http://www.Fictionwise.com Fictionwise.com: Best-Selling Titles From Arcade Publishing http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/ebook59787.htm When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Jew and a medical doctor, the prisoner Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared death for a grimmer fate: to perform "scientific research" on his fellow inmates under the supervision of the man who became known as the infamous "Angel of Death" -- Dr. Josef Mengele. Nyiszli was named Mengele's personal research pathologist. In that capacity he also served as physician to the Sonderkommando, the Jewish prisoners who worked exclusively in the crematoriums and were routinely executed after four months. Miraculously, Nyiszli survived to give this horrifying and sobering account. Auschwitz was one of the first books to bring the full horror of the Nazi death camps to the American public. Although much has since been written about the Holocaust, this eyewitness account remains, as the New York Review of Books said in 1987, "the best brief account of the Auschwitz experience available." Of Bruno Bettelheim's famous foreword Neal Ascherson has written, "Its eloquence and outrage must guarantee it a permanent place in Jewish historiography." http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/ebook58392.htm Malcolm X gave Black Americans not only their consciousness, but their history, their dignity, and a new pride. No single individual can claim a more important responsibility for a sociological and historical leap forward such as the one sparked in America in the sixties. When, in 1965, Malcolm X was gunned down on the stage of a Harlem theater, America lost one of its eminent political thinkers. The End of White Supremacy contains four major speeches by Malcolm X, including the famous "Chickens Come Home to Roost" speech. Together, these speeches cast new light on a man who ranks among the great leaders and teachers of his time.

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http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/ebook57879.htm For many, videogames are still viewed as a minor form of entertainment, shallow at best, harmful at worst. In this groundbreaking book, Steven Poole draws on movies, painting, history, and literature to analyze what he calls the "inner life" of videogames. Traveling to Tokyo, Los Angeles, and Cannes, he interviews leading figures in the industry, including Jeremy Smith, head of Core Design (home of Lara Croft) and Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari. Tracing their history in order to predict where they are headed, he argues that videogames are a revolutionary force in popular culture. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, videogames are where movies were at the dawn of the twentieth. With increasing investments of talent, capital, and technological creativity, they will become an art form in their own right. Hailed as "eloquent," "essential reading," and "a seminal work," Trigger Happy provides the reader with a thoughtful, witty, and insightful analysis of what makes videogames work. For the uninitiated, it offers an eye-opening and highly instructive look at an entertainment phenomenon that will become more and more a part of our everyday world. http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/ebook57697.htm Like Henry Petroski's The Pencil, David M. Levy's Scrolling Forward takes a common, everyday object, the document, and illuminates what it reveals about us, both in the past and as we move into the digital age. We are surrounded daily by documents of all kinds -- letters and credit card receipts, business memos and books, television images and web pages -- yet we rarely stop to reflect on their significance. Now, in this period of digital transition, our written forms as well as our reading and writing habits are being disturbed and transformed by new technologies and practices. Potentially unsettling questions arise: What is the future of the book? Is paper about to disappear? With the Internet, what will happen to libraries, copyright, education? What will become of literature and journalism? What does all this mean for me, my livelihood, my world? An expert on information and written forms, and a former researcher for the document pioneer Xerox, Levy masterfully navigates these concerns, offering reassurance while sharing his own excitement about many of the new kinds of documents that are emerging. He demonstrates how today's technologies, particularly the personal computer and the World Wide Web, are having analogous effects to past inventions, such as paper, the printing press, writing implements, and typewriters, in shaping how we use documents and the forms those documents take. Placing documents in historical context -- for example, showing the evolution of the letter into the memo and finally into e-mail -- Scrolling Forward lets us see the continuity between the written forms of today and those of the past, while exploring their differences. More than this, in disclosing the way documents work as "talking things," bearers of culture, and invaluable aids in our fundamental human impulse to construct a world where order, knowledge, and community prevail, it raises questions of value that can serve to illuminate our way as we proceed in the digital world. http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/ebook56976.htm The topic of race has turned so toxic that most Americans, black or white, are afraid to broach it -- whites back away from racial issues because blacks seem "so sensitive"; blacks blow off racial discussion because they think whites "will never understand." Yet with talk-show vitriol now passing for social discourse and racial anger mounting in proportion to the insecurities of a downsized America, the need to communicate is more urgent than ever. Bruce Jacobs's Race Manners shows how we can begin conversation: by looking at what happens around us each and every day. On a crowded bus, a solitary black man seethes while boarding passengers take every seat except the one next to his; in a cafeteria, whites wonder why blacks congregate at the same table during lunch; in front of a store, a white woman clutches her purse when a black man passes nearby; at a cocktail party, a black woman snubs a white woman who has arrived with a black escort. Each scenario reveals how we act toward and react to one another. Americans are mired in racial assumptions, misunderstandings, biases -- about everything from Ebonics to Elvis, O.J. Simpson to affirmative action, ethnic jokes to interracial sex. Race Manners shows us how we can confront them, not by offering lofty abstractions, sterile policy statements, or a saccharine celebration of multicultural relativism, but instead by giving us practical, sane, intelligent, and heart-felt advice.