If you come to my dojo you will never be promoted to any rank. You will always remain a white belt. But, I expect that you will be like all other Americans that came to my class and quit. But, if you want to learn and learn the right way, come back and I will teach you." Mr. Takeshi Miyagi directed those words to me on a rainy November night in 1963. The following night, fellow Marine Len Neidert and I returned and were immediately served our first of many doses of humble pie. The first lesson in humility was served when Miyagi handed me a broom. Our "classroom floor" was the hardened dirt outside of the back door to Mr. Miyagi's house. I quickly learned that each night before class, Len and I would have to sweep the tiny pebbles off of the dirt surface. Lesson number two in humility required us to lower a bucket into the well and fill a metal pot with drinking water for the students. We responded to his orders with a very crisp, "Yes, sir" and began our chores. When the Okinawan students began arriving for class, they glared at us and ignored our greeting. We soon discovered that we were not welcome and I am certain they already knew we would be like the other Americans before us. We would quit and once more embarrass their sensei, Mr. Miyagi. Over the next several months we struggled, in a place where we were not welcomed with open arms, to win the trust and confidence of Mr Miyagi and his students. We saw a long, difficult journey ahead of us, and the road was paved with aches and pains, and countless bumps and bruises.
What are the relationships between the books we read and the communities we share? Common Things explores how transatlantic romance revivals of the eighteenth and nineteenth century influenced—and were influenced by—emerging modern systems of community. Drawing on the work of Washington Irving, Henry Mackenzie, Thomas Jefferson, James Fenimore Cooper, Robert Montgomery Bird, and Charles Brockden Brown, the book shows how romance promotes a distinctive aesthetics of belonging—a mode of being in common tied to new qualities of the singular. Each chapter focuses on one of these common things—the stain of race, the “property” of personhood, ruined feelings, the genre of a text, and the event of history—and examines how these peculiar qualities work to sustain the coherence of our modern common places. In the work of Horace Walpole and Edgar Allan Poe, the book further uncovers an important— and never more timely—alternative aesthetic practice that reimagines community as an open and fugitive process rather than as a collection of common things.
James Lilley's life and family have been entwined with China's fate since his father moved to the country to work for Standard Oil in 1916. Lilley spent much of his childhood in China and after a Yale professor took him aside and suggested a career in intelligence, it became clear that he would spend his adult life returning to China again and again. Lilley served for twenty-five years in the CIA in Laos, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Taiwan before moving to the State Department in the early 1980s to begin a distinguished career as the U.S.'s top-ranking diplomat in Taiwan, ambassador to South Korea, and finally, ambassador to China. From helping Laotian insurgent forces assist the American efforts in Vietnam to his posting in Beijing during the Tiananmen Square crackdown, he was in a remarkable number of crucial places during challenging times as he spent his life tending to America's interests in Asia. In China Hands, he includes three generations of stories from an American family in the Far East, all of them absorbing, some of them exciting, and one, the loss of Lilley's much loved and admired brother, Frank, unremittingly tragic. China Hands is a fascinating memoir of America in Asia, Asia itself, and one especially capable American's personal history.
This is the most up-to-date assessment of all aspects of the People's Liberation Army. Leading specialists on the Chinese military cover military leadership, defense doctrine and military readiness, preparations for high-tech warfare, military expenditure, military logistics, the scientific and technological base for defense procurement, and China's security concerns in Northeast Asia.
Detective Jefferson Daniel Lewis has the unenviable task of hunting for a serial rapist and murderer who has a taste for wealthy women. Tiffany Barrows, wife of millionaire businessman Zachary Barrows, has been marked as the killer's next victim. Lewis suddenly finds himself acting as her bodyguard as well as lead investigator in the case. Still, he relentlessly chases down every clue and soon finds that some of them point to a policeman. Not just any policeman, but Captain Karl Thomas, Commander of the Homicide Division and a man with a messy divorce in his past. Lewis pushes on, only to have his world crumble: first a suicide note from a suspect he'd cleared confessing to the murders and a good friend beaten and left for dead, then a shocking, public revelation that he's having an affair with Tiffany Barrows. Shamed and pushed into a corner, J. D. Lewis is suspended from the police department and wonders if anyone will believe him when he says the killer's still out there.
This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Asian Security Handbook focuses on the new challenges to security in the Asia-Pacific region presented by international terrorism. It reviews old security realities covered in previous editions, and highlights more recent security issues in the region, including the North Korean threat, weapons of mass destruction proliferation, the South China Sea dispute, and the future U.S.-China rivalry. Featuring contributions by a distinguished group of international security and Asia experts, this new edition has been reformatted and restructured. A new introductory chapter on terrorism sets the stage for the country-by-country profiles and assessments of the political-security situations in twenty-three individual nations. A new appendix on foreign terrorist organizations is also included.
