Operation Lazarus--an attempt to liberate 30 of the more than two thousand American POW/MIAs still believed to be alive in Laos after more than 10 years in captivity. The authors describe the hazardous journey of two former Green Beret heroes, Charles Patterson and James Bo Gritz, who took action when the U.S. government refused to get involved. Illustrated with photos and maps.
A history of the United Nations includes information on its founding and organization and discusses its efforts in the areas of peacekeeping, global development, and human rights.
This book explores the similar attitudes and methods behind modern society's treatment of animals and the way humans have often treated each other, most notably during the Holocaust. The book's epigraph and title are from "The Letter Writer," a story by the Yiddish writer and Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer: "In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka." The first part of the book (Chapter 1-2) describes the emergence of human beings as the master species and their domination over the rest of the inhabitants of the earth. The second part (Chapters 3-5) examines the industrialization of slaughter (of both animals and humans) that took place in modern times. The last part of the book (Chapters 6-8) profiles Jewish and German animal advocates on both sides of the Holocaust, including Isaac Bashevis Singer himself. The Foreword is by Lucy Rosen Kaplan, former attorney for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and daughter of Holocaust survivors. Her foreword, the Preface and Afterword, excerpts from the book, chapter synopses, and an international list of supporters can be found on the book's website at: www.powerfulbook.com
A New Heaven and a New Earth; or, The Way to Life Eternal, by Charles Brodie Patterson, bears the sub-title, "Thought Studies of the Fourth Dimension." Mr. Patterson believes that "death, as now understood, will cease to be, and that the time will come when the highly developed man will have the power to lay down or take up his life through a conscious knowledge of the laws of eternal being and the direct application of these laws to his own life." He believes in spiritualism, and he says that vibration begins in the center of the soul and moves out in harmony with the laws of all etheric vibrations, and that when etheric vibrations rule, man's life will be as eternal as etheric vibrations are, and that we will go from one octave of life to another. He calls love the great white light made up of the seven prismatic colors of faith, hope, joy, peace, power, gentleness, and goodness—"against such there is no law." Many arresting things are said about concentration, the law of reciprocity, etc. The oneness with God and the power of thought suggests the principles of all the so-called New Thought movements. It is a book of serious advance thought, well written and of peculiar and timely interest. The theories advanced cannot fail to attract the attention of those who are in sympathy with esoteric thought along these lines.
This modern divine comedy, based on the original Divine Comedy that Dante wrote 700 years ago, tells the story of Tom Reed and how his early interest in Dante inspired him to make his own viaggio (journey) to the Underworld. After describing Tom's church upbringing and his joining, then leaving the church, the story continues in the Underworld (a.k.a. Hell) with a cast of characters Dante never could have imagined: Tanya, the CEO; Umberto, the Guest Master; Rachel, a young Dante scholar from Berkeley; visitors from China, India, Kenya, and Germany; and famous people in history woken up from the Big Nap for a "Great Minds and Personalities" conference attended by such greats as Socrates, Alexander the Great, Joan of Arc, Einstein, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Groucho Marx. Tom also visits his father who's in a "Purgatory precinct" and talks to Hashem, his "wife" Naomi, and somebody called Satan who wears a cowboy hat and walks with a swagger. The climax of Tom's viaggio is his visit to the Crusaders who used to be in charge because he wants to include them in the book he plans to write that could make him the next Dante. However, because the Crusaders disapprove of his being a "defrocked priest," when he arrives, they withdraw their invitation and put him on trial. After he survives his ordeal with the help of Wanda (an ex-nun), members of GETA (Ghosts for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), and Dante himself, Tom is taken to the exit and resurfaces in New Jersey where Beatrice, his college girlfriend with whom he's back in contact, is waiting for him. Dante had his Beatrice (one of the great love stories of world literature), so why shouldn't Tom have his?
Struggling to Meet GOD is a writing of the life and times of the author. It tells of his real life experiences, his growing up in the ghetto of New Orleans, the lifestyle he lived, and the changes he went through. It speaks of the changes we all go through in life, and how we can overcome those changes when we go to GOD.
With comparative frontier history and pioneering use of indigenous sources, Giersch provides a groundbreaking challenge to the China-centered narrative of the Qing conquest. He focuses on the Tai domains of the Yunnan frontier on the politically fluid borderlands, where local, indigenous leaders were crucial actors in an arena of imperial rivalry.
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