Genius of 10th Street is a searching, riotously alive memoir-in-fragments—an exploration of identity, memory, art, politics, friendship, and the strange afterlives our names and words take on once they leave our hands.With wry humor and piercing tenderness, Robert Roth travels through the overlapping worlds he has inhabited for eight decades: the downtown literary and art scenes, radical political movements, queer countercultures, the Peru of his closest collaborators, the intimate...

Our father was always The Most Interesting Man in the Room! This book is a collage of stories from his incredibly rich and varied life experiences. These true accounts span decades. Their locations span five continents and vary from a small southern Georgia town to the world's greatest cities.Our dad was a husband, a father, the batting practice pitcher St. Louis Cardinals, then the Cardinals baseball minor league business manager, an entrepreneur/restauranteur, a radio personality...

My experience at Pan American World Airways during the mid '60s and early '70s was far more than just a job. It was a whole series of adventures. I was snowbound and buried in baggage at Kennedy Airport for 3 days during the Christmas Blizzard of '66. I was on special assignment in Paris during the infamous general strike of '68. I survived three years of martial law in Guatemala after Ambassador Mien was executed while escaping from terrorist kidnappers. My plane caught fire and lost its ...

Addresses a subject of common interest in developed countries - the apparently diminishing role of universities in the education of teachers. There is pressure to redesign teacher education, an on-going struggle between those who see the need to strengthen the knowledge base of teachers and those who favour learning on the job; there is a perceived need to define precisely what teachers need to know and be able to do and at the same time there is relaxation of entry standards for students ...

Presently, many of the greatest debates and controversies in international criminal law concern modes of liability for international crimes. The state of the law is unclear, to the detriment of accountability for major crimes and of the uniformity of international criminal law. The present book aims at clarifying the state of the law and provides a thorough analysis of the jurisprudence of international courts and tribunals, as well as of the debates and the questions these debates have le...

Our children are new in the world and everything they encounter is remarkable. As they grow, their experiences of the simplest and the most profound events enrich us all. In All the Things You Will See, children and parents feel joy in discovering and rediscovering the beauty in our lives. The sun, the rain, sitting with Mommy and playing with children await them and you. The text is warm and flowing, the illustrations peaceful and soothing. As you read this book to your child or to yourse...