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Irish in the South 1815 1877 or In the Path of Hizbullah

2009-12-06T14:16:00.000-08:00

Irish in the South, 1815-1877

Author: David T Gleeson

The only comprehensive study of Irish immigrants in the nineteenth-century South, this book makes a valuable contribution to the story of the Irish in America and to our understanding of southern culture.

Lawrence J. McCaffrey

David T. Gleeson demonstrates that Irish America comes in different shades of green. In his perceptive, well-researched, and readable The Irish in the South, 1815-1877 he reveals its regional diversity.

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: The Forgotten People of the Old South	1
Ch. 1	The Irish Diaspora	10
Ch. 2	Urban Pioneers in the Old South	23
Ch. 3	Earning a Living	38
Ch. 4	Family, Community, and Ethnic Awareness	55
Ch. 5	Keeping the Faith	74
Ch. 6	The Irish, the Natives, and Politics	94
Ch. 7	The Know-Nothing Challenge	107
Ch. 8	Slavery, State Rights, and Secession	121
Ch. 9	The Green and the Gray	141
Ch. 10	Irish Confederates	158
Ch. 11	Postwar Integration	173
	Conclusion: Irish Southerners	187
	Occupational Status Classification	195
	Notes	197
	Selected Bibliography	239
	Index	269

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In the Path of Hizbullah

Author: ANizar Hamzeh

This book serves as a road map for understanding not only Hizbullah but also other Islamist groups and their challenges to contemporary politics. Ahmad Nizar Hamzeh examines the Hizbullah of Lebanon through a structural analysis using original and archival sources. Employing a theoretical framework drawing on a broad range of studies on crisis conditions, leadership, political parties, and guerrilla warfare, In the Path of Hizbullah stands alone in its qualitative and quantitative exploration of one of the most complex contemporary Islamist organizations and offers a thoughtful perspective on the party's future.

Choice

What makes Hamzeh's book unique is that it focuses not so much on Hizbullah's ideology but on its complex, sophisticated organizational structure. More than anything else, it is Hizbullah's structure that guides its operational choices and explains the inner workings of the organization's structural components. This illuminating and timely book looks objectively at the dynamics of one of the most important yet least understood forces in contemporary Lebanon and the Middle East. . . . Essential.

Does It Take a Village or The Selected Letters of Dolley Payne Madison

2009-12-05T09:04:00.000-08:00

Does It Take a Village?: Community Effects on Children, Adolescents and Families

Author: Alan Booth

Does It Take a Village? focuses on the mechanisms that link community characteristics to the functioning of the families and individuals within them--community norms, economic opportunities, reference groups for assessing relative deprivation, and social support networks. Contributors underscore those features of communities that represent risk factors for children, adolescents, and their families, as well as those characteristics that underlie resilience and thus undergird individual and family functioning.

As a society we have heavy investments both in research and in programs based on the idea that communities affect families and children, yet important questions have arisen about the validity of the link between communities, children, and families. This book answers the question of whether--and how--it takes a village to raise a child and what we can do to help communities achieve this essential task more effectively.

Booknews

Focuses on mechanisms that link community characteristics to the functioning of families and individuals, discussing community norms, economic opportunities, assessment of relative deprivation, and social support networks. Highlights those features of communities that represent risk factors for children, adolescents, and their families, as well as characteristics that strengthen individual and family functioning. Material originated at a November 1998 symposium held at Pennsylvania State University, where the editors teach. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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The Selected Letters of Dolley Payne Madison

Author: David B Mattern

From modest Quaker beginnings as the child of financially insecure parents and the wife of a stolid young lawyer to the excitement and challenges of life as the nation's first First Lady—arguably the most influential role in the American government's formative years—Dolley Payne Todd Madison (1768-1849) led an extraordinary life. David B. Mattern and Holly C. Shulman have culled a particularly rich selection of her letters to illuminate the story of the woman widely credited with setting the standard for successive generations of Washington's political women. This collection will prove an invaluable resource in current political and historical circles, where the role founding mothers played—both as supportive family members and as crucial political negotiators—is increasingly recognized and studied.

Organized chronologically into five sections reaching from her correspondence as a young adult in late-eighteenth-century Philadelphia up to the letters of her widowhood in 1840s Washington, and with a helpful contextualizing introduction to each section, The Selected Letters of Dolley Payne Madison provides a long-overdue biographical sketch of one of the early republic's most fascinating personalities.

Small Strangers or The School Choice Hoax

2009-12-04T03:52:00.000-08:00

Small Strangers: The Experiences of Immigrant Children in America, 1880-1925

Author: Melissa Klapper

Children are the largely neglected players in the great drama of American immigration. In one of history's most remarkable movements of people across national borders, almost twenty-five million immigrants came to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries-from Mexico, Japan, and Canada as well as the more common embarkation points of southern and eastern Europe. Many of them were children. Together with the American-born children of immigrants, they made up a significant part of turn-of-the-century U.S. society. Small Strangers recounts and interprets their varied experiences to illustrate how immigration, urbanization, and industrialization-all related processes-molded modern America.

Garrett Berger - Virginia Quarterly Review

Small Strangers captures the essence of what it meant to be one of the many children whose families immigrated to America around the turn of the last century.

What People Are Saying

Roger Daniels
"Her culturally sensitive survey fills a gap in the histories of childhood and of immigration."--(Roger Daniels, author of Not Like Us)

Alice Kessler-Harris
"This small, provocative book is a gem . . . Small Strangers touches on an astonishing range of key issues...indispensable."--(Alice Kessler-Harris, author of Gendering Labor History)

Marilyn Irvin Holt
"[A] careful blending of personal accounts with the larger social issues and reform movements of the period."--(Marilyn Irvin Holt, author of Children of the Western Plains)

Kriste Lindenmeyer
"Skillfully shows how the experiences of immigrant children highlight the dramatic shift from farm to factory...[A]n engaging synthesis."--(Dr. Kriste Lindenmeyer, author of The Greatest Generation Grows Up)

Jonathan Zimmerman
"Klapper has written a brief gem of a book, examining immigrant children in all of their diversity, tragedy, and triumph."--(Jonathan Zimmerman, author of Whose America? Culture Wars in the Public Schools)

Preface     xi
Acknowledgments     xvii
Childhood and Immigrants: Changing Ideas at the Turn of the Century     3
The Landscape of Early Childhood     18
At School, at Work, at Home, at Play     54
Adolescent Years     108
After the Door Closed: The Effects of Restrictive Legislation and the Depression     161
Immigrant Children and Modern America     177
Notes     183
A Note on Sources     195
Index     211

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The School Choice Hoax: Fixing America's Schools

Author: Ronald G Corwin

This book argues that the autonomy granted to choice schools has been a counterproductive dead end. Its authors see no proof that freedom has produced the outstanding results that charter school advocates promised. Nor has the competition from charter schools spurred the improvement in public schools that charter advocates predicted. Instead, charter schools and education vouchers promoted competition among schools that should be cooperating. Overburdened public school districts are faced with rivalry from schools that are merely duplicating conventional programs and competing for some students while ignoring others. Since choice schools are not meeting the expectations touted by their advocates, the authors maintain that they should be planned, monitored, and operated by school districts.

W E B Du Bois or The Global Resurgence of Religion and the Transformation of International Relations

2009-12-02T22:40:00.000-08:00

W. E. B. Du Bois: Writings (The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade, The Souls of Black Folk, Dusk of Dawn, Essays)

Author: W E B Du Bois

The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. Now, with exactly one hundred volumes to choose from, there is a perfect gift for everyone.

The Global Resurgence of Religion and the Transformation of International Relations: The Struggle for the Soul of the Twenty-First Century (Culture and Religion in International Relations Series)

Author: Scott M Thomas

"Here undoubtedly is a book that is both helpful and insightful for those of us who feel there has got to be a better way to promote global security and global welfare,"--from the foreword by Desmond Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, Nobel Peace Laureate"Scott Thomas' work should be read not only by scholars interested in international relations and development, but also by leaders in civil society - in the NGO's, in the corporations, and in the churches. We neglect religious factors in contemporary history to our great peril. One may quibble with his treatment of certain theorists of "modernity," but he sees key global trends clearly, and argues artfully for policies could correct today's intellectual and moral blinders."--Max L. Stackhouse, Rimmer and Ruth DeVries Professor of Theology and Public Life, Princeton Theological Seminary, Author/editor of the series, God and Globalization"Post Cold War and post 9/11 politics have witnessed the global resurgence of religion, nationalism and ethnic identity and underscored the failure of international relations theory to anticipate and adequately address the role of religion and culture. Scott Thomas' The Global Resurgence of Religion and the Transformation of International Relations is a powerful corrective, demonstrating how and why religion and culture are significant forces world politics that have transformed our understanding of IR theory." --John L. Esposito, University Professor, Georgetown University and author of Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam"The Global Resurgence of Religion is a vital topic on which mainstream international relations research has been oddly silent. In clear andmeasured prose Scott Thomas explicates the reason for our intellectual failures and develops an original, eclectic perspective that gives new relevance to the constructivist turn in international relations theory. More importantly, Thomas succeeds in illustrating empirically how and why religion matters in world politics. For those interested in regaining their voice on a crucial topic in world politics this book is essential reading."--Peter J. Katzenstein, Walter S. Carpenter Professor, Jr. of International Studies, Cornell University"To the surprise of most academics and many politicians, religion has become one of the most dynamic forces in 21st century world politics. Scott Thomas's insightful analysis of this phenomenon fills a gaping hole in international relations theory and should help policy-makers and thoughtful citizens alike think more clearly about the ways in which profound religious and moral convictions can help build a measure of order in world affairs."--George Weigel, Senior Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center

Foreign Affairs

The global resurgence of religion has been widely noted, and this book provides a thoughtful reflection on its implications for Western ideas about modernity and international relations. The conventional view is that the upsurge in fundamentalism, particularly in the Middle East, reflects a stalled transition to modernity, giving militants an ideological kinship with previous antiliberal and antimodernist movements. Thomas, in contrast, asserts that the revival of religion — including among evangelicals and fundamentalist Christians in the developed world — is part of a more wide-ranging global phenomenon that represents a crisis of modernity itself. The grand narrative of Western progress is under challenge, and a search for "authenticity" is underway inside and outside the West, with communities of the faithful seeking to refashion political life in line with moral and religious values. This provocative claim is never convincingly established, but Thomas' more general point is well taken: Western scholars and policymakers need to rethink how the potent mix of religion, nationalism, and globalization is wreaking havoc on old traditions of diplomacy, development, and Western hegemony and transforming international affairs in the process.

	Introduction : the struggle for the soul of the twenty-first century	1
1	"The revenge of God?" : the twentieth century as the "last modern century"	21
2	Blind spots and blowback : why culture and religion were marginalized in international relations theory	47
3	In the eye of the storm : explaining and understanding culture and religion in international relations	71
4	The soul of the world? : religious non-state actors and international relations theory	97
5	Wars and rumors of war? : religion and international conflict	121
6	"Creating a just and durable peace" : rethinking religion and international cooperation	149
7	Soulcraft as statecraft? : diplomacy, conflict resolution, and peacebuilding	173
8	Funding virtue? : rethinking religion, civil society, and democracy	197
9	Where faith and economics meet? : rethinking religion, civil society, and international development	219
	Conclusion : how shall we then live?	247

Comparative Politics or Give Me Liberty

2009-12-01T17:17:00.000-08:00

Comparative Politics: Domestic Responses to Global Challenges

Author: Charles Hauss

This comprehensive text focuses on traditional issues and concepts in comparative politics, using a unique theme: domestic responses to global challenges. The author examines the growing interdependence among strong and weak states and discusses 12 countries, including the U.S. and the European community, to help students develop their skills of comparison, synthesis and interpretation, the author organized the text by economic development.

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Give Me Liberty!: An American History

Author: Eric Foner

Adopted at over 600 universities, colleges, and schools across the country, Eric Foner's Give Me Liberty! is making a difference in the American history survey course. Featuring a single author and a single, comprehensive theme, Give me Liberty! presents American history with unparalleled clarity and coherence. The study tools in the book and the companion print and electronic package ensure student success in the course.

The Second Edition builds on the success of the first, retaining the unifying theme of freedom while becoming more comprehensive, and adding stronger coverage of Native American and immigration history. In addition, the pedagogy has been strengthened with new Voices of Freedom-paired primary sources in each chapter, chapter-opening chronologies, key terms, and more. Overall the presentation remains concise and crisp, free of the encyclopedic detail that clogs so many other survey textbooks.

	List of Maps, Tables, and Figures	xvii
	About the Author	xix
	Preface	xxi
Part 1	American Colonies to 1763
1.	A New World	4
	The Expansion of Europe	7
	Peoples of the Americas	12
	The Spanish Empire	15
	The First North Americans	23
	England and the New World	30
	The Freeborn Englishman	35
	Voices of Freedom: From Henry Care, English Liberties, or, The Free-Born Subject's Inheritance (1680)	40
2.	American Beginnings, 1607-1650	44
	The Coming of the English	47
	Settling the Chesapeake	51
	Origins of American Slavery	57
	The New England Way	62
	Voices of Freedom: From John Winthrop, Speech to the Massachusetts General Court (July 3, 1645)	64
	New Englanders Divided	69
	The New England Economy	73
3.	Crisis and Expansion: North American Colonies, 1650-1750	78
	Empires in Conflict	81
	The Expansion of England's Empire	87
	Voices of Freedom: From William Penn, England's Present Interests Discovered (1675)	93
	Colonies in Crisis	94
	The Eighteenth Century: A Growing Society	101
	Social Classes in the Colonies	110
4.	Slavery, Freedom, and the Struggle for Empire to 1763	118
	Slavery and the Empire	121
	Slave Culture and Slave Resistance	130
	An Empire of Freedom	133
	The Public Sphere	138
	The Great Awakening	145
	Imperial Rivalries	148
	Battle for the Continent	151
	Voices of Freedom: From Pontiac, Speeches (1762 and 1763)	156
Part 2	A New Nation, 1763-1840
5.	The American Revolution, 1763-1783	166
	The Crisis Begins	169
	The Road to Revolution	176
	The Coming of Independence	180
	Voices of Freedom: From Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)	185
	Securing Independence	189
6.	The Revolution Within	200
	Democratizing Freedom	203
	Toward Religious Liberty	207
	Defining Economic Freedom	212
	The Limits of Liberty	215
	Slavery and the Revolution	220
	Voices of Freedom: From Petitions of Slaves to the Massachusetts Legislature (1773 and 1777)	224
	Daughters of Liberty	228
7.	Founding a Nation, 1783-1789	234
	America under the Articles of Confederation	237
	A New Constitution	246
	The Ratification Debate and the Origin of the Bill of Rights	253
	Voices of Freedom: From James Madison, The Federalist no. 51, and Anti-Federalist Essay Signed "Brutus" (1787)	254
	We the People	261
8.	Securing the Republic, 1790-1815	270
	Politics in an Age of Passion	272
	Voices of Freedom: From Address of the Democratic-Republican Society of Pennsylvania (December 18, 1794)	281
	The Adams Presidency	283
	Jefferson in Power	290
	The "Second War of Independence"	298
9.	The Market Revolution	306
	A New Economy	309
	Market Society	319
	Voices of Freedom: From Josephine L. Baker, "A Second Peep at Factory Life," Lowell Offering (1845)	328
	The Free Individual	330
	The Limits of Prosperity	335
10.	Democracy in America, 1815-1840	344
	The Triumph of Democracy	346
	Voices of Freedom: From "The Memorial of the Non-Freeholders of the City of Richmond" (1829)	348
	Nationalism and Its Discontents	353
	Nation, Section, and Party	358
	The Age of Jackson	363
	The Bank War and After	373
Part 3	Slavery, Freedom, and the Crisis of the Union, 1840-1877
11.	The Peculiar Institution	386
	The Old South	389
	Voices of Freedom: From John C. Calhoun, Speech in Congress (1837)	398
	Life under Slavery	400
	Slave Culture	409
	Resistance to Slavery	414
12.	An Age of Reform, 1820-1840	422
	The Reform Impulse	424
	The Crusade against Slavery	434
	Black and White Abolitionism	441
	The Origins of Feminism	445
	Voices of Freedom: From Angelina Grimke, Letter in The Liberator (August 2, 1837)	448
13.	A House Divided, 1840-1861	456
	Fruits of Manifest Destiny	458
	A Dose of Arsenic	470
	The Rise of the Republican Party	477
	Voices of Freedom: From William H. Seward, "The Irrepressible Conflict" (1858)	484
	The Emergence of Lincoln	487
	The Impending Crisis	495
14.	A New Birth of Freedom: The Civil War, 1861-1865	502
	The First Modern War	504
	The Coming of Emancipation	514
	The Second American Revolution	524
	Voices of Freedom: From Abraham Lincoln, Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore (April 18, 1864)	525
	The Confederate Nation	532
	Turning Points	536
	Rehearsals for Reconstruction and the End of the War	539
15.	"What Is Freedom?": Reconstruction, 1865-1877	548
	The Meaning of Freedom	551
	Voices of Freedom: From Petition of Committee in Behalf of the Freedmen to Andrew Johnson (1865)	558
	The Making of Radical Reconstruction	562
	Radical Reconstruction in the South	572
	The Overthrow of Reconstruction	577
	Appendix
	Documents
	The Declaration of Independence (1776)	2
	The Constitution of the United States (1787)	4
	From George Washington's Farewell Address (1796)	14
	The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions (1848)	18
	From Frederick Douglass's "What, to the Slave, Is the Fourth of July?" Speech (1852)	20
	The Gettysburg Address (1863)	23
	Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address (1865)	24
	The Populist Platform of 1892	25
	Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address (1933)	28
	Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)	30
	Tables
	Presidential Elections	32
	Admission of States	40
	Population of the United States	41
	Historical Statistics of the United States
	Workforce	42
	Immigration, by Origin	42
	Glossary	43
	Credits	63
	Index	67

Spying on Ireland or Becoming Winston Churchill

2009-11-30T12:05:00.000-08:00

Spying on Ireland: British Intelligence and Irish Neutrality during the Second World War

Author: Eunan OHalpin

Irish neutrality during the Second World War presented Britain with significant challenges to its security. Exploring how British agencies identified and addressed these problems, this book reveals how Britain simultaneously planned sabotage in and spied on Ireland, and at times sought to damage the neutral state's reputation internationally through black propaganda operations. It analyses the extent of British knowledge of Axis and other diplomatic missions in Ireland, and shows the crucial role of diplomatic code-breaking in shaping British policy. The book also underlines just how much Ireland both interested and irritated Churchill throughout the war.
Rather than viewing this as a uniquely Anglo-Irish experience, Eunan O'Halpin argues that British activities concerning Ireland should be placed in the wider context of intelligence and security problems that Britain faced in other neutral states, particularly Afghanistan and Persia. Taking a comparative approach, he illuminates how Britain dealt with challenges in these countries through a combination of diplomacy, covert gathering of intelligence, propaganda, and intimidation. The British perspective on issues in Ireland becomes far clearer when discussed in terms of similar problems Britain faced with neutral states worldwide.
Drawing heavily on British and American intelligence records, many disclosed here for the first time, Eunan O'Halpin presents the first country study of British intelligence to describe and analyse the impact of all the secret agencies during the war. He casts fresh light on British activities in Ireland, and on the significance of both espionage and cooperation between intelligence agenciesfor developing wider relations between the two countries.

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Becoming Winston Churchill: The Untold Story of Young Winston and His American Mentor

Author: Michael McMenamin

Today a forgotten figure, Bourke Cockran was acclaimed during his lifetime as America's greatest orator. He was also the lover of Jenny Churchill - Winston's mother - after the death of Lord Randolph. And, for twelve years (1895 to 1906), he was the young Winston's mentor. Until now, the story of the extraordinary and crucial relationship between them has not been told. At one level, the story is about politics, exploring the ways the young Churchill adopted Cockran's political and economic views - on democracy, capitalism, the Gold Standard, Free Trade, Socialism: issues that Churchill was to make his own. On another level, the story is biographical, chronicling the meetings between the men, and reproducing - for the first time in full - their private correspondence. It is the story of Churchill growing up. On yet another level, it is historical, vividly evoking the late Victorian and Edwardian eras, when Churchill was often in the thick of the action - fighting at the Khyber Pass in India or escaping from a Boer camp in Pretoria (and becoming a household name as a consequence) - all the while keeping up his correspondence with Cockran. The drama of such events is part of the book's irresistible appeal.

The book is written with a dramatic flair, bringing out the personalities of the two men. Each section begins, like a historical novel, with a recreation of a crucial moment in their lives. The general narrative is chronologically structured, with a powerful momentum, tracing the two men's growing intimacy over the years and interweaving their letters and meetings with the historical events in which they were involved. The story began in 1895 in New York, where Cockran took the young Winston under his wing. The following years, marked by turmoil in Cuba and Ireland, included the 1896 Presidential election, the great public debate about the gold standard and Cockran's private insistence to Churchill that principle must always be placed over party (something Churchill was to remember later when he crossed the floor of the House). 1899 saw Churchill's involvement in the Boer War, and his dramatic escape from a Boer prison camp, followed by his election to Parliament, visits to Cockran in America and, between 1901 and 1906, hard political fighting over the crucial issue of free trade, over which Churchill eventually left the Conservatives to join the Liberal party. The final years of Churchill and Cockran's friendship were dramatised by a number of public events - the American occupation of the Philippines, the victory of the Liberal Party in the British General Election, the First World War, about which they continued to correspond - but dominated by private ones: Cockran's remarriage, the death of Churchill's mother, and Churchill's own marriage. Throughout, the two men remained close, and, to the end, Cockran's influence on Churchill was unique and profound.

