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He never knew how different he was. Until his fourteenth birthday. When his life changed. Forever. When Aaron Adams sneaks out to celebrate his fourteenth birthday, he has no idea a tragedy awaits him. After a shocking secret is revealed, Aaron is forced to leave his world and enter...a new one. Thrust into a world he doesn't understand, Aaron struggles to find his place in a society that seems to despise him. Desperate to find why his name is so fervently hated, Aaron sets out on a path of discovery – only to find demons, dangerous hybrids and more secrets; ones that threaten everything Aaron thought he knew.
Living in the White House is a great adventure for young Sasha and Malia . . . especially when they discover a mysterious, moving bookcase that leads them into a passageway through time! Before they know it, the two curious sisters find themselves back in the time of slavery and faced with a very important challenge. Will they find the courage to help free the slaves and change the course of history forever?
Alex Rider does battle with a charity broker con artist who has invested millions of dollars in a form of genetically modified corn that can release an airborne strain of virus capable of knocking out an entire country in one day.
Hadrian is dangerously close to winning the war. He has three of the four Elemental legacies. All that stands between him and complete dominance? Fourteen-year-old Aaron Adams. As a confused and guilt-ridden Aaron struggles to deal with a power that was never meant for him, he finds the worlds are crumbling under the brute force of Hadrian’s warfare – the ruthless vamage will stop at nothing to steal the legacy Aaron holds to become the supreme ruler of the realm. Even if it means calling on his deadliest warrior: his son, Kyran. The Scorcher. Will Kyran turn his back on the bond he shares with Aaron, and do as he is commanded? Can blood prove to be thicker than water?
Alfred A. Marcus and Mazhar Islam examine how demographic changes introduce new challenges for businesses, with a focus on how the world today is divided between disproportionately old and young nations. Taking a broad international perspective, the book illustrates how demography affects underlying conditions in nations, presenting the risks and opportunities for businesses as well as a set of concrete obligations they owe to the nations in which they operate.
This volume examines the role of the military, the most influential actor in Pakistan, and challenges conventional wisdom on the causes of political instability in this geographically important nuclear state. It rejects views that ethnic and religious cleavages and perceived economic or political mismanagement by civilian governments triggers military intervention in Pakistan. The study argues instead that the military intervenes to remove civilian governments where the latter are perceived to be undermining the military’s institutional interests. Mazhar Aziz shows that the Pakistani military has become a parallel state, and given the extent of its influence, will continue to define the nature of governance within the polity. Overall, Military Control in Pakistan is a timely reminder and an important resource for both scholars and policy makers, clearly demonstrating the need to refocus attention on the problem of an influential military whilst drawing appropriate conclusions about issues ranging from democratic norms, political representation and civilian-military relations.
Hunters have gathered.Battle lines are drawn.War is about to begin.The realm of mages is in chaos. With his powers now unlocked, Hadrian the vamage is preparing to take the realm as his own. The only ones who can stand in his way are the Elementals, armed with the mighty Blades of Aric. Fourteen years old, Aaron Adams discovers that he is one of the four Elementals who can use these powerful weapons. But when family secrets are finally revealed, Aaron finds himself caught between doing what his parents ask of him and what the mages expect from him.Aaron faces a choice: pick up his sword and join the fight, or stand back and pray the world doesn't burn to the ground around him.Book Two in the Power of Four series.
As the science fiction writer Frederik Pohl observes in the lead essay, the contributors collectively find science fiction to be either implicitly or explicitly political by its very nature.
In The Military and Democracy in Asia and the Pacific, a number of prominent regional specialists take a fresh look at the military's changing role in selected countries of Asia and the Pacific, particularly with regard to the countries' performance against criteria of democratic government. Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Burma, Pakistan, Bangladesh, South Korea, Fiji and Papua New Guinea all fall under the spotlight as the authors examine the role which the military has played in bringing about changes of political regime, and in resisting pressures for change.