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"Demons are feasting on your father."

Johnny stood at the threshold looking into the dim beer bar at a hooded man. His father was in the county hospital fighting an aggressive cancer. And now this menacing character proclaims a dire message. What, was he living in "the Lord of the Rings"? Johnny soon finds that in order to save his father, he must face creatures and beings from mythic realms he thought only existed in stories. But even more challenging, he must find a way to persuade his father to stay and fight when the man he's looked up to all his life has determined it's time to...

Central Asia, known as the home of Tamerlane and the Silk Road, is a crossroads of great cultures and civilizations. In 1991 five nations at the heart of the region--Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan-- suddenly became independent. Today they sit strategically between Russia, China, and Iran and hold some of the world's largest deposits of oil and natural gas. Long-suppressed ethnic identities are finding new expression in language, religion, and occasional civil conflicts.

Civil Society in Central Asia is a pathbreaking collection of essays by...