From 1949 to 2000, Moshe Dayan, Yitzhak Rabin, Ariel Sharon, and Ehud Barak conducted Israel's successful (and unsuccessful) talks with its Arab neighbors, from the armistice negotiations to Kissinger's shuttle diplomacy, to Camp David I and the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, and finally to the Oslo peace process. The four successful generals who became politicians are covered in four separate biographies, which discuss the early life and military career of each subject and his subsequent ...

This is a dispassionate examination of the viability of a two-state solution in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, based on the politics of Israel, Palestine and the United States. It includes instructive case studies from South Africa in Namibia and the Irish claim to Northern Ireland. The results of Israeli elections from 2001 to 2013 are analyzed (with the conclusion that the Likud will be in any government coalition for at least the midterm future, giving it a veto over policy). A chapt...

INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OFFICIAL SECRETSFEATURING A NEW INTRODUCTIONIn January 2003, 28-year-old GCHQ translator Katharine Gun received an email from the US National Security Agency that would turn her world upside down. The message requested Katharine’s assistance in co-ordinating an illegal US-UK spy operation which would secure UN authorisation for the Iraq invasion. Horrified, she decided to leak the informatio...

INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OFFICIAL SECRETSFEATURING A NEW INTRODUCTIONIn January 2003, 28-year-old GCHQ translator Katharine Gun received an email from the US National Security Agency that would turn her world upside down. The message requested Katharine’s assistance in co-ordinating an illegal US-UK spy operation which would secure UN authorisation for the Iraq invasion. Horrified, she decided to leak the informatio...

This is the first of two volumes announcing the emergence of the new legal realism as a field of study. At a time when the legal academy is turning to social science for new approaches, these volumes chart a new course for interdisciplinary research by synthesizing law on the ground, empirical research, and theory. Volume 1 lays the groundwork for this novel and comprehensive approach with an innovative mix of theoretical, historical, pedagogical, and empirical perspectives. Their empirica...

If Teddy’s dark secret is discovered, even her wealth and good looks won’t save her. When Asher Rose met Teddy King, he knew it’d be trouble, but it was just the kind of trouble he didn’t mind falling in.What he hadn’t planned on was falling hard for the girl no one could tame.Strap yourself in for a sexy ride full of intensity and disaster that spirals all the way down.

The globalization of American style higher education is a field of study that is undergoing a significant phase with the current expansion of American branch campuses and curricula around the world. This volume contributes to the scholarship on the project of implementing and expanding U.S. influenced curricula in the Middle East and Asia. Many of the branch campus projects are only a few decades old making this a liminal moment in the translation and development of higher education worldw...

What would you do if you found a dragon egg at your bus stop?Ichabod Surname never imagined he’d be spending a Friday afternoon cross-country skiing with a grandma dragon—but that’s exactly what happens when he finds a giant egg on the way to school.For as long as he can remember, he has been at war with his siblings because he thinks outside of the box. He stays invisible at home and school, but for the first time in his life, he may be the key to restorin...

Ichabod Surname never imagined he’d be a stowaway on a pirate ship captained by none other than Captain Mustache himself—but that’s exactly what happens when he and Charles find one docked at the marina one day after school.Ichabod has always dreamed of becoming a pirate. But he’s quickly disappointed by Mustache’s desire to stay on land than risk the high seas for an elusive treasure, all because they’re afraid of a little bad luck.When Charles and Ichabod have a fight, Ch...

When you are young, how do you reconcile so many contradictions in your surroundings? How do you explain being Christian in the face of racial segregation in the church? What do you do with an inquisitive mind in a culture that discourages questioning? These questions clashed for Mitchell Carnell in an unexpected experience in St. Paul's Cathedral in London. Episodes in his life that had remained separate suddenly came together. Everything changed from that point forward. This is Carnell's...

The classic behind-the-scenes account of what really happened in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947—the recovery of a UFO."When I finished Witness to Roswell , I said to myself, 'Case closed!' for the very wealth and sheer weight of eyewitness testimony." —George Noory, host, Coast to Coast AMThis classic in the field of UFOology is filled with hard-hitting eyewitness testimon...

The best pastries in the world are found in the pastry shops of Paris. The mission of the book is to get tourists beyond the top attractions of Paris to experience the life of the Parisian . Of the hundreds of Paris travel guides, Paris restaurant and food guides published, Paris by Pastry is the first guidebook to locate and walk the readers to the neighborhood (all 20 neighborhoods) of Paris..Here is the guidebook for the first time traveler, for the experienced traveler – the et...