"Amazing photography accompanies engaging information about Littoral Combat Ships. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--Provided by publisher.

Alanna continues to create her own life as a female warrior when she and new companions journey to the Roof of the World seeking the powerful Dominion Jewel, perhaps the last hope of saving her country from dissension and hostile magic.

"In Military survival, you'll read about people who have some of the most dangerous jobs in the world, and the special training and equipment they receive in order to survive the most perilous situations!"--P. [4] of cover.

Grossman (psychology, West Point) presents three important hypotheses: 1) That humans possess the reluctance to kill their own kind; 2) that this reluctance can be systematically broken down by use of standard conditioning techniques; and 3) that the reaction of "normal" (e.g., non-psychopathic) soliders to having killed in close combat can be best understood as a series of "stages" similar to the ubiquitous Kubler-Ross stages of reaction to life-threatening...