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This particular application is one of the motivations behind Diamond’s new afterword to the book. In the new section, Diamond uses his theory to explore the underlying social processes by which weapons spread, ultimately reinforcing his original argument about why Europe emerged as the dominant world player...
However, ideas alone did not prompt Diamond to include this afterword. As he joked to the audience, the afterword is “the reason why all of you who own copies of the book will want to rush...
...concentration camps, it was subsequently translated into 15 languages. The French version sold 600,000 copies and was turned into a successful stage play. Last year the book finally appeared in Germany, and this year it was reissued in Britain. And what of Kressmann Taylor? As explained in an afterword by her son Charles, she was born Kathrine Kressmann in Portland, Oregon, a wife, mother and contributor to small U.S. magazines. With Address Unknown, she enjoyed brief notoriety as "the woman who jolted America," then lived quietly as a college professor in Gettysburgh, Pennsylvania. Rediscovered after Address Unknown was reissued...
...book, "The Other Parent: The Inside Story of the Media's Effect on Children" (Pocket; May 20), Steyer traces how this has happened, and addresses what parents and concerned citizens can do at the corporate and federal level. Speaking of the federal level, the book boasts an afterword by Chelsea Clinton...
...only Lizier appears to be satisfied. All the others have disappointed themselves, but Lizier is unburdened by her actions. Craig seems to identify with Lizier in terms of her beliefs; in the afterword to The Good Men, she notes that her mother’s people, the Karen of Burma, have an animistic belief system which does not include the dualisms of body and soul, heaven and earth, that are so much a part of the Western tradition. It is through Lizier, then, that Craig offers her option...