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NATIONAL BESTSELLERNational Book Critics Circle Award FinalistA New York Times Best Book of the YearA sportswriter and a real estate agent, husband and father -Frank Bascombe has been many things to many people. His uncertain youth behind him, we follow him through three days during the autumn of 2000, when his trade as a realtor on the Jersey Shore is thriving. But as a presidential election hangs in the balance, and a postnuclear-family Than...

With two die-cut bites on its side, special endpapers, and a brand-new piece of artwork, this eye-catching edition of Bruels popular cat tail is sure to be devoured. Full color.

A first-hand account of the remarkable transformation of China over the past forty years as seen through the life of an award-winning journalist and his four Chinese classmates As a twenty-year-old exchange student from Stanford University, John Pomfret spent a year at Nanjing University in China. His fellow classmates were among those who survived the twin tragedies of Mao's rule--the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution--and whose ...

A new and original analysis of the mission undertaken by FDR's Secretary of State during the Phoney War, Rofe's work explains the motivations and goals of Roosevelt through an analysis of the president's foreign policy and of the nature of the Anglo-American relationship of the time.

This book explores the intersections of film, justice, and the state in comparative perspective across a range of major Asian countries, including India, China, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, and Vietnam. The contributing authors cross the conventional border between the analysis of on-screen and off-screen intersections of law and cinema.

This book looks at the influence of military regimes in seven cases: Pakistan in 1965, India in 1971, Israel in 1956 and 1967, Egypt in 1973, Iran in 1969 and Iraq in 1980. The author contends that countries with military governments are warlike not because they glorify war, but rather because they are poorly equipped to manage diplomacy.

This book looks at U.S.-Korea relations and argues that military alliances depend upon a combination of power distribution, material assets, and identities. The author asserts that beyond being mere tools of power balancing, alliances are also impacted by material and institutional practices that constitute the identity of allies and adversaries.

This book offers a history of honor in foreign policy, working from both a theoretical and historical perspective. Topics covered include the ideologies of Darwinists, nationalists, and fascists, as well as an account of the greed that goes hand-in-hand with advances in government, offering lessons for the implementation of foreign policy today.

This book examines literature by African, Native, and Jewish American novelists at the beginning of the twentieth century, a period of radical dislocation from homelands for these three ethnic groups as well as the period when such voices established themselves as central figures in the American literary canon.

This book reads the surprisingly widespread representations of cannibals and cannibalism in medieval English literature as political metaphors that were central to England's on-going process of articulating cultural and national identity.

This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century literature and culture. It provides in-depth coverage of a wide range of canonical American authors from the American Renaissance onwards. As well as many fascinating hitherto under-studied writers.

It's not a job. It's THE job, and here's how to get it. What does your ideal IT security job look like? What will prospective employers expect you to know? What affects how they view you and your skills? What if you haven't had much experience? What if you're not 30 anymore? Here's the crash course in how to discover, apply for, and land the IT security job you want. Written by a squad of highly credentialed security professionals, this guid...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Kundenorientierung, Kundenbindung und Kundenzufriedenheit sind Faktoren, welche in der Wirtschaft eine immer höhere Bedeutung zugesprochen bekommen. Die dauerhafte Beziehung zu dem Kunden ist wichtig aufgrund des hohen Konkurrenzdruckes, welcher durch die Globalisierung verstärkt wurde sowie des wachsenden Drucks durch Sättigung in den entwickelten Märkten. Die globale Vernetzung und der zunehmende Kostendruck in de...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Gesundheitsvorsorge und Prävention sind in unserer modernen Gesellschaft allgegenwärtig. Der gesunde, motivierte, junge und junggebliebene, tatkräftige, spritzige Mensch ist erklärtes Ziel. Krankenkassen locken mit Bonusangeboten bei entsprechend präventiven Maßnahmen. Auch von staatlicher Seite werden Anstrengungen unternommen Gesundheitsvorsorge und Prävention voranzutreiben, obgleich der Entwurf des Präventionsges...

This highly successful reader presents the interactionist approach to the study of deviance, examining deviance as a phenomenon that is constituted through social interpretations and the reactions of persons caught up in this social process. This book focuses on issues such as how individuals interpret and label people, how people relate to one another based on these interpretations, and the consequences of these social processes. This perspec...

Every year, more and more would-be bikers take to the open road in an effort to get some kicks and enjoy a fuller life. But too many, too often, become mesmerized by the image of rough riding icons, and lose track of their own self-exploration. The Shovel Revival is an observation, and an appeal, to every rider of every age, to fearlessly adhere to a higher purpose. Genuine satisfaction on the road comes in the form of risk-taking and letting ...

A selection of christain poetry

Did you ever wonder why self-improvement strategies dealing with change and success make things seem so reasonable? Could it be that what makes all these mantras and pop books so appealing on a mass scale is the same thing that keeps them from working. They all "make sense." But are all the things that make sense TRUE? Dr. Fleming takes you deep within the mind of a psychologist and leadership consultant, letting you in on the secrets of the h...

Shame & Guilt explores the differences between these two painful but inevitable experiences. Both guilt and shame involve feeling "bad"-feeling bad about one's actions (or omissions) in the case of guilt, feeling bad about one's self in shame. The deep meaning of the word bad is "unable to fit": unable to fit into some external context in the case of guilt, unable to fit into one's own being in the case of shame. Human experience offers two di...

Tells the story of how women's organizations got savvy - framing the issues strategically, seizing political opportunities in the international environment, and taking advantage of mobilizing structures - and overcame the cultural opposition of many UN-member states to define the two issues and cement women's rights as an international cause.