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- a community developing a quality, comprehensive compendium of knowledge, online and free . Click here to join and contribute CZ thanks our previous donors. Donate here . Treasurer's Financial Report Welcome to From Jump to: navigation , search Natural Sciences Social Sciences Humanities Arts Applied Arts and Sciences Recreation Please help today! Please make your donations here . Donations go to keep our servers running. See our financial report . A Supportive Community of Writers in a Wikipedia-like Setting Welcome to , a wiki for providing free knowledge where authors use their real names . We write the kinds of objective, informative articles that Wikipedia can't write. We welcome anyone who wants to share their knowledge by writing and improving articles on virtually any subject. Our online community prides itself on being congenial and supportive. See Recent Changes —an overview of articles we are writing now . Become a member--it's free! Join here and start a new article or improve existing ones. Get started : How to collaborate | How to format pages Here are some articles we consider ready for reading . Wikipedians are very welcome ! We have a policy document to provide a framework for governance . We strive for objectivity . We prefer new material but allow work from other sites to be imported and improved under certain conditions . We are a partner site with Physics Forums ; see this . Liberal Arts lovers, we want you ! Our help system and forum Questions and answers to help you find the information you need Some of our finest Citable Articles ( 158 ) Developed Articles ( 1,152 ) ( 17,116 total articles ) The problem is not how to increase an already large stock of information but how to increase people’s ability to find useful information, to judge what is reliable and relevant for them at that moment, to make sense of the sometimes conflicting information with which they are faced, and then to engage in communication and discussion when appropriate . — MASIS report of the European Commission — add a quotation about knowledge or writing • Did You Know? Featured Article : Flash Point (Gilbert novel) (CC) Photo: Jerry Bauer Michael Gilbert on the back cover of Mr. Calder and Mr. Behrens , 1982 Authors [ about ] : Hayford Peirce and others. CZ is an open collaboration. Please join in to develop this article! Flash Point is a 1974 novel by the British author Michael Gilbert published in England by Hodder and Stoughton and in the United States by Harper & Row . It was Gilbert's 17th novel and undoubtedly written during the last days of the American Watergate scandal. Although none of the events in the book directly parallel those of Watergate, it begins with a banal legal matter and then escalates into a government cover-up and national scandal. The American edition has an apparent subtitle shown only on its copyright page: "A Harper Novel of Law and Lawlessness". Like a number of other works by Gilbert and his near contemporaries Victor Canning and Ross Thomas , it is less a standard novel of suspense than a political thriller about the amorality and subsequent lethal reactions of those in the highest government positions when confronted by seemingly trivial events that blossom uncontrollably into perceived challenges to their positions. Footnotes Retrieved from " https://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=Welcome_to_&oldid=100870954 " Category : Bylines Navigation menu Personal tools Log in Namespaces Page Discussion Variants Views Read View source View history More Search Read Welcome to Citable Articles All Articles Random Article Article Changes All Recent Changes Dive In! Apply to Join Quick Start Start Article Article Mechanics How to edit General Help Help FAQs Random Page Communicate Contact Enquiry Form Get Involved Forum Workgroups Management About CZ FAQs Policies Personnel Governance Past Elections Moderator Group Finance Financial Report Donate Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Printable version Permanent link Page information This page was last modified 12:06, 5 October 2020. CZ is free . All written content is available under the Creative Commons-Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license or any later. Written content that originated in part from Wikipedia is also available under GNU Free Documentation License 1.2 . Dedicated server hosting generously provided by Steadfast Networks Help • Financial Report • Statistics Follow on Twitter • Facebook Privacy policy About Disclaimers...