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Bear Went Over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan

Celebrations!: A Personal Memoir Commemorating America’s Bicentennial Era: 1971-1991

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Lester W. Grau (ed) (tr). To capture the lessons their tactical leaders learned in Afghanistan & to explain the change in tactics that followed, the Frunze Military Academy in Russia compiled this book for their command & general staff combat arms officers. The lessons are valuable not just for Russian officers, but for the tactical training of platoon, company & battalion leaders of any nation likely to engage in conflicts involving civil war, guerrilla forces & rough terrain. This is a book dealing with the starkest features of the unforgiving landscape of tactical combat: casualties & death, adaptation, & survival. Provides an intimate look at the boring but brutal business of counterinsurgency. Maps.

Hobie Cawood served as superintendent of Independence National Historic Park in Philadelphia during the greatest public celebrations of U.S. history ever undertaken. For 20 years he was the steward of the historic buildings & grounds that mark the birthplace of our most cherished founding documents, the Declaration of Independence & the U.S. Constitution. During Cawood’s tenure the nation and the world beat a path to his door. He hosted presidents, members of Congress, Supreme Court justices, foreign dignitaries, heads of state, & thousands of Americans & visitors from other countries who came to the place where the U.S. was born. He has written a personal memoir of those years in which he recounts the major celebrations he planned or took part in. This wonderful book is a record of Cawood’s years as one of the most visible Park Service employees in the entire system. Photos.

Elin’s Amerika (rev., 3rd ed.)

Most Important Clock in America: The David Rittenhouse Astronomical Musical Clock at Drexel University: Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Volume 99, Part 2)

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Award-winning children’s author Marguerite de Angeli tells the story of Elin, a young girl who has come to live in the New Sweden Colony. She helps us envision how these many different peoples -- Swedes, Finns, Lenape, Minquas (Susquehannock), Dutch and British related to one another. Elin’s search for friendship, love of family, and anticipation of celebrations seem familiar. Her isolation from other children, lack of basic things, and the daily routine of chores may seem quite unfamiliar. New Sweden was established in 1638, under the guidance of Peter Minuit, when Swedish colonists were sent to the New World to claim lands in the area around the Delaware River in southeastern PA and south NJ. For ages 8-12. Illustrations.

During the years of 1767-1770 David Rittenhouse designed and produced two orreries, one for Princeton University and one for the University of Pennsylvania. During the last two years of this interval he also produced two thirty-day musical tall-cased clocks, both with an orrery in the arch above the dial. The first clock, built in 1769, is currently owned by the Pennsylvania Hospital. The following year (1770) Rittenhouse made a second tall-case musical clock, which was more elaborate than the first. Additional indications show the Moon’s elliptical orbit and its positional orientation in the Zodiac. This clock, currently owned by Drexel University, is a very good example of Rittenhouse’s work as it has experienced only minor changes over the years. This was the masterpiece of his clock-making career and is a national historical treasure. Ronald Hoopes, author of this study of the Rittenhouse Clock, is a retired development engineer with a degree in electrical engineering from Drexel University. An avid clock and tool collector, he makes cabinet and movement replacement parts for clocks that are faithful to the originals. Drawings and color photographs.