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|  | | Betrayal - An Interactive Novel
I look forward to receiving comments and suggestions by Author's Den members that will enhance my writing in the future.
The novel explores repercussions stemming from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons tests carried out by the Livermore National Laboratory and other government agencies during the 1960s and beyond. Many of these tests occurred in isolated regions of Alaska far removed from urban centers. They nevertheless brought serious health problems to construction workers, soldiers, and their families stationed in these military controlled areas. They also devastated segments of native-held lands. It was years before the Pentagon was forced to admit damage caused by these tests included h | |  | | China's Urban Villagers: Changing Life in a Beijing Suburb
Although Half Moon Village is only one of many villages in China, learning about it in the PRC's highly transformative years offers an important insight into the complex whole of which it is a part.
Invited to give a series of five lectures on American education in five Chinese universities shortly after Present Nixon's first visit in 1972 led to additional opportunities for my wife and I to return to China - the most significant of which was an invitation to live and work in Half Moon Village outside Beijing in the fall and early winter of 1979.
Ten years later, a close friend who had grown up in China returned to the village immediately following the Tiananmen Square protest. His analysis of the villager's response to the government crackdown offers a unique final chapter to th | |  | | The Inupiat and Arctic Alaska: An Ethnography of Development
An ethnographic history of the impact of oil development on the native people of Alaska's North Slope
This ethnographic study is based on research that spans thirty years - from 1959 to 1989. The significance of the study is not limited to Alaska or to the Arctic. It extends to all regions of the world where development is taking place.
Although we tend to think of Third World countries as most dramatically caught up in 'development,' western nations are also undergoing dramatic change that involve many of the same dislocation of human populations, reallocation of resources, opportunities, and environment degradation.
New technology associated with National Defense ef |
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The Decider
by Mel Hathorn
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 Jason Chase, a man filled with personal demons, only wanted to finish his manuscript. But all his carefully laid plans disappear when a stranger showed up at his front door claiming to be his long-lost father. |
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