Advances in International Accounting, Volume 12 (Advances in International Accounting)

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Advances in International Accounting is a referred, academic research annual, that is devoted to publishing articles about advancements in the development of accounting and its related disciplines from an international perspective. This serial examines how these developments affect the financial reporting and disclosure practices, taxation, management accounting practices, and auditing of multinational corporations, as well as their effect on the education of professional accountants worldwide.
Advances in International Accounting welcomes traditional and alternative approaches, including theoretical research, empirical research, applied research, and cross-cultural studies.

How to Be the Person Successful Companies Fight to Keep: The Insider'S Guide To Being #1 in the Workplace
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How to Be the Person Successful Companies Fight to Keep: The Insider'S Guide To Being #1 in the Workplace
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Practical advice for anyone in business.......1998-10-31

This book offers practical advice for anyone in business by showing you what CEOs deem important. The book offers tips on how to become a person a successful company would want to retain. In a business environment that has devalued long-term relationships, this book provides savvy "intraprenuers" with a way to show how you add value to business.

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The first edition of An Aid to the MRCP Short Cases rapidly estabished itself as a classic and has sold over 25,000 copies.The aims of this revised and extended second edition are the same as those of the first - to provide a comprehensive guide for those preparing for the short cases section of the Membership of the Royal College of Physicians examination. The MRCP examination is a major hurdle for all trainee hospital physicians and has a failure rate of over 70%.The greater part of the book consists of 200 short cases which are presented in order of frequency of their occurrence in the examination (based on an extensive survey of successful candidates). The clinical features of each case are fully covered and supported by illustrations and photographs. The emphasis throughout the book is on examination technique and how to present the clinical information in the style the examiners expect. In short it is an indispensable guide for anyone preparing for this critical examination.

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An incredible book.......1999-06-05

You don't need this book to pass the ABIM. But this book will make you a better clinician.

An excellent, very practical approach to physical diagnosis.......1999-02-04

Easily the BEST practical guide for physical diagnosis of all. A MUST for all physicians and trainee house staff, whether or not they are taking any examinations. The authors present an entirely different way of practising physical diagnosis, that is simple and easy to repeat.

Cases are listed in the order of their frequency of appearance in the MRCP examination and the skills and methods of physical examinaton are centered around the diagnosis itself.

Also, the methods focused on completing the entire examination of a case within a short period of time, which is key in acheiving success in the MRCP exam.

A wonderful book overall.

A must for anyone taking MRCP part2.......1998-10-21

It is an excellent review of all the possible short cases for MRCP part 2. It is organised according to the frequency of occurence of the case and also includes experiences of several examinees which are extremely helpful. In the recent times, I do not know of a person who passed MRCP without using this book.

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This important monograph contains a comprehensive overview of classical dynamics, providing a solid basis on which to build an understanding of the theory of interplanetary flights. The treatment of the topic is complete and clear, and is based on both historical and topical perspectives. The theoretical development is illustrated with a number of practical examples, bringing to bear the author's wealth of experience gained from working on the Soviet space programme. Many examples are taken from current space missions - new data is included on the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet, the flight of ULYSSES over the Solar poles, and the Voyager's tour of the Solar system.

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fuel constrained flights.......2005-04-11

The early sections of the book furnish a good introduction to the basics of celestial mechanics. Newtonian gravitation, two body problem, and motions of celestial bodies. Where it starts to get interesting is in explaining how to find the orbit of such a body, based on a minimum number of observations. Clearly aimed at the astronomer in you. Then the theory is developed further into the n-body problem, with the 3 body problem being an important special case.

But the truly modern material is in the discussion of interplanetary flights. Takes some time in the book to actually get to its ostensible topic. Hohmann trajectories are given wide coverage, because in our current level of technology, our spacecrafts are fuel constrained, more than anything else. Hence we make trajectories that minimise to the utmost fuel consumption.

The book then recaps several missions. Notably the Grand Tour by the two Voyagers to the outer solar system. Wonderfully successful.

