After the ice comes the peril The Ice Age has come to an abrupt end, but the world's troubles have not. Legions of undead still plague the living. The temporary peace in Kjeldor has come to an end, and an evil far more treacherous than Lim Dul has been unleashed upon the land. The ice has gone, but the evil remains.

Witnessing a torpedo attack on a Vietnamese merchant ship by a Chinese nuclear sub, USS North Dakota captain Jerry Mitchell helps to forge a tenuous new alliance with Western Pacific nations in a covert submarine campaign aimed at crippling China's economy and preventing a full-scale war.

A challenge to long-held assumptions about the costs and benefits of America’s allies. Since the Revolutionary War, the United States has entered into dozens of alliances with international powers to protect its assets and advance its security interests. America’s Entangling Alliances offers a corrective to long-held assumptions about US foreign policy and is relevant to current public and academic debates about the costs and benefits of America’s allies. Author Jason W. Davidson examines these alliances to shed light on their nature and what they reveal about the evolution of American power. He challenges the belief that the nation resists international alliances, showing that this has been true in practice only when using a narrow definition of alliance. While there have been more alliances since World War II than before it, US presidents and Congress have viewed it in the country’s best interest to enter into a variety of security arrangements over virtually the entire course of the country’s history. By documenting thirty-four alliances—categorized as defense pacts, military coalitions, or security partnerships—Davidson finds that the US demand for allies is best explained by looking at variance in its relative power and the threats it has faced.

Among a growing number of ethnographies of eastern Indonesia that deal with cosmology, exchange, and kinship, From a Shattered Sun is the first to address squarely issues originally broached by Edmund Leach and Claude Lévi-Strauss concerning the relation between hierarchy and equality in asymmetric systems of marriage. On the basis of extensive fieldwork in the Tamimbar islands, Susan McKinnon analyzes the simultaneous presence of both closed, asymmetric cycles and open, asymmetric pathways of alliance--of both egalitarian and hierarchical configurations. In addition, Tamimbarese society is marked by the existence of multiple, differentially valued forms of marriage, affiliation, and residence. Rather than seeing these various forms as analytically separable types, McKinnon demonstrates that it is only by viewing them as integrally related--in terms of culturally specific understandings of "houses," gender, and exchange--that one can perceive the processes through which hierarchy and equality are created.

Working to form allegiances with new star systems in spite of the toxic legacy of Syndicate rule, President Iceni and General Drakon must also confront threats from invading alien warships and a once-trusted advisor who has turned saboteur.

How long can you play with fire before the fire starts playing with you?Two years ago, infamous bank robber Raptor turned Skylar Montgomery's life upside-down with the startling murder of her father in a heist gone wrong. Sick of waiting on the FBI, she allies herself with con man Parker Ramsey, the one person in Raptor's crew who got away with his life. As he draws her further into his web of seduction and cryptic half-truths, she can't be certain of anything. Is he trying to help her or is he setting her up?Freshly transferred to the Dallas office, FBI Special Agent Jackson Caldwell longs for a juicy case that will help distract him from his touch and go relationship with the woman he loves, but a bank robbery and murder case with no leads threaten his plans. Between socialites, indecisive women and a partner with more secrets than the perp, he has his work cut out for him.As they get closer to unraveling Raptor's identity, it's anyone's guess whether Skylar or the FBI will get to him first...or if they'll live to tell.WARNING: This book ends in a cliffhanger that will be resolved in Foresight is Flawless (coming September 2013).Please note: This book features coarse language and graphic adult scenes (aka sex, y'all).

Based on in-depth interviews with seventy-four intellectuals of the lefts in Cuba and Mexico, Reinventing Revolution explores the rapidly changing thinking of progressives on the big-and enduring-questions of democracy, economic alternatives, and national sovereignty. Offering a unique world-systems perspective on the sociology of intellectuals and