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The War of 1812 has the strange distinction of being largely forgotten by both of its main participants, and yet its outcome was critically important to the future of North America. In 1814, the Americans launched a last offensive in an attempt to seize Canada. This Niagara campaign saw a number of pitched battles including Chippawa, Lundy’s Lane, and Cook’s Mill, where the Americans, under competent leaders such as Winfield Scott, matched the British shot for shot. However, due to poor planning the campaign failed and Canada survived as an independent state. A critically-acclaimed researcher on the War of 1812, author John Latimer presents a new look at an oft forgotten yet crucially important campaign in the history of North America.

Since India achieved independence in 1947, political relations between India and the United States have never been close, and today a number of formidable obstacles hinder progress along the pathway toward closer ties between these two populous democracies.
To understand why such obstacles remain, one needs to reviewmamong other matters–the more recent history of India's close ties with the former Soviet Union, even as she proclaimed a policy of nonalignment. To understand why both governments feel there is hope for improved relations today, one should examine the entire history, beginning with the World War II and postwar years during which the United States supported Indian independence from Great Britain, America's closest wartime ally.

Published by GMF and the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Prospects for Democracy in Belarus provides a systematic account of recent developments in Belarus and strategic and policy-oriented considerations on improving Western democracy assistance.
Belarus is at a crossroads in its history. Presidential elections on March 19, 2006, have been widely discredited by the local democratic opposition and the international community as neither free nor fair; the fraudulent poll sparked the largest protests in several years. Until they were violently suppressed by the Lukashenka regime, ordinary Belarusians took to the streets of Minsk to express their desire for change. The European Union and the United States have become increasingly concerned with the human and civil rights situation in the country, and they have openly indicated their commitment to a free and democratic Belarus. Yet to achieve this goal, enormous obstacles will have to be overcome. This will require a better understanding of the domestic and international factors and developments behind the situation in Belarus today, as well as better strategies and tools to support democrats in the country in their struggle for freedom and democracy.

Since 2001, the United States has endured a tumultuous period, one dominated by the 9/11 attacks and all that has followed: the war on terrorism, the Afghan and Iraqi campaigns, looming confrontations with known or suspected proliferators of weapons of mass destruction, and episodic explosions of mass violence in chronically unstable regions. In this second half of the decade, these and related strategic challenges will test the skill, tenacity, and imagination of the current and the next U.S. administration and the American public. How well these challenges are managed then, or mastered, will greatly influence whether future historians look back upon this decade as a dangerous passage toward a more peaceful, globally connected order or as a descending path into an ever more fragmented, violent world.
This volume explores seven looming, as yet unmastered strategic challenges facing the United States. Each chapter tackles one of the following challenges: tackling global terrorism, stopping WMD proliferation, undertaking defense transformation, protecting the homeland, strengthening relations with allies and partners, engaging other major powers, and defusing conflicts in unstable regions. Each chapter takes a similar approach: defining the problem at hand (i.e., a short discussion of relevant trends); explicating current U.S. efforts to master the challenge (i.e., U.S. objectives, methods, degree of success or setbacks); and analyzing looming choices that U.S. policymakers will face in the next decade and, as appropriate, the consequences of alternative courses of action.

Petronius: A Handbook unravels the mysteries of the Satyrica, one of the greatest literary works that antiquity has bequeathed to the modern world. Includes a dozen original essays by a team of leading Petronius and Roman history scholars. Features the first multi-dimensional approach to Satyricon studies by exploring the novel's literary structure, social and historic contexts, and modern reception. Supplemented by illustrations, plot outline, glossary, map, bibliography, and suggestions for further reading.

"Demosclerosis" is the term that writer Jonathan Rausch coined to describe how lawmakers, bureaucrats, and beneficiaries unite to defend government programs against change and endow them with the political equivalent of immortality.
This is not the fate we wish for AmeriCorps, our country's unique experiment in voluntary national service. Having just marked its 10th anniversary, AmeriCorps has weathered political storms and has anchored itself firmly in communities around the country. But as strong advocates of national service, we do not want AmeriCorps to become another brick in the bureaucratic wall.

B&W photos cover all aspects of the XF-91 airframe - inside & out: cockpit, landing gear, weapons, engine, rocket motors & more. Includes 1/72 scale drawings & factory drawings. Kit reviews.

You re beyond the basics, so dive right in and really put your PC to work! This supremely organized reference is packed with hundreds of timesaving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and workarounds. It s all muscle and no fluff.

Go well beyond the basics with this essential guide to getting great shots with the Canon EOS 50D camera. Professional photographer and bestselling author Charlotte Lowrie packs this portable guide with over 290 pages of beautiful full-color photos, proven techniques, and no-fail formulas for tapping all the features this exciting new high-resolution DSLR camera offers.

Lockheed NF-104A was an American mixed power, high-performance, supersonic aerospace trainer that served as a low cost astronaut training vehicle for the X-15 and projected X-20 Dyna-Soar programs. Three aircraft were modified from existing Lockheed F-104A airframes and served with the Aerospace Research Pilots School between 1963 and 1971, the modifications included a small supplementary rocket engine and a reaction control system for flight in the upper atmosphere.