How to Make the World a Better Place for Gays & Lesbians

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HOW TO COUNTER AND COMBAT HOMOPHOBIANow, as never before, gays and lesbians are marching together in growing numbers, raising their voices and making themselves heard in their escalating fight for civil rights. Yet despite increased national visibility and impressive gains, America's dynamic gay community continues to face bias in housing, employment, the military, and family relationships -- as well as a rise in gay and lesbian bashing and legally sanctioned discrimination.Here at last is a practical handbook to help you improve the lives of millions of American gays and lesbians and their friends, families, and supporters. This is the first book to empower you to confront, address, and change anti-gay prejudice on all levels of society -- from personal and interpersonal to collective, religious, and institutional. A crucial tool for a critical time in the gay rights movement, it provides insightful information on why homophobia exists, rational step-by-step procedures on how to take effective action against it in all its forms, and specific, invaluable tips on...

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A book gay activists should definitely have on their shelf.......1999-09-13

I found this book to be quite useful and its suggestions to be really good for those who try to counteract homophobia. The only fault is really the title since it is geared mainly for gays and lesbians in the USA. Nothing is mentioned about other nations. A more fitting title might be "How to Make Life Better for Gays and Lesbians" Luckily Israel is a country where homophobia is not nearly as rampant as in the USA. Our legal system affords us a great deal of protection here. Nevertheless from time to time homophobia rears its ugly head. I would recommend this book to anyone concerned with gay rights. I am glad to have it on my bookshelf along with similar books by activists/writers such as Betty Berzon and Eric Marcus.

A needed reference for anyone concerned about civil rights!.......1998-09-29

Fahy has created a reference book that not only exposes homophobia and proves that it hurts everyone but also offers solutions. Adding to the book's appeal as a resource manual, she neatly organizes each chapter with sub-headings, explaining a particular situation, what gays can do about it, why non-gays should care, and what non-gays can do. Fahy takes into account people's communities, prejudices, etc., offering different advice for different readers.

An engaging and optomistic book that deserves the attention of anyone who is concerned about civil rights!

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An autobiography of a Luftwaffe pilot unlike any you have ever read. Adolf Dickfeld won the Knight's Cross scoring 136 aerial victories and, with refreshing candor, tells his story like it really was. A rare insight into the life of a fighter pilot. He served with JG 2, JG 11 and JG 52 on the Channel during the Battle of Britain, in the Balkans, Russia, Africa and in the Defense of Germany. The author ended the war flying the HE 162 "Volksjäger". With 47 black and white photographs, 2 color photographs.

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Between Remorse and Defiance.......2006-02-08

A typical book in the genre of war memoirs. The text illuminates the human aspect of the war as seen from the perspective of a regular pilot. Adolf Dickfeld served with III./JG52 with the famous Hermann Graf. Later on he was transferred to II./JG2 and II./JG11. The author offers some unexpected details about the life of an occupational force in the various theaters of operations. Episodes of aerial duels are interspersed with accounts from the daily routines of his unit. The Dickfeld memoirs are sparse on details of historical events. The book offers few dates of events and no maps. Also, few references are made to the overall context, in which the author operated. Unfortunately, memoirs by front-line troops often share this lack of factual documentation and I have grown to accept it.

There are two problems with this book though. The first one has to do with the rather poor editorial work on this publication. There are several spelling mistakes and clumsy translations of German terms and expressions. The second weakness of the book is that the author is torn between remorse for the war crimes of the occupational forces and the blind bitterness of a conquered combatant. Sometimes he would erupt in apologetic diatribes. Other times he would try to rationalize German atrocities by comparison to other historical (supposedly similar) events. Both sources of these emotional outbursts are off-beat in my humble opinion and detract from the readability of the text. In that sense, Luftwaffe Fighter Ace by Norbert Hannig and Alert in the West by Willi Heilmann are better reads on the same subject.

a small deceipt.......2003-08-07

He wrote a good book on small histories of his war. But no many on aerial war ! it's curious, i like his writing but why he doesn't speak of these planes or comrade ( gunther rall, 5 sentences, we don't know about of his first victory, etc...). Curious !

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Shall we retire to the country?
English haunted house meets Oscar Wilde (again)

Footsteps in the Dark
Georgette Heyer
Manufacturer: Granada
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0246127600

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Shall we retire to the country?.......2007-07-17

Their inheritance had all the aspects of an ancient country home including the resident ghost. Learning to live the peaceful country life brings anything, but repose. Georgette Heyer's, "Footsteps in the Dark" with its conventional, but welldrawn characters will have you laughing outloud when following her crisp dialogue.
Clues and red herrings bounce down hidden staircases and mouldering crypts as Heyer, at her very best, leads the reader through a labyrinth of mystery and suspense interspersed with a light romance. First written in 1932, it still has the power to enthrall. If you've ever dreamed of an old house in the country, this one has all the aspects of reality without electricity or a phone. A great read at any time, but we don't recommend by lamplight.
Nash Black, author of "Qualifying Laps" and "Sins of the Fathers."