Indian Orphanages or The Dark Side of Democracy

2009-11-29T06:53:00.000-08:00

Indian Orphanages

Author: Marilyn Irvin Holt

With their deep tradition of tribal and kinship ties, Native Americans had lived for centuries with little use for the concept of an unwanted child. But besieged by reservation life and boarding school acculturation, many tribes—with the encouragement of whites—came to accept the need for orphanages.

The first book to focus exclusively on this subject, Marilyn Holt's study interweaves Indian history, educational history, family history, and child welfare policy to tell the story of Indian orphanages within the larger context of the orphan asylum in America. She relates the history of these orphanages and the cultural factors that produced and sustained them, shows how orphans became a part of native experience after Euro-American contact, and explores the manner in which Indian societies have addressed the issue of child dependency.

Holt examines in depth a number of orphanages from the 1850s to1940s—particularly among the "Five Civilized Tribes" in Oklahoma, as well as among the Seneca in New York and the Ojibway and Sioux in South Dakota. She shows how such factors as disease, federal policies during the Civil War, and economic depression contributed to their establishment and tells how white social workers and educational reformers helped undermine native culture by supporting such institutions. She also explains how orphanages differed from boarding schools by being either tribally supported or funded by religious groups, and how they fit into social welfare programs established by federal and state policies.

The Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 overturned years of acculturation policy by allowing Native Americans to finally reclaim their children, and Holt helps readers to better understand the importance of that legislation in the wake of one of the more unfortunate episodes in the clash of white and Indian cultures.

Publishers Weekly

Riding the wave of interest in adoption issues and Native American history, Holt (The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America) examines the development of orphanages in a half-dozen major Native American tribes, covering the late 1800s, the Depression and the decades up to the 1978 federal reversal on Indian adoption policy. From the outset, community-oriented Indian society bewildered white missionaries and social workers, who deemed deviations from the nuclear family pernicious. Yet "orphans" didn't exist in, for instance, Shawnee culture, where tribal "grandmothers" helped raise the young, and families welcomed parentless children. Holt's balanced view of orphans' dual experience being equipped for mainstream culture and stripped of their own distinguishes her account. While most poor ethnics were subject to Americanization, Indians had it worse: many whites, bent on eliminating Native Americans, targeted orphanages, often the only available school. While many may have been awful (Holt doesn't say much about daily life), the orphanages kept kids on the reservation, unlike subsequent programs. Holt combs official reports, teasing her story out of dry numbers (enrollment stats, spending per pupil) from several orphanages. Thematic organization and further Indian perspectives (understandably scarce) would have made her book more accessible and compelling. Still, it's a useful, if turgid, volume for specialists. 19 photos not seen by PW. (Sept.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

Holt (The Orphan Trains) carefully examines the establishment of Indian orphanages in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a previously little-studied subject. She discusses the emergence of orphanages in tribal communities ranging from the Seneca to the Sioux and their provision of basic care, including education. In reality, those orphanages underscored the destructive interchange with Euro-American peoples. Orphanages became necessary, Holt contends, after "war, disease, starvation, relocation, removal, ill-conceived federal policies, and missionary influences" had transformed traditional networks and kinships. Many non-Indian administrators viewed orphanages as a means to ward off complete immersion in white society. All the while, the orphanages worked to acculturate Indian children into the mainstream. Beginning in the 1930s, social welfare programs, foster care, and adoptions supplanted orphanages, whose closure often resulted in children being separated from "their own people." Not until 1978, with the passage of the Indian Child Welfare Act, did Congress recognize "the transmission of Indian culture to future generations." Though the chronological makeup can be confusing and the prose occasionally leaden, this is a solid, well-researched study that scholars will appreciate. Recommended for academic libraries. R.C. Cottrell, California State Univ., Chico Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing

Author: Michael Mann

This comprehensive study of international ethnic cleansing provides in-depth coverage of its occurrences in Armenia, Nazi Germany, Cambodia, Yugoslavia, and Rwanda, as well as cases of lesser violence in early modern Europe and in contemporary India and Indonesia. After presenting a general theory of why serious conflict emerges and how it escalates into mass murder, Michael Mann offers suggestions on how to avoid such escalation in the future. Michael Mann is the author of Fascists (Cambridge, 2004) and The Sources of Social Power (Cambridge 1986).

Publishers Weekly

In addressing the origins of ethnic cleansing, UCLA sociologist Mann (Fascism) locates differing stages of political participation as a major factor. He begins with stable authoritarian regimes (e.g., Tito's Yugoslavia) that exclude participation; when such regimes break down, there is a period of everybody scrambling for power and trying to exclude somebody else with the "else" usually defined on ethnic lines. Other examples include Armenia, the Holocaust and Rwanda, as well as India (the Sikhs and Muslims) and Indonesia (the Chinese). Eventually, the author's somewhat optimistic scenario argues, we arrive at stable participatory societies, with everybody somewhat included and limits set on what can be done to exclude groups (the Voting Rights Act of 1964 in the U.S.). Free from sociological jargon and abundant in historical data, this study sufficiently allows lay readers access. It can be difficult at moments to tell if Mann's prediction of the high body count in the Third World's coming century or so of ethnic cleansing is Eurocentric, callous or grimly realistic, but such moments always resolve into that last choice. Mann proposes some feasible remedies and scales of intervention. (Nov.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Foreign Affairs

Ethnic cleansing is typically seen as the work of primitive evildoers operating outside of modernity. In this important and provocative book, the distinguished sociologist Mann argues that murderous ethnic cleansing is in fact an ugly facet of our modern democratic age-that "it belongs to our own civilization and to us." Mann suggests that democratization in particular multiethnic settings can create situations in which "rule by the people" is defined in ethnic terms, leading a majority group to tyrannize minorities. A "danger zone" is reached when rival ethnic groups lay claim to the same territory, and do so with some legitimacy and prospect of success. Often an outgrowth of an unrelated crisis such as a war, ethnic cleansing breaks out when the weaker side fights because of the promise of outside aid-as in the Yugoslav, Rwandan, Kashmiri, and Chechen cases-or when the stronger side believes it can cleanse a state at considerable profit and little risk-as in the Armenian and Jewish genocides. Mann's account is not the last word on ethnic cleansing, but it certainly is among the most sophisticated yet.

Mortal Evidence or The Second Plane September 11

2009-11-28T01:41:00.000-08:00

Mortal Evidence: The Forensics Behind Nine Shocking Cases

Author: Cyril H Wecht

Foreword by Dr. Henry C. Lee

World-renowned forensic pathologist Dr. Cyril Wecht leads you into the heart of nine fascinating investigations, focusing each chapter on a single engrossing drama. He reveals the most startling evidence that shows why JonBenet Ramsey's killer most likely came from within her home, why O. J. Simpson probably had an accomplice in the murder of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman, shocking revelations about Robert Berdella's grisly torture and sex-abuse crimes against young men, and many intriguing facts about other infamous cases.

If you find the fictional plots of such dramas as C. S. I. exciting, you will be amazed by the true stories told by Dr. Wecht, with the help of two top-flight veteran reporters, Greg Saitz and Mark Curriden.

Foreword   Dr. Henry C. Lee     7
Preface     11
Acknowledgments     17
Teenage Baby Killers? The Truth behind the Death of Baby Boy Grossberg     19
A Fallen Beauty Queen: Who Killed JonBenet Ramsey?     43
Sex, Drugs, and a Dead Casino Magnate: How Ted Binion Died     87
The Real Fugitive: Sam Sheppard and His Wife's Murder     125
Shoot-out in Miracle Valley: The Killing of Religious Sect Members     157
Standing by Her Man: Tammy Wynette's Final Song     185
The Trials of O. J.: The Final Verdict     199
Robert Berdella: Madman or Just Murderer?     243
Heavy Metal Murder: The Curious Demise of Robert Curley     275
Afterword     297
Notes     299
Bibliography     307
Index     309

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The Second Plane. September 11: Terror and Boredom

Author: Martin Amis

A master not only of fiction but also of fiercely controversial political engagement, Martin Amis here gathers fourteen pieces that constitute an evolving, provocative, and insightful examination of the most momentous event of our time.

At the heart of this collection is the long essay “Terror and Boredom,” an unsparing analysis of Islamic fundamentalism and the West’s flummoxed response to it, while other pieces address the invasion of Iraq, the realities of Iran, and Tony Blair’s lingering departure from Downing Street (and also his trips to Washington and Iraq). Amis’s reviews of pertinent books and films, from The Looming Tower to United 93, provide a far-ranging survey of other responses to these calamitous issues, which are further explored in two short stories: “The Last Days of Muhammed Atta,” its subject self-evident, and “In the Palace of the End,” narrated by a Middle Eastern tyrant’s double whose duties include epic lovemaking, grotesque torture, and the duplication on his own body of the injuries sustained by his alter ego in constant assassination attempts.

Whether lambasted for his refusal to kowtow to Muslim pieties or hailed for his common sense, wide reading, and astute perspective, Amis is indisputably a great pleasure to read—informed, elegant, surprising—and this collection a resounding contemplation of the relentless, manifold dangers we suddenly find ourselves living with.

The Washington Post - Warren Bass

…the argument in The Second Plane bristles with intelligence.

Publishers Weekly

These chronologically ordered essays and stories on the September 11 attacks proceed from initial bewilderment to coruscating contempt for radical Islam. Novelist Amis (House of Meetings) rejects all religious belief as "without reason and without dignity" and condemns "Islamism" as an especially baleful variant. Amis attacks Islamism's tenets as "[a]nti-Semitic, anti-liberal, anti-individualist, anti-democratic" and characterizes its adherents, from founding ideologue Sayyid Qutb to the ordinary suicide bomber, as sexually frustrated misogynists entranced by a "cult of death." He also takes swipes at Bush and the Iraq war, which he describes as botched and tragically counterproductive, if well intentioned, but scorns those who draw a moral equivalence between Western misdeeds and the jihadist agenda. Amis's concerns are cultural and aesthetic as well as existential: terrorism threatens a reign of "boredom" in the guise of tedious airport security protocols, pedantic conspiracy theories and the dogma-shackled "dependent mind" fostered by Islamist theocracy. As much as Amis's opinions are scathing, blunt and occasionally strident, his prose is subtle, elegant and witty-and certainly never boring. (Apr.)

Stephen K. Shaw - Library Journal

Amis has a reputation, well deserved, for being an intellectual provocateur. This reputation will only grow with the publication of these latest musings on life in what he calls "the Age of Vanished Normalcy." As John Updike, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, and others have before him, Amis seeks to make sense of a world in which passenger airplanes are used as weapons of destruction and religious fanaticism has muscled out reasoned deliberation. His critique of Islamism may seem enlightened to some, imbecilic to others. Amis rejects the chimera of moral equivalence between modern, secular civilization and radical Islamic jihadists. He argues that he is not Islamophobic but rather Islamismophobic-that is, opposed to militant Islam. Amis contends that the West shares no common discourse with jihadism and contrasts the Western, secular mind of intellectual curiosity with the strident, noncurious mind of the likes of Mohamed Atta. The most impressive of these 14 pieces is "Terror and Boredom: The Dependent Mind," in which Amis mounts his own crusade against religious violence and secular triumphalism. Amis is intentionally and controversially combative in this work, which makes it essential reading. Recommended for all libraries.

Kirkus Reviews

Fourteen essays on the theme that "our understanding of September 11 is incremental and can never hope to be intact and entire."Islamism (Islamic fascism to some, Islamofascism to others), notes the ever-provocative British novelist and essayist Amis (House of Meetings, 2007, etc.), may be associated with Saudi Arabia, but it had its modern origins in Greeley, Colo., in 1949. "The story is grotesque and incredible," he writes, "but then so are its consequences." One of those curious consequences, familiar to anyone who has experienced war, terror or extreme stress, is boredom, for in such endeavors when one is not scared witless there is by definition not much going on. The war against Islamist terror has, Amis hazards, an especially boring additional component, our presumed inability to begin to communicate with "a mind with which we share no discourse." Amis's alignment as a self-described "Islamismophobe" puts him in a similar orbit with sometime friend and sometime rival Christopher Hitchens, save that, unlike Hitchens, Amis does not support the war in Iraq, as one of the pieces, an in-flight interview with Tony Blair, makes clear. (But then, that interview hints, Blair didn't much like the war either.) Amis is rather less blustery than Hitchens; one piece is a surprisingly empathetic attempt to get inside 9/11 hijacker Muhammad Atta's mind. As always, Amis proves eminently readable, his observations enlightening. Who other would ascribe to Kuwait City an "almost artistic cheerlessness" that speaks to the deadening touch of women-hating fundamentalism "under a sinister mist of damp dust"? Amis may not make any friends among the PC set, but he makes clear and inarguable the fact thatthe Islamist enemy is an enemy of reason, just like Hitler and Stalin. "The only thing Islamism can dominate, for now, is the evening news," Amis concludes in good fighting spirit. His book fires a welcome, left-tending salvo.

Freire for the Classroom or Compassionate Statistics

2009-11-26T20:29:00.000-08:00

Freire for the Classroom: A Sourcebook for Liberatory Teaching

Author: Ira Shor

An anthology of essays by teachers using Paulo Freire's methods in their classrooms.

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Compassionate Statistics: Applied Quantitative Analysis for Social Services (With Exercises and Instructions for SPSS)

Author: Vincent E Faherty

Compassionate Statistics: Applied Quantitative Analysis for Social Services (With Instructions for SPSS 14.0) is an attempt to "de-mythologize" a content area that is both essential for professional social service practitioners, yet dreaded by some of the most experienced among them. Using friendly, straightforward language as well as concrete illustrations and exercises from social service practice, author Vincent E. Faherty catapults students and experienced professionals to a pragmatic level where they can handle quantitative analysis for all their research and evaluation needs.

Key Features

Provides comprehensive coverage of the most important aspects of quantitative analysis: This is a complete, yet pragmatic, resource for social service professionals to use standard descriptive and inferential statistical techniques.
Offers an accessible format: Using unpretentious and plain language, this book introduces essential statistical procedures, one-at-a-time, in relatively short chapters in order to assist recall and facilitate new learning.
Applies statistical content to social service practice situations: Concrete applications are drawn from counseling, criminal justice, human services, social work, therapeutic recreation and vocational rehabilitation.
Presents case illustrations of how statistical material is reported in professional literature: Since social service professionals need to write up the results of their quantitative analysis, this book provides actual illustrations of how the various statistical procedures and tests are presented inpublished articles.
Addresses the use of SPSS on each covered statistical procedure and test: Specific directions are given so students can use the latest version of SPSS to complete each assigned exercise.
Includes in-chapter exercises: A series of realistic data sets that students can use to perform a number of planned exercises are offered in each chapter.

Intended Audience
This is an excellent core or supplemental text for a variety of advanced undergraduate and graduate courses such as Statistics for Social Services, Applied Statistics, Quantitative Analysis for Social Services, Statistics for Social Work, Social Science Research, Research Methods, Program Evaluation, and Grant Writing in the departments of counseling, human services, social services, social work, therapeutic recreation, and vocational rehabilitation.

Acknowledgments
1. Introduction, Overview, and Nondefinitions
2. Levels of Data: Nominal, Ordinal, and Scale
3. Presenting Data in Tables
4. Presenting Data in Figures
5. The 3 Ms: Mean, Median, and Mode
6. Standard Deviations, Ranges, and Quartiles
7. Other Descriptive Statistics
8. Probability and Statistical Significance
9. Chi-Square Test of Independence
10. Correlation: Scattergrams
11. Correlation: Spearman's rho and Pearson's r
12. t-Test for Paired Samples
13. t-Test for Independent Samples
14. One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) With Post Hoc Tests
15. Nonparametric Alternatives to Common Parametric Tests Appendix A: Getting Started With SPSS Appendix B: SPSS Data Sets Appendix C: Outline of Common Univariate and Bivariate Statistical Procedures Appendix D: Outline of Common Parametric and Nonparametric Inferential Tests Appendix E: Table of Random Numbers With Instructions Appendix F: Glossary of Terms Index About the Author Appendix E: Table of Random Numbers with Instructions Appendix F: Glossary of Terms About the Author

Financial Statecraft or Freedoms Power

2009-11-25T15:17:00.000-08:00

Financial Statecraft: The Role of Financial Markets in American Foreign Policy

Author: Benn Steil

As trade flows expanded and trade agreements proliferated after World War II, governments—most notably the United States—came increasingly to use their power over imports and exports to influence the behavior of other countries. But trade is not the only way in which nations interact economically. Over the past two decades, another form of economic exchange has risen to a level of vastly greater significance and political concern: the purchase and sale of financial assets across borders. Nearly $2 trillion worth of currency now moves cross-border every day, roughly 90 percent of which is accounted for by financial flows unrelated to trade in goods and services—a stunning inversion of the figures in 1970. The time is ripe to ask fundamental questions about what Benn Steil and Robert Litan have coined as “financial statecraft,” or those aspects of economic statecraft directed at influencing international capital flows. How precisely has the American government practiced financial statecraft? How effective have these efforts been? And how can they be made more effective? The authors provide penetrating and incisive answers in this timely and stimulating book.

Foreign Affairs

Steil and Litan note an increasing tendency by the United States to try to influence international capital flows in order to further its foreign policy goals — whether to punish errant countries, inhibit the proliferation of nuclear weapons, slow the financing of terrorism, or prevent the laundering of drug money. The authors call this "financial statecraft" and provide a trenchant critical analysis of these efforts, which often turn out to involve symbolic politics at its worst: they have no impact on the stated objective, because the scope and operation of financial markets are now worldwide; they harm U.S. economic interests; and in some cases, they harm the alleged beneficiaries (refugees in the Sudan, for example). But the authors also argue that in certain respects the United States has engaged in too little financial statecraft. They attribute the financial crises of emerging markets during the past decade largely to the existence of separate national currencies and make a spirited case for "dollarization" — the adoption of the U.S. dollar, or perhaps the euro, as a replacement for national currencies by many developing countries. The United States, they argue, should facilitate that policy by sharing with such adopters the modest financial gains, called seigniorage, that arise from issuing a currency widely used by the public.

Freedom's Power: The True Force of Liberalism

Author: Paul Starr

A Pulitzer Prize-winning author, journalist, and intellectual argues for liberalism as the only viable response to the political and economic challenges of the modern world.

Liberalism in America is in greater peril than at any other time in recent history. Conservatives treat it as an epithet, and even some liberals have confused it with sentimentality and socialism. But Paul Starr, one of America's leading intellectuals, claims that, properly understood, liberalism is a sturdy public philosophy, deeply rooted in our traditions, capable of making America a freer and more secure country.

"Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" remains as good a definition of liberalism's aims today as it was when Thomas Jefferson borrowed the language of John Locke for the Declaration of Independence. From its origins as constitutional liberalism in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, to the complexities of today's global political systems liberalism has provided the basis of the most prosperous and powerful states in the world. At a time when conservative policies are weakening America's long-term fiscal, economic, and international strength as well as its liberties, reinstating the power of liberalism is more urgent than ever.

The New York Times - Michael Lind

Freedom's Power is an impressive achievement that deserves to be pondered by the critics of contemporary American liberalism no less than by its supporters.

The Washington Post - Lynn Hunt

Riding to the rescue of those still traumatized by 20 years or more of successful demonization by the Republicans, Paul Starr…offers a lucid and well-informed explanation of the origins, history and current prospects of liberalism. Starr's achievement is not minor, for liberalism is devilishly difficult to pin down…Starr has more in mind, however, than a useful historical survey; he aims to provide a guide for the present. Believing that American conservatives have failed to achieve much of substance while in power these past decades, he senses an "opportunity to rebuild a political majority by showing how liberal ideas make sense for America and by reopening a conversation with people who believe that liberals have not shown any concern or respect for them." He is much more successful at justifying liberal ideas than at reaching out to skeptics.

Publishers Weekly

Part political theory and part intellectual history, this book tracks the development of liberalism as the world's dominant political tradition and argues for its continued ascendancy as the best guarantor of individual rights and prosperity on the global stage. Starr, a Princeton sociology and public affairs professor and founding editor of the American Prospect, explains modern liberalism as an evolutionary process, rooted in classical laissez-faire liberalism, and gradually accreting a greater role for the state to provide a social safety net, defend equal rights for all and institute true democratic pluralism. Defending liberalism from its socialist as well as its conservative critics, Starr sees his ideology as a middle path, harnessing the creative power of the free market while tempering some of its capriciousness. A central thesis is that "[t]he peculiar internal tension of liberal constitutions is that they constrain power even as they authorize it—that is, they attempt to curb the despotic power and ambitions of individual rulers and officials and, by doing so, to permit stronger systemic capacities." The first section of the book discusses the causes and consequences of liberal revolutions in Britain, America and France, while later chapters cover recent events, including the 2006 congressional elections. Complex macroeconomic, demographic and philosophical trends are presented engagingly and understandably for casual readers and political buffs alike. (Apr.)

