Best Selling Books by Kevin Baker

The late, legendary performer and activist''s candid reflections on American race relations and social movements, based on previously unpublished conversations with the award-winning historian Harry Belafonte was more than a bestselling folk singer and Hollywood''s first Black matinée idol; he was also the secret weapon of human rights movements for seventy years--a close confidante of Martin Luther King Jr. and Eleanor Roosevelt; a trusted whisperer to JFK; and a political advisor to African heads of state. Belafonte simultaneously advised Robert F. Kennedy on how to win the Black vote, openly supported Communist leaders including Fidel Castro, and skillfully avoided being blacklisted by J. Edgar Hoover. He was also a masterful fundraiser, almost singlehandedly bankrolling the civil rights movement from his own earnings as well as donations solicited from Hollywood friends and Vegas mobsters. It was Belafonte''s idea to organize superstar artists to record the hit song, "We Are the World" in 1984 to benefit famine victims in Africa. In this candid, revelatory book, drawn from a series of conversations with historian Kevin Baker shortly before Belafonte''s death in 2023, the legendary singer of "Day-O" shares his philosophy on racial politics, African colonialism, the emergence of Israel, the shortcomings of Barack Obama, and the rise of Donald Trump. A Burning House offers a primer on celebrity activism at its best--as well as a cautionary tale about the rise of American authoritarianism.

Part two of the companion to the History Channel''s 12 hour series that features the history of our civilization.

In this clever collection of essays, the author has a direct conversation with God and learns the meaning of life, or something close to it. Over the course of six chapters, the reader is taken through twists and turns, from the metaphysical to the hysterical and back again. Similar to anyone who has pondered the question of her existence, this written dialogue between the author and his Holiness will make you laugh, make you smile, make you think, and quite possibly raise more questions where there are no definitive answers. This is a clever piece that attempts the big questions along the way providing the reader with big laughs and one interpretation of why we are here.

Alik Strelnikov lives in the shadows of Coney Island, a world of rusted fairground rides that mock his dreams of heroism. Ten years ago he left a brutal life in the Russian army to travel to America, but now, an enforcer in the Brooklyn mafia his life is guns, drugs, booze & his lover, Marina, sometime prostitute & full-time fortune teller.

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Paul Cullen is the last surviving battalion commander from the Kokoda Campaign in New Guinea, reputedly the last Australian officer to have had his horse shot from under him in battle. He was a distinguished soldier, a staunch supporter of the Army Reserve, a business entrepreneur, the founder of Aust Care and AustAid. He was recognised by the United Nations for his outstanding contributions to the refugee cause in 1981. A tireless worker for charity, especially the Royal Blind Society and a noted breeder of Galloway cattle. He will be 96 in February 2006.

"To increase the capability of searching, detecting, classifying, and identifying contacts particularly at night and in poor weather, the Advanced Integrated Multi-sensor Surveillance (AIMS) system is being developed. The AIMS system is advanced through the integration of five sensors with active gated capability into a single gimbal. As such, the system will support a myriad of missions for both the CP-140 and Fixed Wing Search and Rescue (FWSAR) communities including timely search and rescue (SAR) response and ground surveillance in aid of the Land Forces (LF). To ensure optimal performance the AIMS system requires an appropriate interface and controls, the design of which must realize the interaction between technological capability and operator performance. This document, prepared by CAE Professional Services on behalf of Defence Research and Development Canada, presents preliminary design concepts and associated rationale for the AIMS Operator Machine Interface (OMI). The intent is to provide a framework for the future evolution of the AIMS OMI as well as identify areas for investigation."--P. iii.

This account of the 1947 New Zealand naval mutiny provides information about other mutinies that have occurred worldwide since 1944, as well as describing the lead up to the New Zealand naval mutiny and its aftermath. Includes bibliography.