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Trumpet in the Wadi
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Michael, Sami / Lotan, Yael, PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster, Leading Israeli novelist Sami Michael shares his gift for navigating the cultural conflicts in modern Israel with "A Trumpet in the Wadi," a novel that transcends its Middle Eastern setting with an honest and heartbreaking story of impossible love and the strength of family. Set in the months preceding the Israeli-Arab conflict in Lebanon, this beautifully written tale is the coming-of-age story of two fatherless Christian Arab sisters, Huda and Mary, who live in the wadi -- the Arab quarter in the Jewish city of Haifa on the northern coast of Israel. An extraordinary bond of love and mutual respect unites the sisters -- polar opposites from their appearances to their tempers. Huda, the narrator of the story, is thin and withdrawn and, after abandoning her chance at marriage a few years back, has prematurely resigned herself to the monotonous life of an old maid. Her younger sister, Mary, is voluptuous, carnal, and perennially unemployed. Wrapped in the love of their sometimes bitter mother, their iconoclast grandfather, and the cheerful and omnipresent neighbor Jamilla, the sisters' lives change when a peculiar young Russian Jewish immigrant, Alex, moves into the upstairs flat. The melodies of the soulful trumpet player become the intoxicating theme music for Huda's unexpected reawakening -- and for Mary's dangerous foray into a love triangle with the heir of the local Muslim mob and her country cousin. Michael's internationally acclaimed novel is a major achievement, illuminating the vast range of interlocking relationships between Jews and Arabs, Muslims and Christians, men and women. "A Trumpet in the Wadi" is an honest, witty, and ultimately heartbreaking story -- onethat draws on the conflicts in the Middle East, but one whose insights into love and family can cross all cultural and political boundaries.
Tastiera Korg PA 80 HD
Vendo tastiera arranger Korg PA 80 con HD completamente funzionante e in ottimo stato. Info ore pasti Prezzo trattabile.- Caratteristiche tecniche: Tastiera: 61 note sensibile a dinamica e aftertouch. Sistema: OPOS - Objective Portable Operating System - Multitasking System. Sistema operativo aggiornabile. SSD Solid State Disk per storaggio dati interni. Generazione: HI synthesis (Hyper integrated synthesis system) - 62 voci, 62 oscillatori - Filtri con risonanza. Memoria: 32 Mbyte di campioni PCM in Rom Effetti: 4 multieffetti stereo digitali (89 effetti ognuno). Program: più di 660 program (incluso suono di Piano Stereo e programmi compatibili con il GM Level 2), 32 drum kit, 128 user program + 32 user drum kit. Digital Organ Drawbars. Style: 256 style nella memoria interna (Solid State Disk), tutti riconfigurabili dall'utente. 8 tracce di accompagnamento. 48 user style. Tutte le Performance di style sono programmabili (inclusi 4 Single Touch Setting per ogni style). Lettura diretta degli style da Floppy e da Hard Disk (Direct Floppy Disk/Direct Hard Disk). Compatibità con style della serie i. Controlli di style: 4 Variation, 2 Fill, 2 Intro, 2 Ending, Counter In/Break, Synchro Start/Stop, Tap Tempo/Reset, Fade In/Out, Bass Inversion, Manual Bass, Tempo Lock, Memory, Accompaniment Volume, Accompaniment Mute, Drum Mapping, Snare & Kick Designation, Single Touch. Controlli Generali: Master Volume, Ensemble, Octave Transpose, Master Transpose, Split Point, Style Change, Tracks Volume, Quarter of tone Pedal Function, Programmable Slider, Joystick, Dial. Performance: 80 Performance real-time, fino a 304 Performance di Style (contenente 4 Single Touch Settings ognuna). Pad: 4 pad assegnabili + tasto di Stop. Song Play: XDS* Crossfade Dual Sequencer- 2 Sequencer con controlli di Start/Stop, Pause, '> FF' separati. Balance fader. Lyrics, Jukebox.
