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Technology, Policy, Law, and Ethics Regarding Us Acquisition and Use of Cyberattack Capabilities

Product Description: The United States is increasingly dependent on information and information technology for both civilian and military purposes, as are many other nations. Although there is a substantial literature on the potential impact of a cyberattack on the societal infrastructure of the United States, little has been written about the use of cyberattack as an instrument of U...read more

By William A. Owens (editor)

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9780309138505, titled "Technology, Policy, Law, and Ethics Regarding U.S. Acquisition and Use of Cyberattack Capabilities" | Natl Academy Pr, September 30, 2009, cover price $49.00 | About this edition: The United States is increasingly dependent on information and information technology for both civilian and military purposes, as are many other nations.

Letters of Roy Bedichek

Product Description: Although Roy Bedichek published less than his more famous friends J. Frank Dobie and Walter Prescott Webb, he wrote voluminously and, many say, with more distinction than the others. In addition to his four published books, Bedichek produced a great number of letters through which he communicated his broad interests and deep learning to a wide variety of correspondents...read more

By William A. Owens (editor)

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9780292717879 | Univ of Texas Pr, July 1, 2009, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Although Roy Bedichek published less than his more famous friends J.

Fever in the Earth

Product Description: This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

By William A. Owens

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9780548384398 | Kessinger Pub Co, August 30, 2007, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

9780940672208 | Shearer Pub, November 1, 1984, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

Dominant Battlespace Knowledge

Product Description: The Department of Defense has been successfully exploiting rapidly developing advances in information technology for military gain. On tomorrow's multidimensional battlefield - or "battlespace" - the increased density, acuity, and connectivity of sensors and many other information devices may allow U...read more

By Stuart E. Johnson (editor), Martin C. Libicki (editor) and William A. Owens

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9781410204134 | Univ Pr of the Pacific, December 1, 2002, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: The Department of Defense has been successfully exploiting rapidly developing advances in information technology for military gain.

Lifting the Fog of War

Amazon.com Review: In his classic book On War, Carl von Clausewitz famously wrote: "War is the realm of uncertainty; three quarters of the factors on which action is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty." Ever since, "the fog of war" has been a standard concept in military theory...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Edward Offley and William A. Owens

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9780374186272 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 1, 2000, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff presents an indepth analysis of the future of the military, discussing the technologically advanced weaponry that has changed the nature of war and advocating a satellite surveillance network.

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9780801868412 | Reprint edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, October 19, 2001), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Amazon.

Computer Exports and National Security: New Tools for a New Century : A Report of the Csis Commission on Technology Security in the 21St-Century

Product Description: The report's recommendations for strengthening U.S. national security fall into 3 areas: ending Cold War export controls, strengthening proliferation-related controls, and accelerating the process by which the United States gains national security advantage from information technology...read more

By James Andrew Lewis, Joseph S. Nye, William A. Owens, James R. Schlesinger and R. James Woolsey

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9780892064038 | Center for Strategic & Intl studies, July 1, 2001, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: The report's recommendations for strengthening U.

Texas Folk Songs

By William A. Owens

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9780870741579 | 2 revised edition (Southern Methodist Univ Pr, June 1, 1976), cover price $15.00

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9781574411140 | 2 edition (Univ of North Texas Pr, April 1, 2000), cover price $18.95

This Stubborn Soil: A Frontier Boyhood

Product Description: In this masterwork of classic Americana, William Owens eloquently recounts his struggle to overcome the harshest of adversaries - poverty and hunger - to earn an education in the small town of Pin Hook, Texas. He recalls in vivid detail how his mother labored to feed her family and hold it together, and how he fought for knowledge in a land that was for the most part illiterate...read more

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9780941130196 | Reprint edition (Lyons Pr, October 1, 1986), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: An autobiographical account of the hardships and pleasures of frontier life and a boy's desire for an education

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9781558219892 | Lyons Pr, October 1, 1999, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: In this masterwork of classic Americana, William Owens eloquently recounts his struggle to overcome the harshest of adversaries - poverty and hunger - to earn an education in the small town of Pin Hook, Texas.

9780679722274 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, July 1, 1989), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: In this masterwork of classic Americana, William Owens eloquently recounts his struggle to overcome the harshest of adversaries - poverty and hunger - to earn an education in the small town of Pin Hook, Texas.

Black Mutiny

An account of the 1839 revolt of Mendi slaves aboard the schooner 'Amistad' to restore their freedom tells how President John Qunicy Adams sided with the slaves to win their freedom and passage home.

