Best Selling Books by Michael J. Sullivan

Une double exécution approche. Mais les deux voleurs condamnés ont d''autres projets... Le Nouvel Empire compte illustrer sa victoire sur les nationalistes par une sanglante célébration. Au coeur des réjouissances d''hivernal, la sorcière de Melengar sera brûlée et l''Héritier de Novron exécuté. Ce même jour, l''impératrice se prépare à un mariage forcé qui sera suivi d''un accident fatal. Le Nouvel Empire est aussi confiant qu''arrogant, son triomphe est absolu. Quelque chose lui a pourtant échappé : Royce et Hadrian ont enfin découvert le véritable Héritier de Novron. « Un tourbillon de coups de théâtre, de surprises fracassantes et de trahisons fatales. » Literary Magic

Die US-Nr.1 Bestsellerserie Dreimal hatten sie schon versucht, sie zu ermorden. Schließlich wurde ein Profikiller angeheuert. Die Zeit für Riyria einzugreifen ist gekommen. Im Zentrum des dritten Bandes der Riyria-Chroniken steht ein einzigartiges Mordkomplott. Als Nysa Dulgath, die letzte Nachkommin der ältesten Adelsfamilie Avryns, Ziel eines Attentats werden soll, bekommt Riyria den Auftrag, die Sache zu verhindern. Dafür reisen Hadrian und Royce in eine der entlegensten Ecken des Landes, an einen Ort, der sogar älter ist als das gesamte Reich. Und sie müssen, um die Gräfin schützen zu können, eine Antwort auf die Frage finden, wie hier wohl ein professioneller Mörder vorgehen würde. Aber das ist nicht die einzige Herausforderung, denn Lady Dulgath hat ein dunkles Geheimnis, das unbedingt gehütet werden muss. Womöglich hat es mit der Kirche Nyphrons zu tun, deren Macht immer obskurer wird...

Die Bedrohung – ein neues Imperium. Die geheime Macht – die Kirche Nyphrons. Zwischen allen Fronten – Hadrian und Royce. Riyria und die Welt von Elan sehen sich der größten Gefahr seit Jahrhunderten gegenüber. Die berüchtigten Diebe mit Namen Riyria übernehmen einen Auftrag als Spione des Königs von Melengar, während sich das kleine Königreich verzweifelt im Kampf gegen das Neue Imperium wehrt. Mit einem brutalen Krieg gegen die Bevölkerung versuchen die Putschisten, hinter denen Kirche die Nyphrons steht, die Macht an sich zu reißen. Allen Königreichen droht die Knechtschaft. Kann Prinzessin Arista auf eigene Faust ein Bündnis gegen die Aggresoren schließen? Als Begleitung nimmt sie die besten Agenten des Königreichs mit: Riyria. Doch schon bald findet sich das Trio in einem uralten, beinahe 1000 Jahre alten Konflikt wieder, aus dem es keinen Ausweg zu geben scheint ...

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Programs have been created in the Dept. of Defense (DOD) to help facilitate the transition of new technologies. GAO was directed to undertake a body of work that will provide a holistic assessment of DOD’s Science and Technology (S&T) enterprise. This report reflects the results from GAO’s first review, which focuses on technology transition. Generally, when technologies have been sufficiently matured in the S&T environment, the technologies are available to transition to a military user. The objectives of this report were to (1) determine what DOD programs are dedicated to facilitating technology transition; (2) assess the outcomes of these transition programs; and (3) identify practices among the programs that may facilitate technology transition. Tables and figures. This is a print on demand report.

Over the past five years, GAO has found potential overlap or duplication in Department of Defense (DOD) weapon system investments. Overlap occurs when multiple agencies or programs are engaged in similar activities. Duplication occurs when two or more agencies or programs are engaged in the same activities. Senate Report 113-44 accompanying the FY 2014 National Defense Authorization Act mandated this report on the military services'' ground radar and air-to-ground precision guided munitions programs for potential duplication. It examines the extent to which potential overlap or duplication exists across the military services'' (1) ground radar and (2) air-to-ground precision guided munitions programs. Tables and figure. This is a print on demand report.

