Our Lives, Our Fortunes, and Our Sacred Honor Political polarization and economic and social uncertainties in the United States today provide fertile ground for Peter Frey's informative, well researched, and fair-minded book Reimagining Our American Republic: Commonsense Ideas for Uncommon Times. After educating readers about the background and history of the critical issues affecting the country on topics such as education, voting rights, healthcare, and defence, the author offers detailed proposals on how we can restructure our government while fulfilling the intentions of the Founding Fathers. An outgrowth of the author's highly successful program at the Aspen Institute, this book will have wide appeal for readers wanting to understand the complexities behind the issues we face today and what can be done to move our country forward. Frey's practical proof that there are judicious solutions at hand will energize readers, encourage discussion, and inspire anyone who is eager for fresh ideas, change, and making positive impact on our country during these historical times.

Der auf dem Gebiet der Sportmedizin und Sportwissenschaften weltweit als Autoritat anerkannte Autor prasentiert mit diesem Buch eine Gesamtdarstellung von Randgebieten der Sportmedizin, denen bislang wenig Beachtung geschenkt wurde. Die in der sportmedizinischen Literatur bisher vernachlassigten Themen beinhalten Probleme des Sports bei Strafgefangenen, bei Alkoholkranken, in Blindenheimen, Kind und Sport, sportorthopadische Probleme bei Schulern sowie Sport und Intelligenz. Die Moglichkeiten des Einsatzes von Sport zur Suchtpravention oder Suchttherapie werden ebenso diskutiert wie die Wechselwirkungen von Sport und Stress. Weitere Kapitel sind der oxy- metrischen Leistungsbeurteilung, den Grenzproblemen des Sports bei Diabetikern sowie den spezifischen Augen-, Ohren- und Genitalverletzungen im Sport oder auch der neuen Bedrohung durch die AIDS-Erkrankung gewidmet. Das Buch stellt somit eine Bereicherung der bisher erschienenen Fachliteratur dar und richtet sich an Sportarzte, Studenten, Sportlehrer, Trainer, Sportleiter, Verbandsfunktionare, Heimbetreuer und interessierte Sportler selbst.

This record of the operations of the Petroleum Administration for War, and its predecessor agency, the Office of Petroleum Coordinator, covering the period from May 28, 1941, to May 8, 1946, is one of a series of histories of wartime Government agencies, prepared in accordance with instructions by former President Franklin D. Roosevelt and President Harry S. Truman. It is more, however, than simply another report of simply another Federal agency. It is the history of a unique experience, dealing with an unprecedented program of Government-industry cooperation. The program began in June 1941, when representatives of the petroleum industry from all parts of the country were invited to Washington to meet with the then newly created Office of Petroleum Coordinator for National Defense of which Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes had been designated Coordinator. The oilmen, most of whom later acknowledged that they had been fearful of some new and far-reaching measures of Federal control, were told by the Coordinator and the Deputy Coordinator that all that was wanted of them was cooperation in what was then a vast and growing national defense effort, later to become a prodigious war job. The relationship, the leaders of petroleum were assured, was to be that of a team---a partnership.