Foreign Affairs

Starr, a distinguished political sociologist, offers an eloquent restatement of the principles and promise of modern liberalism. In recent decades, the "liberal project" in the United States seems to have lost its way, while conservatism has come into its own. Starr sets out to recover the guiding ideas of American liberalism and defend their relevance today. Part of his book is a sweeping intellectual history of "constitutional liberalism" -- a retelling of the great movements of Anglo-American liberal political development, in which citizenship rights and limited government were secured. He argues that liberalism is not simply a set of principles about freedom and equality but a "discipline of power" -- ideas about how to both control and create power. Accordingly, the singular achievement of liberalism has been restricting arbitrary power and thereby unleashing the ability of society to generate wealth, knowledge, inclusion, and opportunity. Starr acknowledges the decline of liberal innovation in recent the decades, but he resists the conservative charge that New Frontier and Great Society liberalism was tried and failed. To reinvigorate the liberal project, he urges a public philosophy of "partnership," which at home means moving beyond interest-group liberalism and abroad means a return to multilateralism and a community of democracies. Starr's contribution is to help restart the national conversation about the sources of American greatness.

Jack Forman - Library Journal

Written as "a rebuttal to contemporary conservatism and as a corrective to some currents of liberal thought and progressive politics," this intellectual history and political analysis attempts to show that modern liberalism is really a continuation of the classic liberal tradition, emphasizing constitutional government and individual rights. Starr (sociology & public affairs, Princeton Univ.; editor, The American Prospect; The Social Transformation of American Medicine) defines liberalism as "a design of power in support of freedom" and argues clearly and convincingly for liberalism as a middle ground between conservatism and socialism. In discussing the development of classical liberalism and modern democratic liberalism, Starr ranges far and wide over English, French, and American history. In looking at the present, he attacks Bush's unilateralism, insensitivity to the world's environmental problems, and lack of concern for economic equality. He believes that liberalism can regain a national majority by looking at domestic bread-and-butter issues in terms of the national interest rather than the objectives of specific interest groups and by recommitting to a multilateral approach to foreign policy. For academic and larger public libraries.

Kirkus Reviews

Pulitzer Prize-winner Starr (The Creation of the Media, 2004, etc.) is liberal and proud of it. The editor of The American Prospect offers a decidedly upbeat account of the liberal tradition. It best reflects America's founding ideals of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," argues Starr (Sociology and Public Affairs/Princeton Univ.), and has proven a workable basis for strong, enduring liberal democracies in our time. In its broadest meaning, he writes, liberalism refers to the principles of constitutional government and individual rights that emerged in the 17th- and 18th-century writings of such thinkers as Locke, Montesquieu and Madison. It animated the American and French Revolutions and led to the birth of the modern liberal state. By constraining arbitrary power and unleashing freedom's power, constitutional liberalism sought to create a free, fair and prosperous society. Beginning in the late-19th century, democratic forces spurred the rise of modern liberalism, with its penchant for government regulation, stronger protection of civil liberties and respect for cultural diversity. While criticized from both the right and left, liberal democracies work, Starr avers. They have proven flexible, pragmatic and successful; they have weathered depressions and world wars. In the 1960s, when many deemed liberalism a failure, they fostered a great moral transformation that rectified injustices, expanded freedom and democracy and changed America for the better. Analyzing the consequences of the Bush administration's conservative policies-growing economic inequality, environmental deterioration, long-term fiscal problems, the Iraq War-the author believes liberals now have anopportunity to build a political majority and lead the nation in a progressive direction. To do so, they must develop organizational strength, achieve intellectual coherence reflecting liberal principles and create a program based on shared prosperity. An informed and eloquent case for liberalism as the American way.

Red Moon Rising or Exemplar of Liberty

2009-02-21T23:42:00.000-08:00

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.)

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.

Booknews

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

2009-02-20T18:30:00.000-08:00

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.

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.

	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

2009-02-19T13:17:00.000-08:00

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.

	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

2009-02-18T04:39:00.000-08:00

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.

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

2009-02-16T23:27:00.000-08:00

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.

	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

2009-02-15T18:15:00.000-08:00

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 )

A General Speaks Out or Every Man A Tiger

2009-02-14T13:02:00.000-08:00

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.

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

2009-02-13T07:48:00.000-08:00

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.)

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.

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

2009-02-12T02:36:00.000-08:00

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.

	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

2009-02-10T21:23:00.000-08:00

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)

Library Journal

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

2009-02-09T16:11:00.000-08:00

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.

	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."

23rd Precinct or The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion

2009-02-08T10:59:00.000-08:00

23rd Precinct: The Job

Author: Arlene Schulman

Arlene Schulman spent two years documenting New York's 23rd Precinct, going out on patrol in one of the toughest neighborhoods in the city: East Harlem. 23rd Precinct: The Job offers a revelatory look at the men and women policing and experiencing an inner city precinct.

The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion

Author: John R Zaller

In this book John Zaller develops a comprehensive theory to explain how people acquire political information from the mass media and convert it into political preferences. Using numerous specific examples, Zaller applies this theory in order to explain the dynamics of public opinion on a broad range of subjects, including both domestic and foreign policy, trust in government, racial equality, and presidential approval, as well as voting behavior in U.S. House, Senate and Presidential elections. Particularly perplexing characteristics of public opinion are also examined, such as the high degree of random fluctuations in political attitudes observed in opinion surveys and the changes in attitudes due to minor changes in the wording of survey questions.

Ruling America or Open Letters

2009-02-07T05:46:00.000-08:00

Ruling America: A History of Wealth and Power in a Democracy

Author: Steve Fraser

Ruling America offers a panoramic history of our country's ruling elites from the time of the American Revolution to the present. At its heart is the greatest of American paradoxes: How have tiny minorities of the rich and privileged consistently exercised so much power in a nation built on the notion of rule by the people?

In a series of thought-provoking essays, leading scholars of American history examine every epoch in which ruling economic elites have shaped our national experience. They explore how elites came into existence, how they established their dominance over public affairs, and how their rule came to an end. The contributors analyze the elite coalition that led the Revolution and then examine the antebellum planters of the South and the merchant patricians of the North. Later chapters vividly portray the Gilded Age "robber barons," the great finance capitalists in the age of J. P. Morgan, and the foreign-policy "Establishment" of the post-World War II years. The book concludes with a dissection of the corporate-led counter-revolution against the New Deal characteristic of the Reagan and Bush era.

Rarely in the last half-century has one book afforded such a comprehensive look at the ways elite wealth and power have influenced the American experiment with democracy. At a time when the distribution of wealth and power has never been more unequal, Ruling America is of urgent contemporary relevance.

Publishers Weekly

Even in a nation founded on the principles of freedom and equality, small, motivated groups wield inordinate amounts of power. The notion itself is straightforward, but the 11 historians contributing to this volume examine it rigorously, documenting the dominance of American ruling classes like the antebellum South s slave power, the North s Merchants and Manufacturers, the nouveau riche industrialists of the Gilded Age and the Cold War s Foreign Policy Establishment. Each essay chronicles the myriad factors that led to the consolidation of power by one such set of aristocrats, and then explains the internal divisions and external changes that led to their downfall and empowered their successors. For example, a small clique of graduates from top New England boarding schools and universities coalesced into the Establishment, dominating foreign policy with their worldview until Vietnam raised questions that the foreign policy Establishment was not successfully able to answer. The most recent manifestation of this elite baton-passing, according to a convincing entry by Michael Lind, resulted in the southernization of American society under which the country morphed into a low-wage society with weak parties, weak unions and a political culture based on demagogic appeals to racial and ethnic anxieties, religious conservatism, and militaristic patriotism. The volume captures the essence of varied eras and their elites, but at times the narrative suffers from dry academic prose and a shortage of illustrative anecdotes. Curiously, the editors conclude that despite 200 years of cyclical history, no current challenge is arising to overthrow the currently prevailing counterrevolution against the New Deal. In fact, in suggesting that the democratic urge to rein in the dangerous ambitions of privileged elites has gone frail, they undermine the key lesson of the compilation itself. (Apr.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

	Introduction	1
1	The dilemmas of ruling elites in Revolutionary America	27
2	The "slave power" in the United States, 1783-1865	64
3	Merchants and manufacturers in the antebellum north	92
4	Gilded Age gospels	123
5	The abortive rule of big money	149
6	The managerial revitalization of the rich	181
7	The foreign policy establishment	215
8	Conservative elites and the counterrevolution against the New Deal	250
	Coda : democracy in America	286

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Open Letters: Selected Writings, 1965-1990

Author: Vaclav Havel

Spanning twenty-five years, this historic collection of writings shows Vaclav Havel's evolution from a modestly known playwright who had the courage to advise and criticize Czechoslovakia's leaders to a newly elected president whose first address to his fellow citizens begins, "I assume you did not propose me for this office so that I, too, would lie to you." Some of the pieces in Open Letters, such as "Dear Dr. Husak" and the essay "The Power of the Powerless," are by now almost legendary for their influence on a generation of Eastern European dissidents; others, such as some of Havel's prison correspondence and his private letter to Alexander Dubcek, appear in English for the first time. All of them bear the unmistakable imprint of Havel's intellectual rigor, moral conviction, and unassuming eloquence, while standing as important additions to the world's literature of conscience.

Publishers Weekly

A stirring collection of political essays, letters, speeches, autobiographical sketches, interviews and musings, mostly from the years that Havel, now Czechoslovakia's president, spent as his nation's leading dissident. (June)

Library Journal

This selection of Havel's 25 best essays written since 1965 is a fascinating chronicle of the development and ideas of the greatly admired Czechoslovakian dissident turned president. Whether he muses on Gorbachev, his harassment by the police, or the ever-present danger of injustices being committed in service of noble words, Havel writes with clarity, wit, eloquence, a steadfast optimism, and remarkable courage. Although some of the pieces were already published in Vaclav Havel, or Living in Truth ( LJ 8/87), such as the influential essays on the nature of totalitarianism (``Power of the Powerless'') and on the global crises of human responsibility (``Politics and Conscience''), this is an important book that belongs in both academic and public libraries.-- Marie Bednar, Pennsylvania State Univ. Libs., University Park

Color and Money or Taking Rights Seriously

2009-02-06T00:34:00.000-08:00

Color and Money: How Rich White Kids Are Winning the War over College Affirmative Action

Author: Peter Schmidt

What is the real story behind the fight over affirmative action in college admissions? Veteran journalist Peter Schmidt reveals truths that will outrage readers and forever transform the debate.

His book exposes the hidden agendas of all sides, revealing how:

* The conservative opposition to affirmative action preaches equality in college admissions, yet guts programs that help poor kids get in the running.

* The higher education establishment feeds lies to the federal courts and the public about the benefits of affirmative action, and attempts to squelch any talk about how selective colleges’ favoritism toward the privileged undermines professed commitments to diversity.

* Affirmative action has evolved from a means of bringing about social justice into a tool colleges cynically use to sell themselves and attract corporate support.

* Lower and middle class students of all races are being lost in the affirmative action struggle.

The underlying premise is that affirmative action is a band aid used to hide a very deep wound that neither side of the debate has much interest in treating any time soon. The real winners in the war over college affirmative action are rich white kids, whose spot on the inside track is secure no matter which side comes out on top. The real losers are African- American, Hispanic, and Asian-American kids, who continue to have the deck stacked against them, and those worthy white kids who lack cash and connections and find their futures sacrificed by colleges for “diversity” and the almighty dollar. Unafraid to shine a harsh light on schools such as Harvard, the University of Michigan,Princeton, and the University of California, this is a startling and brave book that will inspire a national dialogue on class, race, and education.

Kirkus Reviews

A blunt book about inequality in admissions at elite colleges. After four decades of affirmative action and much official rhetoric about making higher education available to all qualified students, the nation's most selective colleges and universities remain "bastions of privilege," writes Schmidt, deputy editor of the Chronicle of Higher Education. Each year, tens of thousands of excellent applicants are turned down by Yale, Harvard and other top schools to make way for the wealthy and well connected. As a result, a rich kid has about 25 times as much chance as a poor one of enrolling at one of 160 selective colleges. All of this, the author contends, contradicts the 2003 Supreme Court decision upholding affirmative action at the University of Michigan, which said colleges must be "visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity." Much of Schmidt's book recounts the history of college admissions from the 1900s, when virtually any graduate of feeder boarding schools could enter Harvard and Yale. While societal changes such as standardized tests, the G.I. Bill, 1960s social unrest and affirmative action transformed higher education and weakened the hold of the wealthy, working class and poor students are still underrepresented at top schools. The author draws on studies and his own reporting to show how affirmative action has played out in recent years. Economic class continues to shape children's fates, he argues; poor kids grow up in segregated neighborhoods with inadequate schools, while wealthy whites enjoy outstanding schooling, special preparation for standardized tests and preferential college admission. All the while, colleges try to project a diverseimage. They also capitalize on society's diversity-consciousness by joining with corporations (in return for major financial support) to recruit minority students in package deals under which the students then go to work for the same companies upon graduation. Offers a solid overview and a forceful reminder that money still trumps merit on the most prestigious campuses. Agent: Sara Crowe/Harvey Klinger Inc.

Acknowledgments     vii
Introduction: A Celebration of the Few     1
Skimming the Top: How Money Rises Above Merit     13
Crossing Eight Mile: How the Rich Deny Education to the Poor     39
Putting Out Fires: The Origins of College Affirmative Action     65
The Golden Pipeline: Profiting from Preferences     87
Collegiate Divisions: The Volatile Mix on Campuses     97
Assault from the Right: Affirmative Action Under Attack     111
By Any Means Necessary: Black Voices Fight to Be Heard     131
Breaching Walls: The Uprising of the Excluded     141
The Diversity Dodge: Fuzzy Research to the Rescue     161
Supreme Reckoning: The Changing Legal Landscape     173
The Worried White House: Bush Faces an American Dilemma     181
Voices from on High: The Establishment Speaks     193
Affirmative Action Affirmed: The Supreme Court Grants a Reprieve     203
The Struggle Continues: Democracy Rears Its Head     211
Epilogue     223
Notes     227
Index     253

Interesting textbook: Kostenmanagement: Eine Strategische Betonung

Taking Rights Seriously

Author: Ronald D Dworkin

What is law? What is it for? How should judges decide novel cases when the statutes and earlier decisions provide no clear answer? Do judges make up new law in such cases, or is there some higher law in which they discover the correct answer? Must everyone always obey the law? If not, when is a citizen morally free to disobey?

A renowned philosopher enters the debate surrounding these questions. Clearly and forcefully, Ronald Dworkin argues against the "ruling" theory in Anglo-American law-legal positivism and economic utilitarianism and asserts that individuals have legal rights beyond those explicitly laid down and that they have political and moral rights against the state that are prior to the welfare of the majority.

Mr. Dworkin criticizes in detail the legal positivists' theory of legal rights, particularly H. L. A. Hart's well-known version of it. He then develops a new theory of adjudication, and applies it to the central and politically important issue of cases in which the Supreme Court interprets and applies the Constitution. Through an analysis of Rawls's theory of justice, he argues that fundamental among political rights is the right of each individual to the equal respect and concern of those who govern him. He offers a theory of compliance with the law designed not simply to answer theoretical questions about civil disobedience, but to function as a guide for citizens and officials. Finally, Professor Dworkin considers the right to liberty, often thought to rival and even pre-empt the fundamental right to equality. He argues that distinct individual liberties do exist, but that they derive, not from some abstract right to liberty as such, but fromthe right to equal concern and respect itself. He thus denies that liberty and equality are conflicting ideals.

Ronald Dworkin's theory of law and the moral conception of individual rights that underlies it have already made him one of the most influential philosophers working in this area. This is the first publication of these ideas in book form.

The Radical and the Republican or Does Anybody Have a Problem with That

2009-02-04T19:20:00.000-08:00

The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics

Author: James Oakes

"A great American tale told with a deft historical eye, painstaking analysis, and a supple clarity of writing."—Jean Baker

"My husband considered you a dear friend," Mary Todd Lincoln wrote to Frederick Douglass in the weeks after Lincoln's assassination. The frontier lawyer and the former slave, the cautious politician and the fiery reformer, the President and the most famous black man in America—their lives traced different paths that finally met in the bloody landscape of secession, Civil War, and emancipation. Opponents at first, they gradually became allies, each influenced by and attracted to the other. Their three meetings in the White House signaled a profound shift in the direction of the Civil War, and in the fate of the United States.

James Oakes has written a masterful narrative history, bringing two iconic figures to life and shedding new light on the central issues of slavery, race, and equality in Civil War America.

New interesting textbook: Cuidado Manejado:Lo que Es y Como Esto Trabaja

Does Anybody Have a Problem with That?: Politically Incorrect's Greatest Hits

Author: Bill Maher

People are getting stupider.

The National Enquirer is always right.

Howard Stern should get over himself.

Fame is the worst drug.

These and countless other strident assertions are contained in Does Anybody Have a Problem with That?, the collection of the greatest hits of Bill Maher's TV series, Politically Incorrect.

Bill Maher presides over the most opinionated show on television. Maher and his panels of pundits and pop stars tackle the really important issues, pontificating liberally and illiberally to produce funny, smart, provocative, award-winning TV. And now here's a sampling of those opinions that will guarantee to make you the hit of every cocktail party. According to Maher, Vietnam was a smart, noble war; AIDS ribbons are stupid; we should get rid of Santa Claus; inner children should grow the hell up; everything that used to be sin is now a disease; strippers get the most respect; and there's a lot of "convenient feminism." And he gives out eight "Get Over Yourself" awards to the likes of Newt Gingrich, Howard Stern, and Deion Sanders.

Bill Maher has an opinion on everything, and he wants to share them all with you. Does anybody have a problem with that?

Library Journal

Comedy Central channel's premier talk show, Politically Incorrect, appears to have single-handedly revived political satire on television. Acerbic host Maher supplies an eclectic assortment of guests, who are goaded into quibbling, arguing, and shouting about everything from gays in the military to violence in the media. While the television show is a refreshing breath of topnotch satire, Maher's attempt to capture the essence of individual programs in this compilation of commentaries falls short of the mark. Maher has assembled some of the program's most memorable highlights, but outside the context of the programs, his tongue-in-cheek observations seem less interesting. Still, the book provides a useful record of individual programs, broadcast dates, and guests. That, coupled with the show's popularity, would make it a reasonable purchase for most libraries.Joe J. Accardi, Northeastern Illinois Univ. Lib., Chicago

Conflict of Interests or The Enemy of Nature

2009-02-03T14:08:00.000-08:00

Conflict of Interests: The Politics of American Education

Author: Joel Spring

Providing a critical understanding of the political and social forces shaping educational politics in the United States, this concise text describes and analyzes how policy is made for American schools and its effect on all of our lives and thinking. Joel Spring argues that the politics of Education is driven by a complex interrelationship between politicians, private foundations and think tanks, teachers’ unions, special-interest groups, educational politicians, school administrators, boards of education, courts, and the knowledge industry. The text uses many current examples to illustrate conflicts over educational policies.

	Preface
1	Educational Politicians and the Doctors of Spin	1
2	Sources of Conflict: Power and Knowledge	29
3	Sources of Conflict: The Economics of Education	53
4	Sources of Conflict: The Educational Establishment	71
5	Political Organization and Student Achievement	79
6	Reinvention of the School, Systemic Reform, and Federal Policies	91
7	State Politics of Education	111
8	Local Politics of Education	133
9	The Knowledge Industry	161
10	The Political Uses of the Courts	179
11	The Political Control of Education in a Free Society	195
	Index	203

Books about: Das Informelle Lernen: Die Natürlichen Pfade wieder zu entdecken, Die Neuerung und Leistung Begeistern

The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?

Author: Joel Kovel

Capitalism and its by-products -- imperialism, war, neoliberal globalization, racism, poverty and the destruction of community -- are all playing a part in the destruction of our ecosystem. Only now are we beginning to realize the depth of the crisis and the kind of transformation which will have to occur to ensure our survival. This second, thoroughly updated, edition of The Enemy of Nature speaks to this new environmental awareness. Joel Kovel argues against claims that we can achieve a better environment through the current Western "way of being". By suggesting a radical new way forward, an integration of "red" and "green" politics, Joel Kovel offers real hope and vision for a more sustainable future.

Faysal or Politics

2009-02-02T08:54:00.000-08:00

Faysal: Saudi Arabia's King for All Seasons

Author: Joseph A Kechichian

In Faysal, Joseph Kechichian offers the first biography of the ruler in decades, and the first to employ interviews, key archives, and recently declassified documents. Utilizing the same writing style that has earned accolades from The Economist and other publications, Kechichian offers a balanced assessment of Faysal and his impact.

Politics: Observations and Arguments, 1966-2004

Author: Hendrik Hertzberg

Here at last are Hendrik Hertzberg's most significant, hilarious, and devastating dispatches from the American scene he has chronicled for four decades with an uncanny blend of moral seriousness, high spirits, and perfect rhetorical pitch. Arranged thematically, each section contains the choicest, most illuminating pieces from his body of work and begins with a new piece of writing that frames the subject at hand. A tour of the defining moments of American life from the mid-'60s to the mid- '00s, Politics is at once the story of American life from LBJ to GWB and a testament to the power of the written word.

The Washington Post - David Greenberg

Long after we've forgotten Pat Robertson's presidential bid or John Tower's confirmation battle, these essays will bear rereading (and not just because Hertzberg's warnings about the violation of Tower's privacy, along with Gary Hart's, in 1987, presaged the frenzy of prurience that befell Washington in 1998). They're keepers because they don't just plead the case for contemporary liberalism but -- with their wit, humanity and exquisite understatement -- illustrate it.

