Red Moon Rising or Exemplar of Liberty

Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries that Ignited the Space Age

Author: Matthew Brzezinski

“In his exuberant narrative of the superpower space race . . . [Brzezinski] tells the story of American and Soviet decisions with remarkable dramatic—even cinematic—flair.”—The New York Times Book Review

In Red Moon Rising, Matthew Brzezinski recounts the dramatic behind-the-scenes story of the fierce battles on earth that preceded and followed the launch of Sputnik on October 4, 1957. He takes us inside the Kremlin, the White House, secret military facilities, deep-cover safe houses, and the halls of Congress to bring to life the Russians and Americans who feared and distrusted their compatriots at least as much as their superpower rivals.

Drawing on original interviews and new documentary sources, Brzezinski tells a story rich in the paranoia of the time. The combatants include three U.S. presidents, survivors of the gulag, corporate chieftains, ambitious apparatchiks, rehabilitated Nazis, and a general who won the day by refusing to follow orders. The true story of the birth of the space age has never been told in such dramatic detail, and Red Moon Rising brings it vividly and memorably to life.

The Washington Post - Bryan Burrough

…however broad Brzezinski's strokes, one comes away not only entertained but informed, with a clear sense of why the pennywise Soviets leapt ahead in missile technology while the Americans, focused on developing bombers to reach Russian soil, failed to realize the importance of space until they woke beneath a communist moon…Throughout, Brzezinski remains in firm control, carving a fast-moving narrative from his own interviews and the research of others…In the end, what you think of Red Moon Rising probably depends on what you expect from popular history. Want a fun, easy read, something you can gulp down while idling in the after-school pickup line? Buy it. Want something comprehensive, authoritative, Caro-like? Pass. Whatever your preference, keep in mind the name Matthew Brzezinski. This book feels like a practice run from a young author destined for big things.

The New York Times - Mark Atwood Lawrence

There is nothing especially new in Red Moon Rising, which is heavily indebted to painstaking research by legions of historians who came before. But Brzezinski, a former Moscow correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, tells the story of American and Soviet decisions with remarkable dramatic—even cinematic—flair.

Publishers Weekly

The writing is fast-paced and crisp, the stakes high and the tension palpable from the first pages of this high-flying account of the early days of the space race between the U.S. and U.S.S.R., a race ignited by the Soviet launch of the first satellite, Sputnik, in 1957. Brzezinski (Fortress America), a contributor to the New York Times Magazine, says this battle for military and technological control of space, part of the larger Cold War, had lasting consequences. Brzezinski illuminates how the space race divided Americans: for instance, then Sen. Lyndon Johnson wanted to aggressively pursue the race, but President Eisenhower thought the ambitious senator was merely seeking publicity. The author also dissects the failed American spin: despite White House claims that Sputnik was no big deal, the media knew it was huge. Sputnik II, launched a month later, was even more unsettling for Americans, causing them to question their "way of life." The principals-Khrushchev, Eisenhower, John Foster Dulles, rocket scientist Werner von Braun-are vividly realized. Yet even more than his absorbing narrative, Brzezinski's final analysis has staying power: although the U.S. caught up to the U.S.S.R., it was the Russians' early dominance in space that established the Soviet Union as a superpower equal to America. (Sept.)

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Kirkus Reviews

The famous satellite's shiny metal orb reflects the entire nerve-racking history of Soviet/American relations during the Cold War. Brzezinski (Fortress America: On the Front Lines of Homeland Security-An Inside Look at the Coming Surveillance State, 2004, etc.) brings years of experience as a Moscow-based journalist to bear on his subject, the very earliest days of the space race. His exhaustive research among newly opened archives in both Moscow and Washington is evident. He begins with a terse, dramatic description of a V-2 rocket attack on London before moving on to the cutthroat contest between former allies to find, isolate and capture Hitler's rocket technology, including the visionary scientists like Werner Von Braun (see Michael J. Neufeld's Von Braun, 2007, for more information) who created it. The story is told in fast-paced, parallel narratives with the taut undertones of a spy novel as Brzezinski intertwines the Sputnik program's technical achievements with the global conflict growing between the emerging superpowers led by Dwight Eisenhower and Nikita Khrushchev. Though the author focuses primarily on events leading to the launch of Sputnik on October 4, 1957, subsequent chapters cover the launch of Explorer I, the first U.S. satellite in February of 1958. In the process, Brzezinski demonstrates, America and Russia both changed drastically as a new culture of competition emerged. His anecdotes range from absurd (Von Braun and actor Ronald Reagan host a Disney program on "Tomorrowland") to prescient (Eisenhower observes that a war waged with atomic missiles "would be just complete, indiscriminate devastation") to terrifying (as Moscow detonates its first atomic bomb, GeneralCurtis LeMay grumbles over the lost opportunity to completely destroy Russia with an anticipatory atomic attack). Extrapolating the space race's impact on future technology, the author offers largely superfluous and obvious conclusions in the epilogue. Otherwise, his well-drawn expose of this fundamental conflict is first-rate. A chilling portrait of rocket scientists and cold warriors at work. Agent: Scott Waxman/Waxman Literary Agency

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Exemplar of Liberty: Native America and the Evolution of Democracy (Native American Politics Series No. 3)

Author: Donald A Grind

A definitive study of how the founders of the United states combined European, American and Indian ideas into a new political system.

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Explains how to implement logic programming languages on parallel computers to most effectively exploit the inherent parallelism of the language and efficiently utilize the parallel architecture of the computer. Assumes basic knowledge of Prolog. No index. Maintaining the thesis that the character of American democracy evolved importantly from the examples provided by the American Indian confederacies that bordered the British colonies, the authors provide a thoroughly researched picture of how these native confederacies operated, and how important architects of American institutions and ideals perceived them. Published by the American Indian Studies Center, 3220 Campbell Hall, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024-1548. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Adam Smith in Beijing or The Myth of Moral Justice

Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-First Century

Author: Giovanni Arrighi

An authoritative exploration of China's emergence as the most dynamic center of economic and commercial expansion in the world today.

In the late eighteenth century, the political economist Adam Smith predicted an eventual equalization of power between the conquering West and the conquered non-West. In this magisterial new work, Giovanni Arrighi shows how China's extraordinary rise invites us to read The Wealth of Nations in a radically different way than is usually done. He examines how the recent US attempt to bring into existence the first truly global empire in world history was conceived in order to counter China's spectacular economic success of the 1990s, and how the US's disastrous failure in Iraq has made the People's Republic of China the true winner of the US War on Terror. In the 21st century, China may well become again the kind of non-capitalist market economy that Smith described, under totally different domestic and world-historical conditions.

Jim Doyle - Library Journal

Here are the experiences of five British veterans who survived World War I physically but came home damaged goods. It is the psychic impact of the horrific war that Barrett (English, Univ. of London; Imagination in Theory) examines through the experiences of Willis Brown, Douglas Darling, Ronald Skirth, William Tyrrell, and Lawrence Gameson. Each was the victim of shell shock or what is now known as posttraumatic stress disorder. Yet Barrett reveals that these succinct mental classifications do not do justice to what these men experienced. It was the cumulative effect of death as a constant companion that changed these veterans forever. They all returned home to apparently normal lives but beneath the surface there was illness, alcoholism, bitterness, and depression. Through interviews with the soldiers' descendants and a careful reading of archival material buried in the Imperial War Museum, Barrett evokes the bloody crucible these five men passed through. She may be criticized for not offering more in-depth documentation of the archival resources used, but no one will question the authenticity of her compelling characterizations of these five veterans of the Great War. Sadly, this is a timely work. A worthy addition to the extensive literature on the mental health of combat veterans; recommended for all libraries.

