The work examines the rise of the movements against globalization, modernization, and Western dominance that followed the collapse of the bipolar world and the end of the Cold War and that culminated with today's global jihadist movements. It describes how the U.S. had to adapt to this new, asymmetrical world of conflict with its strategic, doctrinal and theoretical responses to the threats of terrorism and insurgency that defined the Global War on Terror (GWOT).Unique in the bread...

On Thin Ice explores the relationship between the Inuit and the modern state in the vast but lightly populated North American Arctic. It chronicles the aspiration of the Inuit to participate in the formation and implementation of diplomatic and national security policies across the Arctic region and to contribute to the reconceptualization of Arctic Security, including the redefinition of the core values inherent in northern defense policy.With the warming of the Earth's c...

The Stittsville Creative Writing Group is a program of the Ottawa Public Library. The group meets every Thursday evening at the Stittsville branch to read pieces they have written.We are: poets, scholars, rogue scholars, authors, and audacious amateurs taking their first steps into group sharing and into the published world. There are those who mostly listen rather than write, those who write prolifically but only share with the group, and those who publish their work for a larger ...

An expert examination of the way climate change is transforming the Arctic environmentally, economically, and geopolitically, and how the challenges of that transformation should be met.A growing number of scientists estimate that there will be no summer ice in the Arctic by as soon as 2013. Are we approaching the "End of the Arctic?" as journalist Ed Struzik asked in 1992, or fully entering the "Age of the Arctic," as Arctic expert Oran Young predicted in 1986?

The book examines Bernard Brodie's strategic and philosophical response to the nuclear age, embedding his work within the classical theories of Carl von Clausewitz.

In Narrating the Law Barry Scott Wimpfheimer creates a new theoretical framework for considering the relationship between law and narrative and models a new method for studying talmudic law in particular.Works of law, including the Talmud, are animated by a desire to create clear usable precedent. This animating impulse toward clarity is generally absent in narratives, the form of which is better able to capture the subtleties of lived life. Wimpfheimer proposes to make th...

The life and times of an enduring work of Jewish spiritualityThe Babylonian Talmud, a postbiblical Jewish text that is part scripture and part commentary, is an unlikely bestseller. Written in a hybrid of Hebrew and Aramaic, it is often ambiguous to the point of incomprehension, and its subject matter reflects a narrow scholasticism that should hardly have broad appeal. Yet the Talmud has remained in print for centuries and is more popular today t...

The Stittsville Creative Writing Group is a program of the Ottawa Public Library. The group meets every Thursday at the Stittsville branch for approximately an hour to read pieces they have written.We are: poets, scholars, rogue scholars, authors, and audacious amateurs taking their first steps into group sharing and into the published world. There are those who mostly listen rather than write, those who write prolifically but only share with the group and published writers.These are our s...

In Narrating the Law Barry Scott Wimpfheimer creates a new theoretical framework for considering the relationship between law and narrative and models a new method for studying talmudic law in particular.Works of law, including the Talmud, are animated by a desire to create clear usable precedent. This animating impulse toward clarity is generally absent in narratives, the form of which is better able to capture the subtleties of lived life. Wimpfheimer proposes to make th...

In the decade that followed 9/11, technologies and technology policies became central to homeland security. For example, the U.S. erected new border defenses with remote sensors and biometric scanners, and deployed new autonomous air warfare capabilities, such as the drone program. Looking at efforts to restore security after 9/11, the work examines issues such as the rise in technology spending, the various scenarios of mass terror, and America's effort to ensure that future engagements w...

★暢銷書《顛峰心態》（Transcend）作者最新力作！★亞馬遜網路書店4.8星、權威書評網站Goodreads 4.2星高分好評！一本超越創傷、恐懼和自我懷疑的成長練習選擇成長，讓我們每個人都有能力改變，而且是從根本改變！我們可以選擇退縮以確保安全或勇往直前尋求成長的契機。成長必須經歷一次又一次的選擇；恐懼必須透過一次又一次的克服。——亞伯拉罕•馬斯洛（Abraham Maslow）人類的存在無疑充滿了挑戰，無論是一場全球性的疫情、不穩定的經濟、氣候變化的威脅、貧困、不平等、崩潰的政府或戰爭等，都有許多理由讓我們對未來感到不安全、不確定和憂慮，也讓我們開始追問人生的重大問題。我們是誰？我們的生活的目標是什麼？並在經歷了悲劇、分裂和對基本生活方式的挑戰之後，我們如何才能不僅存活下來，還能茁壯成長？《成長心態》是一本實用的練習手冊，旨在幫助所有人超越自我，以整合自己的所有面向，即使在最具挑戰性的情況下，也能每天致力於成長和追求自我實現...

“What a masterpiece! Maslow 2.0—a must-read for anyone who wants to understand what Maslow meant by self-transcendence.”—Angela Duckworth, author of Grit“This is the book we’ve all been waiting for—nothing less than a breathtaking new psychology of humanity.”—Susan Cain, author of Quiet“Scott Barry Kaufman is one of my favorite thinkers about the psychology of getting better and growing as a person.”