Governing Health or The Fragmented World of the Social

Governing Health: The Politics of Health Policy

Author: Carol S Weissert

Governing Health examines health care policy making from a long-term, political perspective, describing how Congress, the president, special interest groups, bureaucracy, and state governments help define health policy problems and find politically feasible solutions. The third edition of this pathbreaking book is updated to cover recent legislative efforts, including the Medicare prescription drug benefit.

Praise for previous editions of Governing Health

Nancy Milio

This is a political science book that presents a comprehensive synthesis and analysis of the institutions and process of healthcare policymaking. It is based on a review and assessment of the literature and on some original research on the changes in healthcare policymaking over the last 50 years, through the mid-1990s. It includes a comparison of Federal and state policymaking and concludes with a prognosis for healthcare reform. The purpose is to provide a text written by political scientists for use in health politics courses. The authors are well-qualified, having done extensive and recognized research in healthcare policymaking. The book is appropriate for many audiences interested in understanding and acting in healthcare policy arenas. The book has a moderate number of charts, tables, and boxes that synthesize the text. It also has an extensive, 23-page bibliography and a list of acronyms. The font is rather small. This text provides interested audiences with as much useable detail and insight as they would need for applied purposes in the fields of health policy analysis, action, and education. It should prove a lasting reference for several years for theoretical and practical purposes in healthcare policy arenas as they now move between Federal and state governments, between public and private sectors, between elected officials and private interest groups, both commercial and voluntary, professional and public interest. The changing impact of the AMA over 50 years is among the policy influences that are highlighted.

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Reviewer: Nancy Milio, PhD, FAAN, FAPHA (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Public Health)
Description: This is a political science book that presents a comprehensive synthesis and analysis of the institutions and process of healthcare policymaking. It is based on a review and assessment of the literature and on some original research on the changes in healthcare policymaking over the last 50 years, through the mid-1990s. It includes a comparison of Federal and state policymaking and concludes with a prognosis for healthcare reform.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide a text written by political scientists for use in health politics courses. The authors are well-qualified, having done extensive and recognized research in healthcare policymaking.
Audience: The book is appropriate for many audiences interested in understanding and acting in healthcare policy arenas.
Features: The book has a moderate number of charts, tables, and boxes that synthesize the text. It also has an extensive, 23-page bibliography and a list of acronyms. The font is rather small.
Assessment: This text provides interested audiences with as much useable detail and insight as they would need for applied purposes in the fields of health policy analysis, action, and education. It should prove a lasting reference for several years for theoretical and practical purposes in healthcare policy arenas as they now move between Federal and state governments, between public and private sectors, between elected officials and private interest groups, both commercial and voluntary, professional and public interest. The changing impact of the AMA over 50 years is among the policy influences that are highlighted.

Booknews

Health policy, like all exercises in politics, is about the wielding of power, note Carol Weissert (political science, Michigan State U.) and William Weissert (health management and policy, U. of Michigan). They present the history of U.S. health care policy as the product of the American system of government, combining ideological polarization and party politics, the dynamics of congressional needs for reelection and vote-trading, the discretionary power of the bureaucracy in its dealings with government and the public, the well- financed influence of health interests, and the budget and reconciliation process. Their work is divided into two sections that first describe the institutions of government and the interactions of structures and motivations and then explore the actual policy process itself. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

Presenting health care policy as the product of the American system of government, this volume provides a synthesis of political science research on the institutions of government and the policy process, and an extensive review of the policies that have governed health care for a generation or more. Paper edition (unseen), $24.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
I	Health Policy and Institutions
1	Congress	15
2	The Presidency	72
3	Interest Groups	110
4	Bureaucracy	154
5	States and Health Care Reform	192
II	Health and the Policy Process
6	The Policy Process	245
7	Applying Theory to Reality: The Case of the Balanced Budget Act	281
	Conclusion	318
	List of Abbreviations	329
	References	331
	Index	361

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The Fragmented World of the Social: Essays in Social and Political Philosophy

Author: Axel Honneth

The essays in this book weave together insights and arguments from such diverse traditions as German critical theory, French philosophy and social theory, and recent Anglo-American moral and political theory, offering a unique approach to the political and theoretical consequences of the modernism/postmodernism discussion. Through an analysis of central themes in classical Marxism and early critical theory, the author shows how recent work in a variety of traditions converges on the need to question familiar distinctions between material production and culture, the public and the private, and the political and the social, and to reconsider the conceptions of agency and power that have informed them.

Views from the South or Right Answers

Views from the South: The Effects of Globalization and the Wto on Third World Countries

Author: Sarah Anderson

Ever since the `Battle in Seattle,` the World Trade Organization has been featured prominently in the news. For all their talk of being dedicated to the welfare of the Third World, the WTO has damaged the economies of several countries and encouraged the growth of labor markets that more closely resemble sweat shops. Third World activists/scholars Martin Knor, Walden Bello, Vandana Shiva, Dot Keet, Sara Larrain, and Oronto Douglas examine the effects of the WTO and provide alternative agendas geared towards people, not profits.

Booknews

This book is comprised primarily of four long essays: Martin Khor's "How the South is Getting a Raw Deal at the WTO"; Walden Bello's "Building an Iron Cage: Bretton Woods Institutions, the WTO, and the South"; Vandana Shiva's "War Against Nature and the People of the South"; and Dot Keet's "Implications for Developing Countries and Least Developed Countries." Opening the volume is Jerry Mander's foreword and closing the volume are two close-ups of Nigeria and Chile, and an afterword by Anuradha Mittal. All the contributors are part of different environmental and human rights organizations in Nigeria, Thailand, Malaysia, South Africa, Nigeria, India, the US, and Chile, and all weighing in<-->at least when lives and living are at stake<-->against those Northern policies of "free" trade and globalization. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Foreword: The Resistance to Southern Perspectives	1
	How the South is Getting a Raw Deal at the WTO	7
	The WTO as an Instrument to Govern the South
	Difficulties for Developing Countries Generated by the WTO
	Agreements and Their Problems of Implementation
	The Need to Review and Repair the WTO Agreements
	Pressure for New Issues
	The Dangers of Four New Issues
	Other Issues at the Door: Environment and Labor
	Building an Iron Cage: Bretton Woods Institutions, the WTO, and the South	54
	The 1950s through the 1970s: Emergence of the Southern Agenda
	The 1980s and Early 1990s: Resubordination of the South
	The World Trade Organization: Sealing the Defeat of the South
	Strategy for Change
	War Against Nature and the People of the South	91
	Globalization of India's Agriculture
	The Driving Forces behind Globalization of Agriculture
	Implications for Developing Countries and Least Developed Countries	126
	Dashed Expectations in Developing Countries
	Abuses of the Multilateral Rules-based System by Developed Countries
	Marginalization for Least Developed Countries
	Future Implications for Developing Countries
	New Pressures from Developed Countries
	Millennial Challenges
	Further and More Fundamental Aims
	Two Cases of Corporate Rule	155
	The Case of Chile: Dictatorship and Neoliberalism
	The Case of Nigeria: Corporate Oil and Tribal Blood
	Afterword	164

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Right Answers: Short Takes on Big Issues: Separating Fact from Fantasy

Author: Alan Caruba

Collection of best columns that Alan Caruba has written about environmentalism, animal rights, energy issues, the education system, immigration policies, United Nations, Islamic Holy War and others. These columns have appeared in major newspapers, magazines and the internet.

Poisonous Affair or Almanac of Political Corruption Scandals and Dirty Politics

Poisonous Affair: America, Iraq, and the Gassing of Halabja

Author: Joost R Hiltermann

In March 1988, during the Iran-Iraq war, thousands were killed in a chemical attack on a town in Iraqi Kurdistan. Both sides accused the other. Gradually it emerged that Saddam Hussein, with the tacit support of his western allies, was responsible. This book tells the story of the gassing of Halabja, and how Iraq amassed chemical weapons to target Iranian soldiers and Kurdish villagers as America looked the other way. Today, as the Middle East sinks further into turmoil, these policies are coming back to haunt the West.

