Download or read book The Ghost at the Feast written by Robert Kagan and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, sweeping history of America’s rise to global superpower—from the Spanish-American War to World War II—by the acclaimed author of Dangerous Nation “With extraordinary range and research, Robert Kagan has illuminated America’s quest to reconcile its new power with its historical purpose in world order in the early twentieth century.” —Dr. Henry Kissinger At the dawn of the twentieth century, the United States was one of the world’s richest, most populous, most technologically advanced nations. It was also a nation divided along numerous fault lines, with conflicting aspirations and concerns pulling it in different directions. And it was a nation unsure about the role it wanted to play in the world, if any. Americans were the beneficiaries of a global order they had no responsibility for maintaining. Many preferred to avoid being drawn into what seemed an ever more competitive, conflictual, and militarized international environment. However, many also were eager to see the United States taking a share of international responsibility, working with others to preserve peace and advance civilization. The story of American foreign policy in the first four decades of the twentieth century is about the effort to do both—“to adjust the nation to its new position without sacrificing the principles developed in the past,” as one contemporary put it. This would prove a difficult task. The collapse of British naval power, combined with the rise of Germany and Japan, suddenly placed the United States in a pivotal position. American military power helped defeat Germany in the First World War, and the peace that followed was significantly shaped by a U.S. president. But Americans recoiled from their deep involvement in world affairs, and for the next two decades, they sat by as fascism and tyranny spread unchecked, ultimately causing the liberal world order to fall apart. America’s resulting intervention in the Second World War marked the beginning of a new era, for the United States and for the world. Brilliant and insightful, The Ghost at the Feast shows both the perils of American withdrawal from the world and the price of international responsibility.

Download or read book GHOST AT THE FEAST written by ROBERT. KAGAN and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Turn of the Blade written by Anne Williamson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the heart of the Appalachian Wilderness one hundred years in the future, the resourceful MacKennon family and their eclectic allies survive in Ghost Horse Hollow, a fairy-protected Mountain Horse farm. Sixteen-year-old Panther MacKennon bravely completes her apprenticeship with her demanding tutor Sir Finnias Glowgold in the unexplained absence of the Starlight Fairy Queen, but something unwholesome is stirring in the wild woods that will change her family's world forever. Gallop along on the back of a real, blue-eyed Ghost Horse and enter the enchanted forest realms and lush meadows of Post-apocalyptic North America, where treachery and magic abound! With Tormac, the crafty Autumn Fairy Prince, on the warpath and a mysterious silver elk-boy appearing in the forest, Panther must summon all her heart, courage, and fairy combat skills to outfox her opponents and save her family homestead. TURN OF THE BLADE is the first installment of the nine-part book saga: THE FAIRY LORE OF GHOST HORSE HOLLOW by author Anne Severn Williamson. The series is suitable for family entertainment and makes an excellent read-aloud fantasy for all to share, as well as a bundle-up-with-cocoa-in-a-book-nook personal READ. When Harry Potter meets the Waltons in a Hobbit-like setting, fantasy fans will be sure to "Follow the Hollow!" Easy to read font and print style. Includes Appendixes of the fantasy characters, the registered names of the real Ghost Horses, a Pronunciation Guide, and an introduction to Book II: THE SNOW FEAST. Like Ghost Horse Hollow and Ghost Horse Gift Gallery on Facebook, Twitter, & Pinterest! Discover more about author Anne Severn Williamson: http: //www.familybooknook.com and please join her blog on Google: http: //www.myfamilybooknook.blogspot.com/

Download or read book Dangerous Nation written by Robert Kagan and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-11-06 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most Americans believe the United States had been an isolationist power until the twentieth century. This is wrong. In a riveting and brilliantly revisionist work of history, Robert Kagan, bestselling author of Of Paradise and Power, shows how Americans have in fact steadily been increasing their global power and influence from the beginning. Driven by commercial, territorial, and idealistic ambitions, the United States has always perceived itself, and been seen by other nations, as an international force. This is a book of great importance to our understanding of our nation’s history and its role in the global community.

Download or read book Billy the Ghost and Me written by Gery Greer and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Sarah, with the help of her friend Billy the Ghost, proves herself as a deputy by planning the perfect capture of two bank robbers in her Western town of Cactus Junction.

Download or read book How to Cook a Ghost written by Logan February and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ghost Month written by Ed Lin and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Unknown Pleasures, a food stand in Taipei's night market named after a Joy Division album, and also the location for a big-hearted new mystery set in the often undocumented Taiwan. August is Ghost Month in Taiwan—a time to pay respects to the dead and avoid unlucky omens. Jing-nan, who runs a food stand in a bustling Taipei night market, isn’t superstitious, but this August will haunt him nonetheless. He learns that his high school sweetheart has been murdered—found scantily clad near a highway where she was selling betel nuts. Beyond his harrowing grief, Jing-nan is confused. “Betel nut beauties” are typically women in desperate circumstances, but Julia Huang was high school valedictorian, and the last time Jing-nan spoke to her, she was far away, happily enrolled in NYU’s honor program. The facts don’t add up. Julia’s parents don’t think so, either, but the police seem to have closed the case without asking any questions. The Huangs beg Jing-nan to do some investigating—reconnect with old classmates, see if he can learn anything more about Julia’s last years. Reluctantly, he agrees, for Julia’s sake. But nothing can prepare him for what he is about to learn, or how it will change his life.

