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This book offers tactical warfare and hand to hand combat detail and solutions for thriving commercial real estate practice leaders and their teams.

From angels to demons, "The Mythology of Supernatural" explores the religious roots and the ancient folklore of the otherworldly entities that brothers Sam and Dean Winchester face on the hit television show "Supernatural"--and that have inhabited the shadows of human imagination across countless cultures and centuries.

Nathan Brown’, s penetrating account of the development and operation of the courts in the Arab world is based on fieldwork in Egypt and the Gulf. The book addresses several important questions. Why, for example, did Egypt’, s political leaders construct an independent judicial system that limited their own authority? And why does such a system appeal to Arab rulers outside Egypt? While most accounts stress the role of imperialism or...

Nathan J. Brown is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University. He is the author of several books, including The Dynamics of Democratization, Palestinian Politics after the Oslo Accords, and Constitutions in a Nonconstitutional World.

The Limits of Fabrication engages anew with traditional understandings of poetry as a practice of making or building, putting this approach to the test and radicalizing its implications by studying models of form and structure in twentieth and twenty-first century materialist poetics alongside recent innovations in materials science and engineering.

When Jacob Fields, a former CIA agent, returns after being presumed dead for two years, he kills his best friend first. His reasons for his actions are unknown. Kathryn Madison, the CIA's best agent, is put on the case to pursue this unknown factor. But not everything is as it seems. Madison's loyalties become strained, and she is unable to decide who to trust, not even her fellow agents, as a conspiracy is uncovered that could ignite a wa...

Uses the Arab experience to explain the appeal of constitutional documents to authoritarian political regimes.

GET INSIDE GRIMM. NBC's hit television series Grimm pits modern detective Nick Burkhardt of the Portland Police against a cast of terrifying villains—lifted directly from the pages of classic fairytales. In the world of the show, the classic stories are actually a document of real events, and Nick himself is descended from a long line of guardians, or Grimms, charged with defending humanity from the mythological creatures of the world. From Th...

We don't have to hit rock bottom to need God. No matter how good-or bad-life might seem, God still calls us to follow Him. This book ponders seven reasons life is better with God-when things are bad, God can make them better, when things are good, God makes them better still.

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Lilith. This female figure has remained a part of Middle and Near Eastern religious mythology for roughly 5, 000 years. Though she has existed in myths for thousands of years, the question of Lilith's true origins remains a mystery. The solution to the enigma surrounding the "birth" of Lilith may suggest that her name at one point referenced a widely worshipped creator goddess. However, her divinity has been continually diminished by the myths...

In My Sideways Heart, with consummate poetic skill, Brown explores the nuances of human relationships, and he does so with a courage and emotional honesty rare in contemporary American poetry. Are the poems in this collection love poems? Absolutely, but love poems skillfully absent the banal excesses of sentimentality. Brown writes with the confidence and directness of an experienced poet, and his seemingly simple diction belies the hard-earne...