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Jon Lindsey's controversial debut, BODY HIGH, squirts across the sunburned landscape of Southern California, taking readers on a debauched, high-speed journey of misplaced lust, mistaken fathers, lost semen, and the kidnapping of a sperm bank daughter, who may hold the key to redemption or, perhaps, the realization of its impossibility. // "Jon Lindsey is the new gleefully heartbreaking voice of California's broken world... [Body High] unfolds in rioting prose that bursts into crazed poetry around every curve..."-GARIELLE LUTZ, author of Worsted
"Jon R. Lindsay explains why he believes popular ideas about the military potential of information technology are fundamentally flawed and why military performance depends instead on organizational and strategic context"
Vincent Cannato takes us back to the time when John Lindsay stunned New York with his liberal Republican agenda, WASP sensibility, and movie-star good looks. With peerless authority, Cannato explores how Lindsay Liberalism failed to save New York, and, in the opinion of many, left it worse off than it was in the mid-1960's.
Vol. 2 has a county by county history and includes some brief family histories and lists of residents.
"This book is about Lindsay's dream to reinvent New York. Fully a half century since Lindsay was elected to public office, the aftershocks of his record still reverberate as a government grappling with the consequences of immigration, income inequality, a healthcare crisis, and environmental adversity confronts the legacy of the 1960s. --
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Sweet Deal, Bitter Landscape brings us to the mid-2000s, when the Tanzanian government struck a deal with a foreign investor to convert more than 20,000 hectares of long-settled coastal land to establish a sugarcane plantation. Ten years on, the deal was abruptly abandoned. Popularly deemed a case of hubristic global development, critics classified this project another in a line of failed modern resource grabs. Youjin B. Chung argues such tidy accounts conceal myriad and profound implications: not only how gender, history, and culture shaped the project's trajectory, but also how, even in its stalled state, the deal upended social life on the land by setting in motion incomplete processes of...