Journeys behind the scenes to provide a close-up look at the untold story behind the bungled nuclear espionage case, offering a vivid portrait of nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee, the secret intelligence competition between the U.S. and Chinese, and the implications of the case for the development of modern nuclear weaponry and Sino-U.S. relations. 50,000 first printing.

A Convenient Spy: Wen Ho Lee and the Politics of Nuclear Espionage

History

Hoffman, Ian

Stober, Dan

Americas

Simon&Schuster

Jacob loves playing dress-up, when he can be anything he wants to be. Some kids at school say he can't wear "girl" clothes, but Jacob wants to wear a dress to school. Can he convince his parents to let him wear what he wants? This heartwarming story speaks to the unique challenges faced by boys who don't identify with traditional gender roles.

Jacob's New Dress Hardcover

Hoffman, Sarah

Reference

Albert Whitman & Company

One of 10 Best Indie Picture Books of 2014, ForeWord Reviews 
Runner-Up, 2014 New England Book Festival: Children's Books 
2014 Distinguished List of the Association of Children's Librarians of Northern California 
CCBC Choices 2015\nAn affirming story about gender nonconformity.\nJacob loves playing dress-up, when he can be anything he wants to be. Some kids at school say he can't wear "girl" clothes, but Jacob wants to wear a dress to school. Can he convince his parents to let him wear what he wants? This heartwarming story speaks to the unique challenges faced by children who don't identify with traditional gender roles.

Jacob's New Dress

LGBTQ+ Books

HALLS FOR MUSIC PERFORMANCE: ANOTHER TWO DECADES OF EXPERIENCE 1982–2002. Ian Hoffman, Christopher Storch, and Timothy Foulkes, Eds. Drawings, color photos, technical and physical data on 142 halls. 301 pp, hardcover 2003.

Halls for Music Performance: Another Two Decades of Experience 1982 - 2002

Storch, Christopher

Foulkes, Timothy J.

Acoustical Society of Amer

No espionage case in recent decades has been anything like the Wen Ho Lee affair. As Dan Stober and Ian Hoffman describe in A Convenient Spy, an astonishingly inept investigation of a crime that may never have occurred ended in a national disgrace. A weapons-code scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lee was hunted as a spy for China, indicted on fifty-nine counts, and held in detention for nine months as a threat to the entire nation. But after pleading guilty to just one count, he went home -- with an unusual and emotional apology from a federal judge. Prosecutors' claims that Lee had stolen America's "crown jewels" of nuclear security simply evaporated. Yet Lee's motives have never been satisfactorily explained, and his often-repeated excuse that he was just backing up his work files does not stand up to scrutiny.As Stober and Hoffman report, Lee's lies and his unexplained connections to foreign scientists spanned eighteen years. He was a security nightmare. Tapping at his keyboard, he assembled a private collection of the computer programs used to design America's nuclear weapons, then left them vulnerable to hackers and foreign intelligence services for years. The FBI's belated discovery that he had also put the codes on portable cassette tapes launched a frenzied worldwide search that eventually carried agents to the Los Alamos landfill. And yet today, the tapes have never been found. In 1995, Lee was just another American, a Taiwanese immigrant striving to support a family he cherished and to make a name for himself in scientific circles. Unknown to him, however, scientists working in the secret world of nuclear-weapons intelligence examined purloined Chinese documents, studied spy reports, and wondered: Had China stolen the secrets of the W88, America's most advanced nuclear weapon? Scientific hunches rapidly evolved into a criminal investigation aimed at Lee. He had been overheard by the FBI while telephoning a spy suspect, and he was warmly embraced by a high-ranking Chinese nuclear-weapons official whom he wasn't supposed to know. The FBI noted that he was "ethnic Chinese." And in this uncertain period after the Cold War, many politicians played up China as a threatening new enemy. Energy Secretary and vice presidential hopeful Bill Richardson was eager to fire Lee and appear decisive in protecting national security. In this stormy confluence of intelligence and politics, Lee became a convenient spy. But was he guilty?Dan Stober and Ian Hoffman tell the story of the Wen Ho Lee fiasco dramatically and authoritatively, providing an objective account that no partisan version of the story can match.

Asia

2020 ALA Rainbow Book List Selection 2020 NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People Selection The beloved lead character from Jacob's New Dress is back in an encouraging story about gender expression. When Jacob goes to the boys’ bathroom he is chased out because the boys think he looks like a girl because of the way he is dressed. His classmate, Sophie, has a similar experience when she tries to go to the girls’ bathroom. When their teacher finds out what happened, Jacob and Sophie, with the support of administration, lead change at their school as everyone discovers the many forms of gender expression and how to treat each other with respect.

Jacob's Room to Choose (Jacob Stories)

Magination Press ― American Psychological Association

This fun story about identity is a clever way to introduce young readers to non-binary and gender-fluid people. As Ms. Reeves' class is produces a play about a farm, the entire class comes to understand about being true to who you are, as classmate Ari expresses their identity as they, which prompts Jacob to look more deeply about what it means to be who he is, and how others identify. Explaining the use of pronouns of one's own choosing to kids, while all along reinforcing that an individual is much more layered and unique then how others may see him, her or them, is a developmentally important milestone to help foster respect of one's self and one's peers.

Jacob's School Play: Starring He, She, and They (Jacob Stories)

Children's Books

Arts, Music & Photography

When Jacob looks for the penguin book about two dads at his school library, he discovers it was removed due to censorship.

Jacob's Missing Book (Jacob Stories)

Science & Math

Behavioral Sciences

Magination Press

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Books by Hoffman, Ian

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A Convenient Spy: Wen Ho Lee and the Politics of Nuclear Espionage

Jacob's New Dress Hardcover

Jacob's New Dress

Halls for Music Performance: Another Two Decades of Experience 1982 - 2002

A Convenient Spy: Wen Ho Lee and the Politics of Nuclear Espionage

Jacob's Room to Choose (Jacob Stories)

Jacob's School Play: Starring He, She, and They (Jacob Stories)

Jacob's Missing Book (Jacob Stories)