San Antonio College Library

At the beginning of August 1980, the movement which would eventually become Solidarity consisted of a few dozen individuals scattered throughout Poland. Within a year, as its first anniversary posters proudly proclaimed, Solidarity's membership had swelled to "10 million Solid." Ten million highly disciplined, active Polish citizens moving in unison to seek a better life - perhaps the most astonishing flowering of political hope in the world's recent...

Essays written between 1981 and 1987 challenge the objectives and consequences of Reagan-era mandates, from Central American intervention to curtailment of social services, and examine the failure of the Democratic Party to offer major policy changes.

The articles and speeches Dr. Kissinger has selected for inclusion in this volume reveal his main concerns for the past two years in the field of foreign relations. A dominant theme of this wide-ranging book is the challenge the United States and the industrial democracies will face in the 1980s; the need to revitalize NATO; arms control: East-West relation; world trade and the world economy. the book also contains Dr. Kissinger's observations on...

Their serene villa life devastated by a wrongful imprisonment, the wife and children of Tehran gentleman Isaac Amin face potential betrayals within their own household and eventually plan a dangerous escape.

"Using the analytical tools of literary analysis, cultural studies, performance theory, and social semiotics, AIDS and American Apocalypticism examines many kinds of discourse, including fiction, drama, performance art, demonstration graphics and brochures, biomedical publications, and journalism and shows that, while initially useful, the effects of apocalyptic rhetoric in the long term are dangerous. Among the important figures in AIDS activism...

Belize, until recently undeveloped, underpopulated, and unknown, has become a star destination for ecotourism, a crossroads for the international drug trade, a sanctuary for persecuted people, and a giant nature reserve. This postmodern, multicultural nation in the margins is now being made, or remade, in a globalized, deterritorialized world that rewards social and cultural creativity. Theories of globalization that pain marginal areas as losers...

"International trade accounts for only a small share of growing income inequality and labor-market displacement in the United States. Lawrence deconstructs the gap in real blue-collar wages and labor productivity growth between 1981 and 2006 and estimates how much higher these wages might have been had income growth been distributed proportionately and how much of the gap is due to measurement and technical factors. While increased trade with developing...

In spite of the Challenger and Columbia disasters, the US Space Shuttle remains the most successful spacecraft ever developed. This work explains the scientific contribution the Space Shuttle has made to the international space programme, detailing missions to Mir, Hubble and its role in the assembly of the International Space Station.