Application of statistical filter theory to the interplanetary navigation and guidance problem (NASA technical note)

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Theory of rocket propulsion (Interplanetary flight and communication)

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Theory of rocket propulsion (Interplanetary flight and communication)
N. A Rynin
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"Analyzes the role of peptides in promoting or suppressing inflammation. Thoroughly examines the therapeutic potential of key peptides, analogs, agonists, and antagonists that influence cell injury and repair."

Proinflammatory & Antiinflammatory Peptides (Lung Biology in Health and Disease)

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Proinflammatory & Antiinflammatory Peptides (Lung Biology in Health and Disease)
Sami I. Said
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Dieses Lern-, Lehr- und Lesebuch soll Einblick geben in die Vielfalt des Lebendigen auf unserer Erde. Es ist ein Lehrbuch der Geobotanik, der von Alexander von Humboldt begründeten Wissenschaftsdisziplin, welche alle globalen Lebensräume zu ergründen und zu verstehen sucht. Die fundamentalen Fragen der Geobotanik und der Pflanzengeographie werden hier behandelt: Warum gibt es derzeit eine so riesige Diversität von Lebensräumen auf der Erde und wie ist diese entstanden? Wie sah die Lebewelt in vergangenen geologischen Epochen aus und welche Rolle spielte der Mensch in seiner eigenen Vergangenheit und in der Gegenwart in dem Zusammenspiel von natürlicher und anthropogener Umwelt?

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Important statement about the Russian soul.......2006-05-04

As a novel, this is not particularly satisfying -- at least the translation I read -- because it starts as a compelling story about a Siberian exile and morphs into an essay on Leninism, Stalinism and violence.

Even so, this is a great book that tell us that the danger of Russian exceptionalism; that somehow its idea of suffering and the soul is an exportable world view. I think Dostoyevsky is a little easier to understand now. I look forward to reading Life and Fate.

Moving, Thoughtful & Important.......2004-03-23

Vasily Grossman is something of a forgotten, unsung, giant of Soviet dissident authors. Born in Berdichev, Ukraine in 1905, Grossman rose to prominence and received national acclaim as a war reporter for Red Star, the official newspaper of the Red Army. Grossman's coverage of the Battle for Stalingrad was popular and well known. In fact, Grossman may have been the first reporter to tell the story of the Holocaust, beginning with his reports subsequent to the liberation of Treblinka in Poland. Prior to the publication (abroad) of Forever Flowing Grossman had seen his other major work, Life & Fate, banned by the KGB. In February 1961, a KGB Colonel, Vladimir Prokopenko came to Grossman's flat not to arrest Grossman but to arrest his novel "Life and Fate". Grossman's manuscripts, carbon copies, notebooks and typewriter ribbons were all seized. These events took contemporaneously with the authorized publication in the USSR of Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. An explanation of why Grossman was perceived as more of a threat than Solzhenitsyn can be gleaned from the contents of Forever Flowing. (The story of the eventual publication of Life and Fate is best left to reviewers of that book.)

"Forever Flowing" tells a simple, yet emotionally deep and politically nuanced tale. The story begins with the 1957 return to Moscow of Ivan Grigoryevich after 30 years of forced labor in the Gulag. (1957 marked the year in which the tide of returning prisoners of the Gulag reached its peak.) He arrives at the flat of his cousin, Nikolay Andreyevich. Nikolay, a scientist with less than stellar skills, has reached some measure of success at the laboratory through dint of being a survivor. He reaches the top of his profession only after those of his more talented colleagues are skimmed from the laboratory after purges (Stalin's last campaign - the Doctors Plot - seems to be referenced here) and other typical political campaigns. The meeting in the flat is entirely unsatisfactory for both parties. Nikolay is particularly upset (although he is not capable of figuring out why) as he sees his pale imitation of a life reflected through the prism of his cousin's 30 year journey. Grossman paints a vivid picture of Nikolay, more than a bit jealous that Ivan's light had always shone brighter than his own prior to Ivan's arrest. Nikolay suffers from the guilt of one who was not arrested and who is painfully aware of the choices he made to keep from being arrested. In that sense having Ivan sit across from him at the dinner table disturbs Nikolay no end because Ivan represents a mirror into which Nikolay can see only his own hollow reflection.

