John Falk's Hello to All That, reviewed favorably in the New York Times on Friday, is an unusual form of memoir that combines tales of war reporting with a personal struggle against depression.  --  "Dressed in body armor and helmet, [John Falk] carried a single duffel bag packed with the bare necessities: a few clothes, some recording equipment, a 35-millimeter camera and, most important, a year's supply of Zoloft stuffed into a tube sock." ...

Steven Aftergood calls "fairly readable" Paul Smith's Reading the Enemy's Mind, a retired Army intelligence officer's account of U.S. government research into the possibility of using clairvoyance, or "remote viewing," as a tool for collecting intelligence.[1]  --  Aftergood's remarks, with links to amazon.com's page for the book, are followed by a detailed summary account of the program, which began in earnest in 1970 and was terminated in 1995.[2] ...


David Penna of Gallaudet Univ. reviews Micheline Ishay’s The History of Human Rights (2004)....