Great Power Strategy in Asia, 1905-2005 analyzes the enduring themes underlying the strategic struggles in East Asia, beginning with the crucial event of the 1904-5 Russo-Japanese War.Jonathan Bailey clearly shows why military history is highly relevant in understanding today’s strategic problems, and how the most important areas of current affairs have their roots in often forgotten corners of military history. He makes his powerful case in three clear sections:...

Ian Carter is dissatisfied with his current job in the tobacco industry until he is offered a job at Global Tobacco. At the start, everything seems perfect—a new house, a new job, a boss who has ethical standards. Then employees begin to die in mysterious circumstances. In the tobacco fields in Malawi, Mbwana is getting sicker and sicker. His dreams are haunted by a dead girl and a man who won't leave him alone. Ramia has returned. But he is no longer the man they remember -he is something...

Unlock the secrets to financial freedom with "Passive Income Through Fixer-Upper Properties" - a comprehensive guide to generating passive income through fixer-upper properties. This book is a treasure trove of practical advice, real-world examples, and step-by-step strategies for transforming dilapidated houses into lucrative rental or resale assets. Here's a little of what you'll discover inside this book: - Identifying Profitable Fixer-Upper Properties - Evaluating the Potential ROI of ...

From Transactional Faith to Transformational Life in ChristAre you tired of feeling stuck in your faith? Do you long for real, lasting spiritual transformation that feels relational rather than formulaic?Like many Christians, you may feel as if you're living in a cycle of fits and starts, seeking to grow closer to God but feeling disillusioned in your faith. In a culture of hustle and hurry, maybe you long to trade a transactional faith for a trans...

•The most popular LGBTQ+ narratives center the East Coast, the West Coast, or the deep South, according to Lambda Literary. When I Was Red Clay is an LGBTQ+ story set amid the unique cultural complexities of the rural West.•The author is a well–connected conservation photographer whose photographs and writing have been featured in regional and national outlets such as The Advocate, Sierra Club Magazine, High Country News, Arizona Highways...

From Transactional Faith to Transformational Life in ChristAre you tired of feeling stuck in your faith? Do you long for real, lasting spiritual transformation that feels relational rather than formulaic?Like many Christians, you may feel as if you're living in a cycle of fits and starts, seeking to grow closer to God but feeling disillusioned in your faith. In a culture of hustle and hurry, maybe you long to trade a transactional faith for a trans...

Brought to you by PenguinDIVE IN TO THE FEEL-GOOD ROM-COM OF THE YEAR.It's New Year's Eve and Josh has a high-flying proposal planned.An exclusive pod on the London Eye, with champagne, truffles and the ring.It's perfect.Until she says no.And they have to spend the next 29 excruciating minutes alone together.By the time Josh is back on the ground, his whole life is up...

A landscape of great natural beauty, Utah’s red rock country is a place where the passage from deep time to the present is revealed in stunningly sculpted and colorful geological strata that span 350 million years of Earth’s history. At the heart of this dramatic landscape is the Greater San Rafael Swell—a land of both geologic and human tumult.Natural and human history come together in The Greater San Rafael Swell, which spans much of Emery County in Utah. Authors Stephen...

Miranda Dickinson's Somewhere Beyond the Sea is a sparkling tale of love, life and finding magic where you least expect it.Selected as one of Heat magazine's Hot Books - five stars.Can you fall in love with someone before you’ve even met?Seren MacArthur is living a life she never intended. Trying to save the Cornish seaside business her late father built – while grieving for his loss – she has put her own ...

Matthew Fairchild is the Consul’s son and the golden-haired boy of the Nephilim. He has the love of his family and his parabatai James Herondale, and nothing to wish for, except excitement and artistry and beauty that do not seem to fit in with a warrior’s way of life. Matthew gets more than he bargained for at the Shadow Market, where he commits the greatest sin of his life—something he can never tell his parabatai, or any of the honorable Shadowhunters around him.

The CIA wants him dead. His enemies aren't so generous.Five men drive into an empty Kazakh desert. Four are professional killers. The fifth is their intended victim. This is not the first time someone has underestimated CIA paramilitary operator Mark Pierce.And it won't be the last.Pierce quickly dispatches the assassins, but soon realizes that his problems are only beginning. Someone has deliberately brought him to Kazakhstan so that he can be fram...

This revised and updated second edition maintains the content and spirit of the first edition and includes a new chapter, "Recent Experiences", that provides examples of experimental mathematics that have come to light since the publication of the first edition in 2003. For more examples and insights, Experimentation in Mathematics: Computational P