Grigoryevich leaves Moscow for his old city of Leningrad, the place where he was first arrested in 1927. There, quite by chance, he runs into the person whose denunciation placed him in jail in the first place. Grossman here embarks on a discourse on the different types and forms of denunciation available to the Soviet citizen. It is a remarkable discourse that shows how many different ways there are to participate in a purge and how many ways there are to legitimize ones participation and/or acquiescence.

From Leningrad Ivan travels to a southern industrial city where he finds work and eventually finds a deep and satisfying love in the person of his landlady, a grieving war widow. That relationship forms the centerpiece of what might be called Grossman's vision that love and freedom are two goals, not mutually exclusive, that form the essence of our shared humanity.

The above summary does not do justice to the power and depth of Grossman's prose. Further, it cannot do justice to the literary and political importance of the work. Since the death of Stalin, the Soviet line had remained relatively firm - Stalin's excesses were the product of a disturbed mind that represented a horrible deviation from the theory and principles of Leninism. The USSR's best path is the one that returned it to the path created by Lenin. Khrushchev first enunciated this line. (Brezhnev never paid it much mind as his own administration marked a step back towards Stalinism in some respects.) Even Gorbachev's perestroika was based on the theory that a return to first-principles, i.e. Leninism, would save the USSR from destruction.

Grossman did not buy into this line and Forever Flowing is noted for a remarkable attack not only on Stalin but on Lenin and Lenin's anti-democratic tendencies that had more in common with Ivan the Terrible than the principles of revolutionary democracy. "All the triumphs of Party and State were bound up with the name of Lenin. But all the cruelty inflicted on the nation also lay - tragically - on Lenin's shoulders." Grossman may have been the first to make this leap and he paid the price for making that leap. (This involves the suppression of his Life & Fate.)

Despite the horrors set out, quietly and without excess rhetoric, Grossman returns to an somewhat optimistic vision of mans search for freedom" "No matter how enormous the skyscrapers, no matter how powerful the cannon, no matter how unlimited the might of the state, no matter how vast its empire, all this was only smoke and mist which would disappear. There remained alive and growing one genuine force alone, consisting of one element only - freedom. To live meant to be a free human being.

Forever Flowing (and Life and Fate) are well worth the time and attention of anyone with an interest in the subject matter.

Alexander Shuster.......2001-08-30

One of the best books about not only a Soviet reality but also about Russian nationalism and imperialism that still exists today and probably will be "flowing forever".
Highly recommended!!!

Moving Account of horrors of Bolshevism and Leninism.......2001-08-17

A very moving account of the horrors of Bolshevism and Stalinism in Russia.The chapter that touched me the most was the story of a young mother who was taken away from her mother and child to Siberia where she eventually dies of disease and despair No decent human being could fail to be moved by this account of a nightmare that really happened It is told in the rich literary style that can only come from a Russian writer-bringing to life the horrors of Communist tyranny and the beauty of Russian life that survived it

An inadequate version of a fine book.......2000-07-26

This translation should not have been republished. Firstly, it is both clumsy and full of errors. Secondly, it is based on an incomplete manuscript. Grossman's final, considerably expanded text was published in the Soviet Union in the late eighties. A translation of that text is long overdue!

A River Forever Flowing: Cross-Cultural Lives and Identies in the Multicultural Landscape (PB)

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Compiled and edited by Lowell H. Harrison, the essays in Kentucky's Governors profile every chief executive of the Bluegrass State from eighteenth-century governor Isaac Shelby to the recently elected Ernie Fletcher.

First published in 1985, Kentucky's Governors has now been expanded and revised to include the state's most recent governors—Wilkinson, Jones, Patton, and Fletcher—and new information on respected figures such as Republican governor Louie B. Nunn.

An introduction by Kentucky's historian laureate, Thomas D. Clark, provides key insights into successive governors' evolving constitutional powers and their changing roles in political debates and policy formation. Following Clark's overview, each chapter presents significant biographical information while detailing the campaign, election, achievements, strengths, and weaknesses of each governor.