Publishers Weekly

Hertzberg's name is instantly recognizable to readers of the New Yorker, where he often writes the lead commentary on the week's political fallout. Drawing on nearly 40 years' worth of material, this collection sums up a career that has included stints editing the New Republic and speechwriting for Jimmy Carter, and offers some surprises: a baby boomer's reminiscences on the 20th anniversary of Woodstock are expected, as are repeated forays into electoral reform, but a 1972 John Lennon profile and a probe of the origins of the classic New York tabloid headline, FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD find the politics in pop culture. A long stretch of material deals with his coverage of the 1988 election, including a reflection on the possibility of Dan Quayle becoming president that leads into a discussion of disengaged leadership. And there's plenty of direct criticism of George W. Bush and his handling of the war on terror, in the context of Hertzberg's longstanding dissatisfaction with neoconservatives and self-appointed protectors of "Judeo-Christian" values. Taken as a whole, the articles show a consistent concern for a classical liberalism in which sober reasoning rests on equal footing with sly humor, but even articles from 2000 feel distant given the pace of current events. Agent, The Wylie Agency. (July 13) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

The more than 100 articles collected here are fairly representative of Hertzberg's work over the last 40 years. A writer for The New Yorker, Newsweek, and The New Republic (where he was twice editor), Hertzberg also served as head speechwriter for President Jimmy Carter. But it is his voice as a liberal social and political critic that makes this book important. The articles are organized chronologically within sections. For example, "Wedge Issues" covers various controversial campaign issues, beginning with an article on pornography in 1986 and ending with one on the Lawrence v. Texas High Court decision of 2003. Each section opens with a new essay by the author; New Yorker editor David Remnick provides an introduction. As an essayist, Hertzberg may be many things-irreverent, arrogant, funny, very liberal, and at times hypercritical-but he is never boring. Whether liberal or conservative, readers will find him challenging and provocative. Recommended for all libraries.-Thomas J. Baldino, Wilkes Univ., PA Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Kirkus Reviews

One of American journalism's brightest intellectual lights shines forth in a fine-and long overdue-selection from four decades of work. Borrowing his title from that of Dwight Macdonald's left-leaning, mid-20th-century magazine, Hertzberg-who, as David Remnick notes in his foreword, is now "the political voice of The New Yorker"-offers a nicely catholic definition of what politics encompasses and who makes politics tick. In that vein, he opens this overstuffed anthology with a piece describing the San Francisco sound for Newsweek readers not yet hip to the scene, instructing them that the audiences for the likes of the politically astute Grateful Dead include people just like them, "like the crew-cut blond boy in chinos and poplin jacket, whose brunette date wears a plaid skirt and knee socks." Newsweek didn't run the essay, in which Jerry Garcia makes pronouncements worthy of Talleyrand ("Language is almost designed to be misunderstood"), but no matter: Hertzberg follows it with a generous sampling from the '60s era, including pieces that hit on Woodstock, the Weather Underground, and the invasion of Cambodia, before moving on to his stride-hitting analyses of mainstream political culture. Organized thematically, these pieces visit and revisit actors and motifs. All are marked by Hertzberg's touching insistence that humans are rational creatures and that our politics ought to reflect as much. Thus the fuss over Gary Hart's dalliance with Donna Rice, way back in the pre-Monica days, is hurtful because it "diverts our attention from public questions; it makes us respond inappropriately and disproportionately"; thus the war on drugs emerges as a "costly jihad"-just the right word-that "hasscared off some casual users, but it has done nothing to reduce the number of hard-core addicts"; thus the sitting president's way of catching lucky breaks makes for an especially maddening spectacle: "The fact that the 9/11 terrorists gave Bush what he could not earn on his own, a political majority, deepens the bitterness. "Superb writing, subtle thinking. Just the thing for politics junkies and journalism buffs, especially those wondering who merits wearing Izzy Stone's mantle today.

The Promise of Politics or The Weimar Culture

2009-02-01T03:41:00.000-08:00

The Promise of Politics

Author: Hannah Arendt

In The Promise of Politics, Hannah Arendt examines the conflict between philosophy and politics. In particular, she shows how the tradition of Western political thought, which extends from Plato and Aristotle to its culmination in Marx, failed to account for human action. The concluding section of the book, “Introduction into Politics,” examines an issue that is as timely today as it was when Arendt first wrote about it fifty years ago–the modern prejudice against politics. When politics is considered as a means to an end that lies outside of itself, argues Arendt, when force is used to create “freedom,” the very existence of political principles is imperiled.

The Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider

Author: Peter Gay

From the Brecht-Weill Threepenny Opera to the Warburg Institute, from the Bauhaus to The Magic Mountain, the Weimar Republic (1918-1933) has become a legend for its intense creativity during a time of political upheaval. In this vivid account, the distinguished historian Peter Gay traces the rise of the artistic, literary, and musical culture that bloomed so briefly in the 1920s amid the chaos of Germany's tenuous post-World War I democracy and crashed violently in the wake of Hitler's rise to power.

New York Times

[A]n enormously rich, intriguing, and exciting essay.... A major contribution to the study...

Strategy in the Contemporary World or Power and the Presidency

2009-01-30T22:28:00.000-08:00

Strategy in the Contemporary World: An Introduction to Strategic Studies

Author: John Baylis

Completely revised and updated to address changes that have taken place since 9/11, the second edition of this compelling collection takes a sophisticated look at the role of military power in the contemporary world.
In this essential resource, the authors analyze recent conflicts from Afghanistan to the Iraq War, considering the ongoing debates on the lessons that can be learned from these wars. In addition, they examine the controversy surrounding the recent revolution in military affairs--a transformation that has been brought about in response to the phenomenal pace of innovation in electronics and computer systems.

Go to: Polar Journeys or Lee Wades Korean Cookery

Power and the Presidency

Author: Michael Beschloss

In this volume, a distinguished group of experts--prize-winning presidential biographers, historians, and journalists examines how an array of twentieth-century presidents have commanded, wielded, and sometimes dissipated the enormous influence conferred upon the nation's highest office.

	Preface	ix
	Power and the Presidency: What's Essential Is Invisible	1
	Franklin D. Roosevelt: "Sublime Confidence"	19
	Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy: A Study in Contrasts	45
	Lyndon B. Johnson: The Race for Power	69
	Richard M. Nixon: "I Gave Them a Sword"	93
	Ronald Reagan: Force of Nature	111
	William J. Clinton: Loss, Recovery, and Jujitsu	135
	About the Authors	157
	Index	159

Disuniting of America or Divided America

2009-01-29T17:16:00.000-08:00

Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society (Revised and Enlarged Edition)

Author: Arthur M Schlesinger Jr

Setting the American experience against a global backdrop in which one nation after another is tearing itself apart, Schlesinger emphasizes the question: What is it that holds nations together? The classic American image was of the "melting pot," in which differences of race, religion, and nationality were reduced, however unevenly, by common adherence to unifying civic principles. Today that image is challenged by an identity politics that magnifies differences and abandons goals of integration and assimilation. Must we surrender national identity to ethnic lobbies? Is hypersensitivity on the question of language handicapping minority children? Is the purpose of teaching history to make minorities feel good about themselves? Or is it rather to teach an accurate understanding of the world and to protect unifying ideals of tolerance, democracy, and human rights? Strident multiculturalism, Schlesinger contends, is an ill-judged and wrong-headed response to the real problem: the persistence, despite many gains, of racism in the white majority. In a world scarred by ethnic conflict, he writes, it is all the more urgent that the United States set an example of how a highly differentiated society holds itself together. In this new and enlarged edition, more timely than ever, Schlesinger updates the discussion, assesses recent developments, points to factors that promise to defeat the disuniting of America, points also to the dangers of strident monoculturalism on the right, and adds "Schlesinger's syllabus" - an annotated list of a baker's dozen of book essential for understanding the American experience.

Publishers Weekly

In a courageous, important, forcefully argued essay, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Schlesinger contends that America as melting pot has given way to an "eruption of ethnicity'' that threatens to replace assimilation with fragmentation, and integration with separatism. As a case in point, he critiques Afrocentric curricula in schools and colleges which, in his view, glorify a mythic past and make such highly dubious claims as the notion that black Africa is the birthplace of science, philosophy, religion and technology, and the trendy but totally unsubstantiated theory that ancient Egypt was essentially a black African country. Those who attempt to use the schools for "social and psychological therapy'' to promote minority self-esteem are doomed to failure, asserts Schlesinger, because "feel-good history'' is factually flawed and does not equip students to grapple with their lives. Schools should certainly teach about other cultures and continents, he stresses, while faulting multiculturalists who forget that Europe is the unique source of liberating ideas of individual autonomy, political democracy and cultural freedom to which most of the world today aspires. The book was originally published in 1991 by Whittle Communications for selective distribution.

Divided America: The Ferocious Power Struggle in American Politics

Author: Earl Black

Now with an updated Afterword—in which the authors show how the 2006 midterm elections and the Democratic takeover of Congress validate their argument about regional divisions and why and how they will dominate the 2008 presidential election—Divided America tells the biggest story in American politics today: how new regional divisions are tearing the country's politics apart, turning both major parties into minority parties and encouraging angry constituencies to wage increasingly nasty wedge-issue campaigns.

The Washington Post - Donna Brazile

Before any of the 2008 candidates start counting their electoral votes, they should read the latest book by Earl and Merle Black.

In their scholarly and ambitious Divided America, the Black brothers -- political scientists who have written extensively on the politics of my native South -- offer a thoughtful, thorough analysis of the undercurrents that have driven our polarized national politics in recent decades. Their clear text, supported by voluminous charts and graphs, illustrates how deeply divided the country has become -- and perhaps not along the lines readers will expect.

Publishers Weekly

Politics by the numbers is the modus operandi of the Black brothers, twins who teach political science (Earl at Rice University, Merle at Emory University). Having focused on politics in the Southern states in three previous academic collaborations, the Blacks now divide the United States into five regions (South, Northeast, Pacific Coast, Midwest, Mountains/Plains), and explain how and why national electoral politics have become a close contest between two parties, Democrats and Republicans, that cannot claim permanent majority status. Most of the election data they examine comes from presidential elections; their analysis of races for the House of Representatives and the Senate come toward the end and are out of kilter with the results of the November 2006 House and Senate elections. Still, the Blacks' generalizations deserve consideration. They believe the Democrats are quite likely to retain advantages in the Northeast and Pacific Coast regions, while the Republicans are quite likely to win the South and Mountains/Plains regions in the 2008 election. That leaves the Midwest as the swing region. (The Blacks define the Midwest as 10 states, including Kentucky and West Virginia.) Though the book will probably fascinate politics junkies, the emphasis on statistics rather than lively anecdotes means rough going for qualitative rather than quantitative minds. 34 charts and tables. (Mar.)

Kirkus Reviews

Why have recent US national elections been so close? It's the regions, stupid. In an analysis of election data and exit polls of the past five decades, political scientists Earl (Political Science/Rice Univ.) and Merle (Politics and Government/Emory Univ.), twin brothers and coauthors (The Rise of Southern Republicans, 2003, etc.), show that the Democrats and Republicans are now evenly balanced in the national electorate, each having two regional strongholds and battling for voters in the ten-state Midwest swing region. The authors note that this development may be traced back to the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980, which ended a Democratic advantage among white voters dating to the New Deal. Reagan realigned white voters, with conservative whites going to the Republicans (now redefined as a conservative party emphasizing national security, economic growth, lower taxes and traditional positions on cultural and religious matters) and liberal whites increasingly joining the Democrats. It was the beginning of the end of the party factions once known as liberal Republicans and conservative Democrats. Trends continued gradually, and by 2004, the parties were more polarized than ever, with Republicans now drawing their strength from the South and Mountains/Plains states, the Democrats from the Northeast and Pacific Coast. These sharp regional differences now drive American politics, say the authors, and have ushered in an era of highly competitive, ideologically contentious and close elections. Goodbye, landslides. The Republican Party is now dominated by white Protestants (with evangelicals comprising 59 percent of them in 2004), the Democrats by minorities and non-Christian whites, andneither party can win a national election with only the support of their regional strongholds. Hence, the Midwest battleground will continue to determine the outcome of our elections. Using charts, the authors explore facets of their regional analysis and show how easy it is for national elections to go either way. Bedside reading for Karl Rove wannabes preparing for 2008. Agent: Andrew Wylie/Wylie Agency

The Influentials or One Life at a Time Please

2009-01-28T12:03:00.000-08:00

The Influentials: One American in Ten Tells the Other Nine How to Vote, Where to Eat, and What to Buy

Author: Edward B Keller

One American in ten tells the other nine how to vote, where to eat, and what to buy. They are

The Influentials

Who are they? The most influential Americans -- the ones who tell their neighbors what to buy, which politicians to support, and where to vacation -- are not necessarily the people you'd expect. They're not America's most affluent 10 percent or best-educated 10 percent. They're not the "early adopters," always the first to try everything from Franco-Polynesian fusion cooking to digital cameras. They are, however, the 10 percent of Americans most engaged in their local communities...and they wield a huge amount of influence within those communities. They're the campaigners for open-space initiatives. They're church vestrymen and friends of the local public library. They're the Influentials...and whether or not they are familiar to you, they're very well known to the researchers at RoperASW. For decades, these researchers have been on a quest for marketing's holy grail: that elusive but supremely powerful channel known as word of mouth. What they've learned is that even more important than the "word" -- what is said -- is the "mouth" -- who says it. They've identified, studied, and analyzed influence in America since the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey (now Exxon) hired Elmo Roper himself to develop a model for identifying opinion leaders, and in The Influentials, they are finally ready to share their results. A few samples:

• Influentials have been the "early majority" -- leading indicators of what Americans will be buying -- for more than five decades, from choosing energy-efficient carsin the 1970s to owning computers in the 1980s to adopting 401(k)s and IRAs in the 1990s to using the Internet and cell phones today.
• Influentials have led the way in social development as well, from the revival of self-reliance (in managing their own health care, investments, and consumption) to mass skepticism about the marketing claims of everything from breakfast food to politicians.

Although America's Influentials have always been powerful, they've never been more important than now. Today, a fragmented market has made it possible for Influentials to opt out of mass-message advertising, which means that a different route must be taken to capture their hearts and minds. The Influentials is a map for that route, a map that explains who these people are, how they exercise influence, and how they can be targeted. The Influentials features a series of rules and guidelines for marketing to Influentials; case studies of products that have prospered because of Influential marketing (and products that have failed because they lacked it); a history of the phenomenon...and why Influentials are more influential today than ever; and profiles of twelve real-life Influentials.

Both an intellectual adventure and a hands-on marketing manual, The Influentials is an extraordinary gold mine of information and analysis that no business can afford to ignore.

Publishers Weekly

There's a group of people, Keller and Berry posit, who are responsible for driving trends, influencing mass opinion and, most importantly, selling a great many products. These are the Influentials, the early adopters who had a digital camera before everyone else and who were the first to fly again after September 11. Like Malcolm Gladwell (The Tipping Point), these authors are keen to point out a common phenomenon and spin it for the edification of marketing executives. Their assertion is that 10% of Americans determine how the rest consume and live by chatting about their likes and dislikes. Keller and Berry spend most of the book bolstering their theory with extensive findings from Roper polls (both authors work for Roper). Following this is a suggested plan of action for capturing Influentials' interest, with suggestions on how to target them, how to sell and even how to treat them in a customer service setting. Being an Influential today is similar to being a Vanderbilt in a bygone era: "[T]he company should invite them in and engage them in a conversation... and keep tabs on them in the weeks that follow." Because its points are so concrete and straightforward, the book should have little trouble finding adherents who want to woo such a powerful consumer base. Keller and Berry's theories are compelling and exceedingly well researched, and should be a boon to anyone looking to promote the next big thing. (Jan. 13) Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

Veterans of RoperASW, Keller and Berry based their first book on decades of research through the Roper Polls. Their findings suggest that one in ten people affects the way everyone else thinks via word of mouth. Presenting profiles of 12 such "Influentials" along with results of the polls, the authors argue that the most influential people in America are often everyday people, folks in one's own neighborhood who are active in civics, charities, and religious institutions. The premise is that marketers who understand these dynamics can focus their resources on these individuals in order to influence everyone else. Though the authors support their arguments with an impressive array of statistics, provided in minute detail to substantiate the premise, a much more lively discussion of a similar theme can be found in Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point. Clearly targeted toward practicing marketing professionals and business executives, this book is appropriate for libraries with specialized collections, such as those in business schools and advertising/PR agencies.-Stephen Turner, Turner & Assocs., San Francisco Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Soundview Executive Book Summaries

They are the most influential Americans — the ones who tell their neighbors what to buy, which politician to support and where to vacation. They aren't necessarily who you expect. They aren't the richest 10 percent or the best educated 10 percent. They aren't the early adopters who are always the first to try everything. They are, however, the 10 percent of Americans most engaged in their communities — where they wield a huge amount of influence. They're the Influentials. Together they are the best marketing tool around — using word of mouth to create spirals of influence. They have always been powerful, and they've never been more important than now. Today, a fragmented market has made it possible for Influentials to opt-out of mass-message advertising, which means that you must take a different route to reach them.

Influentials are not waiting for a product or service like a relay runner waiting for a baton. They want what they want when they want it. Influentials are more like marathon runners stopping briefly at a water station. If you want to reach them, you must place your water station along their route. These are the rules of their route:

They use multiple sources of information.
They put people first. Word-of-mouth is more important than traditional media.
They believe in sharing what they know.
They are voracious readers.
The companies they buy from must practice continuous meaningful improvements or risk being overtaken by competitors who do.
Buzz is not guaranteed. Influentials want better products and services but don't always have time to keep up with what's new.
Influentials trust their instincts.

Influentials have played a dual role in the self-reliance movement. They have led the way in adopting many of the new products and services that enhance self-reliance: computers, the Internet, cell phones and self-directed retirement plans. On the other hand, their basic ideas have not changed much at all. Instead, it seems that it is the general public that has changed to become more like the Influentials. In essence, they have become role models for the national agenda.

Some key dynamics worth watching include:

A different kind of activism: Americans are doing some things more than they were a decade ago. More are volunteering and more are setting up new community groups to address problems.
Thinking out of the orthodox box: When getting involved, the emphasis seems to be on being effective and relevant. Influentials don't migrate to old interest groups or charities: They may even form their own.
Return to values: Influentials appreciate their background and strive to preserve traditions and customs. They also see lack of morals as a major societal problem. To that end, they believe that parents and others in the community have a responsibility to guide children, including businesses that cater to children and youth.
Levels of confidence: Influentials know being self-reliant doesn't mean knowing everything. People bring different levels of confidence to different subjects. But Influentials seek out knowledge to fill the gaps. Businesses must work hard to reach the right level of communication — not so complicated that customers can't follow, not so simple that they are offended.
Self-improvement and learning: A major component of the self-reliant mind-set is learning.

You must find a way to reach the people whom people turn to when they need ideas and information. There are six rules you should use to reach the Influentials. They are:

Be Where the Information Is. Getting good information is integral to Influentials' decision process. They value information; businesses that want their attention should begin with offering them good, high-quality information. Place the information in media that are rich in information because that's where Influentials migrate.
When Critics Come Knocking, Invite Them In. When someone comes to you with a complaint, he or she is probably an Influential. When a call comes into a consumer complaint center, companies should assume it's from an Influential. Don't shy away from their criticism: Engage it and assess its merit with the individual making the call. Keep tabs on Influential criticism.
Get Out Into the Community. One of the best ways to win Influential favor is to become active in a cause that will produce tangible benefits in peoples' lives. Build sports fields, sponsor Girl Scout activities and create or maintain parks. In surveys, Influentials say they would welcome more locally cause-related marketing. They prefer programs with tangible results over softer, feel-good campaigns. While cause-marketing campaigns can't make up for a poor product, they can tip the scale in your favor when price and quality are equal. Influentials are willing to switch brands for a good cause.
Make It Easier and Then Make It Easier Still. When Influentials talk about brands, they usually do so in terms of how easy the brand has made their life. Saving money, getting good value for the dollar, and making life easier are the main focus when Influentials go shopping. They are, however, willing to pay extra for making life easier. They aren't impulse buyers either, don't care about "prestigious" brands and often buy brands they know and trust. Your marketing must convey the practical benefits of your products or services.
Know the 'Exceptions' and Keep Up With Them. Influentials are utilitarians in many areas, but they make "exceptions to the rule." Their homes are one as are automobiles. They also indulge in travel and personal health. Another frequent exception to the rule that products must be good quality and at a fair price is their penchant to shop locally.
Be A Brand and Tell the World. Influentials are skeptical of marketing and demanding of businesses, but they hold a high opinion of brands. They often believe a particular brand is worth paying more for. Don't be afraid to market your brand to Influentials. They likely will stick with it once they're sold on its quality and other benefits.

