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The arms race continues to turn resources and priorities away from internationaldevelopment. Diminishing aid programs, growing Third World debt, a population that may reach 10billion people in the foreseeable future in spite of all efforts to control it, increasing divisionof the world into pro-US and pro-Soviet camps - these are the dangers Willy Brandt feels can leadnot only to greater world poverty and famine but also to world conflict.In this strongly wordedbook, Brandt goes beyond the diplomatic role he has formerly played and describes major problemsplaguing the globe today, as well as solutions for them. From personal observation and experience,Brandt demonstrates that the West has failed to meet today's challenges and delivers a frankcriticism of the Reagan administration's policies - or lack of them.Willy Brandt, chancellor of theFederal Republic of Germany from 1969 to 1974, has been a member of the European Parliament since1979. Among his many awards were the Nobel Peace Prize in 1971 and the Albert Einstein Peace Prizein 1985. He is the author (with Anthony Sampson) of North-South: A Program for Survival, and TheCommon Crisis North-South: Cooperation for World Recovery (both MIT Press paperbacks).
Reviews (2)
School Library Journal Review
PreS-Gr 2 Outer space creatures test market their new product Brain Grain, an IQ enhancer, on dinosaurs. They educate the beasts and ship them to the United States, where the dinosaurs land in New York just in time for the Thanksgiving Day parade. After wreaking havoc with the balloons and spectators, the dinosaurs are taken in by a kindly museum curator at the Natural History Museum, Dr. Bleeb. She helps them escape the wrath of the police by posing the dinosaurs as a museum exhibit. When the police leave, the dinosaurs decide to stay, and fall asleep listening to Dr. Bleeb's bedtime stories. Readers may also be put to sleep by this book's feeble plot, which is packed with Supersaurus-sized holes. Who are these outer space creatures anyhow, and what dinosaur-populated planet do they come from? Why do they ship the creatures to the U.S.? And why do they disappear totally from the book after dumping the dinosaurs in New York? The rather nice watercolors are interrupted by mundane cartoon dialogue, which unfortunately only adds to the pointless meanderings of the text. Better books are Carrick's Patrick's Dinosaurs (Houghton, 1983) or Bernard Most's If the Dinosaurs Came Back (HBJ, 1978); let this one fossilize. Cathryn A. Camper, Minneapolis Public Library (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
Vorb hangs down from a flying saucer and offers some dinosaurs the break of a lifetime; he's from Mega-Mind Inc. and is test-marketing a new product, Brain Grainwith an extra special bonus prize and free snacks. With Brain Grain, a dinosaur first experiences a ``new me'' and, eventually, a ``new us.'' The prize? A drop into midtown Manhattan in the 20th century. Destination: Dr. Bleeb's Museum of Natural History. The gang parades in a Thanksgiving celebration but soon they're discovered to be real out-of-towners and are chased all the way to the museum, where they're saved by Dr. Bleeb. Those who think original dinosaur books are extinct are going to change their minds with this one. A very welcome bunch of monsters has landed in kids' laps; Talbot's prehistoric characters exhibit real stage presence, from the glint in their eyes to the way they slather over those snacks. Ages 3-7. (September) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved