Perry Books

When things happen in live that you can explain. It good to know that there are books out here that can help. I wish that I had got books like this when I was growing up. They would have help me thank God for all that I have today.

Is the idea of human rights a religious idea? Is there such a thing as an absolute right? What are the things that no human being should ever do to another human being? And what are the things that all human beings ought to do for other human beings? Is the language of human rights (as entitlement) part of the problem as we try to understand what is ethical behaviour?
Perry asks, and answers these questions. His writing is lawyerly, but accessible. He explores these questions for himself, taking you along for the ride. A smart guy with a lot of information about these things, it is an informative ride and useful to apply to both day-to-day life, and an understanding of what the UN is up against.
A required book for anyone who wants to work in politics, especially, but really for anyone who cares about know what we ought to do and ought not to do as moral human beings.

While most of the world went to war with guns and ammunition, there were others who carried brushes and paint to the fray. Although little known at the time - and barely remembered half a century later - artists from all nations committed to paper or canvas their impressions of the immense events of which they were part. No war in history was as widely chronicled in art as was World War II.

Some artists were commissioned by their governments or armed forces to record the battles, while others just felt the need to express their vision of the war. Some were already famous, and some became famous afterward. Others made no subsequent mark on the art world, and still others never made it home at all.

Ken McCormick and Hamilton Darby Perry, assisted by a team of researchers, have selected an exemplary sampling of these artworks - most of them never before published. The result is a powerful and moving look at a time when it seemed that war reached everywhere and touched everyone - from the front lines to the supply lines; from the foxholes and the gun turrets to the loading docks, mess tents, and hospitals; from bombed-out cities and refugee-swollen roads to home-front factories and war-bond rallies.

IMAGES OF WAR is a truly international collection - one that represents some 200 artists from a dozen countries - chosen from among the thousands and thousands of artworks hanging in museums and tucked away in archives. We see the war from every viewpoint. Of special note is a generous selection of paintings from the Soviet Union, most of them never before available to the West.

Throughout, the art is married to a carefully chosen text of excerpted eyewitness accounts and dispatches - verbal sketches, really, that complement the immediacy of the potent images.

This collection offers a highly charged look at the harchness of war, the devastation of war, the triumph, the fear, the industriousness, the sorrow, the borebom, the glory, the stolen moments, the waste, and the grief of war - all as they've never been seen before.

In book 13 of this Space Opera, Rhodan & crew finally reach the Planet of Eternal Life.

After the adventures of "The Rebels of Tuglan", Perry Rhodan and crew return to Vega to restart their final calculations to get to the Planet of Eternal Life - only to find that Vega's sun is very quickly turning into a supernova. Rhodan must hurry to get to his final destination in order to help save the citizens of Ferrol.

They finally arrive on the Planet of Eternal Life - only to find that it, too, holds many secrets that need to be solved before "The Immortal Unknown" grants immortality. Rhodan and his Mutant Corps travel thru a version of a Wild West town that could only come from the imagination of a truly alien being. Rhodan quickly solves the final riddles, and then he and a few hand picked others approach the final encounter with the being they come to call "PEL" (short for "Planet of Eternal Life").

When the Arkonides Krest and Thora approach the throne to receive what they believe is their reward, they find they are mistaken - it is Perry Rhodan and Terra to whom the final secret of Eternal Life will be given. Although that secret is not without cost - Rhodan discovers that the treatment must be given once every 62 years in order to maintain the vitality of the first time you first step into the cellular rejuvenator. Next, a whole new "band" of stories begins with "Venus In Danger".

I've never been this impressed by any series. I'm reminded of cliffhangers like "Buck Rodgers" or "Flash Gordon" when reading these marvelous books - a series that is still being published in Germany and is now well over 1,800 volumes. It's too bad American publishers stopped these after only about 120 books. I had to learn to speak, read, and write German in order to continue reading Perry Rhodan.

This book also contains another editorial, another science fiction movie section, and another fan letters page. Well worth reading the entire series.

Perry Garfinkel's "In a Man's World," is one of the best books I've read on men's issues. It is well written in an engaging and conversational style and thoroughly examines the roles men play in life. The book appears to be based on excellent interview research but is also made more interesting by stories from Garfinkel's own life.

