Political Parties Books

Unrestrained or Methods in Democratic Network Governance

2009-12-06T11:35:00.000-08:00

Unrestrained: Judicial Excess and the Mind of the American Lawyer

Author: Robert Nagel

This volume attempts to explain why, despite almost four decades of conservative and moderate appointments, the Supreme Court continues to intervene aggressively in a wide array of social and political issues. The explanation lies primarily in the psychological effects of the way that lawyers think about law and judging. The instincts ingrained by the experiences common to legal education and the successful practice of law also work to encourage the reckless use of power.

Methods in Democratic Network Governance

Author: Peter Bogason

There are several competing theoretical approaches to studying governance networks. However, methodological questions about how to study democratic network governance have so far received little research attention. Methods in Democratic Network Governance aims to remedy this problem by addressing some important methodological questions in relation to a comparative case study of the multilevel network governance of employment policy in Britain, France and Denmark.

Indigenous Experience Today or National Security Issues in Science Law and Technology

2009-12-05T06:23:00.000-08:00

Indigenous Experience Today

Author: Orin Starn

A century ago, the idea of indigenous people as an active force in the contemporary world was unthinkable. It was assumed that native societies everywhere would be swept away by the forward march of the West and its own peculiar brand of progress and civilization. Nothing could be further from the truth. Indigenous social movements wield new power, and groups as diverse as Australian Aborigines, Ecuadorian Quichuas, and New Zealand Maoris, have found their own distinctive and assertive ways of living in the present world. Indigenous Experience Today draws together essays by prominent scholars in anthropology and other fields examining the varied face of indigenous politics in Bolivia, Botswana, Canada, Chile, China, Indonesia, and the United States, amongst others. The study challenges the accepted notions of indigeneity and the often contentious issue of indigenous rights. Indigenous Experience Today demonstrates the transnational dynamics of contemporary indigenous culture and politics around the world.

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National Security Issues in Science, Law, and Technology: Confronting Weapons of Terrorism

Author: Thomas A Johnson

The tragedy of 9/11 placed homeland security and the prevention of further attacks into the central focus of our national consciousness. With so many avenues of terror open to our enemies in terms of mode, medium, and location, effective management and mitigation of threat must be grounded in objective risk assessment. The structure of national security decisions should be premised on decision theory and science with minimal political posturing or emotional reactivisim.

National Security Issues in Science, Law, and Technology demonstrates a mature look at a frightening subject and presents sound, unbiased tools with which to approach any situation that may threaten human lives. By applying the best of scientific decision-making practices this book introduces the concept of risk management and its application in the structure of national security decisions. It examines the acquisition and utilization of all-source intelligence, including the ability to analyze data and forecast patterns, to enable policymakers to make better informed decisions. The text addresses reaction and prevention strategies applicable to chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons; agricultural terrorism; cyberterrorism; and other potential threats to our critical infrastructure. It discusses legal issues that inevitably arise when integrating new legislation with the threads of our Constitution and illustrates the dispassionate analysis of our intelligence, law enforcement, and military operations and actions. Finally, the book considers the redirection of our national research and laboratory system to investigate the very problems terrorists can induce through the use of weapons we have as yet toconfront.

Taking the guesswork out of hard choices, National Security Issues in Science, Law, and Technology provides anyone burdened with the mantle of responsibility for the protection of the American people with the tools to make sound, well-informed decisions.

Preface     ix
Acknowledgments     xi
Editor     xii
Authors     xv
Terrorism: Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Weapons
An Introduction to the Intelligence Process for Addressing National Security Threats and Vulnerabilities   Thomas A. Johnson     3
Medical Response to Chemical and Biological Terrorism   Michael P. Allswede     23
Agroterrorism   Simon J. Kenyon     51
Illicit Trafficking in Nuclear and Radiological Materials   David York     75
Nuclear Capabilities of North Korea: Issues in Intelligence Collection, Analysis, and National Security Policy   Thomas A. Johnson     97
Cyber Terrorism and Cyber Security
A Framework for Deception   Fred Cohen     123
Critical Infrastructure Protection: Issues and Answers   Fred Cohen     221
Information Warfare, Netwar, and Cyber Intelligence   Fred Cohen     243
National Security Strategy: Implications for Science, Law, and Technology
Geographic Information Systems as a Strategic Tool for Better Planning, Response, and Recovery   Lucy Savitz   Roberta P. Lavin   Elisabeth Root     277
An Introduction to the Concept and Management of Risk   James O. Matschulat     291
TheStructure of National Security Decisions   James O. Matschulat     359
National Security Executive Orders and Legal Issues   Roy Shannon     399
Courts-Martial, Military Tribunals, and Federal Courts   Roy Shannon     431
National Nuclear Security Administration Laboratories: Emerging Role in Homeland Security   Richard A. Neiser     459
An All-Hazards National Response Plan: Concluding Remarks   Thomas A. Johnson     473
Appendices     483
National Security Strategy Summary     487
Homeland Security Presidential Directives 1 to 14     541
Index     635

A Case for Conservatism or Globalization from Below

2009-12-04T01:11:00.000-08:00

A Case for Conservatism

Author: John Kekes

In his recent book Against Liberalism, philosopher John Kekes argued that liberalism as a political system is doomed to failure by its internal inconsistencies. In this companion volume, he makes a compelling case for conservatism as the best alternative. His is the first systematic description and defense of the basic assumptions underlying conservative thought.

Conservatism, Kekes maintains, is concerned with the political arrangements that enable members of a society to live good lives. These political arrangements are based on skepticism about ideologies, pluralism about values, traditionalism about institutions, and pessimism about human perfectibility.

The political morality of conservatism requires the protection of universal conditions of all good lives, social conditions that vary with societies, and individual conditions that reflect differences in character and circumstance. Good lives, according to Kekes, depend equally on pursuing possibilities that these conditions establish and on setting limits to their violations.

Attempts to make political arrangements reflect these basic tenets of conservatism are unavoidably imperfect. Kekes concludes, however, that they represent a better hope for the future than any other possibility.

What People Are Saying

Herbert London
[Kekes] makes his argument with perspicacity, logical exegesis, and compelling argumentation.

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Globalization from Below: Transnatinal Activists and Protest Networks

Author: Donna Della Porta

When violence broke out at the demonstrations surrounding the 2001 G8 summit in Genoa, Italy, the authors of this book were there. The protests proved to be a critical moment in the global justice movement. Presenting the first systematic empirical research on the global justice movement, Globalization from Below analyzes a movement from the viewpoints of the activists, organizers, and demonstrators themselves. The authors traveled to Genoa with anti-G8 protesters and collected data from more than 800 participants. A year later, they surveyed 2,400 activists at the European Social Forum in Florence. To understand how this cycle of global protest emerged, they examine the interactions between challengers and elites, and discuss how these new models of activism fit into current social movement work. Globalization from Below places the protests within larger debates, revealing and investigating the forces that led to a clash between demonstrators and the Italian government, which responded with violence. Donatella della Porta is professor of political science; Massimiliano Andretta is a researcher in political science and sociology; Lorenzo Mosca is a researcher in information and communication technologies; Herbert Reiter is a researcher in history, all at the European University Institute.

Fighting Words or The Celling of America

2009-12-02T19:59:00.000-08:00

Fighting Words

Author: Robin Morgan

The religious right is gaining enormous power in the United States, thanks to a well-organized, media-savvy movement with powerful friends in high places. Yet many Americans — both observant and secular — are alarmed by this trend, especially by the religious right's attempts to erase the boundary between church and state and re-make the U.S. into a Christian nation. But most Americans lack the tools for arguing with the religious right, especially when fundamentalist conservatives claim their tradition started with the Framers of The Constitution. Fighting Words is a a tool-kit for arguing, especially for those of us who haven't read the founding documents of this nation since grade school. Robin Morgan has assembled a lively, accessible, eye-opening primer and reference tool, a "verbal karate" guide, revealing what the Framers and many other leading Americans really believed — in their own words — rescuing the Founders from images of dusty, pompous old men in powdered wigs, and resurrecting them as the revolutionaries they truly were: a hodgepodge of freethinkers, Deists, agnostics, Christians, atheists, and Freemasons — and they were radicals as well.

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The Celling of America: An inside Look at the U.S. Prison Industry

Author: Daniel Burton Ros

This searing indictment of the criminal justice system kicks open the doors of America's prisons and takes you through a hell-raising tour.

Crime Scene Investigation and Reconstruction or Nursing Physician Control and the Medical Monopoly

2009-12-01T14:36:00.000-08:00

Crime Scene Investigation and Reconstruction

Author: Robert Ogl

This comprehensive text achieves the ultimate goal of crime scene investigation in answering – What happened? – Who was responsible for each action? – What was the sequence of each action? Readers see the importance of each step through authentic photos, real life cases and full coverage of crime scene reconstruction. It also includes the most recent technological advances in the forensic sciences (i.e. database technologies, digital cameras, DNA analyses, and computer-aided crime scene reconstructions). Systematically organized to follow the same sequence in which crime scenes are processed, this is one of the most informative texts of its kind available. Introduces crucial concepts regarding collecting, examining and interpreting physical evidence. Comprehensive coverage of procedural methods for crime scene searches, photography, sketching, and collecting of all major physical evidence categories. Extensive coverage of sexual assault investigations including how to collect physical evidence from the crime scene, from the victim and from the suspect. Key information regarding homicide scene investigations, including the procedures essential to the forensic autopsy. Examines the various types of physical evidence used in reconstructions. Serves as comprehensive reference for those working in law enforcement.

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Nursing, Physician Control and the Medical Monopoly: Historical Perspectives on Gendered Inequality in Roles, Rights and Range of Practice

Author: Thetis M Group

Nursing, Physician Control, and the Medical Monopoly traces the efforts by physicians over time to achieve a monopoly in healthcare, often by subordinating nurses—their only genuine competitors. Attempts by nurses to reform many aspects of healthcare have been repeatedly opposed by physicians whose primary interest has been to achieve total control of the healthcare "system," often to the detriment of patients' health and safety.

Thetis M. Group and Joan I. Roberts first review the activities of early women healers and nurses and examine nurse-physician relations from the early 1900s on. The sexist domination of nursing by medicine was neither haphazard nor accidental, but a structured and institutionalized phenomenon. Efforts by nurses to achieve greater autonomy were often blocked by hospital administrators and organized medicine. The consolidation of the medical monopoly during the 1920s and 1930s, along with the waning of feminism, led to the concretization of stereotyped gender roles in nursing and medicine. The growing unease in nurse-physician relations escalated from the 1940s to the 1960s; the growth and complexity of the healthcare industry, expanding scientific knowledge, and increasing specialization by physicians all created heavy demands on nurses.

Conflict between organized medicine and nursing entered a public, open phase in the late 1960s and 1970s, when medicine unilaterally created the physician's assistant, countered by nursing's development of the advanced nurse practitioner. But gender stereotypes remained central to nurse-physician relations in the 1980s and into the 1990s.

Finally, Group and Roberts examine the results of the medical monopoly, from the impact on patients' health and safety, to the development of HMOs and the current overpriced, poorly coordinated, and fragmented healthcare system.

About the Authors:
Thetis M. Group is Professor Emerita at Syracuse University, where she was Dean of the College of Nursing for ten years. She is also adjunct faculty member at the University of Utah College of Nursing. She is co-author of Feminism and Nursing and has published numerous articles in professional nursing journals.

Joan I. Roberts, social psychologist, is Professor Emerita at Syracuse University. A pioneer in Women's Studies in higher education, she is co-author of Feminism and Nursing and author of numerous books and articles on gender issues and racial and sex discrimination.

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Reviewer: Bonnie L. Saucier, PhD, RN (Indiana State University)
Description: This book is the second in an interrelated set of books that provide a comprehensive perspective on gender and nursing. The second volume in this series analyzes resources that exemplifies the writing of social scientists, nurses, and physicians on gendered relationships from very early periods to the 1990s. The first volume relates the status of women to the status of nursing and to nurses' awareness of feminist issues. The third volume focuses on recent role changes involving nurses and their interactions with physicians. A fourth volume focuses on the historical interrelation between nursing and the discriminatory patterns inherent in patriarchial educational and economic systems. There are two additional volumes that address major published sources and problems of male nurses.
Purpose: The purpose is to examine sources on gendered nurse-physician relations over time. The authors trace the centuries- old effort of physicians to dominate and to achieve a monopoly over healthcare. The book also adresses the efforts of women healers and nurses to sustain medical-nursing functions. The objectives of the book are met and are indeed worthy for all nurses to develop an awareness of the historical perspective of a medical monopoly.
Audience: Nursing students, particularly those in graduate education, and nurses can excel in their practice by becoming aware of social contraints in the development of the profession. Authors identify nurses in the profession to profit from the book. The authors are experts in the subject.
Features: In this book, the authors trace the development of the continued efforts by physicians to achieve a medical monopoly. Early women healers, prior to the nineteenth century are analyzed. Nurse-physician relations, before and after the turn of the century, are examined. The consolidation of the medical monopoly in the 1920s and 1930s are discussed and the growing unease in nurse-physician relations from the 1940s to the 1960s is addressed. Reference lists are extensive and the index is inclusive.
Assessment: This second book in a related series provides a thorough examination of the effforts by physicians over time to achieve a monopoly in healthcare. Historical events are reviewed while the activities of the early healers/nurses are covered in a thoughtful and inclusive manner.The phases of organized medicine and nursing throughout the 1990s are described in-depth. This book is a valuable asset for all nurses to better understand and explain what the impact of medical monopoly is on the healthcare system today.

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4 Stars! from Doody

Black Mass or Tourists of History

2009-11-30T09:24:00.000-08:00

Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia

Author: John N Gray

For the decade that followed the end of the cold war, the world was lulled into a sense that a consumerist, globalized, peaceful future beckoned. The beginning of the twenty-first century has rudely disposed of such ideas—most obviously through 9/11and its aftermath. But just as damaging has been the rise in the West of a belief that a single model of political behavior will become a worldwide norm and that, if necessary, it will be enforced at gunpoint. In Black Mass, celebrated philosopher and critic John Gray explains how utopian ideals have taken on a dangerous significance in the hands of right-wing conservatives and religious zealots. He charts the history of utopianism, from the Reformation through the French Revolution and into the present. And most urgently, he describes how utopian politics have moved from the extremes of the political spectrum into mainstream politics, dominating the administrations of both George W. Bush and Tony Blair, and indeed coming to define the political center. Far from having shaken off discredited ideology, Gray suggests, we are more than ever in its clutches. Black Mass is a truly frightening and challenging work by one of Britain’s leading political thinkers.

Publishers Weekly

Some readers will see pessimism where others see sober appraisal in Gray's antiutopian argument that we must reconcile ourselves to a world of multiple truths and incompatible freedoms, where there is no overarching meaning and human values and desires can never be fully harmonized. The views that history progresses toward perfection and the millenarian faith in human salvation-both rooted in abiding Christian myths-are as tenacious as they have proven destructive, the renowned British political theorist and critic argues. Building succinctly on arguments developed in his previous work (including Two Faces of Liberalismand Al Qaeda and What It Means to Be Modern), Gray traces the course of apocalyptic-utopian politics from early Christianity through its secular variant in the Enlightenment and into modern political thought from Marx to Francis Fukuyama, the French Revolution to radical Islamism. Centrally, he assails the contemporary American right (and staunch neoconservative fellow traveler Tony Blair), which after 9/11 advanced into the mainstream the utopianism previously confined to the extreme right and left. His eloquent and illuminating attack also challenges a notion common to the liberal establishment: that history moves inexorably toward the universal application of U.S.-style liberal democracy. He calls it a delusional article of faith that, like the utopian variants before it, easily justifies violence in the name of a greater destiny. (Oct.)

Kirkus Reviews

Seeing history as a progressive narrative, especially one with a utopian ending, is a practice that has doomed earlier civilizations and threatens our own, argues Gray (European Thought/London School of Economics). Having dealt with the concept of human progress in such previous books as Al Qaeda and What It Means to Be Modern (2003), the author sees no reason to revise his core belief: "Human knowledge tends to increase, but humans do not become any more civilized as a result." He urges Western powers to adopt a political philosophy of realism. Look, he says, not at the Middle East you want to see-a cluster of none-too-peaceable kingdoms transformed by force into little democracies whose oil wells gurgle merrily to supply the West-but as it really is, a volatile place whose populations have always hated one another and probably always will. Gray spends lots of time painting the historical and philosophical background. He examines the apocalyptical aspects of Christianity and other religions, all of which in his view share a number of traits, most significantly the notion that the end is near. He takes a look at utopian communities of earlier times and notes that inhumane means have almost always been used to attempt to achieve humane ends. In a troubling chapter about the 20th century, Gray characterizes both Communists and Nazis as "children of the Enlightenment," employing the "scientific" principles of economics and eugenics to justify their political goals. The English author has some harsh words for both Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair (equally deluded, in his view), but he bashes Bush continually for reliance on "faith-based intelligence"-with Iraq serving as a compelling argumentfor the pitfalls of this approach. Throughout his impassioned text, Gray's prose is thick with allusion and quotation, but even thicker with erudition and provocation. Makes a discomfiting case that Western liberal democracy just is not suitable for much of the world. Agent: Tracy Bohan/Wylie Agency

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Tourists of History: Memory, Kitsch, and Consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero

Author: Marita Sturken

In Tourists of History, the cultural critic Marita Sturken argues that over the past two decades, Americans have responded to national trauma through consumerism, kitsch sentiment, and tourist practices in ways that reveal a tenacious investment in the idea of America's innocence. Sturken investigates the consumerism that followed from the September 11th attacks; the contentious, ongoing debates about memorials and celebrity-architect designed buildings at Ground Zero; and two outcomes of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City: the Oklahoma City National Memorial and the execution of Timothy McVeigh.

Sturken contends that a consumer culture of comfort objects such as World Trade Center snow globes, FDNY teddy bears, and Oklahoma City Memorial T-shirts and branded water, as well as reenactments of traumatic events in memorial and architectural designs, enables a national tendency to see U.S. culture as distant from both history and world politics. A kitsch comfort culture contributes to a "tourist" relationship to history: Americans can feel good about visiting and buying souvenirs at sites of national mourning without having to engage with the economic, social, and political causes of the violent events. While arguing for the importance of remembering tragic losses of life, Sturken is urging attention to a dangerous confluence-of memory, tourism, consumerism, paranoia, security, and kitsch-that promulgates fear to sell safety, offers prepackaged emotion at the expense of critical thought, contains alternative politics, and facilitates public acquiescence in the federal government's repressive measures at home and its aggressive political and militarypolicies abroad.

About the Author:
Marita Sturken is a professor of culture and communication at New York University

Theresa Kintz - Library Journal

This engaging book probes the impact of two traumatic historical events, the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Oklahoma City bombing, from a novel perspective. Sturken seeks to illuminate the transformation of the secular into the sacred, and the intersection of two cultures: that of mourning and that of consumerism. Like an archaeologist, Sturken (culture & communications, NYU) digs deep to uncover the symbolism contained in our material response to politically motivated violence. She offers a sophisticated and insightful analysis of what the treatment of the actual sites, now ruins, and the cultural production of souvenirs say about the psyche of the American consumer-citizen. The book is full of images exemplifying how the construction of post-tragedy national identity draws upon our notions of collective innocence, incorporating material culture in the quest for certainty and comfort in an uncertain and uncomfortable world. For example, our fear is soothed by the public presence of the Teddy Bear and the Stars and Stripes. With the terrorist as iconoclast, the memorial and the souvenir come to the emotional rescue. Readers will be fascinated by the social and political commentary buried in Sturken's appraisal of kitsch. A thought-provoking work; highly recommended.

Acknowledgments     ix
Introduction     1
Consuming Fear and Selling Comfort     35
Citizens and Survivors: Cultural Memory and Oklahoma City     93
The Spectacle of Death and the Spectacle of Grief: The Execution of Timothy McVeigh     139
Tourism and "Sacred Ground": The Space of Ground Zero     165
Architectures of Grief and the Aesthetics of Absence     219
Conclusion     287
Notes     295
Bibliography     319
Index     333

Explaining Hitler or Atomic Tragedy

2009-11-29T04:12:00.000-08:00

Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil

Author: Ron Rosenbaum

When Hitler's war ended in 1945, the war over Hitler--who he really was, what gave birth to his unique evil--had just begun. Hitler did not escape the bunker in Berlin but, half a century later, he has managed to escape explanation in ways both frightening and profound. Explaining Hitler is an extraordinary quest, an expedition into the war zone of Hitler theories. This is a passionate, enthralling book that illuminates what Hitler explainers tell us about Hitler, about the explainers, and about ourselves.

New York Times Book Review

A report on . . .refractory issues of Hitler theory, and on the theorists themselves, by a sharp, critical investigative journalist.

Michael R. Marrus

[Rosenbaum] has a sympathetic ear, a knack for classification and a sharp, critical mind. -- The New York Times Book Review

People Magazine

What made Hitler so evil? There are dozens of conflicting theories, the most engaging of which are dissected here.

Washington Post Book World - Marc Fisher

Cultural criticism served up as riveting narrative history. . .with words and ideas that surprise, amuse and even elevate the reader.

Boston Globe

Uniquely illuminates one of the darkest corners of modern experience.

Gabriel Schoenfeld

Glistens with insight and intelligence and shimmers with originality — Commentary

Library Journal

Rosenbaum, a literary journalist (Esquire, New York Times Magazine), believes that although much has been written about Hitler, not much has been settled. Drawing on archival research and interviews with historians, he has produced a well written work of historiography and, at times, investigative journalism, tracing the history not of Hitler per se, but of the 'Hitler explainers.' Beginning with the intrepid Munich Post reporters of the '20s and early '30s, who dared to challenge Hitler's controlled public image and were a thorn in his side, to the early postwar historians (Trevor-Roper and Bullock) and the new generation of scholars (Browning and Goldhagen), the author gives these historians opportunities to address questions that might not have been covered in their published works. Readers expecting a full-length biography of Hitler (which was not the author's purpose) will no doubt be disappointed, but Rosenbaum admirably sheds light on the many quarrels and inconsistencies in the literature, from the mysterious death of Geli Raubal (Hitler's niece), to the question of Hitler's evil, to the debate between functionalists and intentionalists. -- John A. Drobnicki, CUNY York College Library

Library Journal

Lance Morrow

Brilliant. . .Restlessly probing and deeply intelligent. -- Time Magazine

Lawrence L. Langer

...[A] picaresque excursion through the landscape of theories about Hitler's criminality and...his hatred of Jews....Rosenbaum....roams the intellectual countryside in pursuit of Hitler's authentic identity, meeting...a cast of characters....[who] have different ideas about the nature and origin of the evil...that led to the destruction of European Jewry. -- The Atlantic Monthly

Marc Fisher

Cultural criticism served up as riveting narrative history. . .with words and ideas that surprise, amuse and even elevate the reader. -- Washington Post Book World

Michiko Kakutani

An important contribution. . .An exciting, lucid book informed by old-fashioned moral rigor and common sense. -- The New York Times

Gabriel Schoenfeld

Glistens with insight and intelligence and shimmers with originality -- Commentary

The Philadelpia Inquirer

Reading this book is like having a long conversation with someone who's passionate, brilliant.

Kirkus Reviews

A resourcefully imaginative examination of our desperate search for an explanation of ultimate evil. In the vast literature on Hitler and the Holocaust, one question recurs again and again: Why? If the 'how' (the mechanics and bureaucracy) of the 'final solution' has been detailed, then the vexatious 'why' still haunts the world's collective conscience. Rosenbaum (Travels with Dr. Death; Manhattan Passions), a New York Observer cultural affairs columnist, brings a journalist's vigorous, querying temperament to a topic that all too often drowns in opaque pedantic moralizing.

Rosenbaum has read extensively and thoughtfully; he also casts a wide intellectual net, writing chapters on the interpretive musings of H.R. Trevor-Roper, Alan Bullock, Yehuda Bauer, the philosopher Berel Lang, literary critic George Steiner, filmmaker Claude Lanzmann, and even the Hitler apologist and revisionist David Irving. (Conspicuously and curiously absent is Primo Levi, whose work The Drowned and the Saved is a classic in the field.) Potentially explosive subjects—for example, Hitler's reportedly 'abnormal' sexuality—are handled with discerning intelligence. Rosenbaum employs a brilliant methodological stratagem by taking Albert Schweitzer's 1906 study, The Quest for the Historical Jesus, as a model. Schweitzer realized that the 19th-century school of German Protestant 'higher criticism,' which prided itself on its 'scientific' positivism in explaining Jesus, actually revealed more about scholars themselves than the historical figure they were studying. Similarly, Rosenbaum shows how the various attempts to 'explain' Hitler are prisms that reflect our ownfears and desires. This leads, of course, to the not insignificant matter of Rosenbaum's own fears and desires, ironically not fully addressed by the author. Yet his great contribution is that, unlike most Holocaust scholars, he refuses to offer a definitive explanation. Instead, he lays out with memorable clarity a series of tantalizing interpretations, preferring a 'poetry of doubt' that allows us to grapple for ourselves with the question of evil. Profound and provocative.

What People Are Saying

Sam Tanenhaus
Bold and provocative...Illuminates the most perplexing unsolved mystery of the twentieth century...In Explaining Hitler, profound historical quesitons spring urgently and hauntingly to life.

Robert Conquest
A major contribution...It goes deep into the basic issues of ethics, of free will and the problem of evil.

Gerald Posner
A work of exceptional scholarship...A must-read for anyone interested in trying to understand Hitler.

David Remnick
A remarkable journey by one of the most original journalists and writers of our time.

David Remnick
A remarkable journey by one of the most original journalists and writers of our time. -- Author of Lenin's Tomb

	Introduction: The Baby Pictures and the Abyss
Pt. 1	The Beginning of the Beginning
Ch. 1	The Mysterious Stranger, the Serving Girl, and the Family Romance of the Hitler Explainers	3
Ch. 2	The Hitler Family Film Noir	16
Ch. 3	The Poison Kitchen: The Forgotten First Explainers	37
Pt. 2	Two Postwar Visions: Sincerity and Its Counterfeit
Ch. 4	H. R. Trevor-Roper: The Professor and the Mountebank	63
Ch. 5	Alan Bullock: Rethinking Hitler's Thought Process	78
Pt. 3	Geli Raubal and Hitler's "Sexual Secret"
Ch. 6	Was Hitler "Unnatural"?	99
Ch. 7	Hitler's Songbird and the Suicide Register	118
Ch. 8	The Dark Matter: The Sexual Fantasy of the Hitler Explainers	135
Pt. 4	Hatred: Complex and Primitive
Ch. 9	Fritz Gerlich and the Trial of Hitler's Nose	155
Ch. 10	The Shadow Hitler, His "Primitive Hatred," and the "Strange Bond"	179
Pt. 5	The Art of Evil and the Future of It
Ch. 11	To the Gestapo Cottage; or, A Night Close to the Fuhrer	201
Ch. 12	David Irving: The Big Oops	221
Pt. 6	The War over the Question Why
Ch. 13	A Tale of Three Kafkas: A Cautionary Parable	239
Ch. 14	Claude Lanzmann and the War Against the Question Why	251
Ch. 15	Dr. Louis Micheels: There Must Be a Why	267
Pt. 7	Blame and Origins
Ch. 16	Emil Fackenheim and Yehuda Bauer: The Temptation to Blame God	279
Ch. 17	George Steiner: Singling out the Jewish "Invention of Conscience"	300
Ch. 18	Singling out Christianity: The Passion Play of Hyam Maccoby	319
Ch. 19	Daniel Goldhagen: Blaming Germans	337
Ch. 20	Lucy Dawidowicz: Blaming Adolf Hitler	369
	Notes	397
	Acknowledgments	425
	Index	429

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Atomic Tragedy: Henry L. Stimson and the Decision to use the Bomb Against Japan

Author: Sean L Malloy

Atomic Tragedy offers a unique perspective on one of the most important events of the twentieth century. As secretary of war during World War II, Henry L. Stimson (1867-1950) oversaw the American nuclear weapons program. In a book about how an experienced, principled man faltered when confronted by the tremendous challenge posed by the intersection of war, diplomacy, and technology, Sean L. Malloy examines Stimson's struggle to reconcile his responsibility for "the most terrible weapon ever known in human history" with his long-standing convictions about war and morality.

Ultimately, Stimson's story is one of failure; despite his beliefs, Stimson reluctantly acquiesced in the use of the atomic bomb against heavily populated Japanese cities in August 1945. This is the first biography of Stimson to benefit from extensive use of papers relating to the Manhattan Project; Malloy has also uncovered evidence illustrating the origins of Stimson's commitment to eliminating or refining the conduct of war against civilians, information that makes clear the agony of Stimson's dilemma.

The ultimate aim of Atomic Tragedy is not only to contribute to a greater historical understanding of the first use of nuclear weapons but also to offer lessons from the decision-making process during the years 1940-1945 that are applicable to the current world environment. As the United States mobilizes scientists and engineers to build new and supposedly more "usable" nuclear weapons and as nations in Asia and the Middle East are replicating the feat of the Manhattan Project physicists at Los Alamos, it is more important than ever that policymakers and analysts recognize the chain of failures surrounding thefirst use of those weapons at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Ed Goedeken - Library Journal

These two new books provide important perspectives on the continuing debate about the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, which ultimately concluded the war in the Pacific and World War II. Were these bombings necessary? Rotter's well-written narrative looks at the development of the bomb from an international standpoint and recounts the vigorous competition between the Allies and the Axis powers to come up with an effective atomic weapon that could be used to turn the tide of war. Going beyond the accounts found in such classics as Richard Rhodes's The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Rotter delves into the complex personalities of the numerous military, political, and scientific leaders who were engaged in this enterprise. In so doing, he creates the context-both in military and in diplomatic terms-that led the Americans to use the bomb on the two unsuspecting Japanese cities.

Malloy's study of Henry L. Stimson, who served as secretary of war during World War II, is equally valuable. Stimson, who was in his seventies during the war, was one of the Republican Party's most respected elder statesmen, having been in Hoover's and Taft's cabinets before. He was a deeply moral man who believed in the rule of law to keep international order. Yet despite his fervent belief in moral suasion, he succumbed to the allure of the atomic bomb-and all its attendant horrors-when presented with the possibility that the terrible war could be concluded through its use, even though at the expense of civilian life. Malloy's book, which builds on earlier work by Hodgson (The Colonel) and Morison's classic Turmoil and Tradition, presents us with an updated and exceedinglyinsightful assessment of the aging statesman, perhaps no longer at the top of his game yet faced with one of our country's most challenging decisions during its most awful conflict. Malloy believes Stimson's decision to support the bomb went against his most cherished beliefs and was for many a disappointing conclusion to an outstanding career of public service. Both of these works are highly recommended for all collections.

