"On a tiny French island, a couple of American dreamers redefine their lives by restoring a ruin…The French House moves to a soulful, very funny rhythm all its own."—Meryl StreepDon and Mindy Wallace have always been Francophiles, so when they had the opportunity to buy a home on a small French island off the coast of Brittany, they jumped—sight unseen—into a crumbling mess that challenged their finances and their family.But when the Wallaces arriv...

A Tide in Time follows the misfortunes of Matthew and Abby Roving, siblings plunged into double lives as modern teens and accidental secret agents at the heart of the American Revolution. The trouble begins when Matthew stumbles on an antique ship's logbook that functions like a time portal. Soon the 12 year old Matthew is solo-sailing a Death Ship, escaping from murderous mutineers, and managing the affairs of future national heroes like John Paul Jones and Ben Franklin, helping them to k...

Stress affects millions of Americans. According to the Statistic Brain Research Institute, 77% ofAmericans report experiencing physical symptoms associated with stress. 1/3 of Americans feelas if they are living with extreme stress.

This book seeks to understand the obligation of the international community to implement the principles of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P).With a focus on the humanitarian crisis in Syria, the volume examines what formal responsibility and actual capability international institutions have to protect and prevent civilians from systematic mass atrocities and presents an analysis of several prominent international organizations (IOs). Each chapter focuses on a specific organizatio...

For more than a century, no Number 1 and Number 2 high schoolfootball team had ever met -- until October 6, 2001One Great GameThis is the story of two teams -- Concord De La Salle, a private Catholic school in an upscale Northern California suburb, and Long Beach Poly, a proud public institution from a blue-collar SoCal seaport -- striving to achieve the same goal: the all-American dream.In this supercharged account of the first-ever national high-school championship g...

The increasing importance of international investment has been accompanied by the rapid development of a new field of international law that defines the obligations of host states towards foreign investors and creates procedures for resolving disputes in connection with those obligations. The second edition of Investor-State Arbitration builds on the successful first edition to include developments in law and practice, and provides the reader with an even more in-depth expert cove...

This book seeks to understand the obligations of the international community to promote and protect state and human security in situations of international humanitarian crises.In Iraq and Syria, as well as in neighbouring states, the rise of ISIL has raised serious state and human security challenges. This study explores the relationships between the Global-Regional Partnership, the United Nations and nine organizations in their attempt to deal with the challenges presented by ISIL...

In early 1862, the Union advances achieved by Maj. Gen. Grant and Adm. Foote at Forts Henry and Donelson caused significant concern in the Confederate government. The Union army, known as the Army of the Tennessee, under Grant had increased to 48,894 men and were encamped on the western side of the Tennessee River. On April 6, 1862 a determined full-force attack from the Confederate Army took place at the Battle of Shiloh; the objective was to destroy the entire Western Union offensive once f...

On his 81st birthday, without explanation, Karen Fisher-Alaniz's father placed two weathered notebooks on her lap. Inside were more than 400 pages of letters he'd written to his parents during WWII. She began reading them, and the more she read, the more she discovered about the man she never knew.They began to meet for lunch every week, for her to ask him questions, and him to provide the answers. It was through this process that she discovered the secret role he played in WWII. K...

In a cluttered room in an abandoned coat factory in lower Manhattan, a group of musicians comes together each week to make music. Some are old, some are young, all have come late to music or come back to it after a long absence. This is the Late Starters Orchestra--the bona fide amateur string orchestra where Ari Goldman pursues his lifelong dream of playing the cello.Goldman hadn't seriously picked up his cello in twenty-five years, but the Late Starters (its motto, If you think yo...

"Nearly every page has some crack piece of travel wisdom ... an accessible, inspiring journey." —KirkusThe Sell-Your-House, See-the-World Life!Reunited after thirty-five years and wrestling a serious case of wanderlust, Lynne and Tim Martin decided to sell their house and possessions and live abroad full-time. They've never looked back. With just two suitcases, two computers, and each other, the Martins embark on a global adventure, taking...

In 1957, when a young Midwestern woman landed a job at The New Yorker, she didn’t expect to stay long at the reception desk. But stay she did, and for twenty-one years she had the best seat in the house. In addition to taking messages, she ran interference for jealous wives checking on adulterous husbands, drank with famous writers at famous watering holes throughout bohemian Greenwich Village, and was seduced, two-timed, and proposed to by a few of the magazine’s eccentric luminaries. Thi...