Mary Troy: 5 books

Many of the US criticisms of Western European reluctance to engage in the 2004 war in Iraq stem from a perception that these governments are 'weak on defence' or unwilling to 'pull their own weight' in the international system. Secretary Rumsfeld pejoratively designated traditional Atlantic Alliance...

Cookie Lily is a gathering of nine stories and one novella, mostly set in Hawaii, in which women confront yearnings and ambitions, a material culture and their own looks, and the disparity between what should be and what is.

Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts. Games with military themes date back to antiquity, and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the academic and trade literature on games and game...

Scribble & Grin: 53 Rhymes for Inspiring Times, EMPOWERS KIDS! Always empowering, often amusing and sometimes a little ridiculous, Scribble & Grin: 53 Rhymes for Inspiring Times, is 142 pages of Rhyme AND Reason! Described by an education expert as "nursery rhymes for the 21st...

The most interesting characters are almost never the good guys. Doing the right thing is great and all, but a little bit of darkness—or a lot of it—often makes for a more engaging story. Antiheroes: Heroes, Villains, and the Fine Line Between is dedicated to the dark heroes and sympathetic villains...