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Rebecca A. Fannin is the International Editor of the Hong Kong weekly "Asian Venture Capital Journal" and a former International News Editor at "Red Herring," Since 1992, she has been reporting on innovation, technology, and the emerging economies in Hong Kong, Bangalore, Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai, ... (more)and other major cities around the world. In SILICON DRAGON: How China is Winning the Tech Race, Fannin descibes an economic picture that is troubling at best.

During the run-up to the Iraq War, Col. Ann Wright wrestled with her conscience. She was deputy ambassador to a Central Asian Republic, culminating 29 years of military service, including 20 as a State Department diplomat, but for the first time she was unable to uphold a US policy. She saw clearly that ... (more)the invasion would aid terrorism and make us less secure; and as an act of conscience, she submitted her resignation to Secretary of State Powell.

With this debut, sportswriter Schilling has written one of the best baseball novels in THE END OF BASEBALL since Howard Frank Mosher's "Waiting for Teddy Williams". Using actual events, Schilling has fictionalized a fantasy scenario in baseball history - the integration of black players into the major ... (more)leagues in 1944.

Robert Creamer has been a political organizer and strategist for almost four decades. He and his firm, the Strategic Consulting Group, work with many of the country’s most significant issue cam-paigns. He was one of the major architects and organizers of the successful campaign to defeat the privatization ... (more)of Social Security. He is a consultant to the cam-paigns to end the war in Iraq, pass uni-versal health care, change America’s budget priorities and enact comprehensive immigration reform. He has also worked on hundreds of electoral campaigns at the local, state and national level. Creamer is married to Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky from Illinois. Arianna Huffington calls his recent book, 'STAND UP STRAIGHT: How Progressives Can Win', a master’s class in electoral politics.

From the author of 'ONCE A KING, ALWAYS A KING', 'LADY Q' is a raw and powerful memoir, not only of one woman's struggle to survive the streets but also of her ascent to the top ranks of the new Mafia, where the only people more dangerous than rival gangs were members of her own.