This book focuses on all the ugly and evil aspects of this border town, and omits anything positive about the place. If you are a reader who has not spent considerable time working or living in Cd. Juarez, this book will grossly distort reality and scare you from setting foot into Mexico. I almost want to write a photo-book myself of all the virtues of the place. Yes, Juarez has it's share of problems, but as the citizens will tell you, things are always getting better. The writing seems very politically motivated, and definitely one-sided. I think someone could write a book just as disturbing while only focusing on slums in american cities. This book doesnt give Cd. Juarez a fair shake. But if you like photos of dead bodies, you will still enjoy this book.

I've twice been to the Colonia's of Cd. Juarez. I have not, thank God, witnessed the violence.

I have seen the poverty.

The photographs in "Juarez, the laboratory of our future" are painful to view. The work of skilled local photographers, the pictures jump from the pages and into your heart. Life in a Colonia is a nightmare.

As the text makes clear, the causes of the poverty and violence are complex. But it is certain that we, the consumers of cheap goods, are adding to the pain when we buy the product output of Juarez, but bar the producers from escaping their Hell. The people in the Colonias are living lives very the close to those suffered by WWII slave laborers in Europe and elsewhere.

Where are the liberation forces?

In picture and word, the ugliness is now real. The stories will make you think: peace and justice, what have I done to make it this way? Can I sit by while my brothers and sisters suffer?

This book covers the story of Charles Keating and his effort to run an S&L like a Kingdom to benefit his family and political views. This book offers the reader a very well documented, thought out telling of the Keating story. You can actually see when he starts to take for granted the public-trust he has and start to us it for his own purposes. Although to be fair to him, it was not all because he was conniving, he was also a truly bad businessman that seamed to make gold into lead. He was defiantly the poster boy for the whole S&L scandal. I would have liked to have more detail on his overall political dealings. Overall this is an interesting and well-written book.

A riveting read that takes you inside the fascinating world of Charlie Keating. Could not put this book down, no matter how hard I tried. A must-have!

Se puede simular casi cualquier sistema. Realmente util en el trabajo de un ingeniero industrial para determinar el flujo de producto, inventarios, lay-out de planta y detectar cuellos de botella.

You can simulate every sistem you have. Like lean manufacturing, bottlenecks, inventory, scheduling, etc.

Charles Bowden's book , Blood Orchid, can be seen as a book that rails upon the vilence and seriuos disregard of humankind. The author's reflection upon the Blood Orchid , a plant of dubious character, can be seen as a reflection of man kind itself and its disregard for all creation. Through the eyes of the native American, Bowden relates the loss of spiritual as well as the tempral well being. Dark and moody, the related subject matter goes from atomic destruction to insider trading. It demintrated the reality that, " everything is for sale." Strong, painful and forthright Bowden's Blood Orchid wrinches the soul and rveals hidden truths that enlightens, but often frightens.

I have loved the essays I have read by Charles Bowden individually. Whether disturbing or provocative, he grabs you somewhere deep and won't let go. In a full length book, it is feeling too intense for me. The themes of our destruction of the earth and our intransigencies in our history keep returning and returning like the tide. As does the metaphor/image of the orchid. I didn't get very far into the book, I confess. I think I will have to let this one mellow on the bookshelf for a few years or a decade. Maybe then I will be angry enough to feel with along with it, or otherwise patient enough to let it come to me.

As the Hammer Orchid seduces its prey with false promises of satisfaction, Charles Bowden draws his readers into his own personal saga of pain with an impressive display of anger and wrath. Multitudes of partially coherent and mostly unrelated images of sex and war are thrown to the reader at a steadily unrelenting pace, leaving one with the choice of either leaving them at the table, or ingesting them wholly and accepting the emotional heartburn that will accompany the feast. For those who choose the path of greater resistance, the rewards will follow. A highly recommended but particularly difficult read, intended for those with a passionate devotion to nature, man, history and their shared bonds.

this book is an interesting read but displays its lack of objectivity early on by equating anyone who philosophically is anywhere near conservative as patently corrupt in intent and by definition. Connnally was clearly a controversial figure and not universally loved, though widely acknowledged (especially by his adversaries) as a highly intelligent and capable person --perhaps too capable for some. His associations with Johnson and Nixon foreever tainted him, but also were responsble for his rise to power, while simultanerously ensuring he could never hold the White House himself. The book is filled with interesting anecdotes (some are even true) that are insightful into the hardball game of gaining and wielding power that is Texas politics and that has long been played as aggresively if a bit differently in Washington. Connnally clearly understood both, and the picture is not always pretty. But he is hardly unique in that his pursuit of power was aggresive and often ran over others. In part, the book also is incomplete as are most portrayals of Connally in that they fail to note how studious and highly intelligent Connally was, not just in the power game but in terms of commanding his subject matter and his ability to advocate effectively across a broad range of issues from international monetary policy to foreign relations with the SubSaharan african community, (an area of particular interest for him) In depth interviews with him especially during the 1980 campaign (best see in specialty topic journals and magazines) reveal an exceptionally well-versed and grounded individual, a far cry from the cowboy, power grubbing, wheeler dealer politician image he suffered under. Connally was above all a patriot who was not moved by opportunity nearly to the the degree that he acted and spoke from his love of the country and its ideals.