The Washington Post - Fawaz A. Gerges

Hiltermann's A Poisonous Affair is a chilling account of the gassing of Halabja, a village in Iraq's Kurdish region, in March 1988 and the subsequent counterinsurgency campaign known as Anfal ("The Spoils"), in which some 80,000 Kurdish civilians were driven from their homes by poison gas, hauled to transit centers, sorted by age and sex, and carted off to execution sites in Iraq's western desert…A Poisonous Affair shows clearly that U.S. policymakers knew Iraq had gassed Halabja but instructed American diplomats to cast partial blame on Iran. By Hiltermann's persuasive account, the United States sacrificed universal norms at the altar of Cold War calculations and short-term gain, a choice that set the stage for America's current deadly embrace with Iraq as well as for Iran's quest to develop weapons of mass destruction.

Books about: International Human Rights or Modern Weapons Caching

Almanac of Political Corruption, Scandals and Dirty Politics

Author: Kim Long

Watergate. Billygate. Iran-Contra. Teapot Dome. Monica Lewinsky.American history is marked by era-defining misdeeds, indiscretions, and the kind of tabloid-ready scandals that politicians seem to do better than anyone else. Now, for the first time, one volume brings together 300 years of political wrongdoing in an illustrated history of politicians gone wild—proving that today’s scoundrels aren’t the first, worst, and surely won’t be the last….

From high crimes to misdemeanors to moments of licentiousness and larceny, this unique compendium captures in complete, colorful detail the foibles, failings, peccadilloes, dirty tricks, and astounding blunders committed by politicians behaving badly. Amid stories of brawlers, plagiarists, sexual predators, tax evaders, and the temporarily insane, this almanac tells all about:

•The only (so far!) president to be arrested while in office: Ulysses S. Grant, who was allegedly issued a ticket for racing his horse and buggy through the streets of Washington, D.C.

•The former New Jersey state senator David J. Friedland, who disappeared during a scuba diving accident in 1985. It turns out he staged the accident and served nine years in prison after being captured in the Maldives.

•Tape-recorded instructions from highbrow president Franklin Delano Roosevelt on how his staff should carry out some low-down political tricks

•The bizarre story of U.S. congressman Robert Potter, who castrated two men he suspected of having affairs with his wife. Potter won election to the state house while in jail—but was kicked out for cheating at cards.

•Texascongressman Henry Barbosa Gonzalez: he was charged with assault in 1986 after he shoved and hit a man who called him a communist. Gonzalez was seventy years old at the time.

At once shocking and hilariously funny, here’s a book that exposes the history of American politics, warts and all—and makes for hours of jaw-dropping, fascinating, illuminating reading.

Differences That Matter or Kennedys

Differences That Matter: Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada

Author: Dan Zuberi

This book shines a spotlight on the causes and consequences of working poverty, revealing how the lives of low-wage workers are affected by differences in health care, labor, and social welfare policy in the United States and Canada. Dan Zuberi's conclusions are based on survey data, eighteen months of participant observation fieldwork, and in-depth interviews with seventy-seven hotel employees working in parallel jobs on both sides of the border. Two hotel chains, each with one union and one non-union hotel in Seattle and Vancouver, provide a vivid crossnational comparison because they are similar in so many regards, the one major exception being government policy.

Zuberi demonstrates how labor, health, social welfare, and public investment policy affect these hotel workers and their families. His book challenges the myth that globalization necessarily means hospitality jobs must be insecure and pay poverty wages and makes clear the critical role played by government policy in the reduction of poverty and creation of economic equality. Zuberi shows exactly where and how the social policies that distinguish the Canadian welfare state from the U.S. version make a difference in protecting Canadian workers from the hardships that burden low-wage workers in the United States. Differences that Matter, which is filled with first-person accounts, ends with policy recommendations and a call for grassroots community organizing.

About the Author:
Dan Zuberi is Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of British Columbia.

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Kennedys: An American Drama

Author: Peter Collier

The Kennedys are the most photographed, written about, admired, hated and controversial family in American history. But for all the words and pictures, the real story was not told until Peter Collier and David Horowitz spent years researching archives and interviewing family members and people close to the Kennedys. An immediate classic, The Kennedys: An American Drama brings the story of four generations of "America's family" fully into view.

Collier and Horowitz capture the fiery ambition, the mythic identity, the dynastic ebb and flow, and the corrosive underside of Camelot that led one young Kennedy to say, "We broke the rules and in turn we were broken by them." The Kennedys is a fascinating and brilliantly comprehensive history that brings together, for the first and only time, all the complex strains of the story of the Kennedys' rise and fall. The authors have updated the story with new material showing the effect of the death of John F. Kennedy Jr. and the other family tragedies of the last few years on the Kennedys and their mythic role in American life.

Table of Contents:

	Prologue	1
Part 1	Architect of Their Lives	5
Part 2	The Stand-In	117
Part 3	Brothers Within	231
Part 4	The Lost Boys	317
	Epilogue	405
	Afterword, 2001	414
	Bibliographic Note	424
	Reference Notes	429
	Index	514

Death of a Dissident or The Complete Book Of Police And Military Motorcycles

Death of a Dissident: The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGB

Author: Alex Goldfarb

The assassination of former Russian intelligence officer Alexander "Sasha" Litvinenko in November 2006 -- poisoned by the rare radioactive element polonium -- caused an international sensation. Within a few short weeks, the fit forty-three-year-old lay gaunt, bald, and dying in a hospital, the victim of a "tiny nuclear bomb." Suspicions swirled around Russia's FSB, the successor to the KGB, and the Putin regime. Traces of polonium radiation were found in Germany and on certain airplanes, suggesting a travel route from Russia for the carriers of the fatal poison. But what really happened? What did Litvinenko know? And why was he killed?

The full story of Sasha Litvinenko's life and death is one that the Kremlin does not want told. His closest friend, Alex Goldfarb, and his widow, Marina, are the only two people who can tell it all, from firsthand knowledge, with dramatic scenes from Moscow to London to Washington. Death of a Dissident reads like a political thriller, yet its story is more fantastic and frightening than any novel.

Ever since 1998, when Litvinenko denounced the FSB for ordering him to assassinate tycoon Boris Berezovsky, he had devoted his life to exposing the FSB's darkest secrets. After a dramatic escape to London with Goldfarb's assistance, he spent six years, often working with Goldfarb, investigating a widening series of scandals. Oligarchs and journalists have been assassinated. Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yuschenko was poisoned on the campaign trail. The war in Chechnya became unspeakably harsh on both sides. Sasha Litvinenko investigated all of it, and he denounced his former employers in no uncertain terms for their dirty deeds.

Death of a Dissident opens a window into the dark heart of the Putin Kremlin. With its strong-arm tactics, tight control over the media, and penetration of all levels of government, the old KGB is back with a vengeance. Sasha Litvinenko dedicated his life to exposing this truth. It took his diabolical murder for the world to listen.

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The Complete Book Of Police And Military Motorcycles

Author: Joseph Berk

From Pittsburgh's adoption of motorcycles for police use in 1909 to Gen. John J. "Black Jack" Pershing's 1916 pursuit of Pancho Villa into Mexican territory on Harley-Davidsons, Indians and Excelsiors to the deployment of motorcycles in both world wars, this book tells the fascinating tale of these magnificent machines from their 20th century beginnings to their current use by police departments and militaries throughout the world. Joseph Berk, author of The Gatling Gun, explores every aspect of police and military motorcycles, including the history of their manufacture by Harley-Davidson, Indian, Kawasaki, BMW, Honda and others; details of their procurement by selected U.S. police departments; critiques of the "Big Three" police models employed in the United States from officers who have put them to the test; a detailed outline of the intensive 10-day training program required of U.S. motor officers; an inside look at how specific police departments from Atlanta to L.A. utilize motorcycles on a day-to-day basis; and a look at the specific makes and models used by Special Forces and other military units from World War I through the turn of the century and beyond.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Chapter 1 - The Police Motorcycle Concept
Chapter 2 - The Big Three Police Motorcycle Manufacturers in the U.S. Market
Chapter 3 - Other Police Motorcycles Throughout the World
Chapter 4 - Motor Officer Training
Chapter 5 - Atlanta's Special Operations Section
Chapter 6 - The Dallas Police Department
Chapter 7 - The Los Angeles Police Department's Special Enforcement Unit
Chapter 8 - The Ontario, California, Police Department
Chapter 9 - American Motorcycles in World War II
Chapter 10 - German Motorcycles in World War II
Chapter 11 - Military Motorcycles Today
Chapter 12 - Military and Police Motorcycles Websites

Silent Takeover or Testimony

Silent Takeover: Global Capitalism and the Death of Democracy

Author: Noreena Hertz

Of the world's 100 largest economies, 51 are now corporations, only 49 are nation-states. The sales of General Motors and Ford are greater than the gross domestic product of the whole of sub-Saharan Africa, and Wal-Mart now has a turnover higher than the revenues of most of the states of Eastern Europe. Yet few of us understand fully the growing dominance of big business.