Administrative Law Principles and Practice or Fascism

2009-11-27T23:00:00.000-08:00

Administrative Law, Principles and Practice (American Casebook Series)

Author: John H Rees

Attention is given to administrative law, the Administrative Procedure Act, and public information. The authors continue with a discussion of agency administration of its legislative program followed by procedural requirements for rulemaking and for federal adjudication, and procedural rights of persons and parties. The text includes material on constitutionally required procedural fairness, formal hearing and agency decisions in formal proceedings, and additional APA provisions. The book concludes by addressing the availability of judicial review, timing, relief pending, and scope of judicial review.

Preface to the Second EditionPreface to the First Edition Acknowledgements Table of Cases Table of Statutes Chapter Introduction To Administrative Law What Is Administrative Law? Why Do We Have Administrative Agencies? What Is an Administrative Agency? Separation of Powers Creating an Agency Summary—The Headless ''Fourth Branch'' of Government Introduction to the APA Relevance of APAs History of APAs The Purposes and Structure of the Federal APA General Analysis Under APA The Fundamental Distinction Between Rule Making and Adjudication Summary: The Role of APAs in Administrative Law Public Information Section 3 of the Original APA The Freedom of Information Act The Privacy Act of 1974 The Government in the Sunshine Act Agency Administration of Its Legislative Program Asserting Agency Authority—The Available Means Asserting Agency Authority—Choosing the Means Asserting Agency Authority—Making the Choices Asserting Agency Authority—The Court—Imposed Choice Asserting Agency Authority—Implementing the Choice Procedural Requirements for Rule Making—Federal Agency Legislation The Administrative Procedure Other Procedural Requirements for Federal Rule Making Procedural Requirements for Rule Making: State and Local Procedural Requirements for Adjudication—Federal Initiating the Adjudicatory Process Adjudication Procedures: Agency Legislation Adjudication Procedures: Administrative Procedure Legislation (APA) Informal Adjudication Summary Procedural Rights of Persons and Parties Introduction Agency Legislation Administrative Procedure Act (APA) Discovery: Court Rules, The APA, The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and Agency Discovery Rules Constitutionally Required Procedural Fairness Introduction Does Due Process Apply? What Process Is Due? Procedural Due Process—Summary Formal Hearings Introduction The Administrative Procedure Agency Decisions in Formal Proceedings Individual and Institutional Decisions The Morgan Cases Extensive Delegation Within the Agencies Decision Requirements in Agency Legislation Decision Requirements in the APA Additional APA Provisions Agency Powers and Sanction Authority Agency Licensing Actions Coordination With Other Statutes and Superseding or Modifying the APA Negotiated Rule Making The Negotiated Rulemaking Act Administrative Dispute Resolution The Administrative Dispute Resolution Act Regulatory Flexibility The Regulatory Flexibility Act Availability of Judicial Review Presumption of Reviewability Jurisdiction to Provide Review Preclusion of Review Form of Proceeding; Venue; Review in Enforcement Proceedings Federal Court Standing: Model for Making a Standing Analysis; Sovereign Immunity Introduction: Standing as a Component of Article III Justiciability Major Factors Involved in Standing Analysis Major Factors Analyzed Special Considerations—Administrative Law A General Model for Standing Analysis Standing Themes Illustrated Sovereign Immunity Timing of Judicial Review and Relief Pending Review Finality and Ripeness Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies Primary Jurisdiction Relief Pending Judicial Review and Interim Relief Scope of Judicial Review Questions of Law Findings of Fact A Summary Statement on Judicial Review Scope of Judicial Review in the States Index

Interesting book: Das Schaffen Wirksamer Mannschaften: Ein Guide für Mitglieder und Führer

Fascism

Author: Roger Griffin

No political ideology has had a greater impact on modern history, or caused more intellectual controversy, than fascism. It has been identified with totalitarianism, state terror, fanaticism, orchestrated violence, and blind obedience, and was directly associated with the horrors of the Second World War, which left more than 40 million dead and introduced inconceivable notions of inhumanity. The mere mention of the term today evokes visions of atrocities and ineffable cruelty. Yet, the end of the twentieth century appears to have spawned a renewed interest in fascism, suggesting that it is time for us to examine our understanding of its ideas, ideals, and inequities.
Edited by Roger Griffin, described as 'the premier theorist {of fascism} of the younger generation' (Contemporary European History), this important Oxford Reader demonstrates why fascism strongly appeals to many people, and how dangerous the result of this fascination may be. It includes a wide selection of texts written by fascist thinkers and propagandists, as well as by prominent anti-fascists from both inside and outside Europe, before and after the Second World War. Included are texts on fascism in Germany and Italy, on the abortive pre-1945 fascisms in more than a dozen countries around the world, on reactions to fascism, and on post-war and contemporary fascism. With contributions from writers as diverse as Benito Mussolini and Primo Levi, Joseph Goebbels and George Orwell, Martin Heidegger and Max Horkheimer, this compelling anthology provides insight into the depths and breadths of the destructive repercussions of fascist ideology. In no other volume will students of political theory, history, sociology, andpsychology have access to such a compendium of key texts on this simultaneoulsy intriguing and frightening political force.

Privacy Information and Technology or Flag Wars and Stone Saints

2009-11-26T17:48:00.000-08:00

Privacy, Information, and Technology

Author: Daniel J Solov

Privacy, Information, and Technology, with its comprehensive approach, is ideal for use in cyberlaw, law and technology, privacy law, and information law courses and seminars.

Features include:

Perfect addendum for instructors wanting to cover information privacy issues in more depth in their courses and provides material for one to three weeks worth of class instruction. It is a great addition to courses in communications, media, cyberspace, information society, and technology

Extensive and clear background about the law and policy issues relating to information privacy and computers, databases, and the Internet Useful in undergraduate and graduate courses for an introduction to information privacy and technology issues because it explains the law clearly for the layperson

Introductory chapter provides comprehensive thought-provoking philosophical discussion of information privacy

Covers emerging information technologies: computer databases, RFID, cookies, spyware, and data mining

Covers new issues such as privacy and access to public records, government access to personal information, airline passenger screening and profiling, data mining, identity theft, consumer privacy issues, and financial privacy

New interesting book: The Forme of Cury or The Salad Book

Flag Wars and Stone Saints: How the Bohemian Lands Became Czech

Author: Nancy Merriwether Wingfield

In a new perspective on the formation of national identity in Central Europe, Nancy Wingfield analyzes what many historians have treated separately—the construction of the Czech and German nations—as a larger single phenomenon.

Czech and German nationalism worked off each other in dynamic ways. As external conditions changed, Czech and German nationalists found new uses for their pasts and new ways to stage them in public spaces for their ongoing national projects. These grassroots confrontations transformed public culture by reinforcing the centrality of nationality to everyday life and by tying nationalism to the exercise of power. The battles in the public sphere produced a cultural geography of national conflict associated with the unveiling of Joseph II statues that began in 1881, the Badeni Language Ordinances of 1897, the 1905 debate over a Czech-language university in Moravia, and the celebration of the emperor's sixtieth jubilee in 1908. The pattern of impassioned national conflict would be repeated for the duration of the monarchy and persist with even more violence into the First Czechoslovak Republic.

Numerous illustrations show how people absorbed, on many levels, visual clues that shaped how they identified themselves and their groups. This nuanced analysis is a valuable contribution to our understanding of Central European history, nationalism, and the uses of collective memory.

List of Maps and Illustrations     xi
List of Abbreviations     xv
A Note on Language     xvii
Introduction     1
Imagining the Emperor: Statues of Joseph II as Sites of German Identity     17
The Battle Joined: Protesting the Badeni Language Ordinances     48
The Moravians Compromise? Czechs, Germans, and the Question of a Second Czech University     79
Centers and Peripheries: The Francis Joseph Jubilees     107
National Myths and the Consolidation of the Czechoslovak State     135
Pomp and Circumstances: Commemorations and the Construction of National Memory     170
The Politics of Sound: "Talkies" and Anti-German Demonstrations in Prague     199
The Attempt to Construct a German Community     231
The Politics of Memory in Postwar Czechoslovakia     261
Conclusion     291
Notes     303
Index     345

Boomburbs or Your Money or Your Life

2009-11-25T12:36:00.000-08:00

Boomburbs: The Rise of America's Accidental Cities

Author: Robert E Lang

A glance at a list of America's fastest growing "cities" reveals quite a surprise: most are really overgrown suburbs. Places such as Anaheim, California, Coral Springs, Florida, Naperville, Illinois, North Las Vegas, Nevada, and Plano, Texas, have swelled to big-city size with few people really noticing--including many of their ten million residents. These "boomburbs" are large, rapidly growing, incorporated communities of more than 100,000 residents that are not the biggest city in their region. Here, Robert E. Lang and Jennifer B. LeFurgy explain who lives in them, what they look like, how they are governed, and why their rise calls into question the definition of urban.

Located in over twenty-five major metro areas throughout the United States, numerous boomburbs have doubled, tripled, even quadrupled in size between census reports. Some are now more populated than traditional big cities. The population of the biggest boomburb-Mesa, Arizona-recently surpassed that of Minneapolis and Miami.

Typically large and sprawling, boomburbs are "accidental cities," but not because they lack planning. Many are made up of master-planned communities that have grown into one another. Few anticipated becoming big cities and unintentionally arrived at their status. Although boomburbs possess elements found in cities such as housing, retailing, offices, and entertainment, they lack large downtowns. But they can contain high-profile industries and entertainment venues: the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and Arizona Cardinals are among over a dozen major-league sports teams who play in the boomburbs.

Urban in fact but not in feel, these drive-by cities of highways, office parks,and shopping malls are much more horizontally built and less pedestrian friendly than most older suburbs. And, contrary to common perceptions of suburbia, they are not rich and elitist. Poverty is often seen in boomburb communities of small single-family homes, neighborhoods that once represented the American dream.

Boomburbs are a quintessential American landscape, embodying much of the nation's complexity, expansiveness, and ambiguity. This fascinating look at the often contradictory world of boomburbs examines why America's suburbs are thriving and how they are shaping the lives of millions of residents.

What People Are Saying

Robert Fishman
"This lively, original, and perceptive book enables us to see a new form of city where previous observers had seen only suburban sprawl. These 'accidental cities' that Lang and LeFurgy call 'boomburbs' not only challenge our traditional concept of the urban; the fate of the boomburbs will increasingly determine the future of metropolitan America."--(Robert Fishman, Taubman College of Architecture and Planning, University of Michigan)

Robert Bruegmann
"Robert E. Lang has become one of America's best commentators on the vast urban territory outside of the traditional city center. In this book, he and Jennifer LeFurgy explore a group of new cities sprouting in the suburbs that is changing our very definition of what it means to be urban. Deploying acute first-hand observation, ingenious research, and a fondness for neologisms, they provide excellent insight into topics ranging from the demographic diversity of the 'New Brooklyns' to the exclusive governance of the 'cluburbs.'"--(Robert Bruegmann, professor of art history, architecture, and urban planning at the University of Illinois at Chicago and author of Sprawl: A Compact History)

Bill Fulton
"Urban and metropolitan studies have been mired for too long in a false dichotomy about cities and suburbs. Boomburbs is an important book because it leaves all that baggage behind and describes fast-growing American communities as they really are-big yet small, tedious yet vibrant, pimply yet mature."--(Bill Fulton, author of The Reluctant Metropolis and The Regional City)

Jon Teaford
"Boomburbs is one of the most significant contributions to contemporary metropolitan studies. It explores a new world and carefully maps this previously overlooked sector of metropolitan life. It should become a classic in the field and required reading for all students of the early twenty-first century American metropolis."--(Jon Teaford, professor of history, Purdue University)

Foreword by Ed Glaeser
Preface
1. Legoland
2. From Settlements to Super Suburbs
3. Who Lives in the Boomburbs
4. The Business of Boomburbs
5. Big Skies, Small Lots: Boomburb Housing and Master-Planned Development
6. The Small Town Politics of Big Cities
7. Boomburbs at Buildout
8. Emerging Urban Realms and the Boomburbs of 2030
Notes
Index

Interesting book: SELECT Series or A Design That Cares

Your Money or Your Life: The Tyranny of Global Finance

Author: Eric Toussaint

In the last decade, neoliberal policies have created debt and global impoverishment on a massive scale. In this updated edition of his internationally recognized book, Eric Toussaint traces the origins and development of the crisis in global finance.

This new edition is fully updated with new statistics to account for new developments in global financial institutions like the World Bank and IMF. Your Money or Your Life is widely considered one of the clearest and best-documented books on globalization available. Includes an extensive bibliography and notes.

Eric Toussaint is president of the Committee for the Cancellation of Third World Debt and is a fellow and frequent lecturer at the International Institute for Research and Education in Amsterdam.

Global Political Economy or Woman of Valor

2009-02-21T21:01:00.000-08:00

Global Political Economy

Author: Theodore H Cohn

Praised for its authoritative coverage of theory and history, Global Political Economy places the study of IPE in the broadest global context. Written by one of the field’s leading scholars, this text helps students understand the fundamental importance of international political economy and make sense of current events in the global economy. Its three areas of focus–globalization, North-North relations, and North-South relations–encourage students to connect theory and history with practice, explore domestic and international economic interactions, and examine the critical relationship between economic and security issues.

Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America

Author: Ellen Chesler

Ellen Chesler's 1992 biography of Margaret Sanger is acclaimed as definitive and is widely used and cited by scholars and activists alike in the fields of women's health and reproductive rights.

Chesler's substantive new Afterword considers how Sanger's life and work hold up in light of subsequent developments, such as U.S. Supreme Court cases challenging the constitutional doctrine of privacy and international definitions of reproductive health as an essential human right.

Introduction     11
The Woman Rebel     19
Ghosts     21
Love and Work     44
Seeds of Rebellion     56
The Personal Is Political     74
Bohemia and Beyond     89
A European Education     105
The Frenzy of Renown     128
The Company She Kept     150
The Lady Reformer     177
New Woman, New World     179
The Conditions of Reform     200
Organizing for Birth Control     223
Happiness in Marriage     243
Doctors and Birth Control     269
A Community of Women     287
Grande Dame, Grandmere     311
Lobbying for Birth Control     313
Same Old Deal     336
Foreign Diplomacy     355
From Birth Control to Family Planning     371
Intermezzo     396
Last Act     414
Woman of the Century     443
Afterword     469
Notes     493
Selected Bibliography     617
Acknowledgments     637
Index     641

Prison Nation or Field of Schemes

2009-02-20T15:49:00.000-08:00

Prison Nation: The Warehousing of America's Poor

Author: Tara Herivel

Prison Nation is a distant dispatch from a foreign and forbidden place--the world of America's prisons. Written by prisoners, social critics and luminaries of investigative reporting, Prison Nation testifies to the current state of America's prisoners' living conditions and political concerns. These concerns are not normally the concerns of most Americans, but they should be. From substandard medical care the inadequacy of resources for public defenders to the death penalty, the issues covered in this volume grow more urgent every day. Articles by outstanding writers such as Mumia Abu-Jamal, Noam Chomsky, Mark Dow, Judy Green, Tracy Huling and Christian Parenti chronicle the injustices of prison privatization, class and race in the justice system, our quixotic drug war, the rarely discussed prison AIDS crisis and a judicial system that rewards mostly those with significant resources or the desire to name names. Correctional facilities have become a profitable growth industry, for companies like Wackenhut that run them and companies like Boeing that use cheap prison labor. With fascinating narratives, shocking tales and small stories of hope, Prison Nation paints a picture of a world many Americans know little or nothing about.

Library Journal

Wright, a prisoner in Washington State's Monroe Correctional Complex, and prison activist Herivel have compiled 41 previously published essays that chronicle the injustices of the U.S. penal system. The essays can be read separately or as a unit, for each is drawn like a magnet to the theme: America is warehousing its poor in prisons, mistreating them, and earning a profit from this mistreatment. The essays, many by reputable writers (e.g., Noam Chomsky, Mark Dow, Judith Green, and Mumia Abu-Jamal), cover the lack of legal counsel, the paucity of healthcare, the racial overtones, the plight of women prisoners, the impact of the war on drugs, and numerous other related subjects. One especially poignant essay describes a prison's effect on the town in which it is located. The writers hammer away relentlessly at their themes, which they back up with careful documentation. Although it may not have strong appeal for the general reader, this work certainly should find a place in the crime collections of academic and larger public libraries.-Frances Sandiford, formerly with Green Haven Correctional Facility Lib., Stormville, NY

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
	The Accused Get What the System Doesn't Pay For	6
	Absolute Power, Absolute Corruption	23
	Color Bind	30
	Capital Crimes	41
	Drug Policy as Social Control	57
	"Victims' Rights" as a Stalking-horse for State Repression	60
	Swept Away	66
	An American Seduction	73
	Deadly Nostalgia	85
	Secrecy, Power, Indefinite Detention	93
	Trapped by the System	100
	Relocation Blues	106
	Making Slave Labor Fly	112
	The Politics of Prison Labor	120
	Work Strike Suppressed and Sabotaged in Ohio	129
	Prison Jobs and Free Market Unemployment	133
	Bailing Out Private Jails	138
	Juvenile Crime Pays - But At What Cost?	148
	University Professor Shills for Private Prison Industry	154
	Campus Activism Defeats Multinational's Prison Profiteering	156
	Juveniles Held Hostage for Profit by CSC in Florida	164
	The New Bedlam	168
	Wreaking Medical Mayhem on Women Prisoners in Washington State	174
	Hepatitis C	181
	Dying for Profits	187
	"The Judge Gave Me Ten Years. He Didn't Sentence Me to Death"	195
	FDOC Hazardous to Prisoners' Health	204
	Bill Clinton's Blood Trails	210
	The Restraint Chair	216
	Cowboys and Prisoners	227
	Deliberate Indifference	231
	Corcoran	245
	Guarding Their Silence	252
	Our Sisters' Keepers	258
	Not Part of My Sentence	262
	"Make it Hard for Them"	269
	Anatomy of a Whitewash	274
	Sentenced to the Backwaters of Greene County, PA	276
	Prison Litigation 1950-2000	281
	Barring the Federal Courthouses to Prisoners	301
	The Limits of Law	315
	Contributors	317
	About Prison Legal News	321
	Index	323

Field of Schemes: How the Great Stadium Swindle Turns Public Money into Private Profit

Author: Neil deMaus

An expose showing how your tax dollars go to building large sports stadiums and private profits.

Social Ethics or American and Texas Government

2009-02-19T07:10:00.000-08:00

Social Ethics: Morality and Social Policy

Author: Thomas Mappes

In its seventh edition, Social Ethics: Morality and Social Policy continues to provide material that will encourage reflective and critical examination of key contemporary moral problems. With additional readings and a new organization that groups related chapters together under four categories, this edition enhances the teachability that was the most salient characteristic of previous editions. The text maintains its ability to bring the central issues into clear focus, while allowing supporting arguments for widely diverse positions to be presented by those who embrace them.

Preface

PART ONE: LIFE-AND-DEATH ISSUES

CHAPTER 1 ABORTION

Introduction

Pope John Paul II, The Unspeakable Crime of Abortion

Mary Anne Warren, On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion

Don Marquis, Why Abortion is Immoral

Judith Jarvis Thomson, A Defense of Abortion

Margaret Olivia Little, The Morality of Abortion

Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Majority Opinion in Roe v. Wade

George J. Annas, “Partial-Birth Abortion” and the Supreme Court

CHAPTER 2 EUTHANASIA AND PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE

Introduction

James Rachels, Active and Passive Euthanasia

Daniel Callahan, Killing and Allowing to Die

Dan W. Brock, Voluntary Active Euthanasia

Stephen G. Potts, Objections to the Institutionalisation of Euthanasia

David T. Watts and Timothy Howell, Assisted Suicide Is Not Voluntary Active Euthanasia

Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, Opinion of the Court in Washington v. Glucksberg

Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Concurring Opinion in Washington v. Glucksberg and* Vacco v. Quill*

Franklin G. Miller and Diane E. Meier, Voluntary Death: A Comparison Of Terminal Dehydration and Physician-Assisted Suicide

CHAPTER 3 THE DEATH PENALTY

Introduction

Justices Potter Stewart, Lewis F. Powell, Jr., and John Paul Stevens, Opinion in Gregg v. Georgia

Justice Thurgood Marshall, Dissenting Opinion in Gregg v.Georgia

Igor Primoratz, A Life for a Life

Stephen Nathanson, An Eye for an Eye?

Louis P. Pojman, Deterrence and the Death Penalty

Jeffrey Reiman, Common Sense, the Deterrent Effect of the Death Penalty, and the Best Bet Argument

David Dolinko, Procedural Arguments Against the Death Penalty

PART TWO: LIBERTY ISSUES

CHAPTER 4 SEX AND MARRIAGE

Introduction

Vincent C. Punzo, Morality and Human Sexuality

Thomas A. Mappes, Sexual Morality and the Concept of Using Another Person

John Corvino, Why Shouldn’t Tommy and Jim Have Sex? A Defense of Homosexuality

Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall, Majority Opinion in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health

Justice Martha B. Sosman, Dissenting Opinion in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health

Maggie Gallagher, What Marriage Is For: Children Need Mothers and Fathers

Jonathan Rauch, For Better or Worse? The Case for Gay (and Straight) Marriage

CHAPTER 5 PORNOGRAPHY, HATE SPEECH, AND CENSORSHIP

Introduction

John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

The Attorney General’s Commission on Pornography, The Question of Harm

Helen E. Longino, Pornography, Oppression, and Freedom: A Closer Look

Mark R. Wicclair, Feminism, Pornography, and CensorshipIllinois Supreme Court, Opinion in Village of Skokie v. National Socialist Party of America

Charles R. Lawrence III, Racist Speech as the Functional Equivalent of Fighting Words

Andrew Altman, Liberalism and Campus Hate Speech: A Philosophical Examination

Judge Peter Stone, Opinion in Corry v. Stanford University

CHAPTER 6 DRUG CONTROL AND ADDICTION

Introduction

Justice Jacob J. Spiegel, Opinion in Commonwealth v. Joseph D. Leis

Thomas S. Szasz, The Ethics of Addiction

Robert E. Goodin, Permissible Paternalism: Saving Smokers from Themselves

Ethan A. Nadelmann, The Case for Legalization

James Q. Wilson, Against the Legalization of Drugs

Daniel Shapiro, Addiction and Drug Policy

CHAPTER 7 TERRORISM, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND CIVIL LIBERTIES

Introduction

Stephen Nathanson, Can Terrorism Be Morally Justified?

Alison M. Jaggar, What Is Terrorism, Why Is It Wrong, and Could It Ever Be Morally Permissible?

David Luban, The War on Terrorism and the End of Human Rights

Justice Hugo Lafayette Black, Majority Opinion in Korematsu v. United States

Justice Frank Murphy, Dissenting Opinion in Korematsu v. United States

Jeremy Waldron, Security and Liberty: The Image of Balance

PART THREE: JUSTICE ISSUES

CHAPTER 8 SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE

Introduction

John Hospers, What Libertarianism Is

Kai Nielsen, A Moral Case for Socialism

Iris M. Young, Five Faces of Oppression

Nancy Fraser, After the Family Wage: A Postindustrial Thought Experiment

Howard McGary, The African-American Underclass and the Question of Values

CHAPTER 9 WORLD HUNGER AND POVERTY

Introduction

Peter Singer, Famine, Affluence, and Morality

Garrett Hardin, Living on a Lifeboat

Amartya Sen, Property and Hunger

Thomas Pogge, Two Reflections on The First United Nations Millennium Development Goal

Max Borders, Western Ethical Imperialism?

United Trauma Relief, A Consensus Statement on Sweatshop Abuse

Matt Zwolinski, Sweatshops

PART FOUR: PLANETARY ISSUES

CHAPTER 10 ANIMALS

Introduction

Peter Singer, All Animals Are Equal

Tom Regan, The Case for Animal Rights

R. G. Frey, Moral Vegetarianism and the Argument from Pain and Suffering

Carl Cohen, The Case for the Use of Animals in Biomedical Research

Mary Anne Warren, Human and Animal Rights Compared

CHAPTER 11 THE ENVIRONMENT

Introduction

William F. Baxter, People or Penguins: The Case for Optimal Pollution

Jan Narveson, For Free Market Environmentalism

Tony Smith, Against Free Market Environmentalism

Peter S. Wenz, Just Garbage

Aldo Leopold, The Land Ethic

Bernard E. Rollin, Environmental Ethics

Bill Devall and George Sessions, Deep Ecology

Ramachandra Guha, Radical American Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique

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American and Texas Government: Policy and Politics

Author: Neal Tannahill

Known for the extremely student-friendly, jargon-free style of the two books from which it was made, the new American and Texas Government: Policy and Politics introduces the essentials of American and Texas government in a way that any student can understand.

For the first time, Tannahill’s American Government and Texas Government are offered together in one comprehensive and accessible text. This new version features the same public policy emphasis that shows students the impact that government has on their lives, and offers the wealth of useful study aids and exercises to engage students in the course material and encourage them to become active participants in their government. This new edition is published as a Longman Study Edition and therefore contains a battery of chapter tests for student study and practice. It also offers the latest coverage of issues in both American and Texas government, including the results of the 2006 midterm elections, immigration reform, and the challenge posed by nuclear programs in Iran and North Korea.

Administrative Law or Black Visions

2009-02-18T01:58:00.000-08:00

Administrative Law: Cases and Comments

Author: Peter L Strauss

After defining the constitutional framework for administration, the casebook discusses related topics such as downsizing government, regulators' thirst for information and the Paperwork Reduction Act, Fourth and Fifth Amendment concerns, Freedom of Information Act, and the future of the administrative state. Author forum available at twen.com.

An Introduction to Administrative LawAgencies and the Structural Constitution Procedural Frameworks for Administrative Action The Procedural Categories in Action: Adjudication The Procedural Categories in Action: Rulemaking Open Government and the Freedom of Information Act Procedural Due Process: Constitutional Constraints on Administrative Decisionmaking Scope of Review of Administrative Action Obtaining Judicial Review: Access to Court to Challenge Agency Action or Inaction

Book review: Taste of the Sea or Incest and Morris Dancing

Black Visions: The Roots of Contemporary African-American Political Ideologies

Author: Michael C Dawson

This stunning book represents the most comprehensive analysis to date of the complex relationships between black political thought and black political identity and behavior. Ranging from Frederick Douglass to rap artist Ice Cube, Michael C. Dawson brilliantly illuminates the history and current role of black political thought in shaping political debate in America.

Hickling Blanchard or Mary of Nazareth Prophet of Peace

2009-02-16T20:46:00.000-08:00

Hickling/Blanchard: Overcoming the Trauma of Your Motor Vehicle Accident Therapy Guide

Author: Edward J Hickling

Motor vehicle accidents account for over 3 million injuries annually and are one of the most common traumas individuals experience. But the physical injuries are often less impactful in the long run than the severe emotional distress, flashbacks, and substantial impairment in work or family life. Studies of the general population have found that approximately 9% of people who survivor an accident develop Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. And yet, few people seek treatment immediately, mostly because they are not aware of the nature of their condition or that successful brief treatments are available.
Written by the creators of an empirically supported cognitive-behavioral therapy program developed at The Center for Stress and Anxiety Disorders in Albany, this therapist guide includes all the information and materials necessary to implement a successful program for treating accident-related PTSD. The therapeutic technique described in this book is research-based with a proven success rate.
The renowned authors provide clinicians with step-by-step instructions for teaching their clients important skills that have been scientifically tested and shown to be effective in treating emotional trauma caused by involvement in a car accident. Designed to be used in conjunction with its corresponding workbook, this therapist guide outlines a treatment program that includes cognitive restructuring, relaxation techniques, and exposure exercises.
User-friendly and comprehensive, Overcoming the Trauma of Your Motor-Vehicle Accident, Therapist Guide is a resource that no clinician can do without.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: Nicholas Greco IV, M.S., BCETS, CATSM, CCRA(College of Lake County)
Description: This is the therapist guide to a two-part set which is focused on a cognitive-behavioral treatment program for clients who have been involved in a motor vehicle accident. This is the latest installment of a series of books on such topics as GAD and ADHD. The books in this series all involve evidence-based treatment for PTSD and incorporate the latest research in the field.
Purpose: The purpose of this book and the set is to provide an evidence-based treatment program for PTSD as a result of a motor vehicle accident (MVA). The authors provide a structured guide to address the unmet needs of those who do not fully recover without professional treatment. The goal of this book is to share a treatment approach that is the product of more than 15 years of working with MVA survivors. Given the fact that MVAs are the leading cause of PTSD in the general population, this book is much needed and meets not only the authors', but also the readers' objectives.
Audience: This book is geared for clinicians who are well versed in cognitive-behavioral therapy and working with survivors of motor vehicle accidents. Of note, the client should be ready to enter into this treatment plan which is supplemented with a separate client workbook. The authors and researchers involved in this program are unquestionably experts in the field.
Features: As all of the books in this series, this program is well thought out. The therapist guide allows for the therapist to give the client verbal information while the workbook acts to substantiate the verbal in theform of written exercises with an emphasis on key problem areas such as fear and to incorporate relaxation training. This is a ten-session course that begins with the client's understanding of PTSD, working through negative self-talk, relaxation, numbing, and a final termination session. This is a self contained program that is well detailed and described in the therapist's guide.
Assessment: This is truly a masterpiece for the field of mental health and more specifically for those working with survivors of motor vehicle accidents.

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Mary of Nazareth, Prophet of Peace

Author: John Dear

Walk through the events in Mary's life and find her powerful message of peace and nonviolence. Experience the power of her prayer and the prophetic model of her life. Of course, this is not a book about Mary alone. It is a book about us, a challenge to live a life of nonviolence, a summons to proclaim to a world filled with violence that we stand for something entirely different. It is a call for us to live a life steeped in prayer. Enhanced by William Hart McNichols' evocative icons, Mary of Nazareth, Prophet of Peace is a book that is eternal in its message and timely in its urgency.

	Acknowledgments	8
	Foreword	9
	Introduction	11
I.	The Annunciation: Mary and Contemplative Nonviolence	22
1	The Prayer of Peace	25
2	The Encounter with God	35
3	Behold the Servant of the God of Peace	43
II.	The Visitation: Mary and Active Nonviolence	56
1	Love Your Neighbor	59
2	The Words of Peace	69
3	Beatitudes of Peace	77
III.	The Magnificat: Mary and Prophetic Nonviolence	84
1	My Spirit Rejoices: God's Revolution Has Begun	87
2	God's Nonviolence at Work in the World	97
3	The Mighty From Their Thrones, the Hungry Fed and Full	107
	Conclusion	123

The Theoretical Evolution of International Political Economy or Western Times and Water Wars

2009-02-15T15:33:00.000-08:00

The Theoretical Evolution of International Political Economy: A Reader

Author: George T Cran

This collection of seminal readings in international political economy charts the historical and theoretical evolution of the field from the eighteenth century to the present day. Bringing together classic works and leading contemporary arguments, this book outlines the development of three schools of IPE thought -- Liberalism, Marxism, and Realism -- and also includes recent syntheses of these approaches to show how conventional theoretical categories are giving way to more eclectic conceptual schemes. The second edition features an added section on the postmodern turn in the study of international political economy, and includes a number of new readings. The readings include works by Alexander Hamilton, Friedrich List, David Ricardo, Adam Smith, Lenin, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Richard Cooper, Robert O. Keohane, Joseph S. Nye, Christopher Chase-Dunn, Robert Cox, Robert Gilpin, Mancur Olson, Richard Zeckhauser, Bruno S. Frey, Immanuel Wallerstein, Susan Strange, Donald J. Puchala, Raymond F. Hopkins, Alice A. Amsden, Peter M. Haas, David Harvey, and Michael J. Shapiro. Providing many of the most frequently cited IPE references in a single volume, the second edition of The Theoretical Evolution of International Political Economy will no doubt be a valuable resource for students of international relations and international economics.

