As war rages overseas, many Americans strive to understand the pain and suffering of the courageous troops, fighting for our freedom. Poet Sarah Patricia Condor is one of these Americans, and she believes it is necessary to tell their story. She has read their letters, heard their stories, and seen their families in pain; but for Condor, the pain is much more personal.She is a child of the Cold War. Her family members have served in every major conflict in the twentieth century, from World War I to Afghanistan. She has seen the turmoil of the distraught wife, waiting for her soldier to return, and heard stories of the homesick young men, who long to hug their mothers one last time."Poems of War" is a brash recollection of tumultuous days past. It is an ode to the heroes who seek no recognition-the ones who walk by unnoticed and unrecognized. For their sake, Condor has given them a voice in her collection of true war tales. She praises courage, reveres the brave man, and respects faith in what is good. Soldiers are no longer faceless once their stories have been told.

These are the verses on Love and about Love. Anyone in need of pleasure and gratification, anyone who would like to feel more joyful and appreciative of the bliss they may not fully realize they possess - of any age, inclination, proclivity or deprivation - you all are welcome in the Realm of Love The collection is primarily dedicated to women, who have the need to share and confide. However, men will also benefit, though in a different way - in learning that to feel means to understand, and that every emotion affects our comprehension... This collection is subtitled an "advanced course" because it loosely follows the author's previous collection of love poems, 101 in Love (2007). These poems are more mature both emotionally and poetically. Indeed, these are the most beautiful poems in verse about Love written in this century.

California Deposition Handbook: strategy and tactics, statutes and cases, in one handy volume.

This book is the third part of "Escape." Part I describes Mark and Pete's life in the Olympic Team in communist Czechoslovakia and their attempted escape to Austria. Upon "Becoming Rich" (in Part II), Mark finally leaves Italy and travels across the Continent, through France to Belgium and Germany. He struggles hard to acquire new documents and employment, but his dreams are stronger than any social codes that surround him, and he cannot be contained by borders of any state... This is the story of true and false love, entrapment and escape, victory and loss, personal growth through trial and error, disappointment and reacquired hope. It is set in the tumultuous autumn of 1989, the year, which started as dark as any in the previous decade, but ended with the fall of the Iron Curtain. Mark is a teenage hero trying to acquire identity and free himself from the burden of the past. Behind him, there is but deluge of mire of the past; before him lies the proverbial Open Road, with the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle of Freedom hovering on the distant horizon - and Mark is willing and wanting to go all the way He may turn back with a reproachful eye asking whether he should not have been taught the cruel lessons life has in store for us beforehand - but realizes that the value of life is only in its being lived, and that no-one else is to blame if anything goes wrong...

This book continues closely Mark's adventures, another three days of his Escape. We have been acquainted with Mark in the previous volume of Escape, where we left him in Venice, after the bloodshed on the border and the adventure on the train from Vienna. He is all alone, and we can only expect more adversities and surprises await this former Olympic Swimmer in the few days to come. True, he is bold and adventurous, but also hungry and penniless. Above all, he appears to be ignorant of the fact that many people around him are very similar...

Mark and Pete, two teenage members of the Czechoslovak Olympic Swimming Team live their lives physically and mentally abused by the Party coaches, teachers, even their own parents who themselves are but caricatures of free human beings, distorted by lies and pretensions, their fear swallowed only by the echo of their own hands zealously clapping as the communist comrades "from above" are pinning "Medals of Socialist Work" to the chests of their Party disciples. Principal Chief Comrade Mucha gives orations on the vices of capitalism while the two boys... Just follow the unquenchable gleam in the corner of their eyes as they get on the train to Bratislava and begin their adventure.

The latest, complete translation of the famous poem in rhyming verse. Its author is a well-known California poetess, former Professor of English and American Literature.

This book contains a selection of workouts from an experienced master swimmer. It is intended for those who want to keep in shape and possibly compete in USMS Nationals like its author. If you are over 40, fit and disciplined, yet have no more than two hours a day to spare, often less, sometimes every other day, and if you believe yourself to be sufficiently fit and disciplined to improve and compete, the book is for you. This book contains basic advice on workout planning, cycling, as well as basics of nutrition, stretching and dry exercise routines. Its main purpose, however, was to collecti swimming workouts and sort them out into macrocycle periods, in order to make your pool time more productive and enjoyable. These routines are intentionally printed in larger letters, one per page, so that you can copy them and take them with you to the pool. Sarah P. Condor-Fisher is a former Olympic swimmer, coach, personal trainer and nutritional analyst.

This patriotic collection of verses is dedicated to the People of the United States and all lovers of American culture, past and present. It is founded on the authors deepest heart-felt feelings and frankly speaks from experience about her love for her country and its people. It is insightful, inciting, meaningful to every patriot, but also to those millions of people abroad who, like its author once, are wistfully looking up to the United States for guidance and power where they themselves lack persuasion, means, freedom or courage to follow.

This is Volume IV of ESCAPE, the tetralogy whose main hero, Mark, is an Olympic swimmer on the run from the communist Czechoslovakia. In Volume One, Mark and his friend Peter attempted to cross the border to Austria, in Volume Two, Mark learned his ropes in Italy, then traveled to France and Belgium. After a failed love affair and a strange adventure in Germany in Volume III, Mark finally finds the love of his life and regains not only reputation but much more than riches and wealth - in part in England, partly back on the Continent, he achieves his goals and dreams.

