John M. Heffron Bücher

When a once promising young writer agrees to ghostwrite a famous particle physicist's memoir, his livelihood is already in jeopardy: plagued by debt after failing to deliver a novel, he's grown distant from his wife--a successful A.I. researcher--and is haunted by an overwhelming dread he describes as "The Mist." Desperate for relief, he undergoes an experimental, psychedelic treatment and emerges to find his world transformed: joy suffuses every moment. His opportunities are endless. For the first time, he understands himself in a larger, universal context. But when the physicist suddenly disappears, the narrator must track him down in order to finish the project, salvage his new outlook, and finally escape the sense of doom that has always trailed him. Moving swiftly across time and geography--from a chemical spill in West Virginia, to psychedelic therapy in Oakland, to a frecciarossa racing across the Italian countryside--The Red Arrow is a spiraling, spellbinding journey through art, memory, and the contradicting layers that compose the self

Focusing on the evolution of development approaches since World War II, this book analyzes various theories and practices applied in the Third World and beyond. It integrates governance, economics, foreign assistance, civil society, and military aspects, using case studies to illustrate why many development strategies fail. The authors critique key institutions and their conflicting interests, highlighting the need for a more cohesive approach to enhance development efforts and advance human dignity.

Integrates psychology, economics, political science, and policy design to explore ways to enact and protect poverty alleviation policies. Examines successes and failures in helping the poor through affirmative action, cash transfers, social-spending targeting, subsidies, and regional development policies in Latin America and Asia.

The Rise of the South in American Thought and Education: The Rockefeller Years (1902-1917), and Beyond documents the rise--both real and imaginary--of the South in American thought and education at the close of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century.