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Western Times and Water Wars: State, Culture, and Rebellion in California

Author: John Walton

Western Times and Water Wars chronicles more than a hundred years of tumultuous events in the history of California's Owens Valley. From the pioneer conquest of the native inhabitants to the infamous destruction of the valley's agrarian economy by water-hungry Los Angeles, this legendary setting is a microcosm of the development of the American West.

Library Journal

The Owens Valley communities of eastern California and their battles with the city of Los Angeles concerning water rights is a classic example of territorial conflicts. Walton presents a historical and sociological study of this largely unsuccessful battle in a community in which violence, rebellion, political activity, and state domination have been a fact of life since 1920. Walton guides the reader through conquest of Native Americans in the Owens Valley, the building of a pioneer economy, conflicts among ethnic groups and social classes, and the struggle to regain their lost dignity through collective action. His analysis shows how the expansion of a state's administrative and coercive power can undermine the autonomy of a local community by placing it in the hands of politicians, bureaucracies, and those with privileged access to state agencies. This book should be required reading for small communities involved in turf wars with nearby urban areas.-- Irwin Weintraub, Rutgers Univ. Libs., Piscataway, N.J.

Woman in the Nineteenth Century or One Night in America

2009-02-14T10:20:00.000-08:00

Woman in the Nineteenth Century

Author: Margaret Fuller

In this influential book, the prototypical feminist writer of her day addressed a range of issues, from the Woman Question to prostitution and slavery, marriage and employment reform, and the European revolutionary movements of the 1840s. A thought-provoking challenge to contemporary assumptions of male privilege, it is a feminist literature classic.

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One Night in America: Robert Kennedy, Cesar Chavez, and the Dream of Dignity

Author: Steven W Bender

Robert Kennedy and César Chávez came from opposite sides of the tracks of race and class that still divide Americans. Both optimists, Kennedy and Chávez shared a common vision of equality. They united in the 1960s to crusade for the rights of migrant farm workers. Farm workers faded from public consciousness following Kennedy's assassination and Chávez's early passing. Yet the work of Kennedy and Chávez continues to reverberate in America today.

Bender chronicles their warm friendship and embraces their bold political vision for making the American dream a reality for all. While many books discuss Kennedy or Chávez individually, this is the first book to capture their multifaceted relationship and its relevance to mainstream U.S. politics and Latino/a politics today. Bender examines their shared legacy and its continuing influence on political issues including immigration, education, war, poverty, and religion. Mapping a new political path for Mexican Americans and the poor of all backgrounds, this book argues that there is still time to prove Kennedy and Chávez right.

Duncan Stewart - Library Journal

Bender (law, Univ. of Oregon Sch. of Law; Greasers and Gringos) frames his history of American Latino political participation within a study of the friendship of Robert Kennedy and César Chávez, who first met during JFK's presidential campaign. RKF oversaw outreach to Latinos, while Chávez headed the largest voter registration organization in California. Later, Chávez turned to rural union organizing of immigrant agricultural workers and called for help from RFK, who backed their 1966 strike. His backing of Chávez and the union, their shared belief in nonviolent activism, and their commitment to Catholic teachings on the poor created a bond between the son of Irish wealth and the Mexican farm worker. In turn, Chávez and the United Farm Workers Union worked to help RFK win the 1968 California primary from which Bender dates the decline of Chávez's union. After RKF's assassination, union political enthusiasm waned, and President Nixon sought to undermine the Farm Workers legally and economically. In the face of the anti-immigrant movement that began in 2006 and some anti-Hispanic vitriol from 2008 GOP candidates, Bender issues a plea for a revival of the RFK-Chávez concern for the dignity and well-being of the poor. He conveys both the fact and the emotion of the Latino dream for uplift, as shared by Chávez and RFK. Recommended for public and academic libraries.

High Priests of American Politics or Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream

2009-02-13T05:07:00.000-08:00

High Priests of American Politics: The Role of Lawyers in American Political Institutions

Author: Mark C Miller

Using a multidisciplinary approach, Mark C. Miller draws in large part on interviews he conducted with members of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Ohio legislature, and the Massachusetts legislature. From this rich data, he shows how American lawyers are socialized into a common legal ideology, which in turn shapes the behavior of individual lawyer-politicians, legislative committees dominated by lawyers, and the entire legislative institutions of government. Miller goes on to explore the various roles lawyers play in the development of public policy. He identifies some intriguing differences in attitude between lawyer and nonlawyer legislators toward the courts and then establishes a typology of differences among lawyer-politicians themselves, showing how these different "types" affect the legislative process at both the committee and the macro-institutional levels. In the final chapter, he examines the ways in which the lawyerly approach to decision making influences the substantive policy choices of Congress and shapes its internal political culture. The ultimate effect of lawyer-dominated legislatures, Miller concludes, is a government that is preoccupied with incremental, rights-oriented procedural solutions - and not with sweeping changes in the substance of public policy.

Booknews

Documents how lawyers dominate state and national politics and policy, and explores the impact of that influence. Drawing on interviews with members of the US, Ohio, and Massachusetts legislatures, shows how lawyers are socialized into a common ideology, their effect legislation at both committee and whole- body levels, and differences between lawyer and non-lawyer legislators and among lawyers. Concludes that lawyers make the government more concerned with incremental than sweeping change. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	Acknowledgments
1	The Study of Politics and of Lawyers	1
2	Socialization into the Legal Profession	17
3	Lawyers, Lawyers Everywhere	29
4	The Prevalence of Lawyer-Legislators in the United States	57
5	Are Lawyers Really Different from Nonlawyers?	76
6	How Lawyer-Legislators and Nonlawyer-Legislators View the Courts	95
7	Are All Lawyer-Legislators the Same? A Typology	122
8	Lawyers on Congressional Committees	139
9	Lawyers' Views and Lawyers' Ways: The Institutional Effects of Lawyer-Politicians	162
	Notes	175
	References	185
	Index	223

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Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream

Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin

Doris Kearns Goodwin's classic life of Lyndon Johnson, who presided over the Great Society, the Vietnam War, and other defining moments the tumultuous 1960s, is a monument in political biography. From the moment the author, then a young woman from Harvard, first encountered President Johnson at a White House dance in the spring of 1967, she became fascinated by the man—his character, his enormous energy and drive, and his manner of wielding these gifts in an endless pursuit of power. As a member of his White House staff, she soon became his personal confidante, and in the years before his death he revealed himself to her as he did to no other.

Widely praised and enormously popular, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream is a work of biography like few others. With uncanny insight and a richly engrossing style, the author renders LBJ in all his vibrant, conflicted humanity.

Andrew Jackson vs Henry Clay or The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution

2009-02-11T23:55:00.000-08:00

Andrew Jackson vs. Henry Clay: Democracy and Development in Antebellum America

Author: Harry L Watson

This dual biography with documents is the first book to explore the political conflict between Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay - two explosive personalities whose contrasting visions of America's future shaped a generation of power struggle in the early Republic. ln a clear, even narrative that outlines the economic, social, technological, and political dynamics of the early nineteenth century, Watson examines how Jackson and Clay came to personify the opposition between democracy and development. Following the biographies are twenty-five primary documents - including speeches from the Senate floor, letters to the new president, and Jackson's famous bank veto - that parallel the narrative's organization and immerse students in the debates of the day. Also included are headnotes to the documents, two maps, portraits of both figures, a chronology, a selected bibliography, and an index.

Booknews

A double-barrelled biography of the political rivals that Watson (history U. of South Carolina-Chapel Hill) sees as embodying competing visions for the future of the US: democracy and development. On the way he outlines the economic, social, technological, and political dynamics of the early 19th century. He also includes 25 primary documents, among them, speeches from the Senate floor, letters to the new president, and Jackson's bank veto. Distributed in the US by St. Martin's Press. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution

Author: Roger Chartier

Renowned historian Roger Chartier, one of the most brilliant and productive of the younger generation of French historians now refashioning the Annales tradition, attempts in this book to analyze the causes of the French Revolution not simply by pinpointing its 'cultural origins' but by investigating the conditions that 'made it possible because conceivable.'Translated by Lydia G. Cochrane.

Library Journal

Chartier offers a challenging, authoritative synthesis of both old and new interpretations. Readers will be struck particularly by his recognition of studies done by English-language scholars. Three American historians who have especially influenced Chartier are Keith Baker (who has stressed the emergence of public opinion as a potent force with which the crown had to contend in the 18th century), Robert Darnton (who has shown that the hack writers of Grub Street were just as important as the major Enlightenment figures), and Dale Van Kley (who has demonstrated the significance of the political and religious controversies of the 1750s for the events beginning in 1789). Chartier argues that the Enlightenment was only one element in a wide range of cultural developments contributing to the secularization, the skepticism, and the decline of the crown's esteem in the decades prior to the Revolution. For scholars and specialists.-- Thomas J. Schaeper, St. Bonaventure Univ., N.Y.

Booknews

Chartier, a highly respected young French historian, describes the cultural conditions that made the French Revolution possible by first making it conceivable, and questions the assumed link between the transformations of the 18th century and rupture of the revolution. Translated from the French. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Decolonizing Methodologies or Leaving America

2009-02-10T18:42:00.000-08:00

Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples

Author: Linda Tuhiwai Smith

From the vantage point of the colonized, the term 'research' is inextricably linked with European colonialism; the ways in which scientific research has been implicated in the worst excesses of imperialism remains a powerful remembered history for many of the world's colonized peoples. Here, an indigenous researcher issues a clarion call for the decolonization of research methods.

The book is divided into two parts. In the first, the author critically examines the historical and philosophical base of Western research. Extending the work of Foucault, she explores the intersections of imperialism, knowledge and research, and the different ways in which imperialism is embedded in disciplines of knowledge and methodologies as 'regimes of truth'. Providing a history of knowledge from the Enlightenment to Postcoloniality, she also discusses the fate of concepts such as 'discovery, 'claiming' and 'naming' through which the west has incorporated and continues to incorporate the indigenous world within its own web.

The second part of the book meets the urgent need for people who are carrying out their own research projects, for literature which validates their frustrations in dealing with various western paradigms, academic traditions and methodologies, which continue to position the indigenous as 'Other'. In setting an agenda for planning and implementing indigenous research, the author shows how such programmes are part of the wider project of reclaiming control over indigenous ways of knowing and being.

Exploring the broad range of issues which have confronted, and continue to confront, indigenous peoples, in their encounters with western knowledge, this book also sets astandard for truly emancipatory research. It brilliantly demonstrates that ‘when indigenous peoples become the researchers and not merely the researched, the activity of research is transformed.’

Booknews

The pursuit of scientific research has, throughout Western history, been bound up with colonialism and imperialism, and indeed some of the worst evils done against indigenous peoples have been in the name of "research." The author, herself a Maori and also a researcher, seeks herein to free the concept of scientific research from its imperialist associations. She takes a Foucaultian approach to an examination of the history of knowledge, and works to develop a theory and methodology of research which strives to be free from colonialist implications and practices. Distributed by St. Martin's Press. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)

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Leaving America: The New Expatriate Generation

Author: John R Wennersten

Today more than ever, large numbers of Americans are leaving the United States. It is estimated that by the end of the decade, some 10 million of the brightest and most talented Americans, representing an estimated $136 billion in wages, will be living and working overseas. This emigration trend contradicts the internalized myth of America as the land of affluence, opportunity, and freedom. What is behind this trend? Wennersten argues that many people these days, from college students to retirees, are uncertain or ambivalent about what it means to be an American. For example, many are uncomfortable with that they believe America has come to represent to the rest of the world. At the same time, globalization and advances in technology have enabled the growth of a telecommuting work force whose members can live in one country and work in another, and this trend, among other factors, has encouraged a new generation of people to respond to the pull of "global citizenship."

Leaving America is an important reexamination of one of the most central stories in the history of American culture--the story of the immigrant coming to the Promised Land. While millions still come to American and millions more still wish to do so, there is an important counterflow of emigration from America to distant parts of the planet. This book focuses on modern American expatriates as a significant and heretofore largely ignored counterpoint phenomenon every bit as central to understanding modern America as is the image of a nation of immigrants. The greatest irony in America today may well be that while argument and discord prevail in the edifice of American democracy about diversity, economic justice, equality, and the Iraq War, many of the most thoughtful citizens have already left the building.

Preface     ix
Explaining Expatriate Motivation     1
The Expatriate Archipelago     19
Dissenters, Tax Fugitives, and Utopians     33
The Expatriate Countries: Canada, Israel, Australia, and New Zealand     51
Black Exiles and Sojourners     61
Women Expatriates     83
Go East, Young Man     101
Gringo Gulch: Retired Expatriates and Sojourners in Latin America     115
The Return of the Native     137
American Citizens Living Abroad by Country     151
Top Ten Countries Where Most Expatriate Americans Live, 2006     159
Ten Most Popular Expatriate Meccas     161
Compendium of English Online International Newspapers     163
Online Expatriate Networks     167
Notes     169
Select Bibliography     181
Index     183

Pakistan or City of Quartz

2009-02-09T13:30:00.000-08:00

Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military

Author: Husain Haqqani

Among U.S. allies in the war against terrorism, Pakistan cannot be easily characterized as either friend or foe. Nuclear-armed Pakistan is an important center of radical Islamic ideas and groups. Since 9/11, the selective cooperation of president General Pervez Musharraf in sharing intelligence with the United States and apprehending al Qaeda members has led to the assumption that Pakistan might be ready to give up its longstanding ties with radical Islam. But Pakistan's status as an Islamic ideological state is closely linked with the Pakistani elite's worldview and the praetorian ambitions of its military.

This book analyzes the origins of the relationships between Islamist groups and Pakistan's military, and explores the nation's quest for identity and security. Tracing how the military has sought U.S. support by making itself useful for concerns of the moment while continuing to strengthen the mosque-military alliance within Pakistan Haqqani offers an alternative view of political developments since the country's independence in 1947.

Wall Street Journal

"[Haqqani's] analysis will reward anyone who seeks to understand one of the most perplexing foreign policy challenges facing the U.S. today."

Commentary, December 2005 - Alex Alexiev

"[F]our years after 9/11, Pakistan remains a major breeding ground of Islamist fanaticism and terror. For gaining a grasp of the situation and its implications for the United States, there may be no better place to begin than Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military. . . . Haqqani brings impressive credentials to the task of analyzing his native land. . . . this is an outstanding book on a subject that could not be more timely."

Foreign Affairs

Given the signal importance of Pakistan to U.S. foreign policy these days, the lack of informed commentary on the country is striking. This book fills a bit of that gap. Haqqani, a journalist and former diplomat, effectively and cogently argues that three key political choices — the promotion of religious nationalism, the continual pursuit of a confrontation with India, and an attempt to secure Western (particularly U.S.) support — have informed both the domestic and foreign policies of the independent Pakistani state. This analytic framework will not surprise most scholars of Pakistani politics. Haqqani's contribution lies in his careful documentation and use of evidence. One of the political choices on which he focuses — religious nationalism — may well determine the future of the Pakistani polity, and Haqqani illustrates its deep roots, which preceded the formation of the Pakistani state. The principal architect of Pakistan, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, actively courted the conservative Islamic clergy in an attempt to build support for his cause. The military leadership, which has ruled Pakistan for the bulk of its independent life, continued and expanded on this treacherous policy. The specter of religious radicalism born of this policy haunts Pakistani politics to this day.

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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

Author: Mike Davis

A fully updated edition of Mike Davis's visionary work.

No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it." To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide-ranging work of social history, Los Angeles is both utopia and dystopia, a place where the last Joshua trees are being plowed under to make room for model communities in the desert, where the rich have hired their own police to fend off street gangs, as well as armed Beirut militias. In City of Quartz, Davis reconstructs LA's shadow history and dissects its ethereal economy. He tells us who has the power and how they hold on to it. He gives us a city of Dickensian extremes, Pynchonesque conspiracies, and a desperation straight out of Nathaniel West—a city in which we may glimpse our own future mirrored with terrifying clarity.

In this new edition, Davis provides a dazzling update on the city's current status.

Library Journal

Eschewing the character study that comprises most Los Angeles history, Davis concentrates on the ongoing and ignored ethnic and class struggles, formerly manifested by booster (pro-growth) exploitation, now replaced by exclusionary (no-growth) neighborhood incorporation, and by police control of Afro-American and Latino neighborhoods. His analysis of recent Los Angeles history is often chilling and--sad to say--more true than false. Small inaccuracies sometimes afflict the narrative, and the breathlessness of Davis's writing will probably confuse readers who are unfamilar with the region. But these criticisms quibble with an otherwise important and necessary work. Recommended.-- Tim Zindel, Hastings Coll . of the Law, San Francisco

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"An extraordinary book - tumultuous and brilliant."

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"A visionary rant about a secret meeting of Los Angeles...absolutely fascinating. It's more cyberpunk than any work of fiction could ever be."

Gods Heart Has No Borders or The Foundations of Modern Political Thought

2009-02-08T08:17:00.000-08:00

God's Heart Has No Borders: How Religious Activists Are Working for Immigrant Rights

Author: Pierrette Hondagneu Sotelo

In this timely and compelling account of the contribution to immigrant rights made by religious activists in post-1965 and post-9/11 America, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo provides a comprehensive, close-up view of how Muslim, Christian, and Jewish groups are working to counter xenophobia. Against the hysteria prevalent in today's media, in which immigrants are often painted as a drain on the public coffers, inherently unassimilable, or an outright threat to national security, Hondagneu-Sotelo finds the intersection between migration and religion and calls attention to quieter voices, those dedicated to securing the human dignity of newcomers. Based on years of fieldwork conducted in California's major centers as well as in Chicago, this book considers Muslim Americans defending their civil liberties after 9/11, Christian activists responding to death and violence at the U.S-Mexico border, and Christian and Jewish clergy defending the labor rights of Latino immigrants. At a time when much attention has been given to religious fundamentalism and its capacity to incite violent conflict, God's Heart Has No Borders revises our understanding of the role of religion in social movements and demonstrates the nonviolent power of religious groups to address social injustices.

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The Foundations of Modern Political Thought: The Age of Reformation, Vol. 2

Author: Quentin Skinner

A two-volume study of political thought from the late thirteenth to the end of the sixteenth century, the decisive period of transition from medieval to modern political theory. The work is intended to be both an introduction to the period for students, and a presentation and justification of a particular approach to the interpretation of historical texts. Quentin Skinner gives an outline account of all the principal texts of the period, discussing in turn the chief political writings of Dante, Marsiglio, Bartolus, Machiavelli, Erasmus and more, Luther and Calvin, Bodin and the Calvinist revolutionaries. But he also examines a very large number of lesser writers in order to explain the general social and intellectual context in which these leading theorists worked. He thus presents the history not as a procession of 'classic texts' but are more readily intelligible. He traces by this means the gradual emergence of the vocabulary of modern political thought, and in particular the crucial concept of the State. We are given an insight into the actual processes of the formation of ideologies and into some of the linkages between political theory and practice. Professer Skinner has been awarded the Balzan Prize Life Time Achievement Award for Political Thought, History and Theory. Full details of this award can be found at balzan.it/News_eng.aspx'ID=2474

Israel Palestine Conflict or Paul Volcker

2009-02-07T03:05:00.000-08:00

Israel-Palestine Conflict: One Hundred Years of War

Author: James L Gelvin

The conflict between Israelis and Palestinians has lasted over a century. James L. Gelvin's account of that conflict, from the first glimmerings of national consciousness among Jews and Ottoman Palestinians to the present, offers a compelling, accessible and up-to-the-moment introduction for students and general readers. The book makes no attempt to be encyclopedic in coverage. It is rather an interpretive, thematically composed essay, set within the framework of global history. Now in a revised edition, Gelvin's award-winning book takes the reader through the 2006 Summer War and its aftermath.

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Paul Volcker: The Making of a Financial Legend

Author: Joseph B Treaster

As the Chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1979 to 1982, Paul Volcker established himself as one of the most influential economic thinkers. Currently a major advocate for corporate governance and accounting reforms, Volcker’s reputation as a great business leader with uncompromising ethics continues to this day. Written by award-winning New York Times journalist Joseph Treaster, Paul Volcker: The Making of a Financial Legend takes readers through the most compelling moments of this legend’s life in private and public service. From his early days as a young Treasury Department official through his appointments to the New York Federal Reserve Bank, the Federal Reserve, and James D. Wolfensohn, Inc., this inspiring book captures the significant moments in Volcker life and explores the ethical, economic, and moral dilemmas he faced at every turn.

Foreign Affairs

Paul Volcker has become an American icon-if not in every bar, at least in the worlds of politics, business, and finance. This short, readable biography covers not only his public life at the U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and as chairman of the Federal Reserve System's Board of Governors, but also his little-known childhood and family life. One of the dramatic public events covered is the "Nixon shock" of 1971, when the United States dropped its commitment to convert dollars into gold on request by foreign central banks and negotiated a devaluation of the dollar. (Volcker was the key deputy to Treasury Secretary John Connolly.) Another is the switch, soon after President Jimmy Carter's appointment of Volcker as chairman of the Federal Reserve in 1979, to a stiff anti-inflation policy, which provoked mixed reactions during the painful period of disinflation but earned Volcker lasting respect after it was over. In addition to providing a flattering portrait of a dedicated public servant, Treaster offers an informative, nontechnical glimpse at how the Federal Reserve works.

I Am a Soldier Too or Digital Destiny

2009-02-05T21:51:00.000-08:00

I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story

Author: Rick Bragg

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author Rick Bragg lends his remarkable narrative skills to the story of the most famous POW this country has known.

In I Am a Soldier, Too, Bragg let’s Jessica Lynch tell the story of her capture in the Iraq War in her own words--not the sensationalized ones of the media's initial reports. Here we see how a humble rural upbringing leads to a stint in the military, one of the most exciting job options for a young person in Palestine, West Virginia. We see the real story behind the ambush in the Iraqi Desert that led to Lynch's capture. And we gain new perspective on her rescue from an Iraqi hospital where she had been receiving care. Here Lynch’s true heroism and above all, modesty, is allowed to emerge, as we're shown how she managed her physical recovery from her debilitating wounds and contended with the misinformation--both deliberate and unintended--surrounding her highly publicized rescue.
In the end, what we see is a uniquely American story of courage and true heroism.

	Introduction: Hero	3
1	The Deadliest Day	7
2	Princess	14
3	Last Chances, and a Chance at War	30
4	Boot	36
5	Lori	48
6	Ruben	56
7	Lost	60
8	Taken	70
9	Damaged	79
10	M.I.A.	82
11	Time Standing Still	85
12	Wounds	95
13	The Enemy?	97
14	Hope	105
15	Saddam General	110
16	A Blonde Captive	121
17	Travels	128
18	A Soldier, Too	129
19	Under the Sand	133
20	Miracle	135
21	Love Letters	145
22	"Come Get Me"	147
23	Heroes Everywhere	152
24	Not Knowing Who to Hate	162
25	Changes	174
26	Barn Raising	181
27	Home	187
28	Normal?	197
29	The Long Shadow of Jessica Lynch	202
	Acknowledgments	205

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Digital Destiny: New Media and the Future of Democracy

Author: Jeff Chester

The celebrated media advocate's "damning and important" (Publishers Weekly) case for digital media to serve the public versus corporate interests.

Praised by the leading media analysts of our time, from Lawrence Lessig and Robert W. McChesney to Ben Bagdikian and The New Yorker's Ken Auletta, Digital Destiny describes "what's gone, and is going, wrong with the digital media in this country" (Midwest Book Review).

In this "intimate" and "comprehensive" (AlterNet) account, Chester, one of the nation's leading advocates for a more open and democratic U.S. media system, warns that the potential of the Internet and other digital communication channels to function as "the people's media" is being undermined by a powerful, largely invisible coalition of corporate and political interests. Instead of the information commons that many dreamed of, our electronic media system is increasingly designed to sell to rather than serve the public and is becoming dominated by commercial forces and personal data collection that threaten privacy and freedom of expression in the digital age.

Prescient and provocative, Digital Destiny "will become required reading for a generation of students, scholars, activists, and concerned citizens across the nation" (Robert W. McChesney).

Publishers Weekly

In recent years, the Federal Communications Commission has come under fire from advocacy groups and, increasingly, the general public for its regulatory decisions (or, in many cases, lack thereof). Writing in the tradition of critic Robert McChesney, media watchdog Jeff Chester examines the FCC, charting the close network of lobbyists, trade associations and other industry representatives in which it is embedded. Through close analysis of recent FCC moves and decisions on media consolidation and network neutrality, Chester makes a damning and important case for sweeping reform in governmental regulation, culminating in a series of policy recommendations that would adjust the balance of power between media corporations and customers. Unfortunately, Chester is mostly preaching to the converted; the general tone of the book is so stridently (even antagonistically) polemic that it's more likely to turn off uninformed or dissenting readers than persuade them. While offering red meat for those already concerned about issues of personal privacy and media choice in an era of growing corporate media oligarchy, Chester doesn't do much to reach beyond them, limiting the book's appeal both as a book and as a piece of advocacy. (Jan.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Kirkus Reviews

A sobering view of today's entrenched corporate media giants as a threat to the concept of an enlightened electorate. As executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy, a public-interest group, the author has spent 30 years in the middle of Washington's often obfuscated communications policy-making apparatus. Recent trends, he argues, have so broken down former caveats against consolidation of media ownership-newspapers, radio, TV and now digital networks and services-that the future of media content, including the Internet itself, may be effectively determined without public participation. Thanks to rampant deregulation of large media corporations, particularly under the reign of former Bush administration FCC Commissioner Michael C. Powell, Chester asserts, commercial considerations-advertising revenues and fee-based media services-have become the prime force in new media development and delivery schemes. (The news here for many readers may be that it wasn't always this way.) Longstanding policy guidelines recognized that multiple media ownership in local markets could result in shaping information solely to further the agenda of corporate owners. However, Powell, son of former Bush Secretary of State Colin Powell, pushed a GOP-endorsed free-market campaign that, while rebuffed in some of its more extreme dimensions, has now empowered single entities to own multiple media outlets and services in local markets. As a way of pointing out the determination-and, in his view, insidiousness-of media giants to lobby against ownership restrictions, Chester singles out the New York Times Corp. as one of the most aggressive, noting that the maneuvers of its corporate stewards remainedcuriously absent from its own news pages for an extended period. A party power shift in Washington, the author sums up, won't necessarily diminish the threat. Complex, quixotic attempt to sway the American public from the temptation to "amuse itself to death."

Building a New Boston or Faces of Environmental Racism

2009-02-04T16:39:00.000-08:00

Building a New Boston: Politics and Urban Renewal, 1950-1970

Author: Thomas H OConnor

Between 1950 and 1970, an unusual alliance of government and business interacting with neighborhood groups created impressive physical revitalization in Boston. A city characterized at the end of World War II by a rich history, an undistinguished skyline, urban decay, and no discernible plan for its future, Boston by the end of the 1970s featured a striking silhouette of old and new buildings symbolizing changes that transformed the city into one of America's five most vital and attractive urban centers. But the rejuvenation also produced unintended, frequently contradictory, and sometimes tragic consequences. The multicultural West End was destroyed and many of its residents were displaced. The attraction of new capital, new business, and tourists to the revitalized city wrought damaging social and economic vibrations that continue to this day. This book provides the first comprehensive political history of Boston's renewal and its aftermath. It is a tale principally of the determination of two mayors, John B. Hynes and John F. Collins, and those inside government and the business community who worked with them. It is also the story of community resistance, particularly in the immigrant West End and the predominantly black South End, by those who perceived the original plans as harmful to their communities.

Faces of Environmental Racism: Confronting Issues of Global Justice

Author: Laura Westra

Racial minorities in the United States are disproportionately exposed to toxic wastes and other environmental hazards, and cleanup efforts in their communities are slower and less thorough than efforts elsewhere. Internationally, wealthy countries of the North increasingly ship hazardous wastes to poorer countries of the South, resulting in such tragedies as the disaster at Bhopal. Through case studies that highlight the type of information that is seldom reported in the news, "Faces of Environmental Racism" exposes the type and magnitude of environmental racism, both domestic and international. The essays explore the justice of current environmental practices, asking such questions as whether cost-benefit analysis is an appropriate analytic technique and whether there are alternate routes to sustainable development in the South.

Author Biography: Laura Westra is professor emerita at Windsor University in Windsor, Canada. Bill Lawson is professor of philosophy at Michigan State University.

Coming Back to Life or Beyond Chutzpah

2009-02-03T11:26:00.000-08:00

Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World

Author: Joanna R Macy

Many of us feel called to respond to the ecological destruction of our planet, yet we feel overwhelmed, immobilized, and unable to deal realistically with the threats to life on Earth. Noted spiritual and environmental thinkers Joanna Macy and Molly Young Brown contend that this crippling response to world crisis is a psychological defense mechanism that has been endemic since the years of the Cold War arms race, when we had to adapt within a single generation to the horrific possibility of nuclear holocaust.

Since its publication in 1983, Joanna Macy's book, Despair and Personal Power in the Nuclear Age has sold nearly 30,000 copies and has been the primary resource for groups of men and women confronting the challenging realities of our time without succumbing to paralysis or panic. Coming Back to Life provides a much needed update and expansion of this pioneering work. At the interface between spiritual breakthrough and social action, Coming Back to Life is eloquent and compelling as well as being an inspiring and practical guide. The first third of the book discusses with extraordinary insight the angst of our era, and the pain, fear, guilt and inaction it has engendered; it then points forward to the way out of apathy, tio "the work that reconnects". The rest of the book offers both personal counsel and easy-to-use methods for working with groups in a number of ways to profoundly affect peoples' outlook and ability to act in the world.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Mathew Fox
1. To Choose Life
2. The Greatest Danger: Apatheia, The Deadening of Mind & Heart
3. The Basic Miracle: Our True Nature & Power
4. The Workthat Reconnects
5. Guiding Group Work
6. Affirmation: Coming from Gratitude
7. Despair Work: Owning & Honoring Our Pain for the World
8. The Shift: Seeing with New Eyes
9. Deep Time: Drawing on Past & Future Generations
10. The Council of All Beings: Rejoining the Natural World
11. Going Forth
12. Meditations for Coming Back to Life

Joanna Macy has developed an international following over the course of 40 years as a speaker and workshop leader on Buddhist philosophy and the deep ecology movement

What People Are Saying

Brian Swimme
The significance of this book is truly immense.

