High Andes: Wylie Cypher Fights His Way Across the White Mountains of Peru with His Daughter, Mercy, to Protect a Vital Internatio, Margenau Rolf
Автор: Margenau Rolf C. Название: Public Information: Coming of Age During the Korean War ISBN: 0997615826 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780997615821 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 3102.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Freshly minted infantryman, twenty-year-old Wylie Cypher, arrives in war torn Korea in 1952. Every indication is that he has limited chances for survival. As an enemy bomber looms overhead, he prays that he can survive a sixteen-month tour of duty without, as his sergeant says, getting his ass shot off.Wylie is recruited to join the staff of a Division Public Information Office (PIO) where he reports on many aspects of the conflict. He uses his infantry training in bloody combat, makes many colorful new friends, learns how to maneuver through the military system, finds love and loss, and grows up in the turmoil of combat and the war's aftermath.Veterans have hailed the story as accurate, believable, touching, funny, and "the way it really was." The story is based on the author's experiences, careful historical research, and the 300 letters he sent his future wife from Korea. He touches on prisoner of war experiences on both sides of the DMZ, the armistice, realistic scenes of combat, the many United Nations forces engaged in the war, and poignant and funny aspects of military service. The second edition of the book includes recently disclosed information, and scenes and observations drawn from the comments of many veteran readers. The book is dedicated to the dwindling number of men and women who risked their lives to preserve democracy in South Korea.
Автор: Margenau Henry Название: Open Vistas: Philosophical Perspectives of Modern Science ISBN: 1258247321 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781258247324 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 6060.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In the near future, the San Andreas Fault ruptures, sending Los Angeles beneath the Pacific Ocean, famine grips the Midwest and massive gates keep the Potomac River from flooding the Capitol. Congress, through gridlock, inactivity, and disastrous economic policies, has brought the nation to the brink of bankruptcy. As a way to generate money needed to avoid default, Congress plans to sell the national parks to the highest bidders. Three strong women intend to stop them.Disguised as a semi-dystopian look at America in a few years, this is a delicious satirical send-up of the beltway culture, a paean to our national parks, and an exposition of characters, hilarious, irritating, and very human, who struggle in the Washington web. The author extends current political idiocies to their reasonable, logical, and hilarious conclusions. Along the way, he offers surprising predictions of how current and proposed inventions will affect our future lives. Some of those predictions are happening even sooner than the author expected. Many of the characters that inhabit the pages of National Parks are instantly and indelibly recognizable. Noble and base, they mirror our highest aspirations and lowest common denominators. The author mixes them all in a froth of comic conflict.The director of the national parks, Agatha Jackson, collaborates with green defense lawyer, Portia Merson, to defeat the assault on the parks. Tureen O'Porto, a beautiful lobbyist of questionable moral character, joins forces with the parks' defenders, not realizing her actions could be fatal. Opposing them is, among others, Senator Deborah Hatchett, who has her own less than honorable reasons for pursuing the sale.There are a lobbyist with a secret toe fetish, a computer genius who creates an x-rated video avatar game, a Chinese gangster looking for respectability, an industrialist intending to dam the Grand Canyon and sell high-priced water to California, corrupt legislators, and, of course, lusty heroines, birth, death, and betrayal . In other words, business as usual.Here is award-winning author David Aretha's review of National Parks-Author Rolf Margenau, a Korean War veteran who's sharper than the rest of us, delivers a fresh, scathing, hilarious, and brilliant satire of greedy corporate America and our shamefully broken Congress. Set roughly 20 years in the future, Congress considers the Parks Act, which calls for the national parks to be sold to private investors. The politically involved Crouch triplets (worse than the Koch brothers) are giddy about purchasing the Grand Canyon, as they envision damming both ends to create a water shortage and then selling their water at inflated prices. In Margenau's future America, corporations-with Congressmen and justices as their puppets-gain obscene amounts of power. In the Supreme Court's eyes, "large corporations are determined to be more equal than ordinary citizens by virtue of their size, the large number of people in their employ, and] the status of their executives in the world community...."Margenau... is relentless in his political and social satire-not just in plot, but in the use of language. In debating the Parks Act, network news "talking heads" engage in a "tsunami of blather that] submerge s] rational intercourse." Lobbyists are even worse, spewing lies at an hourly rate of $1,500. At one point, Congressman Sneath talks with lobbyist Tureen O'Porto: "Sneath suspected her internal bullshit meter was approaching the red zone, but he plowed on."Margenau's sardonic wit is a big step above Saturday Night Live's and on par with Stephen Colbert and John Oliver, both of whom would benefit by having this octogenarian on staff. I can envision each of those comics pounding the table in laughter, like I did, while reading National Parks.
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