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During the 1987 Greek-Turkish crisis, Greek military intelligence provided essential information on Turkey’s limited military preparations, so helping to prevent an escalation to confrontation. In the 1996 crisis, Greek military intelligence failed to provide tactical information and details of the Turkish intent to deploy troops on one Greek islet. This failure allowed the Turks to turn the tables on the Greeks. Greek Military Intelligence and the Crescent successfully draws together the...
| Автор | Dr. Panagiotis Dimitrakis |
Tony and Bonnie's marriage endured many storms…From their survival of the press box crash at the Indy 500 to their struggle to hold onto their lives in an Arkansas tornado. But the whirlwind of divorce wreaked the most damaged on their lives. Their search for happiness in power, prestige, and possessions fed it winds. To support that search, Bonnie spent more and more hours at her job as a TV talk show host while Tony devoted more and more of himself to his company. Finally there...
| Автор | Dr. Bonnie Psy.D. Libhart |
The plane has landed, the boxes are unpacked, and you're finally doing what you prepared for years to do, teach in a distant classroom. This preparation- aside from a decade or more of post high school education-included conferences, extensive research, advice from seasoned travelers, interviews, and hours of family discussions and prayers. One notable omission was likely made in your preparation, an omission that may go unnoticed until sitting at your new desk five thousand miles from...
| Автор | D Keith Campbell |
"Life is tough! We are tougher! But there are times when you need a little boost, a little help to get over life's apparently insurmountable hurdles."The stories in Fight On! are about people who met life's challenges head-on, whether voluntarily or out of situational necessity. Whatever the circumstances, they all refused to give up or give in.Some persevered and lived fruitful lives, others were not so fortunate. All of them left a legacy of extraordinary valor to encourage...
| Автор | Samuel Gipp |
"Over the long run, superior performance depends on superior learning."<br><br>You need results from a workforce that is knowledgeable, flexible, efficient, and resilient. Are you and your employees continuously learning and transforming yourselves to solve new problems and achieve new goals? Or are you less than satisfied with the learning and performance of your staff? This practical report, researched by a special task force of high-powered executives organized...
| Автор | Michael Dolan |
A new president is elected. This new president has not been described in the western media as a liberal or even a moderate but at best a realistic observer of the present day and long-term prospects of the politics and the economies of the Middle East. Suddenly a peace deal is offered. Deals have been offered previously. Deals have also been broken previously.<br><br>What is new this time is that there is one offer to reach a practical working arrangement early.<br><br>To...
| Автор | Vincent Gabriel |
The king of Prussia from 1740 to 1786, Frederick the Great ranks among eighteenth-century Europe's most enlightened rulers. In addition to abolishing serfdom in his domains and promoting religious tolerance, he was an ardent patron of the arts and an accomplished musician. «Diplomacy without arms,» he observed, «is like music without instruments.» Frederick's expertise at military matters is reflected in his successful defense of his territory during the Seven Years' War, in which...
| Автор | Frederick the Great |
This action-packed biography focuses on a 1944 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy who was one of only fifty Jewish midshipmen commissioned in his class during World War II. In the Pacific, Lt. Shulman s destroyer survived both a typhoon and a Japanese kamikaze aircraft attack. After leaving the U.S. Navy and returning to civilian life, he volunteered to help the Haganah, the paramilitary force of the Jewish Agency for Palestine headed by David Ben-Gurion. Shulman had been introduced to...
| Автор | J. Wandres |
This book fills a gap in the thinking skills literature by introducing the 21st century skill of Mega-Thinking, which unites brain science with thinking skills. A Mega-Thinker is a person who understands how his brain works and has the powerful capacity to use his mind well in six components of thinking: Common-Sense Thinking; Critical Thinking; Creative Thinking; Systems Thinking; Self-Control Thinking, and School Success Thinking. Knowing how the human brain works provides an essential...
| Автор | Mary Fennessey Ferron Ph.D. |
Janet Manning is a Registered Nurse and Health Coach. She has experienced firsthand how stressful the preteen years can be for both child and parent. That's what inspired her to create this simple guide for parents to stay close to their child through the preteen years. Janet believes in nurturing a child's spirit and focusing on their strengths. She also believes that the way parents feel about themselves, reflects in their children. She encourages parents to take care of...
| Автор | Janet Manning |
The obvious thing to do with this play is to read it as a text, just as you would if it were a short story or a novel. But it holds other possibilities as well. • It could be read aloud, with four learners taking the different roles while the rest of the class follow along in their books as the audience, or the class could be divided into groups of four to do the play reading in groups so that everyone gets a chance to read aloud. • It could even be staged, with auditions to choose the best...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
This book presents research into the production of safe, high-quality, and environmentally friendly agriculture products in the Greater Mekong Subregion. It also explores the actions and policy options that could be pursued. Three themes are examined: Improving Food Safety and Quality; Inclusive and Sustainable, Safe and Environment-Friendly Agriculture Products; and Value Chains for Safe and Environment-Friendly Agriculture Products. This aligns with the ASEAN Economic Community blueprint,...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
First published just before the end of the Roman Republic by that legendary country’s most immortalized leader, “The Gallic War”, also called “Commentarii de Bello Gallico”, is an account of Julius Caesar’s capture of Gaul in the first century. Beginning with the Helvetian War in 58 B.C., Caesar uses his exemplary Latin prose to explain how his forces were protecting Provence, and how they were later drawn out in campaigns against the Veneti, the Aquitani, numerous Germanic peoples, the Belgae,...
