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Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary of War by Robert M. Gates is not what I expected. It is not the sensationalist tell-all story of a defense secretary battling two opposing presidential administrations. It is a compelling narrative of issues including: managing the a constant yet…

Review — Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary of War by Robert M. Gates

September 1, 2015

I found this book during a Friends of the Library Sale. Until now, I had never heard of Myra Roper, a British born Australian educator, and and an expert in China. More information can be found here. China-The Surprising Country is a memoir of her…

China-The Surprising Country by Myra Roper: A Review

May 4, 2015

ESS Headquarters, Elko, Nevada, US Renee stepped aside, letting a buxom blonde leave Brandon’s office. A coy slightly mocking face made Brandon smirk in return. “Can’t be that bad, can it?” She sat down on the brown leather sofa that was next to the window…

Child of Darkness: Chapter Five

March 15, 2015

Arguments about concentrating power and wealth in the rich, running unions out of existence, the existence of plans to ruin the unions by business, crushing unions advanced in American Labor Unions in their continuing saga against repealing laws requiring non-union employees to pay union dues…

Labor’s Unrest: A Review of American Lightning

March 12, 2015

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Pyongyang The palace curator slipped the gently folded silk drawing into a quart size plastic bag and zipped it shut. Then, he slipped the bag into a slightly larger carpeted bag filled with small boxes of ginseng imported from a San Francisco organic farming operation. Closing the…

Child of Darkness: Chapter Three

March 2, 2015

In the recent past, the Asian empire, from China, to Thailand, to Malaysia, to Japan, to South Korea and finally to North Korea, to name a few of the countries, have been in the news. To understand, for example, what has led to the China- North…

Art of the Korean Renaissance, 1400-1600: A Review

April 1, 2014

Prologue and Chapter One, click here. Chapter Two, click here. Chapter Three, click here. Chapter Four, click here. Chapter Five and Six, click here. Chapter Seven (mislabeled as Six), click here. Chapter Eight, click here. ***************** Chapter Nine Five hours later, Angeline buckled herself in a window seat of ESS’ corporate plane…

Short Lines to Asia Continues

February 20, 2014

Prologue and Chapter One, click here. Chapter Two, click here. Chapter Three, click here. Chapter Four, click here. Chapter 5, click here. *********** Chapter Six “No!” Angeline shouted at the phone, shaking it. The screen went dark and for a moment she thought the video feed had been cut off.…