In this extraordinary history, James Driscoll reveals the untold story of how AIDS activists, by thwarting bureaucratic plans imposed by the U.S. Federal Drug Administration (FDA), both saved HIV patients and rescued the FDA itself from a self-inflicted public health catastrophe. By 1996, accelerated approval of AIDS drug cocktails transformed AIDS from a death sentence to a manageable disease. That approval, however, came only after years of struggle pitting AIDS activists against the hidebound culture of the Food and Drug Administration, which wanted to run lengthy efficacy trials required for full approval and possibly delay the drugs at a cost of tens of thousands of lives. Driscoll's courageous efforts, which are an important personal part of the story, navigated conflicts among AIDS activist groups as they struggled with both major American political parties to be heard and respected. He examines the effect of AIDS activism on the LGBT community, its views of itself, and its place in modern American society. Additional materials analyze FDA mistakes, drug pricing, and other contemporary challenges for the LGBTs community.

Carl Jung was a great explorer and mapper of the unconscious realm that Sigmund Freud had discovered. Jung created a copious vocabulary of psychological terms and concepts that help us understand features of the psyche that were previously overlooked or difficult to define. Taken together, his terms and concepts offer a basic cartography of the human psyche. In contrast to clinically oriented Jungian glossaries, this work delineates the complex interrelationships of his ideas showing how they intermesh within a coherent system. It carries Jung’s seminal insights to an array of subjects that have unfolded in surprising directions, including, for example, revolutionary ideas on the self, time, and the Godhead. The commentaries James P. Driscoll offers in Jung’s Cartography of the Psyche are helpful for applying Jung to literature, philosophy, religion, the political domain, and other aspects of the human experience. They comprise an introduction and guide that demonstrates Jung’s scope and depth as well as the rewards of studying him further.

James Driscoll is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force, has a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts at Boston, and retired in 2003 after 27 years in security work. Originally from Boston, he moved to Quincy, MA in 1981. "Thoughts: A Collection of Poems" is his second published work. His first, "Paraskavedekatriaphobia: A Collection of Short Stories" was published in 2011. Both books can be purchased at Outskirts Press, Barnes & Noble and Amazon.com.

Sometimes things are not as they seem. Paraskavedekatriaphobia: A Collection of Short Stories takes you to surprising places unexpected places that nonetheless are perfectly right and poetic in their justness. In this collection of short tales, author James Driscoll's spins riveting short stories that revolve around shocking inciting incidents, each one wending its way to unanticipated conclusions: an innocent trapped in a murder investigation by a cunning criminal a domineering wife and a husband who turns up dead an elderly woman bent on revenge two career outlaws in a deadly clash a heartbroken man driven to suicide Like literary optical illusions, Driscoll's tales trick the mind's eye with clever plot twists and focus shifts, ones the reader will savor in new ways with each reading. Go along for the ride, but brace yourself Your destination may shock you.

Topics features in this volume of Care and Conservation of Manuscripts include digital libraries, the conservation of the Niebuhr Bible and Saint Anthony's Guild Transcript Book, early Islamic bookbinding, manuscript conservation in the British Library, the 30-volume edition of the Historical Description of Uniforms and Arms of the Russian Corps, the Magna Carta and many other topics throwing light on recent research within conservation.