International Meeting

The United States and China are engaged in a broad-gauged and global competition for power. While this competition ranges across the entire world, it is centered in Asia. In this book, David Shambaugh focuses on the critical sub-region of Southeast Asia. The United States and China constantly vie for position and influence across this enormously significant area - and the outcome of this contest will do much to determine whether Asia leaves the American orbit after seven decades and falls into a new Chinese sphere of influence.

Princess Ilaria has had it up to her tiara with the paparazzi, her own wild reputation, and the public eye. Trading places with her assistant, Ilaria wants just one blissfully ordinary weekend. Then a handsome photographer with a sexy Scottish burr offers to be her guide. Sparks fly, but how long can they last? Ilaria’s secret has to come out—and it could ruin a perfectly serendipitous romance.

What if the person you think you are isn’t all there is? In The Strawman: If I Only Had a Brain, by bestselling author Don Kilam invites you to peel back the layers of your very existence and meet your most enigmatic counterpart: your Strawman—the invisible fictitious twin you never knew you had! From the moment your birth certificate was filed, a legal phantom was born alongside you—a fictitious identity crafted through the intricacies of law, existing solely in the realm of paper and bureaucracy. With a name hauntingly similar to your own but written in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, this ...

Written by Blackdragon, one of the most well-known online dating experts in the world, this audiobook is filled with the latest and most effective techniques for getting dates with women using online dating sites and apps. Taken from a decade of online dating experience from not only him, but thousands of men all over the world, the techniques you will learn in this audiobook are the most effective you will find anywhere.

Follow the Yellow Brick Road: Unveiling America’s Financial System By Don Kilam Did you know that the beloved tale of The Wizard of Oz serves as a powerful symbolic meaning for the complexities of America’s financial system? In Follow the Yellow Brick Road, Don Kilam takes readers on an enlightening journey that reinterprets this classic story as a revealing commentary on the hidden forces shaping our economic landscape. Meet the Straw Man, a figure encumbered by the weight of a Certificate—our birth certificate—representing the legal fiction that governs our identities. Discover ...

A brief encounter that could have become so much more...if only everything were different. Step-sisters, bitter rivals in every area except one - by unbreakable pact neither will ever steal a man from the other. A love triangle that starts out as a mess of secrets and mix-ups, and only gets worse from there. Plus - friendship, family ties, crossed wires and self-discovery, second chances and first impressions. Welcome to Jill Mansell's blustery seaside world. Once you step inside, you'll never want to leave!

It has become axiomatic to contend that U.S. foreign policy must adapt to an era of renewed "great-power competition." The United States went on a quarter-century strategic detour after the Cold War, the argument goes, basking in triumphalism and getting bogged down in the Middle East. Now China and Russia are increasingly challenging its influence and undercutting the order it has led since 1945. How should it respond to these two formidable authoritarian powers?

She’s an anthropologist working as a visiting professor in England. He’s a pediatric surgeon taking his ill mother on her bucket list trip to England. When Grace and Logan meet in a small village in the Cotswolds, they are instantly attracted. But will the threat to her life and accusations of malpractice against him aid their romance or keep them apart?

In Tantric Transformation, we are introduced to the sacred and ancient tradition of tantra by a contemporary tantric master Osho. We are given a detailed map of tantra: inner man, inner woman; the meeting of man and woman; the transformation of energy through sex, love, and meditation. Based on the Royal Song of Saraha, we are not just introduced to an Asian sex tradition, but with Osho we enter the higher levels of transformation. Here, we find tantra as a door to freedom.

This book shows the Girls I had Crushes On from my Childhood till Middle age in Chronological Order. It is an extension from Chapter 24 of UnBrokable* III.

Welcome to Greece, June Kato! Watch your back! June Kato is no stranger to trouble, but when she joins a diplomatic delegation headed to an important summit meeting on the sunny Greek isle of Rhodes, she quickly finds herself in the middle of a chaotic web of bodyguards, body doubles, and rioters. Then the real trouble hits the proverbial fan when a member of the delegation gets shot. With her new lover Jack Melendez being guarded by the Secret Service, June must do whatever it takes to survive on the sunny island and make her way back to safety in Los Angeles. With a heart-pounding mix of ...

Want to become a successful pickup artist? Now you can! How to Meet and Pick Up Women is the book you’ve been looking for. It’s the book for the guy who’s tired of chasing down the same tired information on the subject and just wants to get it done. It’s for the guy who wants to get his game on, but doesn’t seem to know how to start. It’s for the guy who is done wasting time with plans and programs that don’t work. It’s for the guy who wants to become a pickup artist in his own right and simply wants to know how. Covering topics as how to meet and talk to women, sex, ...

An important part of the education of a researcher is to better know the scholars who have informed your own work. A giant to those in the field of English Education is Louise M. Rosenblatt. Her Reader Response Theory, Transactional Analysis and contributions to the understanding of Reading Theory and the Teaching of Literature cannot be overstated. This Scholar Study will provide an overview of the choice of this scholar, details of the education and significant contributions of this scholar, notable publications and, in addition, reflections and implications for my own work going forward.

A surprise trip to Barcelona with her boyfriend, Jake, seems like the perfect antidote to Grace Sawyer's current woes. The city is dazzling and unpredictable, but the biggest surprise for Grace is discovering who arranged and paid for the vacation. Carrie Ann wasn't just Grace's foster sister. Clever, pretty, and mercurial, she was her best friend - until everything went terribly wrong. Now, as she flees an abusive marriage, Carrie Ann has turned to the one person she hopes will come through for her.

Is your heart touched by the emotional distress, mental illness, hopelessness, despair, addiction, fear, anxiety, uncertainty, and fatigue that characterize our day? Within the foundations of despair and hopelessness is the cry, “Can someone help me? Can someone call on God for me?” God is not deaf to the cries of this generation—He created you with this generation in mind. He is counting on you to step out and meet the needs of this day and age. He has equipped you for the difficult times ahead. Allow God to guide and work through you. Display His splendor to those around you.

In Winning Business Presentations, Steve Minshull, a multilingual global business consultant, shares a powerful system that will enable you to present with impact to achieve better business results.

McGee is a pre-eminent private investigator whose clients include the rich, famous, infamous, the important, and the unfortunate. Decklin Marcus, scion of the very wealthy investment banker, Howard Everhart Marcus, and mother Anne—residents of exclusive Gramercy Park, New York—is found dead in his rather seedy apartment; and no one seems to know how, why, or perhaps by whom.