In The End of Ambition, Steven A. Cook charts the course of the United States' encounter with the Middle East from the mid-twentieth century through the present day. Looking back, Cook makes a bold claim: the US was--despite setbacks and moral costs--successful. That record of achievement began to unravel in the early 1990s when policymakers embarked upon a set of overly ambitious policies to remake the Middle East. Cook highlights that calls to withdraw from the region are rash given the important interests the US maintains in the region. Yet, he also underscores how those interests are changing and explores alternatives to America's current approach to the Middle East against the backdrop of political uncertainty in the United States and a changing global order.

A groundbreaking new history of how the Vietnam War thwarted U.S. liberal ambitions in the developing world and at home in the 1960s At the start of the 1960s, John F. Kennedy and other American liberals expressed boundless optimism about the ability of the United States to promote democracy and development in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. With U.S. power, resources, and expertise, almost anything seemed possible in the countries of the Cold War’s “Third World”—developing, postcolonial nations unaligned with the United States or Soviet Union. Yet by the end of the decade, this vision lay in ruins. What happened? In The End of Ambition, Mark Atwood Lawrence offers a groundbreaking new history of America’s most consequential decade. He reveals how the Vietnam War, combined with dizzying social and political changes in the United States, led to a collapse of American liberal ambition in the Third World—and how this transformation was connected to shrinking aspirations back home in America. By the middle and late 1960s, democracy had given way to dictatorship in many Third World countries, while poverty and inequality remained pervasive. As America’s costly war in Vietnam dragged on and as the Kennedy years gave way to the administrations of Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon, America became increasingly risk averse and embraced a new policy of promoting mere stability in the Third World. Paying special attention to the U.S. relationships with Brazil, India, Iran, Indonesia, and southern Africa, The End of Ambition tells the story of this momentous change and of how international and U.S. events intertwined. The result is an original new perspective on a war that continues to haunt U.S. foreign policy today.

The old ways are changing, but they can't change fast enough for Joy Barron... Her ambition burns, and she wants it all – NOW. But success comes at a price. Is it worth it? What of love? And happiness? Joy is determined Redwoods will become a successful thoroughbred stud and has long dreamt of breeding a champion racehorse. When David Cavanagh opposes her ideas she schemes to get her way, determined to make her dream a reality. She justifies her actions because it is all for the good of Redwoods and winning races. As she continues on her wilful way tragedy strikes and fills her with remorse. Thunder, the big, black stallion, gallops into their lives, and with him comes Josh Frazer. When David goes to America with an indefinite return date, Joy is devastated at what she sees as his rejection and struggles with a lonely life. A series of mishaps occur that seem to be accidents. Is someone trying to harm Redwoods? If so, why? Then the children go missing, and Joy must turn to Josh for help and comfort. But does Josh want more than she can give? Will she risk everything? Against the heart-stopping background of the prestigious Gold Cup race week David returns and, Joy must search her soul to make the most difficult decision of her life.

The second NeXt series duet, Ravenous and Ambitious, by New York Times bestselling author K.M. Scott in a one-volume book! Cash March has everything going for him. With stunning good looks and a sharp mind, he’s set to graduate from law school in just a few months. His future looks bright. The son of Cassian and Olivia will be the first lawyer in the family. Talk about proud. Except Cash is hiding something, and if that secret is found out, he may lose everything, including his future. Savannah Gardener knows far too much about loss. A widow before her twenty-seventh birthday, she longs for the life she thought was hers before fate shattered her dreams. She has everything a woman could want, except love. All her money can’t buy that. Maybe it can help her find something to make her smile with a sexy man who’s looking for happiness too, though. But will Cash’s secrets ruin any chance for them when the truth is finally revealed?

2020 Gradiva Award Nominee, Best Edited Book Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Women and Their Experience of Desire, Ambition and Leadership considers how these factors can be understood, nurtured, or thwarted and the subsequent impact on women’s identity, authority and satisfaction. Psychoanalysis has long struggled with its ideas about women, about who they are, how to work with them, and how to respect and encourage what women want. This book argues that psychoanalytic theory and practice must evolve to maintain its relevance in a volatile landscape. Each section of the book begins with a chapter that reviews contemporary ideas regarding women, as well as psychoanalytic history, gender bias, and societal norms and deficits. Three composite clinical stories allow our distinguished contributors to discuss the contexts within which individual experience can be affected, and the role that clinical work may have to mobilize and advance passion and vitality. In their discussions, the interplay of clinical psychoanalysis, sociopolitical context, and understanding of gender, combine to offer a unique perspective, built on decades of scholarship, personal experience, and clinical expertise. Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Women and Their Experience of Desire, Ambition and Leadership will serve as a reference for all psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists as well as gender studies scholars interested in the progress of psychoanalytic theory regarding women in the 21st century. Contributors to this book include: Rosemary Balsam, Brenda Bauer, Andrea Celenza, Diane Elise, Adrienne Harris, Dorothy Holmes, Nancy Kulish, Vivian Pendar, Dionne Powell, and Arlene Richards.

