Foreign Studies

Missionary Diplomacy illuminates the crucial place of religion in nineteenth-century American diplomacy. From the 1810s through the 1920s, Protestant missionaries positioned themselves as key experts in the development of American relations in Asia, Africa, the Pacific, and the Middle East. Missionaries served as consuls, translators, and occasional trouble-makers who forced the State Department to take actions it otherwise would have avoided. Yet as decades passed, more Americans began to question the propriety of missionaries' power.

Are you ready to embark on the journey to become a U.S. Foreign Service Officer (FSO)? Preparing for the Foreign Service Officer Test (FSOT) can be an intimidating task, but with the right approach, resources, and strategies, you can confidently navigate the exam and move closer to your dream career in diplomacy. This comprehensive study guide provides everything you need to succeed in your FSOT preparation, offering valuable insights into every section of the test, from English expression and grammar to U. S. government, economics, and international affairs.

This book encompasses traditional tips that have worked for most people and then goes way beyond them. adjusting them to individual learners and teaching the learners to develop their own heuristics for rapid and successful language learning. Within these pages, the reader can find a trove of treasure, such as strategies and tactics reading, listening, writing, and speaking mental management ways to manage cognitive dissonance ways to control emotional reasoning the connection between health and language learning understanding and improving memory knowing how personality type and cognitive ...

From National Book Award finalist Megan K. Stack, a stunning memoir of raising her children abroad with the help of Chinese and Indian women who are also working mothers....

Motivational Hypnotherapy's Joel Thielke is a world-renowned hypnotherapist and author who has helped millions of people worldwide. This powerful hypnosis program is designed specifically to help boost your brain to learn French faster and easier, by improving your focus, memory, and motivation to study.

Meticulously formatted, this is a highly listenable edition of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation of Central Intelligence Agency interrogation and detention programs launched in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.

The Professors' Guide to Getting Good Grades in College is the first book to reveal the insider secrets about how professors really grade. The book offers high-value, practical tips about how to succeed at each of the five "grade-bearing" moments of the semester.

The US, Barry R. Posen argues in Restraint, has grown incapable of moderating its ambitions in international politics. Since the collapse of Soviet power, it has pursued a grand strategy that he calls "liberal hegemony", one that Posen sees as unnecessary, counterproductive, costly, and wasteful. Written for policymakers and observers alike, Restraint explains precisely why this grand strategy works poorly and then provides a carefully designed alternative grand strategy and an associated military strategy and force structure.

Americans frequently criticize US foreign policy for being overly costly and excessively militaristic. With its rising defense budgets and open-ended "forever wars," US foreign policy often appears disconnected from public opinion, reflecting the views of elites and special interests rather than the attitudes of ordinary citizens. The Commander-in-Chief Test argues that this conventional wisdom underestimates the role public opinion plays in shaping foreign policy.

Schmitz illuminates how the policies FDR pursued in response to the crises of the 1930s transformed Americans' thinking about their place in the world. He shows how the president developed an interlocking set of ideas that prompted a debate between isolationism and preparedness, guided the United States into World War II, and mobilized support for the war while establishing a sense of responsibility for the postwar world.

This book is a modest attempt to present all the important aspects of teaching English as a foreign language. This book intends to cater to the needs of teachers, who are interested in mastering various methods and approaches in teaching of English. This book also aims at offering a practical help to the teachers of English, by creating awareness about the recent trends and innovations in pedagogy of English. This book deals with almost all aspects of language teaching like - Nature, Scope ,Principles , Factors, Need ,Significance, and Values of English Language, LSRW Skills;Classification ...

In this dynamic account, award-winning author Paul Fleischman arms teens with the basic tools to uncover vested interests and falsehoods by vetting sources, following the money, and checking references so that they can make informed decisions about what actions to take in the worldwide battle against climate change, overconsumption, and dwindling resources.

The American Revolution was not only a political contest for liberty, equality, and independence (for white men, at least); it was also a contest to define certain accounts of reality to be truthful while defining others as false and dangerous. Misinformation Nation argues that we must also conceive of the American Revolution as a series of misperceptions, misunderstandings, and uninformed overreactions.

New dual-language edition in both Spanish and English. For the artist, the free thinker, the uniquely inventive individual in each of us, Think Outside the Box unlocks the key to applying creativity to daily life and turning any problem or worry inside out. Designed to define out-of-the-box thinking for the youngest of us, this fun and unique illustrative journey reminds us all how simple and practical it can be to apply a new perspective to even the most daunting challenges.

This meditation and self-hypnosis program is perfect for both beginners and those who are experienced with hypnosis. It'll help you open up the language center of your mind so that you are at the optimal peak for learning and retaining information, specifically the French language. Your focus and memory will increase and become sharper, and you'll find that you're more motivated to study and learn French.

For today’s teen, being able to communicate clearly in front of an audience is essential. From class presentations to interviews to online videos, an engaging talk can not only inspire and electrify a room, it can change people’s minds, and even change the world. Thank You for Coming to My TED Talk is the definitive guide to public speaking for a teen audience. Drawing from a teen’s day-to-day world - school, extracurriculars, online videos, college admissions procedures, bat and bar mitzvahs, debates, and more - head of TED Chris Anderson shares proven techniques.

"The greatest story ever told" is more than just a cliché. God goes to great lengths to rescue lost and hurting people, and that is what The Story is all about: the story of the Bible, God’s great love affair with humanity. Filled with intrigue, drama, conflict, and redemption, listen to chapter nine of this dramatized edition that sweeps you into the stories, poems, and teachings of the Bible.

Part of the project Immortal Grammar Series of classic literature, this is a new edition of the classic work published in 1837—not a facsimile reprint. Obvious typographical errors have been carefully corrected and the entire text has been reset and redesigned to enhance readability. The eBook edition was designed in an elegant style and set to take full advantage of the readers' features.

For foreign students coming to the United States for the first time - it might be a new experience if they are from a different culture. This book is written by the author who sent his son from an Asian country to the USA for higher studies in Engineering- The initial experience and later when the author himself migrated to the United States, the exposure, made him feel the need to help and guide the students, coming from different countries. The author also consulted with a few Americans and compiled the book based on their input. It starts with the diverse nationalities of students coming...

Dominar el FSOT: Guía de estudio para el examen de oficial del servicio exterior es un recurso esencial para cualquier persona que aspire a ingresar en el Servicio Exterior de los Estados Unidos. Esta completa guía cubre una amplia gama de temas necesarios para el éxito en el Examen de Oficial del Servicio Exterior (FSOT). La sección de Conocimientos Laborales profundiza en áreas cruciales como el Gobierno de los EE.UU., Historia de los EE.UU., Historia Universal y Geografía, Economía, Matemáticas y Estadística, Principios de Gestión, Comunicación y Medios, e Informática e ...