Protokol is an electrifying fictional story of international intrigue that had me asking "Is it true?" The story weaves pieces of history of the Cold War in such a way that it was exciting, gripping and very plausible. I couldn't put it down. It is a real page-turner. The characters captured my imagination in this moving story that illustrates just how far people will go in their quest for money and power. In this story, everything is a deal.

The story begins in 1998, GlobusBank is partnering with the American firm Olen Europe, headed by David Olen, international real estate developer, to renovate a historical building. The sudden cold-blooded killing of Alexei Sokolov, GlobusBank Official, in St. Petersbug, Russia starts to upset the current delicate balance of global power. David Olen travels from his home in Chicago to Europe to prevent a pack made in the 1970s between an American government agency, the Soviet Union, and the Vatican that selected the pope from resurfacing and putting his life and reputation at risk. The story describes how high-profile political figures, successful businessmen, and criminals may have become reluctant partners in their quest for power and money to reshape the course of Western history.

The author, Eugene Golub, is the founder and Chairman of Golub & Company. In 1989, Golub & Company entered the international marketplace through its subsidiary, Golub-Europe, now GE Capital Golub-Europe, L.L.C., a Company whose members are affiliates of Golub & Company and GE Capital Corporation. That entity was the first major U.S. real estate company to undertake development projects in Central and Eastern Europe and Russia just prior to their re-emergence as market-driven economies. With Golub's vast real estate experience, this exciting story of international intrigue will force you to review events in history and perhaps change the way you think and ask---could this really happen?
Dr. Margot B. Weinstein

Having read Le Carre, Clancy, and Condon, I rate this new novel as one of the best I have ever read. This is a thriller with historical interest. A real page turner to say the least.

In 1998 St. Petersburg, Russia, GlobusBank official Alexei Sokolov heads to his meeting with officials from the European Development Bank. GlobusBank is partnering with the American firm Olen Europe to renovate a historical building. However, two Mercedes block the vehicle containing Alexei. Men leave the other cars, approach Alexei's auto, and assassinate him.

The cold-blooded killing of Alexei impacts the Russian presidential election. That in turn begins the potential toppling of the current delicate balance of global power like a series of dominoes if secrets are revealed. David Olen travels to Europe to prevent an international collapse. He knows first hand of the deal set in the 1970s between a clandestine American government agency, the Soviet Union, and the Vatican that chose the Pope. If the agreement surfaces global relationships and confidence could be destroyed.

On first look, readers will brush aside PROTOKOL: A NOVEL OF INTERNATIONAL INTRIGUE as the imagination of the authors. However, as the audience digs deeper into the action filled plot with ever increasing suspense, the readers will realize the premise is plausible and the details make one wonder did it really happen that way? The only reason not to believe it happened that way is inductive as this book is published with the writers still alive. Conspiracy thriller fans will love this exciting tale that substantiates many beliefs and demand Eugene Golub and Quinton Skinner look at Yalta next.

Harriet Klausner

This book brings alive the shocking reality about psychopaths. A good book to read for all. I would definately recommend this book.

This is a tremendously provocative work. It expresses theses which the open-minded reader must concede are tenable, albeit they may be hard to digest. Many times Truth is hard to digest. We can debate on the merit of Wright's opinions all day long. We all know that pyschology is not an exact science. This book's greatness is not based on your agreement or disagreement with its positions. This is a great book because it is thought provoking and revolutionary. It expresses theories that you have probably never conceived. So whether you consider Wright's arguments sophistry or indeed true, you have to agree that most of the ideas expressed are plasusible. Because pyschology is basically a science of opinion, the ideas of most great pyschologists were perceived outrageous by many (e.g., Freud, Jung, Watson, etc.). Wright's ideas are similiar to those of the aforementioned pyschologists in that they are controversial but great.

Bobby E. Wright was a man of huge understanding and acute perceptual ability. It is sad that he did not have the opportunity to put more of his thought to print before his passing. He is survived by a few audio recordings and,more importantly, a legion of thinkers created conteporaneously and also in his wake. I speak of Frances Cress Welsing,"Isis Papers". Dr. Naim Akbar "Community of Self", etc, etc,... Dr. Amos Wilson "Black on Black Violence: African Self Annihilation in service to European Domination". Dr. Nathan & Julia Hare "Endagered Black Family", and "Crisis in Black Sexual Politics" (etc..) And countless other Psychologists and Historians too numerous to metion.

