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Over 30 million Americans are addicted to alcohol or other drugs. One out of every three families is a victim. This book can make a difference It shows anyone how to use the step-by-step methods of professional interventionists to motivate drug-dependent people to accept the help they need..
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"This is a revolution! This school is being taken hostage! Don't push any alarms, answer any phones, or call for help. I have guns and this is a bomb. You and I are only one-half inch from death." This is the true story of a traumatic hostage takeover that threatened the lives of over 150 students and teachers from Cokeville, Wyoming. As parents of one of the student hostages, Hartt and Judene Wixom recapture the terror and confusion that struck this small, tight-knit community on May 16, 1986. The Wixoms describe in detail the chain of events that led up to David Young's invasion, balancing the horrific scenes of terror with stories of hope and faith. The miraculous outcome of the nightmare proved to those involved that there are times when angels intervene to save the children. Basis for the movie To Save the Children, this terrifying yet tender story shows the strength of the human spirit and the reality of heavenly miracles. .
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In 1918 the U.S. government decided to involve itself with the Russian Revolution by sending troops to Siberia This book re-creates that unhappily memorable storythe arrival of British marines at Murmansk, the diplomatic maneuvering, the growing Russian hostility, the uprising of Czechoslovak troops in central Siberia which threatened to overturn the Bolsheviks, the acquisitive ambitions of the Japanese in Manchuria, and finally the decision by President Wilson to intervene with American troops. Of this period Kennan writes, "Never, surely, in the history of American diplomacy, has so much been paid for so little."

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Whether to intervene in conflicts in the developing world is a major and ongoing policy issue for the United States. In Deciding to Intervene, James M. Scott examines the Reagan Doctrine, a policy that provided aid to anti-Communist insurgents—or “Freedom Fighters” as President Reagan liked to call them—in an attempt to reverse Soviet advances in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Central America. Conceived early in the Reagan presidency as a means to win the Cold War, this policy was later singled out by Reagan and several of his advisors as one of the administration’s most significant efforts in the the Cold War’s final phase.
Using a comparative case study method, Scott examines the historical, intellectual, and ideological origins of the Reagan Doctrine as it was applied to Afghanistan, Angola, Cambodia, Nicaragua, Mozambique, and Ethiopia. Scott draws on many previously unavailable government documents and a wide range of primary material to show both how this policy in particular, and American foreign policy in general, emerges from the complex, shifting interactions between the White House, Congress, bureaucratic agencies, and groups and individuals from the private sector.
In evaluating the origins and consequences of the Reagan Doctrine, Deciding to Intervene synthesizes the lessons that can be learned from the Reagan administration’s policy and places them within the broad perspective of foreign policy-making today. Scott’s measured treatment of this sensitive and important topic will be welcomed by scholars in policy studies, international affairs, political science, and history, as well as by any reader with an interest in the formation of American foreign policy.

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To explore various religious explanations of the tragedies inflicted by nature, author Gary Stern has interviewed 43 prominent religious leaders across the religious spectrum, among them Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People; Father Benedict Groeschel, author of Arise from Darkness; The Rev. James Rowe Adams, founder of the Center for Progressive Christianity; Kenneth R. Samples, vice president of Reason to Believe; Dr. James Cone, the legendary African American theologian; Tony Campolo, founder of the Evangelical Association for the Promotion of Education; Dr. Sayyid Syeed, general secretary of the Islamic Society of North America; Imam Yahya Hendi, the first Muslim chaplain at Georgetown University; Dr. Arvind Sharma, one of the world's leading Hindu scholars; Robert A. F. Thurman, the first American to be ordained a Tibetan Buddhist monk; David Silverman, the national spokesman for American Atheists; and others--rabbis, priests, imams, monks, storefront ministers, itinerant holy people, professors, and chaplains--Jews, Roman Catholics, mainline Protestants, evangelical Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and Atheists-people of belief, and people of nonbelief, too. Stern asked each of them probing questions about what their religion teaches and what their faith professes regarding the presence of tragedy. Some feel that the forces of nature are simply impersonal, and some believe that God is omniscient but not omnipotent. Some claim that nature is ultimately destructive because of Original Sin, some assert that the victims of natural disasters are sinners who deserve to die, and some explain that natural disasters are the result of individual and collective karma. Still others profess that God causes suffering in order to test and purify the victims. Stern, an award-winning religion journalist, has extensive experience in this type of analytical journalism. The result is a work that probes and challenges real people's beliefs about a subject that, unfortunately, touches everyone's life..
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Cokeville, Wyoming was the perfect slice of American Pie--a rural community surrounded by ranches and built by committed families with strong religious convictions; certainly not the typical terrorist target--precisely why David Young chose it as the place to seize his hostages.

Shortly after lunch, Young and his wife charged the Cokeville Elementary School toting a small arsenal of weapons and pushing a cart carrying a deadly bomb. One hundred fifty-siz children and teachers were herded into a single classroom and the terror began.

But something was different. This was home-grown terrorism with a different motivation. David Young's twisted and deranged intent was to blow up the school creating a mass murder-suicide that would plunge them all into a "Brave New World" where he would rule over the children.

"When Angels Intervene to Save the Children" is a basis for the CBS movie "To Save the Children". The real story of this incident unfolded during interviews with school therapists and parents. The children's accounts attributed their survival to angels dressed in white who instructed and protected them and told them to stay calm. Fact by fact, the authors described every hour of the terrifying ordeal and recount piece by piece the children's stories of the miraculous escape..
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