Kirkus Reviews

A collective biography of five shell-shocked veterans of trench warfare. Delving into mountains of personal papers, letters and photographs in London's Imperial War Museum, Barrett (Modern Literary and Cultural Theory/Queen Mary, Univ. of London; Imagination in Theory: Culture, Writing, Words, and Things, 1999, etc.) tells stories of three soldiers and two military doctors. All witnessed terrible things, suffered mental breakdowns and seemed to recover, but the experience permanently colored their lives. Investigating the flood of psychiatric casualties among uninjured soldiers, World War I physicians preferred an organic cause, so the term "shell shock" entered the vocabulary. Experts explained that soldiers in proximity to explosions suffered subtle brain injuries, but readers will share the author's shock at discovering how much the simple horror of trench life contributed to their breakdowns. Soldiers walked, slept, ate and fought among dead and rotting bodies and body parts. The smell of decaying corpses grew more intense during the summer and after battles, but it never vanished. "I thought by now the horrors of war could no longer shock me. I was wrong," writes Bombardier Ronald Skirth. "It must have been some ghoulish influence that drew me to the old battlefield and three months after the fighting had ceased the mangled, putrefying bodies of men and beasts still lay awaiting burial." Classic WWI memoirs (by Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon and others) mention disgusting details of trench warfare, but those were written for publication and after time had softened the memories. The soldiers profiled here recorded their uncensored feelings on the spot. "The significant context ofthese life stories," writes Barrett, "is not what can be remembered, but what has survived for us to study." Fear and the death of comrades figure prominently, but it was the nauseating sights and smells that dominated their thoughts. When one of the author's subjects, a doctor, revealed this to a postwar Parliamentary investigation into shell-shock, it was censored. A unique contribution to war literature.

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The Myth of Moral Justice: Why Our Legal System Fails to Do What's Right

Author: Thane Rosenbaum

We are obsessed with watching television shows and feature films about lawyers, reading legal thrillers, and following real-life trials. Yet, at the same time, most of us don't trust lawyers and hold them and the legal system in very low esteem.

In The Myth of Moral Justice, law professor and novelist Thane Rosenbaum suggests that this paradox stems from the fact that citizens and the courts are at odds when it comes to their definitions of justice. With a lawyer's expertise and a novelist's sensability, Rosenbaum tackles complicated philosophical questions about our longing for moral justice. He also takes a critical look at what our legal system does to the spirits of those who must come before the law, along with those who practice within it.

The Washington Post - Jonathan Kirsch

Rosenbaum seems to realize that there is not much chance that his proposed reforms will be adopted in any formal sense, and he readily acknowledges that many lawyers will find the whole idea to be "ludicrous." But his book ought to be required reading in law schools and continuing legal education classes, if only because at least a few of his readers will be humanized by the experience. And that is, above all, what "The Myth of Moral Justice" is really about.

The New York Times - Dahlia Lithwick

Rosenbaum should still be read by every law student in America. His assessment of attorneys as unhappy shells of people and his statistics about the rates of depression and addiction remind us of the dangers inherent in locking your heart in the parking lot each morning. Being more empathetic, attempting to broker compromise, encouraging parties to apologize, becoming, as he puts it, ''feelers'' rather than mere ''thinkers'' -- all are crucial steps toward making lawyers emotionally intact again. But the single most moral thing lawyers can do is to urge clients to understand that even if they win their case they won't necessarily be happy and that they can't get their old life back. That happens in church, or therapy, if it happens at all. The myth behind The Myth of Moral Justice is that the law would be more moral if it could become more than it is. The truth is, we'd all be better off if we looked to it for far less.

Publishers Weekly

A professor at Fordham Law School, Rosenbaum (The Golems of Gotham) observes that American culture is enthralled by lawyers and courtroom proceedings, yet Americans distrust lawyers and find the quality of justice in this country deficient. He ascribes this what he feels is ambivalence regarding the lack of morality and emotional complexity in law offices and in courtrooms. Rosenbaum calls for a "morally inspired transformation of the legal system," a "massive attitude adjustment" that would replace the sterile formality of the law with conscience and spirituality. To accomplish this, he advocates fewer settlements of cases and more trials, at which injured parties would be permitted, even encouraged, to vent rage at their oppressors. A novelist as well as teacher of law and literature, Rosenbaum believes in the power of storytelling as a means of healing and insists the storytelling should continue even after judgment is entered. A second trial phase should immediately convene, one in which all participants would discuss their grief, disappointment and shame. No one would be permitted to leave until all the stories had been told in full. On other themes, Rosenbaum urges that a duty to rescue should be recognized in American law as a moral imperative, and endorses apologies as beneficial to victims and wrongdoers alike. Readers will recognize that this book is more visionary than practical, and lawyers will be annoyed at the author's scolding and superior tone. But perhaps provoking lawyers is part of the book's point. (Apr.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

Rosenbaum (law, Fordham Univ.) here critiques the current state of the legal system, decrying its lack of a soul or tenderness. He argues that the system fails to consider the basic question of why people bring lawsuits or prosecute criminals. The desire for a moral lesson, an apology, or an ability to express feelings is currently suppressed by the law. Using examples from movies, plays, and fiction, he contrasts the grievances and expectations of justice of individuals entering the system and the institutionalized results the system delivers. Rosenbaum suggests that the law should provide moral remedies and strive to restore human relationships for the good of the entire community. He further argues that, instead of reducing damages to dollars and cents, the law should require apologies to the injured. This well-written book ranges widely in its use of examples, which include the Torah, Seinfeld, and the courtroom movies of John Grisham. Recommended for large collections.-Harry Charles, Attorney at Law, St. Louis Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	1
1	Doing the right thing : the split between the moral and the legal	11
2	A new paradigm of moral justice	30
3	Pound of flesh	48
4	Story as remedy	61
5	The various faces of grief	79
6	Aborted trials and lying under the law	92
7	The best-kept secrets of zealous advocates	114
8	Forbidden emotions in a world out of order	139
9	Judges who feign not having feelings	157
10	Apology as moral antidote to the legal disease	179
11	Apologies in practice	194
12	Restoration or revenge	212
13	Repair in practice	226
14	The non-duty to rescue under American law	246
15	Rescue as moral imperative	258
16	The law's preference for the body over the soul	266
17	Frustrated lawyers and the public's discontent	285
18	The artist and the law	296
	Conclusion	313
	Acknowledgments	319
	Notes	321
	Index	341

Citizenship Papers or Spinoza

Citizenship Papers

Author: Wendell Berry

There are those in America today who seem to feel we must audition for our citizenship, with "Patriot" offered as the badge for those found narrowly worthy. Let this book stand as Wendell Berry's application, for he is one of those faithful, devoted critics envisioned by the Founding Fathers to be the life's blood and very future of the nation they imagined. Adams, Jefferson, and Madison would have found great clarity in his prose and great hope in his vision. And today's readers will be moved and encouraged by his anger and his refusal to surrender in the face of desperate odds. Books get written for all sorts of reasons, and this book was written out of necessity. Citizenship Papers, a collection of 19 essays, is a ringing call of alarm to a nation standing on the brink of global catastrophe.