As a medical assistant/secretary in the Internal Medicine practice of Eugene G. Jussek, MD, I had the privilege of attending the early hypnosis sessions with Charles Roberts and was witness to the ultimate ermergence of Yan Su Lu. Conversations under hypnotic trance would be recorded in shorthand and then transcribed. Dr. Jussek has reproduced these sessions exactly as they transpired and no changes, additions or omissions are noted. Eugene G. Jussek, MD, is a skilled physician and hypnotist who takes great care to protect the patient from harm and danger. He continuously moves the subject away from frightful experiences, and goes to a safe place and time that permits unemotional review and analysis of events. In this space beyond time, Dr. Jussek would ask the "friend" or "teacher" from the other side (that resides in all of us) to come through and report on the lessons learned by the subject during that particular lifetime. When Yan Su Lu was willing to continue dialogue through the merium of Charles Roberts, a journey was untertaken into the realm of wisdom as it is found in the collective unconscious. Such knowlege and understanding is not only the essence of this book, but it addresses many current questions raised by the serious seeker of Truth. "Reaching for the Oversoul" is a must read not only for those seeking answers from the beyond, but also for the serious practitioner of medical hypnosis.

I wish Oprah would read this book and feature Eugene Jussek on her show. He is another Gary Zukoff!

This book is about finding our own higher selves. Written by a medical doctor of great depth and sensitivity, it explores the possibility of reincarnation, while never trying to prove it.

As the title suggests, Reaching for the Oversoul, is about reaching deep within our selves for our own higher nature, wise counsel and guide. It is the story of a medical man and his journey to make sense of one patient's problems.

So many of life's questions are explored in this book. A thought provoking read.

Yan Su Lu's views of a transdimensional world are reminiscent of Plato's philosophy...significant philosophical discourses emphasisingevolutionary philosophy.

BOOK FOR TEENS!
Mine enjoyed it very much...Spent a whole week taking the tests...and changed some things enhancing thewir personalities !

Because it made my teenagers more secure and sure of their own personalities...

for teenagers of both sexes!
With this, they can measure ( and enhance ) their atraction, charm and romantic capabilities.

It's fun and orienting for young people... Mainly, when they feel insecure. And almost all teenagers are insecure.

Incredible pictures, written well making it easy to read and understand. Palka makes you feel like you've been in Denali, even if you haven't. Outstanding book!

Having been to Alaska I am aware of the landscape and its unigue place in our worldly environment. This presentation truly touches the key elements of the Alaskan adventure and its place in the travelers journal. I was truly impressed by the pictures and the ability of the author to portraite the imense landscape and the importance of the countryside in his work

The writer manages to combine the human interest and interaction while, at the same time,uses his experience in Denali as a teaching instrument. Makes me want to visit Alaska and Danali!

"The Advertising Agency Business" was an extremly insightful and logical read. The author focus on the basics of the industry but elaborates very well with examples. This book is a must read if you own, managage or operate an ad agency. I wish I had read this book before I started my agency!

I am in my 3rd of starting an advertising agency, and this book was just what I needed. Some of the things I learned will help be grow my agency business in the future.

I've been in the advertising field for nearly 20 years, and it was a pleasure to find this solid, useful book. It's clearly written, straightforward, and approaches the subject in a direct way. Anyone considering their own agency should read this book cover-to-cover, and then do the math, well before they go out on their own.

Excellent satire by O'Neill! According to some, this is the basis of all TV Sitcoms, including both the classics, such as 'The Brady Bunch' and 'Leave it to Beaver' and the rebellions against such 'happy' shows, such as The Simpsons and South Park. We have much to owe O'Neill - even though I interpert this play as a satire of society...

"Ah, Wilderness!" is the only comedy that Eugene O'Neill wrote and as such stands out as quite different from most of his work. It is the story of Richard Miller, a 17 year-old Swinburne- and Wilde-reading intellectual pretty obviously based on O'Neill's memory of himself as an adolescent. Richard is in love with Muriel McComber, a neighbor girl, but Muriel's father objects to the relationship and, after a heated exchange between Mr. McComber and Richard's father Nat, Nat half-heartedly tells Richard to stay away from Muriel, and Richard receives a note from Muriel to the effect that the relationship is over. Despondent, Richard lets his older brother's friend talk him into going to a bar to meet a girl, where Richard gets drunk and engages in some innocent flirtation with her, but does not allow the girl (who unsurprisingly is a prostitute) to take him upstairs. Meanwhile, Richard's parents are worried sick about him and are rather displeased when he comes home drunk, but upon realizing that he's learned his lesson, they let him off fairly easily the next day, and everything, including Richard's relationship with Muriel, works out well in the end.

