The anchorage belongs to the pirates, but keeping it demands more labour and material than the force can provide.Ships, fortifications, stores, prisoners and harbour watch compete for the same exhausted men. Formal divisions bring order to the station while making every shortage impossible to ignore. Each repaired hull leaves a defensive weakness. Each strengthened battery reduces the means of escape.As disagreement spreads through the occupying force, organised authority b...

The anchorage belongs to the pirates, but keeping it demands more labour and material than the force can provide.Ships, fortifications, stores, prisoners and harbour watch compete for the same exhausted men. Formal divisions bring order to the station while making every shortage impossible to ignore. Each repaired hull leaves a defensive weakness. Each strengthened battery reduces the means of escape.As disagreement spreads through the occupying force, organised authority b...

Captain Hale is charged with protecting Caribbean trade from pirate craft that refuse the battles the navy is prepared to fight.A frigate guarding a convoy cannot pursue every suspicious sail. A fast sloop can test the escort line, escape across shoal water, and recover through hidden coastal contacts before the patrol can rebuild a reliable picture. Each failed chase reveals another part of the system: watering places, repair sites, pilots, merchants, cargo transfers, signals, and...

Driven from the anchorage, the surviving pirate ships depart with uneven loads, damaged gear and crews already weakened by occupation and battle.The vessels remain under one command, but they no longer possess equal speed, strength or endurance. Every attempt to restore formation creates a new burden elsewhere. Behind them, the recovered outpost supplies their pursuers with evidence and a base for immediate movement.As the passage narrows and the squadron fragments, Vane an...

Adjusting to a New WorldMissionaries must adjust to new cultures, learn languages, work as a team, maintain healthy relationships, and discern best ministry practices. Nothing can fully prepare a person for life as a missionary. However, for almost thirty years, Thomas Hale’s On Being a Missionary has helped to equip cross-cultural workers to not only survive but thrive in their calling.This abridged version of On Being a Missionary remains practical and ac...

Thomas Hale writes about being a missionary surgeon in the same delightful way James Herriot writes about being a country veterinarian. Dr. Hale's incredible experience in tiny, mountainous Nepal are surpassed only by his talent for telling about them. Imagine, for example, the culture shock of moving to a Hindu country under such rigid religious control that it is not only illegal to proselytize, but illegal to change religions as well. Imagine further the shock of moving to that country ...

"Indians found the Dutch couple on the beach...she revived and crawled into a hollow tree...Thomas Hale Streets questioned the time sequence." Daily Register, May 12, 1964"No one knows how Stout went from Lenape captive to New Amsterdam bride....There is a Facebook community titled 'Penelope Stout Descendants' that has 1,600 members." -Asbury Park Press, Nov. 20, 2017Did famous Dutch colonial "Indian War" survivor Penelope Stout live to age...

There is a widening divide between the data, tools, and knowledge that international relations scholars produce and what policy practitioners find relevant for their work. In this first-of-its-kind conversation, leading academics and practitioners reflect on the nature and size of the theory-practice divide. They find the gap varies by issue area and over time.The essays in this volume use data gathered by the Teaching, Research, and International Policy (TRIP) Project over a fifte...

A guide to the joys, struggles, and calling of missionsDr. Hale’s practical wisdom is here freely offered to the missionary-to-be and others interested in missions–wisdom hard-earned in Nepal on everything from calling to raising a missionary family to cross-cultural communication.Now revised to include perspectives on the realities of the changing missionary force and the challenges of bonding with a new culture in an increasingly globalized and technologi...

A Missionary PilgrimageLike homesick travelers, many missionaries yearn for the trappings of their church culture back home—anything to feel comfortable. In time, this longing becomes so strong that any tradition offering a small taste of home becomes a strong lure. We stop, intending only to spend the night, but for many a weary and lost pilgrim the stay lasts a lifetime. But the purpose of this pilgrimage is too important for us to allow our fellow pilgrims to st...

Political strategies for tackling climate change and other “long problems” that span generationsClimate change and its consequences unfold over many generations. Past emissions affect our climate today, just as our actions shape the climate of tomorrow, while the effects of global warming will last thousands of years. Yet the priorities of the present dominate our climate policy and the politics surrounding it. Even the social science that attempts to frame the pro...

It is now conventional wisdom to see the great policy challenges of the 21st century as inherently transnational. It is equally common to note the failures of the international institutions the world relies on to address such challenges. As the acclaimed 2013 book Gridlock argued, the world increasingly needs effective international cooperation, but multilateralism appears unable to deliver it in the face of deepening interdependence, rising multipolarity, and the growing complexi...