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Families Under Stress
By: Karney, Benjamin R.; Crown, John S.
Published by: RAND Corporation

Recent demands on the military have raised concerns about the impact of extended deployments on military marriages. To evaluate this impact, the authors draw on marital status data in service personnel records to estimate trends in marriage and marital dissolution between 1996 and 2005 and the specific effects of time deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq on subsequent risk of ending a marriage. The results generally run counter to expectations. Although rates of marital dissolution have increased since 2001 for most services and components, they had declined in the five years prior to 2001. As a result, marital dissolution rates across the services and components are currently similar to those observed in 1996, when the demands on the military were measurably lower. In most cases, service members who were deployed had a lower risk of subsequently ending their marriages than service members who did not deploy or deployed fewer days. more...

Price: $32.50

Freedom and Information
By: Landree, Eric; Paul, Christopher; Grill, Beth
Published by: RAND Corporation

How much data regarding U.S. anti- and counterterrorism systems, countermeasures, and defenses is publicly available and how easily could it be found by individuals seeking to harm U.S. domestic interests? The authors developed a framework to guide assessments of the availability of such information for planning attacks on the U.S. air, rail, and sea transportation infrastructure, and applied the framework in an information-gathering exercise that used several attack scenarios. Overall, the framework was useful for assessing what kind of information would be easy or hard for potential attackers to find. For each of the attack scenarios, a team of “attackers” was unable to locate some of the information that a terrorist planner would need to gauge the likely success of a potential attack. The authors recommend that procedures for securing sensitive information be evaluated regularly and that information that can be obtained from easily accessible, off-site public information sources be included in vulnerability assessments. more...

Price: $26.00

From Flood Control to Integrated Water Resource Management
By: Kahan, James P.; Wu, Mengjie; Hajiamiri, Sara
Published by: RAND Corporation

The loss of life and devastation in the Gulf coast region of the United States following the hurricane season of 2005 has led to considerable debate about what should be done and not done in recovering from the damage and mitigating the consequences of future floods. This document reports the experiences of four major floods since 1948 (two in the United States, one in the Netherlands, and one in China), to draw lessons for the Gulf coast restoration effort. The authors conclude that (1) attending to history leads to mitigating the potential damage of floods even when major floods are few and far between; (2) the critical concept of integrated water resource management policy-particularly its implication that flood damage control includes conceding land to the water from time to time-is necessary but may be difficult to accept; (3) delineating roles and responsibilities clearly in advance produces better outcomes; and (4) out of disaster can come improvements to the social and physical infrastructure that go beyond flood protection. more...

Price: $20.00

Geometry Quick Study Guide (For Smartphones and Mobile Devices)
By: MobileReference
Published by: MobileReference.com

Boost Your grades with this illustrated quick-study guide. You will use it. from college to graduate school and beyond. Features.:.; Clear and concise explanations.; Difficult concepts are explained in simple terms.; Illustrated with graphs and diagrams.; Designed for optimal navigation on PDA, Smartphone, Tablet, and desktop devices.; Formatted to display on all electronic devices including Smartphones and Mobile Devices with a small display. Table of Contents. Geometry Background.:.; Euclidean Geometry.; Euclidean Space.; Line.; Line Segment.; Incidence of planes and lines.:.; Incidence Structure.; Euclidean Distance.:.; One-dimensional distance.; Two-dimensional distance.; Three-dimensional distance.; Postulate.; The Plane Areas of Mathematics.; Translation.; Translational Symmetry.; Similarity. Triangles.:.; Triangle.:.; Types of triangles.; Points, lines and circles associated with a triangle.; Computing the area of a triangle.; Using vectors.; Using trigonometry.; Using coordinates.; Using Heron's formula.; Ceva's Theorem.; Heron's Formula.; Equilateral Triangle.; Right Angle.; Pythagorean Theorem.; Pythagorean Triple.; Heronian Triangle.; Triangle Inequality.; Pedoe's Inequality.; Similar triangles. Parallel Lines.:.; Congruence.; Parallel Postulate. Polygons.:.; Convex polygon.; Internal Angle.; Diagonal.; Perimeter.; Quadrilateral.:.; Isosceles Trapezoid.; Parallelogram.; Kite.; Rhombus, Rhomboid.; Rectangle.; Square.; Cyclic Quadrilateral, Brahmagupta's formula.; Tangential Quadrilateral.; Star Polygon. Circles.:.; Analytic results.; Properties.; Calculating the parameters.; Area of a Disk.; Circular Sector.; Circular Segment.; Circumference.; Nine-point Circle. Transformational Geometry.:.; Scaling.; Rotation,.:.; Euler's Formula,.; Rotation Matrix,.; Quaternions and Spatial Rotation.; Reflection.:.; Coordinate Rotations and Reflections.; Linear Map. Solid Geometry.:.; Dihedral angle and Solid angle.; The Cube.:.; Cuboid.; Hypercube Graph.; Parallelepiped more...

