A four-hundred-year saga is told within the confines of a single therapy session. On a rainy New York City night, a distinguished-looking man enters the office of psychologist Dr. Catherine Parker to reveal his story in a rather unusual encounter. Is the noted historian and biographer Robert Blakemore telling the truth, or is he engaged in a psychotic, suicidal fantasy destined to have him locked away in a mental hospital? He professes to have witnessed and been part of some of the horrors...

This book explores the politics of military exercises in Europe between 1975 and 2018, revealing how NATO, the Soviet Union, and Russia have used exercises as political tools and how these activities shaped and reflected their perception of the threat environment.Drawing on extensive archival research and expert interviews, this work offers an examination of (and reflection on) European security by combining a detailed analysis of military exercises across three distinct periods (1...

This challenging new book argues that the People's Republic of China is pursuing a long-term strategy to extend its national power by sea.

Brought to you by Penguin.This Penguin Classic is performed by Olivia Vinall*,* who is known for her roles in Apple Tree Yard and The Woman in White. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Rosemarie Morgan.Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood...

Sun Tzu and other classical Chinese strategic thinkers wrote in an era of social, economic and military revolution, and hoped to identify enduring principles of war and statecraft. The twenty-first century is a time of similarly revolutionary change, and this makes their ideas of particular relevance for today’s strategic environment. Placing these theories in historical context, Dr Kane explores ancient Chinese reactions to such issues as advances in military technology and insurgency and...

In this companion volume to Animals in the American Classics: How Natural History Inspired Great Fiction, John Cullen Gruesser brings together leading experts who explore the integral role animals play in American poetry. The ten essays in Animals in Classic American Poetry: How Natural History Inspired Great Verse showcase how the natural history of and imagery relating to animals have inspired some of America’s best-known and most beloved poets.The book highligh...

This volume explores and develops new social-scientific tools for the analysis and understanding of contemporary military missions in theatre.Despite the advent of new types of armed conflict, the social-scientific study of militaries in action continues to focus on tools developed in the hey-day of conventional wars. These tools focus on such classic issues as cohesion and leadership, communication and unit dynamics, or discipline and motivation. While these issues continue to be ...

This book describes to what extent and in what ways the military policies of Western European societies are determined by liberal ideology.A wide variety of issues affected by liberal ideology, including conscription, conscientious objection, military mission, military ethics and the professional identity of soldiers are addressed in the book. The empirical analysis draws on the cases of the German Bundeswehr (from the 1950s onwards), the Swedish Armed Forces (the transformation af...

Expert on body language and memory, and consultant to the Oslo Police, psychologist Kari Voss sleepwalks through her days, and, by night, continues the devastating search for her young son, who disappeared on his birthday, seven years earlier. Still grieving for her dead husband and trying to pull together the pieces of her life, she is thrust into a shocking local investigation, when two teenage girls are violently murdered in a family summer home. When a friend of the victims is charged ...

“For you mum. This is all for you”For anyone who has loved, lost or found it hard to let go, CARRY YOU will make you laugh, cry and celebrate your best friends. Perfect for fans of Marian Keyes and Jo Jo Moyes.Daisy has lost her mum to breast cancer. She’s at rock bottom and doesn’t think she’ll ever get back up again. Her best friend Abi has other ideas – she tells it like it is and she’s determined to make Daisy remember the person she used to be.What Daisy doesn’...

Dossier : L’Occident face à la Syrie→ Henry Laurens : « Les jeux d’ingérence et d’interaction existent en Syrie depuis deux cents ans »Henry Laurens retrace l’histoire des accords Sykes-Picot qui, selon lui, ne sont pas responsables de l’instabilité chronique en Syrie et en Irak.→ Renaud Girard : « La France doit sortir de son aveuglement néoconservateur au plus vite »Après avoir examiné les politiques américaines, russes et françaises en Syrie, Renaud Girar...

This book presents a selection of cutting-edge contributions from leading experts in the field, capturing the latest developments in stochastic analysis and its growing interface with neighboring disciplines. Stochastic analysis is a rapidly evolving branch of mathematics focused on the behavior of dynamical systems influenced by randomness. Over the past three decades, it has grown into one of the most vibrant and interdisciplinary areas of research, with profound impact on fields ranging...