Join Sahara the mummy as she magically explores the world with the King Tut exhibit and makes friends along the way. Tag along on her adventures to learn about the Egyptian Antiquities Museum, the three pyramids of GizaKhufu, Khafre, and Menkaureand the Sphinx.

Concern about the threat posed by nuclear weapons has preoccupied the United States and presidents of the United States since the beginning of the nuclear era. Nuclear Security draws from papers presented at the 2013 meeting of the American Nuclear Society examining worldwide efforts to control nuclear weapons and ensure the safety of the nuclear enterprise of weapons and reactors against catastrophic accidents. The distinguished contributors, all known for their long-standing int...

Learn from economic history's successes and failures to inform today's policy decisions. George P. Shultz and John B. Taylor draw from decades of experience to show how letting the market work on its own, without government intervention, is a recipe for success. Choose Economic Freedom reconstructs debates from the 1960s and 1970s about wage and price controls, revealing how brilliant economists can hold diametrically opposed views.The words of Milton Frie...

This book is set in the future, at a time when our planet is running out of water.

With the sharp rise in petroleum prices over the past decade, interest has grown in the possible use of plant and tree seed oils as diesel fuel substitutes or extenders and as chemical feedstocks in both the industrialized and the developing world. This book represents the first attempt to bring together science, technology, and policy aspects of this topic in one volume. The authors examine the chemical, biological, and energy-related resources available in commercial and wild plant oilse...

Andrei Sakharov holds an honored place in the pantheon of the world's greatest scientists, reformers, and champions of human rights. But his embrace of human rights did not come through a sudden conversion; he came to it in stages. Drawing from a 2014 Hoover Institution conference focused on Sakharov's life and principles, this book tells the compelling story of his metamorphosis from a distinguished physical scientist into a courageous, outspoken dissident humanitarian voice. His extraord...

A former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and an eminent economist tackle the biggest social issue of our time.Of all the issues swirling around the 2008 election, the staggering projected costs for the upkeep of America's largest entitlement programs—Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid—loom with gathering intensity. Government revenues alone cannot solve the problem, but a solution must be found. In this book George P. Shultz and John B. Shoven take a practical—...

Drawn from presentations at the Hoover Institution's conference on the twentieth anniversary of the Reykjavik summit, this collection of essays examines the legacy of that historic meeting between President Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. The contributors discuss the new nuclear era and what the lessons of Reykjavik can mean for today's nuclear arms control efforts.

Agents 314 and 999 are at it again in this fifth book in the Agents Amiss series.This time, they are sent to Hollywood, California, in order to work alongside an American agent, Agent 47, to solve a series of ten murders, all committed by poison darts. Aided usefully, for once, by Inventor 12’s latest creation, the agents must catch the felon before more murders occur.In a journey that takes them down the Californian coast, will the bumbling detectives succeed in yet anothe...

A series of studies and discussions on the impact of Special Operations. Includes analysis of the threat to the US, the Soviet approach, military capabilities, intelligence and special operations, psychological operations and low-intensity conflicts. Predating the fall of the Soviet Union, the Gulf conflicts and the events of 9/11/2001, this is an interesting insight to military thinking in the late 1980s. (Published: 1988)—Print ed.

Fashion Fatigue and Scents Make Sense Betty and Veronica not only get Fashion Fatigue Archie to join them on an all day shopping trip, but he loves every minute of it! How do they do it? Next, in Scents Make Sense, to increase spending, Mr. Lodge uses smells to get people into stores. But, as the #1 Shopaholic, is it Veronicas favorite perfume that accidentally does a better job?

Drawn from presentations made at the Hoover Institution's October 2007 conference, this collection of essays examines the practical steps necessary to address the current security challenges of nuclear weapons and to move toward the Reykjavik goal of eliminating all nuclear weapons. The distinguished group of contributors includes former officials of the past six administrations—Republican and Democratic—along with senior scholar and scientific experts on nuclear issues.