Kirkus Reviews

Cagey uses of the essay as a town meeting to air threats to the commonweal. Our times are uneasy, Berry (Jayber Crow, 2000, etc.) states; critical elements of the American democratic tradition are being lifted wholesale from the foundation and carted away in broad daylight. A case in point is our new national-security policy, which "depends on the acquiescence of a public kept fearful and ignorant, subject to manipulation by the executive power, and on the compliance of an intimidated and office-dependent legislature." That ignorance will spell our doom, as will the "selfishness, wastefulness, and greed that we have legitimized here as economic virtues." Berry doesn't flinch when exhorting us to meet "the responsibility to be as intelligent, principled, and practical as we can be." His agrarian argument, which he has been making and remaking for decades, requires the recognition of our dependence on and responsibility to nature, and the concomitant responsibility for human culture. Likewise, Berry champions human-scale projects and an intimate knowledge of-not to mention reverence and gratitude for-our landscapes. "Consumers who understand their economy," he contends, "will not tolerate the destruction of the local soil or ecosystem or watershed as a cost of production." His refusal to abandon the local for the global, to sacrifice neighborliness, community integrity, and economic diversity for access to Wal-Mart, has never seemed more appealing, nor his questions of personal accountability more powerful. Where did the meat on our plates come from? Under what conditions were the clothes we're wearing made? Does biotechnology make sense considering the unforeseeable consequences? Mostblistering of all: "How many deaths of other people's children by bombing or starvation are we willing to accept in order that we may be free, affluent, and (supposedly) 'at peace'?" A clangor of worries, offering the antidotes of civility, responsibility, curiosity, skill, kindness, and an awareness of the homeplace.

Table of Contents:

	A Citizen's Response	1
	Thoughts in the Presence of Fear	17
	The Failure of War	23
	Going to Work	33
	In Distrust of Movements	43
	Twelve Paragraphs on Biotechnology	53
	Let the Farm Judge	57
	The Total Economy	63
	A Long Job, Too Late to Quit	77
	Two Minds	85
	The Prejudice Against Country People	107
	The Whole Horse	113
	Stupidity in Concentration	127
	Watershed and Commonwealth	135
	The Agrarian Standard	143
	Still Standing	153
	Conservationist and Agrarian	165
	Tuscany	175
	Is Life a Miracle?	181

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Spinoza: Theological-Political Treatise

Author: Benedictus de Spinoza

Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise (1670) is one of the most important philosophical works of the early modern period. In it Spinoza discusses at length the historical circumstances of the composition and transmission of the Bible, demonstrating the fallibility of both its authors and its interpreters. He argues that free enquiry is not only consistent with the security and prosperity of a state but actually essential to them, and that such freedom flourishes best in a democratic and republican state in which individuals are left free while religious organizations are subordinated to the secular power. His Treatise has profoundly influenced the subsequent history of political thought, Enlightenment 'clandestine' or radical philosophy, Bible hermeneutics, and textual criticism more generally. It is presented here in a new translation of great clarity and accuracy by Michael Silverthorne and Jonathan Israel, with a substantial historical and philosophical introduction by Jonathan Israel.

Ariel Sharon or Monetary Theory and Bretton Woods

Ariel Sharon: An Intimate Portrait

Author: Uri Dan

In 1954 reporter Uri Dan met a young military commander named Ariel Sharon and followed him closely for more than half a century. Dan became Sharon's trusted advisor and a witness to the defining moments of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—from secret meetings with heads of state to open warfare in the Sinai. This riveting combination of political history, narrative biography, interviews, and correspondence sheds new light on the conflict in the Middle East and provides an intimate, definitive portrait of Ariel Sharon—a man whose life is inextricably intertwined with Israel's destiny. With Hamas governing Palestine, Ariel Sharon gravely ill and the party he founded, the Kadima, in control of the Knesset, this book couldn't be more timely.

Table of Contents:

Above All, A Friend     ix
Acknowledgments     xi
Foreword     xiii
Letter from Ariel Sharon to Uri Dan     xiv
Map of Israel     xvi
Introduction     1
1948: The War of Independence     7
1956: The Suez Campaign     16
1957: An Outstanding Officer     26
May 1962: Adieu Margalit     29
1967: The Six Day War     31
October 1967: Gur's Death     42
1968: Repopulating the Promised Land     45
1969-1973: Sharon against the Bar-Lev Line     50
1970: Sharon Returns     56
1973: The Yom Kippur War     58
1974: Arik, King of Israel     71
1981: Destroying Osirak     81
1981: "Sharon has destroyed Yamit"     91
June 1982: The Lebanese War     95
1982: Sharon's Black September     108
December 1982-January 1983: Sharon Besieged     112
February 8, 1983: The Kahan Commission Delivers Its Report     120
1983-1984: Ariel, Don't Resign!     127
January 1991: Scud Rain over Israel     132
1993-1994: Arafat Returns     134
Terrorism and War: The Same Battle     139
October 1998: The Wye Plantation Agreement     144
February 1999: Lily Is Ill     149
September 28, 2000: Controversial Visit to the Temple Mount     157
November 2000: Sharon Targets the Top     161
February 6, 2001: Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister     165
2001: First Impressions, and Reflections on Previous Years     167
February-March 2001: Condoleezza's Legs     181
June 1, 2001: Suicide Bomb at the Dolphinarium     184
October 2001: Afghanistan     189
December 2001: Christmas in Bethlehem     192
January 2002: A Boatload of Weapons     198
March 2002: Massacre on Pesach     201
April 2002: "Massacre" in Jenin     203
June 24, 2002: Arafat Out     206
July 2002: The Liquidation of Hamas Leaders     209
November 2002-December 2003: Arik Corrupted?     212
June 2003: The Road Map     217
September 2004: A Plan for Israel     233
November 2004: Arafat's Death     246
September 2005: After the Disengagement     248
2004-2005: A Mother's Advice     260
September 2005: Withdrawal from Gaza     265
September 2005: Speech to the United Nations     272
November 2005: Kadima     274
December 2005-January 2006     278
Chronology     282
Index     285

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Monetary Theory and Bretton Woods: The Construction of an International Monetary Order

Author: Filippo Cesarano

Over the twentieth century monetary theory played a crucial role in the evolution of the international monetary system. The severe shocks and monetary gyrations of the interwar years interacted with theoretical developments that superseded the rigid rules of commodity standards and led to the full-fledged conception of monetary policy. The definitive demise of the gold standard then paved the way for monetary reconstruction. Monetary theory was a decisive factor in the design of the reform proposals, in the Bretton Woods negotiations, and in forging the new monetary order. The Bretton Woods system - successful but nevertheless short-lived - suffered from latent inconsistencies, both analytical and institutional, which fatally undermined the foundations of the postwar monetary architecture and brought about the epochal transition from commodity money to fiat money.