Widely acclaimed economist Noreena Hertz brilliantly reveals how corporations across the world manipulate and pressure governments by means both legal and illegal; how protest is becoming a more effective political weapon than the ballot-box; and how corporations are taking over from the state responsibility for everything from providing technology for schools to healthcare for the community.

The Silent Takeover asks us to recognize the growing contradictions of a world divided between haves and have-nots, of gated communities next to ghettos, of extreme poverty and unbelievable wealth. In the face of these unacceptable extremes, Noreena Hertz outlines a new agenda to revitalize politics and renew democracy.

Publishers Weekly

Cambridge University economist Hertz asserts that Reagan's and Thatcher's brand of free market capitalism has had dire social and political repercussions, although it has triumphed as the dominant world ideology and brought prosperity to many. She sensibly argues that with government in retreat from its traditional rule-setter role, multinational corporations have grown so powerful 51 of the hundred biggest economies in the world are corporations that they determine political policies rather than operate subject to them. Market success may rule, but Hertz laments that the state, in appearing to serve business, may be nullifying democracy's social contract to represent and protect the rights of all citizens equally. WTO protests and activism reinforce her sense of growing political discontent not only about income distribution effects (97% of the increase in income over the past 20 years in the U.S. has gone to the top 20% of the families) but also about human rights issues. Campaign finance realities, declining voter participation, increasing alienation and terrorism amid glowing corporate results represent an urgent cry for reform to Hertz. Since corporations are not designed and cannot be expected to serve a general population's social and political needs, she argues that democracies need to move toward a realignment between the state's political power and the corporations' economic power so that all people have a positive stake in world economic progress. Hertz maps out a proposed agenda, and her eloquent call to action deserves the attention of every concerned citizen of our troubled world. (June 17) Forecast: Concern about the unchecked influence of multinational corporations in the political sphere both nationally and internationally is a hot topic, and Hertz's credentials as a respected academic with a Wharton MBA and a pro-free market mindset reinforce her arguments. This book and Joseph Stiglitz's Globalization and Its Discontents (Forecasts, May 13) will catch the eye of those seeking to understand how business will and should be done responsibly in the future. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

What People Are Saying

Rosabeth Moss Kanter
The Silent Takeover is a powerful wake-up call to a sleeping citizenry. Noreena Hertz's wide-ranging, provocative, and important book will shape the debate about the role of business versus government for years to come.
— Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School, bestselling author of World Class and Evolve!: Succeeding in the Digital Culture of Tomorrow

George Soros
Noreena Hertz is one of the most forceful, passionate, and incisive writers to address the debate on globalization. Written with great clarity and intelligence, The Silent Takeover persuasively identifies the challenges facing business and government, and suggests a number of important changes to consider. This outstanding young woman is a voice to reckon with.

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Testimony: France, Europe, and the World in the Twenty-First Century

Author: Nicolas Sarkozy

In this important book from the newly elected president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy sets forth his personal vision of France's role in world affairs and his plans for modernizing the country and equipping it for the twenty-first century.

With unusual candor, President Sarkozy describes the difficulties France has faced in recent years—high unemployment, social tensions, inadequate education, a government that has not been responsive or responsible when confronting economic and social problems. In international relations, he calls for a new approach to the way France positions itself in the world. He is a great admirer of the United States, an unorthodox position for a French leader, and his vision for Europe is ambitious and far-reaching. His iconoclastic views on Israel and the Arab world, Africa, globalization, immigration, and the environment promise a sharp break with the past.

The ideas of France's new president are probably more daring, coherent, and compelling than those of any French leader in decades. Furthermore, he remains optimistic about France, insisting that the country is eager to embrace profound change. Bold, pragmatic, a risk-taker, President Sarkozy sets forth an exciting new direction for France as it enters the world of the twenty-first century.

Hmong in Minnesota or As It Was in the Beginning

Hmong in Minnesota

Author: Chia Youyee Vang

Minnesota has always been a land of immigrants. Successive waves have each made their own way, found their place, and made it their home. The Hmong are one of the most recent immigrant groups, and their remarkable and moving story is told in Hmong in Minnesota. Chia Youyee Vang reveals the colorful, intricate history of Hmong Minnesotans, many of whom were forced to flee their homeland of Laos when the communists seized power during the Vietnam War. Having assisted U.S. troops in the “Secret War,” Hmong soldiers and civilians were eligible to settle in the United States. Vang offers a unique window into the lives of the Minnesota Hmong through the stories of individuals who represent the experiences of many. One voice is that of Mao Heu Thao, one of the first refugees to come to Minnesota, sponsored by Catholic Charities in 1976. She tells of the unexpectedly cold weather, the strange food, and the kindness of her hosts. By introducing readers to the immigrants themselves, Hmong in Minnesota conveys a population’s struggle to adjust to new environments, build communities, maintain cultural practices, and make its mark on government policies and programs. Chia Youyee Vang was born in Laos and as a child escaped with her family to the United States. An assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, she specializes in the study of Hmong community-building efforts.

Table of Contents:

Foreword   Bill Holm     v
Hmong in Minnesota     1
A Brief History of the Hmong in Laos     1
Refugee Resettlement in the United States     9
Adjusting to Modern Life     21
Building Community     30
Cultural Practices     39
Achievements     54
Challenges     69
Conclusion     75
Personal Account: Reflections   Mao Heu Thao     77
For Further Reading     81
Notes     83
Index     87
Acknowledgments     92

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As It Was in the Beginning: The Coming Democratization of the Catholic Church

Author: McClory

Many assume the Catholic Church has always functioned with a top-down leadership model. But in this well-researched book, Robert McClory reveals that there have been long periods where lay people were consulted and had strong, leading voices. McClory also explains that a decentralized Chruch is around the corner and is inevitable. The books helps readers read the signs of the times to identify what is to come for the world's longest running corporation.

Bread Rising

As a church historian I enthusiastically recommend this book to inform and stimulate your late-night discussions about where the church has been and where and how it can possibly go. Here is your opportunity to pick a real winner!

Anna M. Donnelly - Library Journal

McClory (journalism, emeritus, Northwestern Univ.), who resigned from the priesthood in 1970, has published numerous articles (in the National Catholic Reporter, the Chicago Tribune, U.S. Catholic, and elsewhere) and several books on contemporary social issues debated within the Roman Catholic Church. Here, he handily documents lay movements developed since the 1960s and Vatican II to transition within the church from the traditional top-down leadership model toward a system of collaborative decision making. He recalls historical church councils and cites authorities such as Cyprian, third-century bishop of Carthage, who urged decisions to be made with the consent of the people, and 19th-century philosopher John Henry Cardinal Newman, who stressed the need for incorporating the sense and agreement of the faithful in matters of doctrine. He further documents the consequences of papal emphasis on ecumenism and the principle of subsidiarity, the growth of lay influence, and priest abuse scandals. Overall, McClory feels the time is now for a more democratized church. Recommended for public, academic, and religious collections.

The Republican War on Science or Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte

The Republican War on Science

Author: Chris Mooney

Science has never been more crucial to deciding the political issues facing the country. Yet science and scientists have less influence with the federal government than at any time since Richard Nixon fired his science advisors. In the White House and Congress today, findings are reported in a politicized manner; spun or distorted to fit the speaker’s agenda; or, when they’re too inconvenient, ignored entirely. On a broad array of issues-stem cell research, climate change, evolution, sex education, product safety, environmental regulation, and many others-the Bush administration’s positions fly in the face of overwhelming scientific consensus. Federal science agencies-once fiercely independent under both Republican and Democratic presidents-are increasingly staffed by political appointees who know industry lobbyists and evangelical activists far better than they know the science. This is not unique to the Bush administration, but it is largely a Republican phenomenon, born of a conservative dislike of environmental, health, and safety regulation, and at the extremes, of evolution and legalized abortion. In The Republican War on Science, Chris Mooney ties together the disparate strands of the attack on science into a compelling and frightening account of our government’s increasing unwillingness to distinguish between legitimate research and ideologically driven pseudoscience.

