Is the United States still a “superpower”? How are the rising powers establishing themselves in international politics and security? What is the future of global stability? For over a decade, Bruce Jones has had a front-row seat as the emerging powers—principally China, India, and Brazil, but also Turkey, Indonesia, Korea, and others—thrust themselves onto the global stage. From Delhi to Doha to Beijing to Brasilia, he’s met with the politicians, diplomats, business leaders, and scholars of those powers as they craft their strategies for rising influence—and with senior American officials as they forge their response. In Still Ours to Lead, Jones tells a nuanced story of American leadership. He artfully examines the tension between the impulse to rival the United States and the incentives for restraint and cooperation among the rising powers. That balance of rivalry and restraint provides the United States with a continued ability to solve problems and to manage crises at roughly the same rate as when American dominance was unquestioned. Maintaining the balance is central to the question of whether we will live in a stable or unstable system in the period to come. But it just so happens that this challenge plays to America’s unique strength—its unparalleled ability to pull together broad and disparate coalitions for action. To succeed, America must adapt its leadership to new realities.
A sensational story about a serial killer and a detective with a sixth sense--set in a sunny and sinister town on the California seaside. A woman had been murdered--by a horrible method that has serial killer written all over it. For Laredo Beach's Detective Sergeant Eustes Tully, it was time to use his sixth sense to crack the crime.
From a brilliant Brookings Institution expert, an “important” (The Wall Street Journal) and “penetrating historical and political study” (Nature) of the critical role that oceans play in the daily struggle for global power, in the bestselling tradition of Robert Kaplan’s The Revenge of Geography. For centuries, oceans were the chessboard on which empires battled for supremacy. But in the nuclear age, air power and missile systems dominated our worries about security, and for the United States, the economy was largely driven by domestic production, with trucking and railways that crisscrossed the continent serving as the primary modes of commercial transit. All that has changed, as nine-tenths of global commerce and the bulk of energy trade is today linked to sea-based flows. A brightly painted forty-foot steel shipping container loaded in Asia with twenty tons of goods may arrive literally anywhere else in the world; how that really happens and who actually profits from it show that the struggle for power on the seas is a critical issue today. Now, in vivid, closely observed prose, Bruce Jones conducts us on a fascinating voyage through the great modern ports and naval bases—from the vast container ports of Hong Kong and Shanghai to the vital naval base of the American Seventh Fleet in Hawaii to the sophisticated security arrangements in the Port of New York. Along the way, the book illustrates how global commerce works, that we are amidst a global naval arms race, and why the oceans are so crucial to America’s standing going forward. As Jones reveals, the three great geopolitical struggles of our time—for military power, for economic dominance, and over our changing climate—are playing out atop, within, and below the world’s oceans. The essential question, he shows, is this: who will rule the waves and set the terms of the world to come?
A serial killer in San Diego is stalking Jeni Starbuck, a former agent of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, now working in an aids hospice. The killer seems to know everything about her, and for a reason, he has access to an FBI computer.
Opening the door to a stranger who subsequently drugs him, ransacks his home, and kidnaps his wife, former cop John Kirkland begins a desperate chase across the country that reveals a secret he has tried to forget. Original.
Estranged from their family, Nicholas Tepe's sons, Alex and tefan, have turned away from their family, their beliefs, and even the bonds of brotherhood. In these times of isolation, the storms of the darkest season arise.
After a plane crash, Bruce Banner, a.k.a. the Incredible Hulk, and Wolverine must put aside their differences and work together, as they have only six hours to rescue a woman and a sick boy from a couple of desperate drug dealers.
The American epic of how the tragic death of Jane McCrea, the sister of American Colonel John McCrea and fiancée of Loyalist Ranger Captain David Jones, turned America’s first Civil War into a successful struggle for Independence and made her the Mother of a new Nation.
Drugs, romance, dirty cops, and the Big Easy-the perfect recipe for a jambalaya of explosive action, seduction, and death. David LaRoux, New Orleans' favorite philanthropic son, did not simply ruffle the feathers of the DEA; he plucked and skinned its director, Will Martin, who sets out on a vengeful mission and will stop at nothing to take LaRoux down. Each vying for the affection of undercover agent Rebecca Pearson, love awaits one and death the other in Lord of the Bayou.