Deliver Us from Darkness: The Untold Story of Third
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Gardner, Ian / Dicarlo, Mario, PUBLISHER: Osprey Publishing (UK), Ian Gardner, co-author of "Tonight We Die as Men," is back with the second installment of the exploits of the in WWII. Drawing on years of research and more than seventy extended interviews with veterans and civilians caught up in the fighting, "Deliver Us from Darkness" begins where the earlier book ended, with the troops taking R&R back in England after weeks of grueling fighting in Normandy. "Deliver Us from Darkness" explains how, with little notice on Sept , the 101st Airborne Division parachuted into Holland as part of Operation Market Garden. Their mission was to secure the main highway that passed through the city of Eindhoven and facilitate the advance of Gen. Sir Miles Dempsey's Second British Army towards Arnhem. The soldiers had been lead to believe that after the capture of Eindhoven their mission would be over. In the end, however, it was only the beginning of a bloody 72-day campaign that would see no quarter given by either side. Thousands of heavily armed enemy troops trapped behind Allied lines were reorganized into temporary fighting groups and sent on the offensive. Supported by Tiger tanks and self propelled artillery, the German army began an audacious series of counter attacks along the road to Nijmegen that became known as 'Hell's Highway.' Over the next two weeks the 506th was constantly called upon to defend the transport hubs north of Eindhoven at Sint Oedenrode, Veghel and Uden suffering horrendous casualties. The mission in Holland would be one that the men would never forget. Many felt that their lives had been misused and wasted--Normandy had been bad enough, but this time the members of had been through hell.
The Call of the Canyon
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Grey, Zane, PUBLISHER: Thorndike Press, Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - What subtle strange message had come to her out of the West? Carley Burch laid the letter in her lap and gazed dreamily through the window. It was a day typical of early April in New York, rather cold and gray, with steely sunlight. Spring breathed in the air, but the women passing along Fifty-seventh Street wore furs and wraps. She heard the distant clatter of an L train and then the hum of a motor car. A hurdy-gurdy jarred into the interval of quiet. Glenn has been gone over a year, she mused, "three months over a year-and of all his strange letters this seems the strangest yet." She lived again, for the thousandth time, the last moments she had spent with him. It had been on New-Year's Eve, . They had called upon friends who were staying at the McAlpin, in a suite on the twenty-first floor overlooking Broadway. And when the last quarter hour of that eventful and tragic year began slowly to pass with the low swell of whistles and bells, Carley's friends had discreetly left her alone with her lover, at the open window, to watch and hear the old year out, the new year in. Glenn Kilbourne had returned from France early that fall, shell-shocked and gassed, and otherwise incapacitated for service in the army-a wreck of his former sterling self and in many unaccountable ways a stranger to her. Cold, silent, haunted by something, he had made her miserable with his aloofness. But as the bells began to ring out the year that had been his ruin Glenn had drawn her close, tenderly, passionately, and yet strangely, too.
State of the Unions: How Labor Can Strengthen the Middle
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Dine, Philip M., PUBLISHER: McGraw-Hill, From steel workers, Teamsters, and coal miners to teachers, actors, and civil servants, union members once accounted for more than one third of the American workforce. At a mere 12 percent, union membership today is a shadow of what it once was. What happened to organized labor in America and what can be done to restore it to its role of the defender of middle-class values and economic well-being? Award-winning investigative reporter Philip M. Dine takes us on a riveting journey through America's cities and back roads, its factories and union halls, to answer those questions. From the health care crisis to massive job flight overseas, from rampant home foreclosures to illegal immigration, he clearly shows how virtually every major economic, political, and social trend impacting our way of life is tied to the state of America's unions. Combining a compelling narrative with expert analysis, Dine offers firsthand accounts of the union members striving to make their voices heard in a political landscape increasingly shaped by corporate interests, including how: The women of Delta Pride-a major player in the multi-billion dollar catfish industry-went up against generations of racial and economic prejudice Iowa's firefighters union flexed its collective muscle to score a major political victory in the caucus The American Federation of Teachers and the AFL-CIO played a key role in bringing down the Iron Curtain The Teamsters enlisted community support to temporarily stop a move by Mr. Coffee to relocate to Mexico and saved nearly 400 manufacturing jobs in the Cleveland area A reporter who has covered labor for two decades, Dine not only details where labor has gone wrong, but he also offers sage advice on how it can adapt to a global economy to recover the ground it lost over the last quarter century.
