Product Description: The Vara of Yima, the original Garden of Eden, sealed from the rest of the world and populated with the fittest of men and women. A secret paradise that 150 years ago became ravaged by smog that choked out the skies.Now the Vara exists in a permanent state of darkness and its people need a champion, a chosen one to save them from the smog that threatens to fill the realm and poison its inhabitants...read more

Product Description: "For some twenty years after my encounters in Vietnam, I experienced dreams about the war; however, I refrained from speaking openly and publicly of my military service. Since the Vietnam War was so unpopular with so many of the American people, veterans did not reveal their participation in that conflict...read more

Product Description: The war in Iraq is a divisive issue in the United States, and historians and pundits will spend decades examining the conflict’s causes, conduct, and consequences. Iraq Uncensored, an initiative of the bipartisan American Security Project (ASP), is neither pro-war nor antiwar, but an effort to begin to develop collective wisdom from our experience...read more

Product Description: The environment, and the movement that grew up to protect it, is under attack—concerted and purposeful. Yet the need for solutions to pressing environmental problems grows more urgent each day. Teresa Heinz Kerry and Senator John Kerry describe how these issues unite people across party and ideological lines...read more

The Democratic candidates for president and vice-president offer their plans for taking on the challenges facing the United States over the next four years in a volume that also includes campaign speeches and brief profiles of the candidates.

Presents a summary of John Kerry's proposals for policy changes in economics, education, health, the environment, and foreign policy, which he would implement if he is elected president of the United States in November, 2004. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Over the last five years, the number of women-owned businesses has grown at twice the rate of all U.S. firms; in the next few years, the number is expected to surpass the six million mark. Kitchen Table Entrepreneurs tells the inspirational stories of eleven low-income women who have marshaled the creative energy, confidence, and capital necessary to start their own small businesses...read more

Product Description: Meat is both a major food in its own right and a staple ingredient in many food products. With its distinguished editors and an international team of contributors, this book reviews the latest research on what defines and determines meat quality, and how it can be maintained or improved during processing...read more

Product Description: The New War is a powerful warning that global crime is robbing us not only of our money but also of our way of life. As a result of his Senate investigations and access to law enforcement agencies, Senator John Kerry has seen the dark world of dirty money, violence, and corruption up close...read more