The book (the first edition Arabic version) was sold in one month, the second edition (also in Arabic) was totally sold to one source and came out only two months after the publication of the first edition. The book contains a rare collection of pictures of old Kuwait which the author collected during four years of research and some travel. This is the first part of "Kuwait in black and white" and the author is working on the second part which is planned to come out next year. It is a rare chance for non Arabs and non Arabic speakers to closely see Kuwait and its people before oil discovery, a history of more than 100 years or more in one book.

The book (the first edition Arabic version) was sold in one month, the second edition (also in Arabic) was totally sold to one source and came out only two months after the publication of the first edition. The book contains a rare collection of pictures of old Kuwait which the author collected during four years of research and some travel. This is the first part of "Kuwait in black and white" and the author is working on the second part which is planned to come out next year. It is a rare chance for non Arabs and non Arabic speakers to closely see Kuwait and its people before oil discovery, a history of more than 100 years or more in one book.

Capitol Hill Converted profiles the adaptive re-use of former Washington D.C. Public Schools located in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington D.C. Many of these schools transformed into luxury living accomodations, resulting in a unique and memorable series of buildings. The profile for each school includes information such as when the school was originally built, who the original architect was, the school´s namesake, what its interim uses were after the school was closed, when it underwent adaptive re-use and why. Each school has its own individual story and includes all of the historical school photos that could be located as well as many photos of the interior/exterior of structures as they exist now.

Capitol Hill Converted profiles the adaptive re-use of former Washington D.C. Public Schools located in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington D.C. Many of these schools transformed into luxury living accomodations, resulting in a unique and memorable series of buildings. The profile for each school includes information such as when the school was originally built, who the original architect was, the school´s namesake, what its interim uses were after the school was closed, when it underwent adaptive re-use and why. Each school has its own individual story and includes all of the historical school photos that could be located as well as many photos of the interior/exterior of structures as they exist now.

Capitol Hill Converted profiles the adaptive re-use of former Washington D.C. Public Schools located in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington D.C. Many of these schools transformed into luxury living accomodations, resulting in a unique and memorable series of buildings. The profile for each school includes information such as when the school was originally built, who the original architect was, the school´s namesake, what its interim uses were after the school was closed, when it underwent adaptive re-use and why. Each school has its own individual story and includes all of the historical school photos that could be located as well as many photos of the interior/exterior of structures as they exist now.

On September 20, 2007 this country watched as over 100,000 supporters of 6 young men being unjustly tried and accused, marched through the small town of Jena, Louisiana demanding that all charges be dropped and that 17 year old Mychel Bell, who had been sentenced to 22 years in prison, for a school fight, be released. “The Invasion of Jena,” by Leigh A. Owens, contains a series of compelling, documentary style photos taken by the author during his trip to Jena, Louisiana. Each photo tells the story of a particular piece of this great day in history, which has been commemorated and remembered, by many as the birth of the modern day Civil Rights Movement. “The Invasion of Jena,” is a work which will stand out and cause the world to always remember the spirit of unity and solidarity which swept across this nation that day, a spirit which has never been experienced by this hip-hop generation and has not been experienced by others since the martyrdom of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The Invasion of Jena contains a comprehensive, intuitive and very inspiring essay by the author, detailing his experiences in Jena as well as his experiences in black boyhood journeying into manhood, being influenced by hip-hop culture as well as the beauty of other manifestations of art and African American culture, history and politics. The essay explains how his journey, through incarceration and then activism, teaching and mentoring, relates to the current state of our black youth and the Jena 6. Owens’ passion, honesty and experiences along with the beauty and charm of his photography makes The Invasion of Jena a precious momentum of an extremely important, yet painfully underrated moment in American History.

On September 20, 2007 this country watched as over 100,000 supporters of 6 young men being unjustly tried and accused, marched through the small town of Jena, Louisiana demanding that all charges be dropped and that 17 year old Mychel Bell, who had been sentenced to 22 years in prison, for a school fight, be released. “The Invasion of Jena,” by Leigh A. Owens, contains a series of compelling, documentary style photos taken by the author during his trip to Jena, Louisiana. Each photo tells the story of a particular piece of this great day in history, which has been commemorated and remembered, by many as the birth of the modern day Civil Rights Movement. “The Invasion of Jena,” is a work which will stand out and cause the world to always remember the spirit of unity and solidarity which swept across this nation that day, a spirit which has never been experienced by this hip-hop generation and has not been experienced by others since the martyrdom of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The Invasion of Jena contains a comprehensive, intuitive and very inspiring essay by the author, detailing his experiences in Jena as well as his experiences in black boyhood journeying into manhood, being influenced by hip-hop culture as well as the beauty of other manifestations of art and African American culture, history and politics. The essay explains how his journey, through incarceration and then activism, teaching and mentoring, relates to the current state of our black youth and the Jena 6. Owens’ passion, honesty and experiences along with the beauty and charm of his photography makes The Invasion of Jena a precious momentum of an extremely important, yet painfully underrated moment in American History.

