Speeders Guide to Avoiding Tickets or The Middle East and the United States

Speeder's Guide to Avoiding Tickets

Author: James M Eagan

Regardless of your record as a driver, everyone speeds sometimes. You are on the open road, no one around for miles, and so you step on the gas pedal. Then you experience a sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach -- and in your wallet -- when you see a flashing red light in the rearview mirror. Now you can ease on down the road without paying the high price of traffic tickets, inflated insurance premiums and expensive lawyer's fees. Former New York State Trooper James M. Eagan tells you how-with invaluable tips and trade secrets that the police don't want you to know.

• What makes a cop "tick" -- and how to use it to your advantage
• What dates and times are safest to step on the gas and when you are most likely to get caught
• How to avoid talking yourself into tickets
• What stories and excuses will often work
• How to spot an unmarked car
• Clipping the wings off "The Bear in the Air"
• And much more!

Whether you drive for business or pleasure -- or simply suffer from occasional leadfoot -- you cannot afford to be without this book!

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The Middle East and the United States: A Historical and Political Reassessment, Vol. 4

Author: David W Lesch

The fourth edition of the acclaimed The Middle East and the United States brings together scholars and diplomats from the Middle East, Europe, and North America to provide an objective, cross-cultural assessment of US policy toward the Middle East. The new edition has been thoroughly and thoughtfully reorganized, revised, and updated to include five new chapters on topics such as the 2003 war in Iraq and its aftermath, the US promotion of democracy in the region, and recent developments in the Arab-Israeli arena.

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An explication of Indian communalism directed primarily to a US audience and representing the current state of research on Hindu nationalism. The 12 essays, culled from a seminar collaboration, combine methods in anthropology, history, political science and religious studies to develop the ideas of communal mobilization, and the genealogies of colonialism and conflict among both the Hindu and Muslim populations. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Note on the Text
	Introduction	1
1	The Ironic Legacy of the King-Crane Commission	11
2	The "Ambassador for the Arabs": The Locke Mission and the Unmaking of U.S. Development Diplomacy in the Near East, 1952-1953	29
3	U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Iran During the Mussadiq Era	51
4	Iranian Perceptions of the United States and the Mussadiq Period	67
5	The Mussadiq Era in Iran, 1951-1953: A Contemporary Diplomat's View	79
6	National Security Concerns in U.S. Policy Toward Egypt, 1949-1956	91
7	The United States and King Hussein	103
8	The Jekyll-and-Hyde Origins of the U.S.-Jordanian Strategic Relationship	117
9	The 1957 American-Syrian Crisis: Globalist Policy in a Regional Reality	131
10	U.S. Policy and Military Intervention in the 1958 Lebanon Crisis	147
11	The United States and Nasserist Pan-Arabism	167
12	The 1967 Arab-Israeli War: U.S. Actions and Arab Perceptions	189
13	Flawed Strategies and Missed Signals: Crisis Bargaining Between the Superpowers, October 1973	209
14	The United States and Israel: The Nature of a Special Relationship	233
15	The U.S.-PLO Relationship: From Dialogue to the White House Lawn	249
16	The Specifics of the Meaning of Peace in the Middle East	265
17	Kuwait and the United States: The Reluctant Ally and U.S. Policy Toward the Gulf	279
18	From "Over the Horizon" to "Into the Backyard": The U.S.-Saudi Relationship and the Gulf War	299
19	The Invasion of Kuwait and the Gulf War: Dilemmas Facing the Israeli-Iraqi-U.S. Relationship	313
20	U.S. Input into Iraqi Decisionmaking, 1988-1990	325
21	The U.S.-GCC Relationship: Is It a Glass Leaking or a Glass Filling?	355
22	The Soviet Union, the Gulf War, and Its Aftermath: A Case Study in Limited Superpower Cooperation	379
23	The Soviet Perception of the U.S. Threat	403
24	New U.S. Policies for a New Middle East?	413
25	Islamist Perceptions of U.S. Policy in the Middle East	419
	About the Book	439
	About the Editor and Contributors	441
	Index	445