Bøger af Michael Reilly

Our journey begins at what is called a "Gathering." It is during a Gathering at the Tree House that I tell the stories you are about to read. As I tell the Tree House Stories, you will meet mighty warriors in the Forgotten Forest as they hunt for the last of the Shadowmen. You will experience how Walt must end a life-long relationship with his best friend, Nate. You will read about Elsie, who must travel through the Land of Humans in search of the bridge that leads to the King's Land. You will come to know an angel named Guardian as he protects a young mother and her unborn child from the henchmen of Lord Reason. Through the adventures of Guardian, Elsie, Jimmy, Sapato, Walt, Calvin, Nicholas, and Terry, you will come to better understand the things that take place every day in the unseen world around you in the Land of Humans. Are you ready for a story?

Jamie is a twelve-year-old who has been labeled highly gifted. Good news, right? Except with it comes a cross-county car trip...with his ultra-obsessed dad...his annoying little sister...and a wacky educational consultant his dad has hired. Jamie could suggest better ways to spend his summer, and to live his life, if only someone would listen. But his dad, Doug, can't hear above the loud voices demanding nothing but the best for his son. Doug will do anything to give Jamie the leg up he needs to compete in a vicious world and get into an Ivy League school. Michael Reilly's hysterical road-trip in search of achievement is a wide-eyed satire about the pressures of modern parenthood. As they set out on the trip to San Francisco, where Jamie will attend a summer program for gifted youth, Doug's enthusiasm and hyperkinetic desire to enrich Jamie at every turn leads to hilarious complications and enlightening predicaments. A riotous portrayal of a father desperate to have the promise of his youth fulfilled through the life of his son, Doug's journey is not unlike that of many parents in modern-day America. With good grades, extracurricular activities, and solid SATs no longer the benchmark for entrance into top colleges, the pressure and stress of giving children the best opportunities for success can often lead to misplaced motivations. Accurately depicting the push-pull of parenthood and childhood and the need for adults to understand the voices of their children, Fresh Heir is a laugh-out-loud journey of self-discovery.

Originally called the Trans-Pacific Partnership until the USA withdrew in 2017, the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) is an ambitious and wide-ranging free trade agreement between eleven Pacific countries. Far from faltering after US withdrawal, several more countries have since applied to join, including China, Taiwan and the United Kingdom. Some observers see in this a contest between China and the USA for wider influence through an attempt to control or re-write the rules of international trade; at a minimum accession by any of the three would have a major impact on the CPTPP as originally envisaged.This edited volume considers the three applications, the motivations for the three to join, and the likely responses of existing members. The implications for cross-Strait tension between China and Taiwan are fully considered, as is the ability or willingness of the USA to influence the outcome of the applications.

This book is based on the author's experience as a British diplomat and scholar working in East Asia for much of the period since 1980. It seeks to challenge widely held views in Britain about the nature of our relations with countries in East Asia, especially in respect of trade.

In late 2015, against a background of growing populist opposition to international trade agreements, the European Commission announced its willingness to negotiate a comprehensive bilateral investment agreement with Taiwan.

Extended Matching Items (EMIs) are becoming increasingly important part of the MRCPsych written examinationThis book prepares candidates by describing the format of EMIs, followed by numerous examples of typical examination questions