By William A. Owens

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9781567402735 | Abridged edition (Brilliance Audio, September 1, 1998), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: An account of the 1839 revolt of Mendi slaves aboard the schooner 'Amistad' to restore their freedom tells how President John Qunicy Adams sided with the slaves to win their freedom and passage home.

9781567405781 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, January 1, 1998), cover price $73.25 | About this edition: An account of the 1839 revolt of Mendi slaves aboard the schooner 'Amistad' to restore their freedom tells how President John Qunicy Adams sided with the slaves to win their freedom and passage home.

9781561007585 | Bookcassette Sales, January 1, 1998, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: An account of the 1839 revolt of Mendi slaves aboard the schooner 'Amistad' to restore their freedom tells how President John Qunicy Adams sided with the slaves to win their freedom and passage home.

9781567407747 | Abridged edition (Brilliance Audio, January 1, 1998), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: An account of the 1839 revolt of Mendi slaves aboard the schooner 'Amistad' to restore their freedom tells how President John Qunicy Adams sided with the slaves to win their freedom and passage home.

Black Mutiny: The Revolt on the Schooner Amistad

One of the most controversial events in American history--a slave revolt aboard the Amistad--comes to life, based on U.S. government documents, court records, diaries, newspaper accounts, official and personal correspondence detailing the influences and social world of this time period. Original. Movie tie-in.

By William A. Owens

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9781574780048 | Reprint edition (Black Classic Pr, November 1, 1997), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Relates the story of the 1839 revolt of Mendi slaves aboard the schooner 'Amistad,' telling how President John Quincy Adams sided with the slaves to win their freedom and passage home

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9780452279353 | Plume, November 1, 1997, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Relates the story of the 1839 revolt of Mendi slaves aboard the schooner 'Amistad' to restore their freedom, telling how President John Qunicy Adams sided with the slaves to win their freedom and passage home

High Seas: The Naval Passage to an Uncharted World

Product Description: Breaking with tradition, Admiral William Owens prescribes new roles and missions and the revolutionary new ships and aircraft needed for a new Navy.

By William A. Owens

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9781557506610 | Naval Inst Pr, February 1, 1995, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Breaking with tradition, Admiral William Owens prescribes new roles and missions and the revolutionary new ships and aircraft needed for a new Navy.

Patterns of Life History: The Ecology of Human Individuality

Product Description: This work summarizes an ongoing longitudinal study concerned with the nature of human differences as manifest in peoples' life histories. The traditional models for the description of human differences are reviewed, then contrasted with the presentation of alternative models...read more

By Michael D. Mumford, William A. Owens and Garnett S. Stokes

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9780805802252 | Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Inc, May 1, 1990, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: This work summarizes an ongoing longitudinal study concerned with the nature of human differences as manifest in peoples' life histories.

Eye-Deep in Hell: A Memoir of the Liberation of the Philippines, 1944-45

By William A. Owens

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9780870742798 | 1 edition (Southern Methodist Univ Pr, March 1, 1989), cover price $24.95

Walking on Borrowed Land

By William A. Owens

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9780875650289 | Texas Christian Univ Pr, June 1, 1988, cover price $11.95

Look to the River

By William A. Owens and Tom Pilkington (contributor)

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9780875650265 | Reprint edition (Texas Christian Univ Pr, June 1, 1988), cover price $11.95

Historic Texas: A Photographic Portrait

By William A. Owens

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9780877190219 | Texas Monthly Pr, January 1, 1986, cover price $29.95

Tell Me a Story Sing Me a Song: A Texas Chronicle

A portrait of the folk music of Texas is accompained by descriptions of the author's experiences collecting songs in Texas during the Depression

By William A. Owens

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9780292755239 | Univ of Texas Pr, April 1, 1983, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A portrait of the folk music of Texas is accompained by descriptions of the author's experiences collecting songs in Texas during the Depression

Tell Me a Story, Sing Me a Song...

A portrait of the folk music of Texas is accompained by descriptions of the author's experiences collecting songs in Texas during the Depression

By William A. Owens

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9780292780569 | Univ of Texas Pr, April 1, 1983, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A portrait of the folk music of Texas is accompained by descriptions of the author's experiences collecting songs in Texas during the Depression

Three Friends: Roy Bedichek, J. Frank Dobie, Walter Prescott Webb : A Personal History

Product Description: Roy Bedichek, J. Frank Dobie, and Walter Prescott Webb--a naturalist, a folklorist, and a historian--all taught at the University of Texas, lived only a few blocks apart, and saw each other almost every day. The true cement of their friendship, however, was the correspondence that makes up much of this book...read more

By William A. Owens

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9780292780125 | Univ of Texas Pr, April 1, 1975, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Roy Bedichek, J.

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