The Dynamics of the Breakthrough in Eastern Europe: The Polish Experience (Societies and Culture in East-Central Europe)
Understanding the dramatic political, social, and economic changes that have taken place in Poland in the mid-1980s is one key to predicting the future of the communist bloc. Jadwiga Staniszkis, an influential, internationally known expert on contemporary trends in Eastern Europe, provides an insider's analysis that deserves the attention of all scholars interested in the region.
Staniszkis presents the breakthrough of 1989 as a consequence not only of systemic contradictions within socialism but also of a series of chance events. These events include unique historical circumstances such as the emergence of the "globalist" faction in Mosow, with its new, world-system perception of crisis, and the discovery of the round-table technique as a productive ritual of communication, imitated all over Eastern Europe. After describing the development, collapse, and reorganization of a "new center" in Poland in 1989-1990, she discusses the first attempt at privatizing the economy. Her analysis of the dilemmas accompanying breakthrough and transition is an invaluable guide to the challenges that face both capitalism and democracy in Eastern Europe.

Paul Johnson - A History of the American People

"The creation of the United States of America is the greatest of all human adventures..." (P. Johnson)

The Times Literary Supplement - 06/22/2007
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Celtic Tales told to the Children by Louey Chisholm with pictures by Katharine Cameron

One of my friends tells me that you, little reader, will not like these old, old tales; another says they are too sad for you, and yet another asks what the stories are meant to teach. 

Celtic Tales told by Louey Chisholm are sad, but you do not always want to be amused. She has not told the stories for the sake of anything they may teach, but because of their sheer beauty, and she expect you to enjoy them as hundreds and hundreds of Irish and Scottish children have already enjoyed them--without knowing or wondering why.