	Permissions
	Message from the Dalai Lama
	Foreword	1
	Preface	5
	Preface	9
1	To Choose Life	15
2	The Greatest Danger: Apatheia, The Deadening of Mind & Heart	25
3	The Basic Miracle: Our True Nature and Power	39
4	The Work That Reconnects	57
5	Guiding Group Work	63
6	Affirmation: Coming From Gratitude	81
7	Despair Work: Owning And Honoring Our Pain For The World	91
8	The Shift: Seeing With New Eyes	113
9	Deep Time: Reconnecting With Past And Future Generations	135
10	The Council Of All Beings: Rejoining The Natural World	149
11	Going Forth	167
12	Meditations For Coming Back To Life	183
App. A	Chief Seattle's Message	197
App. B	The Bestiary	203
App. C	A Council of All Beings: The Site Speaks	207
	Reference Notes	211
	Resources	215

Interesting book: Six Sigma Distribution Modeling or How to Do Everything with Microsoft Office Infopath 2003

Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-semitism and the Abuse of History

Author: Norman Finkelstein

In this long-awaited sequel to his international bestseller The Holocaust Industry, Norman G. Finkelstein moves from an iconoclastic interrogation of the new anti-Semitism to a meticulously researched exposé of the corruption of scholarship on the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Bringing to bear the latest findings on the conflict and recasting the scholarly debate, Finkelstein points to a consensus among historians and human rights organizations on the factual record. Why, then, does so much controversy swirl around the conflict? Finkelstein's answer, copiously documented, is that apologists for Israel contrive controversy. Whenever Israel comes under international pressure, another media campaign alleging a global outbreak of anti-Semitism is mounted.
Finkelstein also scrutinizes the proliferation of distortion masquerading as history. Recalling Joan Peters' book From Time Immemorial, published to great fanfare in 1984 but subsequently exposed as an academic hoax, he asks deeply troubling questions here about the periodic reappearance of spurious scholarship and the uncritical acclaim it receives. The most recent addition to this genre, Finkelstein argues, is Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz's bestseller, The Case for Israel.
The core analysis of Beyond Chutzpah sets Dershowitz's assertions on Israel's human rights record against the findings of the mainstream human rights community. Sifting through thousands of pages of reports from organizations such as Amnesty International, B'Tselem, and Human Rights Watch, Finkelstein argues that Dershowitz has misrepresented the facts.
Thoroughly researched and tightly argued, Beyond Chutzpah lifts the veil of controversyshrouding the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Science and Nonbelief or John Adams

2009-02-02T06:12:00.000-08:00

Science and Nonbelief

Author: Taner Edis

With a New Preface by the Author

Scientists have raised questions about religious belief since the earliest development of scientific thought. Over the centuries, as science has become ever more sophisticated and answered many of the questions previously in the domain of religion, more and more people have developed a skeptical point of view regarding religion. Today, many scientists are nonbelievers with a secular, science-based perspective.
In this wide-ranging overview, physicist and acclaimed science writer Taner Edis examines the relationship between today's sciences and religious nonbelief. Beginning with a brief history of science and philosophical doubt, Edis goes on to describe those theories in contemporary science that challenge spiritual views by favoring a naturalistic conception of the world. He provides a very readable, nontechnical introduction to the leading scientific ideas that impinge upon religious belief in the areas of modern physics and cosmology, evolutionary biology, and cognitive and brain science. He also shows how science supplies naturalistic explanations for allegedly miraculous and paranormal phenomena and explains widespread belief in the supernatural. Finally, he addresses the political context of debates over science and nonbelief as well as questions about morality.
Complete with an historical chronology, an extensive annotated bibliography, and selections from primary sources, Science and Nonbelief is an indispensable and accessible reference work on the subject.

New interesting textbook: What You Really Need to Know about Moles and Melanoma or Rainforest Remedies

John Adams (Childhood of Famous Americans Series)

Author: Jan E Adkins

Dear Reader:

The Childhood of Famous Americans series, seventy years old in 2002, chronicles the early years of famous American men and women in an accessible manner. Each book is faithful in spirit to the values and experiences that influenced the person's development. History is fleshed out with fictionalized details, and conversations have been added to make the stories come alive to today's reader, but every reasonable effort has been made to make the stories consistent with the events, ethics, and character of their subjects.

These books reaffirm the importance of our American heritage. We hope you learn to love the heroes and heroines who helped shape this great country. And by doing so, we hope you also develop a lasting love for the nation that gave them the opportunity to make their dreams come true. Itwill do the same for you.

Happy Reading!

The Editors

The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis or Challenges of an Aging Society

2009-02-01T00:59:00.000-08:00

The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis

Author: Robert E Goodin

The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis sets out to synthesize and critique for the first time those approaches to political science that offer a more fine-grained qualitative analysis of the political world. The work in the volume has a common aim in being sensitive to the thoughts of contextual nuances that disappear from large-scale quantitative modeling or explanations based on abstract, general, universal laws of human behavior. It shows that 'context matters' in a great many ways: philosophical context matters; psychological context matters; cultural and historical contexts matter; place, population, and technology all matter. By showcasing scholars who specialize in the analysis of all these contexts side-by-side, The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis shows how political scientists can take those crucial contextual factors systematically into account.

Challenges of an Aging Society: Ethical Dilemmas, Political Issues

Author: Rachel A Pruchno

In this important and timely collection, some of the best minds in gerontology and bioethics -- including Nancy Dubler, Rick Moody, Andrew Achenbaum, Robert Hudson, and Robert Binstock -- explore the ethical, social, and political challenges of an aging society. A unique combination of disciplines and perspectives -- from economics to nursing, psychology to theology -- this valuable synthesis of theory and practice provides frameworks and analyses for considering the ethical issues of both individual and societal aging.

The contributors address the major policy challenges of Social Security, Medicare, and prescription drugs as well as ethical issues ranging from individual autonomy to family responsibility to distributive justice. Specific topics covered include end-of-life decision making, family relations across generations, age-based intergenerational policies, and the reform of Social Security.

Contributors:W. Andrew Achenbaum, Ph.D., University of Houston; Vern L. Bengtson, Ph.D., University of Southern California; Robert H. Binstock, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University; Christine E. Bishop, Ph.D., Brandeis University; Thomas R. Cole, Ph.D., University of Texas Medical School at Houston; Peter A. Diamond, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Nancy Neveloff Dubler, LL.B., Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Msgr. Charles J. Fahey, Fordham University; Lucy Feild, Ph.D., R.N., Partners Human Research Quality Improvement Program; Martha B. Holstein, Ph.D., DePaul University; Robert B. Hudson, Ph.D., Boston University; Eric R. Kingson, Ph.D., Syracuse University; Ronald J. Manheimer, Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Asheville; Kyriakos S. Markides,Ph.D., University of Texas Medical Branch; Daniel C. Marson, J.D., Ph.D., University of Alabama at Birmingham; H. Rick Moody, Ph.D., AARP; Peter R. Orszag, Ph.D., Brookings Institution; Rachel Pruchno, Ph.D., University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey; Norella M. Putney, Ph.D., University of Southern California; Michael A. Smyer, Ph.D., Boston College; Bruce Stuart, Ph.D., University of Maryland, Baltimore; Melanie A. Wakeman, Ph.D., California State University, Los Angeles; Steven P. Wallace, Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles; John B. Williamson, Ph.D., Boston College.

Public Finance or Better but Not Well

2009-01-30T19:47:00.000-08:00

Public Finance

Author: Harvey S Rosen

Public Finance--while continuing to follow an innovative approach that is both theoretical and empirical--is now completely updated to reflect major changes in its key topics. New or revised information includes explanations of the Social Security trust fund, a new section on the alternative minimum tax (AMT), possible links between the corporation tax and high-profile scandals such as Enron, and more.

Harvey S. Rosen is a professor of economics and business policy at Princeton University. He was appointed by President Bush to serve on the Council of Economic Advisors.

Booknews

This text on public finance for undergraduates and for public administration graduate programs describes the institutional and legal settings of finance and emphasizes the links between economic analysis and current political issues. Chapters provide an overview of government's role in the economy, and explore tools for positive and normative analysis, tax analysis, and the US revenue system. The appendix discusses basic microeconomics. This fourth edition includes new chapters on health care issues and revised material on taxation. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Better but Not Well: Mental Health Policy in the United States Since 1950

Author: Richard G Frank

The past half-century has been marked by major changes in the treatment of mental illness: important advances in understanding mental illnesses, increases in spending on mental health care and support of people with mental illnesses, and the availability of new medications that are easier for the patient to tolerate. Although these changes have made things better for those who have mental illness, they are not quite enough.

In Better But Not Well, Richard G. Frank and Sherry A. Glied examine the well-being of people with mental illness in the United States over the past fifty years, addressing issues such as economics, treatment, standards of living, rights, and stigma. Marshaling a range of new empirical evidence, they first argue that people with mental illness -- severe and persistent disorders as well as less serious mental health conditions -- are faring better today than in the past. Improvements have come about for unheralded and unexpected reasons. Rather than being a result of more effective mental health treatments, progress has come from the growth of private health insurance and of mainstream social programs -- such as Medicaid, Supplemental Security Income, housing vouchers, and food stamps -- and the development of new treatments that are easier for patients to tolerate and for physicians to manage.

The authors remind us that, despite the progress that has been made, this disadvantaged group remains worse off than most others in society. The "mainstreaming" of persons with mental illness has left a policy void, where governmental institutions responsible for meeting the needs of mental health patients lack resources and programmatic authority. To fillthis void, Frank and Glied suggest that institutional resources be applied systematically and routinely to examine and address how federal and state programs affect the well-being of people with mental illness.

1	Introduction	1
2	The population with mental illness	8
3	The evolving technology of mental health care	26
4	Health care financing and income support	48
5	The supply of mental health services	70
6	Policy making in mental health : integration, mainstreaming, and shifting institutions	91
7	Assessing the well-being of people with mental illness	104
8	Looking forward : improving the well-being of people with mental illness	140

Women and Leadership or Profilers

2009-01-29T14:35:00.000-08:00

Women and Leadership: The State of Play and Strategies for Change

Author: Barbara Kellerman

Women and Leadership brings together in one comprehensive volume preeminent scholars from a range of disciplines to address the challenges involving women and leadership. These experts explore when and how women exercise power and what stands in their way. This groundbreaking volume offers readers an informed analysis of the state of women and leadership and offers the most informed and current thinking on

·        The perils of stereotypes

·        The importance of leadership style

·        Gender differences in the decision to seek leadership roles

·        Lessons from women leaders

·        “Opt out” patterns and the need for flexible career paths

·        Global inequalities and initiatives

·        Strategies that get women to the top

Women and Leadership is indispensable for understanding recent progress toward equal opportunity and the challenges that remain.

Foreword   Justice Sandra Day O'Connor (Ret.)     xiii
Women and Leadership: The State of Play   Deborah L. Rhode   Barbara Kellerman     1
Gender Differences and Gender Stereotypes
Crossing the Bridge: Reflections on Women and Leadership   Nannerl O. Keohane     65
The Great Women Theory of Leadership? Perils of Positive Stereotypes and Precarious Pedestals   Todd L. Pittinsky   Laura M. Bacon   Brian Welle     93
Overcoming Resistance to Women Leaders: The Importance of Leadership Style   Linda L. Carli   Alice H. Eagly     127
Women, Leadership, and the Natural Order   Rosalind Chait Barnett     149
What Difference Will Women Judges Make? Looking Once More at the "Woman Question"   Anita F. Hill     175
Leadership in Context: Women in Politics
Opening the Door: Women Leaders and Constitution Building in Iran and Afghanistan   Pippa Norris     197
Will Gender Balance in Politics Come by Itself?   Drude Dahlerup     227
The Future of Women's Political Leadership: Gender and the Decision to Run for Elective Office   Richard L. Fox     251
It's Woman Time   Marie C. Wilson     271
She's the Candidate! A Woman for President   Ruth B. Mandel     283
Leadership Redefined: Authority, Authenticity, Power
Leadership, Authority, and Women: A Man's Challenge   Ronald A. Heifetz     311
Bringing Your Whole Self to Work: Lessons in Authentic Engagement from Women Leaders   Laura Morgan Roberts     329
Women and Power: New Perspectives on Old Challenges   Evangelina Holvino     361
Women in Corporate Leadership: Status and Prospects   Katherine Giscombe     383
Redefining the Problem, Recasting the Solutions
Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Women's Nonlinear Career Paths   Silvia Ann Hewlett     407
Isn't She Delightful? Creating Relationships That Get Women to the Top (and Keep Them There)   Karen L. Proudford     431
Disrupting Gender, Revising Leadership   Debra Meyerson   Robin Ely   Laura Wernick     453
Acknowledgments     475
Contributors     477
Index     489

Interesting textbook: Marchés financiers et monétaires :les Institutions Financières et les Instruments dans une Place du marché Globale

Profilers: Leading Investigators Take You Inside the Criminal Mind

Author: John H Campbell

In Profilers, editors John H. Campbell and Don DeNevi offer a selection of accounts that clarifies criminal investigative analysis, offering thorough reviews of cases and in-depth explanations of methodologies. These articles - by top homicide profilers in the FBI and other law enforcement agencies - bring together for the first time an informative yet riveting mix of styles and approaches to criminal profiling.

Publishers Weekly

A bone-chilling conversation with Jeffrey Dahmer is just one highlight from this anthology of seasoned examinations of one of law enforcement's grimmest challenges. Campbell and DeNevi's second collaboration (after Into the Minds of Madmen) casts a wide net; although famous profilers like John Douglas contribute several of the 28 essays here, most are written by accomplished but little-known specialists. The result is a no-nonsense, technically oriented but readable look at how cops grapple with the worst felonies, including hostage taking, serial rape and murder, and child abduction/murder. The contributors take a measured tone toward the lethal predators they examine, as in Robert Ressler's discussion of his Dahmer interviews: "We must never forget that... there are many Jeffrey Dahmers walking among us." James Fitzgerald gives an account of using forensic linguistics to decode more than 200 of the Unabomber's writings, such as elusive marks like "indented writing," marks left by writing on another piece of paper over the examined one. FBI Special Agent Mary Ellen O'Toole offers a useful overview of the often misunderstood science of profiling ("Contrary to the current television and movie depictions..., a successful profiler is not psychic"). Other chapters offer updates on multidisciplinary approaches to cold cases and geographic profiling innovations. This is a rigorous and disturbing collection, accessible but compiled with law enforcement professionals in mind. Illus. (Nov.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Constitution of the United States or Classics of Public Administration

2009-01-28T09:22:00.000-08:00

Constitution of the United States: A Primer for the People

Author: David P Curri

A masterly introduction to the United States Constitution, this slim book leads the reader through a concise overview of the document's individual articles and amendments. With clear and accessible language, Currie then examines each of the three branches of the federal government and explains the relation between the federal and state governments. He analyzes those constitutional provisions that are designed to protect citizens from governmental interference, such as the due process and equal protection clauses and the confusing first amendment provisions respecting the separation of church and state, and includes discussions of judicial review and freedom of speech and of the press.
A sympathetic yet critical guide, Currie's book enables students and laypersons to understand one of the cornerstones of the Western political tradition. The second edition, along with an updated chronology and bibliography, incorporates the Supreme Court decisions over the past decade that have affected constitutional interpretation.
"Superb . . . highly recommended for those seeking a reliable, understandable, and useful introduction to our constitution."—Appellate Practice Journal and Update

	Preface
1	Introduction
	Congress	2
	The President	4
	The Courts	8
	The Bill of Rights	10
	Later Amendments	12
2	Judicial Review
	Origin and Justification	15
	Scope and Limitations	19
3	Federalism
	Federal Powers	26
	The Commerce Clause and State Authority	31
	Intergovernmental Immunities	33
4	The Separation of Powers
	The Rule of Law	36
	Military Powers	40
	Independent Agencies	42
5	Due Process of Law
	Procedural Requirements	47
	Substantive Due Process	50
	Alternative Theories	55
6	Equality	59
	Racial Discrimination and Segregation	59
	Affirmative Action and De Facto Discrimination	61
	Nonracial Classifications	64
	State Action	67
	The Right to Vote	70
7	Freedom of Speech and of the Press	74
	Content Regulation	76
	Time, Place, and Manner Regulations	80
8	Church and State	83
	The Free Exercise of Religion	83
	Establishment of Religion	86
9	Conclusion	91
	App. A: Chronology	95
App. B	The Constitution of the United States	102
	Notes	127
	Bibliography	148
	Index	151

Book review: Living with Hepatitis B or First Year Prostate Cancer

Classics of Public Administration

Author: Jay M Shafritz

CLASSICS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION is a collection of articles carefully chosen for their readability and continuing contribution to the study of Public Administration. Written by the most significant scholars from the field, these classics focus on topics and issues that are recognized as important ongoing themes in the field of Public Administration.

The Maternal Is Political or Forensic Nurse

2009-01-27T04:07:00.000-08:00

The Maternal Is Political: Women Writers at the Intersection of Motherhood and Social Change

Author: Shari MacDonald Strong

The saying is true: The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world. And the world has never needed mothers more. World and national leaders can't agree on how to educate our children or empower us to feed our families, on how to join together as a global community or keep us safe. Fortunately, mothers-the most underestimated and unsung political group-hold the future in their arms and hands.

Whether they're starting ambitious movements by taking on urgent matters that affect millions or speaking quietly within their homes and communities, the mothers in this collection are, like mothers everywhere, making a difference one person, one issue, one wrong-that-needs-righting at a time. For moms who are willing to fight that good fight, The Maternal Is Political is a comfort, an inspiration, fuel for the fire, and a roadmap to a better future ... for us and for all of our children.

Publishers Weekly

In a raw and emotional literary anthology, 30 women express their frustrations about motherhood, their disappointment with unsupportive work environments and their deep desire for social change. In her debut effort as an anthology editor, Strong brings together voices of veteran and first-time writers in a cacophony of cries that mothering isn't just personal, it's political. The stories include Jennifer Margulis and her husband who, unable to reconcile full-time work and parenting, quit office work and begin a home business; and Helaine Olen's horror stories of "mean moms" in playgroups who look down on stay-at-home mothers. Anne Lamott writes of the difficulty of espousing a pro-choice position before a largely Catholic audience. This book has a liberal bent, and happy, content mothers don't get much airtime. Young women considering motherhood may be taken aback by the rage and unchecked anger in some of the essays and the lack of solutions presented. But if shock spurs action, this anthology has done its job.

Foreword   Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner     1
Introduction   Shari MacDonald Strong     5
Believe
Motherhood Made Me Do It   Judith Stadtman Tucker     15
Alien   Sarah Masterson     25
Mom, Interrupted   Marrit Ingman     30
Rebel Mom   Tracy Thompson     40
As a Mother   Nancy Pelosi     48
Life Under Construction   Jennifer Margulis     50
Of Volcanoes and Ruins and Gardens   Violeta Garcia-Mendoza     59
Mothers Against Faith   Marion Winik     67
Well-Behaved Women   Jennifer Niesslein   Stephanie Wilkinson     70
The Secret Lives of Babysitters   Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser     75
My Bus   Karen Maezen Miller     83
On Receiving Notice of My Stepdaughter's Pregnancy   Mary Akers     89
Shown the Ropes   J. Anderson Coats     94
In Albania   Mona Gable     101
Teach
Twists in the Plot   Jennifer Brisendine     111
First-Grade Values   Susie Bright     124
How to Make a Democrat from Scratch   Stephanie Losee     129
Revolution on Your Skin   Susan Ito     135
Because I'm Not Dead   Ona Gritz     138
Making a Minyan in Vermont   Nina Gaby     147
The Making of a Scholar   Vera Landry     155
Chubby Cheeks, Dimpled Chin   Margaret McConnell     164
Mothering in Real Time   Jane Hammons     174
All-Consumed   Alisa Gordaneer     181
Playground Prophets   Carolyn Alessio     189
Girl-Shy   Kris Malone Grossman     194
A Letter to My Daughter at Thirteen   Barbara Kingsolver     201
Act
The Maternal Is Sustainable   Rebecca Walker     219
Politics of the Heart   Jennifer Graf Groneberg     225
Campaign Confidential   Ann Douglas     230
One Hundred and Twenty-Five Miles   Amy L. Jenkins     240
The Mean Moms   Helaine Olen     243
One Day   Benazir Bhutto     250
Trying Out   Gayle Brandeis     253
Good Riddance, Attention Whore   Cindy Sheehan     260
Adoption in III Acts   Kathy Briccetti     264
Performing Mother Activism   Beth Osnes     280
Pregnant in New York   Anna Quindlen     285
The Born   Anne Lamott     289
Signora   Gigi Rosenberg     293
Raising Small Boys in a Time of War   Shari MacDonald Strong     298
The Mother Is Standing   Denise Roy     309
Peace March Sans Children   Valerie Weaver-Zercher     314

Interesting textbook: Herbal Remedies or Yoga for Stress Relief

Forensic Nurse: The New Role of the Nurse in Law Enforcement

Author: Serita Stevens

ON THE FRONT LINES
A young victim of a hit and run is brought to the ER...A college student thinks she may have been raped....A homeless man is covered with chemical burns but won't say how he got them... Across the country, in moments of crisis, nurses are often the first witnesses to acts of trauma. And when the human body itself is a crime scene, what a nurse does—from asking the right questions to preserving the key evidence—can make all the difference in the world.

IN THE HEART OF THE ACTION
Now, a new kind of nurse is being deployed to the front lines. Detective, advocate, caregiver: specially trained forensic nurses play an increasingly critical role in cases of violence, negligence and mayhem—and giving justice a fighting chance.

AT THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME...
This book chronicles dozens of riveting cases, from the bizarre to the commonplace. Spotlighting pioneering personalities in forensic nursing today, this book shows how forensic nurses do their job, why they often become key witnesses in trials, and how these unsung heroes help police solve society's most baffling crimes.

Publishers Weekly

The author, a registered nurse and mystery writer (Bagels for Tea), does an excellent job of conveying the importance of an emerging medical specialty. Because forensic nurses described by Stevens as "law enforcement's secret weapon," with a "unique combination of medical skill, legal knowledge, and criminology" are often first on the scene of a crime or in an emergency room, they are in a unique position to collect evidence regarding accidents, alleged sexual assault, spousal abuse and other violent incidents. Stevens details how forensic nurses are trained to preserve and interpret evidence that physicians may overlook. A sexual assault nurse examiner, for example, assists alleged rape victims with a careful physical examination, an in-depth interview and emotional support. Stevens shows how savvy FNs deal with physicians who resent forensic nurses, viewing them as encroaching on their territory (she suggests telling the doc, " `I would love to have you do this exam... the whole six hours of interviewing... and doing the evidence collection.' See how quickly they back out"). Drawing on case histories, Stevens describes how forensic nurses are trained to remain objective, serve as legal witnesses and work with law enforcement. She also highlights the problems these skilled nurses face, such as inadequate compensation. Agent, Lettie Lee of the Ann Elmo Agency. (Sept. 20) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

Stevens, a registered nurse and mystery author, paints a vivid picture of how forensic training now enables the nurse to play the traditional patient-advocate role in groundbreaking ways, such as identifying suspicious injuries, gathering evidence, and working with law enforcement. Nurses function in a forensic capacity when they care for criminals within the criminal justice system, work as legal nurse consultants for law firms, or, most important, encounter victims of crime or abuse. Stevens's goal is to define and promote this rapidly growing field; unfortunately, her book is not up to that task. Inadequately researched, repetitive, and poorly written, it also devotes too much space to presenting numerous case studies. There is coverage of various forensic roles, but the text is unevenly weighted to "Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner." Another flaw is the outdated and incomplete bibliography. Although this is the only book available on the topic, it is recommended only for the most extensive nursing collections. Bridget Faricy-Beredo, Lorian Cty. Community Coll., Elyria, OH Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

The Libertarian Reader Classic and Contemporary Writings from Lao Tzu to Milton Friedman or Earth in the Balance

2009-01-25T22:47:00.000-08:00

The Libertarian Reader: Classic and Contemporary Writings from Lao-Tzu to Milton Friedman

Author: David Boaz

The first collection of seminal writings on a movement that is rapidly changing the face of American politics, The Libertarian Reader links some of the most fertile minds of our time to a centuries-old commitment to freedom, self-determination, and opposition to intrusive government. A movement that today counts among its supporters Steve Forbes, Nat Hentoff, and P.J. O'Rourke, libertarianism joins a continuous thread of political reason running throughout history.

Writing in 1995 about the large numbers of Americans who say they'd welcome a third party, David Broder of The Washington Post commented, "The distinguishing characteristic of these potential independent voters—aside from their disillusionment with Washington politicians of both parties—is their libertarian streak. They are skeptical of the Democrats because they identify them with big government. They are wary of the Republicans because of the growing influence within the GOP of the religious right."

In The Libertarian Reader, David Boaz has gathered the writers and works that represent the building blocks of libertarianism. These individuals have spoken out for the basic freedoms that have made possible the flowering of spiritual, moral, and economic life. For all independent thinkers, this unique sourcebook will stand as a classic reference for years to come, and a reminder that libertarianism is one of our oldest and most venerable American traditions.

New interesting textbook: Last Food of England or Cooks Pocket Companion

Earth in the Balance

Author: Al Gor

A passionate and lifelong defender of the environment, Vice President Al Gore describes in this classic best-selling book how human actions and decisions can endanger or safeguard the vulnerable ecosystem that sustains us all. The book's groundbreaking analysis helped place the environment on the national agenda, summoning politicians, the media, and the public to attention and action. The message remains just as urgent today as it did eight years ago: while much has been accomplished, we must meet a global environmental challenge that reaches into every aspect of our society.
In brave and unforgettable terms, Earth in the Balance probes the roots of the environmental crisis and offers a bold and forceful vision of a new, more sustainable path. Having provoked international discussion upon its original publication, it continues to confront us with profound challenges. Human civilization must change its course if we are to heal our ailing environment and preserve the earth's ecology for future generations.
Vice President Gore describes in a new foreword to this classic what we have achieved and what remains to be done, and issues a clarion call to begin the millennium with an "Environment Decade." It is time to reflect deeply on the fate of our planet and commit ourselves to its future.

Publishers Weekly

Vice President-elect Gore explains the necessity of enviromentalism and offers bold initiatives for change in this thoughtful, compelling primer, a QPB selection and PW bestseller. Illustrations. (Jan.)

School Library Journal

YA-- Too often, environmental challenges are presented in such a way that the more one learns, the more hopeless it all seems. Earth in the Balance does not shrink from the magnitude and painfulness of the conflicts YAs will soon inherit, but it also gives encouragement, offering the possibility of resolution. A passionate yet clearheaded exposition of a worldwide crisis is the starting point of this courageous book. Retracing his own journey, Gore leads readers toward a greater understanding of humanity and toward thinking beyond currently perceived limitations. With often stunning insight, he looks at how ``dysfunctional civilization,'' political realities, and religious traditions have helped to shape the current global ecological situation. This breadth of perspective should speak to a diversity of readers, while the final section, outlining a plausible plan of action, can capture the imaginations of practical as well as idealistic readers. The book may seem daunting to some, but its 3-part, 15-chapter structure, which allows readers to browse at will, should make it accessible enough to most YAs.-- Christine C. Menefee, Fairfax County Public Library, VA

Booknews

Senator (and vice presidential candidate) Gore (Democrat, Tennessee) demonstrates that the quality of air, water, and soil is at grave risk, not only locally or regionally but globally, and argues that only a radical rethinking of the human relationship with nature can save the earth's ecology for future generations. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	Foreword to the Plume Edition
	Introduction	1
Pt. I	Balance at Risk
1	Ships in the Desert	19
2	The Shadow Our Future Throws	36
3	Climate and Civilization: A Short History	56
4	Buddha's Breath	81
5	If the Well Goes Dry	99
6	Skin Deep	115
7	Seeds of Privation	126
8	The Wasteland	145
Pt. II	The Search for Balance
9	Self-Stewardship	167
10	Eco-nomics: Truth or Consequences	182
11	We Are What We Use	197
12	Dysfunctional Civilization	216
13	Environmentalism of the Spirit	238
Pt. III	Striking the Balance
14	A New Common Purpose	269
15	A Global Marshall Plan	295
	Conclusion	361
	Acknowledgments	371
	Notes	374
	Bibliography	386
	Index	394
	Credits	408

The Long Road Home or Leap of Faith

2009-01-24T17:35:00.000-08:00

The Long Road Home: A Story of War and Family

Author: Martha Raddatz

The First Cavalry Division came under surprise attack in Sadr City on April 4, 2004, now known as "Black Sunday." On the homefront, over 7,000 miles away, their families awaited the news for forty-eight hellish hours- expecting the worst. ABC News' chief correspondent Martha Raddatz shares remarkable tales of heroism, hope, and heartbreak.

The Washington Post - Andrew Carroll

… Martha Raddatz's The Long Road Home is a masterpiece of literary nonfiction that rivals any war-related classic that has preceded it … this is a book that will last, and it will do so for the same reason that any great work endures -- because, through the strength and grace of its prose, it pulls us into a world that is simultaneously foreign and familiar and makes us care about the individuals who inhabit this place long after we have closed the covers. And because, one by one, we will pass the book along to others with the only words of praise that really matter: "Here, you've got to read this."

The New York Times - Janet Maslin

Ms. Raddatz conveys who these men were (one was Specialist Casey Sheehan, whose mother, Cindy, would later become such a visible opponent of the war) and what their hellish experience was like. Her account has grit and high drama.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A poignant piece of work that will grab and hold you....Raddatz writes for women as well as for men... lets people tell their stories in their own words, from the choked-up phrases of the wives to the F-bombs dropped so promiscuously by the soldiers. Her dialogue just smells like cordite in combat.

Seattle Times

Extraordinary...an important and profoundly moving story....Raddatz is a top-notch reporter and a masterful storyteller.