Known as THE CALIFORNIA CONDOR by her readers as well as critics, Sarah Patricia Condor's poems are about things that make life light, merry and lovely - everything that we look forward to when we wake up in the morning.... She brings the readers undiluted pleasure and joy in the modern life, which is all too often overcome and polluted by the burdens of existence. Songs of the Human Heart is divided into several sections: on animals and flowers, on natural elements, and two parts containing deeper thoughts on love and the human condition, and exploring the chemistry so potent to the Human Heart, some of which we have seen in Sarah Condor's previous books.

The author calls this book a "discursive commentary" on legal interpretation. However, it could also be titled "The Theory of Interpretation Not Taught at Law School." The book has two parts. The first part contains extensive exposition of grammatical and linguistic features of the English language from the point of view of a lawyer-linguist whose primary concern is clarity of thought. The second part of Interpretation focuses on legal theories and philosophy of law, which ought to support the underlying linguistic rationale. In order to underscore the tie between our legal system, mythology and social custom, which form the corrective background to our daily actions, the book is interlaced with arrogate reproductions of classical art.

With almost two dozen collections of poetry published in the United States and Europe, Sarah Patricia Condor-Fisher is one of the most prolific modern poets. She masterfully uses rhyme as well as free verse to capture perennial philosophical dilemmas of human existence: love, death and war, but also our relationship to animals and Nature. In this book, she portrays the stream of consciousness of a nameless soldier during his last moments on Earth: he has valiantly fought in a nameless war, was severely wounded, lost his nameless friend, and is now attempting to survive in a nameless hospital in Noland.

It is 1989. Nothing indicates any change in the communist regime. The changes that are to come are going to be swift and irreversible. Mark and Pete do not know that. Their minds have crossed the Rockies, and their desires are stronger than any totalitarian regime can bound. There is nothing can hold them back, now that they have made the plan and given up their position as members of the Olympic Team - abdicated on success, in order to gain their dreams, but also their very selves. To escape is the only way to survive, it seems...

Although we may come from different worlds, we have a lot in common. We hate the Sins of this World and strive to improve. We want to love, for this World is ruled by Love, unprejudiced by discipline, knowledge, adroit rhetoric and Hollywood ectoplasm.

I encompass multitudes, as I too am Walt's child. My Heart is large, my Mind carries centuries. I muse and meditate and stand by you in your daily struggle. You may not want to read the dead poet; you may not want to peruse a stale, insipid saga; you may not want - but peace and quiet for the Soul...

Come with me then and we shall fly on a morrow chirp, we shall dissolve with dew inside a rosebud stretching its arms - reaching for You and I... The I, which is a part of You

As war rages overseas, many Americans strive to understand the pain and suffering of the courageous troops, fighting for our freedom. Poet Sarah Patricia Condor is one of these Americans, and she believes it is necessary to tell their story. She has read their letters, heard their stories, and seen their families in pain; but for Condor, the pain is much more personal. She is a child of the Cold War. Her family members have served in every major conflict in the twentieth century, from World War I to Afghanistan. She has seen the turmoil of the distraught wife, waiting for her soldier to return, and heard stories of the homesick young men, who long to hug their mothers one last time. "Poems of War" is a brash recollection of tumultuous days past. It is an ode to the heroes who seek no recognition-the ones who walk by unnoticed and unrecognized. For their sake, Condor has given them a voice in her collection of true war tales. She praises courage, reveres the brave man, and respects faith in what is good. Soldiers are no longer faceless once their stories have been told.

I wrote this book when I was seventeen, shortly after the communists caught me crossing the Czech-Austrian border, trying to get away from behind the proverbial Iron Curtain. At the time, there was no War on Terror, and even if there had been, I probably would not have known about it I was just a child eager to experience Zephyr s unbounded joy, singing my own Ode, wondering at daff odils though puzzled not by the characters on a Grecian urn but by the rigid, stale, and spineless character of those alive, those around me. It is not human hands that build walls, but human mind I concluded then, and wrote this book: a brief story about the end of the world. It came to me in a fl ash while I was sitting on a cold stone slab in a communist prison cell. After a strip-down body-cavity search, several hours of interrogation, staring into the muzzles of two shotguns pointing at me from each corner of a cold room, spotlight in my face it felt like the world had pretty much ended for me. What a disaster I could have represented my country in the Olympics Is this how you pay back to your generous motherland for giving you the privilege of the highest degree? the privilege of being among the few selected, best sportsmen and women of this country, to enjoy the perks and privileges that working-class people have to work hard every day to earn? to earn for you? you live on their backs and what? is this your thank you ? the Chief of Bratislava Secret Police spoke to me in a heavy tone in his offi ce. I can still see myself staring out of the window, trying to look into the man s eyes they were dark, full, flaring eyes, unpredictable Turkish eyes and I was but a helpless beetle, one of Kafka s caricatures, waiting to be squashed Still, I believe, the topic of this book a small boy who is the only person alive (or so he thinks) who survived a nuclear catastrophe, travelling through the desert of human civilization, desperately trying to cross the mountains to reach the ocean is a solid allegory, which stands on firmer ground than would a simple biblical re-creation.