Bøger udgivet af Ralph Schultz

This book is about American Indians and my wonderful experiences at the Pine Ridge Indin Reservtion in western South Dakota. My first sweat lodge was very haunting and deeply moving, and hot. The drums resonated, people chanted and prayed. I was drawn there in 1996 after experiencing the newly born prophetic white buffalo calf in Wisconsin.I was totoally emersed in their culture and politics. It was a new world that saved me and changed me.The Hopi Kachina dances are hauntingly beautiful and take us back to an ancient place inside ourselves.The reservations are unlike anything in mainsream USA society. I also was a college instructor at Oglala Lakota College for three years and taught at the Navajo Reservation for one year. I saw a side of life most Americans never exprience.

If you ever wanted to know how a World Record Middle-Distance runner trained from 1963-1971 and his thoughts about racing and life in America this is the book for you. He presents his ideas as a dialogue to the reader in everyday language with a touch of humor. You will get a look at aspects of growing up on the South Side of Chicago in the 1950’s in an ethnic Slavic working class neighborhood and becoming a world class athlete who graduated from world class universities, Northwestern and The University of Chicago. He provides his exact workouts that led to a spectacular racing season in 1969 that ended with a 1000 yard run world record tie with Peter Snell, the Olympian from New Zealand. The training is for the 18-30 year old runner who is still competing and training independently who still aspires to greatness and improvement and is looking for a system that works. He offers to coach you using cyber technology worldwide. You will have an e-mail discussion board to communicate with athletes worldwide. The book is illustrated with 100 photographs of running and Chicago landmarks, many in color.The author relates his experiences in Russia during 1968 on a college cultural trip, how he trained preparing for the US Olympic tryout, interesting people he met, and Moscow and the Soviet Union.He comments about black and white athletes he knew, and has a dedication to Ted Haydon, the respected icon of track and originator of the University of Chicago Track Club. He tells the story of competing on the National Champion UCTC 2-mile relay team. The author is an economics professor. He digresses to offer some observations about the US Economy and Russian foreign policy today. These are further analyzed in depth in an upcoming book. You will get a look into a time of dynamic change from 1965-1970. This book is for people of all ages. 

The book is a discussion ,or really an interactive learning dialogue for average people, of the historical precedents and geo-political environment that explains Russian and Chinese political and military strategies. Both Russia and China are centuries old autocratic centrally planned empires that are reemerging to assert influence on their borders and throughout the world as part of a new multi-polar world. Both countries have been humiliated, dominated,and lost wars to outside powers since 1850. Their aggressive military and political posturing is substantially defensive and a natural response to the USA and European policies that have infringed upon their borders and sought to undermine their governments and push towards a European style liberal demcracy. This stress is creating the setting for for a violent brief regional conventional missile conflict that will inflict unacceptable damage to the US Navy despite these countries own losses. These viewpoints are ignored by western media and political leaders. The situation in Ukraine is reviewed. Hybrid warfare, cyber intrusions, and future space conflicts are evaluated.A balanced viewpoint must be achieved to insure peaceful coexistance.This book also explores USA economic issues that are slowing US economic growth such as persistent low wages and the embedded new structural unemployment. The increase in the concentration of wealth in America is evaluated that is reducing the size and income of the great middle class that grew after WWII from 1946-1975. USA worldwide strongoints are also presented such as the enormous US media and entertainment industry, the innovative and powerful high-tech sector, and the massive worldwide US military presence symbolized by the Pentagon.US socialism is evaluted. The book is 196 pages with many pictures and illustrations.