One of the most momentous stories of the last century is China’s rise from a self-satisfied, anti-modern, decaying society into a global power that promises to one day rival the United States. Chiang Kai-shek, an autocratic, larger-than-life figure, dominates this story. A modernist as well as a neo-Confucianist, Chiang was a man of war who led the most ancient and populous country in the world through a quarter century of bloody revolutions, civil conflict, and wars of resistance against ...

Discover Beneath the Tide — Where Mystery Meets the Sea!In the charming coastal town of Pelican Bay, secrets lurk beneath the waves, and danger is never far from the shore.Meet Owen Mackenzie, a retired marine biologist who cherishes his quiet life and skepticism of local legends. Enter Jules Rivera, an energetic paranormal podcast host with a flair for the dramatic and an insatiable curiosity about sea monsters and haunted shores. Their worlds collide when a fisherman's de...

Important maths exams coming up? Worried that you will fail-again? Wondering how some students always seem to get the top marks?Whatever your current level, this ebook will show you how to use a simple, proven, five-step system to ensure that you can achieve grades that you previously thought were impossible.Written by an experienced maths teacher, private tutor and GCSE exam marker who specialises in helping students to pass major maths exams, this ebook will show you:...

A play that challenges our understanding of mythology, and forces us to ask vital questions about military occupation.'They ask us. When we sign up. We all get asked. "What do you want to do for the Capital State?" And we reply. "Fight. Help. Assist. Do some good." Do some GOOD. That's so horrific it's funny.'Jacob doesn't know why he's here. He's been at war for six years, but nobody will tell him why. The Moon is upstairs and he wants so desperately to talk to he...

Point of Aim, Point of Impact, is one man's recollection of his Vietnam experience. That young man was a Marine Corps Scout Sniper and the book addresses many issues of the Scout Snipers and Vietnam Veterans both during the war and present day. It is not a book that glorifies war or weaves a Hollywood script around lies and half truths. In telling the story of one young Marine Sniper it attempts to deal with the real issues which evolved from the traumatic experiences of killing people and...

Driven and efficient businesswoman Vivienne Alexander reluctantly finds herself at a speed-dating night after her friend buys her a ticket. It'll probably be a waste of time anyway, she tells herself. She doesn’t need a relationship to make her whole.So, when an alluring stranger with bright smiles and a riot of auburn hair predicts Vivienne will be in her bed by the end of the night, she’s not sure which is more surprising: the sheer cockiness or the thrill that shoots through her...

Get ready for a lively journey in the neighborhood woods to find a lost ball as Bullwrinkle comes face to face with The Mud Monster! His funny antics and imagination may bring Bullwrinkle more than he bargained for as he goes against his mother's rules. You and your kids will love this fun story with great characters, charm, humor and a lesson to learn.

This book explores the service economy and challenges that all organizations face as goods and services make way for a world where customers (B2C) and businesses (B2B) seek seamless, thoughtful, and exceptional experiences. This book introduces readers to a range of interrelated topics and the application of service management and marketing theories which are fundamentally critical to the success of all enterprises seeking competitive advantage through enhanced customer experience....

Leaving Home presents a method of family therapy at the stage when children are leaving home. It includes a special classification of young people with problems, and tackles family orientation, the therapist support system, the first interview, apathy, troublemaking, a heroin problem, a chronic case, and resolved and unresolved issues.Visit www.haley-therapies.com for additional resources by Jay Haley, including live videos of t...

Show yourself who's in charge using the original art of persuasion, backed by contemporary pop culture examples that make transforming your habits and achieving goals easy, even fun—from the New York Times bestselling author of Thank You for ArguingRhetoric once sat at the center of elite education. Alexander the Great, Shakespeare, and Martin Luther King, Jr., used it to build empires, write deathless literature, and inspire democracies. Now it w...

Just imagine this: You’re a regular guy, mostly content with a low-profile life, when some intergalactic screw-up suddenly turns you into a fox-human hybrid.Sounds wild, right? Now let me ask you this: what would you do if, a decade later, your world flipped upside down again? Suddenly, you’re knee-deep in aliens, conspiracies, and a mission to save your kidnapped family—oh, and let’s not forget unmasking a group hell-bent on erasing people like me. Aniforms.Because, yep, t...

Performing the Past is an investigation of the multiple social and culture practices through which Europeans have negotiated the space between their history and their memory over the past 200 years. In museums, in opera houses, in the streets, in the schools, in theatres, in films, on the internet and beyond, narratives about the past circulate today at a dizzying speed. Producing and selling them is big business; if the past is indeed a foreign country, there are tens of thousand...