Publishers Weekly

Violent resistance in post-invasion Iraq kicked into high gear on April 4, 2004, when American troops in Sadr City faced a massive assault that claimed eight soldiers' lives and wounded more than 70 others. Raddatz, an Emmy-winning correspondent for ABC News, clearly aims to equal the storytelling in Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Downin her account of the battle, and hits the mark with distinction. Extensive interviews with the commanding officers of the army's 1st Cavalry division and the soldiers pinned down in the streets provide a clear narrative of how U.S. troops, prepared for "a babysitting mission," found themselves in a bloodbath, as efforts to rescue the first soldiers fired upon met with even greater resistance from Mahdi militiamen who did not hesitate to use small children as frontline attackers. Heroic moments abound, like Casey Sheehan's volunteering to take another man's place on the rescue team, which resulted in his death. Raddatz touches upon the reaction of his mother, noted antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan, but this is just one of many perspectives from families on the home front. The gripping account eschews politics and focuses squarely on the soldiers and their sacrifices. (Mar. 1)

Don Wismer - Library Journal

Many mark April 4, 2004, as the beginning of the full-fledged Iraq insurgency. On that day, a platoon of U.S. soldiers engaged in helping the part of Baghdad called Sadr City deal with horrible sanitation problems and found themselves attacked by hundreds, if not thousands, of members of the Mahdi Militia, a creation of radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. The first thing the soldiers noticed was an eerie absence of people on the street. Then they began to take withering fire from rooftops, windows, and doors-seemingly from everywhere. The platoon, as it sought its way out, found that the streets were strewn with all variety of junk meant to impede their escape. The irony of the battle sank deep into the minds of the soldiers, who viewed themselves as helpers of the populace, not their enemy, and who had liberated these same Shi'ites from Saddam Hussein. As the day dragged on, the Americans were appalled when organized mobs of women and children marched down the alley from both directions, camouflaging rank upon rank of militiamen. The soldiers had no choice but to fire into the crowds. Hundreds of Iraqis died, as did eight Americans, including Casey Sheehan, whose mother, Cindy, has become one of the most prominent antiwar activists. Raddatz, a well-known journalist and an award-winning correspondent for ABC News, interweaves battle vignettes with vividly written descriptions of the people on the home front-wives, children, mothers and fathers, and fellow soldiers. The author's declarative and journalistic writing style brings a blunt, matter-of-fact passion to the descriptions of the soldiers and their families. This book is a triumph of description and horror; Raddatz studiouslyavoids any political carping, letting the events tell their own story, however one wants to interpret them. Narrator Joyce Bean is skilled and effective as well; she uses subtle changes in accent and tone to individualize the personalities as they stride across the audio landscape. Recommended for public and academic libraries.

Kirkus Reviews

The personal stories of U.S. soldiers caught in a deadly 2004 ambush in Sadr City that the author believes marked a turning point, when the war's mission shifted from peacekeeping and nation-building to battling an insurgency. ABC News Chief White House correspondent Raddatz, who has reported frequently from Iraq, displays a compassionate heart in her first book, which is also notable for its cinematic narrative structure. Chapters are short and focused. The author whisks us rapidly from Iraq to Texas to Alabama and frequently shifts her lens from the killing zone to the home front and back. Raddatz is comfortable writing about high-tech weapons and the intricacies of urban warfare. She doesn't shy away from gore, either: After a battle, soldiers clean from vehicles the remains of their comrades' brains, "soft and slippery and horrifying." She was able to coax intimate revelations from combatants, their officers, their families; she makes use of this material in italicized passages that voice the players' thoughts. Raddatz's principal interest is in the human beings caught up in the war. She tells their backstories, describes their experiences in high school, their marriages, their parents. She shows us what the wives were doing back at Fort Hood, reveals how some of them received the awful news that a husband had fallen. Her message appears to be that we are asking some sweet young people to do some awful things. Two-thirds of the way through, a surprise-the story of the death of Casey Sheehan, son of antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan. A horrifying story, clearly told, though some readers may regret that the author stays so far in the background that she is nearly invisible.

Interesting textbook: The Linguist and the Emperor or Crime Scene

Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life

Author: Queen Noor

Born in 1951 to a distinguished Arab-American family, Lisa Najeeb Halaby became the fourth wife of King Hussein at age 27. With her husband being not only Jordan's monarch but the spiritual leader of all Muslims, Lisa was unsure what her role would be. This moving memoir provides a timely look at one woman's story against a backdrop of 30 turbulent years: the displacement of over 1 million Palestinians by the creation of Israel, King Hussein's frustrated efforts for peace, and the effect of Saddam Hussein and the Gulf War on Jordan and the royal family. Queen Noor offers intimate new glimpses of King Hussein, Saddam Hussein, Queen Elizabeth, Arafat, and many other world leaders.

Houston Chronicle

Queen Noor has led a more interesting, committed life than the majority of authors writing their memoirs...it's hard to imagine a better story.

New York Times Book Review

Candid...an affecting wifely portrait of King Hussein.

USA Today

The book's ending has real power. Hussein's death from lymphoma was a painful ordeal for him, his wife, his family and his small grieving country.

Yet he conducted himself with kindness and concern for others to the end. If Queen Noor's object was to make the Arab world more human and understandable, she has succeeded. — Deirdre Donahue

The New York Times

Leap of Faith will not dispel its author's impression that she has often been misunderstood. On one hand, this is a glossy and decorous account of the queen's unusual experiences, with a polite tendency to accentuate the positive. ("I urged everyone I worked with to speak freely and offer honest, constructive criticism.") On the other, it is a fiery account of her husband's frustrations in dealing with international diplomacy in general and the United States and Israel in particular. — Janet Maslin

Publishers Weekly

Anyone who loved The King and I will readily warm to the love story of Queen Noor and the late King Hussein of Jordan. Born in America in 1951 as Lisa Halaby, Noor came from a wealthy, well-connected family and was part of Princeton's first co-ed class. Her father's aviation business produced a chance meeting with King Hussein in 1976, and a year or two later Noor realized the king was courting her. He was 41, she was 26. The rumor mills buzzed: was she the next Grace Kelly? Before long, the king renamed her Noor (light in Arabic), and she converted to Islam. They were married in the summer of 1978. From this point on, her story is mostly his, mainly covering his attempts to broker peace in the Middle East. There are meetings with Arafat, Saddam Hussein, American presidents and other leaders. Noor details Hussein's struggles to create Arab unity and his vision of peaceful coexistence with Israel. Her own activities developing village-based economic self-sufficiency projects and improving Jordan's medical, educational and cultural facilities take second place to her husband's struggles on the world stage. And while she occasionally acknowledges her domestic difficulties, Noor is careful not to allow personal problems to become any more than asides. Her pleasing memoir ends with the king's death after his struggle with cancer, although readers may suspect that this smart, courageous woman will remain a world presence for years to come. (On sale Mar. 18) Forecast: The legions of royalty fans will clamor for this long-awaited memoir, and with the queen's appearances on Good Morning America and Larry King Live, an excerpt in this month's Vogue and ubiquitous reviews, it should draw readers. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

We love stories about princesses. This particular royal tale is true and shows that being a contemporary princess (or queen) involves a tremendous amount of responsibility and not a little loneliness. Of Jordanian and Swedish descent, American-born and Princeton-educated Lisa Najeeb Halaby was 26 years old when she became the fourth wife of Jordan's King Hussein in 1978. Upon her conversion to Islam he chose Noor Al Hussein as her Arabic name, meaning "Light of Hussein." The Arab-Israeli conflict and Hussein's efforts at peacemaking are a large part of this work, part love story, part political commentary, told naturally from the Jordanian side. Hussein's stance estranged him at times from other Arabs (in particular Egyptians) as well as from Israelis, a point Noor emphasizes perhaps to make him more appealing to American readers. In addition to raising their four children (and his eight from previous marriages) and traveling with her husband, she chaired the board of the Noor Al Hussein Foundation, which promotes culture and development in Jordan, with an emphasis on women's issues. She now works with the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. Noor ably reads the introduction, but the rest of the book is narrated by Suzanne Toren, whose precise, cultured tone is exactly what we expect from a queen.-Nann Blaine Hilyard, Zion-Benton P.L., IL Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

What People Are Saying

Diane Sawyer
Extremely eloquent, very personal, very candid.
—Good Morning America

Great Depression or Firefighting Strategies and Tactics

2009-01-23T12:22:00.000-08:00

Great Depression: An International Disaster of Perverse Economic Policies

Author: Thomas E Hall

The Great Depression was the worst economic catastrophe in modern history. Not only did it cause massive worldwide unemployment, but it also led to the rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany, World War II in Europe, and the tragic deaths of tens of millions of people. This book describes the sequence of policy errors committed by powerful, well-meaning people in several countries, which, in combination with the gold standard in place at the time, caused the disaster. In addition, it details attempts to reduce unemployment in the United States by Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, and in Germany by Hitler's National Socialist economic policies.

A comprehensive economic and historical explanation of the events pertaining to the Depression, this book begins by describing the economic setting in the major industrialized countries during the 1920s and the gold standard that linked theory economies together. It then discusses the triggering event that started the economic decline--the Federal Reserve's credit tightening in reaction to perceived overspeculation in the U.S. stock market. The policy bungling that transformed the recession into the Great Depression is detailed: Smoot Hawley, the Federal Reserve's disastrous adherence to the real bills doctrine, and Hoover's 1932 tax hike. This is followed by a detailed description of the New Deal's shortcomings in trying to end the Depression, along with a discussion of the National Socialist economic programs in Germany. Finally, the factors that ended the Depression are examined.

This book will appeal to economists, historians, and those interested in business conditions who would like to know more about the causes and consequencesof the Great Depression. It will be particularly useful as a supplementary text in economic history courses.

Thomas E. Hall and J. David Ferguson are both Professors of Economics, Miami University.

	Preface
	Great Depression Timeline
1	What Happened?	1
2	Payback Time?	17
3	The Gold Standard	31
4	International Considerations	43
5	The Start of the Great Depression, 1929-30	63
6	Sowing the Seeds of Disaster	75
7	1931: The Make-or-Break Year	91
8	More Bank Failures, 1932-33	103
9	Economic Recovery: The Early Years of the New Deal	113
10	Germany: Recovery, but at a Very High Cost	131
11	The Second New Deal and the 1937-38 Recession	141
12	It's Finally Over	153
13	A Summing Up; and Could It Happen Again?	161
	Notes	167
	Glossary	175
	Bibliography	181
	Index	189

Firefighting Strategies and Tactics

Author: James Angl

This comprehensive text is an ideal building block for aspiring fire officers and an essential review for experienced command officers. Incident command requires background knowledge and application skills in all phases of strategy and tactics—knowing what needs to be done as well as the how it is going to be accomplished. An important element of this book is the use of case studies based on actual incidents to show the applications of the theories to real world situations. The authors' myriad experiences in all phases of the operational fire service are included to detail the command operations from the company level to major alarms. The book uses a clear, systematic approach correlating with the course objectives of Fire and Emergency Services Higher Education enabling it to be used by all levels of fire fighters and fire officers.

Religion in American Politics or Soldier Stories

2009-01-22T07:09:00.000-08:00

Religion in American Politics: A Short History

Author: Frank Lambert

The delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention blocked the establishment of Christianity as a national religion. But they could not keep religion out of American politics. From the election of 1800, when Federalist clergymen charged that deist Thomas Jefferson was unfit to lead a "Christian nation," to today, when some Democrats want to embrace the so-called Religious Left in order to compete with the Republicans and the Religious Right, religion has always been part of American politics. In Religion in American Politics, Frank Lambert tells the fascinating story of the uneasy relations between religion and politics from the founding to the twenty-first century.

Lambert examines how antebellum Protestant unity was challenged by sectionalism as both North and South invoked religious justification; how Andrew Carnegie's "Gospel of Wealth" competed with the anticapitalist "Social Gospel" during postwar industrialization; how the civil rights movement was perhaps the most effective religious intervention in politics in American history; and how the alliance between the Republican Party and the Religious Right has, in many ways, realized the founders' fears of religious-political electoral coalitions. In these and other cases, Lambert shows that religion became sectarian and partisan whenever it entered the political fray, and that religious agendas have always mixed with nonreligious ones.

Religion in American Politics brings rare historical perspective and insight to a subject that was just as important--and controversial--in 1776 as it is today.

Publishers Weekly

Of the writing of books about the rise and rumored fall of the religious right there is no end. But most of these tend toward the genre of the rant, which is why Lambert's new book is important. It gives a history of the intertwining of evangelical faith and political engagement in America that displays no obvious agenda other than to illuminate. He lays religionalongside other competing influences in American politics and has an eye for fascinating (and quirky) fights over religion in early America: should the mail run on Sundays, as the religiously disinclined Thomas Jefferson preferred, or should the nation honor the fourth commandment? (Answer: the debate vanished once telegraphs could operate 24/7). Recent efforts to align Christianity and specific political positions are not without precedent in U.S. history, as Lambert makes clear. That early history is riveting, especially when it is counterintuitive: ironically, Massachusetts-the bête noir of evangelical voters now-was the last state to discontinue public funding for the Congregational Church in 1833. Lambert's treatment of more recent religious trends, from the Civil Rights movement to the rise of the religious right and left, feels a bit more boilerplate. Yet the whole book will be useful as a handy, clear and fair treatment of this most contentious subject. (Mar.)

Acknowledgments     ix
Introduction     1
Providential and Secular America: Founding the Republic     14
Elusive Protestant Unity: Sunday Mails, Catholic Immigration, and Sectional Division     41
The "Gospel of Wealth" and the "Social Gospel": Industrialization and the Rise of Corporate America     74
Faith and Science: The Modernist-Fundamentalist Controversy     104
Religious and Political Liberalism: The Rise of Big Government from the New Deal to the Cold War     130
Civil Rights as a Religious Movement: Politics in the Streets     160
The Rise of the "Religious Right": The Reagan Revolution and the "Moral Majority"     184
Reemergence of the "Religious Left"? America's Culture War in the Early Twenty-first Century     218
Notes     251
Index     271

Go to: The Rational Unified Process or The New CIO Leader

Soldier Stories: True Tales of Courage, Honor, and Sacrifice from the Frontlines

Author: Joe L Wheeler

Joe Wheeler, called "America's storyteller" by James Dobson, pens his most soul-stirring book to date yet--the true, courageous stories of the men and women who have laid their lives on the line for America. Through frontline stories from battles throughout modern history--including WWI, WWII, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and the Iraq War--readers will be encouraged and humbled by the valor and sacrifice portrayed in these riveting pages.

The Global Assault on Teaching Teachers and their Unions or Public and Private Families

2009-01-21T01:57:00.000-08:00

The Global Assault on Teaching, Teachers, and their Unions: Stories for Resistance

Author: Mary Compton

Increasingly public education’s character is under assault. This collection of essays by noted scholars, teacher activists, and teacher union leaders from around the world fuses personal stories, research, and political analysis, explaining why such profound and damaging changes are being made to schools and teaching, and how teachers, their unions, and supporters of public education can make real the goal of quality education for all the world’s children.

Public and Private Families: An Introduction

Author: Andrew J Cherlin

Nationally recognized for its sound scholarship and balanced approach and written by one of the leading authorities in the field, this text examines the family through two lenses: the familiar private family in which we live most of our personal lives, and the public family in which we, as adults, deal with broader societal issues such as the care of the elderly, the increase in divorce, and childbearing outside of marriage. The book looks at intimate personal concerns, such as whether to marry, as well as societal concerns, such as governmental policies that affect families. Distinctive chapters – Chapter 9, “Children and Parents;” Chapter 10, “The Elderly and Their Families;” and Chapter 14, “The Family, the State and Social Policy” – examine issues of great current interest, such as income assistance to poor families, the effects of out-of-home childcare, and the costs of the Social Security and Medicare programs.

Booknews

New edition of a sociology text presenting the concepts of the private family and the public family and examining how sociologists study them. Coverage encompasses the larger social structures in which family relations are embedded, and the activities of private life such as dating, courtship, and cohabitation. The final section deals with the consequences of conflict and of inequalities of power. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

	List of Boxes
	Preface
1	Public and Private Families	3
2	The History of the Family	31
3	Gender and Families	67
4	Social Class and Families	99
5	Race, Ethnicity, and Families	125
6	The Family, the State, and Social Policy	159
7	Sexuality and Love	187
8	Paths to Family Formation	221
9	Spouses and Partners	259
10	Work and Families	287
11	Domestic Violence	319
12	Divorce	349
13	Remarriage	379
14	Children and Parents	407
15	The Elderly and Their Families	445
16	Social Change and Families	477
	Glossary	505
	Acknowledgments	511
	Photo Credits	515
	Index	517

Holy War Inc or Still More George W Bushisms

2009-01-19T23:05:00.000-08:00

Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden

Author: Peter L Bergen

On September 11, 2001, the world changed forever as more than three thousand men, women, and children lost their lives in the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil. The attack was masterminded by Osama bin Laden and his Jihad group -- an organization that CNN's terrorism analyst Peter Bergen calls Holy War, Inc. One of the few Western journalists to have interviewed bin Laden face-to-face, Bergen has produced the definitive book on the global Jihadist network, revealing:

How bin Laden lives, travels, and communicates with his "cells."

How his role in the crushing defeat of the Soviet Union in Afghanistan made him a hero to Muslims all over the world.

How the bombings of the American embassies in Africa and the USS Cole in Yemen were planned and executed.

What we can expect from Islamic extremists in the future.

Above all, Peter Bergen helps us to see bin Laden's organization in a radically new light: as a corporation that has exploited modern technology and weaponry in the service of global terrorism and the destruction of the West.

Both author and publisher will donate a portion of the proceeds from this book to the International Committee of the Red Cross.

Publishers Weekly

Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama Bin Laden by Peter L. Bergen. CNN journalist Bergen examines the activities and mission of the terrorist leader suspected of the September 11 attacks. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

As CNN terrorism analyst Bergen avows, this journalistic study of Osama bin Laden and the al-Qaeda terrorist network was rushed to publication and thus lacks some editorial smoothness in its delivery. Nevertheless, this book offers a mature, balanced description of bin Laden's background; a concise summary of the organization of the al-Qaeda terrorist network as it has developed in the Middle East, Europe, and America; and a brief narrative of terrorist events through September 11. Bergen asserts that bin Laden's hostility emanates from his religious opposition to an American military presence in Saudi Arabia, American policy toward Israel, and the "un-Islamic" behavior of Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Bergen personalizes his story with an account of his 1997 interview with bin Laden and the contacts he made with bin Laden's militant Islamic associates. Here, an interesting story drifts a bit from bin Laden to accounts of al-Qaeda operations. Bergen has, however, pulled together a significant amount of solid information, which he presents with perception and without grand swings of passion. This is an important initial glimpse of bin Laden, al-Qaeda, and the associated Taliban of Afghanistan and is strongly recommended for all libraries. John F. Riddick, Central Michigan Univ. Lib., Mt. Pleasant Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Interesting book: Yoga Turns Back the Clock Deck or Staying Sober

Still More George W. Bushisms: "Neither in French nor in English nor in Mexican"

Author: Jacob Weisberg

There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again."

With signature remarks like these, it's hardly surprising that George W. Bush's malapropisms have become renowned around the world. Editions of Bushisms have become bestsellers in Germany, France, and Italy, and they remain as popular in the United States as ever. Jacob Weisberg, faithful scribe, here presents the best of the latest crop:

"There's only one person who hugs the mothers and the widows, the wives and the kids upon the death of their loved one. Others hug but having committed the troops, I've got an additional responsibility to hug and that's me and I know what it's like."

"I'm the master of low expectations."

"First, let me make it very clear, poor people aren't necessarily killers. Just because you happen to be not rich doesn't mean you're willing to kill.

Publishers Weekly

As Franken gleefully points out, Slate editor Weisberg has found a true gravy train, discovering enough previously uncollected nonsensical utterances by President Bush to fill a third volume. The president may have begun watching what he says since the publication of the first two volumes; Weisberg has to return to the 2000 campaign trail to fill out this collection. At least one statement, substituting "plowed" for "proud," raises the question of a presidential speech impediment, but that excuse won't get the self-proclaimed "master of low expectations" out of any of the other verbal missteps recorded here for posterity. (Nov. 4) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Benjamin Rush or Crude Chronicles

2009-01-19T11:52:00.000-08:00

Benjamin Rush: Signer of the Declaration of Independence

Author: David Barton

Dr. Benjamin Rush was a great American hero and role model. At the time of his death in 1813, he was heralded as one of America's three most notable men, along with George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. And no wonder! He was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, served under three Presidents, helped found five universities and colleges, is titled "The Father of American Medicine," led both the abolition and prison reform movements, and founded American Sunday Schools and the nation's first Bible Society. Amazingly, two hundred years ago, Dr. Benjamin Rush offered insights still applicable today. Learn about the inspiring life of Dr. Benjamin Rush, and read from his insightful writings -- many of which are here reprinted for the first time in two centuries! Dr. Benjamin Rush -- a true American hero!

Interesting book: Green Tea or The Dessert Bible

Crude Chronicles: Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil, and Neoliberalism in Ecuador

Author: Suzana Sawyer

Ecuador is the third-largest foreign supplier of crude oil to the western United States. As the source of this oil, the Ecuadorian Amazon has borne the far-reaching social and environmental consequences of a growing U.S. demand for petroleum and the dynamics of economic globalization it necessitates. Crude Chronicles traces the emergence during the 1990s of a highly organized indigenous movement and its struggles against a U.S. oil company and Ecuadorian neoliberal policies. Against the backdrop of mounting government attempts to privatize and liberalize the national economy, Suzana Sawyer shows how neoliberal reforms in Ecuador led to a crisis of governance, accountability, and representation that spurred one of twentieth-century Latin America's strongest indigenous movements.

Through her rich ethnography of indigenous marches, demonstrations, occupations, and negotiations, Sawyer tracks the growing sophistication of indigenous politics as Indians subverted, redeployed, and, at times, capitulated to the dictates and desires of a transnational neoliberal logic. At the same time, she follows the multiple maneuvers and discourses that the multinational corporation and the Ecuadorian state used to circumscribe and contain indigenous opposition. Ultimately, Sawyer reveals that indigenous struggles over land and oil operations in Ecuador were as much about reconfiguring national and transnational inequality -- that is, rupturing the silence around racial injustice, exacting spaces of accountability, and rewriting narratives of national belonging -- as they were about the material use and extraction of rain-forest resources.

History of the Arab Israeli Conflict or My Traitors Heart

2009-01-19T01:39:00.000-08:00

History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Author: Ian J Bickerton

This concise and comprehensive text presents a balanced, impartial, and well-illustrated coverage of the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The authors identify and examine the issues and themes that have characterized and defined the conflict over the past century. The new Fifth Edition examines the many developments since 9/11 and its aftermath.

1	Palestine in the nineteenth century	15
2	Palestine during the mandate	34
3	World War II, Jewish displaced persons, and the partition of Palestine	65
4	The proclamation of Israel and first Arab-Israeli War	96
5	The conflict widens : Suez, 1956	112
6	The turning joint : June 1967	133
7	Holy days and holy war : October 1973	155
8	The search for peace, 1973-1979	178
9	Lebanon and the intifada	205
10	The peace of the brave	237
11	The peace progresses	272
12	Collapse of the peace process	304
13	The Arab-Israeli conflict in the post-9/11 world	343

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My Traitor's Heart: A South African Exile Returns to Face His Country, His Tribe, and His Conscience

Author: Rian Malan

An astonishing work of reportage—a book unlike any other about South Africa. Malan searches for the truth behind apartheid, and finds it not in the way black and white South Africans live, but in the way they die at one another's hands.

Publishers Weekly

Written with smoldering moral outrage, this odyssey offers a firsthand glimpse of South African apartheid and its practitioners' rationalizations. The author grew up in a white Johannesburg suburb; his great-uncle Daniel Malan was the first Afrikaner nationalist prime minister and an architect of today's racist system. The author, a youthful leftist, then a crime reporter, left his homeland in 1977 to become a Los Angeles rock 'n' roll critic, returning to South Africa in 1985. His blistering book combines autobiography, reportage, coming to terms with his ancestral roots and loosely-stitched-together tales of murder and violence committed predominantly by whites. He claims that, for fear of being branded racists, white liberals avoid discussing certain topics, such as atrocities committed by blacks in the name of the anti-apartheid struggle and blacks' involvement in animistic religions. He sees no ready solutions in the fight to change an oppressive system. Author tour. (Jan.)

Library Journal

This soul-searching account of an Afrikaner's life in apartheid South Africa joins a growing body of publications by South Africans of every ethnic group. Malan, the grand nephew of a major definer of the doctrine of apartheid, Daniel Malan, left South Africa in 1977, in part to avoid military service, and returned eight years later. This book reports his observations of violent death in the land. He details instances of whites killing blacks, blacks killing blacks, blacks killing whites, politically motivated murder, and economically motivated murder. Well written, gripping, and disturbing, the descriptions leave one with a sense of despair which makes Malan's final note of hope all the more remarkable. Recommended for adult general readers as well as those with a special interest in South Africa.-- Maidel Cason, Univ. of Delaware Lib., Newark

Cities of Tomorrow or South Park Conservatives

2009-01-18T12:27:00.000-08:00

Cities of Tomorrow

Author: Peter Hall

Cities of Tomorrow is a critical history of planning in theory and practice in the twentieth century, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it. Trenchant, perceptive, global in coverage, this book is an unrivalled account of its crucial subject.
The third edition of Cities of Tomorrow is comprehensively revised to take account of abundant new literature published since its original appearance, and to view the 1990s in historical perspective. This is the definitive edition, reviewing the development of the modern planning movement over the entire span of the twentieth century.

Booknews

Readings provide students with a range of interpretations, by Schumpeter, Isaiah Berlin, Croce, Lukacs, Miliband, Gramsci, Althusser, Poulantzas and Habermas. Acidic paper. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

List of Figures.
Preface to the First Edition.
Preface to the Third Edition.
Acknowledgements.
1. Cities of Imagination: Alternative Visions of the Good City, 1880-1987.
2. The City of Dreadful Night: Reactions to the Nineteenth-Century Slum City: London; Paris; Berlin; New York, 1880-1900.
3. The City of By-Pass Variegated: The Mass Transit Suburb: London; New York, 1900-1940.
4. The City in the Garden: The Garden City Solution: London; Paris; Berlin; New York, 1900-1940.
5. The City in the Region: The Birth of Regional Planning: Edinburgh; New York; London, 1900-1940.
6. The City of Monuments: The City Beautiful Movement: Chicago; New Delhi; Berlin; Moscow, 1900-1940.
7. The City of Towers: The Corbusian Radiant City: Paris; Chandigarh; Brasilia; London; St Louis, 1920-1970.
8. The City of Sweat Equity: The Autonomous Community: Edinburgh; Indore; Lima; Berkeley; Macclesfield, 1890-1987.
9. The City on the Highway: The Automobile Suburb: Long Island; Wisconsin; Los Angeles; Paris, 1930-1987.
10. The City of Theory: Planning and the Academy: Philadelphia; Manchester; California; Paris, 1955-1987.
11. The City of Enterprise: Planning turned Upside Down: Baltimore; Hong Kong; London, 1975-2000.
12. The City of the Tarnished Belle Epoque: Infocities and Informationless Ghettos: New York; London; Tokyo, 1985-2000.
13. The City of the Permanent Underclass: The Enduring Slum: Chicago; St Louis; London, 1920-1987.
References.
Index.

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South Park Conservatives: The Revolt against Liberal Media Bias

Author: Brian C Anderson

For the better part of 30 years, liberal bias has dominated mainstream media. But author and political journalist Brian Anderson reveals in his new book that the era of liberal dominance is going the way of the dodo bird.

The New York Times - Liesl Schillinger

The purpose of Anderson's book is subtle and -- in spite of its just-folks pretenses -- intellectual: claiming cultural territory for conservatives not by seizing it outright but by crawling gingerly across it, inch by inch, with his arm over his head, as if a liberal weenie might jump out and clobber him at any moment. By all appearances, he wants to seem reasonable, and his book tries to maintain a tone of genial detachment. But it also puts forward a deeply partisan argument: the American right is more reasonable than the American left and, what's more, conservatives are still being suppressed by liberal bullies.

Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway or Norman Halls State Trooper and Highway Patrol Exam Preparation Book

2009-01-18T01:14:00.000-08:00

Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway: A Vicious and Unprovoked Attack on Our Most Cherished Political Institutions

Author: Dave Barry

Understanding the urgent need for a deeply thoughtful, balanced book to explain our national political process, Dave Barry has not even come close. Though he himself has covered many campaigns, run for president several times, and run for cover at the rainy inauguration of George W. Bush (the man will spare nothing for his art), Barry has instead outdone himself.

Below the Beltway includes Barry's stirring account of how the United States was born, including his version of a properly written Declaration (When in the course of human events it behooves us, the people, not to ask "What can our country do for us, anyway?" but rather whether we have anything to fear except fear itself) and a revised Constitution (Section II: The House of Representatives shall be composed of people who own at least two dark suits and have not been indicted recently).

Dave also cracks the income-tax code and explains the growth(s) of government, congressional hearing difficulties, and the persistent rumors of the influence of capital in the Capitol. Among other civic contributions, his tour of Washington D.C. should end school class trips forever.

Publishers Weekly

Sporting red trunks, white and blue boxing gloves and an American flag towel on the cover, pugilistic Pulitzer-winner Barry (Dave Barry Turns 50, etc.) appears ready for all contenders in this satirical, hard-hitting political commentary ("Whatever the needs of the public are, the government responds to those needs by getting larger"). Beginning with a study of "Early Human Governments" when homo sapiens "were short, hairy, tree-dwelling creatures that strongly resembled Danny DeVito," the sardonic Miami Herald columnist breezes through the centuries to the U.S.'s birth and then to the present, amending the Constitution en route: "If a citizen is arrested, and that citizen hides his or her face from the news media, then as far as the Constitution is concerned, that citizen is guilty." He tours D.C. sites like the Mall, the Smithsonian (which "will pay you top dollar for your Beanie Babies, Cabbage Patch dolls, Pokemon cards, refrigerator magnets, ceramic cats") and the White House ("To take a tour, simply climb over the fence and hold very still until men come sprinting to assist you"). He aims jaundiced japery at presidential "language problems" and elections ("One of these years we're going to elect a president whose first official act will be to launch nuclear strikes against Iowa and New Hampshire"). Once again, the winner is... Dave Barry. 22 illus. and charts not seen by PW. Agent, Fox Chase Agency. (On sale Oct. 2) Forecast: Syndicated in hundreds of newspapers, Barry continues to widen his readership. A nine-city author tour will help launch this onto bestseller lists. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

This reviewer has been told all his life that foods like chicken livers, tofu, brussels sprouts, and other gagging delights are good for him and he is just in a weird little minority. Well, here's another trend he'll buck. Most libraries will buy Barry's book just because he's written it and because most normal people sit down to chuckle with his witticisms after consuming a meal of Cornish game hen or haggis. The author purports to poke fun at politics in the vein of P.J. O'Rourke and Al Franken, but it seems as if he gathers a lot of funny words, throws them at a Velcro board, and sees what sticks. There is no cohesion to his ramblings, and there is very little to laugh at, which is a shame, because O'Rourke and Franken have found that politics is ripe for the picking. The work is read by Dick Hill, but one would swear it is Arte Johnson trying desperately to spin gold out of this verbal dross. Go ahead and buy it your customers will love you for it but don't say you weren't warned. Joseph L. Carlson, Lompoc P.L., CA Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

School Library Journal

Adult/High School-Once again Barry meets the challenge of finding humor in United States politics, beginning with a history of how things seemed to have evolved. His perspective is different from the traditional textbook approach to government, history, and perhaps everything else. He good-naturedly pokes fun at great American documents including the Mayflower Compact and the Constitution and provides a unique view of famous events from our past, such as the Boston Tea Party, where he insists that a giant zucchini had an influence on the resultant events. He spends some time pointing out problems in the government, federal spending, and the legislative branch, but he really hits his stride once he starts retelling Florida's role in the last presidential election. For Barry's fans, this will be another book to enjoy and for those who haven't encountered him before, this is a good place to start.-Pam Johnson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
Ch. 1	The Origins of Government (or) Defending Humanity from Giant Carnivorous Vegetables	1
Ch. 2	The United States Is Born (or) The Spirit of Freedom Wakes Up and Smells the Heifers	29
Ch. 3	Our Government Today (or) Protecting You from Misleadingly Named Dried Fruit	59
Ch. 4	Touring Washington, D.C. (or) The Many Wonders of Wing Tip World	87
Ch. 5	The Presidential Election Process (or) Goobers on Parade	125
Ch. 6	A Modern American Political Campaign (or) Seven Weeks of Truth in Advertising	157
Ch. 7	The Making of the President 2000 (or) Let's Give Florida Back to Spain (Assuming Spain Will Take It)	171
Ch. 8	The Making of the President 2000, Continued (or Quick! Fetch Mr. Rather's Tranquilizer Dart! (or) Lawyers Out the Wazoo	223
	Conclusion	245

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Norman Hall's State Trooper and Highway Patrol Exam Preparation Book: Guaranteed Methods to Score 80% to 100% or Your Money Back

Author: Norman S Hall

Text expert Norman Hall shows readers methods for scoring 80 to 100 percent on state trooper and highway patrol officer qualification tests. Hall analyzes every aspect of the most current versions of the tests and shows readers what they need to know to qualify.

