In the summer of 1968 Peter Matthiessen met Cesar Chavez for the first time. They were the same age: forty-one. Matthiessen lived in New York City, while Chavez lived in the Central Valley farm town of Delano, where the grape strike was unfolding. This book is Matthiessen’s panoramic yet finely detailed account of the three years he spent working and traveling with Chavez, including to Sal Si Puedes, the San Jose barrio where Chavez began his organizing. Matthiessen provides a candid look into the many sides of this enigmatic and charismatic leader who lived by the laws of nonviolence. Sal Si Puedes is less reportage than living history. In its pages a whole era comes alive: the Chicano, Black Power, and antiwar movements; the browning of the labor movement; Chavez’s fasts; the nationwide boycott of California grapes. When Chavez died in 1993, tens of thousands gathered at his funeral. It was a clear sign of how beloved he was and how important his life had been. A new foreword by Marc Grossman considers the significance of Chavez’s legacy for our time. As well as serving as an indispensable guide to the 1960s, this book rejuvenates the extraordinary vitality of Chavez’s life and spirit, giving his message a renewed and much-needed urgency.

Sal Si Puedes (Escape If You Can): Cesar Chavez and the New American Revolution

Biographies & Memoirs

Grossman, Marc

MATTHIESSEN, PETER

Community & Culture

University of California Press

These noted vision care specialists offer a unique eye care program that reflects the irrevocable link between a person's quality of vision and ability to understand, grow and change. In Greater Vision, they provide more than two dozen exercises to improve, heighten, and develop vision and describe the crucial part vision plays in creating emotional and spiritual clarity.

Greater Vision

Sports & Outdoors

McGraw=Hill

Bob's Juice Bar is a Parisian take on wholesome American food and has taken the city by storm since it opened by the fashionable Canal St Martin. Muffinsis packed with recipes by the cafe's owner, Marc Grossman, who outlines his healthy but delicious food philosophy in these tempting recipes. Make the ultimate, ultra-moist Blueberry muffin or try a gluten-free Banana-Caramel treat or a fresh, exotic Matcha Green Tea and White Chocolate mixture. With beautiful contemporary photography throughout and helpful step-by-step an equipment illustrations for easy reference, you can't go wrong with these wonderful Muffin recipes.

Les Petits Plats Francais: Scrumptious Muffins

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Baking

Simon Schuster(uk)

Do you have or know someone who has a vision problem? Nearly all of us can answer "yes". The eye care business is a billion dollar industry. Americans pay high prices for eye glasses, contact lenses and surgery each year. With all the advances in eye medicine, this title is the first step in shifting some of the responsibility of eye care from health professional to individual.
What most people don't know is integrated medicine can be an effective tool in the treatment of eye disorders such as glaucoma, macular degeneration, cataracts and more. The authors use therapies such as vitamin and mineral supplementation, herbal remedies, homeopathy and much more with great success. Through both alternative and conventional therapies you too can promote long term eye health and reduce the damage to your wallet.

Natural Eye Care: An Encyclopedia

Glen Swartwout

Parenting & Relationships

Keats Pub.

The truest test of the value to our nation of the U.S. diplomatic presence abroad is whether the people we ask to represent us effectively promote American values and interests. Diplomacy is a vital tool of national security. The aim of this report is to make the diplomatic pursuit of U.S. interests abroad even more effective than it is today. Our diplomats and those who support them must have the right tools and capacity to do their work. This is an urgent national priority. Transnational threats, including terrorism, put U.S. citizens and national interests at risk. Potential competitor nations are emerging on the global stage. Anti-Americanism can have lethal consequences for our nation and its citizens. Operating in a higher threat environment is part of today s diplomatic job. Traditional diplomacy where government and social elites interact in highly formal channels is being transformed. U.S. diplomats will still need to influence foreign governments, but increasingly they will work directly with diverse parts of other nations societies. The Embassy of the Future Commission envisions an embassy presence in which U.S. officials reach out broadly, engage societies comprehensively, and build relationships with key audiences effectively. This project is called the Embassy of the Future, but embassy is meant in a broad sense, of which embassy buildings are only one dimension. The commission underscores that the U.S. presence and our diplomacy are about our people Foreign Service, Civil Service, Foreign Service nationals and other locally employed staff and their capacity to carry out their mission. We want to empower U.S. diplomats to succeed in the work they do for America. Modernization and reform of the diplomatic profession and its infrastructure have begun. But the State Department must do more. The department needs more people and a well-trained workforce; modern technology that will expand diplomatic capacity and reach; policies, communications tools, and resources that support mobility outside embassy compounds; platforms that serve mission effectiveness; and a risk-managed approach to security that allows for the interactions in the field required to achieve successful diplomatic engagement.

