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New Books
Mexico
Narco-Violence and a Failed State?
George W. Grayson
List price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781412811514
Pages: 275
Publication Date: 08/31/09
Binding: Cloth
Bloodshed connected with Mexican drug cartels, how they emerged, and their impact on the United States is the subject of this frightening book.
Savage narcotics-related decapitations, castrations, and other murders have destroyed tourism in many Mexican communities and such savagery is now cascading across the border into the United States. Grayson explores how this spiral of violence emerged in Mexico, its impact on the country and its northern neighbor, and the prospects for managing it. Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) ruled in Tammany Hall fashion for seventy-nine years before losing the presidency in 2000 to the center-right National Action Party (PAN). Grayson focuses on drug wars, prohibition, corruption, and other antecedents that occurred during the PRI’s hegemony. He illuminates the diaspora of drug cartels and their fragmentation, analyzes the emergence of new gangs, sets forth President Felipe Calderón’s strategy against vicious criminal organizations, and assesses its relative success.
Grayson reviews the effect of narcotics-focused issues in U.S.-Mexican relations. He considers the possibility that Mexico may become a failed state, as feared by opinion-leaders, even as it pursues an aggressive but thus far unsuccessful crusade against the importation, processing, and sale of illegal substances. Becoming a "failed state" involves two dimensions of state power: its scope, or the different functions and goals taken on by governments, and its strength, or the government’s ability to plan and execute policies. The Mexican state boasts an extensive scope evidenced by its monopoly over the petroleum industry, its role as the major supplier of electricity, its financing of public education, its numerous retirement and health-care programs, its control of public universities, and its dominance over the armed forces. The state has not yet taken control of drug trafficking, and its strength is steadily diminishing. This explosive book is thus a study of drug cartels, but also state disintegration.
China's Long March to Freedom
Grassroots Modernization
Kate Zhou
List price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781412810296
Pages: 340
Publication Date: 05/31/09
Binding: Cloth
"Based on her long personal involvement in grass-roots social organizations in China, Kate Zhou advances a novel view of China’s long-term political evolution. In this provocative new book, she suggests that routine, everyday resistance on the part of millions of ordinary Chinese citizens to the rigid dictates and policies of the Communist party-state is creating a dramatically expanded sphere of individual freedom and autonomy in China. In her view, political liberalization will emerge through constant, unremitting social pressures from below, rather than episodic, elite-sponsored initiatives from above. Zhou’s thesis is highly original; and it is sure to prove controversial among scholars of Chinese society and politics."
—Richard Baum, UCLA, Author of China Watcher: Confessions of a Peking Tom
"A fascinating study about the fundamental transformation taking place in the most populous country on earth—China is experiencing a social revolution towards a more liberal society. Only a scholar who is truly bi-culture can provide such insightful account and answer such critical question: how and why do societies liberalize. A welcome addition and a must read for those concerned for people’s real life in China and its future directions."
—Quansheng Zhao, American University
"Western China-watchers—in government, in the media, in academe, and even in human rights work—tend to use the word ‘China’ when in fact they are speaking only of the policies of the government. This is a mistake, and China’s Long March to Freedom is the best possible corrective for it. Kate Zhou listens to the Chinese people in all their splendid variety, and what she finds makes the official version of China seem a bit superficial."
—Perry Link, University of California, Riverside
Icon of Evil
Hitler's Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam
David G. Dalin
John F. Rothmann
With a new introduction by Alan Dershowitz
List price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781412810777
Pages: 247
Publication Date: 08/31/09
Binding: Paper
"Should be read by all Americans seeking to understand current geopolitical reality…(the authors) make a compelling and well-documented case that we are actually fighting the quasi-spiritual offspring of Nazism and Fascism."
—David R. Stokes, townhall.com
A chilling, fascinating, and nearly forgotten historical figure is resurrected in this riveting work that links the fascism of the last century with the terrorism of our own. Written with vigor and extraordinary access to primary sources in several languages, Icon of Evil is the definitive account of the man who, during World War II, was called "the führer of the Arab world" and whose ugly legacy lives on today.
