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Barack Obamäs "rebalancing strategy" or "pivot strategy", intended to demonstrate continued US commitment to the Asia Pacific region in a variety of military, economic and diplomatic contexts, was launched with much fanfare in 2011. Implicit in the new strategy is a focus on China and also a US relience on existing regional allies to implement its strategy. This book explores the impact of the new strategy on the US¿s allies in the region, and...

Between Heaven and Earth: Book One What is worse: Being so broke you can barely afford food, getting hired for dangerous missions way out of your league, suffocating under mountains of unanswered questions-or wanting to sexually dominate someone who can kill you without lifting a finger? Lu Delong is a mercenary who evaluates antiques most of the time and deals with the paranormal on rare occasions-even though it's supposed to be the other way...

Tom Diaz's The Last Gun was first published in hardcover shortly after the tragic Newtown massacre. Major media outlets, including the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Democracy Now, NPR, and CNBC, rushed to contact Diaz, the widely respected gun control advocate, for his views on what Americans could do to bring an end to this epidemic of gun violence. As he told them, America is by far the most armed nation in the world, and it has the deaths ...

Simplify the estimating process with the latest data, materials, and practices Electrical Estimating Methods, Fourth Edition is a comprehensive guide to estimating electrical costs, with data provided by leading construction database RS Means.

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You have what it takes to take control of your moneyHave you ever felt that you lack the know-how to take control of your financial life? You're not alone. But it's not a lack of savvy that's the problem, says personal financial expert Mary Hunt, it's a lack of confidence. And Hunt is here to help you develop a can-do attitude toward money so that you can take control of your finances.Using the lessons she's learned from her own hard-fought ba...

Ella the doggy and her people family are getting ready for the Christmas Holiday! This book is one of several great kids stories from the "Ella the Doggy" book series. This series is made up of short stories for kids about a real Husky who lives in Minnesota. "Ella the Doggy"books are both entertaining and educational. They are great to read at home just for fun, for the home-school family or in an early childhood or preschool education progra...

Despite its venerated place atop American law and politics, our written Constitution does not enumerate all of the rules and rights, principles and procedures that actually govern modern America. The document makes no explicit mention of cherished concepts like the separation of powers and the rule of law. On some issues, the plain meaning of the text misleads. For example, the text seems to say that the vice president presides over his own im...

Italian scholar, novelist, journalist, and philosopher Claudio Magris is among the most prominent of living European intellectuals. This study is the first comprehensive critical analysis of Magris's corpus for an English-speaking audience and addresses the crucial question of the return to humanism that is moving literature and theory forward.

Bear meets sandwich, adventure ensues. . . . A sly classic-in-the-making for fans of Jon Klassen, Peter Brown, and Mo Willems. By now I think you know what happened to your sandwich. But you may not know how it happened. So let me tell you. It all started with the bear . . . So begins Julia Sarcone-Roach's delicious tale of a bear, lost in the city, who happens upon an unattended sandwich in the park. The bear's journey from forest to city and...

The world is cracked and in ruin. The air is full of dead men's ashes, fallen colossi smother the earth with their decayed husks, and infectious monsters roam freely. In their desperation, a group of alchemists have created a killer named Sym from obscene magic, outfitting her with an engine that will allow her to travel back in time to stop whatever it was that made their world so. But the alchemists don't realize that the engine is sentient,...

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Tori Cannon and her grandfather return from her grandma's funeral to find a body jammed in one of their derelict motel units. The victim had no enemies except for maybe the rich woman who wants to level his eyesore of a home, a resentful daughter, and friends who were anything but. Tori's BFF, Kathy, arrives to help spruce up the place and they are soon mixed up in the deadly consequences that murder entails. Can they save the business and fin...

A stirring story of criminality, drug addiction, recovery, and unlikely fame.

An anti-romantic comedy about the misadventures of four women who meet on a singles' bike trip.

The AK wants to tell a different truth-a truth ungarbled that is so obviousno one could possibly mistake its meaning. If you look down the cyclops-eye of the barrelwhat you'll see is a boy with trousersrolled above his ankles. You'll see a mouth of bone moving in syllablesthat have the rapid-fire clarityof a weapon that can fire 600 rounds a minute. -from "Oracle"Station Zed is the terminal outpost beyond which is the unknown. It is also the p...

Taming Amy is a captivating modern tale of mindfulness and enlightenment. This delightful parable plots the explosive appearance of Amy, a five or six year old spiritual guide, into the Michael's stalled career, broken relationships and teetering mental health. With devastating honesty, profound insights and boundless mirth, she takes him on an impetuous journey of self-discovery which will transform his life forever. Taming Amy is one of tho...