This book was written and intended for teens and young adults to help guide those who are uncertain in their choices and decisions—good and bad. The author intended to show some of the things that can happen if you choose the wrong one and the consequences that result from both in the hopes that you will make the right choices, because you may not survive the wrong ones. His intention is to show young people that there is hope no matter how bad it may seem. All you have to do is believe in God and pray the whole time and do the right thing to become successful. Always remember, when praying and doing the right thing, it may not come or happen when you want it to, but the Lord says, “I’m always on time.” And that is the bottom line. Good luck! The sky’s the limit. May God bless and guide you through your life’s challenges.
On the instructions of President Teddy Roosevelt, the preserved mortal remains of John Paul Jones were escorted back to the United States on the USS Brooklyn, surrounded by warships of the U.S. Navy, in 1905. This was a fitting tribute to the barefooted son of a Scottish gardener who, born in 1747, was destined to become the Father of the US Navy through his dogged determination and dauntless courage on the high seas. At an early age he went to sea as a cabin boy, becoming a captain in his own right at the age of twenty-one in the British merchant service. He ended up in Philadelphia and offered his services to the infant American navy, becoming its ablest and most dashing commander, raising "Old Glory" for the first time ever to the jackstaff of the USS Alfred, then attacking British ports in the US war of independence. His hour of glory was on the USS Bon Homme Richard when he engaged the Royal Navy off Flamborough Head. When all the odds were against him, and the. skipper of the HMS Serapis, Captain Pearson, demanded his surrender, his immortal reply was, "I have not yet begun to fight!" On return to the United States, he ended up supervising and launching his flagship, the USS America. This book will have you spellbound by the colorful narrative of his life.
The American epic of how the tragic death of Jane McCrea, the sister of American Colonel John McCrea and fiancée of Loyalist Ranger Captain David Jones, turned America’s first Civil War into a successful struggle for Independence and made her the Mother of a new Nation.
The contributors provided in this book shed light on and initiate debates about important policy issues associated with education reform and improvement. The authors do this by linking conceptual frameworks to past research, analyzing these challenges, and speculating about the contours of future research and school practice. Centering on policy research-based examinations of the future in public education in the United States, this book examines policy issues as they relate to public education governance, finance, curriculum development and community relations. At a conceptual level, the volume explores along several dimensions whether or not public education should exist in its current form, and what is the connection between future configurations of public education, policy development and the global economy,
In studying the effect of New Deal on urban political machines, Bruce M. Stave challenges the traditional view of declining bossism in America from the 1930s through the 1950s. Using Pittsburgh as his case study, he demonstrates how political power was transferred from a once-invincible Republican machine to the Democratic Party led by David L. Lawrence. Stave traces the consolidation of patronage control and grassroots voting support with a special emphasis on the interplay between politics and federal work relief during the depression decade.
by Professor Poul Harremoes Environmental engineering has been a discipline dominated by empirical approaches to engineering. Historically speaking, the development of urban drainage structures was very successful on the basis of pure empiricism. Just think of the impressive structures built by the Romans long before the discipline of hydraulics came into being. The fact is that the Romans did not know much about the theories of hydraulics, which were discovered as late as the mid-1800s. However, with the Renaissance came a new era. Astronomy (Galileos) and basic physics (Newton) started the scientific revolution and in the mid-1800s Navier and Stokes developed the application of Newtons laws to hydrodynamics, and later, St. Venant the first basic physics description of the motion of water in open channels. The combination of basic physical understanding of the phenomena involved in the flow of water in pipes and the experience gained by "trial and error", the engineering approach to urban drainage improved the design and performance of the engineering drainage infrastructure. However, due to the mathematical complications of the basic equations, solutions were available only to quite simple cases of practical significance until the introduction of new principles of calculation made possible by computers and their ability to crunch numbers. Now even intricate hydraulic phenomena can be simulated with a reasonable degree of confidence that the simulations are in agreement with performance in practice, if the models are adequately calibrated with sample performance data.
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