With new and disturbing details, David G. Dalin and John F. Rothmann show how Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem, ingratiated himself with his hero, Adolf Hitler, becoming, with his blond hair and blue eyes, an "honorary Aryan" while dreaming of being installed as Nazi leader of the Middle East. Al-Husseini would later recruit more than 100,000 Muslims in Europe to fight in divisions of the Waffen-SS, and obstruct negotiations with the Allies that might have allowed four thousand Jewish children to escape to Palestine. Some believe that al-Husseini even inspired Hitler to implement the Final Solution. At war’s end, al-Husseini escaped indictment at Nuremberg and was harbored in France.
Icon of Evil chronicles al-Husseini’s postwar relationships with such influential Islamic figures as the radical theoretician Sayyid Qutb and Sad dam Hussein’s powerful uncle General Khairallah Talfah and his crucial mentoring of the young Yasser Ararat. Finally, it provides compelling evidence that al-Husseini’s actions and writings serve as inspirations today to the leaders of Hamas, Hezbollah, and other terrorist organizations pledged to destroy Israel and the United States.
Public Opinion in the United States
Studies of Race, Religion, Gender, and Issues that Matter
Rita J Simon and Mohamed Alaa Abdel Moneim
List price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781412811576
Pages: 276
Publication Date: 11/30/09
Binding: Cloth
Public Opinion in the United States tracks developments in American society since World War II through the lens of public opinion. The authors assess national public opinion poll data from 1945 to 2008, targeting opinions about African Americans, Jews, Muslim Americans, gays and lesbians, immigration, abortion, and affirmative action.
The authors consider whether American attitudes have developed faster than Supreme Court decisions in the areas surveyed. They assess how social change is processed by the public, how people responded to the race riots of the 1950s and 1960s, and how the war in Vietnam shaped new perspectives on issues such as race, citizenship rights, and the role of the individual. Each chapter begins by introducing the political, social, or international events that were critical in setting the stage for influencing public opinion in each decade since World War II.
The volume provides a unique portrait of American society and how it has changed over the last sixty plus years. The reader will learn whether Americans are more or less prejudiced against blacks, Jews, and Muslims than they were in earlier years; whether their views on immigration, affirmative action, and abortion have changed; and when views have changed, in what direction. Do men and women, rich and poor, more and less educated, secular versus religious share the same views? And if there are differences, what directions do those differences take? This work describes American society in 2008 compared to the post-World War II era, and it offers stunning glimpses at the future.
The Soul of Creative Writing
Richard Goodman
List price: $21.95
ISBN: 9781412810517
Pages: 141
Publication Date: 2009
Binding: Paper
"This book is not just for writers then, but for lovers of words and writing. For renewing my excitement about what I’ve chosen to do for a living, this book deserves 13 exclamation marks."
--The Writer Magazine
"A first rate handbook for aspiring authors of any type of creative writing, be it short stories, novels, or poetry, "The Soul of Creative Writing" is a must for any community library collections gathering books on writing. "
--Midwest Book Review
"[S]hould be considered a top pick for any library strong in teaching creative writing, whether at the college or high school grade levels."
--California Bookwatch
"Richard Goodman’s marvelous book, The Soul of Creative Writing, will instruct, delight, edify, challenge, reassure, and guide any student of writing to a personal best. The Soul of Creative Writing is a wonderbook of meditative instruction. Goodman’s sympathy for the writer’s dilemma, the warmth of his urging, the brightness of his enthusiasm all remind us that courage lies inside encouragement. We can find courage to write here, and support from all Goodman’s tips and insights. Like the best teaching from the most inspired teachers, it’s simply invaluable."
--Molly Peacock, author of Cornucopia and Paradise, Piece by Piece
The Soul of Creative Writing is a tribute to language and to its potentials. It explores the elements of language, style, rhythm, sound, and the choice of the right word. Richard Goodman paints an image of how language can produce a life and meaning that otherwise cannot exist in the symbols themselves. Goodman’s stunningly creative collection was written after a lifetime of working and struggling with language. He collects rich examples from writers of the past and present, both great and small, and uses them to illustrate how each element of our written language can be used. Goodman’s volume is written with humor and clarity—with fascination and reverence. Writers will find it an indispensable source of creative inspiration and instruction.
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