Pandoras Trap

Author : Thomas Preston
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0742562638
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pandora's Trap written by Thomas Preston and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-09-16 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How important is presidential personality and leadership style in foreign policy decisions? To answer this question, Thomas Preston takes readers inside the Bush administration's decision making process and use of intelligence to better understand how administration officials justified the Iraq War—and how they sought to avoid blame for the consequences of their actions. Based on extensive interviews with key Bush administration officials, Preston offers students of American foreign policy, presidential decision making, the dynamics of blame avoidance, and future practitioners with an in depth examination of how presidential personality and leadership style impacted Bush's central foreign policy failure. In addition, Preston looks critically at the oft-cited comparisons of Iraq to Lyndon Johnson's leadership during the Vietnam War, exploring where the analogy fits and a number of important differences. He shows how both presidents' styles exacerbated their managerial weaknesses in these cases and the limits of blame avoidance strategies. Importantly, the book provides a cautionary tale for future leaders to consider more carefully the long-term consequences of satisfying their short term policy desires by lifting the lid to any new Pandora's trap.

Author : Aadil Luqman Jai
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1462012051
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trapped in Pandora's Last Box written by Aadil Luqman Jai and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-08-12 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During Birminghams Civil Rights era, with racism and crime battling for prominence, pimp Blake McDaniel managed his business with brutal efficiency. Trapped in an endless downward cycle, McDaniels is confronted by the sins of his past sins that are visited on his son. Torn between two father figures and his mothers persistent dream, Tyson McDaniels struggles to make the right choices. His father is a drug addicted Vietnam veteran who transforms his racial anguish into living the life of a ruthless pimp. His stepfather, Vincent Big Vince Johnson, is a street-life late bloomer, a man who traded his assembly line job at Detroits General Motors for a roll of the street life dice. Lillian, his embittered mother, is caught between two vicious pimpsone she loves and one she hates. She is plunged into the very life she rejectedprostitution, drugs, and the need to escape a past of brutal racial hatred and a romantic disappointment too deep to forget. Trapped in Pandoras Last Box explodes with deadly consequencesthe inevitable clash between Blake and his bitter rivals, Big Dester and Death Wish, Blakes imminent encounter with death and destruction, and the implications of his actions for the future of his son.

Author : Thomas Preston
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1442212152
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pandora's Trap written by Thomas Preston and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2011-09-16 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How important is presidential personality and leadership style in foreign policy decisions? To answer this question, Thomas Preston takes readers inside the Bush administration's decision-making process and use of intelligence to better understand how administration officials justified the Iraq War—and how they sought to avoid blame for the consequences of their actions. Based on extensive interviews with key Bush administration officials, Preston offers students of American foreign policy, presidential decision making, the dynamics of blame avoidance, and future practitioners with an in depth examination of how presidential personality and leadership style impacted Bush's central foreign policy failure. In addition, Preston looks critically at the oft-cited comparisons of Iraq to Lyndon Johnson's leadership during the Vietnam War, exploring where the analogy fits and a number of important differences. He shows how both presidents' styles exacerbated their managerial weaknesses in these cases and the limits of blame avoidance strategies. Importantly, the book provides a cautionary tale for future leaders to consider more carefully the long-term consequences of satisfying their short term policy desires by lifting the lid to any new Pandora's trap.

Author : Jennifer Pierce-Gaeta
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 146282658X
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pandora's Hell written by Jennifer Pierce-Gaeta and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-03-05 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter into a world where supernaturals are the human races last hope. Hell has escaped its prison early and is devastating the world. The humans are useless to help themselves and all could be lost if the gates of Hell are not slammed shut. That's where my team comes in. I am Kira Gaetano and my team may be the world's last hope for survival. We fight the big bad nightmares and are racing against the clock to stop Hell from taking over the world. The only question I have is can we do it?......

Author : Jeff Alexander
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1609171977
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pandora's Locks written by Jeff Alexander and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The St. Lawrence Seaway was considered one of the world's greatest engineering achievements when it opened in 1959. The $1 billion project-a series of locks, canals, and dams that tamed the ferocious St. Lawrence River-opened the Great Lakes to the global shipping industry. Linking ports on lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario to shipping hubs on the world's seven seas increased global trade in the Great Lakes region. But it came at an extraordinarily high price. Foreign species that immigrated into the lakes in ocean freighters' ballast water tanks unleashed a biological shift that reconfigured the world's largest freshwater ecosystems. Pandora's Locks is the story of politicians and engineers who, driven by hubris and handicapped by ignorance, demanded that the Seaway be built at any cost. It is the tragic tale of government agencies that could have prevented ocean freighters from laying waste to the Great Lakes ecosystems, but failed to act until it was too late. Blending science with compelling personal accounts, this book is the first comprehensive account of how inviting transoceanic freighters into North America's freshwater seas transformed these wondrous lakes.