| Автор | Julius Caesar |
This ebook edition does not include illustrations.An awe-inspiring journey through the eons and across the globe, in search of visible traces of evolution in the living creatures which have survived from earlier times and whose stories speak to us of seminal events in the history of life.The history of life on Earth is far older – and far odder – than many of us realise. In ‘Survivors’, acclaimed author Richard Fortey traces this history not through fossil records, but in the living stories of...
| Автор | Richard Fortey |
This edition does not include illustrations.‘Dry Store Room No. 1’ is an intimate biography of the Natural History Museum, celebrating the eccentric personalities who have peopled it and capturing the wonders of scientific endeavour, academic rigour and imagination.Behind the public façade of any great museum there lies a secret domain: one of unseen galleries, locked doors, priceless specimens and hidden lives.Through the stories of the numerous eccentric individuals whose long careers have...
| Автор | Richard Fortey |
An introduction to the universe covering everything from the big bang and our understanding of the universe over time, to the earth's formation, the Sun and how it affects us, the Moon and planets, black holes and galaxies.The companion volume to ‘Need to Know? Stargazing’ and by the same author, this book focuses on the basic history and science of the universe, rather than on the practical skywatching aspects. It includes information on:• Outrageous philosophy: weird notions and early ideas...
| Автор | Peter Grego |
The story of two nineteenth-century scientists who revealed one of the most significant and exciting events in the natural history of this planet: the existence of dinosaurs.In ‘The Dinosaur Hunters’ Deborah Cadbury brilliantly recreates the remarkable story of the bitter rivalry between two men: Gideon Mantell uncovered giant bones in a Sussex quarry, became obsessed with the lost world of the reptiles and was driven to despair. Richard Owen, a brilliant anatomist, gave the extinct creatures...
| Автор | Deborah Cadbury |
Barack Obama has made it clear that he thinks the world would be a better and more peaceful place if the United States were too weak to affect the course of events. Obama, along with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, has slashed missile defense, dramatically reduced investment in future military technologies, and broken promises to our allies. In addition, Obama is transforming our military into a politically correct force that no one will want to join.In this incisive Broadside, Jed Babbin...
| Автор | Jed Babbin |
On January 22, 2009, President Obama issued an executive order calling for the Guantanamo Bay detention facility to be closed within one year. It was one of the new president’s first acts in office. The President explained that closing Guantanamo would return America to the “moral high ground” and restore “the core constitutional values that have made this country great even in the midst of war.”In this explosive new Broadside, Thomas Joscelyn...
| Автор | Thomas Joscelyn |
Today, American sovereignty is more challenged than ever before, not from enemies that threaten us militarily but from “friends” who urge us to share or reduce our sovereignty for larger global objectives. How Barack Obama is Endangering our National Sovereignty reveals what sovereignty means to Americans, not as an abstraction but as a vibrant component of self government.Former Ambassador to the U.N. John R. Bolton looks at specific threats to U.S. sovereignty, from...
| Автор | John R Bolton |
In this revealing broadside, Victor Davis Hanson explains how President Obama has imprinted his domestic ideology of victimhood onto a therapeutic, Carter-inspired foreign policy. In Obama’s vision, the United State renounces its role as a defender of the postwar order and instead becomes an agent of global change – one that questions our existing system of defense, values, alliances, interests, and commerce.In tactical terms, Obama believes that his...
| Автор | Victor Davis Hanson |
Dzisiaj urodzaj spektakli, filmów, koncertów na Facebooku, kiedyś karnawałowa maskarada na ulicach średniowiecznego miasta lub rozpasane uczty w starożytnym Rzymie, dzisiaj zamknięte plaże, lasy i góry, kiedyś oborywane wsie i ryglowane miasta – pod spodem drzemią jednak te same lęki. Bo epidemia – nie mówiąc o pandemii – to wydarzenie graniczne, wykraczające poza nasze codzienne doświadczenie. Przychodzi nagle, znienacka, dotyka każdego, bez względu na bogactwo, status i płeć, znosi zatem...
| Автор | Monika Sznajderman |
Tajemnicza seria eksplozji zębów to tylko jedna z wielu szokujących zagadek odkrytych przez autora na łamach starych czasopism medycznych. Thomas Morris, wnikliwy badacz historii medycyny, oddaje do rąk czytelnika jedną z najbardziej niesamowitych i zadziwiających kolekcji tego rodzaju osobliwości. Z pasją i humorem opowiada o najbardziej niezwykłych chorobach i najbardziej niedorzecznych kuracjach, przerażających operacjach i niefortunnych zdarzeniach, w które wprost trudno uwierzyć. Bo chociaż...
| Автор | Thomas Morris |
Myślisz, że o mózgu wiesz już wszystko i nic nie może cię zaskoczyć? Wydaje ci się oczywiste, że powstał po to, by zapewnić nam jasność myśli i wyobraźnię? Jeśli tak, to… jesteś w błędzie! Jak przekonuje specjalistka w dziedzinie psychologii i neurobiologii Lisa Feldman Barrett, dopiero porzucenie tego przeświadczenia pozwala zrozumieć, jak mózg działa, a tym samym, kim naprawdę jesteśmy. „Dawno, dawno temu byliśmy sobie małym żołądkiem na patyku unoszącym się w morzu. Krok po kroczku...
| Автор | Lisa Feldman-Barrett |