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"Keep your eyes on the stars and keep your feet on the ground" reads a plaque near the gravesite of Theodore Roosevelt, America's 26th president. During his tumultuous seven and a half years in the White House, Roosevelt boasted that his administration had combined ideals and reality to take a leading role in maintaining global peace. In this book, the late Howard Jones, one of the most distinguished historians of American foreign relations of his generation, highlights the path to peace that Roosevelt had begun to develop shortly before becoming president and tried to implement throughout his White House tenure. For his efforts to end the Russo-Japanese War, he was the first American, and one of only two twentieth century presidents, to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. By exploring the influence of Roosevelt's private life on his public service, Jones presents a broader understanding that will appeal to readers beyond specialists in US foreign relations.

Originally published in 1977, Open Prisons presents research carried out in a number of prisons in the UK both 'open' and 'closed' intended to compare their effectiveness. Information was collected from inmates and prison staff through a number of exercises designed to assess the social atmosphere of the prison and how they felt about it. The book finishes with a chapter which discusses the policy implications of their findings. Today it can be read in its historical context.

Topics dealt with in this title, first published in 1979, are regime-planning, staffing, selection for residential care, the dynamics of interpersonal relationships, relationships with neighbours and the relatives of inmates, and the rational planning of daily programmes as an active contribution towards the realisation of institutional aims.

Over the years, I have worked as a consultant in the healthcare world. And during that time, I have met hundreds of physicians who were not only smart - but also wise in the decisions they make for their patients. I have also seen the wisdom of both men and women in jobs, different roles, and different responsibilities.But I have also seen friends in different businesses who lack wisdom in the decisions they make. The same is sometimes evident in song writers and poets - coaches and politicians. What I have experienced has called me to write this book.

As a consultant for the healthcare world, I have developed manuals that would help physicians understand how to code and document their services. And I have written many blogs related to healthcare that have been really appreciated by nurses and physicians - (click on "hjonesandassociates.blogspot.com").After closing my business, I have given more attention to my church and to my private time with God. And I have experienced joy writing this book - because it is focused on a topic that so many people (old and young) wrestle with. And that topic is prayer.

In the distant future, St. Thomas is little more than scattered ruins by some long forgotten disaster. Rising from the remains are a new people, the Inchlings, scattered among the furthest reaches of the island and living in what we left behind. Their history is one as colorful as ours, full of glory and adventure, yet war and destruction. This is the story of the young girl Julianne as she leaves the safety of her village to realize her role as a hero in the Ruins. This is an entry in the long record of their history...

In this examination of Union and Confederate foreign relations during the Civil War from both European and American perspectives, Howard Jones demonstrates that the consequences of the conflict between North and South reached far beyond American soil. Jones explores a number of themes, including the international economic and political dimensions of the war, the North's attempts to block the South from winning foreign recognition as a nation, Napoleon III's meddling in the war and his attempt to restore French power in the New World, and the inability of Europeans to understand the interrelated nature of slavery and union, resulting in their tendency to interpret the war as a senseless struggle between a South too large and populous to have its independence denied and a North too obstinate to give up on the preservation of the Union. Most of all, Jones explores the horrible nature of a war that attracted outside involvement as much as it repelled it. Written in a narrative style that relates the story as its participants saw it play out around them, Blue and Gray Diplomacy depicts the complex set of problems faced by policy makers from Richmond and Washington to London, Paris, and St. Petersburg.

Explores the relationship between President Lincoln's wartime diplomacy and his interrelated goals of forming a more perfect Union and abolishing slavery.

The Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842, which led to the settlement of the Canadian boundary dispute, was instrumental in maintaining peace between Great Britain and the US. Jones analyses the events that aggravated relations to show the affect of America's states' rights policy, and concludes that the two countries signed the treaty because they considered it the wisest alternative to war.

Studies the crisis in Anglo-American relations during the Civil War and its impact on the South's attempt to win foreign support during the crucial years of 1861 and 1862. Jones argues that the central issue was the possibility that Britain would grant diplomatic recognition to the Confederacy, a move that would have legitimized secession and undermined the Constitution.

This book is a narrative history of America's foreign affairs from 1897 to the present that focuses on the major personalities and events from the William McKinley administration through President George W. Bush.

This is an account of the settlement of the Maine and Oregon boundary disputes between the US and England during the 1840s. The country's success with England in resolving the dispute, marked the dawn of America's new age of expansion. This may be of value to students and history enthusiasts.

Documents the long, complex history of Epicureanism, from its origins in fourth-century BC Greece, through to its influence on the new science of physics in the 16th and 17th century.