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War Stories: An Enlisted Marine In Vietnam is a memoir of my two years in the United States Marine Corps. It tells what it was like to enlist in the Marine Corps and serve as a field radio operator with an infantry battalion. We operated near the southern edge of the DMZ in Vietnam in 1967, a time and place of intense fighting. It took forty years of writing and rewriting to distill that two years into this book, because it took that long for me to become this honest about my experience. I'm glad I didn't rush it, because none of the earlier versions were as good as this one. This book is not so much about military tactics, as it is about what it feels like to be a Marine. It might be of particular interest to young people considering enlistment in the Marine Corps, to Marine officers, both commissioned and non-commissioned, and to family members of Marines, but it is really written for everyone. Most of us believe that the world is less than ideal, and that there are people and countries out there from whom we need to defend ourselves. Marines and the Marine Corps are an important part of that defense. When we ask citizens to become Marines, to defend us, we owe it to them to try to understand what we are asking. This book can help. A common reaction of many early readers has been, "I had no idea it was like that."

Effectively integrating grammar instruction with writing practice, INSIDE WRITING WITH READINGS gives you extensive practice through examples and excercises, as well as expanded coverage of sentence combining. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

THE WRITER'S RESPONSE teaches students not only the basics of paragraph and essay writing-unity, coherence, and support-but also the basics of academic writing, making it a complete source for students preparing for higher-level work. Through a variety of exercises and extensive readings, the text teaches students to read carefully and summarize accurately, to recognize and respond to specific points in the material they have read, to synthesize ideas from several reading selections, and to evaluate and argue about the ideas they have found in their reading material. Although the authors' focus is on writing about reading, they also encourage students to use their personal experiences to develop and support their ideas. This combination results in a text that not only imparts the fundamentals of college-level writing, but also helps each student find his or her own voice-and discover that they do, indeed, have something to say.

The first text to effectively integrate grammar instruction with writing practice, INSIDE WRITING, International Edition, now in its seventh edition, continues to provide students with extensive writing exercises specifically designed to support and reinforce the rules of grammar, usage, and mechanics. Using engaging allusions and humorous examples and exercises throughout the text, ranging in topics from Karl Marx to THE SIMPSONS, INSIDE WRITING encourages students to look beyond the simple mechanics of writing as they learn to communicate their thoughts clearly and effectively.

Covers the basics of writing a paper, including easy-to-follow chapters on writing college essays, summaries, research papers, and essay exams, instruction in editing and proofreading for errors, discussion of common ESL problems, and overview of stylistic concerns.

The first text to effectively integrate grammar instruction with writing practice, INSIDE WRITING, now in its eighth edition, continues to provide students with extensive writing exercises specifically designed to support and reinforce the rules of grammar, usage, and mechanics. Using engaging allusions and humorous examples and exercises throughout the text, ranging in topics from Karl Marx to THE SIMPSONS, INSIDE WRITING encourages students to look beyond the simple mechanics of writing as they learn to communicate their thoughts clearly and effectively. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Government Accountability: Australian Administrative Law presents a thorough account of the administrative state and the mechanisms that exist to bring it to account for its actions. It contextualises the theory and explanation of administrative law through carefully chosen case studies and events that offer practical examples of the principles discussed and how they are applied. The third edition has been thoroughly updated to incorporate recent legal developments and includes expanded discussion of 'materiality' in the context of jurisdictional error. The examples used illustrate the operation of legal principles and reflect contemporary social and political circumstances. Written by a team of experts, and known for its clear, consistent and straightforward narrative with logical progression, Government Accountability remains a student-friendly guide to complex administrative law concepts. Government Accountability: Australian Administrative Law is accompanied by a casebook, Government Accountability Sources and Materials: Australian Administrative Law, which provides curated cases and primary legal materials with helpful commentary.