The question of South Africa's future has become a paramount issue in global politics. This book examines the position of South Africa as it faces the 1980s—its strengths, its weaknesses, and the probable influences of other states on South Africa in the years to come. The authors share a common interest in an analytical approach to a topic often argued with more emotion than rationality. They discuss South Africa's internal situation, with particular emphasis on the interests and aspirati...

Fasten your seatbelts for an anthology of turbulent tales curated by Stephen King and Bev Vincent. This exciting new collection, perfect for airport or aeroplane reading, includes an original introduction and story notes for each story by Stephen King, and brand new stories from Stephen King and Joe Hill.Stephen King hates to fly.Now he and co-editor Bev Vincent would like to share this fear of flying with you.Welcome to Flight ...

17 turbulente Geschichten – neue Storys von Stephen King und Joe Hill nebst im Deutschen Unveröffentlichtem von Richard Matheson, John Varley u.a., dazu Klassiker von Dan Simmons, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ray Bradbury ...Nichts ist Stephen King ein größerer Gräuel, als fliegen zu müssen. Zusammen mit Mitherausgeber Bev Vincent teilt er nun seine Flugangst mit seinen Lesern. Die Anthologie versammelt alles, was gründlich schiefgehen kann, wenn man sich auf 30.000 Fuß Höhe mit 500 Knoten ...

A riotous parade of historical facts and antidotes about the formation and evolution of Harvard from 1636 – 1962. Always successful in finding an obscure point or contributing a twist in perception, Bissell tells the story of Harvard's presidents, student life, curriculum, the campus and its buildings, music, sports, restaurants and foods (including the original recipe for Harvard beets) with meticulous attention to detail and irreverent wit. Also a Harvard graduate, Bissell chooses to foc...

Demanding Accountability is a collection of nine original case studies that offer insights into how local, national, and international civil society factors mobilize to hold the World Bank accountable for its financed projects. It is a rich source of lessons for understanding today's emerging transnational civil society efforts to challenge powerful global institutions.

America’s Revolutionary War heroes caught in the spotlight by a novelist, humorist, and playwright. Come back stage and find out more about the events of the war and our leaders as the whole show is, ahem, un-costumed. Written with great wit and academic authority (no rube, Mr. Bissell was a Harvard graduate), A New Light on1776 and All That is a terrific read.America’s Revolutionary War caught in the spotlight of a great American novelist, humorist, and playwright. Come back stage...

If anyone had told me I’d be entranced by a book about coal boats moving thirty million tons of coal down the Monongahela River during the 1940’s, well, I would have thought you’d lost your coal stones. I guffawed my way through the first chapter and was pinned to the pages from thereon in. Richard Bissell has artfully intertwined his experiences as a pilot on the Coal Queen with historical facts and anecdotes about the boats and men who made the Monongahela River in West Virginia into one...

“A river, a very big and powerful river, is the only natural force that can wholly determine the course of human peregrination.” T. S.Eliot Duke Snyder found his first job on “a dirty old cinder-throwing stern-wheeler” when he was sixteen years old with just sixty-five cents left in his pocket and nothing else to do. Ten years later he’s still on the river aboard an old diesel towboat hauling eight barges of coal toward the Chain of Rocks above St. Louis with all hands on ...

New superintendent, Sid Sorokin, arrives at the Sleep Tite Pajama Factor in Junction City, Iowa, to find himself knee deep in complaints about fans in the pants section, boiling over boilers, nutty letters demanding responses, uncooperative sewing machines, and disgruntled employees who are about to strike for a 7 ½ cent raise. In the midst of trying to cope with it all, one of the leaders of the strike movement, Babe Williams, catches Sid's eye and an amorous romance unfolds. If you grew ...

Wallace Dixon (Wally) is anything but happy. Life is the same old same old and, in spite of his endless successes and financial genius, his dream destination eludes him. Now approaching 50, he can't give up hope that life is more than, well, as an airline stewardess tells him, "the rejected broccoli from an airline lunch."So, what to do, what to do. For one thing, he could look up Angela, an old girlfriend living in Tampa, Florida. (His children are grown and his wife – yes, he sti...

A riotous story about an Indiana author who packs up his family and moves 900 miles (by car in a heat wave with four children) to take up residence in Connecticut where he commutes to New York City to work with a team to transform his book into a musical comedy. Adjustment to city life is frazzling and the road to fame isn’t easy – but, with Richard Bissell in the director's chair, the ride is utterly hilarious.Say Darling is based on Bissell's own collaborative experience of turni...

Frank Blanchard loves houseboats and lives on one along with such things as “cartons, papers, boards, lube oil cans, vinegar jugs, shingles, shoes, branches, busted oars, busted window sash, railroad ties, oil drums, oak wedges from the shipyard, bushel baskets, orange crates, watermelon rind, two by fours, greasy planks with spikes sticking out all over, nail kegs, hunks of cork, light bulbs. . . .” well, you get the idea. (ch 1)Frank is in love with an unattainable woman (Oh, Ava...