The first comprehensive reference book to examine the September 11th catastrophe, Ground Zero and Beyond offers students, researchers, and historians an in-depth guide to the single-most destructive terrorist attack in U. S. history. The book features page after page of biographical sketches and a detailed bibliography of books, periodicals, newspaper articles, and audio-visual materials. Including a chronology of events, a listing of World Trade Center facts and figures, and many never-before-seen photographs, Ground Zero and Beyond is an important contribution to the study of terrorism in America.

The first comprehensive reference book to examine the September 11th catastrophe, Ground Zero and Beyond offers students, researchers, and historians an in-depth guide to the single-most destructive terrorist attack in U. S. history. The book features page after page of biographical sketches and a detailed bibliography of books, periodicals, newspaper articles, and audio-visual materials. Including a chronology of events, a listing of World Trade Center facts and figures, and many never-before-seen photographs, Ground Zero and Beyond is an important contribution to the study of terrorism in America.

This is the second part of a survey of Iberian railways and tramways in 1963, when the author and his friend Larry Veysey and I made a long circular tour of the Peninsula. In 1963 the traditional tramways were large and busy, though already in the sights of modernizing bureaucrats. The broad-gauge national RENFE and most independent railways were still largely powered by steam; many passengers rode in wood-bodied coaches. Much of the railway scene was comparable to that of North America around 1910. Volume I covered the railways and tramways of Catalonia. Here we make a loop south along the Mediterranean Coast to Valencia and Alicante, inland to Granada, and north via Madrid and Leon to the Costa Verde along the bay of Biscay.

The RENFE (Red National des Ferrocariles Espagnoles) is a government owned system created in 1941 to consolidate four major and some minor broad-gauge companies left without reconstruction funds at the end of the bloody, destructive Civil War in 1939. Despite inheriting a broken and bankrupt group of companies, RENFE had little new funding until the late 1940s, except for necessary repairs and replacements. Spain was struggling with savage domestic repression, then ostracism and isolation by the victorious democratic powers after Generalissimo Franco�s Axis friends were finally defeated in 1945.

While certainly the largest, longest, and loudest, the RENFE was only one (very large) part of the overall rail scene in 1963. Spanish governments over the years between 1875 and 1930 had encouraged a flowering of narrow-gauge lines to open up the rich but usually-impoverished country away from the coasts and Madrid-centred main lines. Most of these were metre-gauge railways, but there were still some of the 75cm (2�5��) gauge toy trains, like the charming El Parderole, the FC Onda y Castell�n, which opens this volume.

We continue south to Spain�s fascinating third city, Valencia, where a carnival of steam activity centered on the grand Norte Station (then called Termino). The Mediterranean from Valencia to Alicante enjoyed three separate metre-gauge lines plus two tramways, and RENFE super-power tackling steep mountain grades. Then on to Granada on a vintage train and track preserved in aspic from the 1910s. More trams in Granada and Madrid, plus main-line steam action. We ended in Leon and Asturias, where industrial narrow-gauge lines were in their last burst of steam action. It was a wonderful, if exhausting, trip, recreated here in vivid color photos and extensive explanatory text.

A selective survey, in black and white photos and text, of the railways of California�s Sierra Nevada mountains, and the old mining lines in the desert just beyond the mountains, in the last of the steam era, from 1947 to 1959. A few photos gave glimpses of surviving lines in the diesel era 25 years later.

The two main-line routes, Southern Pacific�s Donner Pass and Western Pacific�s Feather River Route, were enjoying an Indian Summer of activity after World War II, with traditional traffic, including passengers, and perishables, still on the rails, and the postwar construction boom bringing more traffic. The Feather River Route still boasted great steam locomotives in 1947 and �48; Donner was all-steam, behind their signature cab-forward AC class 4-8-8-2s, until 1950. The sight of these giants roaring through the woods stirred the blood of eager photographers. Now, as both routes enjoy a massive resurgence of traffic in the age of globalization, seems an appropriate moment to gather glimpses of these operations a half-century ago.

There were a number of short-line railroads in the Sierra, mostly temporary logging lines. Chapter 2 records the longest-lived of these, the Oakdale Connection� the common-carrier Sierra Railroad and two major connections that survived into the 1950s, the standard-gauge Pickering Lumber and narrow-gauge West Side Lumber. Twisting through dry canyons and over tortuous passes, these lines were survivals of California�s industrial scene of the early 20th Century.

What can only be remembered is the splendidly photogenic railways in the deserts just beyond, in Nevada and Eastern California� SP�s secondary main line to Oregon via Alturas, the much-publicized Virginia & Truckee from Reno to Minden, and above all the ancient 3-foot gauge Owens Valley line, the surviving fragment of the Carson & Colorado line built in the 1880s to serve a mining boom that never quite arrived. The Owens valley line, situated in a dramatic area rich in poignant and controversial history, symbolized the glory and pathos of Western history at a time when people were close to the land. Chapter 3 records the line and its spectacular surroundings.