A Tide in Time follows the misfortunes of Matthew and Abby Roving, siblings plunged into double lives as modern teens and accidental secret agents at the heart of the American Revolution. The trouble begins when Matthew stumbles on an antique ship's logbook that functions like a time portal. Soon the 12 year old Matthew is solo-sailing a Death Ship, escaping from murderous mutineers, and managing the affairs of future national heroes like John Paul Jones and Ben Franklin, helping them to k...

"On a tiny French island, a couple of American dreamers redefine their lives by restoring a ruin…The French House moves to a soulful, very funny rhythm all its own."—Meryl StreepDon and Mindy Wallace have always been Francophiles, so when they had the opportunity to buy a home on a small French island off the coast of Brittany, they jumped—sight unseen—into a crumbling mess that challenged their finances and their family.But when the Wallaces arriv...

Stress affects millions of Americans. According to the Statistic Brain Research Institute, 77% ofAmericans report experiencing physical symptoms associated with stress. 1/3 of Americans feelas if they are living with extreme stress.

For more than a century, no Number 1 and Number 2 high schoolfootball team had ever met -- until October 6, 2001One Great GameThis is the story of two teams -- Concord De La Salle, a private Catholic school in an upscale Northern California suburb, and Long Beach Poly, a proud public institution from a blue-collar SoCal seaport -- striving to achieve the same goal: the all-American dream.In this supercharged account of the first-ever national high-school championship g...

The increasing importance of international investment has been accompanied by the rapid development of a new field of international law that defines the obligations of host states towards foreign investors and creates procedures for resolving disputes in connection with those obligations. The second edition of Investor-State Arbitration builds on the successful first edition to include developments in law and practice, and provides the reader with an even more in-depth expert cove...

This book seeks to understand the obligation of the international community to implement the principles of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P).With a focus on the humanitarian crisis in Syria, the volume examines what formal responsibility and actual capability international institutions have to protect and prevent civilians from systematic mass atrocities and presents an analysis of several prominent international organizations (IOs). Each chapter focuses on a specific organizatio...

This book seeks to understand the obligations of the international community to promote and protect state and human security in situations of international humanitarian crises.In Iraq and Syria, as well as in neighbouring states, the rise of ISIL has raised serious state and human security challenges. This study explores the relationships between the Global-Regional Partnership, the United Nations and nine organizations in their attempt to deal with the challenges presented by ISIL...

In early 1862, the Union advances achieved by Maj. Gen. Grant and Adm. Foote at Forts Henry and Donelson caused significant concern in the Confederate government. The Union army, known as the Army of the Tennessee, under Grant had increased to 48,894 men and were encamped on the western side of the Tennessee River. On April 6, 1862 a determined full-force attack from the Confederate Army took place at the Battle of Shiloh; the objective was to destroy the entire Western Union offensive once f...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Why does the United States not have a substantial class of leaders, of whatever party, combining competence with the requisite values and ideals that we share, or aspire to share?In this book Professor Don Wallace tries to untangle this absence of leadership, this missing “it,” its causes and the obvious consequences of its absence.The book examines two histories: that of Britain from roughly th...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Why does the United States not have a substantial class of leaders, of whatever party, combining competence with the requisite values and ideals that we share, or aspire to share?In this book Professor Don Wallace tries to untangle this absence of leadership, this missing “it,” its causes and the obvious consequences of its absence.The book examines two histories: that of Britain from roughly th...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Why does the United States not have a substantial class of leaders, of whatever party, combining competence with the requisite values and ideals that we share, or aspire to share?In this book Professor Don Wallace tries to untangle this absence of leadership, this missing “it,” its causes and the obvious consequences of its absence.The book examines two histories: that of Britain from roughly th...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Why does the United States not have a substantial class of leaders, of whatever party, combining competence with the requisite values and ideals that we share, or aspire to share?In this book Professor Don Wallace tries to untangle this absence of leadership, this missing “it,” its causes and the obvious consequences of its absence.The book examines two histories: that of Britain from roughly th...