Identity Lessons or Passionate Sage

Identity Lessons: Contemporary Writing about Learning to Be American

Author: Maria Mazziotti Gillan

In stories and poems that explore how our society shapes us, Identity Lessons features a wide array of ethnic perspectives on growing up in America. Leading the reader into the living-rooms, boardrooms, classrooms, and movie houses of America, distinguished writers from all points of the American ethnic landscape shed light on the space between conformity and difference, and examine the struggle between the need to belong and the pull of one's cultural roots. With insight, wit, and poignancy, the contributors to this anthology recall their attempts to reconcile family from the old country with the powerful messages about race, gender and class confronting them in their new surroundings. A collection of superb and moving writing, Identity Lessons deconstructs conceptions of personal and national identity, and forms an indispensable primer for understanding our cultural selves.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction
	Names	3
	Pokeberries	3
	Beets	4
	Magnalia Christi Americana	11
	daughters	13
	fury	13
	Dear Mama	14
	Linked	16
	I Go Back to May 1937	18
	The Portrait	19
	Cracked Portraits	19
	Those Were the Days	21
	The Substitute	22
	The Liar	23
	Daddy, We Called You	39
	Sangre 24: A Legacy	42
	Working Class	43
	from attic	44
	Always Running	45
	Company Outing	47
	Tending	48
	I cannot write a poem to bless all the givers of pain	49
	Family	53
	Why the Violin Is Better	53
	My Aunts	53
	My Son Is Worried About Me	58
	The Word You Did Not Speak	59
	Words for My Daughter from the Asylum	61
	My Mad Son Helps Me Into Heaven	62
	The Children	64
	Mother's Voice	65
	Singing Lessons	65
	photo poem	66
	Saying Farewell to My Father	67
	The Birthday - August 25, 1980	68
	Late	70
	Hotel Nights with My Mother	71
	Legacy	72
	Apples	75
	Day Worker	76
	Breakfast	77
	Shelling Shrimp	78
	The Last Lesson	79
	Poem for My Father	80
	Sports Heroes, Cops, and Lace	82
	The Riddle of Noah	89
	Baptisms	90
	Freedom Candy	91
	The Boots of Alfred Bettingdorf	93
	Say What?	104
	Sangre 14: Sterling, Colorado	105
	The Loss of a Culture	106
	Coffee	107
	Horns on Your Head	107
	The Middle Classes	108
	Right Off the Bat	120
	French Girls Are Fast	126
	My Rough Skinned Grandmother	128
	Kemo Sabe	130
	Dictionary of Terminology	131
	A New Story	132
	The Poets	137
	Seven Horses	138
	The Last Wild Horses in Kentucky	139
	Learning Silence	140
	Home Training	141
	Half-Breed's Song	144
	Mestizo	144
	Tangerine	146
	Between Holi and Halloween	150
	Strange Country	161
	Roomers, rumors	162
	Language Difficulties	163
	The Welcome Table	165
	High School: San Martin	181
	On the Subway	182
	In the Elementary School Choir	185
	Sixth Grade	187
	The Jacket	188
	Ladies' Choice	191
	As Children Together	198
	The Silence That Widened	200
	Caroline	203
	Poem for Anthony, Otherwise Known as Head	204
	from Personal and Impersonal Landscapes	205
	The Dance at St. Gabriel's	206
	Yellow Roses	207
	High School Reunion	208
	The Story of My Life	209
	Wearing of the Green	209
	The Boy Without a Flag	217
	Early Snow	232
	Butch Traynor	233
	The Weird Kid	235
	Sterling Williams' Nosebleed	236
	Losing Faith	238
	Altar Boy	238
	School of Night	239
	No Consolation	239
	The Way of the Cross	241
	Teaching English from an Old Composition Book	245
	Among Children	246
	Our Room	247
	Chinese in Academia	248
	For Sal Sanjamino: On His Retirement	249
	Poem on the First Day of School	250
	Big World, Little Man	251
	A Long Way	251
	The First Day	259
	Pennies	263
	Going to School	264
	Shame	265
	Disc 'n Dat	266
	The Captain of the Safeties	268
	Senior Will	270
	My Father's Love Letters	283
	Mortal Sins	284
	Training Bra	285
	The One Girl at the Boys' Party	286
	The Boy	286
	Practicing	287
	from Drops of This Story	288
	Playing with Dolls	289
	Rice and Beans	291
	Defining Us	291
	Imagining Drag	292
	Choice in Colored Rain	292
	Graffiti	294
	The Girls	295
	Aunt Dorothy	297
	Aunt Rose	298
	The Accordion	299
	Uncle Earl and Guns	302
	Legacy	303
	The Politics of Buddy	303
	"You know what I'm saying?"	305
	The Robe	305
	Acupuncture and Cleansing at Forty-eight	306
	Garden State	311
	Thelonious	312
	Robin's Nest	313
	Real Life	325
	Jetties Were the Bridges I Crossed	326
	Rock'n'Roll	328
	Sally	329
	Painting the Christmas Trees	330
	City Lights	332
	There I Was One Day	333
	An American in Trapani	335
	Made You Mine, America	336
	Ode to Elizabeth	340
	from Krik? Krak!	344
	from This Past Decade and the Next	347
	Second-Grade Angel	349
	Miz Rosa Rides the Bus	350
	The Summer of Black Widows	352
	Tourists	353
	Like Mexicans	355
	American Milk	359
	Contributors	361
	Index	373

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Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams

Author: Joseph J Ellis

Here is a fresh look at this astute, likably quirky statesman by a prize-winning biographer. In his new preface, Joseph Ellis discusses why Adams is enjoying a modern-day revival.

Judith Shulevitz

His best book. . . . Ellis's knack for bringing historical figures to life seems to natural you can't imagine him doing anything else. —The New York Times Book Review

Publishers Weekly

Decreeing our second president the ``most misconstrued and underappreciated `great man' in American history,'' Ellis, a history professor at Mount Holyoke College, sets out to recover the Adams legacy obscured by the ``triumph of liberalism.'' His notable study focuses on Adams (1735-1826) in retirement in Quincy, Mass., starting in 1801. Drawing on Adams's correspondence, his journalism and his marginalia in the books he read, Ellis shows the one-term president during his first 12 years of private life fulminating over the country's direction, then mellowing. But Adams would remain oppositional and tart: ``Was there ever a Coup de Theatre that had so great an effect as Jefferson's penmanship of the Declaration of Independence?'' Ellis argues that Adams, incapable of political self-protection and with an insufferable personal integrity, internalized what he viewed as the nation's failings--ambition, lust for distinction, etc.--and struggled to keep a check on such qualities within himself. He and Jefferson differed fundamentally on the meaning of the American Revolution; their disagreement, according to Ellis, was not about means but about ends: Jefferson made ``a religion of the people,'' Adams proposed that democratization should be evolutionary. Photos. (May)

Library Journal

Of all the brilliant cast of characters who brought the United States into being, none is more noteworthy or more controversial than John Adams. In this biography, Ellis (history, Mount Holyoke) focuses on the last part of Adams's life in an attempt to dissect and illuminate the contradictory nature of this great man. In this detailed yet readable account, the reader is told that ``Adams did not just read books. He battled them.'' One of his favorite authors was Bolingbroke, but he considered Voltaire a ``liar.'' A man like Adams is heard loudly through the centuries; collections of his letters will always be invaluable, but Ellis's work is an appropriate and well-researched adjunct to the original sources. Recommended for academic and larger public libraries.-- Katherine Gillen, Mesa P.L., Ariz.

Beyond Sputnik or A Critique of Postcolonial Reason

Beyond Sputnik: U.S. Science Policy in the Twenty-First Century

Author: Homer Alfred Neal

Science and technology are responsible for almost every advance in our modern quality of life. Yet science isn't just about laboratories, telescopes and particle accelerators. Public policy exerts a huge impact on how the scientific community conducts its work. Beyond Sputnik is a comprehensive survey of the field for use as an introductory textbook in courses and a reference guide for legislators, scientists, journalists, and advocates seeking to understand the science policy-making process. Detailed case studies---on topics from cloning and stem cell research to homeland security and science education---offer readers the opportunity to study real instances of policymaking at work. Authors and experts Homer A. Neal, Tobin L. Smith, and Jennifer B. McCormick propose practical ways to implement sound public policy in science and technology, and highlight how these policies will guide the results of scientific discovery for years to come.
Homer A. Neal is the Samuel A. Goudsmit Distinguished University Professor of Physics, Interim President Emeritus, and Vice President for Research Emeritus at the University of Michigan, and is a former member of the U.S. National Science Board.

