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Strategic planning needs to be a more integral part of America's foreign policymaking. While thousands of troops are engaged in combat and homeland security concerns abound, long-term coordination of goals and resources would seem to be of paramount importance. A change in presidential administration brings the hope that strategic planning will play an elevated role in U.S. foreign policy. Can policy planners - in the Pentagon, State Department, Treasury, NSC, and National Intelligence Council - rise to the challenge?

A young man fleeing heartbreak back home meets a mysterious expat at a café in Paris. What begins as a friendly conversation between two outsiders soon transforms into a heart-pounding confession that threatens to shake both men to their cores. In this darkly funny, Sopranos-meets-Sebald page-turner by acclaimed mystery writer David Gordon, people aren’t always what they seem, and digging for the truth could have fatal consequences.

When the star of Edric Davies' basketball team succumbs to injury, he steps up to save the day. Suddenly, Edric has the world at his fingertips; fame, popularity, even the girl. But, for a poor kid in a rich town, that just isn't how it works. In Mount Collier, kids like Edric can't have it all. He is soon betrayed, condemned to a life in Shatterly's Obedience and Drill Fraternity, the state's harshest military school.

In these funny, surprising, and touching stories, Gordon gets at the big stuff - art and religion, literature and madness, the supernatural, and the dark fringes of sexuality - in his own unique style, described by novelist Rivka Galchen as "Dashiell Hammett divided by Don DeLillo, to the power of Dostoyevsky - yet still pure David Gordon."

Broadway writers David Goldsmith (Motown the Musical, Disney’s Descendants 3) and forever Tony ™ Nominee Paul Gordon (Jane Eyre, Daddy Long Legs) dive deep into the music and lyrics from musical theatre that taught them to write, make them happy, and keep them inspired to continue in this insane so-called business. Passing their experience, wisdom and joy of all things of commerce, craft and the art of Broadway and beyond onto you.

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Welcome to the fourth volume of our best-selling horror anthology, featuring tales of terror and dark, slithering things to chill the marrow and keep even the most resolute of horror fans awake in the small hours of the night. This is the time when the inherently evil and deliciously malevolent come out to explore our earthly realm. Another superlative gathering of the dark and disturbing from some of the best independent authors writing today.

Berlin 1989: David Hasselhoff (Erzähler) ist für seine "Looking for Freedom"-Tour in Berlin. Ebenfalls in der Stadt ist CIA-Agent Nick Harper, der David zum Verwechseln ähnlich sieht. Er soll Stasi-General Hoedel finden, bevor dieser den Mauerfall verhindern kann. Doch kurz nach dem Grenzübertritt wird Nick von Stasi-Agenten überrascht und entkommt nur, weil ihn Hasselhoff-Fan Hildy, die ihn für ihr großes Idol hält, stolz in ihrem Trabi mit nach Hause nimmt. Parallel dazu wird der echte David Hasselhoff von CIA-Agentin Greta mit Nick Harper verwechselt.

Joe Brody is just your average Dostoevsky-reading, Harvard-expelled strip club bouncer who has a highly classified military history and a best friend from Catholic school who happens to be head mafioso Gio Caprisi. FBI agent Donna Zamora, the best shot in her class at Quantico, is a single mother stuck at a desk manning the hotline. Their story lines intersect over a tip from a cokehead that leads to a crackdown on Gio's strip joint in Queens and Joe's arrest.

Joe Brody, ex-Special Forces operative suffering post-traumatic stress syndrome so severe that it turned him to drug and alcohol abuse, is getting his life back together. Living with his grandmother in Queens, Joe has taken what should be a simple job as a bouncer at a strip club where he can spend most of his nights reading the classics. The only catch is that his childhood friend Gio Caprisi, now head of New York's Italian Mafia, relies on Joe's extra-legal expertise when things get particularly nasty on the streets.

