae

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Native and Invasive Mussels / Slavka Stankovic, Mihajlo Jovic, Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia, and others -- Life and Interaction of Hydrobiological Organisms (Mytilus sp.) with Harmful Algal Blooms : Composition, Distribution and Metabolism of Hydrophilic and Hydrophobic Toxins in the Austral Pacific Region / Carlos Garcia, Nestor Lagos, Membrane Biochemistry Laboratory, Physiology and Biophysics Program, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, and others -- Mussels as a Tool to Monitor Pollution / Elena Cubero-Leon, Corina M. Ciocan, Environmental Biology, School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Brighton, Hastings, United Kingdom -- Bioenergetic Model Predictions of Actual Growth and Allometric Transitions during



Ontogeny of Juvenile Blue Mussels Mytilus edulis / Poul S. Larsen, Kim Lundgreen, Hans Ulrik Riisgård, DTU Mechanical Engineering, Fluid Mechanics, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark, and others -- The Synthesis of Vitellogenin in the Mussel Mytilus Galloprovincialis : An Interdisciplinary Approach / Marisa Agnese, Marina Prisco, Luigi Rosati, Mariailaria Verderame, Enrico De Meo, Ermelinda Limatola, Rosanna Del Gaudio, Serena Aceto, Piero Andreuccetti, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy -- Brachidontes solisianus (Bivalvia : Mytilidae) Re-colonization Dynamics on a Sandstone Reef at Pernambuco, Brazil / Mariana Alves de Guimaraens, Jessica Pires Sá Carneiro, Betty Rose de Araújo Luz, Janilson Felix da Silva, Universidade de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil -- Mussel Farms in the Gulf of Naples (Campania, Southern Italy) : Real Opportunity or a Risk to Consumers? / Maria Grazia Esposito, Francesca Trinchella, Rosaria Scudiero, Department of Biology, University of Naples Federico II, Napoli, Italy.