New Releases by David King

A New York Times Notable Book, 1997 The lavishly illustrated and often darkly hilarious retelling of Soviet history through the doctored photographs under Stalin. The Commissar Vanishes has been hailed as a brilliant, indispensable record of an era. The Commissar Vanishes offers a unique and chilling look at how one man--Joseph Stalin--manipulated the science of photography to advance his own political career and erase the memory of his victims. Over the past thirty years David King has assembled the world''s largest archive of doctored Soviet photographs, the best of which appear here, in a book Tatyana Tolstaya, in The New York Review of Books, called "an extraordinary, incomparable volume."

Here is a chronicle of a great artist in a surreal setting, filled with colorful anecdotes and pictures that vividly re-create Hollywood''s dazzle.

The history of the structured revolution; Structured design; Structured programming; The traditional system development life cycle; Feasibility study stage; Requirements definition stage; System specification stage; System specification stage; System design stage; Program design and development stage; System test stage; implementation and production stage; System development people; Walkthroughs; The project library; The evolving system development life cycle; The future; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

The policeman''s role and available methods in mediating racial conflict are discussed. This volume is designed to provide the police officer with a guide to his role as mediator of tensions arising from disagreement between racial groups. The sociological factors involved in racial conflict as well as police and minority group preventive measures are highlighted. Suggestions are made for bringing under control an unruly crowd should tensions erupt into violence.