Price: $19.99

Getting Ready For College
By: Berent, Polly
Published by: Random House Publishing Group

Getting Ready for College is the ultimate easy-to-use guide to success for college-bound seniors, first-years, and their parents. Polly Berent answers the questions you didn’t know you would need to ask: • What’s the deal on financial aid and cash management? • Should I bring a flashlight to school? Do I really need a microwave and a vacuum cleaner? • Should I call Mom every time I’m homesick? Will my boyfriend/girlfriend wait for me? • Will having a credit card help me? Do I need quarters for the laundry? • When should I lock my room? Where can I fill my prescriptions in my new town? • Should I take intro classes or harder classes? Should I join a frat/sorority? • How could I possibly have time to figure all this out and keep in touch with my old friends? This essential manual includes day planners, notes on how to take notes, tips on how to make a “real life” file, and advice from scores of college students in the trenches as well as campus health-care professionals, college counselors, administrators, and financial-aid advisers. more...

Price: $12.95

Greek and Roman Mythology
By: MobileReference
Published by: MobileReference.com

Learn more about Greek and Roman Mythology with this comprehensive and fully illustrated book. more...

Price: $19.99

Heads We Win - The Cognitive Side of Counterinsurgency (COIN)
By: Gompert, David C.
Published by: RAND Corporation

Current U.S. counterinsurgency (COIN) strategy has relied heavily on the use of force against Islamist insurgents-a tactic that has increased their ranks. What is needed instead are stronger cognitive capabilities that will enable more effective COIN against an elusive, decentralized, and highly motivated insurgency-capabilities that will enable the United States to “fight smarter.” Cognitive COIN goes beyond information technology and encompasses comprehension, reasoning, and decisionmaking, the components that are most effective against an enemy that is quick to adapt, transform, and regenerate. Countering the challenges of a global insurgency demands the ability to understand it, shape popular attitudes about it, and act directly against it. The four cognitive abilities that are most important to COIN operations are anticipation, opportunism, decision speed, and learning in action, applied through rapid-adaptive decisionmaking. In 21st-century COIN, tight control and bureaucracy must yield to the power of networked intelligence, with each operative authorized to act, react, and adapt. With these notions as a backdrop, this paper offers concrete ideas for gaining the cognitive advantage in anticipating and countering the new global insurgency. more...

Price: $24.00

How Schools Can Help Students Recover from Traumatic Experiences
By: Jaycox, Lisa H.; Morse, Lindsey K.; Tanielian, Terri
Published by: RAND Corporation

Many changes in students’ performance and behavior stem from their experience of, for example, witnessing violence, undergoing assault or abuse, living through natural disasters, or experiencing acts of terrorism. This tool kit describes how such changes appear in the school setting and provides a compendium of programs available to schools that help support the long-term recovery of traumatized students. The tool kit describes how to select students for such programs and possible ways to fund those programs. It compares the programs with one another according to the types of trauma they address, the problems they target, the requirements for training and implementation, and evidence for a program’s effectiveness. Finally, it gives a one-page information sheet on each selected program, summarizing the objective, intended population, and format of the program and providing details on implementation, personnel training and materials, and contact information. more...

Price: $23.00

Human Anatomy and Physiology Quick Study Guide (For Smartphones and Mobile Devices)
By: MobileReference
Published by: MobileReference.com

Price: $34.99

Human Resource Management and Army Recruiting
By: Dertouzos, James N.; Garber, Steven
Published by: RAND Corporation

U.S. Army Recruiting Command (USAREC) is faced with the challenge of ensuring that the flow of qualified volunteers is adequate to meet future active-duty accession requirements. This report documents research methods, findings, and policy conclusions from a project analyzing human resource management options for improving recruiting production. It details research designed to develop new insights to help guide future recruiter management policies. The research involves econometric analyses of three large and rich datasets. The first analysis compares the career paths of enlisted personnel, including recruiters. The second analyzes individual recruiter characteristics and links those characteristics with their productivity, controlling for a variety of independent factors. Finally, the research focuses on station-level recruiting outcomes, paying close attention to the management options that can affect recruiter production and effort. These empirical analyses demonstrate that various types of human resource management policies can be very helpful in meeting the Army’s ambitious recruiting requirements. For example, the findings have implications for human resource policies in the areas of selecting soldiers for recruiting duty, assigning recruiters to stations, missioning to promote equity across recruiters, missioning to increase recruiter productivity, using promotions to motivate and reward recruiters, and screening out recruiters who are under-producing. Although the gains from any individual policy appear to be modest, the cumulative benefits of implementing multiple policies can save the Army hundreds of millions of dollars annually. This work will interest those involved in the day-to-day management of recruiting resources as well as researchers and analysts engaged in analyses of military enlistment behavior. more...

Price: $27.50

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