Tiger Cruise

The USS Cushing, a Navy destroyer equipped with nuclear weapons and carrying the families of its crew, finds itself cut off from help and under attack by Indonesian pirates who want to hijack the ship. 15,000 first printing.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Morgan, Douglas

Thrillers & Suspense

Forge

Budgeting for Local Governments and Communities

Budgeting for Local Governments and Communities is designed as the primary textbook for a quarter or semester-long course in public budgeting and finance in an MPA programme. Many currently available texts for this course suffer from a combination of defects that include a focus on federal and state budgeting, a lack of a theoretical governance framework, an omission of important topics, and typically a lack of exercises and datasets for student use. Budgeting for Local Governments and Communities solves all of these problems. The book is exceptionally comprehensive and well written, and represents the efforts of veteran authors with both teaching and real-world experience.
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<li>Key Features:</li>
<li>Special Focus on Local Government Budgeting: focuses exclusively on budgeting at the local levels of American government, which are responsible for spending 40 percent of the taxes collected from citizens.</li>
<li>Integration of Theory and Practice: teaching cases and chapters capture the "lessons learned" by professional practitioners who have extensive experience in making local public budgeting work on the ground.</li>
<li>Polity Approach to Local Budgeting: presents an introduction to local budgeting as the central political activity that integrates the resources of the community into a unified whole. Budgeting is presented as governance work, rather than as a unique set of skills possessed by analysts and financial specialists.</li>
<li>Legal, Historical, Economic and Moral Foundations of Local Government Budgeting: provides readers with an understanding of how the structures and processes of local budgeting systems are firmly tethered to the underlying core values, legal principles and historical development of the larger American federal, state and local political systems.</li>
<li>Electronic Datasets and Budgeting Exercises: the text includes access to extensive electronic datasets and practice exercises that provide abundant opportunities for students to "learn through doing."</li>
<li>Extensive Glossary and Bibliography: covers terms on the history and practice of local public budgeting.</li>
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Business & Money

Economics

Routledge

New Public Governance

Written by scholars who have been at the forefront of the NPG debate as well as by scholar-practitioners, this book provides lessons learned from experience on how networked, contract-based and partnership-centered approaches to government can be undertaken in ways that preserve the values at the center of the American constitutional and political system.

New Public Governance: A Regime-Centered Perspective

Cook, Brian

Specialties

The Strait of Malacca is the busiest shipping lane in the world . . . and it's a nest of pirates. These days, they're using modern methods.The USS Cushing is coming home from the Persian Gulf on a course through the Straits. It's a good ship, a Spruance-class destroyer: lean, fast, and armed to the teeth, with a few Special Weapons in her hold. But there's a major typhoon coming her way. Worse, the Cushing's been assigned to carry a batch of Tigers-civilians, family members-from Diego Garcia to Yokosuka.When, under cover of the storm, the Cushing is boarded and cut off from her battle group, only the bravery of a few Americans aboard stands between those ruthless pirates and her Special Weapons. Making matters worse, the Australian navy has an idea what's up, and they have their own nation's security to worry about. All of which adds up to a deadly three-cornered game in which the men and women of the Cushing will have to contend with both their enemies and their allies-and with the sea itself-if they ever want to see home again.

Forge Books

Born just as the Civil War began, Lewis Sheafe grew to manhood at a pivotal moment in American history. But instead of racial equality, the nation offered its freed slaves further oppression and injustice. Sheafestrong-willed, dynamic, and seemingly tirelesshad but two main objectives: uplift his people spiritually and socially, and consistently adhere to biblical principle in all aspects of life. In this gripping biography Douglas Morgan pieces together the life of this forgotten leader whose story sheds light on the reason that no lasting, separate Black Adventist denomination ever formed.

Lewis C. Sheafe: Apostle to Black America

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Review Herald Publishing

Politics & Social Sciences

Robinson, Kent S.

Strachota, Dennis

Hough, James A.

Social Sciences

World Link 2: Workbook

Reference

English as a Second Language

National Geographic/(ELT)

World Link Starter: Lesson Planner

Nelson Education Ltd.

“Adventists made major contributions in the American legal tradition by helping expand the liberties of all Americans. Morgan’s careful tracing of that plot will illustrate for non-Adventists the creative role of marginal and outsider groups.”—from the Foreword by Martin E. Marty While many organized religions in America today have affinity for conservative political action groups such as the Christian Coalition, Seventh-day Adventists have often found themselves allied with liberals against such measures as Sunday laws and prayer in schools. Douglas Morgan now examines the role Adventism has played in American public life and explains its positions from the standpoint of the church's historical development, showing that its relationship with public policy, government, and politics is far more complex than most historians have believed. Adventism and the American Republic tells how their convictions led Adventist adherents to become champions of religious liberty and the separation of church and state—all in the interest of delaying the fulfillment of a prophecy that foresees the abolition of most freedoms. Through publication of Liberty magazine, lobbying of legislatures, and pressing court cases, Adventists have been libertarian activists for more than a century, and in recent times this stance has translated into strong resistance to the politcal agendas of Christian conservatives. Drawing on Adventist writings that have never been incorporated into a scholarly study, Morgan shows how the movement has struggled successfully to maintain its identifying beliefs—with some modifications—and how their sectarian exclusiveness and support of liberty has led to some tensions and inconsistencies. Because of their overriding concern for religious freedom, Adventists have had considerable impact upon the public order in the United States. Morgan's careful study makes that impact clear and promotes a better understanding not only of the church but also of the place of religion in American politics. Douglas Morgan is assistant professor of history at Columbia Union College in Takoma Park, Maryland.

Adventism & American Republic: Public Involvement Of Major Apocalyptic Movement

History

Americas

Univ Tennessee Press

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