This volume contains many aspects of sports journalism in daily newspapers, bundled in these main chapters: Professional Sports - Boxing Fights, Yacht Races, Horse Racing, Car Racing, Football, Baseball etc. College Sports - Sports Agents, lce Hockey, Football Coaches, Basketball Cheatings, etc. Sports Celebrities - Famous Jockey, Boxing Champion, Baseball ldol, Outstanding Golfer, etc. Sports Television - Munich Olympics, Los Angeles Olympics, Barcelona Olympics, Sochi Winter Olympics, etc. Sports Photos - Football Player, Baseball Hero, Barcelona Olympics, Boston Marathon Bombings etc. Sports Cartoons - Criticism about several Olympic Summer and Winter Games.

Part 2 of a trilogy on Bruce Lee... Do not be afraid to go wrong otherwise you will never know how to do it right. Do not make a complex of what nature gives you. Y ou are your pace, your height, your weight, your muscular possibilities. Be clearly aware of what makes you. Trust in yourself. Be faithful to yourself. Do not seek in others any model to imitate. BRUCE LEE From the beginning of the reading, I was thrilled that I already have twenty books on my idol. In this book, the little dragon accompanied, in real time, the reader in the future steps of his life. Because of you, the time to read this book, Bruce is really alive.This is what you want Mr author ? successful challenge... Waiting for your next book on our Bruce !!!

Ambitious Form describes the transformation of Italian sculpture during the neglected half century between the death of Michelangelo and the rise of Bernini. The book follows the Florentine careers of three major sculptors--Giambologna, Bartolomeo Ammanati, and Vincenzo Danti--as they negotiated the politics of the Medici court and eyed one another's work, setting new aims for their art in the process. Only through a comparative look at Giambologna and his contemporaries, it argues, can we understand them individually--or understand the period in which they worked. Michael Cole shows how the concerns of central Italian artists changed during the last decades of the Cinquecento. Whereas their predecessors had focused on specific objects and on the particularities of materials, late sixteenth-century sculptors turned their attention to models and design. The iconic figure gave way to the pose, individualized characters to abstractions. Above all, the multiplicity of master crafts that had once divided sculptors into those who fashioned gold or bronze or stone yielded to a more unifying aspiration, as nearly every ambitious sculptor, whatever his training, strove to become an architect.

In this captivating and radical look at “work-life balance,” Lara Bazelon reframes our understanding of working women—and shows how prioritizing your career benefits mothers, kids, and society at large. In this singular cultural moment, mothers have unparalleled opportunities to succeed at work while continuing to face the same societal impediments that held back our mothers and grandmothers. We still encounter entrenched gender bias in the workplace and are expected to shoulder the lion’s share of labor and burdens at home while being made to feel as if we’re never doing enough. All the while we’re told that the perfect work-life balance is possible, if only we try hard enough to achieve it. It’s time to change the conversation—about work, life, and “balance.” Work and life are inextricably, intimately intertwined. We need to celebrate what we do give our children—even and especially in moments of imbalance—rather than apologizing for what we don’t. In this way, we can model for our children how we use our talents to help others and raise awareness about the issues closest to our hearts. We can embrace the personal fulfillment and financial independence that pursuing meaningful work can bring as a way of showing our children how to live happy, purpose-driven lives. Bazelon argues not only that we can but that we should. Being ambitious at work and being a good mother to our children are not at odds—these qualities mutually reinforce each other. Backed up by research and filled with personal stories from Bazelon’s life, as well as that of her mother and the many other women she interviewed across the cultural and financial spectrum, Ambitious Like a Mother is an anthem, a beacon for all to recognize and celebrate the pioneering women who reject the false idols of the Selfless Mother and Work-Life Balance, and a call to embrace your own ambitions and model your multiplicities for your children.