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Quakers in the Israeli Palestinian Conflict

The Dilemmas of NGO Humanitarian Activism

by Nancy Gallagher ...

The Israeli Palestinian conflict has resulted in the longest-standing refugee crisis in the world today. Based on new archival research and interviews with surviving participants, this book considers one early effort to resolve that crisis while offering helpful lessons for current efforts at conflict resolution in the Middle East and elsewhere. When war broke out in Palestine in 1948, the ... Read more

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The Israeli Palestinian conflict has resulted in the longest-standing refugee crisis in the world today. Based on new archival research and interviews with surviving participants, this book considers one early effort to resolve that crisis while offering helpful lessons for current efforts at conflict resolution in the Middle East and elsewhere. When war broke out in Palestine in 1948, the
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Egypt's Other Wars

Epidemics and the Politics of Public Health

by Nancy Gallagher ...

Series series
Three devastating epidemics swept Egypt in the 1940’s killing more people than all the wars Egypt has fought in the twentieth century. Egypt’s Other Wars vividly reconstructs the nation’s struggle against malaria, relapsing fever, and cholera and explores the unique combination of forces that put public health at the top of the national political agenda.Egypt in the 1940’s as in the throes of a ... Read more

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Three devastating epidemics swept Egypt in the 1940’s killing more people than all the wars Egypt has fought in the twentieth century. Egypt’s Other Wars vividly reconstructs the nation’s struggle against malaria, relapsing fever, and cholera and explores the unique combination of forces that put public health at the top of the national political agenda.Egypt in the 1940’s as in the throes of a
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Networks of Knowledge Production in Sudan

Identities, Mobilities, and Technologies

by Sondra Hale, Gada Kadoda, Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf, Alsarah, Janice Boddy, Sandra Calkins, Asha Elkarib, Asma I. Elsony, Anita Fabos0, Nancy Gallagher1, Katarzyna Grabska2, Ellen Gruenbaum3, Asma M. Abdel Halim4, Sara A. Hassanain5, Guma K. Komey6, Amina Alrasheed Nayel7, Margret Otto8, Richard Rottenburg9, Ulrike Schultz0, Pindai Sithole1, Atta El-Battahani2 ...

This is the first book of its kind on Sudan, and arguably one of the first in North Africa. We are part of an emerging, more cosmopolitan approach that calls for a reassessment of ideas about not only the concept of identities, but also about migration and technology, especially social media. Our essayists engage in redefinitions, the broadening of our key variables, the linking and intersecting ... Read more

$105.29 USD

This is the first book of its kind on Sudan, and arguably one of the first in North Africa. We are part of an emerging, more cosmopolitan approach that calls for a reassessment of ideas about not only the concept of identities, but also about migration and technology, especially social media. Our essayists engage in redefinitions, the broadening of our key variables, the linking and intersecting
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Pushing the Limits

How Schools Can Prepare Our Children Today for the Challenges of Tomorrow

by Kelly Gallagher-Mackay, Nancy Steinhauer ...

How do we prepare children for a future we can't even imagine?Across Canada, a debate swirls around what our children will need to know in the face of huge technological, economic, social and political change. The question has become an ideological battleground, and there is a hunger for a deeper understanding of what we should be doing to prepare children now for the challenges of the future. ... Read more

$17.99 USD

How do we prepare children for a future we can't even imagine?Across Canada, a debate swirls around what our children will need to know in the face of huge technological, economic, social and political change. The question has become an ideological battleground, and there is a hunger for a deeper understanding of what we should be doing to prepare children now for the challenges of the future.
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Unleashing the Power of Rubber Bands

Lessons in Non-linear Leadership

by Nancy Ortberg ...

Narrated by Rebecca Gallagher ...

Unabridged

5 hours 22 min

Unleashing the Power of Rubber Bands is an engaging and insightful look into the qualities, attributes, and practices that turn ordinary leaders into extraordinary ones. Nancy Ortberg’s unique twist on vision casting; managing tensions; nurturing healthy conflict; motivating those around you; fostering creativity, passion, and trust is unlike anything you’ve ever read before! At times challenging, ... Read more

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Unleashing the Power of Rubber Bands is an engaging and insightful look into the qualities, attributes, and practices that turn ordinary leaders into extraordinary ones. Nancy Ortberg’s unique twist on vision casting; managing tensions; nurturing healthy conflict; motivating those around you; fostering creativity, passion, and trust is unlike anything you’ve ever read before! At times challenging,
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China's Strategic Arsenal

Worldview, Doctrine, and Systems

by James M. Smith, Paul J. Bolt, Andrew Scobell, Christopher P. Twomey, Sugio Takahashi, Hans M. Kristensen, Phillip C. Saunders, David C. Logan, Bates Gill0, Nancy W. Gallagher1, Brad Roberts2 ...

A critical look at how China’s growing strategic arsenal could impact a rapidly changing world orderChina’s strategic capabilities and doctrine have historically differed from the United States’ and Russia’s. China has continued to modernize and expand its arsenal despite its policy of no first use, while the United States and Russia have decreased deployed weapons stocks.This volume brings ... Read more

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A critical look at how China’s growing strategic arsenal could impact a rapidly changing world orderChina’s strategic capabilities and doctrine have historically differed from the United States’ and Russia’s. China has continued to modernize and expand its arsenal despite its policy of no first use, while the United States and Russia have decreased deployed weapons stocks.This volume brings
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Looking for God

An Unexpected Journey Through Tattoos, Tofu, And Pronouns

by Nancy Ortberg ...

