A comprehensive introductory resource with entries covering the development of money and the functions and dysfunctions of the monetary and financial system.The original edition of The Encyclopedia of Money won widespread acclaim for explaining the function—and dysfunction—of the financial system in a language any reader could understand. Now a decade later, with a more globally integrated, market-oriented world, and with consumers trying to make sense of ...

Economic theory in modern times imagines a giant clockwork of events, with economists attempting to find the perfect mathematical model of a mechanical movement. The real world is manifestly more complex and unpredictable than the internal workings of a machine, and this may be why conventional economic theories are far more accurate in retrospect.Larry Allen’s book, by contrast, recognizes and avoids the inherent limitations of mathematical models; his ground-breaking work in no w...

"A fast moving account of the final days of a world changing war." -Kirkus ReviewsOn April 6, 1945, author Larry Lindsey's father, a tank commander with Patton's 3rd, crossed the battle lines at Rinteln, Germany, in an unarmed jeep and single-handedly convinced over two thousand Nazis to surrender without firing a single shot. On that same day, during the most intense kamikaze attack of the war, the author's father-in-law, a Navy pilot in a Grumman Hellcat...

Having been on a national championship gymnastics team, Joey Johnson finds himself without a gym as his beloved Pioneers is closing, and he must move to Michigan to continue his career. But Joey finds that his level of gymnastics is a threat to those who are trying to make the Dagar’s Edge elite team. After being forced out, Joey finds himself the leader of a group of nongymnasts in his effort to get back at his former gym. Joey must not only up his own game but also push his new charges t...

"Historically fascinating and well researched . . ." -D. R. Bailey, bestselling author of Dawn of Hope"A lively dramatization of a unique naval drama that still stands on its own merits." -Jon Guttman, research director, History.Net, award winning historian and author of Defiance at SeaIn late June 1914, two gunshots in Sarajevo have changed the course of history. Archduke Franz Ferdinand is dead, and World War I begins. A...

Motivated by the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, champion swimmer Lee "Stump" Kelley is hell bent on becoming a Marine. Waylaid by a silver-tongued Navy recruiter he becomes a frogman instead. After blowing up under water obstructions all over the Pacific, at Tacloban he loses the first of his best friends in a gruesome explosion. A month later he loses the second in a freak encounter with a giant hammerhead shark at Manila Bay. Moving on to Okinawa with what's left of his frogman team, he s...

Recounts Larry Hilton’s experiences as a Marine artilleryman facing constant danger in Vietnam.Vietnam Fire Mission reflects on Larry Hiton’s time in the U.S. Marine Corps, initially enlisting at 18 with the belief that all Marines were infantrymen. However, upon completing boot camp, he was assigned to artillery as a cannoneer (MOS 0811), which was a significant surprise. In this first hand account Hilton explains that artillery units, while typically thought of a...

PIONEERS is a gymnastics fable about living each day like it's your last! Patrick Goodman is the captain of the Pioneer Gymnastics team and the best gymnast that Pioneer has ever produced; however, it will take much more from the Kennedy High senior if he is going to get his Pioneer team to Coach Jim Lowerys goal of becoming National Team Champions. Although his team has experience, it will require a leap of faith from Patrick and his teammates to raise their gymnastics to the next level i...

After six failed attempts to reach Vicksburg, General Ulysses S. Grant developed a plan. The Yazoo Pass Expedition was a Union army/navy operation meant to bypass Vicksburg by using the backwaters of the Mississippi Delta. Operations began on February 3, 1863, with a levee breach on the Mississippi River. The expedition was delayed as a result of natural obstacles and Confederate resistance, which allowed the Confederate army under Lieutenant General John Pemberton to block passage of the ...

Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant became commander of all federal forces in the region of Mississippi and east Louisiana in October 1862. For the next nine months, he fought for control of Vicksburg and the Mississippi River, and the Mississippi Central Railroad Campaign was the first in a series of attempts to capture the Confederate citadel. It would end in failure because of a daring raid at Holly Springs, Mississippi, made by Maj. Gen. Earl Van Dorn. Larry Allen McCluney Jr. examines the camp...

In this book, you'll be able to read stories about my experiences and learn about military life. This book is for people who have retired, have served, are on active duty, and those who enjoy creative content.

After Civil Servant Philip Christy crosses paths with the mysterious Bertram Ingledew in the respectable suburb of Brackenhurst, Philip and his sister Frida, married to the wealthy Scot Robert Monteith, become friends with the stranger. Bertram has some unconventional concepts about society, and as the story unfolds, his beliefs and actions cause much disruption in the family and the neighbourhood.Who is Bertram? Where does he come from? Allen explores some interesting ideas about society,...