Executive Force


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“Electrifying…A political thriller of the highest order, cut from the cloth of Allen Drury and Richard Condon.” ―Jon Land, USA Today-bestselling author of The Tenth Circle Local and national political figures are systematically assassinated. A growing secessionist movement stirs up anti-government fervor. The combination creates instability, fear, nationwide unrest—and lack of confidence in leadership. With the clock ticking toward a monumental constitutional crisis, President Morgan Taylor assigns Secret Service Agent Scott Roarke to investigate the assassinations. Meanwhile, Roarke’s fiancée, an assistant to the U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice, is tasked with researching the separatists. As attorney Katie Kessler goes rogue to gather evidence for the court, Roarke hunts a lone assassin across two continents. Their paths lead them both to a decades-old plot hatched at a private school in Switzerland—and now leading to North Korea. With the assassin ready to make his greatest kill and critical destabilizing votes occurring state-by-state, the president must decide whether to activate America’s own secretive, long-incubating active measures against an enemy that can’t be exposed, but must be stopped. Timely and revealing, with an inside-out view of real and present dangers, Executive Force brings a political reality to the page that feels like breaking news. “Couldn’t be more timely…as harrowing as it is entertaining.”—Joseph Finder, New York Times-bestselling author of House on Fire




Studies On Hospital Management Transformation


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The management consulting team headed by Mr. Jian Di has provided strategic management consulting services for over 700 medical institutions and has rendered guidance for more than 100 medical institutions in constructing patient-centric hospital cultures. Studies on Hospital Management Transformation reflects Mr Jian Di's more than 40 years of management experience, including nearly 20 years of experience in hospital management. Condensing Mr Jian's thoughts on patient-centric care in hospital culture, this book introduces a method to systematically evaluate and construct hospital culture using 32 procedures and 500 indicators. Theoretically innovative and easy to operate, the proposed system easily produces the desired effect in constructing patient-centric hospital cultures while defying conventional cultural concepts.Due to the absence of a clear evaluation standard and system, the majority of hospital management personnel in China are uncertain of how to evaluate and construct hospital culture. This book presents a theoretical model, evaluation indicators and improvement objectives of hospital culture. Beyond theories, it also includes substantial systematic approaches and practical construction cases which make this book highly applicable. The theoretical system of the patient-centric hospital culture has been applied in over 100 medical institutions. This book should be taken as an essential guidebook for hospital management.




The Palestinian Military


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This book analyzes Palestinian attempts to create an organized military force from the period of the Mandate up to the present day. Beginning with a comparative overview of the relationship between insurgent movements and the quest to build up a standard military, the book looks, first, at how the 1936 revolt galvanized the Palestinian leadership to attempt to create a military. It then goes on to examines other major topics such as: the 1948 failure to create an organized armed force; Palestinian participation in other Arab armed forces; the creation of the PLA; attempts to develop a security apparatus after Oslo; and, finally, the question of security reform and peace-making. The book concludes by identifying the lessons from the Palestinian experience that can be applied in promoting healthy civil-military relations within political entities located in major conflict zones.




Gaza


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The book talks about the ancient and current history and politics of Gaza. It focuses on the conflict with Israel until the last Israeli military attack on Gaza on July 2014. Gaza is part of Palestine and the home of about two million people. It has the highest growth rate in the world and is overcrowded. The Israeli Army has occupied Gaza on 1967. The Israeli Army pulled out unilaterally its troops from inside Gaza on 2005. However, Israel has continued to be the occupying power of Gaza because it controls the air space, territorial waters, and the movement of people or goods in or out of Gaza by air or sea.




EU Mediation Law and Practice


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A practical reference providing detailed information and expert commentary on implementation of mediation law across 27 EU Member States, organized by country, with trends and differences analysed. Considers key Mediation Directive legislation following its entry into force and implementation.




Hamas


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When the radical Islamist group Hamas was elected to lead Palestine in 2006, the Western world was shocked. How had the majority of Palestinians come to support an extremist organization and how would the group’s new political power affect the larger Israel/Palestine conflict? Italian journalist and historian Paola Caridi offers a clear-eyed account of how the conditions in this war-torn region led to the rise of Hamas and an unbiased look at the complex feelings that Palestinians have toward getting behind a government that supports violent resistance. By breaking from the sensationalist journalism surrounding the elections, Caridi is able to tell the story of a movement caught between the desire to resist its oppressor and the need to provide support for a refugee people. Caridi, informed by years of on-the-ground research and interviews with residents of Gaza and leaders of Hamas, covers the history of Gaza from its golden age as a port city to the formal birth and slow militarization of Hamas. This English-language translation brings the reader to present-day Palestine by offering a never-before-seen chapter on Operation Cast Lead, the shocking WikiLeaks disclosures, and the Cairo Revolution. Hamas paints a picture, with intelligence, dexterity, and heart, of a people trapped in the most historic of political battles and reveals the strange complexities behind the controversy by explaining one of the key players in the search for peace and justice that runs through the central crisis of the Middle East today.




Bankers' Magazine


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Executive Treason


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A Secret Service agent confronts Russian spycraft, murder in the White House, and a dangerous talk-radio host in a “completely mesmerizing” thriller (Dale Brown, New York Times-bestselling author of Eagle Station). The terrorists who came within a heartbeat of undermining the presidency of the United States in Executive Actions are back in Executive Treason with a new—and deadlier—plot to destabilize the U.S. government. It begins with the mugging and murder of a female White House staffer. Secret Service Agent Scott Roarke discovers the larger truth: the murder was committed by his secret nemesis, the mysterious assassin who had stayed one step ahead of him during the presidential campaign. This time, Roarke has found clues about the assassin’s past that give him the tools he needs to hunt the hunter—and also silence a popular hate talk radio host dividing the country. But the clues can only go so far. Roarke needs all his skills—and a lot of luck—if he’s going to catch his quarry… “Fast-paced, with vivid characters and a plot right off the front pages. Surprises you on every page. A winner.”—Larry Bond, New York Times-bestselling author of Arctic Gambit