George C Marshall or Eyes to My Soul

2009-01-17T13:02:00.000-08:00

George C. Marshall: Soldier-Statesman of the American Century, Vol. 10

Author: Mark A Stoler

In a career that paralleled the emergence of the United States as an international power, Marshall was a participant in every significant event contributing to the nation's status as a superpower. From his first combat duty in the Philippines at the turn of the century, through both World Wars, into the cold war and the Korea conflict, Marshall was a key figure in devising and implementing U.S. military strategies and foreign policies. Stoler emphasizes the years 1939-1951, while Marshall served as World War II army chief of staff, special presidential representative to China, secretary of state at the beginning of the cold war, and Korean War secretary of defense.

Mark Stoler's book is unique in its merging of military and diplomatic history with biography. A valuable contribution to the emerging field of national security policy history, George C. Marshall: Soldier-Statesman of the American Century is the first single-volume scholarly biography of this important figure. A chronology and bibliographic essay are included.

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Eyes to My Soul: The Rise or Decline of a Black FBI Agent

Author: Tyrone Powers

Unjustified FBI harassment of Black mayors Coleman Young (Detroit), Harold Washington (Chicago) and Marion Barry (Washington, DC); white agents urinating on photographs of President Bill Clinton and Vice-President Al Gore; a white agents' fundraiser for white policemen accused of murdering a Black Detroit motorist; agents pasting the picture of an ape over the photo of an African American agent's child; sheet-clad classmates pretending to be Ku Klux Klansmen at the FBI Academy; the mysterious explosion of a "troublesome" Black agent's FBI-issued vehicle -- all of this, too, is the FBI, and former Special Agent Tyrone Powers tells it as only a conscious Black insider could.

Introduction to Comparative Politics or Insurgency and Counter Insurgency in Iraq

2009-01-17T02:49:00.000-08:00

Introduction to Comparative Politics: Political Challenges and Changing Agendas

Author: Mark Kesselman

Written by a distinguished group of comparativists, this innovative and accessible introductory text surveys 12 key countries organized according to their level of political development: established democracies, transitional democracies, and non-democracies. The country studies illuminate four comparative themes in a global context: the world of states, examining the interaction of states within the international order; governing the economy, covering the role of the state in economic management; the democratic idea, discussing the pressure for more democracy and the challenges of democratization; and the politics of collective identities, studying the political impact of diverse attachments and sources of group identity.

The theoretical framework developed in an expanded introduction provides a rich context for each country study, and clear prose makes the book accessible to students with little or no background in political science. Students will also benefit from the data sheet at the beginning of each chapter that includes basic demographic, socioeconomic, and political information, to aid in country comparisons. In addition, they can use the Geographic Setting sections in each chapter, as well as maps, tables, charts, photographs, and political cartoons to further their understanding of each country studied.

New! Updated content includes coverage of recent events such as the May 2005 general election in Britain and the referendum in France.
New! Civil liberties, security, political conflict, political identities and military policy are considered in the context of a post-September 11 world.
All 12 country studies, as well as five additionalstudies, are available in an online database. Instructors may choose from among these chapters (a minimum of 7) to create a customized text. Recent additions to the database include studies of East-Central Europe, South Africa, Indonesia, Turkey, and Cuba.
Key terms appear as bold in the text and a glossary at the end defines key concepts in comparative politics. In addition, an appendix explains the Human Development Index.

I. Introduction
1. Introducing Comparative Politics (Mark Kesselman, Joel Krieger, and William Joseph)
The Global Challenge of Comparative Politics
What—and How—Comparative Politics Compares
Themes for Comparative Analysis
Classifying Political Systems
Organization of the Text
II. Consolidated Democracies
2. Britain (Joel Krieger)
The Making of the Modern British State
Political Economy and Development
Governance and Policy-Making
Representation and Participation
British Politics in Transition
3. France (Mark Kesselman)
The Making of the Modern French State
Political Economy and Development
Governance and Policy-Making
Representation and Participation
French Politics in Transition
4. Germany (Christopher S. Allen)
The Making of the Modern German State
Political Economy and Development
Governance and Policy-Making
Representation and Participation
German Politics in Transition
5. Japan (Shigeko N. Fukai and Haruhiro Fukui)
The Making of the Modern Japanese State
Political Economy and Development
Governance and Policy-Making
Representation and Participation
Japanese Politics in Transition
6. India (Atul Kohli and Amrita Basu)
The Making of the Modern Indian State
Political Economy and Development
Governance and Policy-Making
Representation and Participation
Indian Politics in Transition
7. The United States (Louis DeSipio)
The Making of the Modern American State
Political Economy and Development
Governance and Policy-Making
Representation and Participation
United States Politics in Transition
III. TransitionalDemocracies
8. Russia (Joan DeBardeleben)
The Making of the Modern Russian State
Political Economy and Development
Governance and Policy-Making
Representation and Participation
Russian Politics in Transition
9. Brazil (Alfred P. Montero)
The Making of the Modern Brazilian State
Political Economy and Development
Governance and Policy-Making
Representation and Participation
Brazilian Politics in Transition
10. Mexico (Merilee S. Grindle)
The Making of the Modern Mexican State
Political Economy and Development
Governance and Policy-Making
Representation and Participation
Mexican Politics in Transition
11. Nigeria (Darren Kew and Peter Lewis)
The Making of the Modern Nigerian State
Political Economy and Development
Governance and Policy-Making
Representation and Participation
Nigerian Politics in Transition
IV Authoritarian Regimes
12. Iran (Ervand Abrahamian)
The Making of the Modern Iranian State
Political Economy and Development
Governance and Policy-Making
Representation and Participation
Iranian Politics in Transition
13. China (William A. Joseph)
The Making of the Modern Chinese State
Political Economy and Development
Governance and Policy-Making
Representation and Participation
Chinese Politics in Transition

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Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in Iraq

Author: Ahmed S Hashim

More than two years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, a loosely organized insurgency continues to target American and Coalition soldiers, as well as Iraqi security forces and civilians, with devastating results. In this sobering account of the ongoing violence, Ahmed Hashim, a specialist on Middle Eastern strategic issues and on irregular warfare, reveals the insurgents behind the widespread revolt, their motives, and their tactics. The insurgency, he shows, is not a united movement directed by a leadership with a single ideological vision. Instead, it involves former regime loyalists, Iraqis resentful of foreign occupation, foreign and domestic Islamist extremists, and elements of organized crime. These groups have cooperated with one another in the past and coordinated their attacks; but the alliance between nationalist Iraqi insurgents on the one hand and religious extremists has frayed considerably. The U.S.-led offensive to retake Fallujah in November 2004 and the success of the elections for the Iraqi National Assembly in January 2005 have led more "mainstream" insurgent groups to begin thinking of reinforcing the political arm of their opposition movement and to seek political guarantees for the Sunni Arab community in the new Iraq.

Hashim begins by placing the Iraqi revolt in its historical context. He next profiles the various insurgent groups, detailing their origins, aims, and operational and tactical modi operandi. He concludes with an unusually candid assessment of the successes and failures of the Coalition's counter-insurgency campaign. Looking ahead, Hashim warns that ethnic and sectarian groups may soon be pitted against one another in what will be a fiercely contested fight over who gets what in the new Iraq. Evidence that such a conflict is already developing does not augur well for Iraq's future stability. Both Iraq and the United States must work hard to ensure that slow but steady success over the insurgency is not overshadowed by growing ethno-sectarian animosities as various groups fight one another for the biggest slice of the political and economic pie.

In place of sensational headlines, official triumphalism, and hand-wringing, Insurgency and Counter-insurgency in Iraq offers a clear-eyed analysis of the increasingly complex violence that threatens the very future of Iraq.

Author Bio:Ahmed S. Hashim is Professor of Strategic Studies at the U.S. Naval War College. His previous books include Iran: Dilemmas of Dual Containment and Iraq: Sanctions and Beyond, both written with Anthony H. Cordesman.

Library Journal

Hashim (strategic studies, U.S. Naval War Coll.; Iran: Dilemmas of Dual Containment) has written a much-needed assessment of the Iraqi insurgency. He has spent several months in Iraq from 2003 through 2005; his interviews and experiences there, combined with his use of primary sources, including a range of newspaper and Internet references, have resulted in a compelling account of the socioeconomic factors that spur the insurgency as well as the problems, both political and strategic, that have fed its growth and hampered U.S. counterinsurgency efforts. Hashim has succeeded in putting together an analysis of the violent situation in Iraq that avoids ideological posturing: his analysis is productive, and his intent is to explain rather than to proselytize. One regrettable omission: in a book covering people and organizations not likely to be familiar to all readers, a glossary would have been helpful. Highly recommended for all libraries with military collections and/or collections on current international affairs. John Russell, Georgia State Univ. Lib., Atlanta Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

The Race Beat or The War for Wealth

2009-01-16T13:36:00.000-08:00

The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation

Author: Gene Roberts

This is the story of how America awakened to its race problem, of how a nation that longed for unity after World War II came instead to see, hear, and learn about the shocking indignities of racial segregation in the South — and the brutality used to enforce it.

It is the story of how the nation's press, after decades of ignoring the problem, came to recognize the importance of the civil rights struggle and turn it into the most significant domestic news event of the twentieth century.

Drawing on private correspondence, notes from secret meetings, unpublished articles, and interviews, veteran journalists Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff go behind the headlines and datelines to show how a dedicated cadre of newsmen — first black reporters, then liberal southern editors, then reporters and photographers from the national press and the broadcast media — revealed to a nation its most shameful shortcomings and propelled its citizens to act.

We watch the black press move bravely into the front row of the confrontation, only to be attacked and kept away from the action. Following the Supreme Court's 1954 decision striking down school segregation and the South's mobilization against it, we see a growing number of white reporters venture South to cover the Emmett Till murder trial, the Montgomery bus boycott, and the integration of the University of Alabama.

We witness some southern editors joining the call for massive resistance and working with segregationist organizations to thwart compliance. But we also see a handful of other southern editors write forcefully and daringly for obedience to federal mandates, signaling to the nation that moderateforces were prepared to push the region into the mainstream.

The pace quickens in Little Rock, where reporters test the boundaries of journalistic integrity, then gain momentum as they cover shuttered schools in Virginia, sit-ins in North Carolina, mob-led riots in Mississippi, Freedom Ride buses being set afire, fire hoses and dogs in Birmingham, and long, tense marches through the rural South.

For many journalists, the conditions they found, the fear they felt, and the violence they saw were transforming. Their growing disgust matched the mounting country-wide outrage as The New York Times, Newsweek, NBC News, and other major news organizations, many of them headed by southerners, turned a regional story into a national drama.

The New York Times - David J. Garrow

"At no other time in U.S. history were the news media more influential than they were in the 1950s and 1960s," argues The Race Beat, an important study of how journalists covered the civil rights movement. One might imagine that influence was all to the good, but Gene Roberts, a former managing editor at The New York Times, and Hank Klibanoff, a managing editor at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, describe here in richly instructive detail how, more often than not, the professional performance of both Southern newspapers and national beacons like The Times left much to be desired.

The Washington Post - Jonathan Yardley

The stories of these men -- and with the notable exception of Hazel Brannon Smith, who owned a few small-town papers in Mississippi and wrote bravely against the racist White Citizens' Council, they all were men -- may seem inside baseball for journalists, but they are essential to the history of the civil rights movement and thus of broad interest. The authors are well qualified for the task. Roberts, who now teaches at the University of Maryland, had a long and distinguished career during which he often reported from the civil rights front lines; so, too, did Klibanoff, now the managing editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, who began his career working on three different small Mississippi papers. At times, their attention drifts away from the press and onto rehashes of familiar stories -- the murder of Emmett Till, the march in Selma, the mob violence at the University of Mississippi, the church bombing in Birmingham -- but these may be useful to younger readers for whom, alas, these events are ancient and perhaps unknown history.

Publishers Weekly

This Pulitzer-winning chronicle of the role the news media played in shaping the civil rights movement makes its belated audio debut. Richard Allen undertakes the vocal depictions of the players from across the race-relations spectrum with tremendous skill. He manages to portray characters instead of caricatures as the sweeping real-life drama unfolds. Given the length of the recording and the density of the material, listeners should find it particularly helpful that Allen repeats the last few sentences of the previous disc at the start of each new CD. The solid production follows the authors' straight-ahead narrative approach. Journalism students and history buffs with at least some grounding in both the conventions of the news business or the civil rights era are the natural core audience. Others may wish to familiarize themselves with more general resources before tackling such an ambitious offering. A Vintage paperback (Reviews, Nov. 9, 2006). (Jan.)

Publishers Weekly

Faced with "a flying wedge of white toughs coming at him" as he interviewed a black woman after the 1955 Emmett Till lynching trial, NBC reporter John Chancellor thrust his microphone toward them, saying, "I don't care what you're going to do to me, but the whole world is going to know it." This gripping account of how America and the world found out about the Civil Rights movement is written by two veteran journalists of the "race beat" from 1954 to 1965. Building on an exhaustive base of interviews, oral histories and memoirs, news stories and editorials, they reveal how prescient Gunnar Myrdal was in asserting that "to get publicity is of the highest strategic importance to the Negro people." The New York Times and other major media take center stage, but the authors provide a fresh account of the black press's trajectory from a time when black reporters searched "for stories white reporters didn't even know about" through the loss of the black press's "eyewitness position on the story" in Little Rock to its recovery with the Freedom Rides. Although sometimes weighted by mundane detail and deadening statistics, the book is so enlivened with anecdotes that it remains a page-turner. (Nov. 21) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Gloria Maxwell - Library Journal

In the late 1930s, the Carnegie Foundation commissioned Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal to conduct a study of race relations in America. The result was the seminal 1500-page An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, published in 1944. Myrdal exposed the unfair treatment of Negro people, particularly in the South. Prior to the Civil Rights Movement, coverage of Southern race issues fell almost solely to the black press. They reported on Jim Crow laws, lynchings, and other atrocities aimed at Southern blacks. As America participated in World Wars I and II, Southern blacks began to question why they were risking their lives to fight against prejudice, genocide, and discrimination in foreign countries while their own country refused to give them equality. In their 2006 hardcover, veteran journalists Roberts and Klibanoff draw on oral histories, memoirs, extensive interviews, and editorials to tell the story of dedicated black journalists who braved danger to bring stories to print, and they relate how the Northern press corps was finally drawn into covering the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement. With a timbre close to that of James Earl Jones, Richard Allen brings authority and authenticity to his reading of this audio version. Some of the accounts are shocking to hear but are undeniable testimony to actual events. Incredibly detailed, sometimes to the point of overkill, this is undeniably a significant addition to civil rights history. Absolutely essential for all audio collections.

Library Journal

Reporters who covered the "race beat" during the volatile desegregation of the South put their principles and often their lives on the line to ensure that the Civil Rights Movement became imbedded in the American conscience. Distinguished authors Roberts (former managing editor, New York Times) and Klibanoff (managing editor of news, Atlanta Journal-Constitution) have written a sweeping, often engrossing narrative of the role that print and broadcast reporters played in the movement. Beginning with Gunnar Myrdal's indictment of Southern racial intolerance, An American Dilemma (1944), the authors describe how the white and black presses sought out and presented the stories that enthralled and divided America, from Emmett Till's murder in 1955 to "Bloody Sunday" at Selma ten years later. The white press replaced the black press as the source of timely civil rights news because Southern political leaders and murderous pro-segregation thugs more often prevented black reporters from covering events. In addition to providing exciting stories of times that have been well chronicled by Taylor Branch, most recently in At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68, the authors present fascinating accounts of editors and reporters-famous and little known, black and white, liberal and reactionary-who, in the words of Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), "changed this nation once and for all." Strongly recommended for larger public libraries and for academic libraries that support journalism programs. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 7/06.]-Karl Helicher, Upper Merion Twp. Lib., King of Prussia, PA Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

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The War for Wealth: Why Globalization is Bleeding the West of Its Prosperity

Author: Gabor Steingart

A rallying cry to renew the position of the West in the global economy

If globalization's cheerleaders are right and the world is indeed flat, then it's tilted heavily toward the East. In this provocative look at globalization and its discontents, agenda-setting journalist Gabor Steingart challenges the cadre of well-known globalization supporters-from Thomas Friedman and other media personalities to economists to the politicians that are enabling this transfer of jobs and wealth-to show how the same free-trade policies that are responsible for the Asian economic miracle are destroying the West's way of life and standard of living.

Using numerous examples, The War for Wealth demonstrates how China and other Asian powerhouses have turned the sources of our economic might against us, and shows how we will continue to lose wealth and prosperity if we continue down the current path. To resolve these issues, Steingart makes a strong case for controversial fixes, such as a NATO-like trans-Atlantic trade agreement and a rethinking of our most basic trade policies.

Lawrence R. Maxted - Library Journal

Thomas Friedman's The World Is Flat synthesized academic work on globalization into a book for everyone. Now Steingart (Washington, DC, correspondent, Der Spiegel) examines the dark side of globalization for a similarly broad audience. Forcefully, he hammers home his thesis that globalization comes with many negatives and dangers. He warns that nations like India and China are aggressively setting the stage for a redistribution of wealth from the West to Asia. He explains that they and other Asian nations have gradually come to dominate first manufacturing and then services and will soon dominate research and development. He says that U.S. and European jobs lost to Asia are not being replaced with comparable ones: workers in general are losing their economic power as Asian businesses exploit their own glut of low-cost, easily controlled labor. Steingart cautions that in addition to economic strength, these Asian nations are building up their military might not unlike the European powers did before World War I. Ultimately, he provides a glimmer of hope with suggestions for how the West can regain its economic vitality. His cautionary work is deeply thoughtful, accessible to all, and highly recommended for all libraries. [This edition has additional material not in the original German one.-Ed.]

Sandra Day OConnor or God in the White House

2009-01-14T18:21:00.000-08:00

Sandra Day O'Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice

Author: Joan Biskupic

Sandra Day O'Connor, America's first woman justice, was called the most powerful woman in America. She became the axis on which the Supreme Court turned, and it was often said that to gauge the direction of American law, one need look only to O'Connor's vote. Drawing on information gleaned from once-private papers, hundreds of interviews, and the insight gained from nearly two decades of covering the Supreme Court, author Joan Biskupic offers readers a fascinating portrait of a complex and multifaceted woman—lawyer, politician, legislator, and justice, as well as wife, mother, A-list society hostess, and competitive athlete. Biskupic provides an in-depth account of her transformation from tentative jurist to confident architect of American law.

The Washington Post - Kathleen M. Sullivan

Biskupic gives a fascinating account of O'Connor's political astuteness; she was appointed and reelected as an Arizona state senator, then rose to become majority leader of that body. Later, she became a judge on an Arizona trial court and an intermediate appeals court. Diligent, alert, energetic and adept at politicking, she was a master of the telephone call and the handwritten note, and she helped organize everything from Republican presidential campaigns in Arizona to her classmate Rehnquist's confirmation to the Supreme Court.

The New York Times - Emily Bazelon

…if Biskupic lacks intimate confidences for Sandra Day O'Connor, she has something else: perfect timing. Her book appears as O'Connor leaves the bench and while her legacy is unsettled. Biskupic jumps into that opening with a well-researched and (no doubt to O'Connor's chagrin) revealing account.

Publishers Weekly

In the late 1980s, as the Supreme Court justices were discussing a case, Antonin Scalia ranted against affirmative action. Sandra Day O'Connor, the first and then still the only woman on the High Court, replied, "Why, Nino, how do you think I got my job?" This is one of the few revelatory moments in Biskupic's bio of the retiring O'Connor as sharp-tongued, humorous and utterly realistic. It's also, as Biskupic shows in a close study of O'Connor's jurisprudence, a bit misleading: for most of her career on the Court, the conservative O'Connor voted against affirmative action. With access to justices' once private papers, longtime court observer Biskupic, now with USA Today, sheds light on the internal workings on the Court, but not much on the internal workings of the very private O'Connor's mind and heart. Biskupic does show the justice gaining confidence and force on the Court, particularly after her fight against breast cancer in 1988. As O'Connor faces retirement, Biskupic clarifies her judicial legacy, sometimes seeing the glass as half full, sometimes as half empty: praising her lack of ideology but also noting a lack of vision in a justice who often "step[s] to the brink, and then back[s] away"-a mixed legacy that will be debated for years to come. (Nov.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

Veteran Supreme Court reporter Biskupic offers an insightful biography of perhaps the most influential associate justice in recent history. She cites O'Connor's frontierlike upbringing in Arizona and her ability to mingle with finesse in a male world as factors in her ascension to the de facto leadership of the Court's centrist plurality, which has swayed the majority opinion on a range of issues, including abortion, gay rights, affirmative action, and the death penalty. Biskupic underscores the nontraditional nature of O'Connor's credentials: her lack of high-level judicial experience and her brief career in the Arizona State Senate. But there were also her connections with the Republican Party and her inclination to avoid public positions on controversial topics. O'Connor was a consensus-builder and team player, but Biskupic nevertheless traces the theme of women's rights in her career-as when she exhorted President Nixon to name a woman to the Supreme Court. Once on the Court, she was frequently called on to write opinions involving sex discrimination and women's rights. On abortion, she carefully backtracked, allowing states more latitude than the approach taken by the liberals but rebuffing conservative efforts to gut abortion rights altogether. The O'Connor Court, Biskupic notes, thus moved the law-and society-in new directions. Highly recommended.-Philip Y. Blue, New York State Supreme Court Criminal Branch Law Lib., New York Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Kirkus Reviews

"She was not raised to sit still," remarked a weary clerk of Sandra Day O'Connor. Indeed not, as this lively life of the just-retired Associate Justice relates. Supreme Court chronicler Biskupic writes, mostly admiringly but not unreservedly, of O'Connor, a tough but polite woman who grew up on an Arizona ranch headed by a never-pleased patriarch who, by most accounts, put the fear into everyone he met. Sandy Day was brilliant, a surprise to her classmates at Stanford Law School (including William Rehnquist, whom she briefly dated) and to hapless chauvinists in the Phoenix suburbs, to which she and her husband repaired in 1957. O'Connor served as a state legislator-a fellow senator, meaning to be complimentary, said of her, "this pretty little thing carries a disconcerting load of expertise"-and appeals-court judge before being shortlisted by Attorney General William French Smith to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart in 1981. Though President Reagan had pledged to name a woman to the court, Biskupic writes, "O'Connor's credentials did not make her an obvious candidate." On closer examination, administration vetters found that she was politically well-connected and suitably conservative, though big-C rightists had fits when they discovered that O'Connor was generally pro-choice. No matter: she easily passed the audition, only to take a mostly independent course on the bench that put her at odds with doctrinaire types on the left and right alike. Biskupic does a solid job of charting O'Connor's evolution as a judge who, given her druthers, preferred to seek consensus and split the difference in a given dispute over the slash-and-burn approach of certain other jurists,notably bete noire Antonin Scalia. O'Connor shaped the law, Biskupic concludes, "with her Western pragmatism, her feel for the American center-and a shrewd but quiet negotiating skill."Fitting farewell to an influential jurist who may soon be very much missed.

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God in the White House: How Faith Shaped the Presidency from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush

Author: Randall Balmer

How did we go from John F. Kennedy declaring that religion should play no role in the elections to Bush saying, "I believe that God wants me to be president"?

Historian Randall Balmer takes us on a tour of presidential religiosity in the last half of the twentieth century—from Kennedy's 1960 speech that proposed an almost absolute wall between American political and religious life to the soft religiosity of Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society; from Richard Nixon's manipulation of religion to fit his own needs to Gerald Ford's quiet stoicism; from Jimmy Carter's introduction of evangelicalism into the mainstream to Ronald Reagan's co-option of the same group; from Bill Clinton's covert way of turning religion into a non-issue to George W. Bush's overt Christian messages, Balmer reveals the role religion has played in the personal and political lives of these American presidents.

Americans were once content to disregard religion as a criterion for voting, as in most of the modern presidential elections before Jimmy Carter.But today's voters have come to expect candidates to fully disclose their religious views and to deeply illustrate their personal relationship to the Almighty. God in the White House explores the paradox of Americans' expectation that presidents should simultaneously trumpet their religious views and relationship to God while supporting the separation of church and state. Balmer tells the story of the politicization of religion in the last half of the twentieth century, as well as the "religionization" of our politics. He reflects on the implications of this shift, which have reverberated in both our religious and political worlds, and offers a new lens through which to see not only these extraordinary individuals, but also our current political situation.

Publishers Weekly

How did personal faith go from something John F. Kennedy needed to distance himself from to something recent presidential candidates have been eager to embrace publicly? Balmer, an eminent historian and first-rate storyteller, recounts familiar material in a way that's fresh. He wisely suggests that genuine blame for misuse of religion in public rests with voters, not politicians. But a running quarrel with the "religious right"-unannounced in the title-seems the real raison d'être for this book, and many arguments and examples will be familiar to readers of the author's Thy Kingdom Come. Balmer marshals impressive evidence that the religious right arose in reaction to government interference with racist religious schools. But he often tends to overstate and sometimes omits key facts. Balmer traces the right's slow response to 1973's Roev. Wadedecision by quoting the Southern Baptist Convention's initial support of Roe, without noting that the takeover of that church by fundamentalists came later and largely over that issue. Most oddly, Balmer describes the war in Iraq as America's first aggressive military campaign "in history." These eccentricities make the book feel agenda-driven, and render questionable even its many points of wisdom. (Mar.)

In Sickness and in Power or The Globalization of Poverty and the N W Order

2009-01-14T06:03:00.000-08:00

In Sickness and in Power: Illnesses in Heads of Government During the Last 100 Years

Author: David Owen

The course of modern world history has been critically shaped by the physical and mental illnesses of heads of state, sometimes in the public eye but usually in secrecy. Democratic politicians as diverse as Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Churchill, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Pompidou, Mitterrand, Blair, George W. Bush, Chirac, and Sharon all lied about their health. Between 1906 and 2008 seven Presidents are judged to have been mentally ill while in office: Theodore Roosevelt (bipolar disorder), Taft (breathing-related sleep disorder), Wilson (major depressive disorder), Coolidge (major depressive disorder), Hoover (major depressive disorder), Johnson (bipolar disorder), and Nixon (alcohol abuse). Many despots-such as Hitler, Stalin, Saddam Hussein, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, and Robert Mugabe-have been branded by the press and public opinion as suffering mental illnesses. Lord Owen argues neither Hitler nor Stalin were "mad" in any sense the medical profession recognizes (whereas Mussolini and Mao had depression, possibly bipolar disorder). Something happens to some leaders' mental stability while in power that is captured by Bertrand Russell's phrase, "the intoxication of power." Hubristic behavior with excessive self-confidence is almost an occupational hazard for heads of government, as it is for leaders in other fields, such as business and the military, for it feeds on isolation and excessive deference. Owen argues that a medically definable condition called Hubris Syndrome affects some heads of government the longer they stay in office or after a specific triggering event such as 9/11. Recent leaders such as George W. Bush, Tony Blair, and Margaret Thatcher have developedHubris Syndrome. Symptoms include patterns of reckless behavior, bad judgment, and operational incompetence, often compounded by delusions of personal infallibility and divine exemption from political accountability. Lord Owen makes the cases that democratic societies need to implement new procedures for dealing with illness in their own heads of government, and that they need to empower the United Nations to use new procedures and means for removing despots whose behavior becomes so hubristic as to pose a grave threat to their own people or the world.

Acknowledgements     ix
Introduction     xi
Illness in heads of government during the last 100 years
1901-1953     3
1953-2007     60
Case histories
Prime Minister Eden's illness and Suez     109
President Kennedy's health     141
The Shah's secret illness     191
President Mitterrand's prostate cancer     220
The intoxication of power
Bush, Blair and the war in Iraq     253
Lessons for the future
Safeguarding against illness in heads of government     327
Conclusion     363
Notes     371
Index     393

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The Globalization of Poverty and the N W Order

Author: Michel Chossudovsky

In this new and expanded edition of Chossudovsky's international best-seller, the author outlines the contours of a New World Order which feeds on human poverty and the destruction of the environment, generates social apartheid, encourages racism and ethnic strife and undermines the rights of women. The result as his detailed examples from all parts of the world show so convincingly, is a globalization of poverty.

This book is a skilful combination of lucid explanation and cogently argued critique of the fundamental directions in which our world is moving financially and economically.

In this new enlarged edition -which includes ten new chapters and a new introduction-- the author reviews the causes and consequences of famine in Sub-Saharan Africa, the dramatic meltdown of financial markets, the demise of State social programs and the devastation resulting from corporate downsizing and trade liberalisation.

Published in 11 languages. More than 100,000 copies sold Worldwide.

The House on Garibaldi Street or Gerald R Ford

2009-01-13T18:35:00.000-08:00

The House on Garibaldi Street

Author: Isser Harel

The House on Garibaldi Street is the true story of one of this century's most audacious intelligence operations - the kidnapping of Adolf Eichmann in Argentina by the Mossad, Israel's secret intelligence service. In a daring operation which shook the world, a team of elite Mossad agents, under the personal command of the legendary Mossad leader Isser Harel, kidnapped Eichmann and smuggled him to Israel. Eichmann's trial received unparalleled media coverage, and brought home to millions around the world the horror of the Holocaust through its principal co-ordinator. Eichmann was found guilty of genocide and was executed two years later. Harel's account was first published in 1975 and won world acclaim, being translated into more than 20 languages and selling more than a million copies. This new edition has been completely revised and updated. For the first time the real names and details of all Mossad personnel are revealed, as are important diplomatic contacts which shed new light on the politicalacceptability of the kidnapping, the operation being officially sanctioned not only by Israel, but also by West Germany. Shlomo Shpiro who worked personally with Isser Harel on the preparation of this new edition is an Israeli scholar specialising in intelligence and security issues. The House on Garibaldi Street has all the suspense, action and drama of a classic intelligence story - it is also an engrossing account to rival the best spy fiction.

