Initially founded as a colony of the American Colonization Society in 1822 and declared an independent republic in 1847, the Republic of Liberia has challenged scholars across disciplines for almost as long as it has existed. Despite its territory being the home of Indigenous peoples for centuries, Liberia was imagined as a plan to relocate people of color primarily from the United States to West Africa as settler colonists. It then became a nation dominated by its original African-America...

As John Henry Newman reflected on 'The Idea of a University' more than a century and a half ago, Bradley C. S. Watson brings together some of the nation's most eminent thinkers on higher education to reflect on the nature and purposes of the American university today. They detail the life and rather sad times of the American university, its relationship to democracy, and the place of the liberal arts within it. Their mordant reflections paint a picture of the American university in crisis....

K. B. E. E. Eimeleus was ahead of his time with his advocacy of ski training in the Russian armed forces. Employing terminology never before used in Russian to describe movements with which few were familiar, Skis in the Art of War gives a breakdown of the latest techniques at the time from Scandinavia and Finland. Eimeleus's work is an early and brilliant example of knowledge transfer from Scandinavia to Russia within the context of sport.Nearly three dec...

This book demonstrates that under the leadership of President Ronald Reagan and through the mechanism of his National Security Council staff, the United States developed and executed a comprehensive grand strategy, involving the coordinated use of the diplomatic, informational, military, and economic instruments of national power, and that grand strategy led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. In doing so, it refutes three orthodoxies: that Reagan and his administration deserve little cre...

Lost Sci-Fi Books 381 thru 400Twenty more unforgettable journeys into the imagination’s greatest frontier await in Lost Sci-Fi Books 381 thru 400. This remarkable collection blends science fiction, fantasy, horror, and speculative fiction from many of the twentieth century’s most celebrated authors, delivering stories that continue to surprise, entertain, and provoke decades after they were first published.Travel to the Red Planet with Harr...

The 1950s were a decade when science fiction writers seemed willing to imagine almost anything. 1950s Science Fiction 10 brings together 22 stories filled with alien encounters, voyages into space, mysterious creatures, unusual technology, and ordinary people suddenly confronted by something they cannot explain.Philip K. Dick contributes two memorable tales. In James P. Crow, intelligence and prejudice collide in a future unlike our own, while The Fath...

The True Story vs. Myth of Witchcraft assembles a capacious archive of witchcraft writing, setting legal testimony, religious polemic, antiquarian inquiry, historical narrative, folklore, and skeptical interpretation in productive tension. Ranging from Puritan accounts of diabolic threat to later efforts to explain accusation through social fear, credulity, and custom, the volume illuminates the unstable boundary between recorded event and inherited legend. