Amazing And Good News!...If Little Read!

[Peter Lemkin]

Sage Publications is, in my estimation, a publisher of highly-respected journals and other compendiums. I fully intend to buy a copy as soon as I can make the phone call. My own personal experience was with an old bound red book of publications by a variety of academicians and practitioners on the art and science of using simulation games as a teaching tool; it was produced in conjunction with the North American Simulation and Gaming Association. It was superb, in-depth, allowed me to appreciate the hobby, introduced me to Thiagi's works (I later beta-tested a game designed by someone who had collaborated with him), enabled me to write several serious articles and proposals, and gave me a thorough preparation for deeper training methods, and enabled me to understand player interaction within a serious simulation training system more intimately. The book was well-used, dog-eared and would still be a treasured resource today if I had not lost it to water damage in a cellar flood.

From WikiPedia:

"SAGE is an independent for-profit academic publisher of books, journals, and electronic products in the humanities, social sciences and scientific, technical and medical fields. SAGE was founded in 1965 by George McCune and Sara Miller McCune. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in London, New Delhi, Singapore, and Washington DC. Blaise R. Simqu is currently SAGE's President and Chief Executive Officer."


"Sara Miller McCune (born 1941) is a philanthropist and the co-founder and Chair of SAGE Publications.
Sara founded SAGE with her late husband George McCune in 1965[1] (SAGE stands for SA – from Sara – and GE – from George)[2] and the company has since grown to become one of the world’s leading independent academic publishers.[3]
Sara Miller McCune has in recent years turned her attention to philanthropy and she funds schools in the developing world[4] as well as community organizations and educational establishments in California. Notable recent donations include $2.5 million to Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital [5], $3.5 million to found the SAGE Center For the Study of the Mind at UCSB[6][7] and upwards of $5 million to the Granada Theater Restoration Project.[8]
Sara Miller McCune is a trustee and supporter of the UCSB foundation[7] and is on the Board of Directors of The American Academy of Political and Social Science.[9]
Sara founded the charitable McCune Foundation in 1990.[10]
In 2003, Sara received the Spirit of Entrepreneurship award at the Entrepreneur of the Year awards, sponsored by Ernst and Young.[11]
In 2008, Sara announced the launch of Miller-McCune magazine, published in print and online, by the nonprofit Miller McCune Center for Research, Media and Public Policy, with support from SAGE.[12]
Women’s Campaign International (WCI) recently honored Sara Miller McCune at an event entitled Shattering The Glass Ceiling: Honoring Inspirational Women Around The Globe. Other honorees at the same event included Hillary Rodham Clinton and the President of Liberia.[13]"

Here's the page if you simply want to buy it to view one or more articles:
http://abs.sagepub.com/content/vol53/issue6/

That an academic publisher devoted an entire issue to the psychological/sociological and actual facts about 9-11 is no small matter....dare we hope?! Time is SO very short and I had all but lost hope...