This play really does have some funny moments (two that jump to mind are the drunken ramblings of Richard's Uncle Sid at the dinner table and the extremely awkward attempt by Nat to have a heart-to-heart talk with his son about sex), and the fact that O'Neill was able to write it reveals that he had a good deal more breadth as a playwright than one might think. It's a very charming portrait of a sort of simple small-town life that was, as O'Neill himself expressed it, how O'Neill would have liked his life to be. Particularly Richard's parents, though they do a couple of silly things for mild comedic effect, are fairly idealized in their treatment of Richard himself--stern when they think his behavior needs correcting but always understanding and supportive--leading one to believe that O'Neill was to an extent trying to paint a picture of how he wishes his parents had treated him (as opposed to how they did treat him, as described a few years later in Long Day's Journey into Night). In any case, O'Neill showed with this play that he was just as adept at depicting life in a happy family as he was at depicting more tragic situations, and in doing so he provided posterity with a very entertaining comedy.

Incidentally, in addition to this version, "Ah, Wilderness!" is available, along with "A Touch of the Poet," "Hughie," and "A Moon for the Misbegotten," in the Modern Library compilation "The Later Plays of Eugene O'Neill" (also sold by Amazon). That compilation is, at this writing, not much more expensive than this single-play volume and it ships sooner, so if you're also interested in one or more of the other plays in the Modern Library edition, it's probably a better buy.

Good, quick read by one of my favorite playwrights. Excellent story of a New England town on the Fourth of July in the early 1900's. Spectrum of characters demonstrates O'Neil's ability to approach the coming of age of a young man with lightheartedness not found in any of his other plays. Has very funny moments on paper that I would imagine are even better on the stage. It gives an excellent description of a time when life was simpler and young men and women learned life's hard lessons from first-hand experiences.

Some of these poems are for children. Some are merely about children. Some are for grown ups who love children. Some are for children who have no idea how dear they are to the grown ups in their lives.

Despite having had my copy of 'Poems of Childhood' for ten years, I know absolutely nothing about Eugene Field save what I can infer from the poems in this collection. From their recurring themes, and the order in which they appear, I can guess that Field lost a child who was very precious to him . . . was slowly healed of his grief by the love and presence of other children . . . and was given a second chance with the birth of a new baby.

There are about 15 poems that hint of that lost child and a handful that juxtapose sleep and death, making me wonder if the baby died in its sleep. Other sad poems are merely wistful about beloved children who have grown up. Thankfully, there are just as many happy poems as sad ones: cheery verses about toys, imaginary creatures, and playground games. Field also wrote several 'lullabies' that are perfect for rocking children to sleep, whether or not they are put to music.

I don't know any other poet who has brought such dignity to "babytalk." Toddlers in his poems are called names like Pittypat, Tippytoe, Googly-Goo and Luddy-Dud. His imaginary fairies include Amberglee, Daisybright and Pilfercurds. Moreover, I'm sure that no other collection of children's poems has this many terms for "dreamland"--Blinkiwink garden, Shut-Eye town, and Hushaby street, to name a few.

Though Field could be accused of writing the same poems over and over again, most of his verses have such distinctive _personalities_ that this is not entirely true. What they _all_ have in common is his delicate touch--yes, even the ones in which his voice turns rustic and homey--that has endeared him to children and grown ups alike.

This was a book from my childhood and which I have searched for many years. So happy to find it at Amazon's. Maxfield Parrish, the illustrator , with his imagination was the right choice for this book of poetry. Eugene Field's love of children and the sadness which was part of his life makes the poetry memorable.

I received this book as a gift when I was about 8 or 10, and it was one of my favorite all time books. The poems are dear and the illustrations are simply magical. This volume had poems I had heard before, like "Winken, Blinken, and Nod", and many that were new to me. Over the years, when I had to memorize a poem for school, it was always one of these I chose -- "Jest 'Fore Christmas", "The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat", and "the Dickey bird is singing in the Amphalula tree."

Gene Shoemaker was truly a giant of 20th Century Science. Involved in the development of (and frustrated by) the vestigal scientific programs attached to the oh-so-political US moon program, Gene Shoemaker was a frequently-acknoledged genius. Perhaps most famous, along with his wife Carolyn and (this book's author) David Levy, for his work discovering the comet chain (Shoemaker-Levy 9) which impacted Jupiter in July 1994, Shoemaker's true legacy lay in his role as a key proponent of the theory, now widely-accepted, that most of the craters we observe in the solar system were caused by meteor or comet impacts instead of being cause by volcanism, and that this process has been at work on the Earth for millenia as well, as can be seen at places like Meteor Crater in Arizona.

