This is the essential resource and job-hunting guide for all those interested in international careers in the US government, multinational corporations, banks, consulting companies, international and nongovernmental organizations, the media, think tanks, universities, and more. Careers in International Affairs, now in its ninth edition, provides up-to-date insights about the range of possibilities in the global workplace and tips on how to get these jobs—along with profiles of hundreds of ...

Five-year-old Nigel and his adoptive father, Zamir, are beginning their new life together as a family. They travel to Bonaire to celebrate Nigel's step-grandfather's life and grant his final request. Upon their return, they learn the US Attorney General is now involved in prosecuting those listed on the flash drive Nigel's mother found in her apartment. The same flash drive that ultimately got her killed. Nigel's decrypting of the file has exposed criminals both foreign and domestic. Nigel...

Was it worth it? Why did they volunteer in the first place? What did they experience on the battlefield? Which comrades did they have to leave behind, in the midst of blood and mud? How did they survive? What are they most proud of? How do they view those harrowing experiences as time has gone by? Was the conviction worth the sacrifice? Learn the real truth from the veterans of the Brothers' War. This anthology is dedicated to the heroes of the Civil War, to every soldier who had to endure...

A returning World War II veteran adjusts to life in the corporate world in this classic novel that inspired the award-winning Gregory Peck film."One of the most influential American novels of the 1950s." —David Halberstam"Exact in its account of the pressures, problems, and tribal customs of the men in gray flannel suits. . . . Wilson is an observer, a sympathetic one. . . . He has written an entertaining social comedy." — ...

Abner Beal is a stuffy professor in a lifeless marriage, but he's just made the scientific breakthrough of the century: A serum that temporarily turns organic matter invisible. Testing it on himself, he discovers that his beautiful neighbor has left her window open—and is longing for someone, anyone, to satisfy her. This stuffy professor is about to become a very naughty invisible man!~~~~~ Excerpt ~~~~~I could smell her. It was a thick, bold smell, the smell of a young wom...

With the passing of his grandfather, 5-year-old Nigel is left to guide himself through the next phase of his life. His mother has stepped up her game, but will she relapse into a life of drugs again? If she does, who will help him? The rightful owners of the flash drive are still out there looking for it. Will they find Nigel? What is so special about this information and what lengths will they go to get it back? If Nigel can decode the file will it bring closure to this drama or put him i...

Universally acclaimed when first published in 1955, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit captured the mood of a generation. It was a national bestseller that was made into an award-winning film, it was translated into twenty-six languages, and its title has become a permanent part of our cultural vocabulary. Today, it is more relevant than ever.Here is the story of Tom and Betsy Rath, a young couple with everything going for them: three healthy children, a nice home, a steady ...

“Alfred Sloan’s Adventures of a White-Collar Man was published in 1940. Much has happened in the intervening decades... One might be forgiven for wondering whether a book written so long ago has anything to offer the modern reader...Such skepticism would be mistaken.Adventures is... an epic saga, a rags-to-riches story of a group of plucky eccentrics who, on fire for opportunity, began by building horseless carriages in backyards and toolsheds and ended up...

When the body of a man closely connected to the founder of Castle's Bluff turns up dead and clutching the notorious dead man's poker hand, Cori must battle ancient vampire politics to bring the killer to justice.Cover-ups no longer cut it in her town, and she's determined to bring order, even if it means defying orders straight from her pack alpha and the leader of the vampire community.While she puts herself directly on everybody's burn list, a mysterious ...

In this classic farce, a young man pretends to be a war hero to impress a pretty girl. As his lies progress, so do his troubles – with hilarious results. Playwright Pierre Corneille’s comedy of manners is considered a groundbreaking work which influenced contemporaries such as the young Molière.Includes a conversation about Corneille and French drama with Larry F. Norman of the University of Chicago.Recorded before a live audience at the UCLA James Bridges Theater in April ...

In 1935 geneticist Nikolai Timoféeff-Ressovsky, radiation physicist Karl G. Zimmer, and quantum physicist Max Delbrück published "On the Nature of Gene Mutation and Gene Structure," known subsequently as the "Three-Man Paper." This seminal paper advanced work on the physical exploration of the structure of the gene through radiation physics and suggested ways in which physics could reveal definite information about gene structure, mutation, and action. Representing a new level of collabora...

Having cracked the code to invisibility, Professor Abner Beal returns to the Institute to solicit the aid of one Priscilla Coker, M.D. Priscilla hates Abner, but when she learns that he's made a breakthrough, she's willing to do anything to join his team—even jumping his invisible bones! But that's not the only surprise waiting for Professor Beal. Upon returning to his house, Abner discovers that his wife has been having an affair of her own. What will this God-fearing woman think of an in...