Tobin L. Smith is Associate Vice President for Federal Relations at the Association of American Universities.
Jennifer B. McCormick is Assistant Professor of Biomedical Ethics, Division of General Internal Medicine, and Assistant Director, CTSA Research Ethics Resource.

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A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present

Author: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Are the "culture wars" over? When did they begin? What is their relationship to gender struggle and the dynamics of class? In her first full treatment of postcolonial studies, a field that she helped define, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, one of the world's foremost literary theorists, poses these questions from within the postcolonial enclave.

"We cannot merely continue to act out the part of Caliban," Spivak writes; and her book is an attempt to understand and describe a more responsible role for the postcolonial critic. A Critique of Postcolonial Reason tracks the figure of the "native informant" through various cultural practices—philosophy, history, literature—to suggest that it emerges as the metropolitan hybrid. The book addresses feminists, philosophers, critics, and interventionist intellectuals, as they unite and divide. It ranges from Kant's analytic of the sublime to child labor in Bangladesh. Throughout, the notion of a Third World interloper as the pure victim of a colonialist oppressor emerges as sharply suspect: the mud we sling at certain seemingly overbearing ancestors such as Marx and Kant may be the very ground we stand on.

A major critical work, Spivak's book redefines and repositions the postcolonial critic, leading her through transnational cultural studies into considerations of globality.

Library Journal

In recent years, a growing body of literary and historical scholarship has explored the complex relationship of Western elite culture to the postcolonial societies of the Southern hemisphere. Spivak, a prominent literary theorist based at Columbia University, is widely known for her sophisticated deconstructive approach to questions of feminism, North-South relations, and the politics of subaltern studies. This book is based on a number of her published essays, including the influential 1988 article "Can the Subaltern Speak?" Spivak focuses on the relationship of debates in philosophy, history, and literature to the emergence of a postcolonial problematic. Overall, she seeks to distance herself from mainstream postcolonial literature and to reassert the value of earlier theorists such as Kant and Marx. Readers unfamiliar with recent trends in literary studies may find Spivak's deliberately elusive prose impenetrable. On the other hand, those already invested in the postmodern and postcolonial debates may find her style invigorating. Recommended for university libraries.--Kent Worcester, Marymount Manhattan Coll., New York Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

What People Are Saying

Jacqueline Rose
In these pages Gayatri Spivak performs what often seems either impossible or purely gestural--a critique of transnational globalization which manages to be equally attuned to its cultural and economic effects. This book deserves to be read for its modulated defense of Marxism and feminism alone. It will be welcomed as the clearest statement to date of Spivak's own relationship to the postcolonial theory with which she herself--wrongly, as she forcefully argues here--is so often identified. With a brilliance that is uniquely hers, Spivak issues a challenge which will be very hard to avoid to the limits of theory and of academic institutions alike. -- ( Jacqueline Rose, author of States of Fantasy )

Saskia Sassen
Gayatri Spivak tells us that here she charts her progress from colonial discourse studies to transnational cutlural studies. She does so brilliantly. And she does so much more. She constructs this extraordinary progress through an intricate labyrinth, but one with blazing lights in every corner. -- ( Saskia Sassen, author of Globalization and its Discontents )

Judith Butler
Gayatri Spivak works with remarkable complexity and skill to evoke the local details of emergent agency in an international frame. Her extraordinary attention to the texts she reads and her ability to track the reach of global power make her one of the unparalleled intellectuals of our time. -- ( Judith Butler, author of The Psychic Life of Power )

Partha Chatterjee
A founder of postcolonial studies surveys the current state of the field and finds much to criticize. This is vintage Spivak--dazzling, often exasperating, but unfailingly powerful. -- ( Partha Chatterjee, author of The Nation and Its Fragments )

Table of Contents:

	Preface
1	Philosophy	1
2	Literature	112
3	History	198
4	Culture	312
App	The Setting to Work of Deconstruction	423
	Index	433

A General Speaks Out or Every Man A Tiger

A General Speaks Out: The Truth About the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq

Author: Michael DeLong

Lt. General Mike DeLong, deputy commander of the U.S. Central Command during the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, was second only to General Tommy Franks in conducting the war on terror. From his vantage point at the center of discussions between President Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, and Tommy Franks, General DeLong offers the frankest and most authoritative look yet inside the wars--how we prepared for battle, how we fought, how we toppled two regimes--and what is happening now on these two crucial fronts. His eye-opening account provides a much-needed insider's view of what's gone right, what's gone wrong, and what we need to do to succeed in this ever more perilous enterprise. This is a paperback edition of Inside Centcom (ISBN 0895260204) published by Regnery Publishing.

Table of Contents:

CONTENTS

Introduction by General Tony Zinni xi

Author’s Note xiii

Prologue xv

CHAPTER ONE Welcome to CentCom 1

CHAPTER TWO September 11 17

CHAPTER THREE The War in Afghanistan 37

CHAPTER FOUR Building to H-Hour 63

CHAPTER FIVE Iraq 97

CHAPTER SIX Iraq: The Aftermath 123

Appendix A: Statement by General Tommy Franks before the House Armed Services Committee 141

Appendix B: Maps 157

Appendix C: The National Security Strategy of the United States ???

Appendix D: The National Strategy to Combat Weapons of Mass Destruction ???

Appendix E: Op-Ed Columns ???

Acknowledgments 209

About the Authors 211

Index 213

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Every Man A Tiger: The Gulf War Air Campaign

Author: Tom Clancy

The controversial Gulf War air campaign is revealed in rich, provocative detail. And in this new edition, General Horner looks at the current Gulf conflict--and comments on the use of air power in Iraq today.

Greg Sewell

Chuck Horner is dead. He died in 1962 on a routine training exercise in the Libyan desert.

At least, that's the way he tells it.

In fact, Chuck Horner is alive and well and living in Florida. What happened in the North African desert is something he can only explain as a miracle. His fighter was pointing nose down, diving toward the sand, and the controls were not responding. Just feet above the ground, against the laws of physics and counter to his training, one last maneuver pulled him out of his dive. Upside down and with the tail inches above the sand, Horner righted the plane and flew home. "Every day of my life after that event has been a gift," he says. "I was killed in the desert in North Africa. I'm dead."

Horner thanks God for pulling him out of that dive. Readers who enjoy the inside story of modern military strategy and combat might feel some gratitude as well, because if the desert has claimed Lieutenant Chuck Horner 37 years ago, we would not today have General Chuck Horner (Ret.), whose stellar career has seen him serve as commander of the Ninth Air Force, commander of the U.S. Central Command Air Forces, and most relevant to Every Man a Tiger , the man in charge of allied air power in the Gulf War.

The story of Horner's survival in the desert and the rich details of his successful command in the Persian Gulf, recounted by Tom Clancy in Every Man a Tiger , are all told with the same skill and craft that Clancy brings to his bestselling fiction. The two men are an impressive team: Horner provides the facts, and Clancy re-creates the drama.

Clancy does the bulk of the storytelling, but in passages scattered throughout the book and ranging in length from a few lines to several pages, he steps back and lets Horner tell the story in his own words. Clancy knows that it was Horner who made life-and-death decisions in the Gulf War, and he knows that Horner's firm and straightforward prose can best reveal the starkness of command and command decisions.

Neither author wades very deeply into the geopolitics of the war, leaving that work to pundits, journalists, and historians. But drawing on Horner's decades of experience, the two do delve into the lessons learned in the war, and look particularly at the efforts made to build and maintain the broad coalition of nations that opposed Saddam Hussein in 1990 and 1991.