	Introduction	1
1.	Who Are the Influentials?	27
	Demographics Are Not Influence
	Shared Characteristics and Diversity
	The Activists
	Profile: Isabel Milano
	People Who Are Connected
	People with Impact
	Profile: Larry Lee
	People with Active Minds
	A Product That Works: The Cell Phone
	Trendsetters
	A Product That Can Wait: E-Books
	Case Study: The Entrepreneurial Wave
	Are Influentials Born or Made?
2.	The Influential Personality	79
	A Clear Sense That "This Matters"
	Aspirations: The American Dream, the Good Life, and Life's Necessities
	Belief in Growth and Change
	Profile: Shelley Miller
	Balancing Community and Self
	Values: Family and Engagement First
	Where They Are Satisfied and What They're Working On
	Profile: Rick White
	Case Study: Green Marketing--the Influential Balance
	An Idea That Works: The Integrated Home
	Idiosyncrasy
3.	The Influence Spiral: How Influentials Get and Spread Ideas	123
	The Spiral of Influence
	Profile: Sophie Glovier
	The Water Station
	Multiple Sources of Information
	Nothing Beats Word of Mouth
	If You Get It, Share It
	Continuous Provement
	Case Study: Influential "Inflection Points" and "Plateaus"
	Media: In the Beginning Was the Word
	But They Use Other Sources, Too
	Profile: Teresa Graham
	An Idea That Works but Should Work Better: E-Commerce
	They Trust Their Instincts
4.	The Message of Influentials: The Age of Autonomy and the Rise of Self-Reliance	173
	The Self-Reliance Movement
	The New Century: The Changes Come to the Surface
	Older, More Educated, and More Adept
	The Role of Influentials
	Opportunities and Challenges
	A Different Kind of Activism
	Thinking Out of the Orthodox Box
	Profile: Mike Williams
	Return to Values
	Different Levels of Confidence
	"The Best Places to Have Money"
	Implications for Government and Institutions
	Self-Improvement and Learning
	Profile: David Pendergrass
	A Time for Building Up
5.	The Influential Vision: Seven Trends for the Future	227
	A Window onto the Future
	The Legacies Agenda
	Profile: Leonard Pitt
	Global Connections
	High Pace, High Peace
	A PC-Centered World
	Living Longer Stronger
	Profile: Walter Arrowsmith
	No Big Brothers
	The Limits of Convenience
6.	Developing an Influential Strategy: Six Rules for Getting into the Conversation	279
	"Mission Control: We've Got a Problem"
1.	Be Where the Information Is
2.	When Critics Come Knocking, Invite Them In
3.	Get Out into the Community
4.	Make It Easier--Then Make It Easier Still
	A Product That Works: Debit Cards
	Profile: Tim Draper
5.	Know "The Exceptions"--and Keep Up with Them
6.	Be a Brand, and Tell the World
	Profile: Sarah Vokes
	The Good News--and Your Challenge
	Notes on Methodology	339
	Acknowledgments	341
	Index	345

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One Life at a Time, Please

Author: Edward Abbey

From stories about cattlemen, fellow critics, his beloved desert, cities, and technocrats to thoughts on sin and redemption, this is one of our most treasured writers at the height of his powers.

Library Journal

In this collection of previously published essays, Abbey writes on topics as diverse as immigration law, the nature of femininity, and the philosophy of Emerson. The book is divided into three sections: Politics, Travel, and Books and Art. Marvelous portraits of the Rio Grande and the Salmon rivers showcase Abbey's ability to evoke a feeling for the majesty of these places. His political essays are lively and provocative; those discussing books and art reveal him as one who has thought deeply about his craft. An original writer with strong convictions whose latest book is recommended for most collections. -- Randy Dykhuis, Grand Rapids P.L., Mich.

Twenty Years Crisis 1919 1939 or Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

2009-01-27T06:49:00.000-08:00

Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939

Author: Edward Hallett Carr

'...this book is a monument to the human power of sane and detached analysis. In its examination of the collapse of the international system, it is utterly devoid of national bias, or that bitter denunciation of governments and men which marks so much recent literature dealing with the crisis...In the development of his thesis, Professor Carr has produced one of the most significant contributions to the systematic study of the theory of international politics that this reviewer has seen in years.' -W.P. Maddox, The American Political Science Review

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Author: Nellie Y McKay

Not only one of the last of over one hundred slave narratives published separately before the Civil War, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) is also one of the few existing narratives written by a woman. It offers a unique perspective on the complex plight of the black woman as slave and as writer. In a story that merges the conventions of the slave narrative with the techniques of the sentimental novel, Harriet Jacobs describes her efforts to fight off the advances of her master, her eventual liaison with another white man (the father of two of her children), and her ultimately successful struggle for freedom. Jacobs' account of her experiences, and her search for her own voice, prefigure the literary and ideological concerns of generations of African-American women writers to come.

Library Journal

Published in 1861, this was one of the first personal narratives by a slave and one of the few written by a woman. Jacobs (1813-97) was a slave in North Carolina and suffered terribly, along with her family, at the hands of a ruthless owner. She made several failed attempts to escape before successfully making her way North, though it took years of hiding and slow progress. Eventually, she was reunited with her children. For all biography and history collections. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

	Childhood	8
	The New Master and Mistress	11
	The Slaves' New Year's Day	16
	The Slave who dared to feel like a Man	17
	The Trials of Girlhood	26
	The Jealous Mistress	28
	The Lover	33
	What Slaves are taught to think of the North	39
	Sketches of neighboring Slaveholders	41
	A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl's Life	47
	The new Tie to Life	51
	Fear of Insurrection	55
	The Church and Slavery	59
	Another Link to Life	65
	Continued Persecutions	68
	Scenes at the Plantation	73
	The Flight	80
	Months of Peril	83
	The Children Sold	88
	New Perils	92
	The Loophole of Retreat	95
	Christmas Festivities	98
	Still in Prison	100
	The Candidate for Congress	103
	Competition in Cunning	105
	Important Era in my Brother's Life	109
	New Destination for the Children	113
	Aunt Nancy	118
	Preparations for Escape	122
	Northward Bound	129
	Incidents in Philadelphia	132
	The Meeting of Mother and Daughter	135
	A Home Found	138
	The Old Enemy again	140
	Prejudice Against Color	143
	The Hairbreadth Escape	145
	A Visit to England	149
	Renewed Invitations to go South	151
	The Confession	153
	The Fugitive Slave Law	154
	Free at Last	159
	Appendix	165

Doing Anti Oppressive Practice or Maconochies Gentlemen

2009-01-26T01:36:00.000-08:00

Doing Anti-Oppressive Practice: Building Transformative, Politicized Social Work

Author: Donna Baines

Rather than a book of theory, this collection of essays focuses on practical strategies for integrating antioppressive theory into politicized, transformative social work. The authors draw on practice vignettes, personal experiences, and casework examples to assert that everyday interactions with clients from disadvantaged groups can challenge injustice and ultimately transform larger systems of oppression.

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Maconochie's Gentlemen: The Story of Norfolk Island and the Roots of Modern Prison Reform

Author: Norval Morris

In 1840, Alexander Maconochie, a privileged retired naval captain, became at his own request superintendent of two thousand twice-convicted prisoners on Norfolk Island, a thousand miles off the coast of Australia. In four years, Maconochie transformed what was one of the most brutal convict settlements in history into a controlled, stable, and productive environment that achieved such success that upon release his prisoners came to be called "Maconochie's Gentlemen".

Here Norval Morris, one of our most renowned criminologists, offers a highly inventive and engaging account of this early pioneer in penal reform, enhancing Maconochie's life story with a trenchant policy twist. Maconochie's life and efforts on Norfolk Island, Morris shows, provide a model with profound relevance to the running of correctional institutions today. Using a unique combination of fictionalized history and critical commentary, Morris gives this work a powerful policy impact lacking in most standard academic accounts.

In an era of "mass incarceration" that rivals that of the settlement of Australia, Morris injects the question of humane treatment back into the debate over prison reform. Maconochie and his "Marks system" played an influential role in the development of prisons; but for the last thirty years prison reform has been dominated by punitive and retributive sentiments, the conventional wisdom holding that we need 'supermax' prisons to control the 'worst of the worst' in solitary and harsh conditions. Norval Morris argues to the contrary, holding up the example of Alexander Maconochie as a clear-cut alternative to the "living hell" of prison systems today.

Publishers Weekly

In this unique narrative of 19th-century penal reform, Morris, a law professor at the University of Chicago and editor of The Oxford History of the Prison, relates penal history to contemporary prison controversies. Morris gleans trenchant lessons from the work of Royal Navy Capt. Alexander Maconochie, superintendent of Norfolk Island, an Australian coastal settlement that in 1840 was a prison for the "worst of the worst." Maconochie, a man of unbending compassion, tested reform theories, combining scientific measurement of each prisoner's progress with increased privileges to elicit good behavior. All available accounts indicate that Maconochie transformed a hellish prison into a safe, well-run environment. Morris engagingly recounts Maconochie's four-year administration via four fictionalized voices: those of Maconochie himself, two better-adjusted prisoners (the prison librarian and a musician who formed an orchestra) and Maconochie's daughter, who became smitten with the musician-prisoner. Morris wonders whether Maconochie's success may have been due less to the marks system than to his honest communications with the prisoners; still, his system of privileges-for-conformity paid great dividends. While Maconochie's tenure allowed civil relations between prisoners and their soldier-keepers, his successors reverted to policies of gratuitous cruelty, resulting in deadly riots, shortly before the prison was closed. Unfortunately, Morris's deft re-creations of his principal characters' likely recollections overshadow three brief essays relating Maconochie's experiment to the perpetual penological clash between rehabilitation and punishment, a crucial component of the book given thepro-punishment camp's current successes. This lucid, novel (and novelistic) approach to a nearly forgotten chapter in penology deserves attention. 3 halftones and 3 maps. (Nov.) Forecasts: Scholars, prison activists and open-minded law enforcement professionals will appreciate this unusual book. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

This slim volume is a partly fictionalized account of a unique experiment in prison reform. In 1840, Alexander Maconochie, a retired British naval captain, was elected to become superintendent of Norfolk Island, a prison colony off the coast of Australia. Using humane methods and a "mark system" that allowed prisoners to shorten their sentences by good behavior, Maconochie ameliorated the brutal conditions on the island and transformed many of the men into "gentlemen." Sadly, the British authorities did not approve of his methods and replaced him in 1844. Law professor Morris (The Oxford History of Prisons) uses diaries ostensibly written by Maconochie and his family to recount what went on during his four years on Norfolk. The most poignant entries are by Maconochie's daughter Mary Ann, whose love for a convict forms a charming subplot. The book concludes with "Contemporary Lessons from Maconochie's Experiment" in which Morris discusses the need for modern prison reform as an alternative to the "supermax prisons" now widely used in this country. If Maconochie's methods worked under such extreme conditions, wouldn't they work today in our supposedly enlightened times? Highly recommended for crime collections in public and academic libraries. Frances Sandiford, Green Haven Correctional Facility Lib., Stormville, NY Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Kirkus Reviews

In a volume with a highly misleading, unsuitable title, a criminologist fictionalizes the experiences of Alexander Maconochie, the crusading superintendent of the prison on Norfolk Island in the early 1840s. Morris (ed., The Oxford History of the Prison, not reviewed) had a terrific tale to tell-the story of a man who believed that humanizing the conditions of prisons would improve the lives of the men who would ultimately return to society. He believed his theories so fervently that he convinced the authorities to allow an experiment on Norfolk Island (1,000 miles east of Australia) where resided 2,000 of the most intractable convicts. And in 1840-with his wife and six children-he arrived at the island and proceeded to implement his ideas. Within four years, he had profoundly transformed the place-instituting what he called his "Marks System," by which convicts earned points to reduce the length of their sentences. Convicts worked farms, ran a library, organized a band, performed a scene from Richard II, and generally confirmed Maconochie's faith in them. But instead of writing biography or history, Morris decided to write a . . . well, novel. The first 159 pages contain a dreadful fictionalized version of Maconochie's tenure, told in silly, ill-written monologues by Maconochie, his nubile daughter Minnie (who falls in love with her convict piano teacher), and two fictitious prisoners (one is the librarian, the other the pianist). Maconochie tells us about one of his nocturnal emissions; we hear Minnie complain, "It was just so monstrously unfair"; the librarian tells the pianist: "Quit thinking with your penis and realise what a narrow ledge we walk on." Following this fecklessfiction are brief accounts of what happened to Maconochie and Norfolk Island and then two mildly interesting (and awkwardly written) essays on prison conditions and on lessons we can learn from Maconochie. With neither index nor bibliography, the volume is useless for the scholarly or the curious. An important story that deserves far better treatment. (3 halftones, 3 maps)

Acknowledgments	vii
Author's Note	ix
About the Author	xiii
Maps	xiv
Part 1 Norfolk Island, 1840-1844	1
Part 2 Maconochie and Norfolk Island after 1844	161
Part 3 Why Do Prison Conditions Matter?	171
Part 4 Contemporary Lessons from Maconochie's Experiment	177
Fixed or Indeterminate Sentences and "Good Time"	178
Graduated Release Procedures and Aftercare	195
"The Worst of the Worst"	197
Punishment and the Mentally Ill	203
Deterrence, Rehabilitation, and Prison Conditions	208

Gandhi or American Social Welfare Policy

2009-01-24T20:16:00.000-08:00

Gandhi: Hind Swaraj and Other Writings

Author: Anthony J Parel

Hind Swaraj is Mahatma Gandhi's fundamental work, and a key to the understanding both of his life and thought, and South Asian politics in the twentieth century. This volume presents for the first time the original 1910 edition of this work, including Gandhi's Preface and Foreword, not found in other editions. This is the first fully annotated edition of the work, and the volume also includes Gandhi's correspondence with Tolstoy, Nehru and others. Anthony Parel's introduction sets the work in its historical and intellectual contexts. Short bibliographical notes on prominent figures mentioned in the text and a chronology of important events are also included as aids to the reader.

	Acknowledgements
	Editor's introduction
	A note on the history of the text
	Principal events in Gandhi's life
	Biographical synopses
	Guide to further reading
	Glossary and list of abbreviations
	Hind Swaraj	1
	Supplementary Writings	127
	Gandhi's letter to H. S. L. Polak	129
	Gandhi's letter to Lord Ampthill	133
	Preface to Gandhi's edition of the English translation of Leo Tolstoy's Letter to a Hindoo	136
	Gandhi-Tolstoy letters	138
	Gandhi-Wybergh letters	139
	Gandhi-Nehru letters	149
	Economic development and moral development (1916)	156
	Gandhi on machinery, 1919-47	164
	Constructive programme: its meaning and place (1941), 1945	170
	Gandhi's 'Quit India' speech, 1942	181
	Gandhi's message to the nation issued before his arrest on 9 August 1942	188
	Gandhi's political vision: the Pyramid vs the Oceanic Circle (1946)	188
	Draft Constitution of Congress, 1948	191
	Bibliography	194
	Index	200

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American Social Welfare Policy: A Pluralist Approach

Author: Howard Jacob Karger

Basic Approach
This Research Navigator Edition highlights important questions raised in social welfare policy debates since 2005. This new material, located in the frontmatter, is followed by questions and activities that stimulate critical thinking skills. In addition, access to Research Navigator has been provided so that students may conduct further research on their own. By engaging with current issues and research, they may become more than an interested observer. They may become active participants.
Highlights of this Research Navigator Edition
• An access code for Research Navigator has been included on the inside front cover.
• This text has been updated with important policy issues that have occurred since 2005.
• A chapter on Religion and Social Welfare Policy examines the religious roots of the
welfare state, and how changes in religious thought and expression have been
reflected in social welfare polices.
• A discussion on the impact of the Bush tax cuts on social welfare policy has
been included.
• A comprehensive companion website that includes practice tests, flashcards, web
links and more is available! Please visit: ablongman.com/karger5e
What the Reviewers are Saying . . .
“I think one of the hallmarks of each edition of Karger and Stoesz is that it is clear and well-written. This is no exception.”
–Edward Gumz, Loyola University, Chicago
“[American Social Welfare Policy] provides an excellent and important balance between the many different views and approaches to social welfarepolicy.”
–Thomas McLaughlin, University of New England

Nat Turner or The Veterans Survival Guide

2009-01-23T15:03:00.000-08:00

Nat Turner

Author: Kyle Baker

The story of Nat Turner and his slave rebellion—which began on August 21, 1831, in Southampton County, Virginia—is known among school children and adults. To some he is a hero, a symbol of Black resistance and a precursor to the civil rights movement; to others he is monster—a murderer whose name is never uttered.

In Nat Turner, acclaimed author and illustrator Kyle Baker depicts the evils of slavery in this moving and historically accurate story of Nat Turner’s slave rebellion. Told nearly wordlessly, every image resonates with the reader as the brutal story unfolds.

This graphic novel collects all four issues of Kyle Baker’s critically acclaimed miniseries together for the first time in hardcover and paperback. The book also includes a new afterword by Baker.

“A hauntingly beautiful historical spotlight. A-” —Entertainment Weekly

“Baker’s storytelling is magnificent.” —Variety

“Intricately expressive faces and trenchant dramatic pacing evoke the diabolic slave trade’s real horrors.” —The Washington Post

“Baker’s drawings are worthy of a critic’s attention.”—Los Angeles Times

“Baker’s suspenseful and violent work documents the slave trade’s atrocities as no textbook can, with an emotional power approaching that of Maus.”—Library Journal, starred review

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The Veteran's Survival Guide

Author: John D Roch

"Claim denied!" All too often millions of veterans have received this response to their legitimate claims for federal benefits. In most cases, writes veterans' advocate John D. Roche, the claimant didn't understand the procedures needed to meet the myriad requirements of the Department of Veterans Affairs. With the appeals process requiring years to resolve disputes, deserving veterans and their dependents are left confused and frustrated by the agency and a system that was created to serve them. The answer is to submit a well-grounded claim initially, which The Veteran's Survival Guide, now in a revised, second edition, analyzes in detail. This unique book, written in an accessible self-help style, will be required reading for any veteran or veteran's dependent who wishes to obtain his or her well-earned benefits and for those officials of veterans' service organizations who assist veterans with their claims.

Library Journal

The author, a former claims adjudication specialist for the Veteran's Administration (VA), assembles the information veterans and their dependents need to file a claim for their federal benefits. According to Roche, the process is slow and complicated, and the VA is not helpful to those pursuing their rights. Roche concentrates on instructing readers in the key elements for securing benefits: constructing a "well-grounded claim" and complying with claims procedures. In plain language, he provides detailed descriptions of the steps involved and illustrates the discussion with examples and cautions. The author pulls no punches regarding the difficulties claimants encounter and succeeds in providing them with the information they need to work through a tangled system. Highly recommended for public libraries.-Joan Pedzich, Harris Beach LLP, Rochester, NY Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Facilitators Fieldbook or For Liberty and Glory

2009-01-22T09:51:00.000-08:00

Facilitator's Fieldbook: Step-by-Step Procedures Checklists and Guidelines, Samples and Templates

Author: Tom Justic

Getting teams and groups to function productively is a challenge. For years The Facilitator's Fieldbook has been giving group leaders what they need to make everything run more smoothly. Now fully updated, the Second Edition is truly jam-packed with step-by-step procedures, checklists and guidelines, samples and templates, and more. Perfect for rookies and seasoned facilitators alike, the book covers key areas including:

establishing ground rules for groups
planning meetings and agendas
brainstorming
making decisions
conflict resolution
making the most of electronic meetings
using groups to drive change
helping groups hit sales targets
and much more

For managers, trainers, and group leaders in any industry, The Facilitator's Fieldbook is a practical, powerful book that will keep teams and groups humming along and getting results.

T+D

. . . perfect for novices or seasoned veterans.

For Liberty and Glory: Washington, Lafayette, and Their Revolutions

Author: James R Gaines

They began as courtiers in a hierarchy of privilege, but history remembers them as patriot-citizens in a commonwealth of equals.

On April 18, 1775, a riot over the price of flour broke out in the French city of Dijon. That night, across the Atlantic, Paul Revere mounted the fastest horse he could find and kicked it into a gallop.

So began what have been called the "sister revolutions" of France and America. In a single, thrilling narrative, this book tells the story of those revolutions and shows just how deeply intertwined they actually were. Their leaders, George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette, were often seen as father and son, but their relationship, while close, was every bit as complex as the long, fraught history of the French-American alliance. Vain, tough, ambitious, they strove to shape their characters and records into the form they wanted history to remember. James R. Gaines provides fascinating insights into these personal transformations and is equally brilliant at showing the extraordinary effect of the two "freedom fighters" on subsequent history. 8 pages of color and 8 pages of black-and-white illustrations; 2 maps.

Bryan Craig - Library Journal

The famous relationship between George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette was forged in battle in the American Revolution. Gaines (former editor, Timemagazine; Evening in the Palace of Reason) presents an engrossing book about their complex friendship. He effectively argues that theirs was not a father-son relationship of pure devotion and that the two did end up on opposites sides on occasions. For example, although Washington supported the principles of liberty within the French Revolution, he did not support the export of those liberties beyond French borders when France then waged war with Prussia and Austria-Hungary. However, Lafayette commanded one of those French armies. Gaines's book is much broader than David Clary's recent Adopted Son: Washington, Lafayette, and the Friendship That Saved the Revolutionbecause Gaines includes more about Lafayette's role during the French Revolution and his life after Washington's death in 1799. He uses a good balance of primary and secondary sources and includes recent works as well. Highly recommended for both public and academic libraries.

