This book gives a brief sketch of Adventist history, beliefs, people, church, and mission.

La Chine est sans conteste désormais un poids dominant de la scène internationale, maniant une remarquable palette stratégique. Etudier ses postures dans son environnement d’Asie du Sud-Est, vis-à-vis du Japon, de la Corée, de Taïwan, des pays de l’ASEAN, jusqu’à l’Australie, c’est saisir à la fois la force d’actions très diversifiées, et leur limite.Brutalité militaire en mer de Chine, séduction vaccinale, emprise économique, investissements maniés comme instruments d’influence, t...

2023 a vu se multiplier les forums amplifiant, de plus en plus, la voix d’un « Sud global ». Pour contradictoires et divisés qu’ils soient, ces forums (Brics+, OCS, G20, groupe des 77, sommet des Nouvelles routes de la soie...) expriment de nouveaux rapports de force, et surtout de nouvelles diplomaties, refusant l’alignement sur les puissances hier dominantes et privilégiant les intérêts d’États. Un nouveau monde se dessine, aux contours mouvants, encore incertains.Au-delà des log...

La Chine est une nouvelle et lourde puissance, c’est entendu. Mais avec quel effet sur le système international, ses ententes, ses structures ? Le poids de Pékin détraque-t-il, en soi ou par une stratégie délibérée, les organismes qu’elle intègre ? La Chine semble se couler, sauf exception, dans les procédures qui fonctionnent, sans entreprendre de les miner ou de les contester. Mais quand les structures de dialogue existent peu, la revendication chinoise prend tout son poids, comme dans l...

When re-armament came after World War I, the German Navy was forced to build anew, so the Reichsmarine and its successor, the Kriegsmarine, found itself in possession of some of the most modern, powerful and technically advanced vessels in the world. Germany was very selective in picking her sailors and the quality of manpower skill levels was thus very high. This book charts the recruitment, training, service conditions and combat experiences of a typical World War II German sailor, focus...

An " engrossing collection of rigorously researched articles" from Elizabeth Warren, Jared Bernstein, William Julius Wilson, and more ( Publishers Weekly).Can the wealthiest nation in the world do anything to combat the steadily rising numbers of Americans living in poverty—or the tens of millions of Americans living in "near poverty"? In this book, some of the country's most prominent scholars, businesspeople, and community activists answ...

Leading Seaman Charlie Erswell saw much more than his fair share of action during the Second World War. He was present at the 1942 landing in North Africa (Operation TORCH), D-Day and the liberation of Norway. But his main area of operations was that of the Arctic Convoys, escorting merchant ships taking essential war supplies to the Russian ports of Murmansk and Archangel. In addition to contending with relentless U-boat and Luftwaffe attacks, crews endured the extreme sea conditions and ...

Tony Brooks was unique. He was barely out of school when recruited in 1941 by the Special Operations Executive (SOE), the wartime secret service established by Churchill to 'set Europe ablaze'. After extensive training he was parachuted into France in July 1942 - being among the first (and youngest) British agents sent to support the nascent French Resistance.Brook's success was primarily due to his exceptional qualities as a secret agent, although he was aided by large and frequen...

John Thomas “Jack” Andrews lived a very full and colourful life, with much of it spent on the open seas. Living as a merchant seaman on various vessels, he travelled back and forth between Canada and the Caribbean. His life was frequently impacted by what he liked to refer to as the “stupid gene,” something he was apparently born with and which often led him into trouble and misadventure—though it never failed to amuse him.In this fascinating, often hilarious memoir, shared via sho...

Tony Brooks was unique. He was barely out of school when recruited in 1941 by the Special Operations Executive (SOE), the wartime secret service established by Churchill to 'set Europe ablaze'. After extensive training he was parachuted into France in July 1942 - being among the first (and youngest) British agents sent to support the nascent French Resistance.Brook's success was primarily due to his exceptional qualities as a secret agent, although he was aided by large and frequen...

Tattoos of an old murder scene. A high-tech peeping Tom. Narcotics disguised in a childrens book. Eye-for-an-eye in Tehran. Assault with a digital thermometer. Knitting class in a male penitentiary. These topics and others are distilled from recent news and presented here at random without subheadings or commentary. What the items convey is for the reader to judge. Misfortune, triumph, discovery, hocus-pocus together with violence, conspiracy, and fraud. New versions of old mischief, read ...

The life and career of a Poet is often thought of as musing at a desk, or lying in a meadow, or on long journeys to find inspiration for their next masterwork. But more often than not a poet was a part-time profession in subservient submission to their actual, salary-paying job.In this volume we bring together those professionals we engage to bring the full force of the law to bear where we have been wronged, either personally or professionally. Despite the complex morals of such w...