From top CNN anchor and special correspondent Soledad O'Brien comes a highly personal look at her biggest reporting moments from Hurricane Katrina, the tsunami in Southeast Asia, the devastating Haiti earthquake, and to the historic 2008 U.S. elections and high profile interviews with everyday Americans. Drawing on her own unique background as well as her experiences at the front lines of the most provocative issues in today's society, and from her work on the acclaimed documentaries Black in America and Latino in America, O'Brien offers her candid, clear-eyed take on where we are as a country and where we're going. What emerges is both an inspiring message of hope and a glimpse into the heart and soul of one of America's most straight-talking reporters.

Presenting "Carl Rogers with a twist," a solutions-oriented therapist and writer use humor and other techniques to reframe problems/goals and connect with inner/external resources. No references or index. Originally published as A Field Guide to Possibilityland (Possibilities Press, 1997). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Caging the Rainbow explores the lives of Aborigines in the small regional town of Katherine, Northern Territory, Australia. Francesca Merlan combines ethnography and theory to grapple with issues surrounding the debate about the authenticity of contemporary cultural activity. Throughout, the vulnerability of Fourth World peoples to others' representations of them and the ethical problems this poses are kept in view.

Aboriginal-European relations during South Australian administration of Northern Territory; humanitarian intentions of Glenelg and Hindmarsh and cordial relations at Port Essington; conflict with drovers, settlers on pastoral leases, Barrow Creek telegraph station attack, Daly River murders, 1884, establishment of native police force; establishment of Hermannsburg Mission, Jesuit mission at Rapid Creek, then Daly River; return to humanitarian ideals and setting up of reserves, protection bill, effect of justice system, Aboriginal employment in pastoral industry; career of policeman Paul Foelsche, who photographed Aborigines.

This book includes multi-national research studies (social and natural science research, as well as more directly practical university-based knowledge) about cultural heritage, land, and societal development in varied countries. The book is particularly about land use (as a fundamental aspect of the environment) and its role in development (especially sustainable development). Many of the studies are about topics concerning the transition from more rural to more urbanized land areas. However, some studies concern other types of changes. This includes general attention to globalization and nation-state dimensions of change. Nonetheless, there are interpretations communicated of unique histories at differing scales in the researches here. There is often a focus on more uniquely local and regional territories (including attention to smaller-scale land use) and an interest in future possibilities that conserve positive features of past terrain.