The New York Times - John Horgan

As the title indicates, Mooney's book is a diatribe, from start to finish. The prose is often clunky and clichйd, and it suffers from smug, preaching-to-the-choir self-righteousness. But Mooney deserves a hearing in spite of these flaws, because he addresses a vitally important topic and gets it basically right.

Kirkus Reviews

A litany of indictments of misuse and abuse by the current administration, painstakingly documented by a journalist who has made science and politics his beat. Mooney (a writer for Mother Jones, Slate, the Boston Globe) traces the "war on science" back to the Reagan days (remember Star Wars? acid rain? the ban on fetal tissue research?). He goes on to chronicle the anti-science movement that gained momentum in the Gingrich-led Congress of the '90s, which dismantled the Office of Technology Assessment and stacked hearings with fringe scientists ready to deny the ozone hole, global warming and dioxin risks. Mooney catalogues the players, the right-wing think tanks and the administration spokespeople who continue to deny a human role in global warming or species destruction, who argue that condoms are unsafe, that abortion is linked to breast cancer and that "Plan B" will encourage teen sex. Add to these abuses the litmus tests for candidates for government science advisory councils and political censoring of what gets posted as health information on the Web. Perhaps the most chilling quote is from a Ron Suskind interview with a "senior advisor," who defined Suskind and others as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality," adding, "That's not the way the world really works anyone. We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality." One can fault Mooney for damning all Republicans in the title-he admits there are the John McCains, for example, as well as problematic Democrats. Sharper editing to eliminate some repetitiveness would also help. Mooney has put the right-wing handwriting on the wall, and the prospect is scary.

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Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte: Volume II

Author: Louis Antonine De Bourrienn

This incredible set begins with Napoleon's birth in Corsica in 1769 and ends with his entombment in the Invalides in Paris in 1840, further set off by an additional section back of Volume IV, Napoleon's Will. (And, no, he didn't leave it all to Josephine. They divorced in 1809. Four months later, he married Archduchess Marie Louise. She didn't get anything either.) That aside, these four illustrated volumes include chronologies, text, letters, and many insights, both personal and professional, into the life and mind of a titan in world history.

People Before Profit or Brave New Neighborhoods

People Before Profit: The New Globalization in an Age of Terror, Big Money, and Economic Crisis

Author: Charles Derber

Has globalization failed us? The promises of economic stability, increased prosperity, and cultural cooperation seem more like a pipe dream than ever before. But rather than stop globalization, Charles Derber challenges us to rewrite its rules in order to fulfill its potential as an agent of democracy and global harmony. In this provocative and optimistic work, one of the first examinations of globalization after September 11, 2001, Derber argues that only a democratic cure--begun at the grassroots level--will end global terror and economic insecurity. People Before Profit provides an essential understanding of our world economy as well as a practical guide for building a stable and more equitable global community.

Tom Hayden

Derber makes sense of such numbing issues as globalization, terrorism and world poverty...

Noam Chomsky

A provocative and stimulating work, directed to issues of the highest significance.

Ralph Nader

Derber describes the realities that affect everyday life...and elaborately presents sensible solutions for strong democracies [and] just economies...

...this book is about the urgent need to re-invent globalization to create a safe, democratic, and economically secure world.

Charles Kernaghan

This is a remarkable book, which deconstructs the myths of the global economy...

Naomi Klein

With any luck, it will help kick start a much needed debate on he principles that should unite our world.

Edward M. Kennedy

His ideas will be of interest to everyone who wants to know more about these basic issues of our time.

John J. Sweeney

...a thoughtful and penetrating assessment of the global economy, the inequities it has generated, and the global justice movement...

Publishers Weekly

Sociologist Derber (Corporation Nation) has a breezy writing style, slightly more academic than that of Thomas Friedman, whom he invokes often in this critique of the increasing trend toward globalization. Where Friedman sees globalization as an inevitable process, Derber believes we can still change globalization's direction, eliminating its market-driven excesses to provide truly universal economic development. The goals he proposes-ending global poverty, promoting local democracy and culture, making businesses socially accountable and creating a framework for genuinely collective peace and stability-aren't new, nor is his observance that people all over the world are coming together to achieve those goals, but what his analysis lacks in originality, it makes up in accessibility. Despite Derber's optimism that American citizens will sympathize with the emphasis of "third-wave" activists on combating corporate corruption and influence over government, he does admit his insistence that "we cannot have global democracy in a world so thoroughly dominated by the United States" is likely to meet with mainstream resistance. Reaction to that frank assessment is likely to overshadow other discussion, such as Derber's cogent explanation of the threats that the WTO and IMF pose to local sovereignty, especially with regard to labor and environmental legislation, and his 25 suggestions for "what to do right now," simple actions that almost anyone can take to become politically aware and active. It's clear Derber wants to do more than preach to the choir and less clear that the public is ready to listen. (Dec. 1) Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Kirkus Reviews

An optimistic critique of globalization from Derber (Sociology/Boston Coll.; Corporation Nation, not reviewed). Despite the bluster of its proponents, the course of globalization is neither safe, democratic, nor economically secure, says Derber. This isn't because the system is inherently flawed or, as Thomas Friedman has it, outside of human intervention. Derber contends that globalization has within it the groundwork for a worldwide constitutional system that would allow active participants to think globally and act locally, pursue the basic set of human rights outlined in the UN Declaration of 1948, and seize the constitutional moment—aided by the technological innovation of instant global communication—at a time when "making history is a realistic prospect for ordinary people, as they find themselves caught up in seismic struggles over the basic rules of the world they inhabit." Today's globalization need be no more profit-driven, US-managed, or consumerist than, say, colonialism or the Gilded Age were socially flawed—those being examples of the fact that world systems have been with us since the beginning—if, as in Derber's scheme, a limited mega-government oversees global rights, with citizen-controlled national governments protecting participatory democracy on the local level and enforcing socially accountable global business standards. Obvious areas of reform include the antidemocratic, shadow governments of the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and World Trade Organization—though be it said that Derber is no conspiracy theorist, more a time-honored Social Democrat—as well as the tempering of the power grab by the US Fundamental in movingglobalization toward democracy is an informed, traveled, abolitionist, green, active citizenry, keen-eyed to all antidemocratic institutions and to interventionism and unilateralism. The effort "will involve engaging citizens not only in free and fair elections, but in active participation in local, national, and global politics through civic, grassroots, labor, feminist, and public-interest associations." Derber wants long-term stability, where accountability starts at and proceeds from the individual guided by the basic tenets of human decency.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: 911 globe	1
1	Globalization's Ghosts	23
2	Three Myths	35
3	One World Under Business	59
4	The American Umpire	80
5	The WTO and the Constitution	105
6	The UN, the Barbershop, and Global Democracy	127
7	A Global New Deal	143
8	People Power	170
9	Sleepless in Seattle	199
10	Global Democracy as Antiterrorism	234
	Epilogue: What To Do Right Now	271
	Notes	285
	Index	308

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Brave New Neighborhoods: The Privatization of Public Space

Author: Margaret Kohn

Fighting for First Amendment rights is as popular a pastime as ever, but just because you can get on your soapbox doesn't mean anyone will be there to listen. Town squares have emptied out as shoppers decamp for megamalls; gated communities keep pesky signature gathering activists away; even most internet chatrooms are run by the major media companies. Brave New Neighborhood s considers what can be done to protect and revitalize our public spaces.
In recent years, courts have upheld prohibitions preventing homeless people from begging in the subway, tenants from distributing newsletters to their neighbors, and activists from leafleting in front of the post office. Brave New Neighborhood s lays out the blueprints of the future towns these changes have created, and in this new geography, the First Amendment comes from the wrong side of the tracks.

