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The most significant domestic issue of the 2004 elections is unemployment. The United States has lost nearly three million jobs in the last ten years, and real employment hovers around 9.1 percent. Only one political analyst foresaw the dark side of the... (read more)

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Who filled the trough? Who set the table at the banquet of greed? How has it been possible for corporate pigs to gorge themselves on grossly inflated pay packages and heaping helpings of stock options while the average American struggles to make do with... (read more)

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About the Book Topic With the increase in viruses, hacker attacks, and identity theft, computer security issues have gone mainstream. Everyday computer security is a pressing issue for both corporations and individuals. Book Description In this third... (read more)

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Satire on the possible horrors of a totalitarian regime in England in 1984.... (read more)

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< CENTER> Revised, and with a New Introduction by the Author< /CENTER> < P> < BLOCKQUOTE> I am an agitator, and an agitator is the center post in a washing machine that gets the dirt out.< BR> --Jim Hightower< /BLOCKQUOTE&... (read more)

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Chapter One A Tale of Two Nations We live in a democracy universally acknowledged to be the greatest governing system in the world. But a democracy is only as strong as it is responsive to "all" of its citizens. While our current government crows about... (read more)

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HTML is the mark-up language designed for creating web pages. This manual provides readers with the building blocks needed to master links, embedded images, sound and video, and frames to create a dynamic site. Its graphical format and step-by-step... (read more)

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About the Book Unlike the earlier book that inspired it, ""Brave New World Revisited"" is not a work of fiction -- although its message is, in many ways, more disturbing than the classic novel's. For while Brave New World, published in 1932, predicted a... (read more)