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From boots to business : transitioning from the service to a career in business / by Ventrone, Jillian,1973-author.(CARDINAL)407196; Blue, Robert W.,Jr.,author.(CARDINAL)408421; Rapske, Roxanne,author.; LaCroix, Julie,1965-author.;
"From Boots to Business is designed to help guide service members interested in pursuing a career in the field of business post-military service on their journey by guiding them through the maze of possibilities and assisting them in maximizing their available choices"--Includes bibliographical references and index.Is a career in business right for you? -- Informed decisions -- Education and training -- International business degrees and study abroad -- Preparation and resources for career planning -- Franchise/business opportunities -- Cost and payment resources.
Subjects: Veterans; Business; Career changes; Veteran reintegration;
Available copies: 11 / Total copies: 11
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Military-to-civilian : success for veterans & their families : the ultimate re-imagining guide for making smart re-careering, relocation, and retirement decisions / by Krannich, Ronald L.,author.(CARDINAL)521267;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Preface -- Pursue a passionate life with purpose and meaning -- Part I: Understanding the path ahead: Re-imagining the civilian work world ; Develop a proactive mindset for success ; Changing trends, jobs, careers, and employers ; Best jobs and career alternatives for transitioning military ; Create and nurture a big net for success ; Select the most effective job search approaches -- Part II: Develop powerful career transition skills: Discover the truth about you ; Identify your interests and values ; Analyze your motivated abilities and skills (MAS) ; Craft a powerful employer-centered objective ; Write powerful applications, resumes, and letters ; Research alternative jobs, employers, and communities ; Network your way through the hidden job market ; Interview like a pro ; Negotiate salary, benefits, and your future -- Part III: Make smart decisions the rest of your life: Survive and thrive in your career ; Find your ideal place to live, work, and play ; Start your own business.
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Retired military personnel; Veteran reintegration; Veteran reintegration; Veterans; Veterans;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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What have we done : the moral injury of our longest wars / by Wood, David Bowne,author.;
Includes bibliographic references and index.The baptismal font -- It's wrong, but you have no choice -- Regardless of the cost -- The rules: made to be broken -- A friend was liquefied -- Just war -- Trotting heart, shell shock, moral injury -- Grief is a combat injury -- It's really about killing -- Vulnerable -- Betrayed -- War crime -- Atheists in the foxholes -- Home -- The touchy-feely tough guys -- Listen.Most Americans are now familiar with PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) and its prevalence among troops. In this groundbreaking new book, David Wood examines the far more pervasive yet less understood experience of those we send to war: moral injury, the violation of our fundamental values of right and wrong that so often occurs in the impossible moral dilemmas of modern conflict. It is a call to listen intently to our newest generation of veterans, and to ponder the inevitable human costs of putting American "boots on the ground" as new wars approach, --
Subjects: War; Veterans; Military ethics; War; Veteran reintegration.;
Available copies: 13 / Total copies: 14
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Breaking / by Corbin, Abi Damaris,film director,screenwriter.; Boyega, John,actor.; Beharie, Nicole,actor.; Britton, Connie,actor.; Donovan, Jeffrey,actor.; Williams, Michael Kenneth,actor.;
John Boyega, Nicole Beharie, Connie Britton, Jeffrey Donovan, Michael Kenneth Williams.A Marine war veteran faces mental and emotional challenges when he tries to reintegrate back into civilian life.MPAA rating: PG-13.Blu-ray ; requires Blu-ray player.
Subjects: Crime films.; Thrillers (Motion pictures); Suspense films.; African American veterans; Veterans; Veteran reintegration; Bank robberies; Hostage negotiations;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A god in ruins [large print] a novel / by Atkinson, Kate,author.(CARDINAL)393355;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 643-647).Ursula Todd's brother Teddy is an old man trying to come to grips with his post-War life and with a modern world and family. Switching back and forth in time between memories of his childhood and his present, Teddy is an oblivious husband, a rueful father. He never quite got over the War and part of him never adjusted to having a future. Would-be poet, heroic pilot, husband, father, and grandfather, Teddy navigates the perils and progress of a rapidly changing world; his greatest challenge is living in a future he never expected to have.
