Bernard Goldstein’s memoir describes a hard world of taverns, toughs, thieves, and prostitutes; of slaughterhouse workers, handcart porters, and wagon drivers; and of fist-and gunfights with everyone from anti-Semites and Communists to hostile police, which is to say that it depicts a totally different view of life in prewar Poland than the one usually portrayed. As such, the book offers a corrective view in the form of social history, one that commands attention and demands respect for th...

A SEQUEL TO TUROK'S GIFTFor ten years the United States had been producing air, sea, and ground vehicles using the star propulsion system invented by John Greenberg. The new vehicles were superior that it gave the U.S, an overwhelming military advantage.During the U.S. build up, the Russian KGB had been frantically trying to uncover the secrets behind John's propulsion invention. Their failure was largely a result of John's, and his friend Emily's, interference.

John Jensen Greenberg is no ordinary child. Frozen in a block of ice for thousands of years, he was found as an infant in a state of suspended animation and brought back to life by two scientists. But John has no idea of his true origin.At the age of thirteen, John decides that he wants to find a way to reach the stars, but realizes that he needs something more powerful than the rocket principle. When he is only seventeen years old, he discovers a way to achieve his goal.Hi...

What do children know about work, careers, and related topics? What is the pattern of growth in values, attitudes, beliefs, and knowledge? Using quantitative and anecdotal evidence gathered from interviewing over 900 grade-school students in five New Jersey communities, the authors analyze childhood socialization to the concept of work.Existing literature on this topic focuses on the critical years of oc-cupational choice. But Goldstein and Oldham strongly suggest that much of the c...

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction (new and classic works), articles, interviews and art. Our December 2016 issue (#123)  contains: Original stories by Maggie Clark ("A Tower for the Coming World"), Wang Yuan ("Painter of Stars"), Eleanor Arnason ("Checkerboard Planet"), Yukimi Ogawa ("Blue Grey Blue"),  and Yosef Lindell ("A Future Far Too Bright")....

What would the U.S. government do if they actually caught the Devil? Where would they keep him? What would they do with him? If they used him, what would the cost be?In an abandoned nuclear submarine buried beneath the Greenland ice shelf, the National Security Agency's new Information Assurance Technical Director, Ray Peterson, is revealed the greatest secret the U.S. government has ever kept. Daniel Edgar Vincent Ivan Liberty, codenamed Devil, has an intellect so vast, there is no...

Volume 30 is a continuation of Volume 29. It's a continuation of Psychic Readings analyzing news from 7/17 of 2014 to 7/18 of 2014. It republishes "Sunflower Diaries," Volume 30. It shows a list of the news that had the theme from the 2013 movie "Frozen" and cites the prediction of "Enter Sandman" by Metallica published 7/16 of 2017 the day before the Malaysian Airline crashed 7/17 of 2014. This was actually one of my favorite publications because it had about 5 news articles following the...

“A riveting tale of her family’s experience in Europe during World War II [and] a well-wrought political history of the region, told with great authority. . . . More than a memoir, this is a book of facts and action, a chronicle of a war in progress from a partisan faithful to the idea of Czechoslovakian democracy.” -- Los Angeles TimesDrawn from her own memory, her parents’ written reflections, and interviews with contemporaries, the former US Secretary of State and New York Times...

This is the complete omnibus edition of the Exodus Trilogy, which has captivated readers all over the world.When an object threatens human civilization it becomes clear that humanity needs to venture to the stars. With just a few years of warning, this will be a race against time, and only a small number of colonists can be saved.In an America turned authoritarian, a small group of people draws up their plan to change not this world, but the next. The confrontation seems in...

“Fans of Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers will eat this up.” --Stephen KingFor fans of THE MARTIAN, an extraordinary new thriller of the future from #1 New York Times–bestselling and Pulitzer Prize–winning author John Sandford and internationally known photo-artist and science fiction aficionado Ctein.Over the course of thirty-seven books, John Sandford has proven time and again his unmatchable talents for electrifying plots, rich characters, sly...

In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe after World War II and transformed in frightening fashion the individuals who came under its sway.At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union to its surprise and delight found itself in control of a huge swath of territory in Eastern Europe. Stalin and his secret police set out t...

Robert Ludlum's bestselling Covert-One series continues with an exciting new novel by New York Times bestselling author Kyle Mills.An attack on a Japanese warship brings Japan and China to the brink of war. Meanwhile, top Covert-One operative Colonel Jon Smith is sent on a mission to recover mysterious material from the wreckage of the Fukushima nuclear reactor.When Smith fails to return, CIA agent Randi Russell heads off on an unsanctioned mission...