Because this is not fiction, where character and plot outrank historical accuracy, and because Clancy is a self-confessed military buff, Every Man a Tiger is rich with explanations of strategy, organizational details, and enough technical militaryspeak to make a reader feel like he is in the command bunker.

--Greg Sewell

Chicago Tribune

Mesmerizing...every bit as entertaining as Clancy spinning a made-up yarn on his own.

KLIATT

Best-selling author Clancy demonstrates again that he is a skilled writer who handles nonfiction as adroitly as he does fiction. This frank and honest collaborative discussion of the Persian Gulf air war will receive a great deal of attention from future history majors and students of war as well as from his legion of fans. This book would be beneficial to anyone considering a career in the U.S. Air Force, especially ROTC candidates. No one will be disappointed with this interesting, well-written, carefully researched examination of the evolution of the USAF over the past 40 years that resulted in a victory in the skies over Iraq in 1991. Chuck Horner's career is used as a kind of timeline to examine (and sometimes take to task) decisions, policies, and tactics that failed or, at least, impeded the progress of the mission of the USAF over the past four decades. The bibliography provides a mix of obtainable books (for further reading/research) and scholarly efforts (for authenticity). Photographs, maps, and a detailed index are additional assets. KLIATT Codes: SA—Recommended for senior high school students, advanced students, and adults. 1999, Berkley, 564p, 23cm, $16.95. Ages 16 to adult. Reviewer: John E. Boyd; Professor (retired), Manor Jr. College, Jenkintown, PA, September 2000 (Vol. 34 No. 5)

Library Journal

Clancy takes a look at war with the commander of U.S. allied air assets during Desert Shield and Desert Storm.

Kirkus Reviews

Bestselling novelist and nonfiction military author Clancy (A Guided Tour of an Aircraft Carrier, 1999, etc.) partners with Horner, a Vietnam fighter pilot who rose to general and commander of the Desert Storm air offensive, to narrate the Gulf War from the top commanders' vantage point. The duo portray an air-warrior culture shaped by the perennial possibility of death, whether in the exacting training or in combat. Horner describes the strange rules of engagement dictated to the military in Vietnam from LBJ's far-off Washington, where politicians often bypassed the advice of military leaders in a policy of "Graduated Pressure" that prolonged the war and caused casualties to mount. Clancy credits young Vietnam-era officers like Colin Powell, Norman Schwarzkopf, and Horner with correcting the mistakes of that war by reforming the Army and Air Force while building the greatest, most effective armed forces in history. The result was a quick victory with few casualties over Iraq's huge army. Readers get a detailed description of the air offensive and the victory in Kuwait and Iraq of a successful coalition of Arab, European, and American ground troops. There are snapshots of Schwarzkopf (the short fused, perfectionist Commander-in-Chief, who could not bear the agony of losing any of his beloved ground troops), Powell, President Bush, Secretary Cheney, and the Arab high commanders. Horner discusses the philosophy of command and finds that the war was necessary to stop the stealing of vital oil supplies and the murder, rape, and torture inflicted by Iraqi troops on the people of Kuwait. Despite the bravery of soldiers in a just cause, war is still a hateful course of action and should beused as a policy of last resort, Horner declares. An absorbing, detailed, and useful study of soldiers under stress and deadly events that tested their courage, determination and efficiency. (First printing of 500,000, Book-of-the-Month Club main selection, $500,000 ad/promo)

Common Ground or Africa Unchained

Common Ground: How to Stop the Partisan War That Is Destroying America

Author: Cal Thomas

Inspired by their popular USA Today column, conservative Cal Thomas and liberal Bob Beckel show politicians of both stripes how to get beyond partisanship, restore civility, and move our country forward. Thomas and Beckel are a unique pair in today's political climate—pundits from opposite sides who not only talk to each other but work together to find common ground on some of the most divisive issues facing us, from the war in Iraq to gay marriage to the Patriot Act. Common Ground unmasks the hypocrisy of many of the issues, organizations, and individuals who created and deepened the partisan divide at the center of American politics, and makes a strategic case for why this bickering must stop.

Throughout, Thomas and Beckel explode conventional wisdom and offer surprising new conclusions:

• The Red State/Blue State divide: Myth!
• A "common ground" presidential candidate can win in 2008: Reality!
• "Polarizers" like Ann Coulter and Michael Moore are the future of political debate: Myth!
• Major-party politics faces extinction: Reality!

These guys should know. For years Beckel and Thomas contributed to the climate of polarization in Washington . . . and they admit it. "We're two guys who spent a lot of years in the polarizing business, but on opposing sides," they write. "We helped write the game plan, and we have participated in everything from getting money out of true believers to appearing on television to help spread the contentious message. In many cases, we wrote the message. We know the gig, and it's just about up."

In this much-needed book,Thomas and Beckel go beyond their column to offer a sobering overview of the current political divide and its corrosive effect on us all.They also explain how bipartisanship and consensus politics are not only good for the day-to-day democratic process but essential for our nation's future well-being.

Entertaining and informative, funny and healing, Common Ground is must reading for all concerned citizens.

Publishers Weekly

The world of politics has always been feisty, but Beckel and Thomas assert that it's deteriorated into a partisan divide of animosity that threatens the safety and legitimacy of the country. In addition to tracing the history of this growing chasm, the authors also provide some interesting discussions about how to remedy it and why. Though some of their conclusions are a bit idealized, and even they have trouble finding "common ground" on all issues, they do identify some tactics that should be utilized by all sincere politicians seeking to better the United States. Rohan's dramatic inflection doesn't make him the best narrator for this audiobook, but he's certainly an enjoyable one. Beckel and Thomas, who also read parts of the audio, are mostly enjoyable. They falter on the final chapter, which is meant to be a dialogue between the two, but unfortunately, sounds stilted and scripted. Simultaneous release with the Morrow hardcover (Reviews, Aug. 13). (Nov.)

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Kirkus Reviews

Two partisans offer a timely and useful analysis of America's polarized politics. Liberal journalist Beckel (Political Strategy/George Washington Univ.) and conservative columnist Thomas (The Wit and Wisdom of Cal Thomas, 2001, etc.) together write the USA Today column "Common Ground," which gave rise to this book. Agreeing to disagree on many issues, they explore the roots of today's red/blue divide and its effects on government, explaining why a return to bipartisanship and consensus (which they hope to hasten) is already occurring. Along the way, they offer an overlong explanation of familiar issues from the turbulent 1960s through the Reagan '80s that provided fodder for political campaigns characterizing opponents not simply as wrong but as corrupt and wicked. Such demonizing, the authors argue, is the essence of polarized politics and stems from the strong partisanship of activists who are the only Americans engaged in a culture war. Activists constitute an influential one-third of eligible voters, they note, but the vast majority favor consensus. The authors are at their best when describing the "ideologues, power brokers, and bottom feeders" who benefit from a heated political climate: talk-radio and cable-TV hosts, who win higher ratings; political blogs and websites, which get more hits; and campaign fundraisers, who find it easier to raise money. They also note that many now engaged in politics simply aren't old enough to remember a time when political opponents could regularly talk in a civil fashion to folks across the aisle, reach a compromise and get things done. Offering advice on ways to achieve consensus, they predict Americans are tired of black-or-white politicalbattling and will want to elect the "most competent and least ideological" presidential candidate in 2008. Polarization will always be with us, they acknowledge-but at the fringe of the political spectrum, not the center. A welcome invitation to civility and reason.

