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How many lives can one man save? Never enough, Horton realized. As
his ship backed away from Smyrna's wharf, he could better see the
helpless, teeming crowd on the waterfront trapped between the sea
and a raging inferno. He was not consoled by rescuing his shipload
of refugees, nor by the many other Christian, Jewish, and Muslim
lives he had saved during his service as American consul. His focus
was on the people before him threatened with fire, rape, and
massacre. Their persecution, he later said, made him ashamed he
"belonged to the human race." Helping them would not be easy,
however. His superiors were blocking humanitarian aid and covering
up atrocities with fake news and disinformation to win Turkish
approval for American access to oil. When Horton decried their
duplicity and hard-heartedness, they conspired to destroy his
reputation. Undaunted, Horton pursued his cause until it went to
the President and then Congress for decisions that would set the
course for America's emergence as a world power. At stake was the
outcome of WWI, the stability and liberality of the Middle East,
and the likelihood of more genocide.
In this book, two national-security experts put the exploits of
America's special operation forces in historical and strategic
context. David Tucker and Christopher J. Lamb offer an incisive
overview of America's turbulent experience with special operations.
Starting with in-depth interviews with special operators, the
authors illustrate the diversity of modern special operations
forces and the strategic value of their unique attributes. Despite
longstanding and growing public fascination with special operators,
these forces and their contribution to national security are poorly
understood. With this book, Tucker and Lamb dispel common
misconceptions and offer a penetrating analysis of how these unique
and valuable forces can be employed to even better effect in the
future. The book builds toward a comprehensive assessment of the
strategic utility of special operations forces, which it then
considers in light of the demands of future warfare. This second
edition of United States Special Operations Forces, revised
throughout to account for lessons learned in the twelve years since
its first publication, includes two new case studies, one on High
Value Target Teams and another on Village Stability Operations, and
two new appendixes charting the evolution of special operation
missions and the best literature on all aspects of U.S. special
operation forces.
This volume provides protocols and methods on techniques to study
plant gametogenesis. Chapters are divided into four sections
covering omics, cytological, molecular approaches, plant
transformation, genome editing, bioinformatics, and data analysis.
Written in the format of the highly successful Methods in
Molecular Biology series, each chapter includes an
introduction to the topic, lists necessary materials and reagents,
includes tips on troubleshooting and known pitfalls, and
step-by-step, readily reproducible protocols. Â Authoritative
and cutting-edge, Plant Gametogenesis: Methods and Protocols
aims to be a foundation for future studies and to be a source of
inspiration for new investigations in the field.
This volume provides protocols and methods on techniques to study
plant gametogenesis. Chapters are divided into four sections
covering omics, cytological, molecular approaches, plant
transformation, genome editing, bioinformatics, and data analysis.
Written in the format of the highly successful Methods in Molecular
Biology series, each chapter includes an introduction to the topic,
lists necessary materials and reagents, includes tips on
troubleshooting and known pitfalls, and step-by-step, readily
reproducible protocols. Authoritative and cutting-edge, Plant
Gametogenesis: Methods and Protocols aims to be a foundation for
future studies and to be a source of inspiration for new
investigations in the field.
Religious conversion has always been and remains today a
controversial issue in many of the world's reigions. It has been
promoted, condoned, banned but almost never ignored. Although it
normally appears in a religious context, the language of conversion
can be discerned at the heart of the new religious pluralism that
is increasingly present at least in many Western societies. This
volume explains the practices of various world religions and
highlights some of the issues that cut across traditions and emerge
in distinctive ways in different ways in different religions and
cultural settings. The first three chapters offer students some
theoretical perspectives, and are followed by accounts of the
history of conversion in Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism, Islam,
Sikhism, Chinese religion and Zoroastrianism, as well as
descriptions of contemporary practice. Additonal chapters look in
depth at personal stories of conversion, both within Christianity
and from Christianity Eastern and New Age forms of religion. The
book will be of interest to undergraduates as well as the general
reader interested in gaining an insight into an enduring
controversy that affects all religions.Christopher Lamb is Head of
the Centre for Inter-Faith Dialogue at Middlesex University,
London. M. Darrol Bryant is Professor of Religion and Culture at
Renison College, University of Waterloo, Ontario.
To mark the 50th anniversary in 2012 of the rebuilding of Coventry
Cathedral after its destruction by incendiary bombs in November
1940, this lavishly illustrated volume celebrates a unique church
with a unique mission. The decision to rebuild the Cathedral was
taken the morning after the bombing - not as an act of defiance,
but one of faith, trust and hope for the future of the world.
Reconciling People tells the story of every aspect the Cathedral's
life: its architecture in war and in peace, its theology, worship
and spirituality, music and the arts, its mission and ministry, its
place in the life of the city, the Cathedral as a place of
reconciliation, its people over the decades and its life today.
Co-published with the Friends of Coventry Cathedral, this
celebratory volume is a record of a how a 900-year old cathedral
rose from the ashes of violent destruction to become a symbol of
reconciliation and to develop a unique mission among Britain's
churches.
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