Indians and Anthropologists: Vine Deloria, JR., and the
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Biolsi, Thomas / Zimmerman, Larry J., PUBLISHER: University of Arizona Press, In Vine Deloria, Jr., in his controversial book "Custer Died for Your Sins," criticized the anthropological community for its impersonal dissection of living Native American cultures. Twenty-five years later, anthropologists have become more sensitive to Native American concerns, and Indian people have become more active in fighting for accurate representations of their cultures. In this collection of essays, Indian and non-Indian scholars examine how the relationship between anthropology and Indians has changed over that quarter-century and show how controversial this issue remains. Practitioners of cultural anthropology, archaeology, education, and history provide multiple lenses through which to view how Deloria's message has been interpreted or misinterpreted. Among the contributions are comments on Deloria's criticisms, thoughts on the reburial issue, and views on the ethnographic study of specific peoples. A final contribution by Deloria himself puts the issue of anthropologist/Indian interaction in the context of the century's end. CONTENTS Introduction: What's Changed, What Hasn't, Thomas Biolsi & Larry J. Zimmerman Part One--Deloria Writes Back Vine Deloria, Jr., in American Historiography, Herbert T. Hoover Growing Up on Deloria: The Impact of His Work on a New Generation of Anthropologists, Elizabeth S. Grobsmith Educating an Anthro: The Influence of Vine Deloria, Jr., Murray L. Wax Part Two--Archaeology and American Indians Why Have Archaeologists Thought That the Real Indians Were Dead and What Can We Do about It?, Randall H. McGuire Anthropology and Responses to the Reburial Issue, Larry J. Zimmerman Part Three-Ethnography and Colonialism Here Come the Anthros, Cecil King Beyond Ethics: Science, Friendship and Privacy, Marilyn Bentz The Anthropological Construction of Indians: Haviland Scudder Mekeel and the Search for the Primitive in Lakota Country, Thomas Biolsi Informant as Critic: Conducting Research on a Dispute between Iroquoianist Scholars and Traditional Iroquois, Gail Landsman The End of Anthropology (at Hopi)?, Peter Whiteley Conclusion: Anthros, Indians and Planetary Reality, Vine Deloria, Jr.
Videogiochi per PS2 dalla A alla B
Vendo come da titolo e foto videogiochi per playstation 2 non rispondo alle email 007 James Bond Dalla Russia Con Amore Bullets 187 Ride to Die I & Ii the Arcade Games 24 the Game 50 Cent Bulletproof 7 Sins A Train 6 Ac Milan Club Football Adibu' E I Ladri Di Energia Aeon Flux Air Raid 3 Air Ranger Rescue Al Vertice Della Tensione Alien Hominid All Music Dance Alla Ricerca Di Nemo Alone in the Dark Alone in the Dark the New Nightmaare Alter Echo America's 10 Most Wanted Ant Bully Una Vita Da Formica Ape Escape 2 Ape Escape 3 Aqua Aqua Wetrix 2 Aqua Teen Hunger Forcee Zombie Arc Il Tramonto Degli Spiriti Armored Core 2 Armored Core 2 Another Age Army Men Sarge's Heroe's 2 Art of Fighting Anthology Asterix & Obelix Xxl Asterix Alle Olimpiadi Astro Boy Atlantis Iii Atv Offroad Fury 3 Bad Boys Ii Bakugan Battle Brawlers Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance Band Hero Bass Master Fishing Bass Strike Batman Begins Battle Engine Aquila Beat Down: Fists of Vengeance Bee Movie Ben 10 Alien Force Ben 10 Alien Force Vilgax Attack Ben 10 Protector of Earth Ben 10 Ultimate Alien Cosmic Beyond Good E Evil Billy the Wizard Rocket Broomstick Racing Bionicle Bionicle Heroes Black Black Buccaneer Black Market Bowling Blood Omen 2 Bloodrayne Bloody Roar 3 Board Games Gallery Bob Aggiustatutto Boog E Elliot a Caccia Di Amici Boxing Champions Bratz Forever Brave Alla Ricerca Dello Spirito Danzante Breath of Fire Dragon Quarter Broken Sword Il Sonno Del Drago Brothers in Arms Earned in Blood Brothers in Arms Road to Hill 30 Bujingai Swordmaster Burnout 2: Point of Impact Burnout 3 Takedown Burnout Revenge Bust a Block Buzz Hollywood Quiz Buzz Junior La Corsa Matta Buzz the Mega Quiz Buzz the Sport Quiz
GFI SYSTEM CLOCKWORK V2 DELAY/ECHO STEREO - 8 pres