English haunted house meets Oscar Wilde (again).......1999-03-02

Georgette Heyer is known mainly for her Regency romances rather than her mysteries, probably because she wrote more of them. Although all of her mysteries are good--and witty--Footsteps In The Dark seems to be the only one where Heyer went for outright comedy. There are chills enough in this tale of five people (husband-and-wife, two siblings, and an aunt) who have moved to what seems to be a haunted house, but there are some extremely funny moments as well. (There is one line in the book--which I will not quote--which sent me rolling on the floor for fully five minutes. You'll know when you reach it.)

Enjoy.

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In Gary Snyder and the Pacific Rim, Timothy Gray draws upon previously unpublished journals and letters as well as his own close readings of Gary Snyder's well-crafted poetry and prose to track the early career of a maverick intellectual whose writings powered the San Francisco Renaissance of the 1950s and 1960s. Exploring various aspects of cultural geography, Gray asserts that this west coast literary community seized upon the idea of a Pacific Rim regional structure in part to recognize their Orientalist desires and in part to consolidate their opposition to America's cold war ideology, which tended to divide East from West. The geographical consciousness of Snyder's writing was particularly influential, Gray argues, because it gave San Francisco's Beat and hippie cultures a set of physical coordinates by which they could chart their utopian visions of peace and love. Gray's introduction tracks the increased use of “Pacific Rim discourse” by politicians and business leaders following World War II. Ensuing chapters analyze Snyder's countercultural invocation of this regional idea, concentrating on the poet's migratory or “creaturely” sensibility, his gift for literary translation, his physical embodiment of trans-Pacific ideals, his role as tribal spokesperson for Haight-Ashbury hippies, and his burgeoning interest in environmental issues. Throughout, Gray's citations of such writers as Allen Ginsberg, Philip Whalen, and Joanne Kyger shed light on Snyder's communal role, providing an amazingly intimate portrait of the west coast counterculture. An interdisciplinary project that utilizes models of ecology, sociology, and comparative religion to supplement traditional methods of literary biography, Gary Snyder and the Pacific Rim offers a unique perspective on Snyder's life and work. This book will fascinate literary and Asian studies scholars as well as the general reader interested in the Beat movement and multicultural influences on poetry.

First Fish, First People: Salmon Tales of the North Pacific Rim

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International perspectives
ABA Book of the Year
Great read on Salmon as a cultural driver in the N.Pacific.

First Fish, First People: Salmon Tales of the North Pacific Rim

Manufacturer: University of Washington Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0295977396

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Not enough stars on Amazonýs scale.......2001-02-12

This collection of poems, stories, narratives, folktales, oral histories and essays very aptly portrays the vital importance of salmon to the native peoples of the entire northern Pacific rim - not just as a food resource, but as a basis for their culture and a component of their identities. Several of the contributions, particularly an essay by Jeanette Armstrong, note how sustainable yield was applied in salmon fishing for thousands of years and how the discarding of this principle in modern times has led to the excessive depletion and near extinction of this species. Since I grew up in the Pacific Northwest, I am more or less familiar with the importance of salmon to the local economies and the Native American cultures of the region, so I found the sections of the book dealing with the Ainu of Japan, the Ulchi of eastern Siberia and the Nyvkhs of Sakhalin particularly informative and enjoyable. It is also a bit depressing to learn that like the U.S. and Canada (although not nearly as brutally), Japan and the USSR/Russia similarly mistreated the local populations by, among other things, limiting or restricting their access to traditional salmon runs and/or trying to force them to adopt non-traditional ways of life (assimilation). "First Fish, First People" may be attractively published, with striking cover art and attractive photos and illustrations, but it is not a coffee-table book - its diverse contributions, taken together, outline a philosophy of respect for and wise use of natural resources, as well as (and just as importantly) respect for different cultures and different ways of life. It is almost a cliche to say that it is high time that such lessons sink in at all levels of our modern globalized and hyper-industrial societies.

International perspectives.......2000-09-21

This book is a work of art, and provides evidence that the University of Washington Press, through its cooperation with other smaller publishers (such as One Reel) is doing the work that needs to be done in Northwest history and cultural studies.

This book is a collection of perpectives on salmon from representatives of the peoples around the pacific rim whose lives have centered on salmon for thousands of years. The contributors are talented indigenous writers from the United States, Canada, Japan, and Siberia. The engaging text is amply illustrated with historic and contemporary photographs, as well as drawings. The historic photographs are not the same ones that usually appear. For example, nearly every book on salmon in the nortwest has a twentieth century photograph of Indians fishing at Celilo Falls. Most books use the same photo. This book uses one that features in the forground the cable system that was used to get down to the fishing platforms, with the fishing platforms themselves in the background.