Kirkus Reviews

Exciting, well-wrought narrative strikes a terrific balance between George Washington's stoic endeavors to galvanize a new American republic and the Marquis de Lafayette's efforts to foment ideas of liberty and equality in despotic France. The pair enjoyed a close, lifelong relationship, notes Gaines (Evening in the Palace of Reason, 2005, etc.). The elder general of the ragtag colonial forces first met the effusive, wild-eyed and very rich 19-year-old Frenchman in 1777 and had to figure out what to do with him. Steeped in Enlightenment ideals, each would be profoundly changed by the American war for liberty. Washington, the taciturn man of honor, lent his immense gravity and dignity to the founding years of the new republic. Lafayette fought courageously for the patriots, most notably at the siege of Yorktown, and he aggressively foisted on Louis XVI's moribund court the ideals of inalienable human rights and self-government. Indeed, the French became necessary allies in the war against England, and Gaines notes that numerous first- and second-rank leaders of the French Revolution besides Lafayette were veterans of the American revolt and "carried home to their tottering monarchy the ideal of an Arcadian society free from want and despotism." The author also stresses the importance of playwright and royal spy Beaumarchais, who pushed Louis to help arm the American rebels by setting up a secret trading house funded by the French government. Gaines maneuvers deftly between developments in America and France, from Washington's camp at Valley Forge and reluctant first presidency to Lafayette's intervention at the French court and the monstrous violence unleashed by the revolution. Amarvelous reliving of history through the lives of two key players who were also devoted friends.

Megacommunities or Great Risk Shift

2009-01-21T04:38:00.000-08:00

Megacommunities: How Business, Government and Civil Society Leaders Can Master This Century's Global Challenges--Together

Author: Mark Gerencser

A hurricane strikes a city; terrorists attack a nation; global warming threatens the environment--such problems are too large for any one authority to solve alone. Our increasingly globalized and interconnected world calls for a new type of tri-sector leadership in which business, government and nonprofits work together in a state of permanent negotiation. To be effective, tomorrow’s leaders will need to reach across national and sector divisions to form a collaborative “megacommunity.”

Based on interviews with over 100 leaders from around the world including Bill Clinton, Henry Kissinger, Kenneth Chenault and Richard Parsons, MEGACOMMUNITIES: How Leaders of Government, Business and Non-Profits Can Tackle Today's Global Challenges Together introduces a radically new framework for reaching solutions to today’s thorniest problems. Written by four senior consultants from global consultancy Booz Allen Hamilton, and with a Foreword by Walter Isaacson, this important book explains how a megacommunity approach is:

COUNTERING AIDS, ALZHEIMER’S AND GLOBAL PANDEMICS
In India, a megacommunity battles HIV/AIDS by bringing together both public, private, and civil-sector organizations, including PepsiCo, the Gates Foundation, U.S. healthcare experts, UN development programs, and local NGOs.

CONSERVING THE ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
In saving the world's rainforests, providers, distributors, sellers, and consumers of lumber team up with local communities, the World Wildlife Fund, and Goldman Sachs.

HELPING COMMUNITIES GROW In changing neighborhoods like Harlem, the megacommunityincludes local small businesses, community groups, global companies, and foundations like Bill Clinton's.

“What is required are leaders who know how to identify the vital interests they share with others, who are prepared to seek the benefits from which all can gain,” write the authors.

Visit their website at: megacommunities.com

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Great Risk Shift: The Assault on American Jobs, Families, Health Care and Retirement and how You Can Fight Back

Author: Jacob S Hacker

America's leaders say the economy is strong and getting stronger. But the safety net that once protected us is fast unraveling. With retirement plans in growing jeopardy while health coverage erodes, more and more economic risk is shifting from government and business onto the fragile shoulders of the American family.
In The Great Risk Shift, Jacob S. Hacker lays bare this unsettling new economic climate, showing how it has come about, what it is doing to our families, and how we can fight back. Behind this shift, he contends, is the Personal Responsibility Crusade, eagerly embraced by corporate leaders and Republican politicians who speak of a nirvana of economic empowerment, an "ownership society" in which Americans are free to choose. But as Hacker reveals, the result has been quite different: a harsh new world of economic insecurity, in which far too many Americans are free to lose.
The book documents how two great pillars of economic security--the family and the workplace--guarantee far less financial stability than they once did. The final leg of economic support--the public and private benefits that workers and families get when economic disaster strikes--has dangerously eroded as political leaders and corporations increasingly cut back protections of our health care, our income security, and our retirement pensions.
Blending powerful human stories, big-picture analysis, and compelling ideas for reform, this remarkable volume will hit a nerve, serving as a rallying point in the vital struggle for economic security in an increasingly uncertain world.

Everything for Sale or The Lost Promise of Civil Rights

2009-01-20T01:46:00.000-08:00

Everything for Sale: The Virtues and Limits of Markets

Author: Robert Kuttner

In this highly acclaimed, provocative book, Robert Kuttner disputes the laissez-faire direction of both economic theory and practice that has been gaining in prominence since the mid-1970s. Dissenting voices, Kuttner argues, have been drowned out by a stream of circular arguments and complex mathematical models that ignore real-world conditions and disregard values that can't easily be turned into commodities. With its brilliant explanation of how some sectors of the economy require a blend of market, regulation, and social outlay, and a new preface addressing the current global economic crisis, Kuttner's study will play an important role in policy-making for the twenty-first century.
"The best survey of the limits of free markets that we have. . . . A much needed plea for pragmatism: Take from free markets what is good and do not hesitate to recognize what is bad."—Jeff Madrick, Los Angeles Times
"It ought to be compulsory reading for all politicians—fortunately for them and us, it is an elegant read."—The Economist
"Demonstrating an impressive mastery of a vast range of material, Mr. Kuttner lays out the case for the market's insufficiency in field after field: employment, medicine, banking, securities, telecommunications, electric power."—Nicholas Lemann, New York Times Book Review
"A powerful empirical broadside. One by one, he lays on cases where governments have outdone markets, or at least performed well."—Michael Hirsh, Newsweek
"To understand the economic policy debates that will take place in the next few years, you can't do better than to read this book."—Suzanne Garment,Washington Post Book World

Publishers Weekly

Challenging the prevailing conservative doctrine that an unregulated, self-correcting, free-market economy is the ideal, Kuttner (The End of Laissez-Faire) argues that in a humane society, whole realms of activity necessarily depart from pure market principles because market norms drive out nonmarket norms-civility, commitment to the public good, personal economic security and liberty. In the workplace, a growing tendency to treat human labor purely as a commodity has led to an increasing polarization of wages, erosion of standards of fairness and greater worker insecurity, he maintains. Overreliance on market mechanisms is ruining the health care system, contends Kuttner, a contributing columnist to Business Week, because of enormous hidden costs engendered by opportunism, fragmentation, underinvestment in public health and prevention, and inefficient use of home care and nursing care. Arguing that deregulation of financial markets leads to offsetting inefficiencies, he casts a skeptical eye on hostile takeovers, junk bonds and derivatives and advocates "stakeholder capitalism" to make shareholders more accountable to employees. In a benchmark for future debate, Kuttner brings, clear, pragmatic thinking to complex, thorny issues, reclaiming a middle ground between champions of laissez-faire capitalism and statism. (Jan.)

Library Journal

In this thorough, scholarly approach to current economics relative to the political scene, journalist Kuttner (End of Laissez-Faire, LJ 2/15/91), who writes columns for BusinessWeek and the Washington Post, examines in great detail the free-market economy. The free market he intends is that envisioned by libertarian thought, with less government intervention and deregulation. Kuttner offers comparisons with the mixed economy of previous decades back to the Roosevelt era. He demonstrates how government regulation, intervention, and other actions have affected the economy in the past and how they still do. The serious student of economic history and policy will glean from his work many thought-provoking and controversial ideas that reveal how the free market has changed in the areas of labor, healthcare, sports, and business practices, to name a few. Kuttner's research has produced a well-written tome that certainly has a place on the shelves of academic and large public libraries.-Steven J. Mayover, Free Lib. of Philadelphia

Los Angeles Times - Jeff Madrick

The best survey of the limits of free markets that we have....A much-needed plea for pragmatism: Take from free markets what is good and do not hesitate to recognize what is bad.

Newsweek - Michael Hirsh

A powerful empirical broadside. One by one, he lays on cases where governments have outdone markets, or at least performed well.

Kirkus Reviews

An exhaustive but tendentious critique of market economics from the liberal commentator who first addressed this issue in The End of Laissez-Faire (1991).

In his three-part audit, Business Week columnist Kuttner first provides an overview that effectively damns markets with faint praise. For instance, while commending their role in facilitating commerce, setting prices for goods and services, and allocating resources, he cites a lengthy list of instances in which markets fail to measure up. By way of example, the author notes that there is no good market reason for free public libraries, which most polities rightly value. Sniping away at utopian ideologues who view the market as a panacea for whatever ails society, Kuttner reviews the putative shortcomings of labor, health-care, and capital markets, arguing that intervention is required to avert the sometimes calamitous or undesirable results of overly free enterprise. He does not face up to such unpleasant matters as the fact that the burden of government-mandated benefits has stalled job growth in the European Union, whose mixed economy he much admires. In like vein, the author offers kind words for Japan's bureaucratically guided approach to capitalism without dwelling on that nation's consumers, who are obliged to pay artificially high prices at retail as a result of the system. By contrast, Kuttner includes a wealth of scenarios spelling out ways in which prosperity might be advanced by riding closer herd on competition in any number of private-sector industries (airlines, electric utilities, telecommunications, et al.), giving federal regulatory agencies appreciably greater powers, and implementing economic/trade policies that could enhance the common weal.

A "yes . . . but" analysis that accentuates the negative aspects of laissez-faire and promotes a decidedly progressive political/socioeconomic agenda. The text has a notably belligerent foreword by Richard C . Leone, president of the Twentieth Century Fund

What People Are Saying

Robert Heilbroner
The most readable and important book about the economy I have read in a long time....I have never seen the market system better described, more intelligently appreciated, and more trenchantly criticized than in Everything for Sale.

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The Lost Promise of Civil Rights

Author: Risa L Goluboff

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In this groundbreaking book, Risa L. Goluboff offers a provocative new account of the history of American civil rights law. The Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education has long dominated that history. Since 1954, generations of judges, lawyers, and ordinary people have viewed civil rights as a project of breaking down formal legal barriers to integration, especially in the context of public education. Goluboff recovers a world before Brown, a world in which civil rights was legally, conceptually, and constitutionally up for grabs. Then, the petitions of black agricultural workers in the American South and industrial workers across the nation called for a civil rights law that would redress economic as well as legal inequalities. Lawyers in the new Civil Rights Section of the Department of Justice and in the NAACP took the workers' cases and viewed them as crucial to attacking Jim Crow. By the time NAACP lawyers set out on the path to Brown, however, they had eliminated workers' economic concerns from their litigation agenda. When the lawyers succeeded in Brown, they simultaneously marginalized the host of other harms—economic inequality chief among them—that afflicted the majority of African Americans during the mid-twentieth century. By uncovering the lost challenges workers and their lawyers launched against Jim Crow in the 1940s, Goluboff shows how Brown only partially fulfilled the promise of civil rights.

Abbreviation Used in the Text     vii
Introduction     1
Transition, Uncertainty, and the Conditions for a New Civil Rights     16
Claiming Rights in the Agricultural South     51
Claiming Rights in the Industrial Economy     81
The Work of Civil Rights in the Department of Justice     111
A New Deal for Civil Rights     141
Work and Workers in the NAACP     174
Litigating Labor in the Wartime NAACP     198
Eliminating Work from the NAACP's Legal Strategy     217
Brown and the Remaking of Civil Rights     238
Notes     273
Acknowledgments     361
Index     365

The Name of War or Live from Death Row

2009-01-19T14:34:00.000-08:00

The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity

Author: Jill Lepor

Winner of the the 1998 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of the Phi Beta Kappa Society

King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war--colonists against Indians--that erupted in New England in 1675, was, in proportion to population, the bloodiest in American history. Some even argued that the massacres and outrages on both sides were too horrific to "deserve the name of a war."

It all began when Philip (called Metacom by his own people), the leader of the Wampanoag Indians, led attacks against English towns in the colony of Plymouth. The war spread quickly, pitting a loose confederation of southeastern Algonquians against a coalition of English colonists. While it raged, colonial armies pursued enemy Indians through the swamps and woods of New England, and Indians attacked English farms and towns from Narragansett Bay to the Connecticut River Valley. Both sides, in fact, had pursued the war seemingly without restraint, killing women and children, torturing captives, and mutilating the dead. The fighting ended after Philip was shot, quartered, and beheaded in August 1676.

The war's brutality compelled the colonists to defend themselves against accusations that they had become savages. But Jill Lepore makes clear that it was after the war--and because of it--that the boundaries between cultures, hitherto blurred, turned into rigid ones. King Philip's War became one of the most written-about wars in our history, and Lepore argues that the words strengthened and hardened feelings that, in turn, strengthened and hardened the enmity between Indians and Anglos. She shows how, as late as the nineteenth century, memories of the war were instrumental injustifying Indian removals--and how in our own century that same war has inspired Indian attempts to preserve "Indianness" as fiercely as the early settlers once struggled to preserve their Englishness.

Telling the story of what may have been the bitterest of American conflicts, and its reverberations over the centuries, Lepore has enabled us to see how the ways in which we remember past events are as important in their effect on our history as were the events themselves.

The Boston Globe - Barry O'Connell

A remarkable book. . .shaped by a transformative and original imagination. . .About what cultures see, what they remember, and what they forget.

Publishers Weekly

In King Philip's War of 1675, Algonquian Indians decimated more than half of the towns in New England, while the British massacred Indian settlements and shipped thousands of Algonquians out of the colonies as slaves. Though academic in style, this engrossing study by a Boston University history professor sheds new light on what is widely considered the most brutal and vicious war in American history (named after the Wampanoag leader Metacom, or Philip, who attacked Plymouth Colony). Analyzing colonists' diaries, letters and chronicles as well as captives' narratives, Lepore probes the deep-seated anxieties of the English settlers, who measured themselves not only against the "barbarian" Indians but also against the Spanish, whom the English self-righteously condemned for cruelty to Mexico's natives and to Protestants during the Inquisition. Memories of the war, kept alive for two centuries in plays, epic poems and histories, nurtured racist attitudes about Indians, according to the author. This study is full of valuable material on early English-Native contacts, on the widespread sale of Indians into foreign slavery and on relations between England and the elite of Christian Indians who mistakenly believed they would be spared from slavery. (Feb.)

Library Journal

Shortly before his death in 1675, John Sassamon warned the governor of Plymouth Colony that Philip, a Wampanoag Indian leader, was about to attack English settlers. When Sassamon was found dead, indications pointed to murder. Three Wampanoag Indians were tried, convicted, and executed. Days later, Philip and his followers began attacking and destroying one English settlement after another. Colonial armies retaliated, killing Indian warriors on the battlefield and their families in the villages. Rather than providing a battle-by-battle description, Lepore (history, Boston Univ.) presents the war through the diaries, books, articles, and dramas written about it. Her major theme is that wars and their histories cannot be separated. Wars generate their own narratives, serving to define the geographical, political, cultural, and national boundaries between warring peoples. A unique approach to historical interpretation, this book will appeal to academic libraries and those that specialize in early American history. (Illustrations not seen.)Grant A. Fredericksen, Illinois Prairie Dist. P.L., Metamora

New York Review of Books - Gordon S. Wood

A product [of] imaginative, and wide-ranging scholarship. . .a fascinating book. . .A meditation on the war . . .on what the war meant, not only for the English and the Indians of the 17th century but also for their heirs in the 19th and 20th centuries. . . A history [rich] in imagination, in moral ruminations about the meaning and justice of the war, and in literary and cultural theory.

The Boston Globe - Barry O'Connell

A remarkable book. . .shaped by a transformative and original imagination. . .About what cultures see, what they remember, and what they forget.

The New York Times Book Review - Edward Countryman

A fine narrative of the war's outbreak, process, denouement, and aftermath. But Lepore's contribution to a developing literature on historical American identity lies with her elucidation of how people attached meanings to the war's gruesome events. . .She captures the experience of war, for whites and Indians alike.

Atlanta Journal Constitution

A unique work.

Edward Countryman

A fine narrative of the war's outbreak, process, denouement, and aftermath. But Lepore's contribution to a developing literature on historical American identity lies with her elcidation of how people attached meanings to the war's gruesome events...She captures the experience of war, for whites and Indians alike. -- New York Times Book Review

New York Review of Books - Gordon S. Wood

...[A] meditation on the war ...on what the war meant, not only for the English and the Indians of the seventeenth century but also for their heirs in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...A history [rich] in imagination, in moral ruminations about the meaning and justice of war, and in literary and cultural theory.

Kirkus Reviews

A superb study of an all-but-forgotten war that, in the author's view, had a profound effect on Anglo-American perceptions of the Indian. First-time author Lepore (History/Boston Univ.) offers an account of the bloody war in 1675 between English settlers and Algonquian Indians in New England, a "short, vicious" conflict that, by proportion of population, "inflicted greater casualties than any other war in American history." Her account is peppered with more than the usual atrocities: Men, women, even children are tortured and murdered, whole cities burned. It is also riddled with mysteries; as Lepore notes, the war began thanks to rumor, an unsolved murder, and pent-up but vague hatreds among peoples who had become more and more like one another. The English, far from home, had adopted Native American customs and cuisine, had stopped attending church, had moved farther and farther inland and away from European settlements. The Indians, for their part, had taken to wearing Western clothes, living in houses, and reading the Bible. With identities thus confused, each side waged a war that the other condemned as brutal and savage, and thousands died in the bargain. Lepore's account of the war has the immediacy of journalism, as well as learned asides about anthropological theories of conflict, the effect of literacy on hitherto preliterate populations, the nature of ethnic strife, and, most important, the memory of King Philip's War in New England. That grim memory, she suggests, tempered later policies of war and removal. The war itself continues to resonate today as Native Americans press their claims for land first lost in the conflict's aftermath. "In the end, this book is justanother story about just another war," Lepore writes, with wholly undue modesty. Vivid and thoughtful, it is much more than that, and it holds the promise of much good work to come.

What People Are Saying

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, author of A Midwife's Tale
Jill Lepore shows how language shaped as well as reflected the horror we know as 'King Philip's War.' Finding Algonquian voices within, behind, and beside the classic English narrative, she forces new engagement with the invasions, celebrations, and violence of New England history.

Michael Kammen
A profound and rewarding book that illuminates the social psychology of war in the American experience. . .It adds wonderfully rich new dimensions to the history of white-Indian relations in the United States.

William Cronon
A brilliant study of the different ways Americans have understood and told stories agout one of the great conflicts of their colonial past.
— Author of Changes in the Land

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Live from Death Row

Author: Mumia Abu Jamal

Once a prominent radio reporter, Mumia Abu-Jamal is now in a Pennsylvania prison awaiting his state-sactioned execution. In 1982 he was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner after a trial many have criticized as profoundly biased. Live From Death Row is a collection of his prison writings--an impassioned yet unflinching account of the brutalities and humiliations of prison life. It is also a scathing indictment of racism and political bias in the American judicial system that is certain to fuel the controversy surrounding the death penalty and freedom of speech.

Publishers Weekly

Sentenced to death in 1982 for the murder of a police officer, after a trial that has since attracted considerable criticism, African American journalist Abu-Jamal presents a collection of his prison writings. (June)

Booknews

A collection of the prison writings of Abu-Jamal, including the unreleased NPR commentaries that were abruptly cancelled after public outcry. Since his conviction in 1982 for the murder of a police officer, Abu-Jamal, a well-known journalist prior to his conviction, has been fighting against racism and political bias in the American judicial system through commentaries and articles. No index or bibliography. 5x8". Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	Acknowledgments
	Preface
	Introduction
	Teetering on the brink between life and death	3
	Descent into hell	22
	The visit	25
	"On tilt" by state design	28
	On death row: fade to black	32
	From an echo in darkness, a step into light	40
	Nightraiders meet rage	44
	Actin' like life's a ball game	49
	Legal outlaws: Bobby's battle for justice	52
	Manny's attempted murder	56
	A toxic shock	60
	Spirit death	64
	A return to death	67
	Days of pain - night of death	71
	Relatives decry "camp hell"	75
	B-block days and nightmares	79
	Human waste camps	89
	Black march to death	92
	Slavery daze II	95
	Skeleton bay	99
	No law, no rights	103
	Two bites of the apple in dixie	106
	Blackmun bows out of the death game	112
	Jury of peers?	116
	Expert witness from hell	119
	The demand for death	122
	Already out of the game	125
	A bill that is a crime	128
	Musings on Malcolm	133
	Deadly deja vu	137
	Rodney wasn't the only one	140
	L.A. outlaw	143
	Absence of power	146
	Clinton guillotines Guinier	149
	Another side of Glory	152
	What, to a prisoner, is the Fourth of July?	156
	A house is not a home	160
	The lost generation	163
	Blues for Huey	166
	Philly daze: an impressionistic memoir	171
	Afterword	193

George W Bushisms V or People Themselves

2009-01-19T04:20:00.000-08:00

George W. Bushisms V: New Ways to Harm Our Country

Author: Jacob Weisberg

"I can only speak to myself."

True -- and yet we must listen. Sometimes his accidental wit speaks louder than any prepared statement.

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."

"I always jest to people, the Oval Office is the kind of place where people stand outside, they're getting ready to come in and tell me what for, and they walk in and get overwhelmed by the atmosphere. And they say, 'Man, you're looking pretty.'"

"I'm honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut off by Saddam Hussein."

Thanks to the faithful work of Jacob Weisberg, the wisdom of George W. Bush -- America's Malapropist in Chief -- has been carefully preserved for the ages in annual editions. Now that the president is armed with a new (and unprecedented!) popular electoral victory, America can breathe a sigh of relief -- or, as the president once put it, we can "thank our blessings." The language experiments will continue. Stand-up comedians will enjoy full employment.