Narrated by Rebecca Gallagher ...

Unabridged

4 hours 12 min

A former teaching pastor at Willow Creek Community Church, Ortberg presents a candid compilation of personal essays on finding God in the most unlikely times and places. Ortberg, wife to bestselling author and pastor John Ortberg, opens her highly amusing and refreshingly transparent text reminiscing about bygone years as a young mom who couldn't make time for a quiet time. Recalling those nonstop ... Read more

$27.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

A former teaching pastor at Willow Creek Community Church, Ortberg presents a candid compilation of personal essays on finding God in the most unlikely times and places. Ortberg, wife to bestselling author and pastor John Ortberg, opens her highly amusing and refreshingly transparent text reminiscing about bygone years as a young mom who couldn't make time for a quiet time. Recalling those nonstop
... Read more
Arms Control

New Approaches to Theory and Policy

Edited by Nancy W. Gallagher ...

Contents: Bridging the Gaps on Arms Control Nancy W. Gallagher. Arms Control in the Information Age Emily O. Goldman. A New Role for Transparency Ann M. Florini. Beyond Deterrence, Defence, and Arms Control Gloria Duffy. Nuclear Arms Control through Multilateral Negotiations Rebecca Johnson. The Impact of Govermental Context on Negotiation and Implementation: Constraints and Opportunities for ... Read more

$77.99 USD

Contents: Bridging the Gaps on Arms Control Nancy W. Gallagher. Arms Control in the Information Age Emily O. Goldman. A New Role for Transparency Ann M. Florini. Beyond Deterrence, Defence, and Arms Control Gloria Duffy. Nuclear Arms Control through Multilateral Negotiations Rebecca Johnson. The Impact of Govermental Context on Negotiation and Implementation: Constraints and Opportunities for
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A Burnable Book

A Novel

by Bruce Holsinger ...

Narrated by Simon Vance ...

Unabridged

13 hours 59 min

In Chaucer's London, betrayal, murder, royal intrigue, mystery, and dangerous politics swirl around the existence of a prophetic book that foretells the deaths of England's kings. Bruce Holsinger's A Burnable Book is an irresistible historical thriller reminiscent of the classics An Instance of the Fingerpost, The Name of the Rose, and The Crimson Petal and the White.London, 1385. Surrounded by ... Read more

$32.99 USD

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In Chaucer's London, betrayal, murder, royal intrigue, mystery, and dangerous politics swirl around the existence of a prophetic book that foretells the deaths of England's kings. Bruce Holsinger's A Burnable Book is an irresistible historical thriller reminiscent of the classics An Instance of the Fingerpost, The Name of the Rose, and The Crimson Petal and the White.London, 1385. Surrounded by
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The Big Kill

by Mickey Spillane ...

Narrated by Stacy Keach ...

Abridged

2 hours 28 min

The rain clawed at the windows of the bar. Hammer was angry and wanted to be left alone. But when he sees a desperate guy abandon his kid in a bar just to step outside and get blown away, Hammer's mood switches from bad to worse. By the time he reaches the dead body, he knows he will have to pound his way through a world of thugs and wiseguys to find out how a reformed ex-con got desperate enough ... Read more

$14.99 USD

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The rain clawed at the windows of the bar. Hammer was angry and wanted to be left alone. But when he sees a desperate guy abandon his kid in a bar just to step outside and get blown away, Hammer's mood switches from bad to worse. By the time he reaches the dead body, he knows he will have to pound his way through a world of thugs and wiseguys to find out how a reformed ex-con got desperate enough
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Broken Angel

A Novel

by Sigmund Brouwer ...

Narrated by Kirsten Potter ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Caitlyn Brown Series
Unabridged

7 hours 39 min

In this engrossing, lightning-paced story with a post-apocalyptic edge, best-selling author Sigmund Brouwer weaves a heroic, harrowing journey through the path of a treacherous nation carved from the United States.In the rough, shadowy hills of Appalachia, in what is left of the United States following years of government infighting, Caitlyn Brown and her companions are prey in a terrifying hunt. ... Read more

$20.00 USD

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In this engrossing, lightning-paced story with a post-apocalyptic edge, best-selling author Sigmund Brouwer weaves a heroic, harrowing journey through the path of a treacherous nation carved from the United States.In the rough, shadowy hills of Appalachia, in what is left of the United States following years of government infighting, Caitlyn Brown and her companions are prey in a terrifying hunt.
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Terra Incognita

A Novel of the Roman Empire

by Ruth Downie ...

Narrated by Simon Vance ...

Series series Roman Empire
Unabridged

11 hours 33 min

It is spring in the year 118, and Hadrian has been emperor of Rome for less than a year. After his long and reluctant investigation of the murders of a handful of local prostitutes, Gaius Petreius Ruso needs to get out of town. With that in mind, he has volunteered for a posting with the army in the far reaches of Britannia—a calmer place for a tired man.But the edge of the Roman Empire is a ... Read more

$20.49 USD

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It is spring in the year 118, and Hadrian has been emperor of Rome for less than a year. After his long and reluctant investigation of the murders of a handful of local prostitutes, Gaius Petreius Ruso needs to get out of town. With that in mind, he has volunteered for a posting with the army in the far reaches of Britannia—a calmer place for a tired man.But the edge of the Roman Empire is a
... Read more

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