"When Ben's father is posted to Thailand as the new U.S. Ambassador, the family takes along its pet eagle, Sammy. After Sammy is accidentally released from his cage, Ben and his Thai friend Jai embark on a chase throughout Thailand to get him back. Along the way they ride in a three-wheeled taxi, tour a glittering golden palace, and visit the ancient city of Ayutthaya where they stay overnight with monks in a Buddhist temple. Joining up with an elephant handler, his elephant and her baby, Mali, they travel hundreds of miles through the northern regions of Thailand, taking part in the annual Elephant Fair and Thai New Year celebrations. Throughout the journey, Sammy the eagle and Mali the elephant meet and land in trouble, but through their heroic deeds they become new and lasting friends. This book celebrates the enduring close relationship enjoyed by Thailand and the United States of America since 1833"--Publishers information.

"The Eagle and the Elephant shows how economic engagement directly affects U.S. cooperation with India on strategic issues. Through case studies of major efforts, including civil nuclear cooperation, services outsourcing, antiterrorism, and electricity generation and the environment, Raymond E. Vickery Jr. presents both successful and unsuccessful instances of complex collaborations between the two nations. Vickery draws on his own experience in the Commerce Department and as an economic consultant. Buttressed by information from official sources, journalistic accounts, and interviews, he offers new insight into the interplay of legislative and executive branch officials, policy proponents, business and nonprofit organizations, and activists.Vickery explores how the United States employs commercial diplomacy as only one component of an overall economic engagement in the formation and implementation of foreign policy. This interaction, Vickery argues, has the potential to increase intergovernmental confidence and cooperation in areas vital to both countries and to world security and peace"--

This interaction, Vickery argues, has the potential to increase intergovernmental confidence and cooperation in areas vital to both countries and to world security and peace.

This interaction, Vickery argues, has the potential to increase intergovernmental confidence and cooperation in areas vital to both countries and to world security and peace.

In the two hundred years since their arrival in America, elephants have worked on farms, mills, mines, and railroads, in Hollywood, and in professional baseball. They've contributed to the national discourse on civil rights, immigration, politics, and capitalism. They became so deeply ingrained in the American way that they were once accorded the rights of American citizenship, including the right to vote and the right to provide testimony under oath—and they have incurred brutal punishments when convicted of human crimes. In Behemoth, Ronald B. Tobias has written the first comprehensive history of the elephant in America. As tragic as it is comic, this enthralling chronicle traces this animal's indelible footprint on American culture.