Being cocky can cost you your life. Being intelligent, semi-street smart, and Cocky may be all that's needed to survive. A humorous journey towards tears caused by the real world.

Is it poetry, deranged thoughts, ramblings, or brief communications directed at igniting the thought process? The material in this book - Pros and poems - has no scientific foundation; it offers no mathematical certainties; there is no insight on how to save the whales, the onzone layer, and not a hint as to how to live or love. This book contains opinions based on experiences, observations, wishes, and beliefs about almost every daily topic. Readers will find themselves laughing at the humor and shedding a few tears while affirming this as profound, insightful, and uplifting material which is a must read.

The modern diplomatic system, originating in Italy, spread rapidly over the rest of Europe around 1500. For 'history' this had a two-fold result: an enormous amount of historical documentation produced by the new diplomatic machinery, and a vastly important new area for historical study - the relations of modern states with each other. Two large, overlapping bodies of historical materials are thus the subject of this volume: documents of diplomatic origin, which might be about anything and in fact are important sources for political, economic and other kinds of history besides diplomatic; and the sources essential for writing diplomatic history, which include types that are neither manuscript in form nor even documentary in nature.