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INSIDE OUTSIDE is a composite of reflections and views of the natural word, inspired by the author's spiritual practice. As an outdoor woman, some of her poems reflect this physical energy. As a medical practitioner, hospital experiences are reported via poetry. Childhood, which informs all of our lives, is also documented here in episodic poems. "Sue Silver's Inside Outside is a remarkable debut collection of poetry. Silver's poems celebrate ...

A captivating lifetime of personal and professional experiences by an American historian, film specialist and documentary filmmaker in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia. The author's experiences as a radical in the turbulent 1960s, and his eventual disenchantment offer some precedents and perspectives to all those on the Left, Center or Right interested in the fluctuations of American politics. The vivid log of hopes and disillusions is ...

Is the moon the center of the universe? is a collection of mostly humorous verse rooted in an appreciation of the absurd and the ridiculous. A few of the verses take their cue from real persons, such as "The secret history of Duncan MacDougall", who hoped to prove the existence of the soul by weighing dying patients just before and just after death, or "Mad Anthony Wayne", a verse very loosely based on the life of an officer in the American Re...

Set in Uganda of the sixties with bookends in India and New York, this doctor's story tells of a turbulent political time when colonial Uganda graduated to self-rule. It is also the personal story of an Indian woman living in an independent African country wanting and needing assimilation but regretfully recognizing rejection. It is the story of the exhilaration of living in a country more beautiful than Eden, if sometimes a threatened Eden. B...

This is a book of some seventy lyric poems written in free verse. The bears, which appear in the title poem, are intended to suggest unpredictability, the mysterious and dangerous aspects of experience as well as the possibility of love. The poems are rooted in a changing landscape ranging from the Hudson River Valley to Manhattan, and further back in time, to the West coast of Ireland, from which the writer's parents emigrated. Arriving in Ne...

This is a thriller in which every chapter heightens the suspense. The subtext is the energy crisis that affects the global economy, the hero is a Bond-like daredevil. The world's economy is faced with a momentous change in direction: the need to reduce, and then abandon, its reliance on fossil fuel energy and adopt alternative sources without resorting to nuclear power. Against this backdrop, the interests of two opposing geopolitical agend...

Helen Lyman writes about the more humorous incidents she witnessed as the wife of an American diplomat, including incidents with the famous-Nelson Mandela, Al and Tipper Gore, Hillary Clinton-and the not so famous. Helen Lyman began writing in 2001 about the more humorous incidents she witnessed as the wife of an American diplomat. She saw the overseas life through the prism of someone who never thought of herself as being born to the trappin...

As Green as Paradise is a lyrical weave of a governor's story, once a conquistador. It is a tale of loves lost and dreams unfulfilled, of characters condemned to forge ahead in a world at once old and new. The avocado carver was once a conquistador. This time, though, he aims to arrive in peace, as a governor, leading his relatives across the sea to a new world where they will found a settlement in a green valley. Yet his hopes for harmony wi...

This is the sequel to To Kill a Tsar. Another thrilling adventure of eccentric Inspector Vasiliev, who this time takes the readers to Kiev, a city gripped in the horror of the 1881 pogroms against the Jews. "In this second, marvelous installment of their adventures, Alfred Rieber takes the remarkable Russian detective duo of Vasiliev and Serov to Kiev, a city gripped in the horror of the 1881 pogroms against the Jews. There they struggle to so...

A volume of humorous verse, from epic poems on American and global history to the role of bunnies and kitties in high affairs. "Joining acute analysis of world affairs with rhyme (and often song), Sabrina Ramet's Cheese Pirates is simultaneously uproarious, surprising, and insightful. From epic poems on American and global history to musings on the role of bunnies and kitties in high affairs, Cheese Pirates both amuses and forces you to pon...

This book follows a United States Foreign Service couple as they renew an official presence in Yemen. Arriving three years after the 1967 closure of the American embassy in Sanaa, the couple experimented with this unique form of "diplomacy under a foreign flag" when they opened up and managed the U.S. Interests Section (USINT) within the Italian Embassy. Set only eight years after the Republican Revolution had ousted a thousand-year-old dyna...

In the slums of Nairobi, artist and volunteer Charles DeSantis chronicles the creation and implementation of an art immersion program, and shows how educating children to have another voice allows them to be heard. In 2006, author Charles DeSantis was selected with 11 other Georgetown University faculty members to travel to Nairobi, Kenya, as part of a program called the Kenya Immersion Group. Once there, DeSantis and the others visited many ...

The book describes the life of U.S. diplomats against a backdrop of serious political or military events, such as the bombing of offshore islands between mainland China and Taiwan, the civil war and landing of U.S. Marines in Beirut, Lebanon, the overthrow of First Secretary Khrushchev, the alleged coup in Guinea resulting in the house arrest of U.S. diplomats. I give my vision of the role of a U.S. diplomat, with his battles and his accomplis...

This is a memoir about the "Black Greeks." A long-time brother discusses history and traditions and why Greek life was so special on black campuses during the early days. They are still important today. Black Greeks are still quite visible in black community life. They make up a large percentage of the black middle class in almost any city where that ethnicity is numerous. They have spread to Africa and the Caribbean as well. It is fairly har...

My story jumps across initial parts of going nowhere. The decision to cross the Atlantic was prompted by political developments totally outside of our control. We moved blindly, unprepared and oblivious of what to expect. A series of jobs, some typical for immigrants, some acquired by pure luck, followed. The message: have courage to open closed doors, be bold forgetting your ignorance, there will always be time to learn and to get educated. A...

Set on the West Coast during Bush II's first term, Out of What Chaos showcases the escapades of Rex and The Brains as they settle into the Portland rock scene, record their first CD, and tour from Vancouver to LA behind their chart-topping single, "F U. I Just Want To Get My Rocks Off." The boys party on, finding their way amidst the frenzied panorama of twenty-first century America. The country embraces them in all its crazy glory, from witch...

No More Barking in the Hallways: Poems from the Classroom, offers readers a window into the stories of teachers and students as they struggle to be successful in our test-obsessed culture. "Frankly, there isn't anyone you couldn't learn to love once you've heard their story." Those words of the beloved Fred Rogers, star of the long-running PBS children's show Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, serve as the catalyst for the narrative poems that detail t...

Think of this as a course catalogue, with courses arranged into departments. As the great French mathematician and philosopher René Descartes once noted, if you really want to live, first think about it. "Sabrina Ramet is widely known as the most authoritative scholar on the history of the Yugoslav world in the twentieth century. But she is also a poet and in this new collection of her verse, she delights us with her polished wit and deadly ac...

The book includes seventeen short stories. They all relate to ordinary people whom we see on the street, or walking through the aisles of a supermarket, or waiting in a doctor's office, or in a hairdresser's salon. None is extraordinary, none is a hero. Yet, in one way or another, they are faced with either an extraordinary situation or become an extraordinary being, none of which is permanent.

This is a book of poems- more than a literary exercise-a document, testament, memorial for someone I met when I was 13 years old, and knew my entire life. Ken Flynn and I were married almost 60 years when he left me. Each poem is a note in a diary of loss. The words 'dead' and 'death' appear more than I would otherwise allow in my writing but honest emotions called these poems forth. In fact I have forgiven myself for many things so that I can...