She wants to escape the life chosen for her. He’s determined to make sure she can. When Michaela’s boyfriend proposes in front of everyone she knows, her future flashes before her eyes, sending her running off to New York in search of something different. Among the city streets, the socialite can escape the expectations of her life back in the wealthy world of the Connecticut elite. She can pretend there isn’t a man picked out for her, a future that will see her giving up law school and becoming nothing more than Ethan’s wife. She wants a break, some space to think, but she never expected him. Jason. The bar owner with little to his name except his business and a group of friends that are his family, like Michaela’s brother. The more time Michaela spends with Jason and the people around him, the more she realizes the country clubs and extravagance she’s used to have nothing on the simple freedoms she didn’t know she wanted. Get lost in a sweet and clean, heartwarming love story of second chances and new beginnings with likable characters, strong friendships, and a guaranteed happy ending. A New Choice is the standalone first book in the New Beginnings series. The New Beginnings Series: A New Choice A New Promise A New Dream A New Path

The first book to take alternative medicine out of its mystical fringe and into the mainstream, New Choices in Natural Healing features more than 20 unique alternative remedies for each of 160 health problems, from acne to wrinkles, plus practical explanations of 20 natural therapies, from aromatherapy to vitamin therapy. Including 440 illustrations, New Choices in Natural Healing also covers: • Acupressure: pinpoint pain relief • Aromatherapy: relieve stress and tension • Ayurveda: a customized system of better health • Flower Therapy: heal the mind, and the body will follow • Food Therapy: harness the power to erase disease • Herbal Therapy: a healing partnership with Mother Nature • Homeopathy: medicines perhaps more powerful than prescriptions • Hydrotherapy: bathe yourself in natural healing • Imagery: picture yourself perfectly healthy • Juice Therapy: the curative essence of fruits and vegetables • Massage: hands-on healing for yourself and your family • Reflexology: speed restorative energy to organs and body parts • Relaxation and Meditation: achieve a higher state of health • Sound Therapy: soothe your body with music's gentle waves • Vitamin and Mineral Therapy: natural prescriptions for healing • Yoga: stretches for better health

Excerpt from Charting a Course: Strategic Choices for a New Administration: The new administration takes office in a time of great complexity. Our new President faces a national security environment shaped by strong currents: globalization; the proliferation of new, poor, and weak states, as well as nonstate actors; an enduring landscape of violent extremist organizations; slow economic growth; the rise of China and a revanchist Russia; a collapsing Middle East; and a domestic politics wracked by division and mistrust. While in absolute terms the Nation and the world are safer than in the last century, today the United States finds itself almost on a permanent war footing, engaged in military operations around the world. [...] No formal document describes a grand strategy for the United States, and indeed, many academics deny that one exists. Yet a close look at our history as a world power suggests that core interests and how we secure them have remained generally consistent over time. If grand strategy "rises above particular strategies intended to secure particular objectives," many decades of focusing on nuclear deterrence, power projection, alliances and partnerships, and military and economic strength probably constitute the underpinnings of a coherent grand strategy. How we employ and leverage these instruments of national power to protect, defend, and advance the national interest is, after all, the essence of grand strategy. In a dangerous world, these pillars have provided a strong foundation for national security. If our domestic politics can achieve consensus on future threats and solutions, America is well positioned to lead and prosper in a world that will remain both dangerous and uncertain. R.D. Hooker, Jr. Director, Institute for National Strategic Studies National Defense University Washington, D.C. Related items: Policy Analysis in National Security Affairs: New Methods for a New Era can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-020-01561-0 Operationalizing Counter Threat Finance Strategies can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-000-01131-1

In this report the Liaison Committee conducts a brief review of House of Lords policy committees, in advance of the appointment of those committees in the new Parliament

Why do institutions emerge, change, persist and die? This book challenges conventional theoretical views using the history of global commerce.