Subjects: Alternative histories (Fiction); Historical fiction.; Large print books.; Novels.; Social distance; Veteran reintegration; War; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Be safe I love you / by Hoffman, Cara.(CARDINAL)423662;
Returning with deep psychological scars after a tour of duty in Iraq, soldier Lauren Clay guides her younger brother to an upstate New York oil field that has become the subject of her obsession and begins teaching him survival skills while revealing her experiences.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Drug abusers; Dysfunctional families; Post-traumatic stress disorder; Veteran reintegration; Depressed persons; Wilderness areas;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 11
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Front toward enemy : war, veterans, and the homefront / by Green, Daniel R.,author.(CARDINAL)865688;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Daniel R. Green offers a unique and much-needed perspective on war veterans and the transitions they go through upon returning home, using his own experience following five military and civilian tours of Afghanistan and Iraq"--
Subjects: Reference works.; Informational works.; Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Green, Daniel R.; Veterans; Veteran reintegration; War; Afghan War, 2001-2021.; Iraq War, 2003-2011.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The Manchurian candidate [videorecording] / by Demme, Jonathan,1944-2017,film producer,film director.(CARDINAL)287054; Elise, Kimberly,1971-actor.(CARDINAL)357091; Fujimoto, Tak,cinematographer.(CARDINAL)848148; Ganz, Bruno,actor.; Georgaris, Dean,screenwriter.(CARDINAL)848559; Herzberg, Ilona,film producer.; Levine, Ted,actor.(CARDINAL)786136; Littleton, Carol,editor of moving image work.(CARDINAL)815074; McBurney, Simon,actor.; McKay, Craig,editor of moving image work.(CARDINAL)848282; Portman, Rachel,composer (expression)(CARDINAL)342866; Pyne, Daniel,1955-screenwriter.(CARDINAL)810083; Rudin, Scott,1958-film producer.(CARDINAL)344045; Schreiber, Liev,actor.(CARDINAL)219166; Sinatra, Tina,film producer.(CARDINAL)704820; Streep, Meryl,actor.(CARDINAL)333422; Voight, Jon,1938-actor.(CARDINAL)348261; Washington, Denzel,1954-actor.(CARDINAL)360194; Wolsky, Albert,costume designer.(CARDINAL)759262; Wright, Jeffrey(Jeffrey Charles),1965-actor.(CARDINAL)860808; Zea, Kristi,production designer.(CARDINAL)847619; Motion picture adaptation of (work):Axelrod, George.Manchurian candidate.; Motion picture adaptation of (work):Condon, Richard.Manchurian candidate.; Clinica Estetico, Ltd.,production company.; Paramount Pictures Corporation,presenter,publisher.(CARDINAL)141482; Scott Rudin Productions,production company.(CARDINAL)787316;
Music by Rachel Portman ; costume designer, Albert Wolsky ; edited by Carol Littleton, Craig McKay ; production designer, Kristi Zea ; director of photography, Tak Fujimoto.Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Liev Schreiber, Jon Voight, Kimberly Elise, Jeffrey Wright, Ted Levine, Bruno Ganz, Simon McBurney.When his army unit is ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saves his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, Major Ben Marco, is knocked unconscious. Using the incident for political gain, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, but Marco is haunted by dreams of what really happened in Iraq. As Marco investigates, the story begins to unravel. He begins to figure that the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed as part of a plot to get Shaw into the White House. Now the Manchurian Global corporation appears desperate to stop him from finding out.MPAA rating: R; for violence and some language.DVD; NTSC, region 1; wide screen presentation enhanced for 16:9 TVs; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.
Subjects: Conspiracy films.; Feature films.; Film adaptations.; Film remakes.; Spy films.; Thrillers (Motion pictures); Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Assassins; Brainwashing; Corporations; Mothers and sons; Persian Gulf War, 1991; Veteran reintegration; Vice-Presidential candidates;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 28 / Total copies: 32
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A god in ruins : a novel / by Atkinson, Kate,author.(CARDINAL)393355;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-468).Follows the experiences of Ursula's younger brother Teddy, who, throughout the decades after wartime service he never expected to survive, struggles with family life against a backdrop of a changing world.Ursula Todd's brother Teddy is an old man trying to come to grips with his post-War life and with a modern world and family. Switching back and forth in time between memories of his childhood and his present, Teddy is an oblivious husband, a rueful father. He never quite got over the War and part of him never adjusted to having a future. Would-be poet, heroic pilot, husband, father, and grandfather, Teddy navigates the perils and progress of a rapidly changing world; his greatest challenge is living in a future he never expected to have.
Subjects: Fiction.; World War, 1939-1945; War; Social distance; Veteran reintegration; Life; War;
Available copies: 53 / Total copies: 62
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Down range : a transitioning veteran's career guide to life's next phase / by Murphy, James D.(James Daniel),1964-author.(CARDINAL)660357; Duke, William M.,author.(CARDINAL)788828;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: You have everything they need -- Transition your mindset: It's a brand new mission -- Translating the values you bring to business -- Before you step outside the wire, determine your objective -- Identify the threats -- Identify your resources -- Evaluate lessons learned -- Develop a course of action --Selling the most important commodity: You! -- Interview to win! -- Down range: put you career plan into action -- The six steps of planning -- Career planning worksheet -- Example career plan -- Resume construction template and tips -- Cover letter template and tips -- Getting noticed on an ATS query -- Practice interview questions bank -- Interview/opportunity preparation checklist -- Men's interview attire and grooming checklist -- Women's interview attire and grooming checklist -- Summary of Veteran's career and transition resources -- LinkedIn tips -- List of common threats, resources, and lessons learned to consider while planning your career -- List of action verbs for use in demonstrations of effectiveness -- Additional references and information resources -- Recommended tasks to include in your career course of action -- Tips for preparing questions to ask an interviewer."Written by veterans who have successfully made the transition, "Down Range" offers career planning guidance to U.S. military veterans coming off active duty. This is NOT simply a guide to transitioning from the military to the civilian world. This is NOTa guide to getting a job. This book IS a guide to developing a post-military career, not just for the first few days, weeks, or months after active duty, but for the rest of your employed life"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Business networks.; Career changes; Job hunting; Retired military personnel; Veteran reintegration; Veterans; Veterans;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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