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Connect Access Card for America's Longest War

AUTHOR Herring, George
PUBLISHER McGraw-Hill Education (11/27/2015)
PRODUCT TYPE Software (Other)

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Respected for its thorough research, comprehensive coverage, and clear, readable style, "America s Longest War" explores the origins of the thirty-year war for Vietnam. It seeks to explain how the United States became involved and the consequences of its actions for the Vietnamese as well as Americans. It assesses the multiple legacies of the war and offers guidance for students on what Americans should learn from this national experience that continues to resonate today.
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ISBN-13: 9781259442339
ISBN-10: 1259442330
Content Language: English
Edition Number: 0005
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Carton Quantity: 1
Product Dimensions: 5.80 x 0.50 x 8.80 inches
Weight: 0.30 pound(s)
Country of Origin: US
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History | Wars & Conflicts - Vietnam War
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Respected for its thorough research, comprehensive coverage, and clear, readable style, "America s Longest War" explores the origins of the thirty-year war for Vietnam. It seeks to explain how the United States became involved and the consequences of its actions for the Vietnamese as well as Americans. It assesses the multiple legacies of the war and offers guidance for students on what Americans should learn from this national experience that continues to resonate today.
Connect is the only integrated learning system that empowers students by continuously adapting to deliver precisely what they need, when they need it, and how they need it, so that your class time is more engaging and effective. It provides tools that make assessment easier, learning more engaging, and studying more efficient. For instance, Connect contains SmartBook, the first and only adaptive reading experience available for the higher education market. Powered by the intelligent and adaptive LearnSmart engine, SmartBook facilitates the reading process by identifying what content a student knows and doesn t know. As a student reads "America s Longest War," the material continuously adapts to ensure that he or she is focused on the content most crucial to closing specific knowledge gaps."
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Author: Herring, George
George C. Herring is Alumni Professor of history at the University of Kentucky. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Virginia and taught at Ohio University before moving to the University of Kentucky. He is the author of numerous books, articles, and essays, including The Secret Diplomacy of the Vietnam War: The Negotiating Volumes of the Pentagon Papers (1983) and LBJ and Vietnam: A Different Kind of War (1994). He served as editor of the scholarly journal Diplomatic History from 1982 to 1986 and was President of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations in 1990. In 1991, he served as Visiting Fulbright Scholar at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand and from 1993 to 1994, he was Visiting Professor of History at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point.
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