Angela Clements is very ill, and it seems she will leave her husband, Tony, and children Ryan and Sarah before Christmas. Higgins tries to offer comfort and encouragement to the young man he had helped nine years ago. At the same time, he tells Ryan and Sarah itas okay to believe in, and pray for, miracles. He makes many trips to the altar of St. Maryas Church, where he argues with athe Chiefa and demands that He make Angela well. When the Chief says he canat, Higgins yells, aYou can do anything. Youare God!a And there, the Chief challenges Higgins to make Him believe. Follow Bill Higgins on a roller coaster ride from tears to laughter as he searches for another miracle for Tony Clements. He battles thugs, thieves, and grinches, and takes on the ACLU, all while trying to bring back the true spirit of Christmas and catch that elusive miracle.
Featuring 19 individual country profiles, this volume seeks to shed light on the key political and security factors, and geo-political trends in the Asia-Pacific region that bear monitoring and that will have greater significance in the post-Cold War environment.
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Take a journey back into the Old West, where a distant grandfather of modern-day detective sergeant Jefferson Daniel Lewis is a U.S. Marshal. Look at those days through the eyes of Marshal Jefferson Lewis and see the Sioux Indians, George Armstrong Custer, Crazy Horse and the battle of the Little Big Horn. Marshal Lewis is a man with a different way of thinking, and he lives his life as his father taught him. While riding in search of outlaws and the men who killed his brothers, he meets and befriends Soaring Hawk, a Sioux Indian. He meets Ben Dawkins, a former slave, and finds a loyal companion after saving the life of a young wolf. Lewis truly believes that friendship isnt based on the color of a mans skin or his heritage and that a true friend is worth more than worldly possessions. When he arrives in a town called Broken Rock, he meets a very lovely young woman named Hannah Taylor. Suddenly, he finds the road to romance is rather bumpy, often complicated, and sometimes very funny.
We live in catastrophic times. The world is reeling from the deepest economic crisis since the Great Depression, with the threat of further meltdowns ever-looming. Global warming and myriad dire ecological disasters worsen—with little if any action to halt them—their effects rippling across the planet in the shape of almost biblical floods, fires, droughts, and hurricanes. Governments warn that there is no alternative to the bitter medicine they prescribe—or risk devastating financial or social collapse. The right, whether religious or secular, views the present as catastrophic and wants to turn the clock back. The left fears for the worst, but hopes some good will emerge from the rubble. Visions of the apocalypse and predictions of impending doom abound. Across the political spectrum, a culture of fear reigns.? Catastrophism explores the politics of apocalypse—on the left and right, in the environmental movement—and examines why the lens of catastrophe can distort our understanding of the dynamics at the heart of these numerous disasters—and fatally impede our ability to transform the world. Lilley, McNally, Yuen, and Davis probe the reasons why catastrophic thinking is so prevalent, and challenge the belief that it is only out of the ashes that a better society may be born. The authors argue that those who care about social justice and the environment should jettison doomsaying—even as it relates to indisputably apocalyptic climate change. Far from calling people to arms, they suggest, catastrophic fear often results in passivity and paralysis—and, at worst, reactionary politics.?
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Corresponding to Lilley's Pharmacology and the Nursing Process, 6th Edition, Pharmacology Online features a collection of self-paced learning modules that will enhance understanding of pharmacology. Master the basic principles of pharmacology.and more! Interactive Learning Activities and true-to-life Case Studies will facilitate understanding of how drugs work and how to administer them safely in the clinical setting. Case Studies show the consequences of both correct and incorrect choices, and provide rationales for incorrect choices. Case Study Quizzes test understanding of key content and principles covered in the Case Studies. Interactive Learning Activities provide need-to-know review of critical drug content in a fun, game-like way. Practice Quizzes for the NCLEX Examination provide practice in answering NCLEX Examination-style questions to promote success with the expanded pharmacology content of the NCLEX Examination. Roadside Assistance Video Clips use humor and analogy to bring difficult content to life Flashcard sets provide an easy-to-use, engaging way to memorize information about major drugs, drug classes, and pharmacologic principles. Care Planning Activities present brief case studies along with a care plan template for completion. Animations bring difficult concepts to life! An Audio Glossary presents both a definition and an audio pronunciation for more than 1,400 terms and drug names. A Drug Handbook serves as a convenient quick reference within the course. New organization to match the textbook helps emphasize the relevance of each Self-Study Module, video, animation, and more to understanding and learning key concepts from the text. Five brand-new, drug-specific Self-Study Modules go beyond the basic principles of pharmacology to focus on important drug content areas: Pain Antihypertensives Medications for Asthma Medications for Peptic Ulcer Disease with H. pylori Antilipemic Drugs
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