Blackwoods Creek has one rule: Never enter the woods.Stranded by a breakdown, six friends desperate to salvage their vacation ignore local warnings and venture into the forbidden wilderness, seeking the legendary Old Growth White Pines.But they aren't alone. Trapped in the domain of a primal, masked predator, their search for wonder descends into a brutal fight for survival.

Secret Wars is the first book to systematically analyze the ways powerful states covertly participate in foreign wars, showing a recurring pattern of such behavior stretching from World War I to U.S.-occupied Iraq. Investigating what governments keep secret during wars and why, Austin Carson argues that leaders maintain the secrecy of state involvement as a response to the persistent concern of limiting war. Keeping interventions “backstage” helps control escalation dynamics, insu...

Scholars have long argued that transparency makes international rule violations more visible and improves outcomes. Secrets in Global Governance revises this claim to show how equipping international organizations (IOs) with secrecy can be a critical tool for eliciting sensitive information and increasing cooperation. States are often deterred from disclosing information about violations of international rules by concerns of revealing commercially sensitive economic information or the sour...

This book moves scholarly debates beyond the old question of whether or not international institutions matter in order to examine how they matter, even in a world of power politics. Power politics and international institutions are often studied as two separate domains, but this is in need of rethinking because today most states strategically use institutions to further their interests. Anders Wivel, T.V. Paul, and the international group of contributing authors update our understanding of...

A little cat on a journey for wisdom. A mysterious beast haunting the woods. Little Cat dreams of becoming a wise, wild creature. Still, he didn't realize that the journey would be this difficult. As he travels deeper into the woods, learning lessons from the animals around him, something becomes clear: the creatures are frightened. There is a beast whispered about, and it spreads hate and anger everywhere it goes. Darkness is filling the woods, and Little Cat begins to worry that kindness...

Discover the surprising literary and poetic history of the RMS Titanic!Imagine getting the inside, behind the scenes story of the Titanic tragedy written by those who did not survive - but whose poetry and short accounts of the moments leading up to the Titanic sinking did."If you love poetry, history, and feeling like Indiana Jones, read this book now." 5 Stars from Erin Nicole Cochran for Readers' FavoriteThe time has finally come to share the World Codex' revelat...