This book is a small portion of the continuous flow of ideas that cross my mind continually. This flow is based on life experiences good and bad of myself and others. It is intended hopefully to ignite blazine firestorms of thought, of perspective.

A collection of random observations, events, situations, news items, people, stories and the bric à brac of daily life that you may find either funny (ha-ha), funny (peculiar), thought-provoking, beyond belief or just plain silly, which illustrate what a mad, mad, mad, mad world we live in.

The Things That Cross My Mind is a collection of poetic thoughts and expressions intended to build people from the inside out by exploring four facets of relationship: About God and me; about relationship; about being single; and about life. Its poetry and psalms are designed to inspire, enrich, and help others approach life with confidence and assurance that they are important to God and significant to this world. Your gifts are needed; He gave them to you for a purpose. The Things That Cross My Mind will help you override societal notions of who you should be and assist you in accepting yourself in spite of what others think. It will also help you to love God and self, and know that you are worthy to be loved. Moreover, the entries inform single persons that they have so much to offer and that they do not have to sell themselves to get what they are gifted to accomplish. Giving clear insight into how much God loves you, the poetic expressions break down stereotypes and other barriers that hinder self-worth. The Things That Cross My Mind will allow you to be strengthened, directed, enriched, encouraged, healed while simultaneously allowing you to laugh and stand.

From the moment his first novel was published, Larry Heinemann joined the ranks of the great chroniclers of the Vietnam conflict--Philip Caputo, Tim O’Brien, and Gustav Hasford. In the stripped-down, unsullied patois of an ordinary soldier, draftee Philip Dosier tells the story of his war. Straight from high school, too young to vote or buy himself a drink, he enters a world of mud and heat, blood and body counts, ambushes and firefights. It is here that he embarks on the brutal downward path to wisdom that awaits every soldier. In the tradition of Naked and the Dead and The Thin Red Line, Close Quarters is the harrowing story of how a decent kid from Chicago endures an extraordinary trial-- and returns profoundly altered to a world on the threshold of change.

Includes various departmental reports and reports of commissions. Cf. Gregory. Serial publications of foreign governments, 1815-1931.