01455oam 2200277z- 450 991015778260332120150718084413.01-63476-009-3(CKB)3710000001009670(BIP)052638764(BIP)052787597(EXLCZ)99371000000100967020210505c2015uuuu -u- -engWitches /A.M. BurnsHarmony Ink Press1 online resource (180 p.) 1-63476-007-7 The Woodmen Chronicles: Book Three Thom Woodmen, a bigfoot or Oh Mah, who lives in a human world, is bonded to Ben Steele, an average teenager. Thom has barely adjusted to his new status as a Guardian when he discovers others working against him and there's a price on his head. Then an intruder appears in his family's territory, and he senses strange energies coming from Ben. While they struggle to find out who wants Thom dead, Ben is tested to confirm Thom's suspicions--Ben has magic. Ben shows promise, but he just wants to stay the normal human within their group of friends. After more attacks, Ben begins to see how magic might help him protect Thom--if only he can learn enough before the witch who is hunting them closes in for the kill.American literature813/.6Burns A. M.1965-1435072BOOK9910157782603321Witches3592413UNINA03522nam 2200685Ia 450 991078421190332120230617004235.01-281-36372-397866113637271-4039-7825-510.1057/9781403978257(CKB)1000000000342902(SSID)ssj0000122851(PQKBManifestationID)11140016(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000122851(PQKBWorkID)10130792(PQKB)10513968(DE-He213)978-1-4039-7825-7(MiAaPQ)EBC307666(Au-PeEL)EBL307666(CaPaEBR)ebr10135427(CaONFJC)MIL136372(OCoLC)560461382(EXLCZ)99100000000034290220040816d2005 uy 0engurnn|008mamaatxtccrCivil-military dynamics, democracy, and international conflict[electronic resource] a new quest for international peace /Seung-Whan Choi and Patrick James1st ed.New York Palgrave Macmillanc20051 online resource (XIV, 197 p.) Advances in foreign policy analysisBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-349-52844-7 1-4039-6485-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-192) and index.1. Introduction -- 2. A review of democracy, peace, and other things -- 3. A new look at international conflict and peace : four factors to consider -- 4. Research design -- 5. Accounting for militarized interstate disputes -- 6. Accounting for fatal militarized interstate disputes -- 7. A key issue of measurement : military expenditure and civil-military relations -- 8. A closer look at media openness : from institutional democracy to media openness? -- 9. The quest for peace.Addressing decision-making over interstate disputes and the democratic peace thesis, Choi and James build an interactive foreign policy decision-making model with a special emphasis on civil-military relations, conscription, diplomatic channels and media openness. Each is significant in explaining decisions over dispute involvement. The temporal scope is broad while the geographic scope is global. The result is sophisticated analysis of the causes of conflict and factors that can ameliorate it, and a generalizable approach to the study of foreign relations. The findings that media openness contributes to peaceful resolution of disputes, that the greater the influence of the military the more likely for their to be interstate disputes, that conscription is likely to have the same effect, and that increases in diplomatic interaction correlate with increased conflict are sure to generate debate.Advances in foreign policy analysis.Peacekeeping forcesConflict managementInternational relationsDemocracyPeacekeeping forces.Conflict management.International relations.Democracy.322/.5Choi Seung-Whan1493604James Patrick1957-890323MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784211903321Civil-military dynamics, democracy, and international conflict3858674UNINA