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A Saturday Road
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Ducks preparing to take act on the road.(Sports)(UO Men's Basketball Notes: Pepperdine is Oregon's first test away from home Saturday.): An article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
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Oregon wins DePaul Invitational.(Sports)(Regional Roundup: The Ducks win twice on Saturday to cap 11-day, seven-match road trip.): An article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)

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Saturday night's all right for tights.(Entertainment)(Pro wrestling returns to Eugene with once-a-month matches at Emerald Park in the River Road area): ... from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)

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Victory provides lessons for Ducks.(Sports)(Oregon will try to build on Saturday's win over OSU during this week's road trip): An article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)

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The Australian Film Institute presents a discussion with Werner Herzog: Held at the Longford Cinema, 59 Toorak Road, South Yarra, on Saturday, 12 February 1983

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National aid in the building of good roads: Speech of Hon. William Sulzer, of New York, in the House of Representatives, Saturday, June 9, 1906

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War of Words is the amazing story of how beat reporters experienced the vengeance of the militarized rule of a minority state. Benjamin Pogrund himself stood trial for a series of articles he wrote on prison abuse. In his memoir of a journalistic career built during one of the most turbulent and ultimately one of the most significant periods of modern history, he recounts the history of the Rand Daily Mail and of apartheid in South Africa. In his coverage of the country's black political movement, Pogrund crossed the racial divide every day. As he watched ordinary lives turned upside down and heroic deeds performed at the risk of prison and death, Pogrund saw journalistic objectivity become a very real ethical issue. As he writes, "It's a worthy aim, but how valid is it in reporting the views and deeds of people?"

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An Honest Reporter In a Difficult Place and Time.......2002-04-01

"War of Words" is the story of a courageous reporter and a brave newspaper in apartheid-era South Africa. After joining the Rand Daily Mail in 1958, author Benjamin Pogrund broadened the newspaper's coverage of "African affairs," reporting on facets of black South African life given short shrift by most "mainstream" newspapers.

It was no easy task to report the news while constrained by numerous, ever-expanding, secrecy laws. While the South Africa portrayed in this book was no Soviet Union - English-language newspapers, the Rand Daily Mail in particular, were able to criticize apartheid in the strongest terms - the expanding web of press restrictions prevented journalists from fully informing the public of what it needed to know. Perhaps the most interesting section of the book is the description of the Mail's attempt to report on horrifying conditions in South Africa's prisons, reportage which caused Pogrund to face criminal charges for violation of the Prisons Act. This type of reporting (and editing, by Laurence Gandar) took guts.

Although the book does not emphasize the personal life of the author, one nugget seemed to encapsulate what it must have been like to live in the South Africa of that time: Pogrund refers to having had to overcome "the nervous habit of glancing over our shoulders - the hallmark of South Africans . . ." Other books have also alluded to the strange atmosphere of a society where no one knows who is working for which security agency - and the Mail was apparently infiltrated with various spies. On that note, one of the most fascinating characters to make an appearance here is Hendrik van den Bergh, head of the Bureau for State Security (BOSS), which apparently had microphones in the Mail's offices. (van den Bergh also appears in "Rivonia's Children," the outstanding book about the sabotage trial in which Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life in prison, and is the star of "Inside BOSS, South Africa's Secret Service." Both are also worth reading and will give different perspectives on the same era.)

I have only two minor criticism of this book. First, Pogrund's evident shock at the "Muldergate" information scandal jars. Was it really such a surprise that a government which controlled the radio network would also seek surreptitiously to own a newspaper? To this American reader, Muldergate comes across as minor league. To be fair, however, the scandal was significant enough at the time to take down the Vorster government.

Second, Pogrund sometimes tells us more than we needed to know about feuds between Saan (South African Associated Newspapers) management and the Mail editorial staff. Yet, because this is a history of the Mail as much as the memoirs of Pogrund, some of that "inside baseball" was necessary - and the background did help to explain the machinations behind Saan's decision to close the Mail in 1985. The closure of the Mail, possibly as the result of a television channel deal by Saan with then-President P.W. Botha, left Pogrund "drained of energy and spirit."

This book is an unfailingly honest story of a brave journalist. Despite the criticisms above, I believe the book has earned 5 stars as a comprehensive, readable account of journalism under and against apartheid. I highly recommend it.

a journalist's view of apartheid.......2001-09-12

When the author began his career as a young reporter in the 1950s, the Rand Daily Mail was emerging as South Africa's leading newspaper. As the "African affairs reporter" he brought the words of black leaders like Robert Sobukwe & Nelson Mandela to the country & to the world.