Community Resources for Older Adults or The Basics of American Politics

Community Resources for Older Adults: Programs and Services in an Era of Change

Author: Robbyn R Wacker

Features and Benefits:

- Provides an overview of legislation that provides the foundation for aging related benefits and services

- Discusses theories that help predict service use, thus offering readers a framework to understand why older adults often do not use services

- Provides case studies that encourage critical thinking about the delivery and use of community resources

- Descrbes both public and private programs and services available to older adults, in-depth reviews of the current body of empirical literature in each program area, and discussions of the challenges programs and services will face in the future

- Includes best practice examples of community programs from around the country that illustrate unique ways to meet the needs of older adults

- Lists national organizations and Internet resources for each topic area

- Includes learning activities that challenge students to explore the community resources that exist in the reader's locale

Booknews

Community resources available to elderly Americans, including both public and private programs, are overviewed, theories on service use are discussed, and case studies that encourage critical thinking about the delivery and use of community services are presented in this book for professionals and students. Empirical literature in different program areas is reviewed, and legislation that provides the foundation for programs is explained. This second edition includes updated information on various programs and services such as the Older Americans Act, plus updated best practices and Web resources. Wacker is associate dean of the College of Health and Human Sciences and professor of gerontology at the University of Northern Colorado. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	About the Authors
	Acknowledgments
Pt. I	The Social Context of Community Resource Delivery
1	On the Threshold of a New Era	3
2	Legislative Foundations for Programs, Services, and Benefits Supporting Older Adults	13
3	Patterns of Service Use and Theories of Help-Seeking Behavior	36
Pt. II	Continuum of Services
4	Information and Referral	53
5	Volunteer and Intergenerational Programs	73
6	Education Programs	92
7	Senior Centers and Recreation	115
8	Employment Programs	135
9	Income Programs	152
10	Nutrition and Meal Programs	167
11	Health Care and Wellness	189
12	Mental Health Services	218
13	Legal Services	237
14	Transportation	261
15	Housing	285
16	Case Management	315
17	Home Care Services	335
18	Respite Services	355
19	Long-Term Care Services	373
Pt. III	Preparing for the Future
20	Programs and Services in on Era of Change	403
App	State Units on Aging	409
	References	417
	Index	455

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The Basics of American Politics

Author: Gary Wasserman

This brief, nuts-and-bolts introduction to American government has been a student favorite and a bestseller for over 30 years because of its lively, straight-forward approach to the basics, its brevity, and its always inexpensive price.

This text uses a dynamic game metaphor to engage students in the basics of the American political system and the contact sport of politics. Beginning with a clear definition of politics, it introduces four governmental and four nongovernmental “players” who must abide by the “rules of the game” established by the Constitution and civil liberties. It ends by examining rival theories of who wins and who loses in American politics. Written to engage students and lay a flexible foundation for instructors, The Basics of American Politics covers all the terms and topics behind the current news, situating politics in the classroom and beyond.

Human Rights Inc or Dragons at Your Door

Human Rights, Inc.: The World Novel, Narrative Form, and International Law

Author: Joseph Slaughter

In this timely study of the historical, ideological, and formal interdependencies of the novel and human rights, Joseph Slaughter demonstrates that the twentieth-century rise of "world literature" and international human rights law are related phenomena. Slaughter argues that international law shares with the modern novel a particular conception of the human individual. The Bildungsroman, the novel of coming of age, fills out this image, offering a conceptual vocabulary, a humanist social vision, and a narrative grammar for what the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and early literary theorists both call "the free and full development of the human personality."Revising our received understanding of the relationship between law and literature, Slaughter suggests that this narrative form has acted as a cultural surrogate for the weak executive authority of international law, naturalizing the assumptions and conditions that make human rights appear commonsensical. As a kind of novelistic correlative to human rights law, the Bildungsroman has thus been doing some of the sociocultural work of enforcement that the law cannot do for itself. This analysis of the cultural work of law and of the social work of literature challenges traditional Eurocentric histories of both international law and the dissemination of the novel. Taking his point of departure in Goethe's Wilhelm Meister, Slaughter focuses on recent postcolonial versions of the coming-of-age story to show how the promise of human rights becomes legible in narrative and how the novel and the law are complicit in contemporary projects of globalization: in colonialism, neoimperalism, humanitarianism, and the spread ofmultinational consumer capitalism.Slaughter raises important practical and ethical questions that we must confront in advocating for human rights and reading world literature-imperatives that, today more than ever, are intertwined.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments     vii
Preamble: The Legibility of Human Rights     1
Novel Subjects and Enabling Fictions: The Formal Articulation of International Human Rights Law     45
Becoming Plots: Human Rights, the Bildungsroman, and the Novelization of Citizenship     86
Normalizing Narrative Forms of Human Rights: The (Dys)Function of the Public Sphere     140
Compulsory Development: Narrative Self-Sponsorship and the Right to Self-Determination     205
Clefs a Roman: Reading, Writing, and International Humanitarianism     270
Codicil: Intimations of a Human Rights International: "The Rights of Man; or What Are We [Reading] For?"     317
Notes     329
Bibliography     389
Index     419

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Dragons at Your Door: How Chinese Cost Innovation Is Disrupting Global Competition

Author: Ming Zeng

The new competitive challenge from Chinese businesses is like nothing seen by Western companies since the Japanese arrived twenty years ago with their cars and consumer electronics. To fend off these fierce competitors, managers must forget yesterday's image of Chinese companies as producers of cheap, low-quality imitations flooding world markets. In fact, by strategically implementing what the authors call cost innovation, Chinese firms are advancing into high-end products and industries and competing for such high-value activities as engineering, design, and even R&D.

The first book to examine this new competitive force, Dragons at Your Door exposes the strategies, strengths, and weaknesses of these fast-rising Chinese competitors, surfaces the underlying logic that enables Chinese firms to attack high-end industries, and provides critical new insight into these very different competitors.

The New York Times

These companies are hiring people from anywhere in the world...[they]have different strategies, reflecting their strengths . . .

Financial Executive

Among the books assessing the impact of the Chinese surge into global markets [book] deserves a high ranking.

Strategy & Business

. . . a timely book . . .

Publishers Weekly

According to business professors Zeng (of Cheung Kong Graduate School in China) and Williamson (of INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France, and Singapore), the slogan of the China International Marine Containers Group, "Learn, Improve, Disrupt," could just as easily apply, with global consequences, to any Chinese corporation busy using those principles to reinvent manufacturing. The authors reveal that low labor costs are only one advantage enjoyed by Chinese companies, and that the "three faces" of cost innovation (offering high technology at low cost, a near-impossible range of choice and "specialty products" at volume prices) have allowed them to make impressive inroads into markets long assumed impenetrable. This is sobering reading for Western audiences; while the authors avoid the alarms that sound throughout many current business books on China, their dry, factual approach may prove even more unnerving. Though it may paint a disturbing portrait of a competitor formidable even in its infancy, this volume brings to light anecdotes and analysis that are bound to inspire anyone serious about global business or politics today. (June 12)

Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information

Understanding and Dismantling Racism or Death in a Promised Land

Understanding and Dismantling Racism: The Twenty-First Century Challenge to White America

Author: Joseph Barndt

No issue has so daunted American life and history as that of race. Joseph Barndt's powerful, personal, yet practical work reframes race and racism in a new way for a new century and offers tested ways to address it. The clearest and most practical primer on race and race relations around, this book takes specific account of our society's ongoing failure to dismantle racism, the failure of the multicultural diversity model, and the need for a deeper understanding of racism's pernicious but embedded roots.

Barndt's unique book offers an historical account of racism, especially in white America, and its various personal, institutional, and cultural forms. Without demonizing anyone or any race, he also offers new, specific, positive ways m which people in all walks, including congregations, can work to bring systemic racism to an end. Also included are helpful analytical charts, definitions, bibliography, and exercises for readers, particularly to trace their own history of racism and change.

About the Author:
Joseph Barndt has been a parish pastor and an antiracism trainer and organizer for thirty years, much of the latter work being done with Crossroads Ministry, Chicago

Table of Contents:

