History, Analogies, Lessons: Wars and Pandemics develops a set of propositions about why policy elites learn some kinds of lessons and not others, why some lessons become deeply embedded, how they influence thinking more generally when they do, and why and how they lose traction. Lebow and Zhang evaluate their propositions in two foreign policy and two public health cases: the Munich lesson for the US and the Korean lesson for China, and the COVID pandemic for China and the West. ...

Named one of the Top 10 Books of 2008 by The Times-Picayune.Winner of the 2009 Humanities Book of the Year award from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.Awarded the New Orleans Gulf South Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award for 2008.New Orleans is the most elusive of American cities. The product of the centuries-long struggle among three mighty empires--France, Spain, and England...

A wide-ranging, powerful, alternative vision of the history of the United States and how the slave-breeding industry shaped itThe American Slave Coast tells the horrific story of how the slavery business in the United States made the reproductive labor of "breeding women" essential to the expansion of the nation. The book shows how slaves' children, and their children's children, were human savings accounts that were the basis of money and credit. This was...

Practice and hone important multiplication skills. Find inside twenty multiplication problems with complete solutions that instruct the student in the multiplication process. The book also includes four bonus word problems with complete explanations and answers. Easily navigate the links from the problem list to view the solution, and then return to the practice problems to select another. Problems start with low difficulty and gradually increase to challenging. Most appropriate for 4th an...

This entertaining history of Cuba and its music begins with the collision of Spain and Africa and continues through the era of Miguelito Valdés, Arsenio Rodríguez, Benny Moré, and Pérez Prado. It offers a behind-the-scenes examination of music from a Cuban point of view, unearthing surprising, provocative connections and making the case that Cuba was fundamental to the evolution of music in the New World. The ways in which the music of black slaves transformed 16th-century Europe, how the ...

Get your child excited about math with some maze fun. This book combines the study of math with the fun of games. Select an addition problem and solve it, then check your answer with the math maze. Explore the maze to arrive at the answer.Easily navigate the links to the math maze and answer. Then return to the practice problems to select another. Twenty problems in all, each with an answer maze. Most appropriate for 3rd grade students.

Practice and hone important subtraction skills. Find inside twenty subtraction problems with complete solutions that educate the student in the subtraction process. The book also includes four bonus word problems with complete explanations and answers. Easily navigate the links from the problem list to view the solution with answer, and then return to the practice problems to select another. Problems start with low difficulty and gradually increase to challenging. Most appropriate for 3rd ...

Practice division with decimal numbers with this first book. Select one of twenty math problems with complete solutions that educate the student in decimal numbers. The book also includes four bonus word problems with complete explanations and answers. Easily navigate the links from the problem list to view the solution with answer, and then return to the practice problems to select another. Problems start with low difficulty and gradually increase to challenging. Most appropriate for 5th ...

Practice and hone important addition skills. Find inside twenty addition problems with complete solutions that educate the student in the addition process. The book also includes four bonus word problems with complete explanations and answers. Easily navigate the links from the problem list to view the solution, and then return to the practice problems to select another. Problems start with low difficulty and gradually increase to challenging. Most appropriate for 3rd grade students.

Practice adding and subtracting decimal numbers with this first book. Select one of twenty math problems with complete solutions that educate the student in decimal numbers. The book also includes four bonus word problems with complete explanations and answers. Easily navigate the links from the problem list to view the solution with answer, and then return to the practice problems to select another. Problems start with low difficulty and gradually increase to challenging. Most appropriate...

This updated edition of the classic, comprehensive guide to creative writing features new topics and writing prompts, contemporary examples, and more.A creative writer's shelf should hold at least three essential books: a dictionary, a style guide, and Janet Burroway's Writing Fiction. This best-selling classic is the most widely used creative writing text in America, and for decades it has helped hundreds of thousands of students learn the craft. Now in it...

Jeremy Heere is your average high school dork. Day after day, he stares at beautiful Christine, the girl he can never have, and dryly notes the small humiliations that come his way. Until the day he learns about the "squip." A pill-sized supercomputer that you swallow, the squip is guaranteed to bring you whatever you most desire in life. By instructing him on everything from what to wear, to how to talk and walk, the squip transforms Jeremy from Supergeek to superchic.