If you've ever wondered about the history of South Africa & how apartheid grew; who were its villains & who its heroes you must pick up a copy of War of Words for it is also about the life & death of a newspaper, of freedom of speech as well as a memoir of minute increments of courage & endless years of determined resignation.

If you've ever wondered what living under unbridled racism was like read this book. It is strong stuff, rather like watching a sandstorm heading toward you, smothering out the light, turning everyone crazy until it too passes & there's a chance at a better tomorrow.

A fascinating, well-written & informative memoir from inside the belly of the beast as seen by one reporter who kept himself close to the fire.

the daily courage.......2000-07-05

see time-europe issue dated june 12 for a review i've written already

WAR OF WORDS: MEMOIRS OF A SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNALIST.(Review): An article from: Columbia Journalism Review

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WAR OF WORDS: MEMOIRS OF A SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNALIST.(Review): An article from: Columbia Journalism Review
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Come home to yourself, and to coalition with others.......2007-06-06

Restoried Selves: Autobiographies of Queer Asian/Pacific American Activists edited by Kevin R. Kumashiro is an anthology consisting of seventeen autobiographical essays by queer APA activists, this collection offers just a small sample of the experiences faced by individuals, as well as by queer APA communities. At just over 130 pages, the slimness of this text masks the richness of its content.

One of the most reoccurring and elusive themes in much of the queer APA literature I've read has to do with "home," specifically the search for home. By no means has there been any consensus about what "home" is, or that it even exists, or that it would be a good thing to find or be "at home."

Still, the pull of "home" has been one I have strongly felt over the years. At various times in my life thus far, I thought that I had found home in lovers, in family, in friends, in learning, in teaching...

What was most powerful, perhaps, was when I found home in myself.

By no means an easy task, or one that once accomplished doesn't continue to be an ongoing struggle, but certainly one that I've gotten the sweetest rewards from, even if only for short moments at a time. This book offers many such tales of just such a home coming.

The essays echoed my own experiences and feelings, and did a fabulous job of bringing much needed queer APA activist voices to the foreground. Not only did I feel in community with the authors, but it turns out that my life's path actually crossed, and continues to cross, with a good number of the authors' lives. It's a small world, indeed.

It's specifically in this context of community that I think revolutionary social change will happen. One of the things that the stories in Restoried Selves strongly instill is that we must recognize the ways in which we get in our own ways, succumbing to various internalized oppressions, so that we may be able to come to loving terms with ourselves, and then with one another.

While there are some stories in this anthology that are far from painting rosy pictures of queer API life experiences, there isn't one single essay that doesn't leave readers with hopefulness. In fact, I think the ultimate strength of Restoried Selves lies not in its embodiment of a vibrant queer APA activist community (as HUGE an asset that this is), but rather in the way it presents the challenges facing queer APA individuals and communities in order to offer insights and practical advice to ALL readers to work towards combating these challenges. In this way, this book isn't merely by queer APA activists, about queer APA activism, for queer APA activists, but for every person who wants to better understand what it means to work in coalition for broad social change.

I have nothing but the highest praises for Restoried Selves, and if you haven't already read it, go out, buy it, and read it, NOW!!!

A diverse and illuminating collection of voices.......2004-05-28

"Restoried Selves: Autobiographies of Queer Asian/Pacific American Activists," edited by Kevin K. Kumashiro, is an anthology with a very tight focus (as indicated by the title). The bulk of the book consists of 17 autobiographical pieces written by different activists. In addition, the book contains a foreword, a preface, an afterword, an index, and capsule biographies of the contributors.

The entire book runs 137 plus xxvii pages long. The longest of the biographies is 13 pages, and most are under 10 pages long. While focused on a particular group of people, the book celebrates a tremendous diversity within that group. Many voices are heard: lesbian, gay male, bisexual (male and female), transgender and intersex. Ethnic experiences represented include Nepali, Filipino, Chinese, Vietnamese, Japanese, and more, including individuals who identify as bi- or multiethnic.