I am a voracious yet selective reader. I know what is good and what is not, no matter what official reviewers might say. This is one book I could barely put down. Oftentimes I would get up in the middle of the night and begin reading where I had left off the afternoon or evening beforehand.

Garfinkel puts boundaries on this specific work: The roles he thoroughly describes and discusses are those found in male-to-male interactions, not those found between men and women. Specifically, the roles of father, son, brother, male friend, paternal grandfather, and male mentor all come up in his book.

This is a good companion volume to other related (yet slightly different) books such as Robert Bly's "Iron John," Sam Keen's "Fire in the Belly," and Kent Nerburn's "Letters to My Son." I recommend Perry Garfinkel's "In a Man'as World" to anyone interested in men's issues or the psychology of men.

"How could I think to marry an honest man if I do not keep my virginity until the wedding?" "You should find a lighter skin husband for the good of the children that will come. Otherwise, they would be subjects of discrimination, and they would unnecessarily suffer for your mistake..." I remember these debates as part of the everyday conversation of the teenagers when I studied in a Peruvian middle class Catholic school ten years ago. A Peruvian talk-show presented some young adult males who tried to explain that their teenager girl-friends got pregnant because they asked them for what they called "prueba del amor", that is having intercourse as a proof of the chastity of the girl. However, because of these girls seemed to be non-virgins they would not honor their promise marriage. Some elements from an old discourse of family honor based on women chastity remains these days in the mentality of many Latin American women and men. Sueann Caulfield in her recently published book In Defense of Honor: Sexual Morality, Modernity, and Nation in Early-Twentieth-Century Brazil is concerned with the importance given for different classes to women's chastity as the basis of the family honor and the notions of an "honorable" marriage, in Brazil between post World War I period and 1940s. In those terms, the author make an effort to trace the history of women's place in society to understand the ways in which gender roles are constructed in terms of power relationships related to the state, the law, and the nationhood discourse. Focusing on the cariocas urban lower classes, Sueann Caulfield is concerned with the adoption of these debates about marriage and women's respectability into the working class values and the personal responses to this norms in the everyday life practices. Caulfield focuses on the crime of deflowering -extramarital sex with an "honest virgin" woman between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one-, analyze the relationship between "the role of sexual honor in everyday personal choices and conflicts of people...and its role in public debates over the modernization of the Brazilian nation" (Caulfield, 4). This relationship takes place in the context of a national discourse that identifies the family as the basis of the nation and the sexual honor as the basis of the family. The notion of "honest women" as a juridical subject is central in this discussion to teach the population "civilized" behavioral norms and moral values, as part of a discourse of sexual honor that is "used to reinforce hierarchical relations based not only on gender but on race and class as well" (Cauldfield, 4). For Caulfield, it bring us an example of how the elite build a discourse of national identity through the construction of gender roles imposed to the lower classes to control them, even though this class adapted the discourse to their realities, possibilities and prerogatives. Virginity, the base of the sexual honor, or to be more precise the lost of the virginity is throughout the book used by different women and families as a tool to claim their honorability, and in most cases gain a marriage proposal with a desirable partner. Nonetheless, the possibilities of the lower class to behave under the bourgeois norms of propriety for women were simply limited beginning with their necessity to go to work and the meaning of this in terms of presence in the public space. If middle and upper class daughters were not allowed to go out without the company of a chaperone, working-class women going out alone to go to work, gave them the opportunity of social interaction and courting on the street or in public plazas. Another important aspect is the possibility and necessity of marriage to be considered an "honorable woman" among the working-class population. Traditionally formal marriage was usually beyond the economic and social possibilities of the lower classes, because of the variety of legal documents necessary to perform it and the indirect economic cost that it represent. However, even when it seems a desirable aspiration for most of the women involve in this defloration trials, women and men assume that "honorable women" not necessarily have to be legally married. In my opinion, one of the most important aspects analyzed by Caulfield is the absence of race and class discourse to refute the charge of deflowering among the accused men. Nonetheless the absence of references coexisted with a very racialize discourse among "middle- and upper-class white men that saw black and especially mulatto women as sensual and easily accessible, in contrast to the chaste white women they would marry" (Caulfield, 152). A racialized discourse that probably could ever be more beautifully portrayed than in Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge Amado. In that sense, it is necessary to remark the perfect equilibrium get by Susan Caulfield using gender, class and race as tools of analysis of the sexual honor among the carioca society. Analyze these deflowering cases gives Caulfield the opportunity to show tendencies to endogamic racial marriages, and how a discourse of racial democracy made class boundaries more rigid.

