A valuable tool for understanding the Middle East and global politics, this innovative and information-packed volume combines clear, analytical text with full-color maps and graphics to provide a comprehensive and accessible guide to the region today. AsWestern powers attempt to redraw the map of the region, Dan Smith uses his forensic skills to unravel this arena of confrontation and stability. With customarily acute analysis, he highlights key issues and maps their global implications to explain why the Middle East has become, and will remain, the focal point for international relations. Smith includes historical maps that show the making of the contemporary region as we recognize it today, as well as an original risk assessment that gauges the futureof the Middle East and its implications for the world at large. The Atlas covers a wide range of topics, including: U.S. presence and policies, Arab-Israeli wars, Israel and Palestine, Iran and Iraq, military spending, the Kurds and ethnic conflict, and Libya and the U.S.

Product Description: Burning the Furniture, Dan Smith's third book, is an off-beat creative memoir of growing up in the Old South in a large family amid poverty, alcoholism, racism and the very real joys of being a boy at a time when "creative play" was an activity and not a psychologist's directive...read more

Product Description: Shea Burke, a new FBI agent, is assigned to investigate eight cold cases of missing teenage girls. The local police had considered each girl a runaway, but Shea becomes convinced that one person-one monster-is responsible. She finds a seemingly harmless local man, Stanley Stonebridge, very interesting...read more

Product Description: This book is about questions about God. Pastor and author Dan Smith allows the reader to look over his shoulder as he wrestles with some of the questions that have bedeviled believers and seekers for thousands of years. Questions about God's wrath and His mercy; about His need for and response to prayer; about the punishment of the wicked, suffering, the cross, and more are dealt with in sincerity, and with refreshing honesty...read more

A guide to the geographic and regional factors relating to world politics uses maps to illustrate modern economic networks and worldwide patterns of government and society.

Updated to incorporate developments up to the twenty-first century, this illustrated atlas depicts the causes and consequences of modern conflict, essential political and historical background, and trends in peace, from Afghanistan and Northern Ireland to Kosovo and the Middle East, while covering such topics as international terrorism, arms trafficking, NATO, and the United Nations. Original.

A comprehensive and easy-to-use reference that provides a global overview of conflicts and military trends at the start of the 21st century.

Product Description: Guidebook for anything and everything that is undead from plants to ghosts, to vampires and anything else you can imagine. This book includes new spells, character templates, and historical information for the undead. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The classic horror of the Cthulhu Mythos meets the dark future of cyberpunk . . . CthulhuPunk! The investigators now have supercomputers, cyborged bodies, and deadly new hand weapons - but the breakdown of society has given the malevolent entities of the Mythos new breeding grounds for corruption and decay...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Dan Smith, Christina Koomen Smith, Christian Moody

Product Description: - What impact does gender difference make to political decision-making? - Will the political empowerment of women contribute to a more peaceful world? The role of gender has been increasingly recognized as central to the study and analysis of the traditionally male domains of war and international relations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Roger Clements uses the computer to steal from the bank where he works, which changes his life in surprising ways. The poet Richard Wilbur says "...ordinariness of language combined with acuity of insight becomes contributory to a flavor of touching comedy."

Product Description: After being shot and left for dead, Johnny Buffalo, a soldier in the United States Army, watches in horror as a lynch mob viciously murders his best friend and mentor. Bitter and disillusioned by the army's justice system, Johnny takes the law into his own hands and vows to bring the Texans who killled his friend to justice...read more

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Product Description: In Dan Smith's analysis the idea of conflict brings us inexorably to nationalism, then to identity and thus to language. Language is unlikely to be a central cause of conflict, but it may contribute to the ways that nationalism and armed conflict unfold...read more

Depicts the causes and consequences of modern conflict

Product Description: Designed for students studying an advanced course in data and knowledge base systems, this text shows the reader how straightforward techniques for logical and physical design can be used to reason about the many complex issues and trade-offs involved in designing and implementing data-intensive systems...read more

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Product Description: Book by Evans, Larry, Swanberg, Nancie West

Covers terrorism, refugees, and military spending