Murphy Thomas Daniel (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Ex-library with typical markings/stickers; rear free endpaper with some roughness from card pocket removal; dust jacket in plastic sleeve, glued to pastedowns. "This collection of essays documents the indebtedness and thematic similarities uniting Shakespeare and eight southern authors - William Gilmore Simms, Henry Timrod, Sidney Lanier, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, John Crowe Ransom, Robert Penn Warren, and Walker Percy.".…

Softcover. First Edition; First Printing. Book condition is Very Good in wraps. Slight foxing to covers. Some edge wear to exterior. Text is clean and unmarked. ; 8vo. 9"h x 6"w. In this issue: "Seriously, But Not Literally: Pragmatism and Realism in Religion and Science", "Experience and Explanation: The Justification of Cognitive Claims in Theology", Theology's Truth and Scientific Formulation", "Critical Realism in Theory and Practice: Response to Robbins, Van Huyssteen, and Hefner".…

Softcover. 273 pp. Volume 08 (1994). Softcover. Good condition; light yellowing on covers and on perimeters of pages.

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Second Printing [stated]. 24 cm, [8], 315, [1] pages. Illustrations. Notes and References. Bibliography. Awards. Ex-library with the usual library markings. The 100th Infantry Battalion is the only infantry unit in the United States Army Reserve. In World War II, the then-primarily Nisei battalion was composed largely of former members of the Hawaii Army National Guard. The 100th saw heavy combat during World War II, starting in September 1943 and continuing after being attached as a battalion of the 442nd Infantry Regiment, another mostly Nisei military unit, in June 1944. The unit was unofficially nicknamed the Purple Heart Battalion, with the motto "Remember Pearl Harbor" and "Go for Broke", which was later adopted by other Japanese-American units. Based at Fort Shafter, Honolulu, Hawaii, the 100th Battalion continues the legacy of the 442nd Infantry Regiment, officially designated as 100th Battalion/442nd Infantry Regiment. Hawaii's 100th Infantry Battalion Separate was the first U.S. Army combat unit composed of Americans of Japanese ancestry. Its original members had been inducted into the Army before Japanese planes swept down on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. How the loyalty of these soldiers was questioned by other Americans, then put to the test, and finally proved beyond doubt on the battlefields of Europe is the subject of this book. Sometimes called the Purple Heart Battalion because of its casualty lists, the 100th established a record in Italy and France which made it one of the most decorated units in the history of the U.S. Army. Describing the Italian campaign General Mark W. Clark wrote: "I should mention here that a bright spot in this period was the performance of the 100th Battalion . . . it fought magnificently . . . . These Nisei troops seemed to be very conscious of the fact that they had an opportunity to prove the loyalty of many thousands of Americans of Japanese ancestry (AJA) and they willingly paid a high price to achieve that goal. I was proud to have them in the Fifth Army." While the book is primarily about the young AJAs, there is another group of men who should be remembered. After Pearl Harbor, when thousands were clamoring for wholesale evacuation and internment of all Japanese Americans, a few individuals refused to doubt "because it would belittle the value of our American institutions." Speaking of one of these men of faith, the editor of Honolulu newspaper wrote, "We were at the crossroads in that terrible December and it was largely due to (his) courage and influence that Hawaii took the right turn instead of the wrong. . . . The entire community and the nation owe him a debt of gratitude for his part in persuading us that we were justified in trying out the democratic ideals we had professed." Ambassadors in Arms, then, is a story not only of loyalty and courage but of faith. Yoshio Takamoto (Sketches) and Tadashi K. Ohta (Ma (illustrator).…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Dr. Michael Lowe, a nuclear engineer and former manager of the Three Mile Island nuclear generating station, has always considered the near catastrophic meltdown a personal failure. So when his superiors offer him an unusually large financial package to supervise the rebuilding of the nuclear plant, he convinces his wife to forestall their retirement and pick up where they left off many years earlier in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. But soon after the Lowes return, a radiation biologist who has also been added to the TMI staff begins to voice grave concerns about what is really going on under the guise of reconstructing the plant. Michael chooses to ignore what he considers the paranoid ranting of a young, inexperienced biologist and continues with the operation. Only after the sudden deaths of several local residents are blamed on a mysterious outbreak of rabies, then the horribly disfigured body of a former employee is discovered in a local marsh, and finally the introduction of military security at the plant, does Lowe begin to confront his potentially fatal mistake. Then it quickly becomes a race against time to stop a biological nightmare of catastrophic proportions. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…