Preface     xi
Introduction     1
The Happiness Machine-A Fable     1
The Dross of Racism     3
The Happiness Machine and Current Reality     4
A Book for White People     6
And Also a Book for People of Color     7
The Work of Crossroads Ministry and People's Institute     8
Language and Terminology     8
Other "Isms"-The Happiness Machine's Multiple Consequences     10
Writing an Ending to the Fable of the Happiness Machine     11
The Continuing Evil of Racism     13
The Complex and Bewildering Tangle of Racism     13
Our Colonial and Racist Beginnings     15
From Colony to Nationhood: The Deepening of Racism     17
Resistance to Racism: The Better Side of a Bitter History     25
The Civil Rights Movement: The Resistance Rewrites History     29
The Continuing Evil of Racism in the Twenty-First Century     33
Detecting and Measuring Twenty-First Century Racism     42
The Twenty-First Century: A New Beginning     48
Defining Racism     55
The Need for a Common Definition of Racism     55
Introducing a Definition of Racism     58
Exploring Prejudice     60
Exploring Race     62
The Misuse of Power by Systems and Institutions     73
Summary     82
White Power and Privilege     85
From "Black Like Me" to "White Like Me"     87
White Power: Not the Same as White Privilege     90
A Closer Look at White Power     91
A Closer Look at White Privilege     95
Responses to White Power and Privilege     107
Conclusion: You Can't Take It Off     110
Individual Racism: The Making of a Racist     111
Power[superscript 3]: Racism at Its Worst     111
"Go Home and Free Your Own People"     112
What and Who Is a Racist?     115
"Racialization": The Mass Production of Racists and Victims     120
Racial Identity Formation: The Shaping of Superior and Inferior Races     123
The Making of a White Racist     126
The Four Walls of Racism's Prison     129
Summary and Conclusion: None of Us Are Free     141
Institutionalized Racism     143
The Misuse of Power by Systems and Institutions     143
Taking an X-Ray of the Happiness Machine     144
The Nature and Purpose of Institutions     145
Defining Institutionalized Racism     151
How It Got That Way: A History of Institutionalized Racism     154
How It Stayed That Way: New Forms of Institutionalized Racism     157
How to "See," Identify, and Analyze Institutionalized Racism     165
Conclusion: The Possibility of Authentic Institutional Transformation     182
Cultural Racism     185
What Is Culture?     187
The Creating of Race-Based Cultures     190
Defining Cultural Racism     195
The Race-Based Cultures of Communities of Color     204
White Cultural Identity in the Twenty-First Century     207
Dismantling Racism     219
A Time to Tear Down...and a Time to Build     219
Building Antiracist Communities of Resistance     221
Planning a Jailbreak: Organizing to Dismantle Racism     231
Introducing a Tool to Measure Institutional Change     233
The First Half of the Continuum: Where Are We Now?     236
Principles of Organizing to Move Forward     243
The Second Half of the Continuum: The Three Stages of Institutional Transformation     255
Conclusion: Toward a Racism-Free Twenty-First Century     262
Notes     269
Additional Resources      277
Index     285

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Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921

Author: Scott Ellsworth

Exhaustively researched, Death in a Promised Land is a compelling story of racial ideologies, southwestern politics, and yellow journalism, and of an embattled black community's struggle to hold onto its land and freedom.

Booknews

**** BCL3 recommended the original (1982). This unaugmented reprint is printed on alkaline paper. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

What We Say Goes or Imperial Hubris

What We Say Goes: Conversations on U.S. Power in a Changing World

Author: Noam Chomsky

An indispensable set of interviews on foreign and domestic issues with the bestselling author of Hegemony or Survival, “America’s most useful citizen.” (The Boston Globe)

In this new collection of conversations, conducted in 2006 and 2007, Noam Chomsky explores the most immediate and urgent concerns: Iran’s challenge to the United States, the deterioration of the Israel-Palestine conflict, the ongoing occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, the rise of China, and the growing power of the left in Latin America, as well as the Democratic victory in the 2006 U.S. midterm elections and the upcoming presidential race. As always, Chomsky presents his ideas vividly and accessibly, with uncompromising principle and clarifying insight.

The latest volume from a long-established, trusted partnership, What We Say Goes shows once again that no interlocutor engages with Chomsky more effectively than David Barsamian. These interviews will inspire a new generation of readers, as well as longtime Chomsky fans eager for his latest thinking on the many crises we now confront, both at home and abroad. They confirm that Chomsky is an unparalleled resource for anyone seeking to understand our world today.

Marcia L. Sprules - Library Journal

Linguist, philosopher, and political activist Chomsky has long been critical of U.S. foreign policy and has authored many books expressing his views, beginning with American Power and the New Mandarins(1969). This latest book gathers 2006-07 interviews with radio journalist Barsamian (host, "Alternative Radio"; The Decline and Fall of Public Broadcasting), a frequent partner in dialog with Chomsky-they have produced at least six books together prior to this one. Presented in chronological order, these conversations cover many topics frequently in the news, including the Middle East and Iraq, Latin America, trade and globalization, and Israel. Despite the format, statements are extensively footnoted, with references to both mainstream media and the web sites of relevant organizations. The basic points are not new: that the United States regularly, through many administrations, violates international law, assuming that as sole superpower it can do whatever it chooses whenever it decides to. Chomsky criticizes those journalists and public intellectuals who, in reporting and commenting on events, do not question the assumptions under which the country acts and have framed the debate so that only the details are fodder for discussion. Chomsky's points are challenging and will make readers uncomfortable, yet most libraries will want to acquire this.

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Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror

Author: Michael Scheuer

When Imperial Hubris first came out in 2004, the greatest danger for Americans confronting the Islamist threat was to believe-at the urging of U.S. leaders-that Muslims attack us for what we are and what we think rather than for what we do. The now-classic showed that a growing segment of the Islamic world strenuously disapproves of specific U.S. policies and their attendant military, political, and economic implications and demonstrated that they will go to any length, not to destroy our secular, democratic way of life, but to deter what they view as specific attacks on their lands, their communities, and their religion. Imperial Hubris remains a must read for an in-depth look at Al Qaeda and the War on Terror.

The New York Times - Michiko Kakutani

Imperial Hubris, the scalding new book by a current Central Intelligence Agency officer — who was able to publish the book on the condition that his real name not be revealed — is an assessment of America's war on terror that is bound to provoke large heapings of controversy, on both the right and the left, among hardliners on Iraq and critics of the administration alike. Readers will doubtless contest some or many of the things Anonymous has to say, but he pulls few punches in this book and gives us a fascinating window on America's war with Al Qaeda — at least as framed by one senior analyst, who seems to have put all bureaucratic niceties aside.

The Washington Post - Richard A. Clarke

For those Americans who had begun to doubt whether the Central Intelligence Agency could produce good analysis, Imperial Hubris clearly demonstrates otherwise. It is a powerful, persuasive analysis of the terrorist threat and the Bush administration's failed efforts to fight it. The CIA carefully vetted the book to ensure that no "sources and methods" were exposed, but the anonymous author -- a current CIA official -- draws effectively on the years he's spent carefully studying detailed intelligence reports from several U.S. and many foreign spy agencies. His criticism is damning.

Publishers Weekly

It's unclear how, in an age when even office workers must sign confidentiality agreements, an alleged CIA Middle Eastern specialist has gotten permission to publish a sprawling, erudite book on the origins and present state of the "war on terror." His main point is that Arab antagonism to the West (and even non-fundamentalist Arab regimes' winking at terrorism) has its root in real grievances that have gone unaddressed by U.S. measures. The actions of the Saudis, and their U.S. supporters, come in for some hard criticism, as does the elevation of Northern Alliance warlords to de facto governors of Afghanistan. The author makes some challenging remarks regarding Israel ("Surely there can be no other historical example of a faraway, theocracy-in-all-but-name of only six million people that ultimately controls the extent and even the occurrence of an important portion of political discourse and national security debate in a country of 270-plus million people that prides itself on religious toleration, separation of church and state, and freedom of speech") while playing down the extent to which the Taliban itself was a corrupt theocratic regime. But his annotated compendia of battles and skirmishes won and lost by the U.S. and al-Qaeda are gripping, and his engagement with his subject has made him a pundit-in-demand. (Aug.) Forecast: This is more a book to shake up policy wonks with facts on the ground than for the general public, but it has already created a stir inside the Beltway and beyond. The book is the author's second; Through Our Enemies' Eyes: Osama bin Laden, Radical Islam and the Future of America was mostly ignored, but this time around, the Primary Colors approach (necessary to protect the author's identity) has led to much TV and print exposure (with voice and features disguised); expect media-based sales. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction : "hubris followed by defeat"
1	Some thoughts on the power of focused, principled hatred	1
2	An unprepared and ignorant lunge to defeat - the United States in Afghanistan	21
3	Not down, not out : Al Qaeda's resiliency, expansion, and momentum	59
4	The world's view of bin Laden : a Muslim leader and hero coming into focus?	103
5	Bin Laden views the world : some old, some new, and a twist	127
6	Blinding hubris abounding : inflicting defeat on ourselves - non-war, leaks, and missionary democracy	163
7	When the enemy sets the stage : how America's stubborn obtuseness aids its foes	209
8	The way ahead : a few suggestions for debate	237
	Epilogue : no basis for optimism	261

Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome or Economists with Guns

Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome

Author: Lesley Adkins

This handy reference provides full access to the 1,200 years of Roman rule from the 8th century B.C. to the 5th century A.D., including information that is hard to find and even harder to decipher. Clear, authoritative, and highly organized, Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome provides a unique look at a civilization whose art, literature, law, and engineering influenced the whole of Western Europe throughout the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and beyond.
The myriad topics covered include rulers; the legal and governmental system; architectural feats such as the famous Roman roads and aqueducts; the many Roman religions and festivals; the Roman system of personal names; contemporary poets and historians; even typical Roman leisure pursuits. Each chapter includes an extensive bibliography, as well as more than 125 site-specific photographs and line drawings. Maps chart the expansion and contraction of the territory from the foundation city of Rome itself to the Byzantine Empire and the ultimate decline of the West.
Combining both archaeological and historical evidence, the Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome is perfect for anyone interested in Roman history, the classics, or an overview of the amazing period in which the Romans ruled.

