Safe from the battlefields of Europe and Asia, the United States led the post–World War II global economic recovery through international assistance and foreign direct investment. With an ardent decolonization agenda and a postwar legitimacy, the United States attempted to construct a world characterized by cooperation. When American optimism clashed with Soviet expansionism, the United States started on a path to global hegemony.In US Foreign Policy and Defense Strategy, ...

""This short history has been compiled mainly from the War Diaries. My reason for undertaking the task is that there was no one else to do it, the units composing the Division being scattered far and wide, and there being no Divisional habitat with local historians as in the case of Territorial and New Army Divisions. My object is that all who served with the Division for any period between 1914-1919 may have a record to show that they belonged to a Division which played no inconspicuous p...

The Origins of Life: From Abiotic Chemistry to the First Cells is an essential textbook that tackles one of the greatest mysteries in science, how inanimate matter evolved into the first living things. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach, delving into the basic principles of the earth's chemistry, the formation of pre-cellular entities, and the acquisition of chemical complexity. It explains the creation of chromosomes, metabolic pathways, and the features of the earliest prokaryo...

Thomas Owens explores some of the exultant visions inspired by Wordsworth's and Coleridge's close scrutiny of the night sky, the natural world, and the domains of science. He examines a set of scientific patterns drawn from natural, geometric, celestial, and astronomical sources which Wordsworth and Coleridge used to express their ideas about poetry, religion, literary criticism, and philosophy, and establishes the central importance of analogy in their creative thinking. Analogies prompte...

The work described in this PhD thesis is a study of a real implementation of a track-finder system which could provide reconstructed high transverse momentum tracks to the first-level trigger of the High Luminosity LHC upgrade of the CMS experiment. This is vital for the future success of CMS, since otherwise it will be impossible to achieve the trigger selectivity needed to contain the very high event rates. The unique and extremely challenging requirement of the system is to utilise the ...

Major General Sir Thomas Owen Marden KBE, CB, CMG (15 September 1866 – 11 September 1951) was a British Army officer, active during the Boer War and the First World War, where he commanded a battalion of the Welch Regiment, a brigade, and finally 6th Division. Following the war, he commanded a British occupying force in Turkey during the Chanak Crisis in the early 1920s. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.

HIV/AIDS is a global health crisis of unprecedented proportions. Afflicting millions worldwide, its social, political, economic, and ethical dimensions have rendered explicit the vast inequalities of our «negatively globalized planet». Since the late 1990s, a major feature of the crisis has been the dispute over intellectual property protection and medicines access.In this book, Thomas Owen examines the mediatization of this dispute. Weaving together contemporary media theory and in...

Love never takes the easy route and maybe that’s the point.In these three gay romantic comedies, wrong turns, mixed signals, and a dash of magic steer the way toward endings worth holding onto.One story unfolds in a small-town café, where late-night pie runs and stolen glances turn two regulars into something more than strangers. Another follows a scatterbrained shifter whose secrets keep slipping out at the worst times until the crush he can’t stop tripping over proves str...

What if survival required you to unlearn who you are? How far would you fall to save yourself? Sometimes happiness is a long way down.The Johns family is unraveling. Hollis, a retired Ohio banker, isolates himself in esoteric hobbies and a dangerous flirtation with a colleague's daughter. Susan, his wife of forty years, risks everything for a second chance at who she might have become. David, their eldest, thrashes to stay afloat as his teaching career capsizes in a storm of accusa...

Romance doesn’t wait its turn it crashes in with coffee stains, tech meltdowns, and sparks no one knows how to hide.This trio of gay romantic comedies takes ordinary days and flips them into offbeat, unforgettable love stories.One unfolds in a busy office where stolen glances and scrambled deadlines test two coworkers who can’t quite follow the HR handbook. Another begins with a spell gone sideways, leaving one man juggling magic he can’t control and feelings he never plann...

Love has a habit of showing up where no one expects it.In Almost Real, a man agrees to fake a relationship just to quiet family pressure. But every look, every touch, makes it harder to tell what’s staged and what’s breaking through for real.Roommate From the Afterlife twists ordinary living arrangements when a ghost refuses to leave a cozy apartment. What starts as irritation soon shifts into companionship and a connection that pushes past the line between life and death.

Three romances. Three disasters waiting to unravel. And three moments when love barges in uninvited.In Dorm Room Disasters, two college guys crash into each other’s lives with late-night pranks, busted furniture, and way too many cafeteria mishaps. What begins as a string of comic accidents grows into something that interrupts more than just study plans.Love, Interrupted flips time upside down. A stubborn student gets stuck in a loop with the one person gu...