Testo:In ottime condizioni, perfettamente funzionante e con scatola. Unica pecca, di pochissimo conto, è andata via la serigrafia posteriore ed è stata rifatta alla meglio (vedi foto) Piccolissimo e molto intuitivo, 8 preset richiamabili velocemente e con la funzione HOLD Costo del nuovo circa 300 euro Vendo perchè non sfrutto tutte le sue potenzialità. Concept: Clockwork Delay v.2 offers one standard digital mode plus six variation delay modes: Tape, LoFi, Ambient, and Multi-heads (2 / 3 / 4) delay. Presets: you can save up to 8 presets, no more knobs tweaking during live performance. Tap-Tempo: built-in tap-tempo capability with 4 sub-divide options (quarter-note, dotted-eight, 8th-note, and 8th-note triplets). Stereo I/O: dual inputs and outputs give wide stereo impression. Trail Persistence: as the pedal is bypassed, the delay tail is not abruptly cut off, instead it decays out naturally. The same is true when changing presets (as long as you stay in the same delay mode). Auto Regen (feedback) Sweep: when you engage this feature, the feedback parameter controlled by the Regen knob is slowly swept to the maximum value, hold it there, and then swept back to the original setting. Used judiciously, this feature can introduce dynamic elements to the soundscape - watch the demo videos to see it in action. Analog Dry-thru: dry signal is routed through a pure analog path. Small form factor: the pedal measures 12 x 6.5 (cm) or 4.7 x 2.5 (inch), pretty small for what it has to offer. Key Features: Precision and versatile delay in a compact pedal. Fully programmable: 4 x 2 presets. Stereo inputs and outputs. 1 Standard delay + 6 variation modes (Tape, LoFi, Ambient, and Multi-Heads (2 / 3 / 4). Tap-tempo with 4 sub-divide options. Delay trails persistence. 24-bits signal processing. Analog dry-thru. All clickless footswitches.
Before Roe: Abortion Policy in the States
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Nossiff, Rosemary, PUBLISHER: Temple University Press, Few issues in contemporary U.S. politics have remained on the public agenda so long and so divisively as abortion policy. The landmark Supreme Court decision of Roe v. Wade, which held that laws prohibiting first trimester abortions were illegal because they violated a woman's right to privacy, still generates heated controversy today, a quarter of a century after it was made. The seeds of that controversy were sown in the seven years immediately preceding Roe, when state legislatures tried to reconcile religious opposition to abortion and individuals' civil liberties. In this groundbreaking book, Rosemary Nossiff examines the forces that shaped abortion policy during those years, and the ways in which states responded to them. To provide in-depth analysis while still looking broadly at the picture, she studies New York, which passed the most permissive abortion bill in the country, and Pennsylvania, which passed one of the most restrictive. That these two states, which share similar demographic, political, and economic characteristics, should reach two such different outcomes provides a perfect case study for observing political dynamics at the state level. Nossiff examines the medical, religious, and legal discourses employed on both sides of the debate, as well as the role played by feminist discourse. She looks at the role of the political parties in the campaigns, as well as such interest groups as the National Council of Catholic Bishops, the Clergy Consultation Service, the National Organization for Women, and the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws. In addition, she analyzes the strategies used by both sides, as well as partisan and institutionaldevelopments that facilitated success or failure. Finally, in the Epilogue, she assesses the Roe decision and its aftermath, including an analysis of the pro-life movement in Pennsylvania. As the author remarks, "Without question people's positions on abortion are shaped by a myriad of social, moral, and economic factors. But ultimately abortion policy is shaped in the political arena. This book examines how one of the most intimate decisions a woman makes, whether to continue or terminate a pregnancy, has become one of the most politicized issues in contemporary American politics".