School Library Journal

YA-Broadly thematic in its arrangement, this reference book covers a wide range of topics and myriad details of Roman life from 800 B.C.-A.D. 500. A detailed index provides easy and complete access to the contents, maps, illustrations, charts, and tables. The bibliography cites mostly British journals and publications. An ideal and readable resource for students of Roman history and the classics.

Booknews

A reference to facts and figures about ancient Rome from the eight century B.C. to the fifth A.D. The thematic sections cover the republic and the empire, military affairs, geography, town and country, travel and trade, literature, religion, economy and industry, and everyday aspects such as family, entertainment, and medicine. Each section concludes with a list of further reading. Well illustrated in black and white. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Economists with Guns: Authoritarian Development and U. S. -Indonesian Relations, 1960-1968

Author: Bradley R Simpson

Offering the first comprehensive history of U.S relations with Indonesia during the 1960s, Economists with Guns explores one of the central dynamics of international politics during the Cold War: the emergence and U.S. embrace of authoritarian regimes pledged to programs of military-led development.

Drawing on newly declassified archival material, this book examines how Americans and Indonesians imagined the country's development in the 1950s and why they abandoned their democratic hopes in the 1960s in favor of the military regime of General Suharto. Far from viewing development as a path to democracy, this book highlights the evolving commitment of both Americans and Indonesians to authoritarianism in the 1960s and succeeding decades. At a crucial juncture in modern Indonesian history, the United States found common cause with the Indonesian armed forces and their technocratic allies as the purported guardians of political and economic stability, shaping the country's trajectory in ways that—as Indonesia's current fragile transition to democracy illustrates—continue to unfold.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments     vii
Introduction     1
Imagining Indonesian Development     13
The Kennedy Administration Confronts Indonesia     37
Developing a Counterinsurgency State     62
The Road from Stabilization to Konfrontasi     87
From High Hopes to Low Profile     113
Indonesia's Year of Living Dangerously     145
The September 30th Movement and the Destruction of the PKI     171
Economists with Guns: Washington Embraces the New Order     207
Conclusion     249
Abbreviations     263
Notes     265
Works Cited     339
Index     361

Che Guevara Reader or Modern Utopia

Che Guevara Reader: Writings on Guerrilla Strategy, Politics and Revolution

Author: Ernesto Che Guevara

A new, revised and expanded edition of an Ocean Press classic.

This reader is the bestselling, most comprehensive selection of Che Guevara's writings, letters and speeches available in English. This volume covers Che's writings on the Cuban revolutionary war, the first years of the revolution in Cuba and his vision for Latin America and the Third World. It includes such classic essays as "Socialism and Man in Cuba" and his call to create "Two, Three, Many Vietnams."

Among the features of this expanded edition are several unpublished articles, essays and letters, including a letter from Che to his children shortly before his death in Bolivia in 1967 and an essay, "Strategy and tactics for the Latin American revolution."

This new edition of a popular Ocean title is published in collaboration with the Che Guevara Archive in Havana. It includes:
a new 24-page selection of photos (many previously unpublished)
an expanded and revised chronology
complete bibliography of the works of Che Guevara
new, extensive annotation and index

"Deep inside the T-shirt where we have tried to trap him the eyes of Che Guevara are still burning with im-patience."-Ariel Dorfman

Two new movies to be released in Fall 2003 confirm Che's enduring status as an "icon of the century."
Ocean Press is preparing a range of merchandise, including T-shirts, bookmarks and posters to promote our books on Che Guevara.

This new, expanded edition of an Ocean Press classic complements several bestselling biographies of Che Guevara.

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Modern Utopia

Author: H G Wells

In A Modern Utopia, two travelers fall into a space-warp and suddenly find themselves upon a Utopian Earth controlled by a single World Government.

Library Journal

This trio are from Wells's utopian writings, which generally chronicle a future society of potential greatness that has failed its mission and gone to seed. Not as posh as the "Deluxe Classics Editions," these nonetheless feature many nice extras, including scholarly introductions. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Health Communication or The Jewish Enemy

Health Communication: From Theory to Practice

Author: Renata Schiavo

Health Communication: From Theory to Practice is a much needed resource for the fast-growing field of health communication. It combines a comprehensive introduction to current issues, theories, and special topics in health communication with a hands-on guide to program development and implementation.  While the book is designed for students, professionals and organizations with no significant field experience, it also includes advanced topics for health communication practitioners, public health experts, researchers, and health care providers with an interest in this field.

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The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust

Author: Jeffrey Herf

The sheer magnitude of the Holocaust has commanded our attention for the past sixty years. The extent of atrocities, however, has overshadowed the calculus Nazis used to justify their deeds.

According to German wartime media, it was German citizens who were targeted for extinction by a vast international conspiracy. Leading the assault was an insidious, belligerent Jewish clique, so crafty and powerful that it managed to manipulate the actions of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin. Hitler portrayed the Holocaust as a defensive act, a necessary move to destroy the Jews before they destroyed Germany.

Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda, and Otto Dietrich’s Press Office translated this fanatical vision into a coherent cautionary narrative, which the Nazi propaganda machine disseminated into the recesses of everyday life. Calling on impressive archival research, Jeffrey Herf recreates the wall posters that Germans saw while waiting for the streetcar, the radio speeches they heard at home or on the street, the headlines that blared from newsstands. The Jewish Enemy is the first extensive study of how anti-Semitism pervaded and shaped Nazi propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust, and how it pulled together the diverse elements of a delusionary Nazi worldview. Here we find an original and haunting exposition of the ways in which Hitler legitimized war and genocide to his own people, as necessary to destroy an allegedly omnipotent Jewish foe. In an era when both anti-Semitism and conspiracy theories continue to influence world politics, Herf offers a timely reminder of their dangers along with a fresh interpretation of the paranoia underlyingthe ideology of the Third Reich.

What People Are Saying

Anson Rabinbach
In this impressive book, Jeffrey Herf shows that the omnipresent image of the 'international Jew' as the source of Germany's victimhood was central to the propaganda and political imagination of the Nazi leadership, which made no secret of its intention to destroy European Jewry. --(Anson Rabinbach, Princeton University)

Susannah Heschel
Jeffrey Herf has written a brilliant book that reorients our understanding of the Holocaust. Arguing that racial antisemitism, however vicious, was an insufficient basis for genocide, Herf demonstrates that a major shift occurred in Nazi propaganda during the war: Jews were now presented as a political threat to the German nation, and as the instigators, through their puppets, America, England, and the Soviet Union, of a deadly world war against Germany. --(Susannah Heschel, author of Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus)

Gerhard L. Weinberg
Here, practically for the first time, we can see how Germans before and during World War II were at all times in their daily lives confronted with a carefully designed view of the world in which a mythical Jewish enemy was portrayed as threatening Germans and hence had to be killed. No prior study has shown as clearly as this one how central this theme was to German wartime propaganda in all its forms. --(Gerhard L. Weinberg, University of North Carolina)

Jay W. Baird
A commendable and compelling elucidation of the Nazi propaganda which accompanied the Holocaust, indispensable for both students of the Third Reich and general readers. --(Jay W. Baird, author of The Mythical World of Nazi Propaganda, 1939-1945)

Table of Contents:

Preface     vii
The Jews, the War, and the Holocaust     1
Building the Anti-Semitic Consensus     17
"International Jewry" and the Origins of World War II     50
At War against the Alliance of Bolshevism and Plutocracy     92
Propaganda in the Shadow of the Death Camps     138
"The Jews Are Guilty of Everything"     183
"Victory or Extermination"     231
Conclusion     264
The Anti-Semitic Campaigns of the Nazi Regime, as Reflected in Lead Front-Page Stories in Der Volkische Beobachter     281
List of Abbreviations     289
Notes     291
Acknowledgments     355
Bibliography     359
Bibliographical Essay     365
Index     375

The Power of Nonviolence or Mother Teresas Prescription

The Power of Nonviolence: Writings by Advocates of Peace

Author: Howard Zinn

A stirring anthology of writings about peace and nonviolence from Buddha to Arundhati Roy As you read this, America is at war. President Bush declared a "war on terrorism" and 90 percent of the American people believed he was doing the right thing. But is there another way? From Buddha in the pre-Christian era to the most recent declaration of peace principles by Nobel laureates, nonviolence has always been an alternative.

