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Author : Walter Jon Williams
Publisher : Sphere
ISBN 13 : 9780708882214
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (822 download)
Download or read book Ambassador of Progress written by Walter Jon Williams and published by Sphere. This book was released on 1984 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walter Jon Williams
Publisher : Walter Jon Williams
ISBN 13 : 0985454377
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (854 download)
Download or read book Ambassador of Progress written by Walter Jon Williams and published by Walter Jon Williams. This book was released on 2015-05-02 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Well-developed characters, an intriguing plot and a clear-eyed view of the double-edged sword called change make [AMBASSADOR OF PROGRESS] an engrossing book...” LIBRARY JOURNAL “Williams has an above-average knack for fast pacing, gritty realism, and high-tech details.” BOOKLIST An interstellar catastrophe has left humanity scattered on dozens of primitive worlds. Fiona is an emissary to one such world, charged with helping the inhabitants of Echidne rise from barbarism. But once she’s arrived on the planet, she finds herself in the middle of a war... the Brodaini, the world’s most ferocious warriors, have risen in revolt against their overlords. The combat soon threatens to become a war of extermination. Fiona is a neutral. But Echidne is proving a perilous place for neutrals...
Author : Waldo H. Heinrichs Jr.
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195364767
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book American Ambassador written by Waldo H. Heinrichs Jr. and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1986-11-27 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Joseph Clark Grew (1880-1965) is the story of the modern American diplomatic tradition. Grew served the U.S. government for over forty years, with an impressive career that included two ambassadorships, two secretaryships, two ministerships, and every junior rank in the service. Grew was in Berlin when the U.S. went to war with Germany in 1917, was American Ambassador to Japan during the years leading up to Pearl Harbor, was Undersecretary of State during the war, and was instrumental in planning U.S. postwar strategy in the Far East. In this rich and intimate biography, Heinrichs draws on Grew's vast diary, correspondence, and several private and official collections to reconstruct the life of an extraordinary career diplomat. Here, Joseph C. Grew emerges as a man of peace who used both skill and insight to slow the world's progress toward World War II.
Author : Paul Richter
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501172433
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Ambassadors written by Paul Richter and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veteran diplomatic correspondent Paul Richter goes behind the battles and the headlines to show how American ambassadors are the unconventional warriors in the Muslim world—running local government, directing drone strikes, building nations, and risking their lives on the front lines. The tale’s heroes are a small circle of top career diplomats who have been an unheralded but crucial line of national defense in the past two decades of wars in the greater Middle East. In The Ambassadors, Paul Richter shares the astonishing, true-life stories of four expeditionary diplomats who “do the hardest things in the hardest places.” The book describes how Ryan Crocker helped rebuild a shattered Afghan government after the fall of the Taliban and secretly negotiated with the shadowy Iranian mastermind General Qassim Suleimani to wage war in Afghanistan and choose new leaders for post-invasion Iraq. Robert Ford, assigned to be a one-man occupation government for an Iraqi province, struggled to restart a collapsed economy and to deal with spiraling sectarian violence—and was taken hostage by a militia. In Syria at the eruption of the civil war, he is chased by government thugs for defying the country’s ruler. J. Christopher Stevens is smuggled into Libya as US Envoy to the rebels during its bloody civil war, then returns as ambassador only to be killed during a terror attach in Benghazi. War-zone veteran Anne Patterson is sent to Pakistan, considered the world’s most dangerous country, to broker deals that prevent a government collapse and to help guide the secret war on jihadists. “An important and illuminating read” (The Washington Post) and the winner of the prestigious Douglas Dillon Book Award from the American Academy of Diplomacy, The Ambassadors is a candid examination of the career diplomatic corps, America’s first point of contact with the outside world, and a critical piece of modern-day history.
Author : Vera Blinken
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438426887
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Vera and the Ambassador written by Vera Blinken and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2009-02-19 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vera and the Ambassador is a book to be savored and enjoyed on many levels. Both a behind-the-scenes peek at the operations of a U.S. embassy in a post–Cold War former Soviet satellite and a personal story of a refugee's escape and triumphant return, Vera and Donald Blinken's dual memoir openly details their challenges, setbacks, and victories as they worked in tandem to advance America's interests in Eastern Europe and to restore a former Soviet satellite state to a pre-communist level of prosperity. Hungary in all its cultural glory and historical anguish lies at the heart of this dramatic and deeply personal story. Born in Budapest just prior to World War II, Vera was only five years old when the Germans invaded in 1944. In a harrowing account, she describes how she and her mother managed to survive the atrocities of the war and, in 1950, narrowly escape Soviet-occupied Hungary for the freedom and opportunity of America. Making their way to New York, Vera settled into her adopted country with an indomitable spirit, a vow to become the best American she could be, and a hope of finding some way to give back as a show of gratitude for her good fortune in surviving the destruction of the war. That opportunity came in 1994 when her husband was appointed ambassador to Hungary by President Clinton, just five years into the country's tentative transformation from a command economy and totalitarian government into a market economy and fledgling republic based upon democratic ideals. A former investment banker, Donald might have lacked foreign service experience, but his skills as an administrator and his willingness to try innovative ideas, combined with Vera's knowledge of Hungarian language and culture and her outreach to the Hungarian community, helped them deal head-on with a variety of challenges, including a collapsing economy and the threat of a slide back toward the old ways of communism, and a brutal civil war that raged across the country's southern border in the former Yugoslavia. Replete with colorful characters from the streets of Budapest, humorous scenes at the ambassadorial residence, and accounts of tense high-level diplomatic negotiations in the run-up to Hungary's vote to join NATO, Vera and the Ambassador shows how the Blinkens helped chart a new course for American diplomacy in the mid-1990s. Ultimately, it is also the story of how Hungarians came to see them personally, and memorably, as their Vera and their ambassador.
