American food aid to foreigners long has been the most visible-and most popular-means of providing humanitarian aid to millions of hungry people confronted by war, terrorism and natural cataclysms and the resulting threat-often the reality-of famine and death. The book investigates the little-known, not-well-understood and often highly-contentious political processes which have converted American agricultural production into tools of U.S. government policy. In The Political History of American Food Aid, Barry Riley explores the influences of humanitarian, domestic agricultural policy, foreign policy, and national security goals that have created the uneasy relationship between benevolent instincts and the realpolitik of national interests. He traces how food aid has been used from the earliest days of the republic in widely differing circumstances: as a response to hunger, a weapon to confront the expansion of bolshevism after World War I and communism after World War II, a method for balancing disputes between Israel and Egypt, a channel for disposing of food surpluses, a signal of support to friendly governments, and a means for securing the votes of farming constituents or the political support of agriculture sector lobbyists, commodity traders, transporters and shippers. Riley's broad sweep provides a profound understanding of the complex factors influencing American food aid policy and a foundation for examining its historical relationship with relief, economic development, food security and its possible future in a world confronting the effects of global climate change.
An attorney can quit, an alcoholic can recover, but a priest is forever. Jack Riley has been all three. He left the priesthood to get married and become a lawyer. But when he lost his family in an automobile accident, he became a drunk. In Apalachicola Florida, Jack begins a new life with a new practice, a new secretary, and a new case. However, he's up against the same old world. The rich and powerful buy justice -- and it's Jack's job to win justice for the not so rich and not so powerful.
Dr. Barry Goodfield first created this book as a series of gifts to his daughter. Each self-illustrated story by this internationally renowned psychotherapist was meant to provide her with understanding and consolation in the face of a loss. The story in Wisdom Candy book two helped Jane Felice to accept the death of her grandmother. It also explains some of the values which Barry wished to pass on to his daughter. One of Saint Paul's epistles names three Divine Gifts: "And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love." Doctor Goodfield strongly retains his own faith, as well as a powerful hopefulness and charity for all of mankind. In Wisdom Candy book one he helped his daughter Jane Felice to understand why her birth meant so much to her parents. It also explains how her parents dealt with the miscarriage and loss of the infant whose conception had preceded Jane Felice's own delivery. Doctor Goodfield intended the story to serve his whole family whenever the stresses or traumas of the day made it difficult to find refuge and recovery in sleep, and in its healing handmaiden of dreams. From the death of the unborn to the loss of the long-loved, these stories and their lessons make palatable, digestible morsels out of the wisdom that comes with maturity and deep insight. His stories make the best possible bedtime stories for children who are coping with grief. Both books include a Bonus Book: A Baad Bedtime Story. A remedial tale for those grieving a loss who are having trouble to sleep.
Published in conjunction with the June 2001 exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, this volume studies Ludwig Mies's best-known projects and also those which he excised from the record. In addition to his metropolitan skyscrapers and office buildings, it also discusses the urban fabric of central Berlin, analyzing his private houses and relating them to German ideas about nature, and to the great work of environmental art embodied by the cultivated landscape of Potsdam. Terence Riley (chief curator of architecture and design, The Museum of Modern Art), Barry Bergdoll (art history, Columbia U.) and other expert contributors explore Mies's responses to Berlin's inherently conservative building tradition and to the city's artistic avant-gardes, recent discoveries and ideas, and Mies's understanding of America. Contains 595 illustrations, 105 in color. Oversize: 10.5x10.5". c. Book News Inc.
Colorful and outrageous, influential yet despicable, J. Frank Norris was a preacher, newspaper publisher, political activist, and all-around subject of controversy. One of the most despised men in traditional Southern Baptist circles, he was also the man most responsible for bringing hard-edged fundamentalism to the South. Barry Hankins traces Norris, the "Texas Cyclone," from his boyhood in small-town Texas to his death in 1952. Despite scandals, Norris was a man of considerable public influence who traveled the owrkd, corresponded with congressmen, and attended president's Hoover's inaguration at Hoover's invitation. Through his preaching career he battled anyone and everyone he saw as part of the leftist conspiracy to foist liberalism and immorality on America. This account reveals a remarkable man who helped shape the current American religious landscape.
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