AMPLIFICATORE PER CUFFIE OPPO HA1 Black/Silver
The analog audio section of the HA-1 is a fully balanced design with an emphasis on keeping the audio signal in the analog domain once it leaves the DAC. The HA-1 is anchored by a hefty toroidal power transformer, and linear power regulators and filters with custom made capacitors ensure that the headphone amplifier has a clean power source with plenty of reserve energy. The fully balanced Class A power amplification section uses hand-picked and paired discrete components to ensure symmetry, and a motor-driven precision volume control knob allows for both manual and remote control volume adjustment while keeping the audio in a pure analog audio path. The HA-1 is especially suitable for high-resolution digital audio playback. Its digital inputs include coaxial, optical, balanced AES/EBU, and an asynchronous USB DAC. It is easy to connect the HA-1 to digital audio players or to a computer running the listener’s favorite playback software. The USB DAC supports PCM audio up to 384 kHz 32-bit resolution and DSD audio up to 256x the CD sample rate. The same ESS Sabre32 Reference DAC and output driving stage used in OPPO audiophile Blu-ray players ensure extremely low noise and low distortion performance. The HA-1 is compatible with Apple’s iPod, iPhone and iPad for use as an external DAC, enabling the listener to directly tap into digital music played from these devices. For additional convenience, the Bluetooth audio transport with high quality aptX CODEC sets music free from your mobile phones with a performance boost. OPPO designs the HA-1 headphone amplifier with the same versatile approach as the Blu-ray players. The HA-1 is a high performance headphone amplifier, and it doubles as an asynchronous USB DAC, a stereo pre-amplifier, a digital audio dock for mobile devices, and a Bluetooth audio transport. Users have a choice of using the 4-pin balanced XLR or the traditional quarter-inch headphone jack. Line level analog inputs and outputs are provided with both RCA and balanced XLR sockets. The HA-1 sports a classic design with contemporary elements. It is a desktop component housed in an aluminum chassis, and the familiar volume and source selection knobs are complemented by a 4.3-inch color screen for easy operation. While music is playing, the screen can show a classic VU meter, a modern spectrum display, or detailed technical information about the audio signal. A supplied IR remote and a smartphone app provide complete control and convenience.
Natural Elements
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Mason, Richard, PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group, In his much celebrated debut novel, "The Drowning People," Richard Mason ("An Oxonian literary sensation" --"The" "New York" "Times Book Review") wrote with wisdom and mastery well beyond his twenty-one years--about love, betrayal, and revenge, and about the particular ritualized world of the English upper class. Now in his dazzling new novel Mason writes about mothers and daughters; aging and death; memory and longing; history and narrative; and about the high-stakes, full-tilt embrace of life. The setting is London. The time is the present. Mother and daughter are choosing an assisted-living facility and have come to The Albany, a late-nineteenth-century Victorian mansion, the flagship property of the TranquilAge(TM) chain of nursing homes. The mother, Joan--eighty years old, a gifted amateur pianist denied the pleasures of performance by arthritic hands--has recently been experiencing a rich inner world that she hides from her daughter, a world gained access through the (seemingly magic) pedals of her piano: a portal to adventure. She dreads the prospect of leaving her apartment, but her daughter has decided that she can no longer live on her own. The daughter, Eloise--forty-eight, a hedge fund manager, two decades in commodities--long ago rejected the possibilities of motherhood and has lived enviably free of responsibility. At her pressure-cooker job, Eloise has bought up $130 million (a quarter of the hedge fund's money) of osmium reserves--a transition metal--based on a casual remark by her former lover, a French metallurgist, a genius of sorts, with whom she lived and whom she almost married in Paris in the s. He's been working for years on the development of the compound, which will be tougher than diamonds for industrial use and is only months away from trials. If successful, it could more than double the value of the fund Eloise manages. While mother and daughter are on the trip-of-a-lifetime to the South African capital of the old Orange Free State, the city of Joan's girlhood, Eloise gets a frantic phone call. The price of osmium is in free fall; the fund is off-loading... Fighting panic with a coherent strategy, Eloise puts in motion a bold gamble that risks all--her future, the fund, her mother's well-being. As the stories of mother and daughter intersect, each in a race against time--Joan struggling to live in the present (she cannot believe her days will end in an institution); her daughter racing at breakneck speed toward the precipice of disaster--the novel rushes to its stunning conclusion.
