Learn about McNamaras 100,000, soldiers who failed to meet minimal intellectual standards but were given a chance at Army careers. Meet a soldier who won a silver star while wearing a black lace bra under his fatigues. Hear the story of how a British Army in India 19th century water policy was almost resurrected for Desert Storm. Discover why the military stopped pushing cheap booze and attempted to change from an alcohol-positive to an alcohol-neutral culture. Follow the quest for improved services in Army medicine. Relive many interesting vignettes from the 70s, eighties and nineties including insights into several dynamic general officers, including one who postponed a meeting with the Supreme Allied Commander Europe(SACEUR) to chat with doctors at a coffee break. Peek inside the often confusing world of quality assurance. Examine why reduction in rank appears not to work. See how the National Practitioner Data Bank protects patients in the U.S. Read about one attempt to prepare Army doctors and field medics for psychiatric casualties on the battlefield. Find out how a psychiatrist can become involved in a surprisingly wide range of activities related to military life. Marvel over the level of emotions engendered by the question of who should command medical units. Enjoy articles about Dr. Jeffer from Newsweek, Psychology Today, Army Times, U.S. Medicine, Stars and Stripes, Psychiatric News and the Newport News Daily Press. Over twenty-six years Dr. Ed Jeffer was involved in drugs and alcohol, the interface of medicine and the law, quality assurance, combat psychiatry and many other areas. He served with both active and reserve components. Working as a staff officer he interfaced with command at all levels and with governors and the Congress of the United States. Many lessons learned are still valuable today and there is something of interest for everyone.

Bobby Dollar has a problem or four of epic proportions. Problem one: his best friend Sam has given him an angel's feather that also happens to be evidence of an unholy pact between Bobby's employers and those who dwell in the infernal depths. Problem two: Eligor, Grand Duke of Hell, wants to get his claws on the feather at all costs, but particularly at all cost to Bobby . Problem three: Bobby has fallen in love with Casimira, Countess of Cold Hands, who just happens to be Eligor's girlfriend. Problem four: Eligor, aware of Problem three, has whisked Casimira off to the Bottomless Pit itself, telling Bobby he will never see her again unless he hands over the feather. But Bobby, long-time veteran of the endless war between above and below, is not the type of guy who finds Hell intimidating. All he has to do is toss on a demon's body, sneak through the infernal gates, solve the mystery of the angel's feather, and rescue the girl. Saving the day should just be a matter of an eon or two of anguish, mutilation and horror. If only it were that easy.

A small northwestern prarie town. Mark Driscoll, a loner with a less than desireable past, is resigned to live life in relative obscurity until he finds himself in possession of a lottery ticket worth millions. Determined to remain anonymous, he devises a scheme to cash in his ticket and keep his fortune. But someone from his past already knows and will stop at nothing to steal the prize. Even cold-blooded murder. A deadly game begins where Driscoll, not only is forced to match wits with a devious opponent but has to deal with the skeletons of the past which emerge from their long forgotten closets. A bloody trail of lies, deceit, murder and revenge leads Driscoll to the brink of insanity and the ultimate prize of all; his own life.

This bracing new nonfiction book by the young superstar E´douard Louis is both a searing j’accuse of the viciously entrenched French class system and a wrenchingly tender love letter to his father This bracing new nonfiction book by the young superstar Édouard Louis is both a searing j’accuse of the viciously entrenched French class system and a wrenchingly tender love letter to his father. Who Killed My Father rips into France’s long neglect of the working class and its overt contempt for the poor, accusing the complacent French—at the minimum—of negligent homicide. The author goes to visit the ugly gray town of his childhood to see his dying father, barely fifty years old, who can hardly walk or breathe:“You belong to the category of humans whom politics consigns to an early death.” It’s as simple as that. But hand in hand with searing, specific denunciations are tender passages of a love between father and son, once damaged by shame, poverty and homophobia. Yet tenderness reconciles them, even as the state is killing off his father. Louis goes after the French system with bare knuckles but turns to his long-alienated father with open arms: this passionate combination makes Who Killed My Father a heartbreaking book.