Earned Citizenship is an intervention in the U.S. immigration reform debate that advances the proposition that long-term, unauthorized immigrant U.S. residents should be able to earn legalization and a pathway to citizenship through service to citizens in their adopted U.S. communities as restitution for immigration law violations. Earned Citizenship first applies the principle of civic membership as reciprocity to support the argument that military service by unauthorized immigrants in particular merits naturalization in the United States, given its strong citizen-soldier tradition. The book contends that noncitizens who serve in the military during a period of declared hostilities should be immune from deportation for the rest of their lives. After drawing from the military aspect of the civic republican tradition, the second part of the book considers the civic value of caregiving as a service to citizens and the nation, which merits a pathway to citizenship for unauthorized immigrants. Family immigration policies should be expanded to recognize the importance of caregiving duties performed by family members and fictive kin for dependents. This argument is part of a broader project aimed at reconciling the civic republicanism of the first part of the book with a feminist ethic of care and its emphasis on dependency work. As a whole, this book provides a nonhumanitarian justification for legalizing unauthorized immigrants based on their contributions to citizens and institutions in their adopted nation.

This paper begins by applying two “adverse impact theories of inclusion” in the literature in democratic theory to the situation of members of communities that have been shaped by U.S. intervention that later decide to immigrate to the United States. Both theories can be applied to respond to adverse impact claims arising from the solicitation of migrant laborers to serve the public interests of wartime production and infrastructure development. But they do not adequately address positive claims to inclusion by non-citizens who are already contributing to the welfare of the community they wish to join by supporting U.S. interests abroad or participating in civic initiatives as unauthorized residents. I argue that the contributions of both groups should be recognized as the basis for a priority claim to inclusion as legal permanent residents and eventual citizens of the United States.

"Since the 1980s, the V-22, developed to transport combat troops, supplies, and equipment for the U.S. Marine Corps and to support other services'' operations, has experienced several fatal crashes, demonstrated various deficiencies, and faced virtual cancellation--much of which it has overcome. Although recently deployed in Iraq and regarded favorably, it has not performed the full range of missions anticipated, and how well it can do so is in question. Given concerns about the V-22 program, GAO recently reviewed and on May 11, 2009, reported on MV-22 operations in Iraq; strengths and deficiencies in terms of the capabilities expected of the V-22; and past, current, and future costs. In that report, GAO recommended that the Secretary of Defense require (1) a new alternatives analysis of the V-22 and (2) that the Marine Corps develop a prioritized strategy to improve system suitability, reduce operational costs, and align future budget requests. The Department of Defense (DOD) concurred with the second recommendation, but not the first. GAO believes both recommendations remain valid. This testimony highlights GAO''s findings from that report. In speaking of the V-22, we are actually speaking of two variants of the same aircraft. The MV-22 is used by the Marine Corps; and the CV-22 by the Air Force to support special operations. This statement largely focuses on the MV-22, but also refers to the V-22 and CV-22."--Highlights.

In this article we trace the expansion of interior immigration enforcement measures since the 1990s, focusing on the period after the creation of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in 2003. We consider the rationale for the escalation of enforcement during this period, as well as the expansion of enforcement to include local and state law enforcement agencies. Detailing in particular the role of local jails, private corrections corporations, and the communities that are financially dependent on the prison industry, the article also examines who benefits economically and politically from these changes. Throughout, we consider how the expansion of immigration enforcement has affected U.S. citizen children and spouses of unauthorized immigrants. We question whether U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is fulfilling its mandate to de-emphasize enforcement against parents, guardians, and children given that the number of detentions and removals in these categories continues to increase. We discuss how this is imposing unnecessary costs and burdens on ICE''s citizen stakeholders while benefiting private corrections corporations.