"Human Capital 2002 provides eight studies on the 'state' of human capital in government today. Carol Chetkovich discusses the challenge of recruiting the best and the brightest to government. Hal G. Rainey describes how four federal agencies are using special authorities to 'win the war for talent.' Ray Blunt presents two studies on how government can better develop its future leaders. Michael D. Serlin describes the need for increased ..."
"To Rest Among the Stars By SU-RA-U It is the most dangerous job in the galaxy-hunting space dragons in the ether But the humans who risk life and limb to do so are what make space travel possible Ecliptical Musings By BILL SUBOSKI A young ..."
Back Over There(1st Edition) One American Time-Traveler, 100 Years Since the Great War, 500 Miles of Battle-Scarred French Countryside, and Too Many Trenches, Shells, Legends and Ghosts to Count by RichardRubin Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2017 by St. Martin's Press ISBN-13: 978-1-250-08432-3, ISBN: 1-250-08432-6
"In The Last of the Doughboys, Richard Rubin introduced readers to a forgotten generation of Americans: the men and women who fought and won the First World War. Interviewing the war’s last survivors face-to-face, he knew well the importance of being present if you want to get the real story. But he soon came to realize that to get the whole story, he had to go Over There, too. So he did, and discovered that while most Americans regard t ..."
"This volume of essays, written by eminent World War I scholars, is presented to provide a better understanding of this monumental period in our history." -- back cover."
Back Over There One American Time-Traveler, 100 Years Since the Great War, 500 Miles of Battle-Scarred French Countryside, and Too Many Trenches, Shells, Legends and Ghosts to Count by RichardRubin 304 Pages, Published 2017 by St. Martin's Griffin ISBN-13: 978-1-250-08433-0, ISBN: 1-250-08433-4
"i always tried to take a nice long lunch, French style, during which i would read a
book and respond to e-mails from people who were just waking up back home. i'
ve eaten there with Jean-Pierre brouillon and dave bedford, but mostly i've been
... i'd go there every day. one afternoon, after i finished my salad and rosette
hoagie, i got up and walked over to the front counter to ask for an ice cream just
as a school bus pulled up out ..."
"This is a collection of articles--interviews, authored pieces, and public forum transcripts--drawn from the first 62 issues of the Platypus Review. The Platypus Review is motivated by its sense that the Left is disoriented."
The Last of the Doughboys(Reprint) The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War by RichardRubin Paperback, 544 Pages, Published 2014 by Mariner Books Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-0-544-29048-8, ISBN: 0-544-29048-8
"“Richard Rubin has done something that will never be possible for anyone to do again. His interviews with the last American World War I veterans—who have all since died—bring to vivid life a cataclysm that changed our world forever but that remains curiously forgotten here.”—Adam Hochschild, author of To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914–1918 In 2003, 85 years after the end of World War I, Richard Rubin set out to see ..."
The Last of the Doughboys The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War by RichardRubin Published 2013 ISBN-13: 978-1-4829-3315-4, ISBN: 1-4829-3315-2
Back Over There(1st Edition) One American Time-Traveler, 100 Years Since the Great War, 500 Miles of Battle-Scarred French Countryside, and Too Many Trenches, Shells, Legends and Ghosts to Count by RichardRubin Hardcover, 528 Pages, Published 2013 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN-13: 978-0-547-55443-3, ISBN: 0-547-55443-5
"In 2003, 85 years after the armistice, it took Richard Rubin months to find just one living American veteran of World War I. But then, he found another. And another. Eventually he managed to find dozens, aged 101 to 113, and interview them. All are gone now. A decade-long odyssey to recover the story of a forgotten generation and their Great War led Rubin across the United States and France, through archives, private collections, and ..."
"Dodd-Frank Changes, New CFPB Rules, and FTC Interpretations
The treatise explains the latest changes in credit reporting required by the Dodd-Frank Act, new CFPB rules, FTC staff interpretations, and important new court decisions. Also covered are the Credit Report Organizations Act, Gramm Leach Bliley, and state credit reporting statutes.
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The Last of the Doughboys The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War by RichardRubin 528 Pages, Published 2013 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN-13: 978-0-547-84369-8, ISBN: 0-547-84369-0
"licitous. Louis Armstrong, for instance, was abandoned by his father at a very
young age; his mother — just a teenager when she'd had him — was unable to
care for him, and he was shuttled around between vari- ous relatives. I don't know
what, exactly, happened to George Briant's family when he was a child, but I got
the impression that it was more than just one thing. “My schooling was very
limited,” he explained, “because I was — ..."
The Last of the Doughboys The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War by RichardRubin 304 Pages, Published 2012 by Harpercollins ISBN-13: 978-0-06-171035-3, ISBN: 0-06-171035-0
"The Definitive FDCPA Treatise
The latest thinking and definitive analysis of the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), the statute that dramatically alters how collection agencies and attorneys collect consumer debts.
For 30 years, the primary reference in the field:
Preparation of a debt collection harassment case
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