Victor S: 73 books

G’day, Mate! shows us the unexpected situations that one can come across. Who knew when Victor S. Lavrov boarded the Eifuku Maru in Kobe, Japan, how Mrs. Satrapinsky would turn out to be? She was the exception to the rule. After all, Mr. Satrapinsky was a bachelor in Tokyo. There was no record or...

A lavishly illustrated, witty, and original look at the awesome power of the political cartoon throughout history to enrage, provoke, and amuse. As a former editor of The New York Times Magazine and the longtime editor of The Nation, Victor S. Navasky knows just how transformative—and incendiary—cartoons...

Finalist for the National Book Award: A groundbreaking portrait of the intersection of law and politics in Robert F. Kennedy’s Department of Justice As United States Attorney General, the young, legally inexperienced Robert F. Kennedy sat at the head of a vast department tasked with enforcing...

Winner of the National Book Award: The definitive history of Joe McCarthy, the Hollywood blacklist, and HUAC explores the events behind the hit film Trumbo. Drawing on interviews with over one hundred and fifty people who were called to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee—including...

Mission Accomplished! Or How We Won the War in Iraq is the definitive collection -- systematically categorized, indexed, and footnoted for your convenience -- of authoritative misinformation, disinformation, misunderstanding, miscalculation, egregious prognostication, boo-boos, and just plain lies,...

The book, 'The monster behind the red coat,' is a collection of short stories, written by different authors, with a Christmas theme. Stories in this book range from horror, mild romance, to every other thing that can happen during the Christmas period. So, don't you think you should...

The concept of "shifting baselines"—changes in historical reference points used in environmental assessments—illuminates a foundational challenge when evaluating the health of ecosystems and seeking to restore degraded wildlife populations. In this important book, Victor S. Kennedy examines...

This book project is lovingly dedicated to God, my parents, my sisters, my children, friends, relatives and all others who are related to me by blood or by soul. To my futile bouts with austerity and my fool hearted commitment to excesses. To the friends who have faithfully seen me through and the...

Do you ever wonder about prison scenarios that you heard may or may not have taken place? This book is for anyone that wants to know more about life as a Correctional Officer. Handcuffed Through the eyes of a CO has scenarios and opinions on what may or may not go on behind bars.

"The hardest thing about changing your life, is changing your life." This stark reality occurs to the protagonist Terry when he comes to the raw conclusion that “He can’t get there, from here”. To find his “way”, his "Tao", he goes on an external and internal journey that requires him to leave...

The most comprehensive study of Buddhism in Canada to date, Wild Geese offers a history of the religion's evolution in Canada, surveys the diverse communities and beliefs of Canadian Buddhists, and presents biographies of Buddhist leaders. The essays cover a broad range of topics, including Chinese,...

Extrait : "ROBERT, arrivant : Personne au rendez-vous. Aurait-on donné contre-ordre... (Examinant les lieux.) Non, aucun avertissement... Les pierres sont en place... Pas une branche brisée... — De là haut on aperçoit notre forteresse... Voyons si le drapeau d'alarme n'y flotte pas. (Il grimpe...

When Sasaki Sōkei-an founded his First Zen Institute of North America in 1930 he suggested that bringing Zen Buddhism to America was like "holding a lotus against a rock and waiting for it to set down roots." Today, Buddhism is part of the cultural and religious mainstream. Flowers on the Rock examines...

Modem societies, - like organized societies of all eras, - suffer from antithetical aspirations, from competing institutionalizations of that which is desirable, and that which, though unwelcome, is inevitable. Men clearly see the advantages of localism, of the self determination of small peoples,...