The stories in this book also take the reader across a vast portion of the United States: to Hawai'i; Long Island, New York; Silicon Valley, California; Connecticut; Decatur, Illinois; San Francisco; Detroit; and elsewhere. Certain recurring themes unify the collection as a whole: the "coming out" experience; the impact of pop culture upon the authors' lives; family relations; religion; dealing with multiple/overlapping identities; and the importance of joining or founding support organizations.

I'd like to mention a few selections that I found particularly memorable. "Curry Potatoes and Rainbow Banners," by Nur-e-alam S. Chisty, includes a compelling account of elementary school racism. "You're a What? An Activist??" by Alain Anh-Tuan Dang, recalls the author's fight against abusive Vietnamese sweatshops. In "South of Normal," Loren R. Javier writes movingly about growing up with Klinefelter's syndrome, a chromosomal condition. "Queerly a Good Friday" is by Jeanette Mei Gim Lee, a clergy candidate in a gay-friendly denomination; she writes about her approach to the Bible, which is informed by liberation theology and her own "queer-of-color experience."

My only real disappointment with the book relates to the very short lengths of most of the chapters. At times I wished that the authors (particularly Javier and Mei Gim Lee) could have gone into their fascinating topics in greater depth. But overall I really enjoyed the book. Angry and hopeful, intriguing and inspiring, this anthology is suitable both for academic courses and for general readers.

BLTG Asian-Am Activists Speak OUT (pun intended).......2004-03-11

While reading this anthology, I kept being reminded of Cheryl Dunye's film "Watermelon Woman." At the end, she proclaims, "I am a black lesbian filmmaker." I can understand struggling to make peace with one's racial and sexual identities. But is identifying as a filmmaker an equally difficult struggle!? Well, in this book, non-straight Asian-Americans do not just speak about themselves, but they purposely dissect their political activism. In this book, activism is given as much weight as race or sexual orientation.

Activism here takes several forms. Be it promoting gay marriage in Hawaii, fighting xenophobia in a church setting, or coming out to one's Asian American studies students; the range is broad. Activists of all kinds of identities will relate to this. Further, straight Asian-Americans will see how they face some of the same struggles and this book may go far in promoting pan-sexual unity in Asian America.

The best article was by Pauline Park. She relates how as a transgender Korean adoptee, almost no organization accepts her in her wholeness. Still, this hasn't stopped her from accomplishing a lot in New York. Every reader will be blown away by all that she has done. The worst article came from David Lee. His piece says almost nothing about being activist. Though he critiques privileging white men over Asian man, you can tell he isn't taking his message seriously. I don't even know why Kumashiro put his piece in the book. I am quite sure other submissions had to have been better than this terrible contribution.

I doubt most Americans ever think about non-straight Asian Americans at all. However, if they do, they probably think first about monoracial, monosexual, gay-identified, male-born men. Kumashiro obviously wanted to have new centers. Most of the contributions are by women and their pieces are far stronger than those of the men. There are many works by biracial people and bisexuals, including Kumashiro coming out as bisexual. Not only is this a trans-inclusive work, but many contributors trouble gender binaries by hardly mentioning their gender at all. There is a great piece by a man who has Klinefelter's syndrome; this is fascinating as many activists want to use the phrase "LGBTI" to include intersexuals. Southeast Asians are often called "the forgotten Asians" and this book has a respectable amount of contributions from them. Still, this book is lacking in strong works by non-straight Polynesians. One Chicana-Samoan lesbian talks more about Chicanos and hardly about Samoans in her work. Another man talks about Native Hawaiian issues; however, he is not Native and the lack of mentioning what his race is makes me think he might be completely white, thus defeating the purpose of the book. When gay Pacific Islanders like Greg Louganis, Benjamin Cruz, or Esera Tuaolo are making press, this paucity is quite surprising and disappointing.

This book is for everyday readers. There are no footnotes or postmodern jargon. Readers will have a much easier time with this book than they may have with "Q&A" or "Racial Castration," previously released gay Asian-American books. The selections are arranged in alphabetical order. Because I think the purpose of the book is to get more straight Asian-Americans to embrace sexual minorities, I'm completely shocked that the work "queer" is thrown around so often and without question here. Many readers will be turned off and I don't know why the editor didn't think more about this.

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