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A Latin American correspondent and a journalist for the "Miami Herald" trace the ten-year evolution of a group of Medellin…
street thugs into a cartel controlling more than half of the world's cocaine supply, and recount the violence and corruption the cartel spawnedAge wave: the challenges and opportunities of an aging America
Par Ken Dychtwald. 1989
The author, a psychologist and gerentologist, has spent the past fifteen years researching and speaking about the abilities and strengths…
of elderly people. With freelance writer Flower, he focuses here on the aging of the baby-boom generation, predicting an "age wave" that will change society and challenge its mythsA survival guide for growing up female in the 1980s and 1990s. In a personal, humorous, and straightforward manner, the…
author discusses problems common during adolescence: sex, birth control, drugs, and alcohol; relationships with parents; and legal rights. For junior and senior high and older readersAmerican renaissance: our life at the turn of the 21st century
Par Marvin J Cetron. 1989
The president of Forecasting International and a former senior editor of "Omni" magazine team up to write a "statement of…
hope." They identify the problems facing the United States, and enumerate the agents of change that herald a bright future--such as science and technology, more leisure time, competition, ethics, and diplomacyArchbishop Tutu of South Africa
Par Judith Bentley. 1988
Although the vast majority of the people of South Africa are black, the white minority rules the country under apartheid,…
a system of strict racial segregation that greatly limits the rights of blacks. Desmond Tutu has dedicated his life to speaking out against apartheid and has earned a Nobel Prize for his efforts. The author weaves the political history of South Africa with the story of Tutu's life. For grades 5-8 and older readersUtilizing interviews with retired porters and archival records of first-hand accounts, the author presents an oral history of the Pullman…
porters who, in the 1920s, organized the first African-American labor union, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Led by A. Phillip Randolph, they joined the AFL, breaking down racism in organized labor. They became a mainstay of the black middle classThe riddle of Amish culture (Center Books in Anabaptist Studies)
Par Donald B. Kraybill, Donald B Kraybill. 1989
The author, who spent a lifetime among the Amish of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, explains how these "plain folk" have managed…
to maintain their culture and keep the modern world at bay. Kraybill feels there is much to learn from the Amish, whose strict adherence to "Gelassenheit" (obedience, humility, submission, thrift, and simplicity) still allows them to successfully adopt some modern conveniences. 1989The perfumed garden
Par ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad Nafzāwī. 1989
Fifteenth-century Arabian manual of erotic technique, translated by Burton and first issued privately in 1886. Includes an introduction which details…
the history of the work, its bibliography, its background, and its sociological importance. Explicit descriptions of sexDumbth and 81 ways to make Americans smarter: And Eighty-One Ways to Make Americans Smarter
Par Steve Allen, Allen. 1989
Allen coined the word "dumbth" to describe the growing problems of incompetence, inefficiency, and ignorance in America at the closing…
of the twentieth century. After giving examples of "dumbth," which he feels shows America to be a civilization in a dangerous state of decline, Allen then offers eighty-one recommendations for good thinking, or as he puts it, the fourth "R"--reasoningBig sugar: seasons in the cane fields of Florida
Par Alec Wilkinson. 1989
The author paints a picture of the hard, ugly life of the sugar cane cutters in South Florida, a life…
that borders on peonage. During World War II, when the economic conditions of Southern blacks improved, the Florida sugar industry began importing seasonal workers from the West Indies. The work is perilous, and the pay and conditions pitiableThe flip side of soul: letters to my son
Par Bob Teague. 1989
The tough and refreshing views of an African-American television journalist, written as letters to his son on the eve of…
his twenty-first birthday. Teague says his thoughts are meant for all youngsters, black or white, growing up in today's racist society. He believes government handouts are assaults as damaging to human pride and dignity as any perpetrated by the Ku Klux KlanTales of the iron road: my life as king of the hobos
Par Maury Graham. 1990
Named permanent "Hobo King of the East," Maury Graham chronicles his adventures and misadventures riding the rails. In 1931, at…
the tender age of fourteen, Graham began his roaming life. He describes the railroad "bulls" who policed the trains, the men and women who shared his lifestyle, the hobos' strict code of behavior, and the difficulties and joys of life on the roadHow to make the world a better place: a guide to doing good
Par Jeffrey Hollender. 1990
An environmentalist and entrepreneur lists concrete ways individuals can take action to solve the earth's environmental and social problems. Topics…
discussed are protecting the environment; food, hunger, and agriculture; socially responsible banking and investing; the responsible consumer; and peace, nonviolence, and human rightsConfronting the Third World: United States foreign policy, 1945-1980
Par Gabriel Kolko. 1988
A revisionist's view of America's role in the Third World since World War II, by a research professor at York…
University, Toronto, Canada. The author defines the Third World as all of Latin America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. The United States, he says, has intervened in the affairs of other countries using a policy of limited wars and counterinsurgenciesThe demon lover: on the sexuality of terrorism
Par Robin Morgan. 1989
Feminist writer Morgan takes a look at the link between beauty and death, terror and sexuality. According to her research,…
men equate power with manhood and consequently their sexuality with violence. Morgan traces the political and cultural context of terrorism, theorizes about the connection between terrorism and established power structures, and examines the experiences of women who have been terrorizedThe enigma of Japanese power: people and politics in a stateless nation
Par Karel Van Wolferen. 1989
Written by the East Asian correspondent for a Dutch newspaper who has lived in Japan for twenty-five years, this book…
analyzes Japanese politics and economics. The author states that real power lies in an informal personal network of financiers, bureaucrats, businessmen, and politicians with no one really in chargeMan on earth
Par John Reader. 1988
Reader examines man's ability to adapt to his environment and to develop a self-sustaining society. Each chapter is devoted to…
a selected group of people within a specific location--from remote islands to congested cities--and discusses territory, population, land ownership, food production, and reproduction. BestsellerSketches from a life
Par George F Kennan. 1989
This collection of diary entries spans more than sixty years of Kennan's life primarily in foreign service as an ambassador…
to the USSR and Yugoslavia, but also covering nonofficial travels over the entire globe. His word paintings are always sharp, sometimes melancholy, and frequently punctuated with dry, Midwestern wit. BestsellerMegatrends 2000: ten new directions for the 1990's
Par John Naisbitt. 1990
The authors follow up their 1982 bestseller with a look at the trends of the 1990s and beyond. They predict…
a cultural and religious revival, an increase in the number of women in management, the rising importance of the biosciences, and the continued economic emergence of the Pacific Rim nations. Sequel to "Megatrends." BestsellerMiss Manners' guide for the turn-of-the-millennium
Par Judith Martin. 1989
The author provides a guide to proper behavior for the end of the twentieth century--and the beginning of the next.…
Topics covered include how much to tip a pizza delivery person, how to turn down a request for a secret recipe, changing households, multi-hyphenated names, talk about money, weddings and other special occasions, and how to keep business and private lives separate