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This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience.

Explores historical, archaeological, and scientific data purporting to prove the validity of the Bible, both as history and prophecy.

The military has a distinctive national reputation for the competence and personal and professional character of its leaders. The vision and mission of the Air Force Academy substantively support sustaining this reputation by developing leaders of character prepared to lead the nation. To execute its mission, this Academy carefully combines the teaching of leadership and character with practice, and promotes a synergy between education and practice and the domains of leadership and character across a 47-month experience. This requires a deliberate effort across mission elements, with this joint effort serving identified institutional outcomes that require both strong character and leadership competencies. The processes involved in leadership and character development are described.

The role of Erich Mendelsohn in the formation of Modern architecture has been a subject of divided opinion throughout historical writing. On the one hand, he has been described as a romantic visionary whose creativity belonged to a pre-Modern age of subjective fantasies. On the other, he has been credited for his contribution to modern rationality and architectural innovation. The rift between these divergent interpretations has created nothing short of an enigma. However, the ambiguity of Mendelsohn''s history reflects a deeper chasm in his own thinking and ideological position. This thesis examines his artistic image as it was constructed between Modernist interpretations of history, and his own ideological changes in the early 1920''s. My study will focus on his publication of a "picture-book" titled, Amerika: Bilderbuch eines Architekten in 1926. Based on his travel to America in autumn 1924, Mendelsohn portrayed an image of modernity through photographs of urban environments, grain elevators, and industrial buildings. He combined these images with moralistic commentaries that explained the cultural condition of each photograph to his European audience. This associated Mendelsohn with avant-garde experimentation in photography and the "picture-book", but it also provided a vehicle for Mendelsohn to deliver his own theoretical ideas through mass-communication. Further, I have found that Mendelsohn manipulated and appropriated many of the photographs to reinforce his theoretical vision in the book. This has both sustained an image of Mendelsohn''s artistic vision, and obscured his interpretation within history. My investigation will begin to situate this phenomenon within the construction of Mendelsohn''s identity and larger issues of Modernity.