Author : Verna Posever Curtis
Publisher : Library of Congress/Musie Dart Giverny Distributed by Univer
ISBN 13 : 9780932171221
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (712 download)
Download or read book Ambassadors of Progress written by Verna Posever Curtis and published by Library of Congress/Musie Dart Giverny Distributed by Univer. This book was released on 2001 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlights the contributions of women to photographic history.
Download or read book THE NEW INTERNATIONAL YEAR BOOK: A COMPENDIUM OF THE WORLD'S PROGRESS FOR THE YEAR 1926 written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Walsh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Residence at Constantinople, During a Period Including the Commencement, Progress, and Termination of the Greek and Turkish Revolutions written by Robert Walsh and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book African Progress written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 782 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Progress written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Precht
Publisher : Williams & Company
ISBN 13 : 9781878853462
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (534 download)
Download or read book A Diplomat's Progress written by Henry Precht and published by Williams & Company. This book was released on 2005 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sardonic insights and a lovely pen." Fred Emery, former Executive Editor, The Times, London. "Precht's stories about an American diplomat in the Middle East provide important background about America's present role and challenges in that crucial geography." Burton Gerber, Veteran CIA Officer in Eastern Europe and the Middle East "This is not a striped-pants world. Instead, these stories] illuminate a grittier side of embassy life with a wry sense of humor and a bit of an edge, not unlike the author himself."
Author : Robert Cooper
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 0297608541
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (976 download)
Download or read book The Ambassadors written by Robert Cooper and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History does not run in straight lines. Instead of inevitable progress, what we get is more often false starts, blind alleys, random events, good intentions that go wrong. Robert Cooper's incisive and elegant book is therefore not a continuous diplomatic history. Richelieu and Mazarin inhabited a 16th-century world we can hardly imagine today, but it is from their time that we can begin to see the outline of today's Europe. The Ambassadors includes a brilliant analysis of the people who built the Western side of the Cold War. Henry Kissinger is a pivotal figure in the post-war world, and his story is in some ways typical: he failed in his most important aims and succeeded in ways he never expected. Robert Cooper's pieces together history and considers the illuminating fragments it leaves behind.
Author : Jennifer Steil
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385539037
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)
Download or read book The Ambassador's Wife written by Jennifer Steil and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a real-life ambassador's wife comes a harrowing novel about the kidnapping of an American woman in the Middle East and the heartbreaking choices she and her husband each must make in the hope of being reunited. When bohemian artist Miranda falls in love with Finn, the British ambassador to an Arab country, she finds herself thrust into a life for which she has no preparation. The couple and their toddler daughter live in a stately mansion with a staff to meet their every need, but for Miranda even this luxury comes at a price: the loss of freedom. Trailed everywhere by bodyguards to protect her from the dangers of a country wracked by civil war and forced to give up work she loves, she finds her world shattered when she is taken hostage, an act of terror with wide-reaching consequences. Diplomatic life is a far cry from Miranda’s first years in Mazrooq, which were spent painting and mentoring a group of young Muslim women, teaching them to draw in ways forbidden in their culture. As the novel weaves together past and present, we come to see how Finn and Miranda’s idealism and secrets they have each sought to hide have placed them and those who trust them in peril. And when Miranda grows close to a child who shares her captivity, it is not clear that even being set free would restore the simple happiness that once was hers and Finn’s. Suspenseful and moving, The Ambassador’s Wife is a story of love, marriage, and friendship tested by impossible choices.
Author : Kimberly Willis Holt
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 1250234115
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book The Ambassador of Nowhere Texas written by Kimberly Willis Holt and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kimberly Willis Holt's The Ambassador of Nowhere, Texas is a stunning post-9/11 companion to the National Book Award-winner When Zachary Beaver Came to Town. Decades after the Vietnam War and Toby’s life-changing summer with Zachary Beaver, Toby’s daughter Rylee is at a crossroads—her best friend Twig has started pushing her away just as Joe, a new kid from New York, settles into their small town of Antler. Rylee befriends Joe and learns that Joe’s father was a first responder on 9/11. The two unlikely friends soon embark on a project to find Zachary Beaver and hopefully reconnect him with Rylee's father almost thirty years later. This beautiful middle grade novel is a tribute to friendships—old and new—and explores the challenges of rebuilding what may seem lost or destroyed. Christy Ottaviano Books
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Nomination of Susan C. Schwab written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 992 pages
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Download or read book Current Encyclopedia, a Monthly Record of Human Progress written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Fowler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Turkey, Or, A History of the Origin, Progress and Decline of the Ottoman Empire written by George Fowler and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
