Tasmania is world famous for its old-growth forests, its untamed rivers and its remote, rugged mountain peaks, but the struggle to preserve these wild places has been long and hard.Tasmania's Wilderne
Buckman, an oncologist who teaches at the U. of Toronto, Canada, presents communication guidelines for physicians giving bad news, like the diagnosis of a serious or fatal illness, the death of a love
Morning Dark is a story of three generations of men, each consumed by the memories of war and violence. Big Walt is a WWII hero, his son Walt a Vietnam veteran, and Walt's nephew Tom Jane a thirty-yea
In a rustbelt town south of Chicago, three generations of Konick men attempt to assemble lives lived in the shadows of war. Bruno Konick is the patriarch, haunted by his actions during the World War I
Critically acclaimed author Daniel Buckman tells with noirish lyricism the story of two men--a cop and a Vietnam vet--and the Vietnamese call girl who unites them Mike Spense has traded in his dream o
Trade, along with the free movement of capital, is at the heart of today's international economy. But international trade is an intensely political and contested subject. In this book, Greg Buckman de
Globalization is irreversible and irresistible.'Tony BlairThis book gives the lie to that claim. Economic globalization has never been an inevitable part of human history. It is eminently reversible a