Flash Rollei 134 REB
Funzionante con manuale originale Descrizione potente e facile da usare, il Rollei 134 REB è un flash TTL progettato per la fotografia a media distanza. Questo flash di montaggio a scarpa ha un campo di esposizione automatico di 2-20 ft. La parte superiore della testa ruota 180 gradi per l'illuminazione piena del soggetto. Due impostazioni automatiche di f-stop su questo flash della fotocamera Rollei consentono al fotografo di controllare la profondità di campo e di ottenere il massimo intervallo di flash automatico. Il rimbalzo verticale accende la luce per rendere la luce di qualità professionale. Inoltre, il circuito di tiristori auto sul Rollei 134 REB offre un tempo di riciclo più veloce di circa 10 secondi con batterie fresche con modalità a piena potenza. Questa tecnologia consente anche all'utente di ottenere più lampi dalla durata di quattro batterie AA che utilizzano questo flash di montaggio su scarpe. Il flash della fotocamera Rollei dispone anche di un quadrante di calcolo che è facile da usare e di un foro filettato da un quarto di pollice sul fondo del flash che si inserisce facilmente in qualsiasi telecamera da 35 mm o stand leggero. Offrendo una copertura a 60 gradi, l'unità Rollei 134 REB misura 5.6 x 2.9 x 2.65 pollici e pesa a 10.1 oz senza batterie installate. Description Durable, powerful, and easy to use, the Rollei 134 REB is a TTL flash designed for medium-distance photography. This shoe-mount flash has an automatic exposure range of 2-20 ft. Top of head swivels 180 degrees for full-fill lighting of the subject. Two automatic f-stop settings on this Rollei camera flash allow the photographer to control depth-of-field and achieve maximum automatic flash range. Vertical bounce softens light for rendering professional quality light. In addition, the auto Thyristor circuitry on the Rollei 134 REB provides a faster recycle time of about 10 seconds with fresh batteries using full-power mode. This technology also allows the user to achieve more flashes from the life of four AA batteries that operate this shoe-mount flash. The Rollei camera flash also features a calculator dial which is easy to use, and a one-quarter-inch threaded hole on bottom of flash which mounts easily to any 35 mm camera or light stand. Offering a full 60-degree coverage, the Rollei 134 REB unit measures 5.6 x 2.9 x 2.65 inches and weighs in at 10.1 oz without batteries installed.
Field of Schemes: How the Great Stadium Swindle Turns Public
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Cagan, Joanna / Mause de, Neil / de Mause, Neil, PUBLISHER: Common Courage Press, Are you a sports fan distraught over seeing your home team move to another city? Or a happy sports fan whose city has just lured that team to your home turf with a brand new stadium? Or maybe you don't follow sports, but as a taxpayer are decrying cutbacks in school funding and other services. Whoever you are, state and local officials have thrown you a financial curve ball. While President Reagan made famous the false and chiding comment about "welfare queens" who ride around in Cadillacs, Field of Schemes introduces you to some real welfare kings -- who not only prefer BMWs, thank you, but also know the meaning of fun: -- A millionaire pizza baron wants more corporate luxury seating than his historic old ballpark provides, so he demands a new stadium at taxpayer expense, saying the old one is falling down. A group of grass-roots activists reveal that his engineering reports are faked, and that it would be far cheaper to renovate the old ballpark -- but the city and state go ahead with the project anyway. -- A used-car salesman turned baseba11 team owner promises to pay for a new stadium out of his own pocket, if the state government just agrees to move a highway to clear the land. Several backroom deals later, the state is paying to move the highway and raising a quarter-billion dollars towards the stadium costs, -- and the team owner is getting his stadium scott-free. -- The billionaire co-founder of Microsoft wants to buy a football team, but only if the state will build him a new stadium first. So he pays the state $4 million to hold an emergency referendum -- then spends millions more in advertising to make sure he wins. In exchange, he gets over $400 million in statetax money to build his team's new home. -- When an economically depressed city is faced with losing its football team, it scrambles to allocate $220 million for a new, state-of-the-art stadium. The next day, the city school system announces that it plans to lay off up to 160 teachers and eliminate interscholastic athletics. -- A Sunbelt town builds a new arena at public expense in order to lure expansion basketball and hockey franchises to the region. Just nine years later, the city is forced to build two new arenas, one for each sport, to keep the teams from bolting town. Total cost: almost $400 million, including $50 million for the soon-to-be-abandoned first arena. From Seattle Sea Hawks owner Paul Allen of Microsoft to New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, from Tom Monaghan of Domino's Pizza who destroyed Tiger Stadium to the building of Camden Yards, the stories are all here in a uniquely accessible journalistic style that brings you up close and personal to the moguls -- to the activists protecting your wallet. You'll be gripped by the behind-the scenes threats and political machinations in this play-by-play draining of billions of dollars from the public treasury. Between and , U.S. cities spent some $1.5 billion on building or r