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On New Year's Day 1942, the Japanese Army marched into Manila. They rounded up more than 3, 600 civilians, mostly American businessmen and their families, and interned them behind the walls of Santo Tomas University. These citizens endured the privations of a prisoner-of-war camp, and the erratic behavior of their Japanese captors, for more than three years. By the end of 1944, the internees were living on starvation rations and the Japanese h...

The land has become dark in the last century. A vengeful wizard stalks his dark tower, never dreaming that his greatest challenge to date has already begun to develop. Drehil is one of the most powerful mages to have ever lived. No man that has stood against him has ever survived. His name is known to all, and it has been many years since anyone dared challenge him. Much of what he has come to take for granted is about to change. Four young bo...

JERUSALEM, AD 27: John is an unassuming sixteen-year-old living quietly with his widowed mother in the heart of the city. Then life for him and all the Jewish community changes for ever: the long-awaited Messiah is proclaimed--and is closer to John than he could ever have dreamed. The young man is caught up in the whirlwind of the next three years as Jesus of Nazareth fulfils his divine destiny. John and his close friend, Jonas of Bethany, wit...

As government faces more complex problems, and citizens expect more, the way government delivers services and results is changing rapidly. The traditional model of government agencies administering hundreds of programs by themselves is giving way to one-stop services and cross-agency results. This translation implies collaboration--within agencies, among agencies, among levels of governments, and among the public, private, and nonprofit sector...

As government faces more complex problems, and citizens expect more, the way government delivers services and results is changing rapidly. The traditional model of government agencies administering hundreds of programs by themselves is giving way to one-stop services and cross-agency results. This translation implies collaboration--within agencies, among agencies, among levels of governments, and among the public, private, and nonprofit sector...

How to Get What You Most Want in Life gives advice on interpersonal and technical skills, attitude, and ethics, for ambitious readers to achieve the position, wealth, and happiness they seek. Richard S. Guha, a graduate of Cambridge University, who has been a corporate officer in three major corporations and a CEO, CMO, founder and Board Member of several companies, enables the reader to learn what he or she needs very quickly. He has brought ...

This is the first in the series of cases involving Inspector Morimoto and his assistant, Officer Suzuki, a young mathematics graduate from Tokyo University. With over twenty-five years experience, Morimoto is not easily surprised, but the dead man's coin locker is just the first of several surprises that Morimoto encounters in this case. Furthermore, Morimoto is puzzled because he cannot find the dead man's umbrella, and he also wants to know ...

Intended for first and second year college music courses, graduate students needing a concentrated review, and Private Theory instruction, this is a Music Theory treatise in the form of a workbook. The greater part of traditional theory is formatted into a set of 25 lessons, offering new insight, sequences and overviews. This teaching tool is designed to teach the most information with a maximum overview and minimal effort in the smallest amou...