The new edition of this comprehensive and user-friendly textbook provides a single volume resource for all those studying Japan's international relations. List Price: $ 180.00 Price: $ 230.28 … [Read more...]
by on April 8, 2013
Biological Weapons: Limiting the Threat (BCSIA Studies in International Security)
foreword by William S. Cohen, U.S. Secretary of Defense Biological weapons pose a horrifying and growing threat to the United States and to the world in general. Revelations about Iraq's weapons research and the plans of the Aum Shinrikyo cult in Japan serve as frightening reminders of the potential for military or terrorist use of biological agents.The essays in this book, many of which were originally … [Read more...]
by on March 11, 2013
The Note (Women of Faith Fiction)
When the unthinkable happens . . . En route from New York's LaGuardia Airport to Tampa International, Flight 848 bursts into flames and crashes into Tampa Bay. All 261 passengers and crew are killed. For one week, newspaper columnist Peyton MacGruder and her fellow reporters cover one of the nation's worst air disasters in years with overwhelming and numbed emotions.Then a woman Peyton's never met gives her a plastic bag that has washed up behind her house. The bag contains a note, almost … [Read more...]
by on December 5, 2012
There’s No Place Like Space: All About Our Solar System (Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library)
Recommended Age: 4 years and up Au revoir, Pluto! In this newly revised, bestselling backlist title, beginning readers and budding astronomers are launched on a wild trip to visit the now eight planets in our solar system (per the International Astronomical Union’s 2006 decision to downgrade Pluto from a planet to a dwarf planet), along with the Cat in the Hat, Thing One, Thing Two, Dick, and Sally. It’s a reading adventure that’s out of this world!The perfect first space book for those … [Read more...]
by on November 22, 2012
Shi’i Islam in Iranian Cinema: Religion and Spirituality in Film (International Library of Cultural Studies)
In recent years there has been a remarkable surge in Iranian films expressing contentious issues which would otherwise be very difficult to discuss publicly inside the Islamic Republic of Iran -- such as the role of clergy in Iranian society. Nacim Pak-Shiraz here highlights how many Iranian film directors concern themselves with the content of the religious and historical narratives of culture and society, sparking debate about the medium's compatibility or incongruity with religion and … [Read more...]