Amazon Bookshop - reader review

"A true intelligence coup that reads better than James Bond".

German Politics

"This is a gripping account of the Israeli plan to capture Adolf Eichmann, tersly written by the man who led the operation, the head of Mossad, the Israeli secret intelligence service."

Jewsih Review

The book reveals the names and political contact sources involved in this spine-chilling drama of an unequalled, uniquely daring operation, leading to Eichmann trial in 1960 in Israel and his subsequent execution two years later."

Jewish Chronicle, 15/8/97

"When first published, Harel"s account received huge acclaim and was translated into more than 20 languages."

Jewish Quarterly review

"Harel manages to construct a skilful narrative that maintains suspense"

Gerald R. Ford

Author: Douglas Brinkley

THE "ACCIDENTAL" PRESIDENT WHOSE INNATE DECENCY AND STEADY HAND RESTORED THE PRESIDENCY AFTER ITS GREATEST CRISIS

When Gerald R. Ford entered the White House in August 1974, he inherited a presidency tarnished by the Watergate scandal, the economy was in a recession, the Vietnam War was drawing to a close, and he had taken office without having been elected. Most observers gave him little chance of success, especially after he pardoned Richard Nixon just a month into his presidency, an action that outraged many Americans, but which Ford thought was necessary to move the nation forward.

During his presidency, many people thought of Ford as a man who stumbled a lot -- clumsy on his feet and in politics -- but acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley shows him to be a man of independent thought and conscience, who never allowed party loyalty to prevail over his sense of right and wrong. As a young congressman, he stood up to the isolationists in the Republican leadership, promoting a vigorous role for America in the world. Later, as House minority leader and as president, he challenged the right wing of his party, refusing to bend to their vision of confrontation with the Communist world. And after the fall of Saigon, Ford also overruled his advisers by allowing Vietnamese refugees to enter the United States, arguing that to do so was the humane thing to do. Brinkley also offers keen analyses of the Mayaguez incident and the Helsinki Accords, where Ford's steady and focused leadership played a key role in advancing American interests.

Brinkley draws on exclusive interviews with Ford and on previously unpublished documents (including a remarkable correspondence between Ford and Nixon stretching over four decades), fashioning a masterful reassessment of Gerald R. Ford's presidency and his underappreciated legacy to the nation.

The Washington Post - David Broder

Brinkley does full justice to those qualities of Midwestern goodwill exhibited by Ford all his life, and he excuses Ford's anger with Reagan and the right-wingers because he plainly shares Ford's preference for a more tolerant, pragmatic version of conservatism.

Foreign Affairs

Brinkley has written a decent and honest book about a decent andhonest man; more than that, Brinkley has managed to get beneath Gerald Ford's Midwestern reserve to give us a surprisingly engaging and accessible account of the most down-to-earth president since Calvin Coolidge. He is particularly good on Ford's congressional years, illuminating the political life of a Republican Party that seemed, for much of Ford's active career, doomed to perpetual minority status.

Brinkley's Gerald R. Ford is part of a series of short presidential lives edited by Arthur Schlesinger. The series is the latest and by no means the least of the contributions Schlesinger made to American studies during a long and extraordinary career. His generosity to rising generations of historians and his commitment to useful history that could inform contemporary policy debates in the service of democratic values were remarkable; he will be sorely missed. <

What People Are Saying

"A rock-hard moral core defined Gerald Ford. Unrattled by the speed of events or by their uneven consequences, Ford remained the steadiest of public men, certain of his course and confident in his ability to keep to it. He may have landed in the White House without planning to but he proved well prepared for the nation's highest office, intellectually as well as emotionally. Having never slogged through the mud of a presidential campaign, he arrived in the White House with neither an untoward gratitude for those who had supported him nor any lingering animosity toward those who hadn't. Instead, he had an unobstructed view of his enormous and widely diverse constituency, and his record in the White House was remarkably evenhanded. He left the presidency in far better shape than he had found it -- perhaps even healthier than it had been in decades."

--Douglas Brinkley on Gerald R. Ford

Dwight D Eisenhower or Congressional Procedures and the Policy Process

2009-01-13T08:22:00.000-08:00

Dwight D. Eisenhower: Young Military Leader (Childhood of Famous Americans Series)

Author: George E Stanley

Childhood of Famous Americans

One of the most popular series ever published for young Americans, these classics have been praised alike by parents, teachers, and librarians. With these lively, inspiring, fictionalized biographies -- easily read by children of eight and up -- today's youngster is swept right into history.

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Congressional Procedures and the Policy Process

Author: Walter J Oleszek

Veteran Hill observer Walter J. Oleszek discusses the organizational and political environment of the contemporary Congress and how its rules shape domestic and foreign policy. This book is the definitive work on congressional lawmaking today, providing a detailed look into the interplay of rules, procedures, precedents, and strategies, and focusing on the changes evolving from the 104th Congress.

School Library Journal

YA Students of American history and government will appreciate this comprehensive analysis of the way in which the U.S. Congress establishes policy for the nation. Some chapters will be especially good for high-school curriculum: ``Congress and Lawmaking,'' ``The Congressional Environment,'' and ``The Congressional Budget Process,'' among others. A few sections will be more used by teachers supporting their lectures: ``House Floor Procedure,'' and ``Legislative Oversight,'' as examples. An excellent chart demonstrates ``How a Bill Becomes a Law,'' and is only one of several such well-drawn demonstrations. The comprehensive index and glossary also add to the value of the book, which will be well used in many high-school libraries. Sherry Solomon, Episcopal High School, Bellaire, Tex.

Booknews

Helps students, journalists, legislative aides, lobbyists, and citizens make sense of the dynamic process by which our laws are made. Takes readers inside the halls of Congress to look at the rules, procedures, historical precedents, and stratagems that confront every bill introduced in Congress. Numerous examples and colorful quotations from real-life legislative experience, as well as sample documents, illustrate specific points and illuminate the important stages of lawmaking. This fifth edition is revised to cover the latest trends and developments on Capitol Hill. Oleszek is specialist in American national government at the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Inside the Jihad or 50 Facts That Should Change The World 20

2009-01-12T19:10:00.000-08:00

Inside the Jihad: My Life with Al Qaeda: A Spy's Story

Author: Omar Nasiri

For the first time, a first person account of life inside the jihad...

Between 1994 and 2000, Omar Nasiri worked as a secret agent for Europe's top foreign intelligence services - including France's DGSE (Direction Gйnйrale de la Sйcuritй Extйrieure), and Britain's MI5 and MI6. From the netherworld of Islamist cells in Belgium, to the training camps of Afghanistan, to the radical mosques of London, he risked his life to defeat the emerging global network that the West would come to know as Al Qaeda.

Now, for the first time, Nasiri shares the story of his life-a life balanced precariously between the world of Islamic jihadists and the spies who pursue them. As an Arab and a Muslim, he was able to infiltrate the rigidly controlled Afghan training camps, where he encountered men who would later be known as the most-wanted terrorists on earth: Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi, Abu Zubayda, and Abu Khabab al-Masri. Sent back to Europe with instructions to form a sleeper cell, Nasiri became a conduit for messages going back and forth between Al Qaeda's top recruiter in Pakistan and London's radical cleric Abu Qatada.

A gripping and provocative insider's account of both Islamist terror networks and the intelligence services that spy on them, Inside the Jihad offers a completely original perspective on the ongoing battle against Al Qaeda.

The Washington Post - Peter L. Bergen

Inside the Jihad is the astonishing, well-told story of Omar Nasiri (a pseudonym), who penetrated al-Qaeda's training camps in Afghanistan in the mid-1990s as a spy for France's intelligence services. Nasiri never met Osama bin Laden, nor did he hear anything about specific plots against the United States, but he was able to gather a wealth of knowledge about the terrorist training going on in Afghanistan.

The New York Times

Inside the Jihad reads like a John le Carre novel. It is replete with tales of phony passports, envelopes stuffed with cash and cloak-and-daggar meetings . . . Mr. Nasiri's account of the camps is detailed and chilling.

Middle East Quarterly

A good read . . . the real value of Nasiri's memoir lies in the insight into the minds of young, mostly European Muslims.

CNN.com

It is a fascinating story of a man who says he betrayed his brothers to the police and then had contact with senior al Qaeda leaders at a terror training camp in Afghanistan -- all the while spying for French, British and German intelligence.

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50 Facts That Should Change The World 2.0

Author: Jessica Williams

Jessica Williams revisits her classic series of snapshots of life in the twenty-first century. Revised and updated with lots of new material, this book is every bit as vital as the first edition. From the inequalities and absurdities of the so-called developed world to the vast scale of suffering wreaked by war, famine, and AIDS in developing countries, it paints a picture of incredible contrasts.

This 2.0 edition again contains an eclectic selection of facts addressing a broad range of global issues, now with added emphasis on climate change, the decline in human rights and democratic freedoms around the world, the unexpected global impact of corporate growth, sports and media madness and inequality, and lots of updated facts and figures. Each is followed by a short essay explaining the story behind the fact, fleshing out the bigger problem lurking behind the numbers. Real-life stories, anecdotes, and case studies help to humanize the figures and make clear the human impact of the bald statistics.

All of the facts remind us that whether we like to think of it or not, the world is interconnected and civilization is a fragile concept. Williams makes us think about some of the hard facts about our civilization, and what we can do about them.

Jessica Williams is a journalist and producer of the BBC's flagship international interview program, HARDTalk with Tim Sebastian, where she has researched and produced interviews with such disparate figures as the political philosopher Noam Chomsky, President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, Sir David Attenborough, and the academic Edward Said.

The Minnesota Homegrown Cookbook or High Crimes and Misdemeanors

2009-01-12T07:53:00.000-08:00

The Minnesota Homegrown Cookbook: Local Food, Local Restaurants, Local Recipes

Author: Renewing the Countrysid

“I grew up a few steps from a half-acre vegetable garden and it pretty much ruined me for fine dining forever after. When you’ve eaten sweet corn ten minutes removed from the stalk, you’ve experienced intense sensual pleasure at a young age and what can the great chefs of New York and Paris offer to compete with it?”

—Garrison Keillor, from the Foreword

Good food is locally grown food. Many of Minnesota’s finest restaurants use locally grown produce and meats to create their finest dishes. The Minnesota Homegrown Cookbook celebrates the best of our state with 100 local recipes from 38 local chefs and restaurants, cafés, and bed & breakfasts using incredibly fresh ingredients from regional farmers, markets, and organic producers. Inspired by these growers and chefs, now you too can be spoiled forever!

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High Crimes and Misdemeanors

Author: Ann Coulter

The book that started it all. Written with Coulter's trademark irreverent wit, this bestseller is now available in paperback.

Chapter 1 Just Do It	1
PART ONE--"KISS IT"
Chapter 2 You Can't Prove I Lied	25
Chapter 3 Prevaricator in Chief: The President's
Deposition	39
Chapter 4 The Monica Story Breaks: Clinton's Legacy Is
Formed	49
Chapter 5 Kathleen Meets Paula	59
Chapter 6 The 60 Minutes Interview	73
Chapter 7 Blasting the Bimbos	77
Chapter 8 Persecuting the Prosecutor	95
Chapter 9 Starr Turn: The White House's Secret Weapon	101
Chapter 10 A Cancer on the Country	105
PART TWO--ABUSE OF POWER
Chapter 11 Job Creation, Clinton Style: The Travel
Office Massacre	119
Chapter 12 Filegate: A "Bureaucratic Snafu"	137
Chapter 13 Auditing the Enemy	155
PART THREE--OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE
Chapter 14 Whitewater	167
Chapter 15 Fostergate	183
Chapter 16 Webb Hubbell: Friend of the Voiceless	195
PART FOUR--CORRUPTION
Chapter 17 White House Coffees	213
Chapter 18 Wampumgate	229
Chapter 19 The Manchurian Candidate	241
Chapter 20 High Crimes and Misdemeanors	257
Notes	317
Index	353

Life of Andrew Jackson or Churchill and the Jews

2009-01-11T15:02:00.000-08:00

Life of Andrew Jackson

Author: Robert V Remini

The classic one-volume biography of Andrew Jackson

Robert V. Remini's prizewinning, three-volumn biography, The Life of Andrew Jackson, won the National Book Award upon it's completion in 1984. Now, Remini captures the essence of the life and career of the seventh president of the United States in the meticulously crafted single-volume abridgement.

Publishers Weekly

Remini is the author of an acclaimed three-volume biography of the seventh president and now follows up with a superb condensation that incorporates the results of recent research. He describes Old Hickory's early struggle to overcome his reputation as a violent and vengeful man (``virtually a social outcast'' in western Tennessee); the spectacular fulfillment of his search for military glory at Horseshoe Bend and New Orleans; and his frequently turbulent two-term administration (1829-1837). In this vivid biography, Remini analyzes his subject's shortcomings, which included wretched administrative appointments, inability to replace the corrupt U.S. Bank with a better system and failure to bring Texas into the Union. But the overall emphasis is on a chief executive who ``served the American people extremely well,'' preserved the integrity of the Union, saved the government from misrule and liquidated the national debt. Jackson stepped down from office more popular than when he entered the White House. Illustrations. (August)

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Churchill and the Jews: A Lifelong Friendship

Author: Martin Gilbert

An insightful history of Churchill’s lifelong commitment—both public and private—to the Jews and Zionism, and of his outspoken opposition to anti-Semitism

Winston Churchill’s commitment to Jewish rights, to Zionism, and ultimately to the State of Israel never wavered. In 1922, he established on the bedrock of international law the right of Jews to emigrate to Palestine. During his meeting with David Ben-Gurion in 1960, Churchill presented the Israeli prime minister with an article he had written about Moses, praising the patriarch. In between these events he fought harder and more effectively for the Jewish people than the world has ever realized.

Drawing on a wide range of archives and private papers, speeches, newspaper coverage, and wartime correspondence, Churchill’s official biographer, Sir Martin Gilbert, explores the origins, implications, and results of Churchill’s determined commitment to Jewish rights, opening a window on an underappreciated and heroic aspect of the brilliant politician’s life and career.

Publishers Weekly

This work by acclaimed Churchill biographer Gilbert examines an often-neglected aspect of the British leader's career: his relationship to Jews and Jewish issues. Drawing on a treasure trove of primary documents, Gilbert shows how Churchill grew beyond the kind of friendship with individual British Jews that his father enjoyed into a supporter of Jewish causes-most notably a Jewish state in Palestine. (In later years, Churchill even referred to himself as an "old Zionist.") Gilbert shows that Churchill recognized as early as 1933 that Hitler's regime posed a grave danger for European Jewry. Yet, as Gilbert shows, in the late 1930s, Churchill upset Zionist leaders with his support for limiting Jewish immigration to Palestine out of a concern for British interests in the Arab world. The work is chock-full of narrative, with little interpretation, and some readers might wish for more discussion of questions, such as Churchill's description of Bolshevism (which he loathed) as a "Jewish movement." But this work is a must-read for those interested in Churchill and in Jewish history. 8 pages of photos; maps. (Nov. 1)

Frederic Krome - Library Journal

Primarily known for his multivolume biography of Churchill, Gilbert has also written extensively about modern Jewish history and the Holocaust. Now he takes the opportunity to combine his expertise on these subjects, and his source material reflects years of work. Gilbert is strongest in narrative; the analysis is sparser. But he's at his best when explaining the interrelationship between Churchill's position as a British government leader-especially during World War II-and his personal support of Zionism and Jewish refugees. Gilbert points out that Churchill had first to safeguard British interests, all the while functioning within a complex governmental system, which sometimes prevented him from promoting causes, such as Zionism, as he might have liked. The book is weaker when Gilbert delineates the number of Jews Churchill interacted with on a daily basis. Does it really matter, for example, that one of his staff at the Ministry of Munitions in 1917 was Jewish? Gilbert's analysis of the tension between Churchill's pro-Jewish and pro-Zionist attitudes and his hatred of Bolshevism, which he considered a Jewish invention, may leave unsatisfied readers still seeking an explanation as to how the two were reconciled. Recommended for research libraries.

Kirkus Reviews

British historian and Churchill biographer Gilbert (Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction, 2006, etc.) explores the great statesman's early, fervent support of Zionism and wartime pleas to save the Jews from Nazi persecution. Churchill believed the Jews, thanks to Moses and the code of conduct he received at Mt. Sinai, "grasped and proclaimed an idea of which all the genius of Greece and all the power of Rome were incapable." Continuing his father Randolph's friendship with prominent British Jews such as Lord Rothschild, Churchill, as a young MP in 1904, became a vocal critic of the Aliens Bill restricting Jewish immigration from Tsarist Russia. As Home Secretary, he dispatched troops to restore order after the pogrom at Tredegar, South Wales. Early on, he became friendly with the one who would most shape Zionist policy, Chaim Weizmann, the Manchester chemist whom he enlisted during World War I to manufacture explosives for British ammunition. While supporting the Balfour Declaration, Churchill was deeply wary of Bolshevism as representing the "bad" Jews. Indeed, he hoped that Zionism would work to counterbalance Jewish Bolshevik sympathies. Churchill visited the Holy Land, excoriated Islam as a "retrograde force" and lobbied against restricting Jewish immigration to Palestine, especially as Arab resistance grew and Nazi persecution of the Jews gained force. Regarding the rise of the Nazis, Churchill demonstrated extraordinary prescience as early as 1933 and continually warned in speeches and writings of the impending menace. He led the debate against Partition and called the MacDonald White Paper (devising a policy in Palestine of permanent Arab majority) a "shameful act of appeasement."Gilbert diligently pursues Churchill's attempts to save Jews throughout the war, his disillusionment with Jewish terrorism and failure to bring up the future of Palestine at Potsdam. The author masterfully sketches the evolution of Israel through a long, difficult British Jewish process of conception. Gilbert's deep, lifelong scholarship and knowledge of his subject lend his book both authority and accessibility.

List of Maps     xi
List of Photographs     xiii
Preface     xv
Acknowledgements     xvii
Early Years: 'This Monstrous Conspiracy'     1
Supporting the Jews     7
The First World War and Its Aftermath     23
'A Struggle for the Soul of the Jewish People'     37
Responsibility for the Jewish National Home     45
Pledges in Jerusalem     52
Building on the Balfour Declaration     67
An Anti-Semitic Libel, Palestine, and Moses     86
The Rise of Hitler     97
Defender of Zionism     108
The Partition Debate: 'A Counsel of Despair'     121
Nazism Rampant: 'Abominable Persecution'     135
Palestine: The Legitimate Jewish Haven     149
The Black Paper: 'This Mortal Blow'     157
The First Nine Months of War     163
Prime Minister: The Palestine Dimension     172
'These Vile Crimes'     186
Palestine: A Vigilant Eye     202
Seeking to Save Jews     211
'If Our Dreams of Zionism Are to End ...'     221
The Saudi Arabian Dimension     231
From War to Peace: 'I Shall Continue to Do My Best'     239
The King David Hotel Bomb: 'We Are to be at War with the Jews of Palestine'     253
'A Senseless, Squalid War with the Jews'     261
The State of Israel Established: 'An Event in World History'     268
'An Old Zionist Like Me'     280
'A Great Nation'     293
Epilogue     307
Maps     311
Bibliography     325
Index     331

The Dark Heart of Italy or Terrible Truth about Liberals

2009-01-11T04:49:00.000-08:00

The Dark Heart of Italy

Author: Tobias Jones

In 1999 Tobias Jones immigrated to Italy, expecting to discover the pastoral bliss described by centuries of foreign visitors. Instead, he found a very different country: one besieged by unfathomable terrorism and deep-seated paranoia. The Dark Heart of Italy is Jones's account of his four-year voyage across the Italian peninsula.

Jones writes not just about Italy's art, climate, and cuisine but also about the much livelier and stranger sides of the Bel Paese: the language, soccer, Catholicism, cinema, television, and terrorism. Why, he wonders, does the parliament need a "slaughter commission"? Why do bombs still explode every time politics start getting serious? Why does everyone urge him to go home as soon as possible, saying that Italy is a "brothel"? Most of all, why does one man, Silvio Berlusconi-in the words of a famous song-appear to own everything from Padre Nostro (Our Father) to Cosa Nostra (the Mafia)?

The Italy that emerges from Jones's travels is a country scarred by civil wars and "illustrious corpses"; a country that is proudly visual rather than verbal, based on aesthetics rather than ethics; a country where crime is hardly ever followed by punishment; a place of incredible illusionism, where it is impossible to distinguish fantasy from reality and fact from fiction.

The New Yorker

In 1999, Jones moved to Italy, and he explores his adoptive country with a loving, sometimes cynical, always questioning eye. He points out that the word storia means both “history” and “story,” and that the distinction is not always clear. Themes and subjects recur in his quest for understanding: soccer, language, and, above all, the grandiose figure of the prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi. He is attuned to the perspective of the ordinary citizens he meets in bars and post-office lines, but he also gets behind the surface, providing neat background summaries of such phenomena as the “clean hands” investigations of the nineties, the Vatican finance scandals of the seventies, and why Italian TV is as bad as it is. While he finds Italy “infuriating and endlessly irritating,” he can’t imagine leaving, because “life seems less exciting outside Italy.”

Publishers Weekly

With his first book, Jones must now be admitted to the company of writers such as Alexander Stille and Tim Parks who seem to understand Italy and the Italians better than the natives do themselves. Jones excels at writing about the passions aroused on the soccer field and the dirty machinations in the club offices in an entertaining chapter entitled "Penalties and Impunity." He realizes, though, that soccer is just a manifestation of a deeper, lurking cancer: Italy's dismal mediacracy. It all began in the wake of "Tangentopoli," the massive corruption scandal in the early 1990s that brought down a regime that included the eternally powerful Christian Democrats and their partners in a Faustian pact, the Socialists. Into this political vacuum stepped the irrepressible owner of the country's most successful soccer club, A.C. Milan, Silvio Berlusconi. He built a media empire that now touches every aspect of daily life in Italy; his presence hovers over Italians much as Big Brother hovers over 1984 and his visage looms over a typical Italian town on the book's cover. But Berlusconi, writes Jones, although on the political scene for a decade, is a relatively recent chapter in the sordid history of Italy. Jones does a fine job of explicating (as much as it can be explicated) the murky history of neo-fascist, right-wing and Mafia intrigues against the Italian Republic after WWII. On a lighter note, he playfully dissects the Italians' obsession with beauty and eroticism. Jones, who had been on the staff of the London Review of Books, moved to Parma in 1999 and has developed a sincere and profound love of Italy and the Italians. Agent, Georgina Capel. (June) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

Tobias Jones left his native England to live in Italy in the 1990s. His The Dark Heart of Italy: An Incisive Portrait of Europe's Most Beautiful, Most Disconcerting Country (North Point: Farrar. 2004. ISBN 0-86547-700-0. $24) portrays an Italy that is far more complex than is usually depicted in guidebooks or travel essays. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Kirkus Reviews

Expatriate's debut memoir, in which Italian culture postures, disappoints, and still makes life more exciting than anywhere else. Sound familiar? This belongs to the venerable genre featuring a protagonist who goes to live in a foreign land, learns the language, delves into society's seamy underside, and exposes the machinations of a corrupt power structure while maintaining a parallel discourse on the physical and cultural charms that make the country, in the end, simply irresistible. Just as fellow Brit Peter Robb does in A Death in Brazil (p. 262), Jones performs a literary autopsy on Italy while bringing it back to life. To hear him tell it, while half of all Italians are in its shops and streets, the other half are queued at the post office to apply for one of the endless list of permits the country's "clerical class" has imposed on its citizenry. Italian courts, working from a base of more law than anywhere in Europe, but without habeas corpus, tend to produce paperwork in the absence of clear convictions or acquittals, as those atop the power pyramids (including the Mafia) inevitably tamper with magistrates, juries, and whatever witnesses remain alive. Italians complain about it and suffer (insert here a mighty shrug in which the arms may resemble bat's wings) but, Jones explains, this is a country where patriotism goes first to one's city-state or district; decades of shocking factional terror following WWII were, in effect, a civil war that, like a lot of other things in Italy, never quite got finished. Enter the oligarchs, cut from the same pattern as current PM Silvio Berlusconi: owners of industries, soccer teams, newspapers or TV stations, and criminal records who arenonetheless able to vault in and out of government at will. "Here," Jones notes, "conflict of interest is a positive thing."Engaging scenes from a country trapped in a rather nice brothel.

Interesting textbook: When Someone You Love Has Alzheimers or The Psychopharmacology of Herbal Medicine

Terrible Truth about Liberals

Author: Neal Boortz

Drawing from his thirty-two-year radio career, the terrible truth of Boortz's book depicts his in-your-face brand of Libertarian politics. From questioning the true definitions of democracy and racism to challenging the entire Social Security system, he provides fresh insights into nagging social and political issues.

Architect of Global Jihad or The Rise of the Fourth Reich

2009-01-10T09:16:00.000-08:00

Architect of Global Jihad: The Life of Al Qaeda Strategist Abu Mus'ab al-Suri

Author: Brynjar Lia

Despite his alleged capture in Pakistan in late 2005, Abu Mus'ab al-Suri, a Syrian originally known as Mustafa Sethmarian Nasar, remains a potent political and ideological figure. One of the foremost theoreticians of the global jihadist movement, al-Suri trained a generation of young jihadis at al-Qaeda's Afghan camps and helped to establish the organization's vast European networks. Having gained extensive military experience fighting in the Syrian Islamist insurgency of the early 1980s, he helped to shape al-Qaeda's global strategy in a series of writings, including his influential Global Islamic Call. In that 1,600 page book, al-Suri outlined a broad strategy for al-Qaeda's younger generation to follow and described practical ways to implement the theories and tactics of jihadi guerrilla warfare.

Architect of Global Jihad is a biography of this powerful, charismatic, and prophetic individual. Examining not only the life of Al-Suri but also the world that gave rise to him, Brynjar Lia reveals al-Suri's skill for maximizing the political impact of jihadi violence. Lia provides the first and only English translation of two key chapters from al-Suri's Global Islamic Call and exposes his methods for building successful, autonomous cells for "individualized terrorism." Al-Suri's words have inspired thousands of today's militants, making Lia's carefully researched, detailed portrait required reading for students and specialists of Islamist movements and the study of contemporary forms of terrorism.

The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take over America

Author: Jim Marrs

New York Times bestselling conspiracy theorist Jim Marrs offers startling new evidence that the Nazis have been secretly planning a return to power---in the United States.

Publishers Weekly

This grandiose conspiracy theory about secret Nazi influence in America starts with breathtaking literal-mindedness. The Nazis, contends Marrs (Crossfire), obtained advanced technologies-flying saucers, time travel, antigravity-through psychic communion with "non-human intelligences"; then, after the Third Reich's fall, Nazi fugitives may even have used King Solomon's treasure to set up an international business empire and got in on the JFK assassination. Gradually, though, the Nazi threat subsides to a bar-stool libertarian's rant against psychiatric drugs, the Homeland Security apparatus, gun control, Social Security, income taxes and fluoridated water; they all portend to Marrs a creeping American fascism. Nazis are but bit players in this New World Order, run by shadowy "globalists" who "control" everything and created not just Nazism but communism and America's military-industrial complex. (Usual suspects include the Council on Foreign Relations, the Bilderberg Group and Arnold Schwarzenegger.) Marrs's dubiously sourced argument spins eye-glazing webs of circumstantial connections between Germans, American businessmen and U.S. government officials, in a kind of six degrees of Adolf Hitler parlor game. The result is vintage Marrs-a turgid stew of nonsense. (July)

Kirkus Reviews

Nazis killed Kennedy! Nazis control Wall Street! Nazis are fluoridating the water supply! Nazis are overhead, zooming across the sky in UFOs!One used to read such things in a couple of sources back in the day: John Birch Society pamphlets and the Illuminatus! trilogy fringe of the sci-fi set. We suppose those authors were serious, if perhaps out of their minds. Certainly Marrs-whose 1989 book Crossfire was the basis of the Oliver Stone conspiracy-fest movie JFK-seems to be serious, even though he eases off on the pedal, as if a touch embarrassed, when his charges get too weird. Thus, after excitedly postulating that Hitler escaped the bunker in 1945, Marrs (Rule By Secrecy: The Hidden History That Connects the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons and the Great Pyramids, 2000, etc.) clears his throat to say that Hitler's fate "is immaterial, a moot point. What is certain is that Hitler's legacy-National Socialism-lives on." True, in little backwater towns in Pomerania and Alabama where subpar proletarians fear not being part of the master race. But at Yale? According to the author, yes. Skull and Bones, proud fraternity of Bush and Kerry, is "merely the Illuminati in disguise," and one of its songs is to the tune of Deutschland Uber Alles ("The Germany Song"). Given that Skull and Bones and the Mormons populate the ranks of the CIA, well, small wonder that JFK got popped. He knew too much, you see, about time-traveling Nazis-oh, yes, the German scientists whom we brought over after World War II had some very sophisticated physics at their service, and they all went to work for Lockheed, Martin Marietta and other defense contractors "when many American engineers in the aircraft industrywere being laid off." (Duh! The Americans didn't know how to time travel.) And as for the Cold War space race? The Nazis were in charge on both sides of the Iron Curtain. But wouldn't that imply that the Soviet and American governments were one and the same?Considering that there's no lack of homegrown fascists to worry about, this wacky book is the equivalent of a Chicken Little story. Caveat lector.

Originalism or Century of Genocide

2009-01-09T23:03:00.000-08:00

Originalism: A Quarter-Century of Debate

Author: Steven G Calabresi

What did the Constitution mean at the time it was adopted? How should we interpret today the words used by the Founding Fathers? In Originalism: A Quarter-Century of Debate, these questions are explained and dissected by the very people who continue to shape the legal structure of our country. Inside you'll find:

A foreword by Justice Antonin Scalia and speeches by former attorney general Edwin Meese III, Justice William Brennan, Judge Robert H. Bork, and President Ronald Reagan

Transcripts from panel discussions and debates engaging some of the brightest legal minds of our time in frank, open discussions about the original meaning of the Constitution of the United States and its impact on the rule of law in our country

A debate on the original meaning of the Commerce, Spending, and Necessary and Proper Clauses

Concluding thoughts by Theodore Olson, forty-second solicitor general of the United States and a fellow at both the American College of Trial Lawyers and the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers

Originalism: a Quarter-Century of Debate is a lively and fascinating discussion of an issue that has occupied the greatest legal minds in America, and one that continues to elicit strong reactions from both those who support and those who oppose the rule of law. Steven G. Calabresi, co-founder of the Federalist Society and professor of law at Northwestern University School of Law, has compiled an impressive collection of speeches, panel discussions, and debates from some of the greatest and most prominent legal experts of the last twenty-five years.

