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Safirka
An American Envoy
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 1996
Peter S. Bridges’s service as an American ambassador to Somalia capped his three decades as a career officer in the American Foreign Service. Safirka, a frank description of his experiences in Somalia and elsewhere, offers pointed assessments of American foreign policy and policymakers. Bridges...
Colombia and the United States
The Making of an Inter-American Alliance, 1939-1960
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
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A valuable addition to the New Studies in U.S. Foreign Relations Series
World War II and the Cold War transformed U.S.-Colombian security...
by Robert Simons, Gary DeWine, Larry Ledebur
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Each year in the United States, hundreds of religious buildings and schools become vacant or underutilized as congregations and populations merge, move, or diminish. These structures are often well located, attractive, eligible for tax credits, and available for redevelopment. In this practical and...
Burning the Flag
The Great 1989 - 1990 American Flag Desecration Controversy
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1996
“In 1989, the Supreme Court ruled that dissidents had a constitutional right under the First Amendment to burn the flag. During the Bush Administration, Congress passed the Flag Protection Act (FPA), and so doing reflected the broad spectrum of opinion that saw the flag as a sacred symbol of American...
Cautious Visionary
Cordell Hull and Trade Reform, 1933-1937
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Cordell Hull's persistence and legislative experience were determining factors at every stage in the development of the Trade Agreements Act of 1934. Rarely has such important legislation owed itself to a single man.
The Trade Agreements Act resolved the long-running debate between high and...
What is Translation?
Centrifugal Theories, Critical Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
In What is Translation? Douglas Robinson investigates the present state of translation studies and looks ahead to the exciting new directions in which he sees the field moving. Reviewing the work of such theorists as Frederick Rener, Rita Copeland, Eric Cheyfitz, Andre Lefevere, Anthony Pym, Suzanne...
Learning to Heal
Reflections on Nursing School in Poetry and Prose
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
What is it like to be a student nurse? What are the joys, the stresses, the transcendent moments, the fall-off-your-bed- laughing moments, and the terrors that have to be faced and stared down? And how might nurses, looking back, relate these experiences in ways that bring these memories to life again...
The Lion in the Waste Land
Fearsome Redemption in the Work of C. S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers, and T. S. Eliot
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
As bombs fell on London almost nightly from the autumn of 1940 through the summer of 1941, the lives of ordinary people were altered beyond recognition. A reclusive Oxford lecturer found himself speaking, not about Renaissance literature to a roomful of students but about Christian doctrine into a...
Forgotten under a Tropical Sun
War Stories by American Veterans in the Philippines, 1898-1913
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Memory has not been kind to the Philippine-American War and the even lesser-known Moro rebellion. Today, few Americans know the details of these conflicts.
There are almost no memorials, and the wars remain poorly understood and nearly forgotten.
Forgotten under a Tropical Sun is the...
Dissolving Tensions
Rapprochement and Resolution in British-American-Canadian Relations in the Treatyof Washington Era, 1865-1914
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015
**How the period from 1865 to 1914 defined Anglo-American relations **
Dissolving Tensions dismisses the long-held argument that a British-American rapprochement did not occur until the mid-1890s. Instead, author Phillip E. Myers shows that the rapprochement was distinct prior to the Civil...
I've Seen The Elephant
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2000
In this lively memoir, William B. Saxbe narrates his lifes journey from his youth in a small Ohio town to his military career during World War II and Korea and through his career as a public servant in Ohio, in Washington, D.C., and overseas. He regales readers with stories about hopping a freight train...
Death of an Assassin
The True Story of the German Murderer Who Died Defending Robert E. Lee
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
From the depths of German and American archives comes a story one soldier never wanted told. The first volunteer killed defending Robert E. Lee’s position in battle was really a German assassin. After fleeing to the United States to escape prosecution for murder, the assassin enlisted in a German...
by A. James Fuller
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Remembered as the "Great War Governor" who led the state of Indiana during the Civil War, Oliver P. Morton has always been a controversial figure. His supporters praised him as a statesman who helped Abraham Lincoln save the Union, while his critics blasted him as a ruthless tyrant who abused...
Six Capsules
The Gilded Age Murder of Helen Potts
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
The permanent solution to a wife’s chronic headache
As Ted Bundy was to the 20th century, so Carlyle Harris was to the 19th. Harris was a charismatic, handsome young medical student with an insatiable appetite for sex. His trail of debauched women ended with Helen Potts, a beautiful young...