The drastic contrast between its desert landscape and the deep, blue waters of Lake Mead makes it difficult to envision the park's creation as merely incidental. After the completion of the Hoover Dam, the waters of the Colorado River began to flood the river valley and form one of the largest man-made lakes in the United States. The Bureau of Reclamation soon realized the vast recreational opportunities that Lake Mead would provide. Through a memorandum of agreement, the National Park Ser...

Up-to-date advice on legal issues affecting anyone involved in general aviationFully revised throughout, General Aviation Law, Third Edition, is an essential legal guide for those who work in aviation, including mechanics, pilots, aircraft owners, and aviation business owners. This practical reference answers all questions regarding aviation law in understandable layperson's terms.The information in the book helps you to avoid legal troubles and describes what to...

The Bible is renowned for many things, from the historical, to the practical,to the spiritual. But, the Bible is also a treasure trove of tales about love, lustand passion. Which patriarchs of the Bible fathered children with both their wivesand their slaves- with the permission of their spouses? Which patriarch of the Bible wasmarried to sisters in a polygamous marriage? Which Bible personality had a sexualrelationship with both of his daughters? Which p...

TAKE TO THE SKIES WITH THIS FULLY UPDATED, DEFINITIVE GUIDE FOR AVIATORS IN TRAINING"An outstanding resource for anyone interested in getting a pilot's license." -- Private PilotWritten in an easy-to-understand style by a certified flight instructor, Your Pilot's License, Eighth Edition is filled with practical advice to help you understand what it takes to learn how to fly an airplane. This trusted reference has been revised for the lat...

With its 155 mile-per-hour sustained windspeeds, the near-Category 5 Hurricane Maria brought catastrophic devastation and destruction as it diagonally crossed the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico from the southeast to the northwest on September 20, 2017. The official death toll estimate of 2,975 lost lives means this record storm became one of the most devasting hurricanes not only for Puerto Rico but for the U.S. Many of these deaths, as well as the prolonged human suffering, were attributed t...

When Bastian was born in July 2000, his parents were looking forward to an exciting future, but right from the start Bastian brought surprise after surprise. He had started reading at the age of two, and was in the fifth year of school by age seven. He could speak eight languages by the time he was ten, and had passed almost enough A Levels to start university by thirteen. A lot of unconventional solutions were required for his problems, including temporarily moving to Singapore and battle...

No longer preoccupied with the East-West divide, contemporary foreign policymakers now have to confront regional conflicts, peace-enforcing and humanitarian missions, and a host of other global problems and issues in areas such as trade, health, and the environment. During the Cold War a widely-shared consensus on national interest and security in the United States and western Europe affected news reporting, public opinion, and foreign policy. But with the end of this Cold War frame of ref...

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Eros considers a promise left unfulfilled in Sigmund Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle. Rosaura Martínez Ruiz argues that when the pleasure principle comes into contact with the death drive (the human tendency toward aggression or cruelty), the psyche can take detours that, without going beyond the limit of the pleasure principle, can nevertheless defer it. Eros reflects on these deviations of the pleasure principle, in the political sphere and in the intimat...

Book 2 of the Shroud Saga and the sequel to The Blood of the Shroud. The child created from the Shroud of Turin, Jesse Rothfuss, becomes a world famous Christian evangelist. Jesse's popularity and fame build to such an extent that he sets his sights on another goal- running for the Presidency of the United States. The conservative, Bible preaching Jesse runs against an ultra-liberal, socialist incumbent who believes in big, free spending government, liberal Democratic policies, and who dou...

Motivated by the lack of scholarly understanding of the substantial gender difference in attitudes toward the use of military force, Richard C. Eichenberg has mined a massive data set of public opinion surveys to draw new and important conclusions. By analyzing hundreds of such surveys across more than sixty countries, Gender, War, and World Order offers researchers raw data, multiple hypotheses, and three major findings.Eichenberg poses three questions of the data: Are th...

Celebrate the Christmas season with this novel which focuses on what may have happened to the three Wise Men and Jesus, Mary and Joseph after the Gospel narratives of the Nativity and thebirth of Christ. The work then dives into what may have occurred during the lost years of the youth of Jesus, as well as what may have happened to Joseph to cause him to disappear from the pages of the Gospels after Jesus was age 12. Entertaining, informative, and thought provoking, this book will p...