The goal of the podcast is to facilitate connections with and to learn from the successes, struggles, life experience, and wisdom of the people featured, most of whom live and create in Austin, Texas. The honest conversational flow of these weekly long form interviews lends itself to some really great insights and information that is available to anyone who wants to listen. Join us to explore the origins, stories, lessons, lives and work of those in our community who are at the forefront of creative expression. The podcast is hosted by photographer, art enthusiast and collector, Scott David ...

Professionnels de la communication, vous êtes confrontés à des défis majeurs : créativité dans un monde en évolution constante, écoute des audiences exigeantes, et intégration croissante des enjeux RSE et de performance. Dans ce contexte, il est essentiel de poser les bonnes questions pour concevoir une communication UTILE, innovante et impactante pour vous, votre entreprise et vos audiences. Deux fois par mois, Les Voix De La Com’ décrypte avec des experts les méthodes et outils qui transforment la communication. Je suis David Gordon, fondateur de Nouvelles Voix, agence de ...

Capitalism is all around us, affecting almost everything we do and impacting our daily lives in myriad ways. This comprehensive collection takes an in-depth look at this all-pervasive economic system, examining its triumphs and disasters and revealing how it puts money and markets at the centre of our world.

Thrill as characters like Jim Bowie, Joe Magarac, Anne Bonny, and Mike Fink come to life in two-fisted action adventure tales! Learn of the mysterious Leatherman and thrill to his wild adventures! Discover a whole new take on the concept of Paul Bunyan! Authors D. Alan Lewis, Gordon Dymowski, Nancy A. Hansen, Phillip Drayer Duncan, David White, and Greg Daniel take characters, both historic and fictional, and give them a treatment like no other.

In this audiobook, we have put together amazingly delicious, healthy, and easy-to-follow recipes that combine natural ingredients with some of the lowest amounts of carbs and highest amounts of fat.

Laurie David - producer of the HBO special Too Hot Not to Handle and Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth - educates young listeners about the ecological crisis called Global Warming.The dangers posed are very real, and the planet may undergo drastic changes within this century. People do, however, have the power to fight back and save the earth, and they can start by listening to this audiobook.

In the straight world, when you 'see something' you 'say something' to the law. In the bent world, they call Joe. Still reeling from a particularly difficult operation, and having plummeted back into the drug and alcohol addiction that got him kicked out of the military as a result, Joe has just managed to detox at the clinic of a Chinese herbalist when the mob bosses phone: they need Joe to help them swindle a group of opioid dealers (of all things). But these are no typical drug-ferrying gangsters.

Get ready Cubs fans, because your favorite dynamic duo is back! David Kaplan and Gordon Wittenmyer are joining forces once again to bring you the most exciting and insightful podcast about the Cubs you've ever heard. Whether you're a die-hard fan or just a casual observer, the Cubs REKAP podcast will keep you on the edge of your seat with all the latest news, analysis, and commentary about the team you love. From player interviews to game highlights, from trade rumors to injury reports, Kaplan and Wittenmyer will cover it all with their trademark wit, intelligence, and insider knowledge. So ...

Harvard dropout and ex-Special Forces operative Joe Brody is climbing the ranks in the criminal underworld. After successfully executing multiple missions for the various crime syndicates that run New York City, he has come to earn the trust and respect of the city's most dangerous denizens. Which is why his newest task—retrieving a pet pigeon snatched from a rooftop coop in Brooklyn—has Joe puzzled ... until he learns that the bird is valued at close to a million dollars.

Ein Bandenkrieg in der New Yorker Unterwelt. Und nur ein Türsteher kann noch helfen. Der atemraubende Thriller voller Action und unerwarteter Wendungen! Joe Brody ist ein durchschnittlicher, Dostojewski lesender, aus Harvard geflohener Stripclub-Türsteher, der eine streng geheime militärische Vergangenheit hat und dessen bester Freund zufällig der Mafiaboss Gio Caprisi ist. Die FBI-Agentin Donna Zamora ist alleinerziehende Mutter und wurde an den Schreibtisch verdonnert, um die Hotline zu bedienen.