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In his mid-forties, writer Jason Sams will only grudgingly admit that alcohol has become less useful to him that it once had been, at some indeterminate period in his life. Sure, he's turned over cars, wrecked friendships and also screwed up his career. But ever since Edgar Allen Poe, American writers have known the art and alcohol go hand in hand. Ivan Gold chronicles Jason Sams's weekend-long journey from his home in Boston to his native New York and back again--a journey that shocks him out of twenty-five years of drinking and into a shaky sobriety.

Ivan Gold's first novel, re-released to accompany his triumphant return with Sams in a Dry Season. Introducing Jason Sams, a New York playboy and author, Sick Friends draws fictional and real experience into a story full of "wit, imagination, verbal ingenuity, and frankness" (Playboy).

The phenomenon of increasingly visible groups of immigrant entrepreneurs raises a host of questions. What are the causes of immigrant entrepreneurship? What are its consequences, especially as regards upward mobility and inter-ethnic relations? And what accounts for differences in entrepreneurship among ethnic groups? Ethnic Economies provides a broad overview of ethnicity and entrepreneurship, connecting it with broader studies of economic life.

The currently available soil mechanics textbooks explain theory and show some practical applications through solving abstract geotechnical problems. Unfortunately, they do not engage students in the learning process as students do not "experience" what they study. This book employs a more engaging project-based approach to learning, which partially simulates what practitioners do in real life. It focuses on practical aspects of soil mechanics and makes the subject "come alive" through introducing real world geotechnical problems that the reader will be required to solve. This book appeals to...