Table of Contents:

Preface to the Paperback Edition     vii
Introduction     1
Preface: Who We are     15
"Why I Am a Liberal"   Bob Beckel     17
"Why I Am a Conservative"   Cal Thomas     23
Where We are     27
The People vs. the Polarization of American Politics     29
The Polarization of American Politics     38
"The Rest of Us"     46
Congressional Stories     55
The Parties     61
The Press, Fund-raisers, and Myths     69
The Gathering Storms     85
Storm Clouds from the South     87
A Circular Firing Squad     94
"I'll Never Lie to You"     99
Roe v. Wade     103
The Reagan Revolution     109
Storms     115
Iran-Contra and Bob Bork: The Peace Ends     117
The Politics of Personal Destruction     126
Polarization's Poster Children: Bill Clinton and George W. Bush     131
Clinton Years/Clinton Wars     134
Clinton's Revenge     143
George Bush Rides In     146
War Abroad and War at Home     151
The Way We were     163
A Change of Culture     165
When Adults Were in Charge     169
Bipartisanship     174
The Power of the Parlor     177
Common Ground     183
Common Ground: Slogan or Choice?     185
Common Ground: A Campaign Guide for 2008     193
Selling Common Ground     204
Thoughts and Conclusions     251
Epilogue     259
Acknowledgments     263
Index     265

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Africa Unchained: The Blueprint for Africa's Future

Author: George BN Ayittey

Why haven't the poorest Africans been able to prosper in the twenty-first century? Celebrated economist George Ayittey thinks the answer is obvious: economic freedom was denied to them, first by foreign colonial powers and now by indigenous leaders with similarly oppressive practices. As war and conflict replaced peace, Africa's infrastructure crumbled. Instead of bemoaning the myriad difficulties facing the continent today, Ayittey boldly proposes a program of development--a way forward--for Africa. Africa Unchained investigates how Africa can modernize, build, and improve its indigenous institutions, and argues forcefully that Africa should build and expand upon traditions of free markets and free trade rather than continuing to use exploitative economic structures. The economic model here is uniquely African and takes little heed from the developed world; this is sure to be a highly controversial plan for moving Africa forward.

Handbook of Community Practice or Prague in Black

Handbook of Community Practice

Author: Marie Overby Weil

"This volume encompasses a vast range of knowledge on community practice and demonstrates the maturity of this social work domain. It offers a sophisticated treatment of the theoretical underpinnings of community organization as well as the richness of its history. This book will be the major teaching and practice resource for the  predictable future and should be consulted by all social workers, not only those who call themselves community organizers as the entire profession seeks to fulfill its historical mission of working for social transformation."

                                                                            --Charles Garvin, University of Michigan
 
The Handbook of Community Practice is the first volume in this field, encompassing community development, organizing, planning, and social change, and the first community practice text that provides in-depth treatment of globalization--including its impact on communities in the United States and in international development work.  The Handbook is grounded in participatory and empowerment practice including social change, social and economic development, feminist practice, community-collaboratives, and engagement in diverse communities.  It utilizes thesocial development perspective and employs analyses of persistent poverty, policy practice, and community research approaches as well as providing strategies for advocacy and social and legislative action.
 
The Handbook consists of thirty-six chapters, which challenge readers to examine and assess practice, theory, and research methods.  As it expands on models and approaches, delineates emerging issues, and connects policy and practice, the book provides vision and strategies for community practice in the coming decades.

The Handbook will stand as the central reference for community practice, and will be useful for years to come as it emphasizes direction for positive change, new developments in community approaches, and focuses attention on globalization, human rights, and social justice.  It will also be useful to faculty and students of community practice and will provide practitioners with new grounding for planning, development and organizing. 

Table of Contents:

	Preface
1	Introduction : contexts and challenges for 21st-century communities	3
2	History, context, and emerging issues for community practice	34
3	Diverse populations and community practice	59
4	Theorizing in community practice : essential tools for building community, promoting social justice, and implementing social change	84
5	Communities and social policy issues : persistent poverty, economic inclusion, and asset building	103
6	Evolution, models, and the changing context of community practice	117
7	Development theory and community practice	153
8	Sustainable community development	169
9	The practice of community organizing	189
10	Which side are you on? : social work, community organizing, and the labor movement	204
11	Social planning with communities : theory and practice	215
12	From community planning to changing communities : fundraising and fund allocation for human services	244
13	Participatory methods in community practice : popular education and participatory rural appraisal	261
14	Political, social, and legislative action	276
15	Radical community organizing	287
16	Coalitions as social change agents	305
17	Four models of policy practice : local, state, and national arenas	319
18	Multicultural community practice strategies and intergroup empowerment	341
19	Feminist community practice	360
20	Rise up and build the cities : faith-based community organizing	372
21	Service coordination : practical concerns for community practitioners	387
22	Rural community practice : organizing, planning, and development	402
23	Community practice in adult health and mental health settings	418
24	Community practice in children's mental health : developing cultural competence and family-centered services in systems of care models	442
25	Community building and family-centered service collaboratives	460
26	Community economic and social development	475
27	Investing in socially and economically distressed communities : comprehensive strategies for inner-city community and youth development	494
28	Global change and indicators of social development	508
29	Community practice challenges in the global economy	529
30	Women's participation in community economic development : the microcredit strategy	548
31	Revisiting community-based administration, program management, and monitoring	569
32	Fundraising, programming and community organizing : working with donors, investors, collaborators, and purchasers	582
33	Community-based research and methods in community practice	604
34	Empowerment research	620
35	Practice in the electronic community	636
36	Integrating and distributing administrative data to support community change	647

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Prague in Black: Nazi Rule and Czech Nationalism

Author: Chad Bryant

In September 1938, the Munich Agreement delivered the Sudetenland to Germany. Six months later, Hitler's troops marched unopposed into Prague and established the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia—the first non-German territory to be occupied by Nazi Germany. Although Czechs outnumbered Germans thirty to one, Nazi leaders were determined to make the region entirely German.

Chad Bryant explores the origins and implementation of these plans as part of a wider history of Nazi rule and its consequences for the region. To make the Protectorate German, half the Czech population (and all Jews) would be expelled or killed, with the other half assimilated into a German national community with the correct racial and cultural composition. With the arrival of Reinhard Heydrich, Germanization measures accelerated. People faced mounting pressure from all sides. The Nazis required their subjects to act (and speak) German, while Czech patriots, and exiled leaders, pressed their countrymen to act as "good Czechs."

By destroying democratic institutions, harnessing the economy, redefining citizenship, murdering the Jews, and creating a climate of terror, the Nazi occupation set the stage for the postwar expulsion of Czechoslovakia's three million Germans and for the Communists' rise to power in 1948. The region, Bryant shows, became entirely Czech, but not before Nazi rulers and their postwar successors had changed forever what it meant to be Czech, or German.