With George W. Bushisms V, the second term truly begins.

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People Themselves: Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review

Author: Larry D Kramer

In this groundbreaking interpretation of America's founding and of its entire system of judicial review, Larry Kramer reveals that the colonists fought for and created a very different system--and held a very different understanding of citizenship--than Americans believe to be the norm today. "Popular sovereignty" was not just some historical abstraction, and the notion of "the people" was more than a flip rhetorical device invoked on the campaign trail. Questions of constitutional meaning provoked vigorous public debate and the actions of government officials were greeted with celebratory feasts and bonfires, or riotous resistance. Americans treated the Constitution as part of the lived reality of their daily existence. Their self-sovereignty in law as much as politics was active not abstract.

Name Dropping or NeoVouchers

2009-01-18T15:08:00.000-08:00

Name-Dropping: From FDR On

Author: John Kenneth Galbraith

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1	On Name-Dropping	1
2	Franklin D. Roosevelt, I: The New Deal	9
3	Franklin D. Roosevelt, II: The War in Washington	25
4	Eleanor Roosevelt	45
5	Albert Speer: The Essential Enemy	57
6	Harry Truman - and After	67
7	Too Madly for Adlai	85
8	John F. Kennedy	101
9	The Kennedy Circle, Jacqueline Kennedy	119
10	Jawaharlal Nehru	131
11	L. B. J.	143
12	Bowles, Ball, Harriman and the Tyranny of Policy	157
13	Sketches on the Larger Screen	175

Book review: Theres More to Life than Just Living or Breathing Space

NeoVouchers: The Emergence of Tuition Tax Credits for Private Schooling

Author: Kevin G Welner

While school vouchers have captured the headlines, a different policy has captured the students. Tuition tax credit laws are now entrenched in Arizona, Florida, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Iowa, and Georgia, and they affect far more students. Yet few people understand the nature of these policies or the political and legal issues surrounding them.

Reinventing Richard Nixon or Let the Trumpet Sound

2009-01-18T03:56:00.000-08:00

Reinventing Richard Nixon: A Cultural History of an American Obsession

Author: Daniel Frick

"Nixon's the One!" proclaimed his campaign paraphernalia. "Tricky Dick!" retorted his detractors. From presidential savior for conservative America to bкte noire for the political Left, the Richard Nixon persona has worn many masks and labels. In fiction and poetry and pop songs, in television and film, no other national political figure has so thoroughly saturated our public consciousness with so many contrasting images.

Focusing on the process of Nixon's continuous reinvention, Daniel Frick reveals a figure who continues to expose key fault lines in the nation's self-definition. Drawing on references ranging from All in the Family to Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, he shows how Nixon has become one of America's most durable and multifaceted icons in the ongoing and fierce debates over the import and meaning of the last sixty years of national life.

Examining Nixon's autobiographies and political memorabilia, Frick offers far-reaching perceptions not only of the man but of Nixon's version of himself—contrasted with those who would interpret him differently. He cites reinventions of Nixon from the late 1980s, particularly the museum at the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace, to demonstrate the resilience of certain national mythic narratives in the face of liberal critiques. And he recounts how celebrants at Nixon's state funeral, at which Bob Dole's eulogy depicted a God-fearing American hero, attempted to bury the sources of our divisions over him, rendering in some minds the judgment of "redeemed statesman" to erase his status as "disgraced president."

With dozens of illustrations—Nixon posing with Elvis (the National Archives' most requested photo),Nixonian cultural artifacts, classic editorial cartoons—no other book collects in one place such varied images of Nixon from so many diverse media. These reinforce Frick's probing analysis to help us understand why we disagree about Nixon—and why it matters how we resolve our disagreements.

Whether your image of Nixon is shaped by his autobiography Six Crises, Oliver Stone's surprisingly sympathetic film Nixon, John Adams's landmark opera Nixon in China, or by the saga of Watergate, Reinventing Richard Nixon expands on all perspectives. It shows how, through these contradictory mythic stories, we continue to reinvent, much like Nixon himself, our own sense of national identity.

This book is part of the CultureAmerica series.

Publishers Weekly

In this wide-ranging, reference-heavy volume, first-time author Frick examines the many public faces of Richard Nixon, and how they reflect countrywide changes in mood and politics. Frick has a masterful reach across different media, from political cartoons (Herb Block's 1954 panel portraying Nixon emerging from the sewer) to movies and literature to campaign propaganda, biographies and autobiographies, to supporters and detractors in the government and news media. Frick is able time and again to nail the tone of the nation in a few well-chosen quotes; when the president left office in shame in 1974, Vermont newspaperman Franklin B. Smith speaks for the forgotten Nixon nation: "The heart of America stopped beating this week." Taking readers from the early days of Nixon's national career to his eulogy, at which he was (tellingly) lionized by biographer Stephen E. Ambrose as a "beloved elder statesman," Frick sets an enormous task for himself, trying to tie down all aspects of this "representative American." Casual readers could find it all too much; readers with an avid interest in popular and historical political science, however, will find this an absorbing, expertly researched look at the many roles a single controversial figure can play in American life. Illus.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Library Journal

Fourteen years after Nixon's death, the debate still rages about his place in American history as a man of destiny, corrupt president, or elder statesman, writes Frick (director, Creative Writing Ctr., Franklin and Marshall Coll.). The author interprets Nixon through national myths that are embedded in American culture and provide the battleground for today's culture wars. This thought-provoking and perceptive account, like David Greenberg's Nixon's Shadow: The History of an Image , offers numerous historical and cultural anecdotes that bolster the authors' similar conclusion that the second half of the 20th century was like an Age of Nixon. Greenberg primarily investigates how Nixon was viewed by different political constituencies, while Frick explores how Nixon has been portrayed in books, music, plays, and political cartoons and how he spins himself in his three autobiographies. He interprets Nixon through a number of myths that include rising from rags to riches and fulfilling America's messianic role of being the leader of the free world. Frick is good at showing the dark sides of these myths, and his excellent appraisal reveals as much about the former president's supporters and haters as it does about Nixon himself. Strongly recommended for large public and all academic popular-culture collections.-Karl Helicher, Upper Merion Twp. Lib., King of Prussia, PA

Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Author: Stephen B Oates

Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Award and the Christopher Award, this brilliant examination of the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. portrays a very real man and his dream that shaped America's history.

Roger Wilkins

The thrilling story is not only full of drama, but...of the real King, his bravery, his triumph, his pain and his doubts. -- Washington Post Book World

What People Are Saying

Roger Wilkins
"The thrilling story is not only full of drama, but...of the real King, his bravery, his triumph, his pain and his doubts."

Scene of the Cybercrime or Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect

2009-01-17T15:43:00.000-08:00

Scene of the Cybercrime

Author: Debra Littlejohn Shinder

When it comes to computer crimes, the criminals got a big head start. But the law enforcement and IT security communities are now working diligently to develop the knowledge, skills, and tools to successfully investigate and prosecute Cybercrime cases. When the first edition of "Scene of the Cybercrime" published in 2002, it was one of the first books that educated IT security professionals and law enforcement how to fight Cybercrime. Over the past 5 years a great deal has changed in how computer crimes are perpetrated and subsequently investigated. Also, the IT security and law enforcement communities have dramatically improved their ability to deal with Cybercrime, largely as a result of increased spending and training. According to the 2006 Computer Security Institute's and FBI's joint Cybercrime report: 52% of companies reported unauthorized use of computer systems in the prior 12 months. Each of these incidents is a Cybecrime requiring a certain level of investigation and remediation. And in many cases, an investigation is mandates by federal compliance regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, or the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard.

Scene of the Cybercrime, Second Edition is a completely revised and updated book which covers all of the technological, legal, and regulatory changes, which have occurred since the first edition. The book is written for dual audience; IT security professionals and members of law enforcement. It gives the technical experts a little peek into the law enforcement world, a highly structured environment where the "letter of the law" is paramount and procedures must be followed closely lest an investigation be contaminatedand all the evidence collected rendered useless. It also provides law enforcement officers with an idea of some of the technical aspects of how cyber crimes are committed, and how technology can be used to track down and build a case against the criminals who commit them. Scene of the Cybercrime, Second Editions provides a roadmap that those on both sides of the table can use to navigate the legal and technical landscape to understand, prevent, detect, and successfully prosecute the criminal behavior that is as much a threat to the online community as "traditional" crime is to the neighborhoods in which we live. Also included is an all new chapter on Worldwide Forensics Acts and Laws.

* Companion Web site provides custom tools and scripts, which readers can download for conducting digital, forensic investigations.
* Special chapters outline how Cybercrime investigations must be reported and investigated by corporate IT staff to meet federal mandates from Sarbanes Oxley, and the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard
* Details forensic investigative techniques for the most common operating systems (Windows, Linux and UNIX) as well as cutting edge devices including iPods, Blackberries, and cell phones.

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Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect

Author: Cynthia Crosson Tower

Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect
Seventh Edition
Cynthia Crosson-Tower
Basic Approach:
This best-selling text offers a comprehensive look at child maltreatment, incorporating history, case vignettes, and the author's own experience as a child protection worker.
The author covers the history of child welfare, gives an overview of functional and dysfunctional families, and contrasts healthy child development with development hampered by abuse and neglect. In addition, Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect explains case management procedures and focuses on how various professionals become involved in the child protection process and how treatment is undertaken. The text concludes with a discussion of prevention and a consideration of the future.
New to this edition:

Revised chapters on child sexual abuse reflect the latest theories regarding perpetration.
New sections have been added on resiliency and on juvenile sexual offenders.
New sections discussing topics of recent concern such as abuse by clergy and the crisis in the Roman Catholic Church, the use of multidisciplinary teams, and children witnessing domestic violence.
New material on child resiliency helps students focus on the deficit in parent functioning, as well as how a child’s strengths can be developed to achieve a better prognosis.

What reviewers are saying:
“I found the Crosson-Tower text to be superior in both breadth and depth of the topics covered. Combined with the positive responses I have received from my students I would not consider usingany other text.” --- William M. McGuigan, Pennsylvania State University
“This text provides a wealth of useful information. Many of the students advise me that they will not return or sell back their books at the end of the quarter because it is a good reference for them while they are working within their profession.” -- Theresa Johnson, Ohio University
“This text is easily readable, and it clearly presents a basic overview of child welfare issues. Clarity is one of the greatest strengths of the book, as is the broad range of the discussion on child welfare topics.” --- Toni Chance, University of Maryland

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Booknews

Explores many aspects of child abuse and neglect including the history, different types of abuse, intervention, treatment, therapeutic options, and prevention. Last updated in 1999, the new edition reflects recent research on neglect, as well as child sexual abuse aided by the Internet. Suitable for undergraduate or graduate courses in social work, psychology, sociology, and counseling and education programs. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

1	The maltreatment of children from a historical perspective	1
2	The family : roles, responsibilities, and rights	24
3	Maltreatment and the developing child	47
4	The neglect of children	67
5	The physical abuse of children	96
6	The sexual abuse of children	121
7	Incest : familial abuse	151
8	Extrafamilial sexual abuse, misuse, and exploitation	180
9	Psychological maltreatment of children	212
10	Intervention : reporting and investigation	223
11	Intervention : case management and roles of other professionals	250
12	The legal response to child abuse and neglect	268
13	Treatment : physical abuse and neglect	289
14	Treatment : sexual abuse	316
15	Foster care as a therapeutic tool	342
16	The social worker and the system	352
17	Adults abused as children	369
18	Prevention	401
19	Toward a better tomorrow	417

I Love a Fire Fighter or Becoming A US Citizen

2009-01-17T05:30:00.000-08:00

I Love a Fire Fighter: What the Family Needs to Know

Author: Ellen Kirschman

Patterned on the outstanding success of I Love a Cop, this is the first book of its kind written exclusively for fire fighters and their families. Challenging two-dimensional stereotypes, Dr. Ellen Kirschman portrays fire fighters as they really are: complex men and women doing one of the world's toughest jobs and trying to fit comfortably into two families-the one at the firehouse and the one at home. I Love a Fire Fighter takes us on a journey from stationhouse banter to a four-alarm blaze and harrowing ride with paramedics on the midnight shift. Along the way, Dr. Kirschman addresses occupational health and safety issues along with domestic concerns including unpredictable schedules, lack of communication, and anxiety. Vivid anecdotes and practical tips show families how they can pull together when job stress threatens to spill over onto home turf, and shed light on what spouses and partners can and can't do to help their mates, their children, and themselves.

Introduction
1. Beepers in Your Bedroom: The Givens and Realities of the Fire Service
2. Spillover: Managing the Relationship between Home and Work
3. Profiles: The Fire Fighter Personality
4. Climbing the Career Ladder: From Recruitment to Retirement
5. Emergency Medical Services: False Alarms and Frequent Fliers
6. Organizational Stress: Fractures in the Fire Service
7. Diversity
8. Injuries and Fatalities
9. Fitness, Health, and Safety
10. Trauma and Stress
11. Treating Traumatic Stress: Help for Individuals and Families
12. Fire Fighters in Hot Water: Alcoholism, Arson, Infidelity, and Divorce
13. Fire Fighting Couples
14. Getting Help
Epilogue

Go to: Italy in Small Bites or Winners Circle

Becoming A U.S. Citizen: A Guide to the Law, Exam and Interview

Author: Ilona M Bray

Seeking citizenship? Here's everything you need to know!

The path from green card to U.S. citizenship can be a long and winding one -- and bureaucratic hassles are inevitable. But with Becoming a U.S. Citizen, you can shave months or years off the time it takes to become a citizen. Find out how to:

• determine your eligibility
• make sure you won't risk deportation by applying
• fill out application forms
• study for the citizenship exam
• have a successful interview
• deal with setbacks
• enjoy your status as a U.S. citizen
• help family members immigrate

Becoming a U.S. Citizen also shows how you may be able take advantage of special procedures if you are disabled, in the military, the spouse of a U.S. citizen, or for other special circumstances.

The revised 4th edition reflects current and proposed laws, as well as new fees and procedures. Chapter 5: Preparing for the English Exam and Chapter 6: Preparing for the U.S. History and Government Exam have been updated thoroughly to reflect the many changes to the official list of history and government questions, and English vocabulary list.

ForeignerInAmerica.com

Covers topics that most other guides don't, helping you to avoid troublespots.

Immigration Law Today

The clearest, most accurate explanation of immigration laws for nonlawyers thus far.

What People Are Saying

Carl Shusterman
"A useful guide for individuals seeking to become naturalized citizens of the U.S. I highly recommend it." --(Carl Shusterman, former INS Naturalization attorney,author of Shusterman's Immigration Update)

Paul Robeson or Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice

2009-01-16T16:17:00.000-08:00

Paul Robeson: A Biography (Lives of the Left Series)

Author: Martin Duberman

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Interesting textbook: Planification Stratégique pour les Relations publiques

Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice

Author: Jack Donnelly

In a thoroughly revised edition of Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice (more than half of the material is new), Jack Donnelly elaborates a theory of human rights, addresses arguments of cultural relativism, and explores the efficacy of bilateral and multilateral international action. Entirely new chapters address prominent post-Cold War issues including humanitarian intervention, democracy and human rights, "Asian values," group rights, and discrimination against sexual minorities.

Foreign Affairs

This wide-ranging book looks at all aspects of human rights, drawing upon political theory, sociology, and international relations as well as international law. . . . [Jack Donnelly] deals successfully with two of the principal challenges to the notion of the universality of human rights: the argument that some non-Western societies are not subject to Western norms, and the claim that economic development may require the sacrifice of some human rights.

American Political Science Review

Every once in a while a book appears that treats the leading issues of a subject in such a clear and challenging manner that it becomes central to understanding that subject. Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice is just such a book. . . . Donnelly's interpretations are clear and argued with zest.

Booknews

(unseen), $12.95. Donnelly explicates and defends an account of human rights as universal rights. Considering the competing claims of the universality, particularity, and relativity of human rights, he argues that the historical contingency and particularity of human rights is completely compatible with a conception of human rights as universal moral rights, and thus does not require the acceptance of claims of cultural relativism. The book moves between theoretical argument and historical practice. Rigorous and tightly-reasoned, material and perspectives from many disciplines are incorporated. Paper edition Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	Preface to the Second Edition
	Introduction	1
Pt. I	Toward a Theory of Universal Human Rights
1	The Concept of Human Rights	7
2	The Universal Declaration Model	22
3	Equal Concern and Respect	38
Pt. II	Cultural Relativism and International Human Rights
4	Markets, States, and "The West"	57
5	Non-Western Conceptions of Human Rights	71
6	Cultural Relativism and Universal Human Rights	89
7	Human Rights and "Asian Values"	107
Pt. III	Human Rights and International Action
8	International Human Rights Regimes	127
9	Human Rights and Foreign Policy	155
10	The Priority of National Action	173
Pt. IV	Essays on Contemporary Theory and Practice
11	Democracy, Development, and Human Rights	185
12	Group Rights and Human Rights	204
13	Nondiscrimination for All: The Case of Sexual Minorities	225
14	Genocide and Humanitarian Intervention	242
	References	261
	Index	287

Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy or Ambiguities of Domination

2009-01-16T06:05:00.000-08:00

Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World

Author: Barrington Moore Jr

Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World

New Foreword by Edward Friedman and James C. Scott

"A landmark in comparative history and a challenge to scholars of all lands who are trying to learn how we arrived at where we are now."
-The New York Times Book Review

Ambiguities of Domination: Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria

Author: Lisa Wedeen

In Syria, the image of President Hafiz al-Asad is everywhere. In newspapers, on television, and during orchestrated spectacles Asad is praised as the "father," the "gallant knight," even the country's "premier pharmacist." Yet most Syrians, including those who create the official rhetoric, do not believe its claims. Why would a regime spend scarce resources on a cult whose content is patently spurious?

Wedeen concludes that Asad's cult acts as a disciplinary device, generating a politics of public dissimulation in which citizens act as if they revered their leader. By inundating daily life with tired symbolism, the regime exercises a subtle, yet effective form of power. The cult works to enforce obedience, induce complicity, isolate Syrians from one another, and set guidelines for public speech and behavior. Wedeen's ethnographic research demonstrates how Syrians recognize the disciplinary aspects of the cult and seek to undermine them. Provocative and original, Ambiguities of Domination is a significant contribution to comparative politics, political theory, and cultural studies.

What People Are Saying

Anne Norton
In this eagerly awainted book, Wedeen conveys with great force and intimacy the strategies, dilemmas, and paradoxes of authoritarianism in a very particular, very distinctive cultural context.
— Anne Norton is the author of Republic of Signs: Liberal Theory and American Popular Culture

On Human Rights or Social Policy and Social Programs

2009-01-14T08:49:00.000-08:00

On Human Rights

Author: James Griffin

What is a human right? How can we tell whether a proposed human right really is one? How do we establish the content of particular human rights, and how do we resolve conflicts between them? These are pressing questions for philosophers, political theorists, jurisprudents, international lawyers, and activists. James Griffin offers answers in his compelling new investigation of human rights.
The term "natural right", in its modern sense of an entitlement that a person has, first appeared in the late Middle Ages. When during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the theological content of the idea was abandoned in stages, nothing was put in its place. The secularized notion that we were left with at the end of the Enlightenment is still our notion today: a right that we have simply in virtue of being human. During the twentieth century international law has contributed to settling the question which rights are human rights, but its contribution has its limits.
The notion of a human right that we have inherited suffers from no small indeterminateness of sense. The term has been left with so few criteria for determining when it is used correctly that we often have a plainly inadequate grasp on what is at issue. Griffin takes on the task of showing the way towards a determinate concept of human rights, based on their relation to the human status that we all share. He works from certain paradigm cases, such as freedom of expression and freedom of worship, to more disputed cases such as welfare rights - for instance the idea of a human right to health. His goal is a substantive account of human rights - an account with enough content to tell us whether proposed rights reallyare rights. Griffin emphasizes the practical as well as theoretical urgency of this goal: as the United Nations recognized in 1948 with its Universal Declaration, the idea of human rights has considerable power to improve the lot of humanity around the world.
It is our job now - the job of this book - to influence and develop the unsettled discourse of human rights so as to complete the incomplete idea.

New interesting book: Project Management or Industrial and Organizational Psychology

Social Policy and Social Programs: A Method for the Practical Public Policy

Author: Donald E Chambers

This popular and practical text explores the basics of social policy and program analysis, including how to design new programs or evaluate and improve upon existing ones. It provides readers with the criteria for judging the effectiveness of current programs and outlines methods for analyzing social services such as counseling and therapeutic services, supportive assistance, and “hard benefits” such as food stamps, cash, and housing vouchers.

