Book discussing high-performing self-managed work teams and a comparison of theory of practice.

Interview with Dan Buzzo, an Army veteran (2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery, Texas National Guard) and a member of the "Lost Battalion," concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. He discusses the fall of Java and capture; Bicycle Camp, Batavia, 1942; Changi Prison Camp, Singapore, 1942; building the Burma- Thailand Death Railway, 1942-44; Kanchanaburi, Thailand, 1944; Tamuan and Tamuang, Thailand, 1944; Nakhon Nayok, Thailand, 1944-45; and his liberation.

Interview with Richard Griffin about his experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. He discusses his childhood in Minneapolis, Minnesota; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 708 at Camp Rabideau in Blackduck, Minnesota; description of camp; life in camp.

Interview with William E. Moore Jr., a Army WWII veteran from Temple, Texas, who was present at the attack on Pearl Harbor. Moore discusses his time in the Corps of Cadets at Texas A&M, assignment to 24th Division Artillery at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, training and alerts, the attack at Wheeler Field and taking defensive positions around Oahu, and service afterwards.

Interview with John Hargrove, a Army Air Corps WWII veteran from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Hargrove discusses growing up and his family background, being drafted into the Air Corps, training, assignment to the 18th Reconnaissance Squadron, 22nd Bomb Group at Langley Field as a radio operator, life and work at Langley, transition to the B-26, the start of the war, submarine patrol, deployment to Townsville, Australia via Hawaii, flying his first mission, liberty and recreation, bombing and close air support missions, the crew being awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, losses, returning to the US, work as a radio instructor, meeting his wife, postwar service, and reflections on the atomic bomb. In appendix is a manuscript for an autobiography written by Hargrove, an addendum to the interview, and a letter to Ron Marcello making corrections to the interview.

Interview with Navy veteran Melvin R. "Pancho" Baird. It includes a combination of interviewing and reading from Baird's personal correspondence about his pre-World War II experiences with the U.S. Asiatic Fleet and his later experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Baird talks about his stationing aboard the destroyer USS Alden as a radioman, the grounding of the SS President Hoover off of Hoishito Island, the Sino-Japanese War, liberty ashore various Asian port cities, events on the South China Patrol, civilian activities after his discharge, activities as a radio technician on Blue Beach during the Okinawan Campaign, kamikaze actions on Okinawa, and typical shipboard routine.

Interview with General Alexander R. Bolling, Jr., concerning his experiences as an infantry platoon leader (3rd Platoon, 3rd Battalion, 302nd Regiment, 94th Infantry Division) in the European Theater during World War II.

Interview with Dr. Leroy Whitaker, attorney and chemist, about his experiences as an undergraduate and master's student in the Chemistry Department at North Texas State College, 1948-52.

In 1990, Ann Mix began her search to find out about her father who had been killed in World War II. She discovered that, of the servicemen who died in that war, 183,000 were fathers. During her search, Mix met others whose fathers had been killed and few of them had much information about their fathers. As a result, Ann founded the American WWII Orphans Network to locate war orphans and become a depository for sources of information about WWII servicemen who were fathers. Senator Robert Dole, who had fought in the 10th Mountain Division with Mix’s father, assisted the network as a National Advisor until 1995, helping it to become a true humanitarian organization. War orphan Susan Johnson Hadler, a psychologist, began a collaboration with Ann to collect the stories of the orphans when she discovered there were no statistics on the number of children and no studies on the effects of their fathers’ deaths on their lives. Records which could have helped sociologists, psychologists, and historians were simply nonexistent. Mix and Hadler began to interview war orphans, who nearly all reported having felt the awkwardness with which America treated the subject of their fathers. At a young age, …

Recording of Mladen Milicevic's Big bang of the apocalypse. This recording was made for electronics and the text comes from the book of Genesis in the bible.