Author : Spencer Wells
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812971914
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pandora's Seed written by Spencer Wells and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten thousand years ago, our species made a radical shift in its way of life: We became farmers rather than hunter-gatherers. Although this decision propelled us into the modern world, renowned geneticist and anthropologist Spencer Wells demonstrates that such a dramatic change in lifestyle had a downside that we’re only now beginning to recognize. Growing grain crops ultimately made humans more sedentary and unhealthy and made the planet more crowded. The expanding population and the need to apportion limited resources created hierarchies and inequalities. Freedom of movement was replaced by a pressure to work that is the forebear of the anxiety millions feel today. Spencer Wells offers a hopeful prescription for altering a life to which we were always ill-suited. Pandora’s Seed is an eye-opening book for anyone fascinated by the past and concerned about the future.

Author : Matthew MacDonnell
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1504947002
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pandora’S Christmas written by Matthew MacDonnell and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The REAL story of the woman that held all the evils in the world in and came out the other end even more beautiful than when she went yourself how do you get all the evils in the world in a box and this wil This holds an idea on how life should be lived with raw beauty and gr faith is never forgotten even if you believe you dont need it. An up an student in the martial arts, gave her a strength of mind and modesty t stand a whore of evils that would frighten most other people. With m both good and bad it is a whole new genre in story telling.

Author : Brian Van DeMark
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
ISBN 13 : 0759528071
Total Pages : 551 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pandora's Keepers written by Brian Van DeMark and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2003-06-01 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There Were Nine of Them: men with the names Oppenheimer, Teller, Fermi, Bohr, Lawrence, Bethe, Rabi, Szilard, and Compton-brilliant men who believed in science and who saw before anyone else did the awesome workings of an invisible world. They came from many places, some fleeing Nazism in Europe, others quietly slipping out of university teaching jobs, all gathering in secret wartime laboratories to create the world's first atomic bomb. At one such place hidden away in the mountains of northern New Mexico-Los Alamos-they would crack the secret of the nuclear chain reaction and construct a device that incinerated a city and melted its victims so thoroughly that the only thing left was their scorched outlines on the sidewalks. During the war, few of the atomic scientists questioned the wisdom of their desperate endeavor. But afterward, they were forced to deal with the sobering legacy of their creation. Some were haunted by the dead of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and would become anti-nuclear weapons activists; others would go on to build bigger and even deadlier bombs. Some would remain friends; others would become bitter rivals and enemies. In explaining their lives and their struggles, Brian VanDeMark superbly illuminates the ways in which these brilliant and sensitive men came to terms with their horrific creation. The result is spectacular history and a moral investigation of the highest order.

Author : Kent Osband
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231525419
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pandora’s Risk written by Kent Osband and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author of the acclaimed work Iceberg Risk: An Adventure in Portfolio Theory, Kent Osband argues that uncertainty is central rather than marginal to finance. Markets don't trade mainly on changes in risk. They trade on changes in beliefs about risk, and in the process, markets unite, stretch, and occasionally defy beliefs. Recognizing this truth would make a world of difference in investing. Belittling uncertainty has created a rift between financial theory and practice and within finance theory itself, misguiding regulation and stoking huge financial imbalances. Sparking a revolution in the mindset of the investment professional, Osband recasts the market as a learning machine rather than a knowledge machine. The market continually errs, corrects itself, and makes new errors. Respecting that process, without idolizing it, will promote wiser investment, trading, and regulation. With uncertainty embedded at its core, Osband's rational approach points to a finance theory worthy of twenty-first-century investing.

Author : Christopher Anvil
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN 13 : 1618243217
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pandora's Legions written by Christopher Anvil and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2002-02-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IS IT TOO LATE TO NEGOTIATE A SURRENDER The Centran Empire was both benevolent and complacent. Benevolent, even as it overwhelmed every new inhabited planet it encountered with its military might¾but once the planet was pacified, its inhabitants were uplifted to Centran standards of living and the benefits of membership in the Empire. Complacent, because the Empire had long been expanding without encountering more than minor obstacles. And then they came across Pandora's Planet, that is, Earth.... In spite of the Centran superiority in technology, the conquest of Earth took over three months, when the invaders were used to wrapping things up in less than two weeks. But "conquest" might be too optimistic a term to use, since the locals were still waging guerrilla warfare and sabotage, and the Centrans were hanging on by their equivalent of fingernails. And then the Centran scientists tested a group of humans and found that the humans were more intelligent than the Centrans. One Centran leader had an idea that might save the Centrans from being ignominiously kicked off the planet again. Since the humans were good at war, why not put together teams of humans to go out to the fringes of Centran space and handle planets that were proving difficult The teams performed magnificently¾but back in the heart of the Empire, humans and their weird new ideas were spreading like wildfire, and if something weren't done soon, the humans would end up running the former Centran Empire.... At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).