With an introduction by Howard Zinn about September 11 and the U.S. response to the terrorist attacks, The Power of Nonviolence presents the most salient and persuasive arguments for peace in the last 2,500 years of human history. Included are some of the most original thinkers and writings about peace and nonviolence—Buddha, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience," Jane Addams, William Penn on "the end of war," Dorothy Day's position on "Pacifism," Erich Fromm, and Rajendra Prasad. Supplementing the classic voices are more recent advocates' arguments for peace: Albert Camus' "Neither Victims Nor Executioners," A. J. Muste's impressive "Getting Rid of War," Martin Luther King's influential "Declaration of Independence from the War in Viet Nam," and Arundhati Roy's "War Is Peace," plus many others.


Arranged chronologically, covering the major conflagrations of the world in the last hundred years, including the war in Afghanistan, The Power of Nonviolence is a compelling step forward in the study of pacifism, a timely anthology that fills a void for people looking for responses to crisis that are not based on guns or bombs.

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Mother Teresa's Prescription: Finding Happiness and Peace in Service

Author: Paul A Wright

Among the hundreds of fine biographies, pictorial essays and meditation-based books about Mother Teresa of Calcutta, this book is refreshingly unique. Paul Wright, a highly successful doctor, tells the story of his life-changing, five-year friendship with this saint-in-the making. The reader encounters Mother Teresa and her prophetic message for a busy modern world through the eyes and memories of an American cardiologist who seemed to have it made. With wonderful anecdotes and personal reflections, Wright tells us how unhappy and unfulfilled he was in the midst of professional prominence and financial success. Recalling his encounters with Mother Teresa and her work in Tijuana and Calcutta, the author leads us to conclude that Mother Teresa had a prescription for happiness and peace, a universal message for all of us. She pointed Wright to the mandate issued by Jesus in Matthew 25 -- Just as you did it for one of the least of my brethren, you did it for me.

Forensic Entomology or Health Economics and Policy

Forensic Entomology: An Introduction

Author: Dorothy Gennard

This invaluable text provides a concise introduction to entomology in a forensic context and is also a practical guide to collecting entomological samples at the crime scene.

Forensic Entomology: An Introduction:

• Assumes no prior knowledge of either entomology or biology

• Provides background information about the procedures carried out by the professional forensic entomologist in order to determine key information about post-mortem interval presented by insect evidence

• Includes practical tasks and further reading to enhance understanding of the subject and to enable the reader to gain key laboratory skills and a clear understanding of insect life cycles, the identification features of insects, and aspects of their ecology

• Glossary, photographs, the style of presentation and numerous illustrations have been designed to assist in the identification of insects associated with the corpse; keys are included to help students make this identification

This book is an essential resource for undergraduate Forensic Science and Criminology students and those on conversion postgraduate M.Sc. courses in Forensic Science. It is also useful for Scenes of Crime Officers undertaking diploma studies and Scene Investigating Officers.

Table of Contents:

List of figures.

List of tables.

Preface.

Acknowledgements.


1 The breadth of forensic entomology.

1.1 History of forensic entomology.

1.2 Indicators of time of death.

1.3 Stages of decomposition of a body.

1.4 Indicators of physical abuse.

1.5 Insect larvae: a resource for investigating drug consumption.

1.6 Insect contamination of food.

1.7 Further reading.


2 Identifying flies that are important in forensic entomology.

2.1 What is a fly and how do I spot one?

2.2 Forensically important families of flies.

2.3 DNA identification of forensically important fly species.

2.4 Further reading.


3 Identifying beetles that are important in forensic entomology.

3.1 What do beetles look like?

3.2 Features used in identifying forensically important beetle families.

3.3 Identification of beetle families using DNA.

3.4 Further reading.


4 The life cycles of flies and beetles.

4.1 The life stages of the fly.

4.2 The life stages of the beetle.

4.3 The influence of the environment on specific insect species.

4.4 Succession of insect species on the corpse and its role in post mortem estimation.

4.5 Review technique: preparing slides of larval spiracles or mouthparts – preparation of whole slide mounts.

4.6 Further reading.


5 Sampling at the crime scene.

5.1 Entomological equipment needed tosample from a corpse.

5.2 The sampling strategy for eggs.

5.3 Catching adult flying insects at the crime scene.

5.4 Catching adult crawling insects at the crime scene.

5.5 Obtaining meteorological data at the crime scene.

5.6 Review technique: investigating the influence of larval location.

5.7 Further reading.


6 Breeding entomological specimens from the crime scene.

6.1 Returning to the laboratory with the entomological evidence.

6.2 Fly-rearing conditions in the laboratory.

6.3 Conditions for successful rearing to the adult (imago) fly stage.

6.4 Beetle rearing in the laboratory.

6.5 Dietary requirements of insects reared in the laboratory.

6.6 Review technique: preserving and mounting insect specimens.

6.7 Further reading.


7 Calculating the post mortem interval.

7.1 Working out the base temperature.

7.2 Accumulated degree data.

7.3 Calculation of accumulated degree hours (or days) from crime scene data.

7.4 Sources of error.

7.5 Use of larval growth in length to determine post mortem interval (isomegalen and isomorphen diagrams).

7.6 Calculating post mortem interval using succession.

7.7 Review technique: interpretation of data from a crime scene case study.

7.8 Further reading.


8 Ecology of forensically important flies.

8.1 Ecological features of bluebottles (Calliphoridae).

8.2 Greenbottles – Lucilia spp..

8.3 Ecological associations with living organisms.

8.4 Further reading.


9 Ecology of selected forensically important beetles.

9.1 Categories of feeding relationship on a corpse.

9.2 Ecology of carrion beetles (Silphidae).

9.3 Ecology of skin, hide and larder beetles (Dermestidae).

9.4 Ecology of clown beetles (Histeridae).

9.5 Ecology of checkered or bone beetles (Cleridae).

9.6 Ecology of rove beetles (Staphylinidae).

9.7 Ecology of dung beetles (Scarabaeidae).

9.8 Ecology of trogid beetles (Trogidae).

9.9 Ecology of ground beetles (Carabidae).

9.10 Review technique: determination of succession and PMI.

9.11 Further reading.


10 The forensic entomologist in court.

10.1 The Statement of Witness.

10.2 Council for the Registration of Forensic Practitioners.

10.3 Communicating entomological facts in court.

10.4 Physical evidence: its continuity and integrity.

10.5 Review technique: writing a Statement of Witness using the post mortem calculations determined from details given in Chapter 7.

10.6 Further reading.


11 The role of professional associations for forensic entomologists.

11.1 Professional organizations.

11.2 Forensic entomology protocols.

11.3 Areas for future research.

11.4 Further reading.


Appendices.

Appendix 1: Form for forensic entomology questions to be asked at the crime scene.

Appendix 2: Answers to the calculation of the post mortem interval for the body at the Pleasure Gardens, Wingsea.

Appendix 3: UK list of Calliphoridae (2006).

Appendix 4: UK checklists for Coleoptera.

Appendix 5: List of relevant UK legal acts and orders.

Appendix 6: Selected sources of entomological equipment.

Appendix 7: Legal information relevant to giving testimony as a forensic entomologist in the USA.

Glossary.


References.


Index.

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Health Economics and Policy

Author: James W Henderson

For individuals with an interest in health-related policy issues who want to learn how to analyze health, health care, and health policy topics from an economic perspective.

Booknews

This introductory health economics textbook examines the relevance of economics to health and medical care; discusses the mechanisms of health care delivery in the U.S. within broad social, political, and economic contexts; explores the changing nature of health care and its implications; and analyzes public policy from an economic perspective. Includes end-of-chapter questions. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.