The Syrian Civil War, (the colloquial name of the ongoing conflict in Syria), has experienced an entirely unexpected transformation during its first two years. It started as unrest within the Syrian population and a series of mass demonstrations within the context of wider protest movements in the Middle East and North Africa in 2011, known as the Arab Spring. Contrary to events in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Yemen, where oppressive governments were toppled by the end of that year, the gover...

Through late 1987 and early 1988, the battlefields of southern Angola moved ever further away from the border with South West Africa/Namibia, until the showdown between the Soviet and Cuban-supported government in Luanda and South African-supported insurgency of UNITA culminated in the controversial and still much disputed Battle of Cuito Cuanavale.During this period, Angolan and Cuban airpower slowly grew to a point where it outmatched the SAAF, in turn limiting the freedom of mov...

Following the Civil War of 1994, Yemen experienced few years of relative peace. This was rudely interrupted in 2004, when the government opened the first of six campaigns against the movement colloquially known as ‘Houthis’. The Yemeni Air Force – partially re-equipped over the previous years – saw intensive involvement in this conflict, but proved insufficient. In late 2009 and through 2010, the war spread into Saudi Arabia, which reacted with its first military intervention in the countr...

Cycle the Wild Atlantic Way and experience the world's longest signed coastal route, a spectacular journey along Ireland's wild and rugged west coast from Derry/Londonderry in the north to Cork in the south. Passing dramatic sea cliffs, sweeping Atlantic beaches, remote islands, and ancient landscapes, this is one of the great long-distance cycle touring adventures in Europe.Each of the 6 cycle tours in this comprehensive Cicerone guidebook by author Tom Cooper cov...

The ‘Cyprus Problem’ – also known as the Cyprus dispute, Cyprus issue, Cyprus question or Cyprus conflict – is an ongoing dispute between Greek Cypriots, Turkish Cypriots, Greece and Turkey. It has bedevilled not only their relations, but also those within the European Union, NATO and the United Nations, for more than 60 years.Following a long insurgency against British colonial rule, Cyprus gained independence in 1960. Almost immediately, high tension emerged between the Greek and...

Open almost any textbook and count the faces. You will find 737 named figures and only 178 women, and 98 of those appear once and vanish. Girls get a map with no roads to themselves, boys get a story that the work was theirs, and both learn a history that is half true.This book is not a complaint and it is not a collection of trivia. It is 16 chapters of fully checked lives that span science, invention, civil rights, labor, medicine, war, suffrage, and literature, each 1 showing a ...

You picked up this book because you have heard you should learn Git and GitHub, and you may have also heard that an AI coding assistant can help you write software faster, but you have not found a calm daily path that teaches all three together without assuming you speak the language of developers. You may have tried Git before and been handed a wall of commands, told to memorize them, and left alone to connect the dots. Whatever brought you here, you share a conviction that this book was ...

Size matters.Pixies are supposed to be petite, beautifully lithe creatures with gossamer wings. Sporting luscious, ombre pink hair and fluttering pink wings, Phil meets two out of three of those criteria. At over six feet tall, no one would dare call Phil petite.As a home-and-hearth pixie, Phil yearns to find a home and family he can bond to. When no one's willing to hire a pixie of his stature, Phil is forced to find work elsewhere. Turns out, pixies make ...

In June 1967 Israel, which seemed on the verge of being annihilated by its Arab neighbors, took six days to redraw the Middle Eastern strategic map in one of the most dramatic reversals of fortune in modern times.The success was over a decade in the making following the Suez Crisis, with the Israeli forces being radically changed to create an army and air force upon which the country would rely when it became obvious the international community would take no action to implement gua...

"A little Elmore Leonard, a little Charles Portis, and very much its own uniquely American self. . .Tom Cooper has written one hell of a novel." –Stephen KingWhen the BP oil spill devastates the Louisiana Gulf Coast, the citizens of the bayou town of Jeanette scramble to replace their lost livelihoods. Among them is one-armed, pill-popping shrimper Gus Lindquist, who has nothing left but the dying glimmer of a boyhood dream: finding the lost treasure of pirate Jean...

You picked up this book because you are busy and you care about your health, and you know that too much sodium is a problem, but the idea of cooking elaborate low sodium meals after a long day feels impossible. You want to protect your heart, support your kidneys, manage your weight, and still get dinner on the table without turning the kitchen into a second job. Or maybe you have been told to cut salt and you have no idea where to start. Whatever brought you here, you share the belief thi...

Phlox isn't your typical pixie, and his feisty shifter DNA might be the reason.Recruited by the Magical Usage Council, Phlox—who is now Agent Frost—is a pixie with a mission, and he's not afraid to place himself in mortal danger to eradicate the latest pixie trafficking ring.Despite being King Lucroy Moony's second-in-command, Leon McMillan's second life has become dangerously monotonous. For a vampire, boredom is as deadly as a stake to the heart. Three hu...