The integration of network-based models for spill response and homeland security.
INTRODUCTION Many of the streams and rivers in the US are sources for drinking water. Water from these surface sources are processed and distributed through pipelines throughout cities and suburbs. Wastewater is gathered with a second set of pipelines and treated and with the rain waters that...

Conducting interviews to learn about World War II.
What are the implications of these three contemporary events? 1 In a class discussion, a fifth-grade boy volunteered that his grandfather was a veteran of World War II. The teacher replied, "That can't be correct. They are all dead." 2. A grandmother shared how sorry...

Some like them hot: how Germans construct male attractiveness.
In this paper we examine the social expectations of male attractiveness-what society thinks an attractive heterosexual man should be like-in contemporary Germany, where popular images and expectations of German men are in transition between the good provider and the nurturing partner and father. German academic and public discussion (Fthenakis,...

Counter-counterculture.
The Sixties Unplugged: A Kaleidoscopic History of a Disorderly Decade, Gerard DeGroot, Harvard University Press, 450 pages I AM A "BABY BOOMER," and my parents belong to the "Duck and Cover" generation. Baby Boomers were the product of increased copulative opportunities afforded by the end of the...

Etty Hillesum and the light of faith: A Voegelinian Analysis.
Throughout history, the symbol "God" has been used or rather misused for human purposes and for obscure immanent and ideological projects, (1) till the moment came that even "God" was announced "dead." Philosopher and postmodermsm's (2) prophet. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (3) was convinced: we killed God! The "God is...

The poverty of the "new philosophy".
In the midst of intense anti-American sentiments prevailing in France and throughout much of Europe early in 2006, a book by Bernard-Henri Levy, American Vertigo (Random House), made it to bookstores all across the United States. It was apparently directed against the French and European anti-Americanism that has become...

8th Air Force: American Heavy Bomber Groups in England, 1942-1945.
8th Air Force: American Heavy Bomber Groups in England, 1942-1945. By Gregory Pons. Paris: Histoire & Collections, 2006. Maps. Diagrams. Illustrations. Photographs. Pp. 192. $39.95. ISBN: 2915239-82-7 Imagine reading the scrapbook of an Eighth Air Force airman who flew missions from England to Germany and occupied Europe...

Craig Campbell and Geoffrey Sherington, The comprehensive public high school: historical perspectives, Secondary education in a changing world.
Craig Campbell and Geoffrey Sherington, The comprehensive public high school: historical perspectives, Secondary education in a changing world, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, ISBN-10: 1403964890: 978-1403964892. Hardcover, 224 pages. Review 1 This book is a very significant contribution to the important series of studies edited...

Historical dictionary of the Nixon-Ford era.
9780810856288 Historical dictionary of the Nixon-Ford era. Hall, Mitchell K. Scarecrow Pr. 2008 273 pages $80.00 Hardcover Historical dictionaries of U.S. historical eras; no.9 E855 Hall (Central Michigan U.)...

Learning from contingency: the case of World War I.
World War I was the dominant event of the 20th century. It hastened the ascendancy of the United States as the world's leading economic power, led to the breakup of the German, Austro-Hungarian, Russian, and Ottoman empires, and set in motion a chain of events that would ultimately lead...