Foreign Affairs

Nazi Germany's bestial cartography divided Czechoslovakia into the incorporated territories, including the Sudetenland, a "neutral" Slovakia, and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, which were the core Czech lands. Bryant writes well about misery in the last -- about, in particular, the deadly essay of the Germans and their local marionettes to apply madcap ethnic and national concepts to what had long been a hopelessly complex checkerboard of identities. The drama ebbs and flows with events in the larger setting: the war's start, the fall of France in 1940, the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, the Battle of Stalingrad, and, by 1943, Hitler's crumbling prospects. But the brutality takes on special force in response to local circumstances, such as the massacre in response to the 1942 assassination of the German "protector" of Bohemia and Moravia, Reinhard Heydrich. Would that this were how the story ended: its sad sequel was the vengeful expulsion of Germans, some collaborators but many innocent, at the war's close, three million between 1946 and 1947, a microcosm of the 51 million Europeans driven from their homelands to complement the 60 million killed during the war.<

Hard Landing or The Years of Extermination

Hard Landing: The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines into Chaos

Author: Thomas Petzinger Jr

In this updated paperback edition of a "rich, readable, and authoritative" Fortune) book, Wall Street Journal reporter Petzinger tells the dramatic story of how a dozen men, including Robert Crandall of American Airlines, Frank Borman of Eastern, and Richard Ferris of United, battled for control of the world's airlines. 416 pp. Radio drive-time pubilcity. 20,000 print.

Library Journal

Petzinger, a reporter and editor for the Wall Street Journal, presents a thorough analysis of the growth of the airline industry from the 1930s to the present. He demonstrates in a highly detailed manner the competitive nature of the airline business in such notable battles as those between Robert Crandall (American) and Dick Ferris (United) and between Frank Lorenzo (Texas International) and Herb Kelleher (Southwest). Fueled by the big egos of their respective bosses, the major airlines fell into a financial abyss trying to serve the maximum number of passengers and destinations, only to face rising fuel, labor, and operating costs as well as rising debt-while Southwest Airlines became a model of success and profitability. Petzinger exposes the men behind airline growth and competition, computerization, deregulation, strikes, mergers, and bankruptcies and covers current alliances such as the one between KLM and Northwest. Recommended for public libraries.-William A. McIntyre, New Hampshire Technical Coll. Lib., Nashua

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The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945

Author: Saul Friedlander

The last word on the Holocaust by the world's leading expert on the subject.

The extermination of the Jews of Europe triggers disbelief. This volume presents a thorough historical study of the events while attempting to keep some of the traces of the primary sense of disbelief.

The work is based on a vast array of contemporary sources and recent historical literature. Its interpretive framework is founded on the lethal impact of several converging factors: The growing crisis and the collapse of liberal democracy throughout continental Europe on the eve of the war and during its first year, and the anti-Semitic tradition it exacerbated; the raging anti-Jewish campaign of Adolf Hitler's Germany and the readiness of its leader, at a given point in time, to implement his extermination threats against the Jews; the course of the war that became total in 1941 and offered Hitler the context and the circumstances to launch the "Final Solution."

The Holocaust as history extends beyond the usual analysis of German policies, decisions, and measures that led to this most systematic and sustained of modern genocides. It includes the reactions of the surrounding world (authorities, populations, churches, social elites), related facets of everyday life throughout the continent, and their individual expressions. All these elements demand, as is attempted here, one single integrated narration.

The history of the victims is an intrinsic part of this overall context; their attitudes (hope, despair, passivity, collaboration, and resistance) found expression in both collective responses and individual testimonies. Here, the individual voices are weaved into the overall narrative and are the main carriers of disbelief: Some of them end in liberation, most are cut by extermination.

The New York Times - Richard J. Evans

What raises The Years of Extermination to the level of literature, however, is the skilled interweaving of individual testimony with the broader depiction of events. Friedlдnder never lets the reader forget the human and personal meanings of the historical processes he is describing. By and large, he avoids the sometimes unreliable testimony of memoirs for the greater immediacy of contemporary diaries and letters, though he also makes good use of witness statements at postwar trials. The result is an account of unparalleled vividness and power that reads like a novel.

The Washington Post - Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

Friedlдnder's book offers a useful, updated panorama of the events of the Holocaust.

Publishers Weekly

In the second volume of his essential history of Nazi Germany and the Jews, one of the great historians of the Holocaust provides a rich, vivid depiction of Jewish life from France to Ukraine, Greece to Norway, in its most tragic period, drawing especially on hundreds of diaries written by Jews during their ordeal, depicting a world collapsing on its inhabitants, along with the thousands of humiliating persecutions that Jews suffered on their way to extermination. Friedländer also provides insightful discussions of the many interpretive controversies that still surround the history of Nazi Germany. He has been party to many of the debates, and he remains attuned to the most recent historical research. Friedländer knows the bureaucratic workings of the Third Reich as well as anyone, but refuses to see in that alone the explanation for the Holocaust. Instead, he focuses largely on cultural and ideological factors. He considers other factors, such as "the crisis of liberalism," but these were not the essential motives for the Holocaust, which, Friedländer says, was driven by sheer hatred of Jews, by "a redemptive anti-Semitism" espoused by Hitler, a belief that Germans could thrive only through the utter destruction of Jews. This is a masterful synthesis that draws on a lifetime of learning and research. (Apr. 10)

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Library Journal

A follow-up to the excellent Nazi Germany and the Jews, from a historian who witnessed the Holocaust firsthand. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments     xi
Introduction     xiii
Terror (Fall 1939-Summer 1941)
September 1939-May 1940     3
May 1940-December 1940     65
December 1940-June 1941     129
Mass Murder (Summer 1941-Summer 1942)
June 1941-September 1941     197
September 1941-December 1941     261
December 1941-July 1942     329
Shoah (Summer 1942-Spring 1945)
July 1942-March 1943     399
March 1943-October 1943     469
October 1943-March 1944     539
March 1944-May 1945     601
Notes     665
Bibliography     795
Index     849

The Modern Presidency or No Place to Hide

The Modern Presidency

Author: James P Pfiffner

THE MODERN PRESIDENCY is a concise and sophisticated text that deals not only with presidents as individuals, but also with the large institutions that make up the modern presidency. Case studies help you understand important aspects of presidential action and decision-making and coverage includes the presidency of George W. Bush.

Booknews

Pfiffner (government and public policy, George Mason U.) portrays the presidency as being not so much the president himself, but the numerous people and institutions that support him. Concentrating on the era of the modern presidency (1933 to the present), he explains how what was once a small group of presidential advisors has grown into a large collection of bureaucracies, and how White House staffers have gradually replaced Cabinet secretaries as primary advisors to the president. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	About the Author
Ch. 1	The Presidency: Origins and Powers	1
Ch. 2	The President and the Public	15
Ch. 3	The White House Staff and Organization	44
Ch. 4	The Institutional Presidency	84
Ch. 5	The Cabinet and the Executive Branch	102
Ch. 6	The President and Congress	129
Ch. 7	The President and National Security	172
Ch. 8	Abuse of Power and Presidential Reputation	202
App. A	Presidents of the United States	228
App. B	The Constitution of the United States of America: Articles I and II	229
App. C	Constitutional Amendments That Affect the Presidency: Amendments XII, XX, XXII, and XXV	236
	Index	239

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No Place to Hide

Author: Robert OHarrow

In No Place to Hide, award-winning Washington Post reporter Robert O'Harrow, Jr., pulls back the curtain on an unsettling trend: the emergence of a data-driven surveillance society intent on giving us the conveniences and services we crave, like cell phones, discount cards, and electronic toll passes, while watching us more closely than ever before. He shows that since the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, the information industry giants have been enlisted as private intelligence services for homeland security. And at a time when companies routinely collect billions of details about nearly every American adult, No Place to Hide shines a bright light on the sorry state of information security, revealing how people can lose control of their privacy and identities at any moment.

Now with a new afterword that details the latest security breaches and the government's failing efforts to stop them, O'Harrow shows us that, in this new world of high-tech domestic intelligence, there is literally no place to hide.

As O'Harrow writes, "This book is all about you and your personal information -- and the story isn't pretty."