Through this dedicated study Sueann Caulfield shows us how gender and class are mutually complementary to understand political and social constructions as law, state power and nationhood, illuminating the links between gender and power relationships.

Ken Vance has returned to Colorado Springs on medical leave, after the jet he was flying was shot down by a shoulder-fired missle. Ken is left with blurred vision, which bars him from flying. Quinn Montgomery, Ken's best friend has been plagued with vandalism at his construction business. He hires Ken as a security guard.

Julianna Red Feather had a crush on Ken in high school, but the Vances and the Red Feather's didn't belong to the same social set. Now they are adults, and those barriers are more easily crossed, but Ken only plans to be around until the U.S. air force will let him return to flying.

The Vance and Montgomery families have a deadly enemy. The vandalism incidents increase and Julianna and Angel, her search and rescue dog, are caught up in the violance. The enemy has set a trap he hopes will destroy them all. Can Ken and Julianna discover the truth in time?
This is a fast paced story about two people who find love in the midst of danger.

Book # 24 of this Space Opera continues the first huge story arc, which began in book # 21, "The Cosmic Decoy", and concludes in Book # 41, "The Earth Dies".

These mega-stories are called "bands" in the original German. This band deals with the first true encounter between the fledgling fleet of Terra and the might of the galactic empire.

In this interlude from the story of Cadet Julian Tifflor, we find Perry Rhodan on an interstellar journey to the planet Wanderer - the Planet of Eternal Life - in the hope that he can acquire a weapon to help the Terrans defeat the Springers. But first, Perry must deal with events on the planet Barkon (=not= "Arkon") to help the inhabitants of that system in their attempt to manufacture what may be the engineering feat of the entire universe - hollowing out their entire world and turning it into a titanic worldship! In order to determine if Rhodan and his crew are ready for such a weapon, the inhabitant of the Planet of Eternal Life sends Perry on this quest to the edge of the universe.

Next "episode" - Number 25 - "Snowman in Flames".

I've never been this impressed by a series. I'm reminded of old cliffhanger serials like "Buck Rodgers" or "Flash Gordon" when reading these marvelous books. This series is still being published in Germany and is now well over 2,000 stories. It's too bad American publishers stopped after only about 120 books. I had to learn to speak, read, and write German in order to continue reading Perry Rhodan.

This book contains another editorial, another science fiction movie section, and another letters column. There are also extra stories - one continuing adventure, similar to a serial, and some "Shock Shorts" - continuing a series of SF short stories at the end of each book. Although these stories have nothing to do with Perry Rhodan, they are worth looking at.

It's well worth reading the entire Rhodan series.

This is a well written travel guide book, if you're a first time traveler to California you would find this book as the most accurate guide that is available. Locals would also find this book useful if they're not familiar with the state yet.

This collection of articles and exercises provides "cutting edge" resources in the work/family and work/life areas. The articles cover everything from flextime to recognition of the work and family issues faced by expatriates. This information is becoming more and more important in organizations throughout the world. A glance at the annual Fortune or other magazines that focus on the best companies to work for indicate the attention being focused on these issues. Interestingly new graduates are now asking these questions about the companies they are considering working for--and companies that ignore this may find themselves less able to hire the professionals they need (and the market for these folks continues to get tighter). The guide is expensive, but collecting up the work captured within it would be incredibly time-consuming and the coverage might not be as thorough. Although it is probably intended more for a human resources professional or teacher conducting training or informing employees and managers about work/life issues it could be a useful guide to assess your own ways of balancing and integrating you work and nonwork life. There could be application for a parent or church group to use the guide as well. If you hired a consultant to inform you on these issues and/or a trainer to conduct this training it would cost a lot more and you would have to bring them back again and again. One thing that was not addressed in the guide was what I will call "family friendly backlash" found in books like The Baby Boon, but I think this guide moves beyond this controversy by focusing on work AND life, not just work AND family. It is important to recognize that these are not just issues for people with small children, but issues that impact all working people.