Some of the work in this book has been published elsewhere. But the context it is given here accentuates it in useful ways. For example, Sherman Alexie's poem, "The Place Where Ghosts of Salmon Jump," is engraved into a sculpture in Overlook Park behind the Spokane Public Library and is published in _The Summer of Black Widows_. But in this book it appears beside a nice photograph of the falls as it appears today, and a photo of Mr. Alexie standing on the footbridge above a section of the falls pointing downstream.

ABA Book of the Year.......1999-05-12

Aba book of the Year!!

Great read on Salmon as a cultural driver in the N.Pacific........1999-04-01

Buy it especially for the Sherman Alexix poen at the beginning. It's touches the core of the Salmon environmental and cultural dilemna in the Northwest.

America and the East Asian Crisis: Memos to a President

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America and the East Asian Crisis: Memos to a President
Philip D. Zelikow
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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A new text in the Aspen policy series, this brief book encourages new thinking about U.S. national security, conflict reduction, and international policy. Arranged as a collection of memos from experts in academia and government to a president facing a policy challenge, each book in the series offers succinct explanations of the background and context behind a handful of key issues in a particular region of the world.

Dancing on the Rim of the World: An Anthology of Contemporary Northwest Native American Writing (Sun Tracks)

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THE EARTH'S CENTER

Dancing on the Rim of the World: An Anthology of Contemporary Northwest Native American Writing (Sun Tracks)

Manufacturer: Univ of Arizona Pr
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0816510970

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THE EARTH'S CENTER.......2000-08-13

Place plays an important part in the literary scope of the authors represented in this anthology. Contained in this volume is a collection of poetry and prose pieces by contemporary Native American writers of the Pacific Northwest.

Native American literature has been stereotyped as being primitive, naive and exotic. The theme of " The Vanishing American" is the typical literary description given to Native American works. It is the purpose of this volume to deconstruct such myths that have been imposed by outsiders. The pieces challenge the social, political and mores of American society.

The majority of this text contained poetry. I assumed through the title that there was an equitable mix of both but that wan't the case. I found the title misleading and wished there were more prose pieces. For those interested in Native American Poetry for study, particularly of the Northwest, this is an excellent text and I recommend it. For those of us who are more interested in prose, I would say find another anthology specializing in the region with prose writers. In any case this work will open your eyes in looking at Native American writing, in particular poetry, from a contemporary perspective.

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Windjammers of the Pacific Rim
Jim Gibbs , and Phillip Drucker
Manufacturer: Schiffer Publishing
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ASIN: 0887400868

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As early settlers to California, Oregon and Washington came around the Horn and sailed north from San Francisco, lumber for homes and industry went south by sea from the Northwest. And with nothing to guide them but the wind, compass, sextant, stars and a sixth sense, the sturdy little ships struggled through fog and gales; more than half of them foundering. This is the story of those ships and of the intrepid pioneers who built them. Through many old photographs and stirring true stories, an appreciation for the schooners, barkentines and other wind vessels and their crew is constructed to bring this golden age of wind ships to life. The Appendix presents lists of vessels over and under 100 tons made on the Pacific coast between 1850 and 1921, of all the skippers and all the ships specialized for the lumber and seal trades.

America and China: Asia-pacific Rim Hegemony in the 21st Century

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America and China: Asia-pacific Rim Hegemony in the 21st Century
Randall Doyle
Manufacturer: Lexington Books
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America and the Pacific Rim
Gerald L. Houseman
Manufacturer: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
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Recognizing the dawning of the Pacific century and its implications for the United States, this textbook explores the economic, political, and social development of the countries of the Asia Pacific and analyzes past, present, and future U.S. policy responses. Houseman compares and contrasts various levels of development within the region, emphasizing especially trade, security, and human rights issues. He concludes with recommendations for U.S. policymaking acknowledging the realities of shrinking political and economic influence in the post-Cold War era.

America's Australia/Australia's America: A Guide to Issues and References (Guide to Contemporary Issues, No 10)

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America's Australia/Australia's America: A Guide to Issues and References (Guide to Contemporary Issues, No 10)
Joseph M. Siracusa , and Yeong-Han Cheong
Manufacturer: Regina Books
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ANTHROPOLOGY N PACIFIC RIM
FITZHUGH WW
Manufacturer: Smithsonian
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Capital, the State, and Late Industrialization: Comparative Perspectives on the Pacific Rim (Social Change in Global Perspective)

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Capital, the State, and Late Industrialization: Comparative Perspectives on the Pacific Rim (Social Change in Global Perspective)

Manufacturer: Westview Pr (Short Disc)
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Binding: Hardcover

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Sulidae - Gannets & Boobies (Aberdeen University Studies Series)
Stephanie Nelson , J. Bryan Nelson , and Bryan Nelson
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0197141048

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The Sulidae Gannets and Boobies
J Bryan Nelson
Manufacturer: OUP
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ASIN: B000J33ADW

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