Highlights of the New Edition —

The most up-to-date information on current social programs
A new section on the revolutionary move towards privatization of social welfare services in the past decade discussing its advantages and disadvantages
A new section on the recent devolution of social welfare responsibilities from the federal government onto the states with its accompanying difficulties and benefits for financing and service delivery
A new section on “faith-based” service delivery, and the new “charitable choice” idea
A new section on the development of “for-profit” service delivery agencies and systems
Updated sources and references with the latest research, including new data on poverty, poverty lines, TANF, Medicare/Medicaid, and child welfare legislation.
Examination of the dramatic changes that have been made in the U.S. welfare system, especially those that have weakened the basic safety net: medical care, child welfare, and immigration law and practices

What reviewers are saying —

“The value of the text for me is that it does not focus on a particular area or issue, but provides the skills futuresocial workers need to evaluate areas of interest or need in practice.” — Iris Phillips, University of Southern Indiana

“Overall the students find the writing clear and concise and the concepts engaging and useful. The policy framework provided by the author is one of their favorite frameworks for policy analysis.” — Roger E. Boyd, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville

“I love the book and have used it for more than 5 years. That is the longest I have used any text in my teaching career.” — Ruth White, Seattle University

Red Moon Rising or Alls Fair

2009-01-13T21:16:00.000-08:00

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

Author: Matthew Brzezinski

The Washington Post - Bryan Burrough

The New York Times - Mark Atwood Lawrence

Publishers Weekly

Kirkus Reviews

Prologue     1
The Request     17
Jet Power     45
Trials and Errors     60
Tomorrowland     78
Desert Fires     95
Pictures in Black and White     115
A Simple Satellite     142
By the Light of a Red Moon     161
Something for the Holidays     188
Operation Confidence     213
Goldstone Has the Bird     240
Epilogue     268
Notes     279
Acknowledgments     309
Index     311

Look this: Economic Geography of Higher Education or Democratic Distributive Justice

All's Fair

Author: Mary Matalin

Never before has a more revealing X ray been taken of the modern American presidential campaign than this compelling memoir of the nation's foremost political operatives, Democrat James Carville and Republican Mary Matalin.

Not since Theodore White's legendary Making of the President series has a book on presidential campaigns so intimately recounted the power plays and clandestine maneuvers that are at the heart of American political dueling. James Cherville and Mary Matalin, themselves the key players at the center of the political battles and election headlines that gripped America, tell in candid, stunning detail of the day-by-day pressures, near disasters, and triumphs of campaign life; they take the reader deeper than ever before into the art of getting a president elected.

For anyone interested in politics and the way our nation chooses its leaders, All's Fair is a vital resource, and the most telling guide available to the inner workings of today's partisan conflict.

Library Journal

The economy, stupid. Bimbo eruptions. Chicken George. These and other highlights of the 1993 presidential campaign are recounted here by those who crafted these buzzwords, or at least gave them the most "spin." Bush campaign director Matalin and Clinton strategist Carville intrigued the world with their cross-party-and some say heretical-dating during the campaign, but upon reading this book, you understand the sparks. Both are colorful and ambitious, and both love the rather arcane world of top-level political campaigning. However, there's little of their romance here (they married after the election). Their memoir is more a juicy compendium of political insider info. We learn how both campaigns felt about Ross Perot; whether Clinton is really as testy as Bob Woodward says (Carville briefly describes Clinton's habit of SMO, or Standard Morning Outburst); and what Barbara Bush is really like (she's the only one who could stop the Bush campaign team from its ingrained swearing). Still, it's hard not to suspect most of the testimony here-after all, these people are paid to "stay on the message," even if it's untrue. An ominous testament to the rise of "handler" style over substance, this book is for all political collections. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 4/15/94.]-Judy Quinn, formerly with "Library Journal"

Campaigning for President or Patriotic Grace

2009-01-13T11:04:00.000-08:00

Campaigning for President

Author: Jordan M Wright

Based on the author's extraordinary personal collection of presidential election memorabilia, Campaigning for President tells the colorful story of how presidents (and their losing rivals) have wooed voters since America was founded. These objects—from posters and paper dresses to ice-cream bars, sunglasses, and (of course) buttons—form a fascinating, moving, sometimes funny, sometimes outrageous physical record of the past. Campaigning for President makes it clear that money didn't become important just in recent elections and that candidates—and their minions—have sometimes been willing to gloss over the fine points or get very creative in their self-representation in attempts to win the presidency. Full of entertaining stories about the elections and the memorabilia, this book provides wonderful insight into America's most important achievement—our democratic system.

The New York Times - Steven Heller

In contrast to today's endless endurance test, earlier presidential spectacles lasted for much shorter periods and were, therefore, more memorable. Just how memorable is suggested by the mass of nostalgic campaign artifacts found in Jordan M. Wright's Campaigning for President. Wright, a lawyer and magazine publisher, began collecting election-year memorabilia when he was 10 and now has 1.25 million objects…Wright's collection vividly shows that while sophisticated design has never been a requirement in the marketing of presidential hopefuls, there have been moments when political wars involving both words and images were pretty clever.

New interesting textbook: Retailing Management or Understanding Health Care Reform

Patriotic Grace: What It Is and Why We Need It Now

Author: Peggy Noonan

Keynote

One of America's most prominent and bestselling conservative columnists and authors has made headlines in this election season by breaking with Bush, and writing positively about Obama. Now, with a stirring call to patriotism for all Americans, regardless of party, she offers the perfect gift book and election-season read for all thoughtful Americans.

Description

In this season of harsh rhetoric and angry political passions, Peggy Noonan's Wall Street Journal column has been must reading for thoughtful liberals and conservatives alike. Now she issues an urgent call for all Americans to put these passions aside and support whoever becomes the next President. Because it is not the threats and challenges we face, but how we face them, that defines who we are as Americans.

Who Rules America or Predictable Surprises

2009-01-12T21:51:00.000-08:00

Who Rules America?: Power, Politics, and Social Change

Author: G William Domhoff

This text is an invaluable tool for teaching students about how power operates in U.S. society. Its author argues that the owners and top-level managers in large income-producing properties are far and away the dominant figures in the U.S. Their corporations, banks, and agribusinesses dominate the federal government in Washington, while their real estate, construction, and land development companies dominate most local governments. By providing empirical evidence for his argument, William C. Domhoff encourages students to think critically about the power structure in American society and its implications for our democracy.

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Predictable Surprises: The Disasters You Should Have Seen Coming, and How to Prevent Them

Author: Max H Bazerman

You and Your Organization Are at Risk

Were the earth-shattering events of September 11, 2001, predictable, or were they a surprise? What about the collapse of Enron in bankruptcy and scandal? Max H. Bazerman and Michael D. Watkins argue that they were actually "predictable surprises"-disastrous examples of the failure to recognize potential tragedies and actively work to prevent them. Disturbingly, this dangerous phenomenon has its roots in universal human and organizational tendencies that leave no individual or company immune.

In this riveting book, Bazerman and Watkins, leading experts in managerial decision making, show that many disasters are preceded by clear warning signals that leaders either miss-or purposely ignore. They explain the cognitive, organizational, and political biases that make predictable surprises so common in business and society, and outline six danger signals that suggest a predictable surprise may be imminent. They also provide a systematic framework that leaders can use to recognize and prioritize brewing disasters and mobilize their organizations to prevent them.

Filled with vivid accounts of predictable surprises in business and society across public and private sectors, this book highlights a phenomenon that holds grave consequences-and challenges leaders to find the courage to act before it's too late.

A Leadership for the Common Good book

Published in partnership with the Center for Public Leadership

Author Biography:

Max H. Bazerman is the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Michael D. Watkins is an Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets unit at Harvard Business

1 December, 2004 - Financial Times

"[S]ubstantial...leaving the reader no excuse not to deal with all those foreseeable, predictable, avoidable surprises."

Soundview Executive Book Summaries

According to Harvard Business Professor Max H. Bazerman and strategy consultant Michael D. Watkins, "predictable surprises" are events that catch leaders off guard even though they had all the information necessary to anticipate them, and write that they represent a pervasive failure of leadership that holds grave consequences. In Predictable Surprises, the authors identify six danger signals and describe a prescriptive framework that aims to help leaders respond quickly and effectively to prevent disasters. Copyright © 2005 Soundview Executive Book Summaries

A Hunt for Justice or A Table in the Presence

2009-01-12T10:34:00.000-08:00

A Hunt for Justice: The True Story of a Woman Undercover Wildlife Agent

Author: Lucinda Delaney Schroeder

In the heart of the Alaskan wilderness, a clandestine and unscrupulous hunting outfitter is illegally killing untold numbers of big game animals. His wealthy clients, mostly from Europe, insist that they hunt only the biggest and best of Alaska's wildlife.
In this rare look inside an undercover wildlife investigation, Lucinda Delaney Schroeder reveals how she infiltrates this iron-clad camp by posing as a trophy hunter. For eleven nerve-racking days, she gathers evidence intended to shut down what had become an out-of-control, international poaching ring. But in the end, would it be enough?
A Hunt for Justice takes readers along on Schroeder's dangerous and exciting mission as she puts her life on the line to crack this illegal hunting operation and bring to justice those who lived by the "creed of greed." More than an adventure, this true-crime story unveils the perils faced by a woman as she courageously pits herself against the Alaskan wilderness and goes undercover in a man's world to risk it all for a cause she believes in.

Publishers Weekly

This consistently engrossing first-person account by a retired special agent with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service gives readers the inside track on a 1992 undercover hunt for illegal poachers in the Alaskan wilderness. One of nine women in an often misogynist agency of 210, Schroeder brings to life a motley crew of characters. Lewd, unreliable and usually drunk Roy Hanson is a paid informant who poses as the happily married Schroeder's "boyfriend" and hunting partner. Moose James, a poacher and cunning guide who treats his wife like a servant, bolsters his big ego with the carcasses of hundreds of grizzly bears, bighorn sheep and other trophy animals. The mastermind behind a secret operation that guarantees rich hunters their quarry by herding animals with small planes, Bob Bowman brags that he'll kill any undercover cop who infiltrates his camp. A Spanish client, Pedro, is shameless about his greed: "Every hunter should get what they want, no matter what it takes." Although the penalties imposed by the undercover sting seem unusually light given the danger, and the time, money and energy expended, and the line between legal "harvesting" and illegal poaching will blur for nonhunters, Schroeder illuminates an unusual, insular world with unflinching grit and good humor. (Apr.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

A Table in the Presence: The Dramatic Account of How a U. S. Marine Battalion Experienced God's Presence Amidst the Chaos of the War in Iraq

Author: Carey H Cash

On April 10th, 2003, the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, faced with the task of seizing the presidential palace in downtown Baghdad, ran headlong into what Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North called, "the worst day of fighting for U.S. Marines." Hiding in buildings and mosques, wearing civilian clothes, and spread out for over a mile, Saddam Hussein's militants rained down bullets and rocket propelled grenades on the 1st Battalion. But when the smoke of the eight-hour battle cleared, only one Marine had lost his life. Some said the 1st Battalion was incredibly lucky. But in the hearts and minds of the Marines who were there, there was no question. God had brought them miraculously through that battle.

As the 1st Battalion's chaplain, Lieutenant Carey Cash had the unique privilege of seeing firsthand, from the beginning of the war to the end, how God miraculously delivered, and even transformed, the lives of the men of the 1st Battalion. Their regiment, the most highly decorated regiment in the history of the Marines, was the first ground force to cross the border into Iraq, the first to see one of their own killed in battle, and they were the unit to fight what most believe to have been the decisive battle of the war—April 10th in downtown Baghdad. Through it all, Carey Cash says, the presence of God was undeniable. Cash even had the privilege of baptizing fifty-seven new Christians—Marines and Sailors—during the war in Iraq.

The men of the 1st Battalion came to discover what King David had discovered long ago—that God's presence could be richly experienced even in the presence of enemies. Here is the amazing story of their experience.

My Bondage and My Freedom or Are We Rome

2009-01-11T17:43:00.000-08:00

My Bondage and My Freedom

Author: Frederick Douglass

Ex-slave Frederick Douglass's second autobiography-written after ten years of reflection following his legal emancipation in 1846 and his break with his mentor William Lloyd Garrison-catapulted Douglass into the international spotlight as the foremost spokesman for American blacks, both freed and slave. Written during his celebrated career as a speaker and newspaper editor, My Bondage and My Freedom reveals the author of the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) grown more mature, forceful, analytical, and complex with a deepened commitment to the fight for equal rights and liberties.

Edited with an Introduction and Notes by John David Smith

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Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America

Author: Cullen Murphy

The rise and fall of ancient Rome has been on American minds from the beginning of our republic. Today we focus less on the Roman Republic than on the empire that took its place. Depending on who's doing the talking, the history of Rome serves as either a triumphal call to action or a dire warming of imminent collapse.

The esteemed editor and author Cullen Murphy ventures past the pundits' rhetoric to draw nuanced lessons about how America might avoid Rome's demise. Working on a canvas that extends far beyond the issue of an overstretched military, Murphy reveals a wide array of similarities between the two empires: the blinkered, insular culture of our capitals; the debilitating effect of venality in public life; the paradoxical issue of borders; and the weakening of the body politic though various forms of privatization. He persuasively argues that we most resemble Rome in the burgeoning corruption of our government and in our arrogant ignorance of the world outside -- two things that are in our power to change.

In lively, richly detailed historical stories based on the latest scholarship, the ancient world leaps to life and casts our own contemporary world in a provocative new light.

The New York Times - Walter Isaacson

Laudably, he ends on some optimistic notes, and some prescriptions, rather than wallowing in declinism. "An empire remains powerful so long as its subjects rejoice in it," the Roman historian Livy wrote. To that end, Murphy suggests, America needs to instill in its citizenry a greater appreciation for the rest of the world. At home, it should resurrect the ideals of citizen engagement and promote a sense of community and mutual obligation, rather than treating most government as a necessary evil. With its capacity to innovate and reinvent itself, and with its faith in progress, America need never become as stagnant as Rome. "The genius of America," Murphy concludes, "may be that it has built 'the fall of Rome' into its very makeup: it is very consciously a constant work in progress, designed to accommodate and build on revolutionary change."

Publishers Weekly

Lurid images of America as a new Roman Empire—either striding the globe or tottering toward collapse, or both—are fashionable among pundits of all stripes these days. Vanity Faireditor Murphy (The World According to Eve) gives the trope a more restrained and thoughtful reading. He allows that, with its robust democracy, dynamic economy and technological wizardry, America is a far cry from Rome's static slave society. But he sees a number of parallels: like Rome, America is a vast, multicultural state, burdened with an expensive and overstretched military, uneasy about its porous borders, with a messianic sense of global mission and a solipsistic tendency to misunderstand and belittle foreign cultures. Some of the links Murphy draws, like his comparison of barbarian invaders of the late Empire to foreign corporations buying up American assets, are purely metaphorical. But others, especially his likening of the corrupt Roman patronage system to America's mania for privatizing government services—a "deflection of public purpose by private interest"—are specific and compelling. Murphy wears his erudition lightly and delivers a lucid, pithy and perceptive study in comparative history, with some sharp points. (May 10)

Kirkus Reviews

Imperial Rome and imperial America have many points in common, writes former Atlantic Monthly editor Murphy (Just Curious, 1995, etc.), not least that both "have considered their way to be the world's way."Murphy ventures nothing new with the mere observation that Rome and America have similarities; even the Founding Fathers thought as much. But, writing with fluency and grace and possessing a solid grounding in the classics, he actually serves up specifics: a telling comparison of the Roman road system, for instance, with our interstates, and of our president's mode of international travel with that of the emperors and their flying squadrons. Murphy draws six major parallels that, he reckons, ought to serve as warnings and guidelines for better behavior. One concerns military power, with considerable points against the use of mercenaries and auxiliaries, for instance, whether Ostrogoths or the "Halliburtoni and the Wackenhuti." Murphy does acknowledge, however, that "the most capable, well-rounded, and experienced public executives in America today are its senior military officers, not its Washington politicians." Another parallel is what Murphy loosely terms privatization, "which can often also mean 'corruption,'" which is to say, the trouble certain Romans had and certain Washingtonians have in drawing the line between their things and those in the public domain. A further point of resemblance is the executive's arrogating power unto itself without due concern for senatorial counsel, a habit that yields Caesars now as then. And so forth, all adding up to decline and fall, which, Murphy gently observes, doesn't have to happen so long as we Americans take a broader view of the world anda narrower view of the Constitution and, even if we "don't live in Mr. Jefferson's republic anymore," start comporting ourselves not as Romans but as Americans. An essay in the Walter Karp-Lewis Lapham mode that's sure to irk the neocons. Agent: Raphael Sagalyn/Sagalyn Literary Agency

Prologue: The Eagle in the Mirror     1
The Capitals: Where Republic Meets Empire     24
The Legions: When Power Meets Reality     59
The Fixers: When Public Good Meets Private Opportunity     91
The Outsiders: When People Like Us Meet People Like Them     121
The Borders: Where the Present Meets the Future     152
Epilogue: There Once Was a Great City     185
Acknowledgments     207
Notes     209
Bibliography     251

	Illustrations
	Acknowledgments
	Editorial Method
	Introduction	1
	Quaker Beginnings, 1768-1801	9
	A Washington Education, 1801-1809	38
	The Politics of War, 1809-1817	90
	A Well-Deserved Retirement, 1817-1836	216
	Washington Widow, 1836-1849	317
	Biographical Directory	393
	Index	417

	Introduction : roots of protest	1
1	Crumbling culture	18
2	First solution : Seneca	49
3	Orphans among us : Cherokee	84
4	After the war : Chickasaw	115
5	The missionaries : Choctaw and Creek	148
6	Tribal dissolution : Oklahoma	182
7	Catholic outposts : Ojibway and Sioux	216
	Epilogue : final transition	251

Sect. I	Phase I : preparation
Sect. II	Phase II : working with the group
Sect. III	Phase III : Implementation
Sect. IV	Special meetings
Sect. V	Facilitating in a virtual world

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

	Along for the Ride	1
	Tour	7
	By the Book	31
	Dicks and Vics	49
	Down and Dirty	71
	Jobbed	79
	Police Woman	97
	The Numbers Racket	117
	Midnights	125
	Another Day in Paradise	141
	One Size Fits All	149
	Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Shelter	155
	While Under the Influence	177
	Guns and Noses	185
	Quality of Strife	193
	Lowlife	205
	Dime	213

	Introduction
	Socrates	5
	The tradition of political thought	40
	Montesquieu's revision of the tradition	63
	From Hegel to Marx	70
	The end of tradition	81
	Introduction into politics	93

	Foreword to the Second Edition	9
	Foreword	11
1	"A New Race"?	29
2	History the Weapon	51
3	The Battle of the Schools	79
4	The Decomposition of America	105
5	E Pluribus Unum?	125
	Epilogue	149
App	Schlesinger's Syllabus	167
	Notes on Sources	181
	Index	199

	Acknowledgments
	A Note on Transliteration
1	Believing in Spectacles	1
2	Killing Politics: Official Rhetoric and Permissible Speech	32
3	Acting "As If": The Story of M	67
4	Signs of Transgression	87
5	Complicating Compliance	143
	Notes	161
	Bibliography	211
	Index	231

Monetary Policy Book

Irish in the South 1815 1877 or In the Path of Hizbullah

Irish in the South, 1815-1877

Lawrence J. McCaffrey

Table of Contents:

In the Path of Hizbullah

Choice

Does It Take a Village or The Selected Letters of Dolley Payne Madison

Does It Take a Village?: Community Effects on Children, Adolescents and Families

Booknews

The Selected Letters of Dolley Payne Madison

Table of Contents:

Small Strangers or The School Choice Hoax

Small Strangers: The Experiences of Immigrant Children in America, 1880-1925

Garrett Berger - Virginia Quarterly Review

What People Are Saying

Table of Contents:

The School Choice Hoax: Fixing America's Schools

W E B Du Bois or The Global Resurgence of Religion and the Transformation of International Relations

W. E. B. Du Bois: Writings (The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade, The Souls of Black Folk, Dusk of Dawn, Essays)

The Global Resurgence of Religion and the Transformation of International Relations: The Struggle for the Soul of the Twenty-First Century (Culture and Religion in International Relations Series)

Foreign Affairs

Table of Contents:

Comparative Politics or Give Me Liberty

Comparative Politics: Domestic Responses to Global Challenges

Give Me Liberty!: An American History

Table of Contents:

Spying on Ireland or Becoming Winston Churchill

Spying on Ireland: British Intelligence and Irish Neutrality during the Second World War

Becoming Winston Churchill: The Untold Story of Young Winston and His American Mentor

Indian Orphanages or The Dark Side of Democracy

Indian Orphanages

Publishers Weekly

Library Journal

Table of Contents:

The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing

Publishers Weekly

Foreign Affairs

Mortal Evidence or The Second Plane September 11

Mortal Evidence: The Forensics Behind Nine Shocking Cases

Table of Contents:

The Second Plane. September 11: Terror and Boredom

The Washington Post - Warren Bass

Publishers Weekly

Stephen K. Shaw - Library Journal

Kirkus Reviews

Freire for the Classroom or Compassionate Statistics

Freire for the Classroom: A Sourcebook for Liberatory Teaching

Compassionate Statistics: Applied Quantitative Analysis for Social Services (With Exercises and Instructions for SPSS)

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Financial Statecraft or Freedoms Power

Financial Statecraft: The Role of Financial Markets in American Foreign Policy

Foreign Affairs

Freedom's Power: The True Force of Liberalism

The New York Times - Michael Lind

The Washington Post - Lynn Hunt

Publishers Weekly

Foreign Affairs

Jack Forman - Library Journal

Kirkus Reviews

Red Moon Rising or Exemplar of Liberty

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

The Washington Post - Bryan Burrough

The New York Times - Mark Atwood Lawrence

Publishers Weekly

Kirkus Reviews

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

Booknews

Adam Smith in Beijing or The Myth of Moral Justice

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

Jim Doyle - Library Journal

Kirkus Reviews

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

The Washington Post - Jonathan Kirsch

The New York Times - Dahlia Lithwick

Publishers Weekly

Library Journal

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Citizenship Papers or Spinoza

Citizenship Papers