Introduction   Professor Steven G. Calabresi     1
Foreword   Justice Antonin Scalia     43
Part I
Speech by Attorney General Edwin Meese, III, before the American Bar Association     47
Speech by Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., at Georgetown University     55
Speech by Attorney General Edwin Meese, III, before the Federalist Society Lawyers Division     71
Speech by Judge Robert H. Bork at the University of San Diego Law School     83
Speech by President Ronald Reagan at the Swearing in of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justice Antonin Scalia     95
Speech by Attorney General Edwin Meese, III, at Tulane University, 1986     99
Part II
Panel on Originalism and Unenumerated Constitutional Rights   Professor Suzanna Sherry   Professor Walter Dellinger   Professor John Harrison   Professor Lino Graglia   Judge Michael W. McComell   Diane P. Wood     113
Panel on Originalism and Pragmatism   Dean Larry Kramer   Judge Frank Easterbrook   Professors John O. McGinnis   Michael Rappaport   Professor Jeffrey Rosen   Douglas H. Ginsburg     151
Panel on Originalism and Precedent   Professor Steven G. Calabresi   Professor Akhil Reed Amar   Professor DavidStrauss   Professor Thomas W. Merrill   Justice Stephen J. Markman   Steven G. Calabresi     199
Debate on the Original Meaning of the Commerce, Spending, and Necessary and Proper Clauses   Professor Michael Stokes Paulsen   Professor Randy E. Barnett   Barrington D. Parker, Jr.     253
Debate on Radicals in Robes   Professor Cass Sunstein   Mr. Charles J. Cooper   Steven G. Calabresi     287
Speech to the 2005 Federalist Society Lawyers Division   Edwin Meese, III     317
Concluding Thoughts   Mr. Theodore B. Olson     333
List of Contributors     337
Acknowledgments     339
Notes     341
Index     347

Books about: Victorian Times and Pleasures or Sensacionales sopas

Century of Genocide: Eyewitness Accounts and Critical Views

Author: Samuel Totten

In 1994 Rwandan government forces slaughtered between 800,000 to one million people, mostly Tutsis, and many thousands of moderate Hutus. Cambodia's Khmer Rouge killed approximately 1.7 million people - more than twenty percent of its own population - in just four years. Time and again, throughout the 20th Century, various groups of people-such as the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, the Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe, the Kurds in Northern Iraq, the Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda, and the Muslims in the former Yugoslavia-have been targeted for elimination for various reasons (extremist ideology, ethnic animosity, and a diabolical regard for human life).

Despite the scale of these killings, there are those who try to minimize the impact of genocide. Through scholarly analyses and historical data, and eyewitness accounts, the contributors to this volume delineate the antecedents to and the causes and results of genocide in the twentieth century. In doing so, they provide compelling evidence that rebuts the convoluted and fallacious notions often created by cynics, deniers and "interpreters" who try to shape historical events to fit their own purposes.

The second edition will contain new chapters on the genocide in the former Yugoslavia and the mass killing of the Kurds in Iraq, and the intervention and prevention of genocide, as well as updated information on the majority of the genocides examined in this book. Also includes 14 maps.

Civil Service Arithmetic Vocabulary or Nolos Guide to Social Security Disability

2009-01-09T10:51:00.000-08:00

Civil Service Arithmetic & Vocabulary

Author: Arco

A crucial step in getting a civil service job is a great score on the entry-level civilservice exam. Basic math and English usage are two skill areas where many test-takers could use the most help. Detailed subject review and up-to-date practice material make this self-tutorial the first choice for job seekers looking for work with federal, state, local, and municipal governments.

Two mini math tests
In-depth skill reviews of all relevant math and verbal concepts
Vocabulary-building exercises
Tips and advice for finding a government job
A list of over 1,300 words that may appear on the test

Nolo's Guide to Social Security Disability: Getting and Keeping Your Benefits

Author: David Morton

Apply for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and get the most assistance from the system

Nolo's Guide to Social Security Disability is an essential book for anyone dealing with a long-term or permanent disability. Written both for first-time applicants and existing recipients of Social Security disability, the book demystifies the program and tells you everything you need to know about qualifying and applying for benefits, maintaining your benefits and appealing the denial of a claim. This comprehensive guide also explains:

•what Social Security disability is
•what benefits are available to disabled children
•how to prove a disability
•how age, education and work experience affect benefits
•whether or not one can work while receiving benefits
•how to appeal a denial of benefits
•how to respond to a Continuing Disability Review
•and much more

Plus: Written by a former Chief Medical Consultant for the Social Security Administration, the book includes a CD-ROM that provides-in-depth medical listings to help you determine whether your condition will qualify you to receive disability payments. It covers breathing disabilities, heart disease, mental disorders, speech impairments, cancer, immune system disorders -- and much more.

The 4th edition is completely updated with the latest rules, information--and medical listings, including a discussion on online forms and the new Quick Disability Determination Unit, which processes claims more quickly.

The Wall Street Journal

A thorough analysis and discussion of the requirements to qualify for Social Security disability benefits. The author is a physician who was formerly a chief medical consultant for the Social Security Administration.

Reference & Research Book News

Guides applicants and recipients through one of the world's largest bureaucracies.

What People Are Saying

Carl Dye
"The most significant addition in many years to our Continuing Education curriculum for re-certification of RNs, rehabilitation professionals and counselors."--(Carl Dye, President, American Schools Association)

The Souls of Black Folk or The Great Experiment

2009-01-08T23:38:00.000-08:00

The Souls of Black Folk

Author: W E B Du Bois

This landmark in the literature of black protest eloquently affirms that it is beneath the dignity of a human being to beg for those rights that belong inherently to all mankind.

New York Times Book Review

The Souls of Black Folk throws much light upon the complexities of the negro problem, for it shows that the key note of at least some negro aspiration is still the abolition of the social color line. -- New York Times review, April 1903; Books of the Century

Sacred Fire

Herein lie buried many things, which if read with patience may show the strange meaning of being black here in the dawning of the Twentieth Century.

Born in Massachusetts in 1868, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was the foremost black intellectual of his time—and mind you, his time stretched all the way from Reconstruction to the civil rights movement of the 1960s. A man of staggering intellect and drive, he was the first black to hold a doctorate from Harvard University. Du Bois wrote three historical works, two novels, two autobiographies, and sixteen pioneering books on sociology, history, politics, and race relations. He was a founder of the NAACP, pioneering Pan-Africanist, spirited advocate for world peace, and tireless fighter for civil rights during the darkest days of Jim Crow.

Du Bois was also a prophet: At the turn of the century, he wrote in the "forethought" of this seminal collection of essays that "the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line." That statement has resonated throughout this turbulent century and remains just as fresh today as in 1903. The Souls of Black Folk, a collection of fourteen powerfully written essays that are by turn testimony and autobiography, stands as a monumental achievement and quite possibly his most influential work. The book is both a vivid portrait of the conditions facing freshly emancipated black folk at the turn of the century and a still-relevant discussion of the dilemma of race in the United States. It was here that Du Bois introduced his influential concept of "double-consciousness": the struggle of black people trying to define themselves as both black and American.

What makes these unflinching, luminous, and troublesome essays so powerful is that each builds upon the other to try to answer questions about race that have perplexed, enraged, and divided America for over a century. Written in part to counter Booker T. Washington's prevailing strategy of accommodation, The Souls of Black Folk created a fresh way of looking at and protesting the multifaceted oppression of black people.

Library Journal

Du Bois's 1903 classic is one of many large-print standards being released by Transaction. Other new titles in the series include Sir Walter Scott's Rob Roy (ISBN 1-56000-523-8), Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (ISBN 1-56000-517-3), H.G. Wells's The Island of Dr. Moreau (ISBN 1-56000-515-7), Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey (ISBN 1-56000-507-8), E.M. Forster's A Passage to India (ISBN 1-56000-507-6), and Scott Fitzgerald's The Ice Palace and Other Stories (ISBN 1-56000-511-4). These are available in a mixture of paperback and hardcovers, with prices ranging from $17.95 to $24.95.

What People Are Saying

Langston Hughes
My earliest memories of written words are of those of Du Bois and the Bible.

	Biographical Note
	Introduction
	The Forethought
I	Of Our Spiritual Strivings	3
II	Of the Dawn of Freedom	15
III	Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others	43
IV	Of the Meaning of Progress	62
V	Of the Wings of Atalanta	76
VI	Of the Training of Black Men	89
VII	Of the Black Belt	111
VIII	Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece	136
IX	Of the Song of Master and Man	164
X	Of the Faith of the Fathers	190
XI	Of the Passing of the First-Born	209
XII	Of Alexander Crummell	217
XIII	Of the Coming of John	230
XIV	Of the Sorrow Songs	252
	The Afterthought	268

Go to: The Secret History of the War on Cancer or Against Depression

The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the Quest for a Global Nation

Author: Strobe Talbott

This dramatic narrative of breathtaking scope and riveting focus puts the "story" back into history. It is the saga of how the most ambitious of big ideas -- that a world made up of many nations can govern itself peacefully -- has played out over the millennia. Humankind's "Great Experiment" goes back to the most ancient of days -- literally to the Garden of Eden -- and into the present, with an eye to the future.

Strobe Talbott looks back to the consolidation of tribes into nations -- starting with Israel -- and the absorption of those nations into the empires of Hammurabi, the Pharaohs, Alexander, the Caesars, Charlemagne, Genghis Khan, the Ottomans, and the Hapsburgs, through incessant wars of territory and religion, to modern alliances and the global conflagrations of the twentieth century.

He traces the breakthroughs and breakdowns of peace along the way: the Pax Romana, the Treaty of Westphalia, the Concert of Europe, the false start of the League of Nations, the creation of the flawed but indispensable United Nations, the effort to build a "new world order" after the cold war, and America's unique role in modern history as "the master builder" of the international system.

Offering an insider's view of how the world is governed today, Talbott interweaves through this epic tale personal insights and experiences and takes us with him behind the scenes and into the presence of world leaders as they square off or cut deals with each other. As an acclaimed journalist, he covered the standoff between the superpowers for more than two decades; as a high-level diplomat, he was in the thick of tumultuous events in the 1990s, when the bipolar equilibrium gave way to chaos inthe Balkans, the emergence of a new breed of international terrorist, and America's assertiveness during its "unipolar moment" -- which he sees as the latest, but not the last, stage in the Great Experiment.

Talbott concludes with a trenchant critique of the worldview and policies of George W. Bush, whose presidency he calls a "consequential aberration" in the history of American foreign policy. Then, looking beyond the morass in Iraq and the battle for the White House, he argues that the United States can regain the trust of the world by leading the effort to avert the perils of climate change and nuclear catastrophe.

Publishers Weekly

Talbott, deputy secretary of state in the Clinton administration, makes an eloquent but predictable appeal for progress toward "global governance" under the auspices of the United Nations, which he sees as humanity's destined path since tribes began forming states, and since states have sought an alternative to international anarchy. The major obstacle to the new order, according to Talbott (Engaging India), is the United States, whose massive power and individualist principles encourage its citizens to regard limiting national authority as unnatural. In the face of cultural resistance, however, presidents from Franklin Roosevelt to Bill Clinton regarded some form of world authority as both a natural development in a nuclear era and a useful element of U.S. foreign policy. The villain of the piece, not surprisingly, is George W. Bush, who Talbott claims asserted America's right to make and enforce rules for other nations, rejected facts that did not support his preconceptions and ignored advice from more experienced foreign-policy hands. The resulting havoc wrought by "triumphalism" and "evangelism," according to the author, will require the careful attention of wiser, more temperate people, presumably in a Democratic administration. While the roots of Talbott's argument run deep, it echoes so much conventional wisdom on the subject that its impact is likely to be minimal. (Jan.)

Kirkus Reviews

Trying to get a rogue state to behave the way one likes is a messy business. It's a touch easier when the nations of the world join you. It's near impossible when you try to go it alone. Thus, in a nutshell, is the arc of the latest exercise in geopolitics by former Clinton Deputy Secretary of State and current Brookings Institution president Talbott (Engaging India: Diplomacy, Democracy, and the Bomb, 2004, etc.), a fluent, smart observer of the international scene. The presumed premise of the book isn't exactly earth-shattering. The growth of the nation-state from its clannish and tribal origins has been well documented in thousands of previous studies, though the historically minded reader may well enjoy recalling the many successes of the medieval Hanseatic League, committed to the notion of international peace in the interest of commerce. It is always useful, too, to be reminded why the United Nations came into being and of the "lofty but elusive goals" it is meant to pursue and sometimes attains. Yet all of that is prelude to the heart of Talbott's argument, a withering assessment of current U.S. foreign policy. The author admits to not liking Bush and recounts Bush's clear dislike of him. Thus, while there is no danger of Greenspanian out-of-left-field revelations, neither is there reason to expect Talbott to find much right with the way things are going. He doesn't. He does turn in a few nice surprises, though, including an account of a meeting with Pentagon top brass in which the absence of multilateralism is sorely missed, a solid appreciation for Bush the Elder as just the sort of multilateralist that ought to be missed and a sharp study of the deep dislike for former UNambassador Josh Bolton within the state department. Bush's policies, Talbott concludes, are "an aberration in the evolution of American internationalism," likely to be corrected but still liable to do much harm to the nation and the world. This book makes for lucid dissent. Agent: Esther Newberg/ICM

The Gift of Valor or Takedown

2009-01-08T13:26:00.000-08:00

The Gift of Valor: A War Story

Author: Michael M Phillips

Every day ordinary young Americans are fighting and dying in Iraq, with the same bravery, honor, and sense of duty that have distinguished American troops throughout history. One of these is Jason Dunham, a twenty-two-year-old Marine corporal from the one-stoplight town of Scio, New York, whose stunning story reporter Michael M. Phillips discovered while he was embedded with a Marine infantry battalion in the Iraqi desert. Corporal Dunham was on patrol near the Syrian border, on April 14, 2004, when a black-clad Iraqi leaped out of a car and grabbed him around his neck. Fighting hand-to-hand in the dirt, Dunham saw his attacker drop a grenade and made the instantaneous decision to place his own helmet over the explosive in the hope of containing the blast and protecting his men. When the smoke cleared, Dunham’s helmet was in shreds, and the corporal lay face down in his own blood. The Marines beside him were seriously wounded. Dunham was subsequently nominated for the Congressional Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest award for military valor.

Phillips’s minute-by-minute chronicle of the chaotic fighting that raged throughout the area and culminated in Dunham’s injury provides a grunt’s-eye view of war as it’s being fought today—fear, confusion, bravery, and suffering set against a brotherhood forged in combat. His account of Dunham’s eight-day journey home and of his parents’ heartrending reunion with their son powerfully illustrates the cold brutality of war and the fragile humanity of those who fight it. Dunham leaves an indelible mark upon all who know his story, from the doctors and nurses who treat him, to the readersof the original Wall Street Journal article that told of his singular act of valor.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"Thanks to Phillips' clear, dispassionate prose, Dunham ... is becoming a symbol of the Marines."

U.S. Naval Institute - Proceedings Magazine

"Stands head and shoulders above previous Iraq books and will quickly [become] a 'must-read.'"

Armchair General Magazine

"If you have any desire to learn about the Marines, this book is well worth your time."

New York Times Book Review

Affecting.Moving.

Library Journal

In April 2004, Marine corporal Jason Dunham gave his life to save his comrades in Iraq. Now there's talk of a Congressional Medal of Honor-the first awarded in over a decade. A Wall Street Journal reporter tells the story. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

School Library Journal

Adult/High School-This expanded retelling of a front-page story that originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal serves as a memorable narrative tribute to the life and death of U.S. Marine Corporal Jason Dunham. At age 22, serving in Iraq near the Syrian border with the Third Battalion, Seventh Marine Regiment, Dunham suffereda grievous head injury when he clampedhis bullet-resistant Kevlar helmet over a live grenade thrust at him by an insurgent during hand-to-hand combat, in an apparent effort to contain the blast and protect his squadmates. Phillips, an embedded journalist with the Marines, subsequently interviewed the corporal's parents, his childhood friends in Scio, NY, members of his infantry unit, and medical personnel who tended him both in Iraq and during the medevac flights to Germany and Bethesda Naval Hospital. These interviews reconstruct the emotional, significant ways in which the young man's life and plight affected relatives, neighbors, and comrades in arms. The context of his upbringing serves as a backdrop to his developing military leadership style, and the scant number of years that separate his teenage experiences from grimly serious battlefield conditions will undoubtedly catch the attention of readers. He has been nominated for the Congressional Medal of Honor. This realistic, gritty portrayal of loss and its aftermath personalizes events behind daily headlines, but remains descriptive rather than political in its point of view.-LynnNutwell, Fairfax City Regional Library, VA Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

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Takedown: The Fall of the Last Mafia Empire

Author: Rick Cowan

The bestselling true story of a young NYPD detective's life-or-death undercover odyssey that led to the biggest mob takedown in New York City history.

Publishers Weekly

In 1992, New York City detective Cowan was investigating a truck bombing at a Brooklyn garbage transfer station when the "mobbed-up" thugs responsible for the crime showed up to further intimidate Sal Benedetto, the facility's owner. Thinking fast, Benedetto introduced Cowan as his "Cousin Danny," thereby averting disaster-and allowing Cowen entry into a landmark investigation in which he went undercover as Danny Benedetto to expose the Mafia's billion-dollar monopoly of the city waste removal business. By the time the grand jury indictments were handed down, Cowan had spent years on the case, helped put away dozens of mobsters and incurred lasting emotional trauma from the strain of leading a double life. Recalling it here in vivid, riveting detail, Cowan (aided by journalist Century) reconstructs a time when he was deeper undercover in the garbage "cartel" than any city cop had ever been, with the close calls to prove it. Whether he's boosting a wiseguy's car to plant a bug, navigating confrontations with goons wielding two-by-fours and baseball bats or suffering through a Mafia Christmas party with a malfunctioning radio transmitter burning into his leg, Cowan's exploits play on the page like scenes from a well-mounted mob movie. The Hollywood producer with the rights to his story won't have to spend a penny juicing it up: this is a well-told, gripping tale of a heroic investigation. (Oct. 28) Copyright 2003 Cahners Business Information.

The Constitution in Exile or Evita

2009-01-08T00:14:00.000-08:00

The Constitution in Exile: How the Federal Government Has Seized Power by Rewriting the Supreme Law of the Land

Author: Andrew P Napolitano

What ever happened to our inalienable rights?

The Constitution was once the bedrock of our country, an unpretentious parchment that boldly established the God-given rights and freedoms of America. Today that parchment has been shred to ribbons, explains Fox News senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew P. Napolitano, as the federal government trounces state and individual rights and expands its reach far beyond what the Framers intended.

An important follow-up to Judge Napolitano's best-selling Constitutional Chaos, this book shows with no-nonsense clarity how Congress has "purchased" regulations by bribing states and explains how the Supreme Court has devised historically inaccurate, logically inconsistent, and even laughable justifications to approve what Congress has done.

It's an exciting excursion into the dark corners of the law, showing how do-gooders, busybodies, and control freaks in government disregard the limitations imposed upon Congress by the Constitution and enact laws, illegal and unnatural, in virtually every area of human endeavor.

Praise for The Constitution in Exile from Left, Right, and Center

"Does anyone understand the vision of America's founding fathers? The courts and Congress apparently don't have a clue. But Judge Andrew P. Napolitano does, and so will you, if you read The Constitution in Exile."-BILL O'REILLY

"Whatever happened to states rights, limited government, and natural law? Judge Napolitano, in his own inimitable style, takes us on a fascinating tour of the destruction of constitutional government. If you want to know how thefederal government got so big and fat, read this book. Agree or disagree, this book will make you think."-SEAN HANNITY

"In all of the American media, Judge Andrew P. Napolitano is the most persistent, uncompromising guardian of both the letter and the spirit of the Constitution, very much including the Bill of Rights. Increasingly, our Constitution is in clear and present danger. Judge Napolitano--in The Constitution in Exile--has challenged all Americans across party lines to learn the extent of this constitutional crisis." -NAT HENTOFF

"Judge Napolitano engages here in what I do every day on my program-make you think. There's no question that potential Supreme Court nominees and what our Constitution says and doesn't say played a major role for many voters in our last couple of elections. What the judge does here is detail why the federal government claims it can regulate as well as tax everything in sight as it grows and grows. Agree or disagree with him-you need to read his latest book, think, and begin to arm yourself as you enter this important debate." -RUSH LIMBAUGH

"At a time when we are, in Benjamin Franklin's words, sacrificing essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, here comes the judge with what should be mandatory reading for the executive branch cronies who are busy stealing power while they think we're not watching. Thank goodness the judge is watching and speaking truth to power. More than a book, this is an emergency call to philosophical arms, one we must heed before it's too late." -ALAN COLMES

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Evita: The Real Life of Eva Peron

Author: Nicholas Fraser

In the colorful, tumultuous setting of postwar Argentina, Eva Peron wielded a power--spiritual and practical--that has few parallels outside of hereditary monarchy. In this "fascinating, frightening, straightforward" (Cleveland Plain Dealer) biography, Fraser and Navarro have produced "a work of great political sophistication. . . . Factual, nuanced, and absorbing" (Kirkus Reviews). Photos.

Publishers Weekly

Biography of the mythic Argentinian whose life is also the subject of a forthcoming movie starring Madonna. (Oct.)

Your Money Counts or Guide to Computer Forensics and Investigations Third Edition

2009-01-07T13:00:00.000-08:00

Your Money Counts

Author: Howard L JrHoward L Dayton Jr

Suffocating materialism is robbing people of their spiritual vitality. This book addresses the profound impact that handling money has on a person's relationship with God.

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Guide to Computer Forensics and Investigations, Third Edition

Author: Bill Nelson

Master the skills necessary to launch and complete a successful computer investigation with the updated edition of this highly successful book, Guide to Computer Forensics and Investigations. This text will teach readers how to conduct a high-tech investigation, from acquiring digital evidence to reporting its findings. Coverage includes how to set up a forensics lab, how to acquire the proper and necessary tools, and how to conduct the investigation and subsequent digital analysis. The comprehensive coverage and detailed know-how led to the book being listed as recommended reading by the FBI Forensics Communications the United States Certified reading room. The book features free downloads of the latest forensic software, so students become familiar with the tools of the trade.

Murdered by Mumia or Vision for 2012

2009-01-07T00:47:00.000-08:00

Murdered by Mumia: A Life Sentence of Loss, Pain, and Injustice

Author: Maureen Faulkner

Maureen Faulkner's husband, Philadelphia police office Danny Faulkner, was shot between the eyes on a cold December night in 1981. Mumia Abu-Jamal was unanimously convicted of the crime by a racially mixed jury based on: the testimony of several eyewitnesses, his ownership of the murder weapon, matching ballistics, and Abu-Jamal's own confession.
After his conviction, however, a national anti-death penalty movement was started to "Free Mumia;" Mike Farrell, Ed Asner, Whoopi Goldberg, and Jesse Jackson rallied on his behalf, and led the charge. For his part, while on death row, Abu-Jamal published several books, delivered radio commentaries, was a college commencement speaker, found himself named an Honorary Citizen of France, and had his defense coffers enhanced by ticket sales from a sold out (16,000-person) concert featuring Rage Against the Machine.
Here, from Maureen Faulkner and acclaimed talk show host / journalist Michael Smerconish, is the first book to carefully and definitively lay out the case against Abu-Jamal, and those who've elevated him to the status of political prisoner. Smerconish, a lawyer, has provided pro bono legal counsel to Faulkner for over a decade and knows both the legal intricacies and personal subtleties of the case like no other person. He's personally acquainted himself with the more than five thousand pages of trial transcript. "My reading starkly revealed that Abu-Jamal murdered Danny Faulkner in cold blood and that the case tried in Philadelphia in 1982 bore no resemblance to the one being home-cooked by the Abu-Jamal defense team."
As Abu-Jamal's lawyers contemplate their final appeal, Faulkner and Smerconish weave a compelling,never-before-told account of one fateful night and the 25-year-long rewriting of history.

What People Are Saying

Buzz Bissinger
"This is a harrowing book, told with uncommon grace and dignity. Maureen Faulkner is an incredible woman. The story she tells, of being denied for more than a quarter century the dignity of burying her police officer husband in peace, is even more incredible."--(Buzz Bissinger - Author of Friday Night Lights)

Foreword   Michael A. Smerconish, Esq.     vii
The Premonition     1
The Knock     4
With His Boots On     17
Facts     22
Spin     26
The Trial     29
Danny and Me     50
Time To Rebuild     67
The Yale Law Journal     72
Radio Waves     78
Harrisburg     87
Tom Snyder     94
Murderer's Manuscript     97
Washington     101
California Dreamin'     106
Paul     109
Tom Ridge     119
Hollywood and the New York Times     121
The 1995 PCRA Hearing     129
American Lawyer Magazine     148
The Bruderhof     161
HBO     167
The 1996 PCRA Hearing     179
Temple Radio     189
Santa Cruz     192
The 1997 PCRA Hearing     198
A San Francisco Treat     203
KGO-TV     207
The New York Times Ad for Danny     216
Hollywood's Unlikely Hero     223
The Oakland Teach-In     233
Rage Against the Machine     235
Mumia Money     241
Philip Bloch     246
Amor Patriae Ducit     252
Hog Wild     257
Back to School     260
Cheesesteaks and Joey Vento     264
Berkeley Book Burning     267
Gerald Nicosia     270
Judge Yohn's Decision     272
The French     277
The O'Reilly Factor     283
Tookie and the Terminator     287
Twenty-fifth Anniversary: Gone but Never Forgotten     290
Acknowledgments     302
Appendix     307
Endnotes     321
Index     341

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Vision for 2012: Planning for Extraordinary Global Change

Author: Petersen

Many believe that the world is entering a time of monumental historic change that will accelerate between now and 2012. Our leaders need to be prepared to address life-altering events such as a rapid climate change, a severe restriction of the oil supply, a tipping point in the global financial system, a bird flu epidemic, or a new level of sophistication among terrorists, argues noted futurist John Petersen in this timely and insightful essay. Finding America's Future shows how the effectiveness of the new administration that takes office in 2009, and the future of the nation, depends upon whether our leaders grasp the extraordinary significance of what lies ahead.

The White Rose or The Road to Serfdom

2009-01-06T14:34:00.000-08:00

The White Rose

Author: Inge Scholl

In February 1943, three students from the White Rose, an anti-Nazi resistance group in Munich, were beheaded by order of the People's Court of the Third Reich.

The White Rose is largely forgotten today. After all, the group was tiny, and it grew only a short while before being brutally extinguished. Yet obscure as it was, the White Rose continues to intrigue and inspire.

As the story of a group of young people who courageously refused to swim with the stream, it gains a relevance that is of utmost significance for our time.

"The existence of an organized resistance in Germany during the Third Reich has often been glossed over or ignored . . . Now for the first time this fascinating story, told by the surviving sister of two of the students, is available in accurate and readable English"

Book review: The Coming of the Third Reich or Long Road Home

The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents--the Definitive Edition

Author: Bruce Caldwell

An unimpeachable classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in 1944—when Eleanor Roosevelt supported the efforts of Stalin, and Albert Einstein subscribed lock, stock, and barrel to the socialist program—The Road to Serfdom was seen as heretical for its passionate warning against the dangers of state control over the means of production. For F. A. Hayek, the collectivist idea of empowering government with increasing economic control would lead not to a utopia but to the horrors of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.

First published by the University of Chicago Press on September 18, 1944, The Road to Serfdom garnered immediate, widespread attention. The first printing of 2,000 copies was exhausted instantly, and within six months more than 30,000 books were sold. In April 1945, Reader’s Digest published a condensed version of the book, and soon thereafter the Book-of-the-Month Club distributed this edition to more than 600,000 readers. A perennial best seller, the book has sold 400,000 copies in the United States alone and has been translated into more than twenty languages, along the way becoming one of the most important and influential books of the century.

With this new edition, The Road to Serfdom takes its place in the series The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek. The volume includes a foreword by series editor and leading Hayek scholar Bruce Caldwell explaining the book's origins and publishing history andassessing common misinterpretations of Hayek's thought. Caldwell has also standardized and corrected Hayek's references and added helpful new explanatory notes. Supplemented with an appendix of related materials ranging from prepublication reports on the initial manuscript to forewords to earlier editions by John Chamberlain, Milton Friedman, and Hayek himself, this new edition of The Road to Serfdom will be the definitive version of Friedrich Hayek's enduring masterwork.

Editorial Foreword     ix
Introduction     1
The Road to Serfdom
Preface to the Original Editions     37
Foreword to the 1956 American Paperback Edition     39
Preface to the 1976 Edition     53
Introduction     57
The Abandoned Road     65
The Great Utopia     76
Individualism and Collectivism     83
The "Inevitability" of Planning     91
Planning and Democracy     100
Planning and the Rule of Law     112
Economic Control and Totalitarianism     124
Who, Whom?     134
Security and Freedom     147
Why the Worst Get on Top     157
The End of Truth     171
The Socialist Roots of Naziism     181
The Totalitarians in Our Midst     193
Material Conditions and Ideal Ends     210
The Prospects of International Order     223
Conclusion     237
Bibliographical Note     239
Related Documents
Nazi-Socialism (1933)     245
Reader's Report   Frank Knight (1943)     249
Reader's Report   Jacob Marschak (1943)     251
Foreword to the 1944 AmericanEdition   John Chamberlain     253
Letter from John Scoon to C. Hartley Grattan (1945)     255
Introduction to the 1994 Edition   Milton Friedman     259
Acknowledgments     267
Index     269

I	National narratives
1	Amazonian imaginaries	27
2	Crude excesses	57
II	Petroleum politics
3	Neoliberal ironies	91
4	Corporate antipolitics	118
III	Raced realities
5	Contested terrain	149
6	Liberal legal-scapes	182
	Closing : a plurinational space	211

	Preface
	Prologue: The View from Futures Past	1
Chapter 1	Sunshine or Noir?	15
Chapter 2	Power Lines	99
Chapter 3	Homegrown Revolution	151
Chapter 4	Fortress L.A.	221
Chapter 5	The Hammer and the Rock	265
Chapter 6	New Confessions	323
Chapter 7	Junkyard of Dreams	373
	Index	441

	Foreword
Ch. 1	A finance legend	1
Ch. 2	Seventy-six	11
Ch. 3	The power of the Fed	29
Ch. 4	Chairman	47
Ch. 5	Youth	71
Ch. 6	School days	95
Ch. 7	Hardship	113
Ch. 8	Difficult choices	139
Ch. 9	The fallout	165
Ch. 10	Fly-fishing	185
	Epilogue	201
	Bibliography	207
	Notes	211
	Acknowledgments	237
	Index	239

	List of Illustrations
	Introduction
1	"A Hopeless Backwater"	3
2	Forming a New Coalition	37
3	Visions and Designs	66
4	"Where's Boston?"	89
5	Trial and Error	113
6	A New Beginning	150
7	"The Stars Were Right"	182
8	Progress and Populism	210
9	Changing Times	249
	Conclusion	284
	Notes	301
	Bibliography	331
	Index	335

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