The United States Liaison Office (USLO) served as the diplomatic contact for Sino-American relations between the time of the Nixon-Kissinger opening of China in 1971-1972 and the achievement of full normalization in 1979. This book presents the importance of the USLO to American foreign policy in the 1970s.

Ever wonder if we are alone in this universe?Over the years, researchers and scientists have scoured government documents in search of proof that life exists beyond Earth and has regularly visited us here.One set of documents, known as Project Blue Book, includes retired, declassified records from 1947 to 1969 from the United States Air Force (USAF), currently in the custody of the US National Archives.According to a US Air Force Fact Sheet, a total of 701 out of 12...

David E. Gates has played poker and gambled on sports and other games, for most of his adult life.In The Curse of Online Poker, he details what led to his involvement with Texas Hold 'Em, the results he achieved, the various pitfalls and experiences, both positive and negative, and shares his recommendations to new and seasoned poker players alike.Honest and realistic, this unique look at gambling in its various forms, and in particular with playing poker, ...

From the author of Access Denied, The Roots of Evil, The Wretched and Cinema, comes a unique selection of original poems.Featuring historical reference poems such as "The Mary Celeste", "The Mother of Angola", "The Ode of Phineas Gage" and tributes to The Queen and King Charles III along with silly rhymes, David E. Gates expresses his love and frustration with the world today.Let yourself dip into the Realm of Rhyme.With additional material from Karen Moore.

According to author Dan Gates, decisionology is the analysis, study, discussion, and exampling of the decisions that may determine the direction of your life. We put so much emphasis on the decisions and choices that high-school students are making and will continue to make for the rest of their lives because these choices can potentially create or destroya bright future.Decisionology is designed to be a simple and effective resource that can be used whenever challenges or...

Explores the concept of race The term race, which originally denoted genealogical or class identity, has in the comparatively brief span of 300 years taken on an entirely new meaning. In the wake of the Enlightenment it came to be applied to social groups. This ideological transformation coupled with a dogmatic insistence that the groups so designated were natural, and not socially created, gave birth to the modern notion of races as genetically distinct entities. The results of this view ...

This rich Texas rancher has his hands full with an abandoned baby…and her irresistible nanny!Mistaken for the father of his twin brother's child, Liam Wade takes in his fussy infant niece and needs a nanny fast. Hadley Stratton knows all about Liam's reputation with the ladies, and really doesn't believe that the baby isn't his! But as she settles into her role, she begins to see the man beneath the Stetson. And when they're stranded together during a storm, she

Torn between steamy, passionate nights between the sheets and the truths she doesn't want to face, Margo Harris unravels mysteries from her past as she forms ties with a dangerous group of people. Determined to rebuild the fragments of her previous life, she clings to the sexy and magnetic Salvatore Mazzillo for comfort he can't truly provide, finding herself deeper and deeper in a world she can't escape. A breathtakingly sensual and suspenseful ride that will have you questioning what rea...

What do you get when the baddest chick and four cold-blooded killers enter a Newark, New Jersey, strip club strapped with Mac 11s? You get a nasty body count and the lick of a lifetime! Not only do Charisma, GQ, Shamar, and Crook steal bricks of coke and a load of gwop from the strip club, but the crew also reaps the promise of certain death once the club's owner puts his goons on their trail! The close-knit crew refuses to go out like suckers and soon hits the money-making blocks of Wilmi...

With a New Preface, Introduction, and Notes by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.New Afterword by Barbara WhiteA fascinating fusion of two literary models of the nineteenth century, the sentimental novel and the slave narrative, Our Nig, apart from its historical significance, is a deeply ironic and highly readable work, tracing the trials and tribulations of Frado, a mulatto girl abandoned by her white mother after the death of the child's black father...

W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. Du Bois's sociological and historical research on African-American communities and culture broke ground in many areas, including the history of the post-Civil War Reconstruction period. Du Bois was also a prolifi...

W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. Du Bois's sociological and historical research on African-American communities and culture broke ground in many areas, including the history of the post-Civil War Reconstruction period. Du Bois was also a prolifi...