Levy is always a treat to read, with an enthusiastic and easygoing style which keeps the subject accessible and the language casual. He moves the narrative effectively, and frequently refers back to earlier portions of the book to jog the reader's memory regarding various details. The book follows a more-or-less chronological course in relating Shoemaker's life, although it does follow concurrent threads in seperate chapters, so it may confuse less-attentive readers from time to time as Levy covers Shoemaker's gological work during a particular decade in one chapter, and in the next might jump back to the end of the previous decade while describing his astronomical work.

The book's only real flaw is in it's extreme reverence for Shoemaker and the resultant unwillingness to dig for "dirt" in the process of profiling this colorful and contentious man, understandable considering how close Levy was to Shoemaker, and how close he remains to Shoemaker's wife Carolyn. While the general impression is that there was little actual dirt to be found, Levy glosses over some conflicts in Shoemaker's life, especially the significant personal break with his one-time student and co-collaborator Eleanor Helin, whose near-Earth object research has been truly influential as well. Additonally, passing but tantalizing mention is made in places of his (apparently) less-than-perfect relationship with his children when they were young.

All in all, these lapses are insignificant (worth a point off a pefect score, though), especially since it will most likely be many years before we are treated to any more thorough and (perhaps) less-biased biography by any other writer. Heartily recommended to anyone who likes a good biography or who has an interest in geology or the search for near-earth objects.

This is an excellent (and probably the only) bio of Eugene Shoemaker, who nearly singlehandedly pioneered impact geology, and by doing so helped make modern, secular catastrophism palatable to scientists. On page 55 Levy quotes Stephen Gould (from "The Panda's Thumb") regarding the origin of gradualism as "a common cultural bias"; discusses Cuvier's near miss regarding the source of catastrophes attested throughout the fossil record (pp 51-52); and most nobly and notably, recounted with pretty good accuracy the central thesis of Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision without resorting to the childish distortions and namecalling found in most books which mention Velikovsky at all. This factual, non-inflammatory mention of Velikovsky and what may be the most controversial non-political work of the 20th century reveals Levy as a man of reason, courage, and character.

This biography is highly recommended.

Also recommended:

-:- "Dark Matter" by Thomas Van Flandern
-:- "The Deep Hot Biosphere" by Thomas Gold
-:- "Voices of the Rocks" by Robert Schoch et al
-:- "Night Comes to the Cretaceous" by James Lawrence Powell
-:- "Rain of Iron and Ice" by John S. Lewis
-:- "T Rex and the Crater of Doom" by Walter Alvarez
-:- "Noah's Flood" by Walter C. Pitman and William B. F. Ryan
-:- "Catastrophe: A Quest for the Origins of the Modern World" by David Keys
-:- "Worlds In Collision" by Immanuel Velikovsky
-:- "Earth in Upheaval" by Immanuel Velikovsky

A truly delightful book about the premiere scientist. The book takes you from the early days when Gene was a kid collecting rocks in a jar, to his prominent role with the Apollo project to the seach for asteroids. Levy writes in such a way that you almost feel that you were friends with the man. Looking over his shoulder as he takes college kids on field trips to Meteor Crater and in the control room for the Voyager missions. I never knew Gene was involved in so many aspects of astronomy. Anyone who relishes science biographies should not miss this one.

I think this author was trying to get some [easy] recognition with the title he chose, maybe making the reader think it was similar to the Kessler book Moscow Station. Unfortunately for this author that is where the similarity ends. The author was the KGB station Chief for the Washington D.C. USSR embassy for a number of years during the cold war. He promises on the dust jacket to provide the reader with an inside account of the methods of the station and a run down of the missions they took part in.

The author does a good job in providing the reader with many of the interesting tradecraft bit about the KGB in the U.S. and how they operated in Washington D.C. against the FBI. The author also does give us some insight to a few of the operations that the KGB ran; it just seams to me that this is a sanitized version of the events. I wanted more details on the intelligence they were able to gather and more of the operations they ran. I finished the book think this was a nice first step, but a fuller "confession" was needed.

Overall, the book is adequately written and does not drag or stumble. If you are interested in KGB operations in the U.S. then this is a nice start, but definitely the definitive account

fantastic! informative! riveting! find out what really went on during thoze years in th CIA & KGB. one of the best books i have ever read.

This book offers a glimpse into the mind of an ex-KGB agent. It is amazing to learn how truely disorganized the KGB was during the cold war.