Global politics has changed with unaccustomed swiftness since the end of the Cold War. Eastern Europe is free; the Soviet Union has broken up; China presses free market economic reform; and the United States and Russia have declared a joint commitment to end nuclear war. The force of these changes has created a new agenda for global politics and security policy. This does not mean that nuclear weapons have lost their centrality. Nuclear development programs continue in the major h...

This work canvasses nuclear weapon abolition, proposals placed on the table since 1945 and the obstacles and issues which a realistic program for abolition confronts today. It has an ambitious purpose, to show that nuclear abolition can and should be placed on the public agenda.a The author terms it interpretive in that it incorporates his commentaries, never hiding his reasons and judgments. It is neither "just the facts" nor "all the facts." It is an encyclopedia in the...

Color has never been neutral-it has marked movements, signaled resistance, and reclaimed identity. In BLUE - Anthologies for The World, Vol. 2, The Red Penguin Collection and Red Penguin Books present a powerful gathering of voices exploring the many meanings of blue: the sky above every border, the waters that sustain-and endanger-our world, and the emotional and cultural depths that shape our shared human experience. Through poetry, prose, and essays, writers confront urgent the...

A master football coach shares the secret to creating and nurturing a legendary quarterback.What is an elite NFL quarterback and what separates that player from the others? One answer is the coach they share. In the recent history of the biggest game on earth, one man is the common thread that connects several of the very best in the sport: Peyton Manning; Ben Roethlisberger; Andrew Luck; and the resurgent Carson Palmer. That coach is Bruce Arians.A larger ...

"When it comes to the giants of 20th Century underworld the names you rarely read about are often more interesting than the ones you did. And they wanted it that way! Vincent "Jimmy Blue Eyes" Alo was there from the beginning, when organized crime got organized by Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky, Alo's lifelong business partner. From the formation of the modern syndicate during Prohibition through the creation of Las Vegas and the Mafia empire in Havana, Jimmy Blue Eyes was the ghost who sl...