Download or read book Ghosts of Manhattan written by Douglas Brunt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This instant New York Times bestseller offers a withering view of life on Wall Street from the perspective of an unhappy insider who is too hooked on the money to find a way out, even as his career is ruining his marriage and corroding his soul. It’s 2005. Nick Farmer is a thirty-five-year-old bond trader with Bear Stearns clearing seven figures a year. The novelty of a work-related nightlife centering on liquor, hookers, and cocaine has long since worn thin, though Nick remains keenly addicted to his annual bonus. But the lifestyle is taking a toll on his marriage—and on him. When a nerdy analyst approaches him with apocalyptic prognostications of where Bear’s high-flying mortgage-backed securities trading may lead, Nick is presented with the kind of ethical dilemma he’s spent a lifetime avoiding. Throw in a hot financial journalist who seems to be more interested in him than in the percolating financial Armageddon and the prospect that his own wife may have found a new romantic interest of her own, and you have the recipe for Nick’s personal and professional implosion. By turns hilarious and harrowing, Ghosts of Manhattan follows a winning but flawed protagonist as he struggles to find the right path in a complicated urban heart of darkness

Download or read book Ghostland written by Colin Dickey and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intellectual feast for fans of offbeat history, Ghostland takes readers on a road trip through some of the country's most infamously haunted places--and deep into the dark side of our history.

Download or read book The Jungle Grows Back written by Robert Kagan and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2018 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author discusses why he feels America must not withdraw inward from an essential role played for decades: enforcing peace and order throughout the rest of the world

Download or read book Ghostland In Search of a Haunted Country written by Edward Parnell and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE 2020 ‘A uniquely strange and wonderful work of literature’ Philip Hoare ‘An exciting new voice’ Mark Cocker, author of Crow Country

Download or read book Ghost Story written by Jim Butcher and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chicago wizard Harry Dresden gets a taste of the dead life in this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. In his life, Harry’s been shot, stabbed, sliced, beaten, burned, crushed, and tortured. And after someone puts a bullet through his chest and leaves him to die in the waters of Lake Michigan, things really start going downhill. Trapped between life and death, he learns that his friends are in serious trouble. Only by finding his murderer can he save his friends and move on—a feat which would be a lot easier if he had a body and access to his powers. Worse still are the malevolent shadows that roam Chicago, controlled by a dark entity that wants Harry to suffer even in death. Now, the late Harry Dresden will have to pull off the ultimate trick without using any magic—or face an eternity as just another lost soul...

Download or read book Ghost Shadow written by Heather Graham and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2018-04-16 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times–Bestselling Author: A Key West psychic is unsure whether the man she’s drawn to is a killer . . . There are those who walk among us who are no longer alive, but not yet crossed over. They seek retribution . . . vengeance . . . to warn. Among the living, few intuit their presence. Katie O’Hara is one who can. As she’s drawn deeper and deeper into a gruesome years-old murder, whispered warnings from a spectral friend become more and more insistent. But Katie must uncover the truth: Could David Beckett really be guilty of his ex-fiancée’s murder? Worse—the body count’s rising on the Island of Bones, and the dead seem to be reenacting some macabre tableaux from history. The danger is increasing by the moment—especially as Katie finds herself irresistibly drawn to David, who may be responsible for more than just one killing . . . “An incredible storyteller.” —Los Angeles Daily News

Download or read book The Ghosts We Keep written by Mason Deaver and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything happens for a reason. At least that's what everyone keeps telling Liam Cooper after his older brother Ethan is killed suddenly in a hit-and-run. Feeling more alone and isolated than ever, Liam has to not only learn to face the world without one of the people he loved the most, but also face the fading relationships of his two best friends in the process. Soon, Liam finds themself spending time with Ethan's best friend, Marcus, who might just be the only person that seems to know exactly what they're going through-for better and for worse. The Ghosts We Keep is an achingly honest portrayal of grief. But it is also about why we live. Why we have to keep moving on, and why we should.

Download or read book Feast of Fools written by Bridget Crowley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This gripping mystery blends excitement and suspense with a memorable cast of characters and the sights and sounds of medieval England, making it a page-turner sure to compel readers everywhere.

Download or read book Ghost of written by Diana Khoi Nguyen and published by Omnidawn Open. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Omnidawn Open Poetry Book Prize

Download or read book Feast of Fear written by Ron Ripley and published by Scare Street. This book was released on 2019-12-29 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evil prepares to feast. And Dan Tate is the main course… Dan Tate has finally recovered from his recent ordeal. His work repairing the local schoolhouse has become a kind of therapy, and his anger and guilt have started to melt away. He has even forged a new relationship—a friendship that could grow into something more… But when he encounters the corrupt medium, Janet Ladd, he realizes he has made a deadly enemy. Dan’s efforts to help the spirits of Coffin Cemetery find peace have interfered with Janet’s ambitions for wealth and power. And she has released a voracious wraith that hungers to feed on the meddling humans in her way. Working with kindly spirits, Dan puts his paranormal abilities to the ultimate test. Delving into the murderous ghost’s past, he must uncover a way to banish this supernatural killer for good. Because if he fails, this unforgiving specter will devour his soul…