Study Guide for International Economics

International Economics: Theory & Policy

Politics & Social Sciences

Goldberg, Linda

Klein, Michael

Shambaugh, Jay

Ito, Hiroyuki

Politics & Government

Pearson College Div

Written in poet Michael Klein’s uniquely passionate, unapologetic but humble voice, The End of Being Known explores the lines that define, yet also blur, the boundaries of sex, friendship, and compatibility. This collection of autobiographical essays probes the manifestations of sexual desire in its mystical variety: experiencing incest, falling in love, being a twin, and inhabiting the world of anonymous sex—in practice, and, in an essay about the Body Electric movement, as something recuperative and renewing. Each essay unfurls in a hybrid of poetry, narrative, and fragmentary literary devices. Here is an uncompromising gaze upon the quandaries of those whose sexual, emotional, and relational worlds collide, yielding no answer to the riddle of desire, yet finding meaning by piecing together personal examples of universal themes such as learning, through trial and error, about love and life.

The End of Being Known: A Memoir (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

University of Wisconsin Press

Following his alienated lover to an Ohio race track, Michael Klein began a five-year career as a professional groom in the world of horse racing, which eventually included caring for 1984 Kentucky Derby winner, Swale. Klein formed an intense, loving bond with the colt, but his life was shadowed by the undertow of his alcoholism, a complicated relationship with his lover, and his memories of an abusive childhood. Track Conditions is a heartfelt story of resilience that examines the track conditions that can create and destroy champions, and those that can ruin or save a man.

Track Conditions: A Memoir

Sports & Outdoors

Biographies

Out of the frenzied pace of bustling New York, aspiring artist Michael Klein sets off for the racetracks of the Midwest in pursuit of his lover--and into the exotic, incomparable world of horse racing. While grooming horses in the cool, hay-scented stalls, Klein searches for salvation--from the memories of a sexually abusive stepfather, his mother's sudden death, the demon of drink and sexual addiction . . . even himself. Then one remarkable horse enters his life. And through the innocent ritual of caring for Swale, an incredible Kentucky Derby-winning colt, Klein's life is suddenly, by almost miraculous means, transformed forever. In strikingly honest prose, Track Conditions is an unusually powerful, unsparing memoir of one troubled man's unforgettable healing connection to an extraordinary horse. His story of finding redemption is one you will never forget.

Track Conditions

Ballantine Books

Gathers poems about AIDS and its impact on society, politics, and personal relationships

Poets for Life: Seventy-Six Poets Respond to AIDS

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Crown

An eclectic look at mass media and popular culture from contributors including Bell Hooks, Noam Chomsky and Manning Marable. One Step Forward traces radical politics and culture in the US through the Cold War, the swinging sixties and the conservative era of Reagan and Bush. It assesses the main oppositional movements such as the civil rights, women's liberation and peace protestors, their position at the margins, their influence and their legacies.

American Half Century

History

Americas

Pluto Press

Many infrastructure privatizations still leave governments―and thus taxpayers―exposed to significant financial risks. This book examines these risks and considers how governments should respond to investors' requests for guarantees and other forms of government support. The report examines how governments can decide which risks to bear and which to avoid, how they can reduce the risks that private investors face without giving guarantees, and how they can measure, budget, and account for the risks they do take on.

Dealing with Public Risk in Private Infrastructure (World Bank Latin American and Caribbean Studies)

Business & Money

Irwin, Timothy

Thobani, Matee

Economics

World Bank Publications

In 1979, Michael Klein, an aspiring singer/songwriter living in New York City, was broke, friendless, and drinking too much. When his lover, Richard, left him to work on a race track, Klein followed, and so began his extraordinary five-year sojourn on tracks in Ohio, New York, Florida, and finally Kentucky. At the 110th running of the Kentucky Derby, where he was groom to the winning horse, Klein was led from the winner's circle into the center of a tragic mystery, and then into a new life. "The race track put me in a kind of awe...It was a world inside a world...a labyrinth of luck, into and out of which the horses I walked every day were leading me." Among dissolute hired hands, in shedrows and tack rooms where men who care for horses also have sex, and in smoky after-hours bars, Klein tries to stop drinking, but can't; he tries to stay with Richard, but can't. He begins to have a recurring dream, strangely prophetic: a horse appearing as Richard disappears. And he revisits his past: his step-father introducing him to gambling and sex; his mother's sudden death. Then the dreamed-of horse arrives.

Persea

poetry, by editor of 'Poets For Life' anthology

1990.0 (Provincetown Poets Series)

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Provincetown Arts Press

1990 (Provincetown Poets Series)

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