Recording of Elainie Lillios' Arturo. This work is based off of an interview with a tarot card reader living in Denton, Texas named Arturo. According to the composer, Arturo has interacted with many people and learned many life lessons. This piece reflects some of his views on life and the casting of cards to reveal future possibilities.

Recording of Jacob Ter Veldhuis' Lipstick. This work is for amplified flute/alto flute and boombox and was written for Eleonore Pameijer. The soundtrack is based on audio from American talk shows and an interview with Billie Holiday. The composer credits two flautists for two separate recordings of the piece: Eleonore Pameijer on JacobTV - Heartbreakers and Alejandro Escuer on JacobTV - The Shing City.

Recording of Jorge Rodrigo Sigal's Babel. This work is part of a larger CD project called "Manifesto". The piece is meant for flute, tape, and optional live electronics. The sound materials were recorded in Spain, France, and Mexico City. The composer dedicates this work to Stefano Scarani and it was premiered by Mr. Harrie Starreveld.

Recording of Robert Andrew Mackay's Voicewind. The composer based this work on a piece of text from "Oedipus at Colonus" by Sophocles, which itself is spoken within the piece. The material included also relates to the Greek ideals of music, set in place by Boethius.

Recording of Marc Verhoeven's Only two ears.

Recording of Christian Calon's Fragemnts pour Ulysse. Work for electronics, voice, and pre-recorded sound. This work is also made up of six sections.

Recording of Philippe Blanchard's Hopscotch. For electronics, pre-recorded sound, and voice. This work sonically navigates you through a story, accompanied with many sounds.

Recording of Mark Canfield-Taylor's Hello, It's your birthday. For electronics, manipulated voice and sound. This recording take repeated vocal fragments and expands the work's sonic environment with electronic sounds and differing timbres or rhythmic figures.

Recording of David Keane's Signor Marconi, His Ayre. For radios, 2 signal processors, and digitally controlled mixer. This work was designed to be performed live, with the only sound sources being 4 radio channels live broadcasting. The result of the mixing (under MIDI) control by the program that serves as the score for the piece is broadcast live on yet a fifth radio channel. The object of the piece is the creation of a structure that promises a successful piece, regardless of the program content of the source radio channels.

Recording of Michael Heisch's Edison. This work was created by ​​recording the pops and hisses of various shellac records onto DAT.

Recording of Pierre Alexandre Tremblay's Binary. This is a work for electronics that includes concrete voice sounds.

Recording of Katharine Norman's Five minute wonders. This work consists of 4 movements: 1. Anything from the minibar?, 2. Oranges and Lemons, 3. Something quite atrocious, and 4. You need a cab?. The composer describes this work as midway between music and documentary that celebrates the "wonder" of a particular time and place.

Transcript of an interview with Admiral J. Lloyd Abbot, Jr., a Navy veteran, comments about his service in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Abbot discusses the U. S. Naval Academy, 1935-39; assignment to USS Enterprise, 1939; assignment to USS Gilmer, 1939-41; flight training at Pensacola, 1941; assignment to Advanced Carrier Training Group (Pacific), 1941-42; assignment to VF-6 (Fighting 6) aboard the USS Enterprise, 1942; assignment to VS-1D-14 in the South Pacific, 1942-43; commanding officer of VS-66, Wallis Island, 1943; antisubmarine patrols out of Wallis Island; assignment to Nanumea, 1943; assignment to Tarawa, 1943-44, with an SBD squadron; assignment to the Chief of Naval Air Training, Pensacola, 1944-46, as engineering officer; and his postwar naval and civilian career.

Transcript of an interview with George E. Charland, a Native American Marine Corps veteran, concerning his experiences during World War II. Charland discusses his experiences with the 3rd Marine Defense Battalion during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; his experiences with the 2nd Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, at Guadalcanal, 1942; his experiences with E Company, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, at Tarawa, 1943; his experiences with the 4th Marine Division at Saipan and Tinian, 1944, and Iwo Jima, 1945; medical discharge in April, 1945.