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What kind of book - well, besides a field guide - contains a moose, a mole, and a mouse between its covers? Why, The Escapades of Miks & Tibs: Book I, of course This is the light-hearted story of two little elven brothers and their adventures in an unusually unpredictable forest. The adventure begins with the discovery of a foul fume invading the elves' peaceful village. Worse still, it's poisonous and knocking out their neighbors Join Miks and Tibs as they set the stage for an untraditional tale of fearlessness, friendship, and folly.

Tim Collinwood is no international man of mystery. He's an ordinary English advertising man living in the Middle East, working in an unfamiliar place, struggling with cultural challenges and personal foibles.

Collinwood is intrigued when he's offered a marketing job that sounds exciting, and the reward for success is immense. His employers want him to create the public relations campaign of his life, to position Morocco as an economic powerhouse. The challenge attracts Collinwood, but as the story develops, he realizes failure is not an option. He falls in love, which distracts his...

The Soviet Union remains a superpower with global security interests and ambitions. The doctrines, practices and capabilities of its still formidable armed forces are shaping world politics just at the same time that the future of the country that created them is in doubt. This is the first book to analyze the unprecedented changes, as well as the troubling continuities, that characterize Soviet military thinking during the early 1990s. The authors, a group of leading analysts in the United States national security community, confront the range of Soviet military strengths, including...

This book explores how a group of nineteenth-century British historians came to terms with one of the formative periods in their nation's past--the seventeenth century in general and the era of Cromwell and the Puritans in particular. Included are well-known figures such as Macaulay and Carlyle, who are of interest to literary scholars as well as to historians, and more specialized writers such as Henry Hallam and S.R. Gardiner. The book argues that these historians found the seventeenth century problematic because of its connection with many contemporary political and, especially, religious...