Master, it was in the evening of the third day of the southern planting season that the questioner's assistant came for the Doctor to take her to the hidden chamber, where the chief torturer awaited. I was sitting in the living room of the Doctor's apartments using a pestle and mortar to grind some ingredients for one of the Doctor's potions. Concentrating on this, it took me a moment or two fully to collect my wits when I heard the loud and aggressive knocking at the door, and I upset a small censer on my way to the door. This was the cause both of the delay in opening the door and any curses which Unoure, the questioner's assistant, may have heard. These swear-words were not directed at him, neither was I asleep or even remotely groggy, as I trust my good Master will believe, no matter what the fellow Unoure -- a shifty and unreliable person, by all accounts -- may say. Excerpts

If Franklin were alive today, he could easily be talking about the wealthy in the United States. As Mike Davis demonstrates in "City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles," their desire for security has created an architectural style where the rights of the non-wealthy (especially those who are black, Latino, and poor, or some combination thereof) to live, travel, and play where they want has been removed. Book description

The key to stopping the smoking habit – which kills 400,000 or more Americans every year and is projected to be killing 10 million a year worldwide by 2005 – is to prevent teens from starting. Over time that will reduce the death toll because fewer people will be smoking. One obvious pressure point is to eliminate advertising aimed at children. Criminalising it for youth smokers can also reduce teen smoking. Now, with the tobacco settlement, we really have the companies on the run. Book description

When the first American Marines marched into Vietnam in March 1965, historical consensus holds, they were there because there was no alternative. President Johnson's hand had been forced by the right-wing hawks and the Communists. The general public wholeheartedly supported defending South Vietnam, as did America's allies in Europe. That's not really the case, argues Fredrik Logevall, in his provocative thesis--that John F Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara, and McGeorge Bundy chose to escalate American involvement when the war could have been avoided-- which is well supported by careful archival research and newly declassified documents, writes Cynthia Arbuthnot

This is the third volume to appear in an edition that will be the first complete, critical, and annotated English translation of all of Nietzsche's work. Volume 2: Unfashionable Observations, translated by Richard T. Gray, was published in 1995; Volume 3: Human, All Too Human (I), translated by Gary Handwerk, was published in 1997. The edition is a new English translation, by various hands, of the celebrated Colli-Montinari edition, which has been acclaimed as one of the most important works of scholarship in the humanities in the last half century. Book description