Australian history is full of disasters and colossal debacles. Some are natural but many more are man-made, results of individual or collective stupidity, poor choices, short-sightedness or outright greed. This title nominates the disasters that have been instrumental in creating the Australia.

Dealing with low wage competition from overseas is not just "an" issue for our children's lives, it will turn out to be "the" issue, completely dwarfing all others. In this century, globalization, and its inevitable economic impact on jobs here at home, will be the fight of America's life. Author Richard Evans is an international business consultant, and a former elected member of a local school board in New Hampshire. In "Coloring Our Way to Calamity," he draws on his experiences in both fields to alert parents to the highly disadvantageous plight that many public school systems are quite...