The Embassy of the Future (CSIS Reports)

Politics & Social Sciences

Argyros, George

Rohatyn, Felix

Politics & Government

Center for Strategic & International Studies

Take a bite of the Big Apple! Paris may be the capital of haute cuisine, but expat Marc Grossman craves the comfort food he grew up with in New York and Brooklyn. So he has lovingly recreated those iconic recipes, from blintzes, bialys, and black &amp; white cookies to pork buns, cheeseburgers, cheesecake, matzo ball soup, and everything in between. Grossman zooms in on particular neighborhoods and their special fare, and even includes addresses of his favorite places to chow down—including Greek restaurants like Tom's and Big Nick's, kosher delis like Barney Greengrass and Murray's Sturgeon shop, or Brooklyn's café-bakeries like Four &amp; Twenty Blackbirds and Bakeri.

New York Cult Recipes

Regional & International

Union Square & Co.

Natural Eye Care Series: Dry Eye Syndrome is part of an ongoing series educating readers about their vision difficulties, explain prevention strategies, and explore ways to help preserve vision for those with vision disorders. It will enable the individual to be a more informed consumer when it comes to vision care. Nutrition and lifestyle choices always play an essential role in helping support healthy vision. This book will help you make sensible, researched, and clinically based decisions to support eye health with recommendations for dry eyes that include Western herbs, nutritional supplements, Chinese medicine, and additional therapies. You will learn about the underlying causes and be given tools and techniques to develop your own eye health strategies. This book covers natural ways to lubricate the eye and promote natural tear production. It also is a self-help guide with daily eye exercises and offers diet, supplement and essential oil recommendations.

Natural Eye Care Series: Dry Eyes: Dry Eye

Edson, Michael

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Safe Goods/Atn Publishing

"Thirty years have passed since a shattered Nilufar Hartman, pregnant and betrayed, fled Iran. She barely got out alive, carrying her deepest secrets of love and tragedy. Nilufar had arrived in Tehran in November 1979 to take a job as a junior American diplomat at the U.S. Embassy. She had instead spent nine years as an American spy, reporting from deep inside the new Islamic Republic as it collapsed into extremism, civil strife, and war. After her return to America, she chose a quiet university life and swore she would never again do Washington's bidding. Her tranquility is upended by a plea from Alan Porter, the man who had sent her to Tehran in 1979. Porter tells her about a plot by colluding American and Iranian extremists to provoke a war between the two countries. He says she is the only person who can stop it. Nilufar is reluctant to go back to Iran, vividly recalling the agony of her years under cover, when she posed as a believer, the devout and revolutionary "Massoumeh". She can never forget the horrific end to her mission when her lover and the father of her unborn child were murdered. A commitment to serve the United States, which never died inside her, propels her back into the maelstrom. Nilufar adopts another covert identity and returns to Iran to end the parallel conspiracies intent on sparking a conflict. While she is working in Tehran, Porter must stop the Americans ready to promote their private agendas through mass murder. Nilufar must evade Iran's vicious secret police, deliver a message from America, convince a patriotic but suspicious group of Iranians to act, and once more manage a narrow escape from both Iran and her own memories"--

Believers: Love and Death in Tehran

Literature & Fiction

Limbert, John

United States

Mazda Pub

Since its inception, al Qaeda has aspired to create a safe haven in Yemen,where it has operated against U.S. and Yemeni interests. From 2001 to 2004, when Edmund J. Hull was the American ambassador to Yemen, U.S. and Yemeni counterterrorism efforts successfully seized the initiative against al Qaeda, severely degrading its capabilities. During this period, al Qaeda mounted no successful operations against U.S. interests in Yemen and suffered the loss of its top leadership and cadres.High-Value Target tells the inside story of how al Qaeda’s Yemeni safe haven was disrupted during Hull’s tenure. A top counterterrorism official in both the Clinton and Bush administrations, Hull provides a detailed account of a team effort to build a strategic basis for U.S.-Yemeni counterterrorism and to execute a broad strategy aimed at improving not only the security of Yemen but also its economic development.That strategy included launching successful strikes against al Qaeda’s leadership; engaging in sustained, personal involvement in Yemen’s remote tribal areas; and fostering Yemen’s nascent democracy and civil society. Plagued by profound distrust, scarce resources, and constant threats, the U.S. diplomatic team encountered numerous obstacles but ultimately positioned Yemen on a path toward enhanced security and modest political progress.

High-Value Target: Countering al Qaeda in Yemen (ADST-DACOR Diplomats and Diplomacy)

History

Hull, Edmund J.

Middle East

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Discover 130 recipes that unlock the secrets of New York's cult food establishments. Learn the secret to creating the perfect BLT, make the ultimate cheeseburger or for something a little sweeter, indulge in a cinnamon roll, smoothie or famous New York cheesecake. Brimming with delicious food and gorgeous photography of the city that never sleeps, you'll feel like a local.

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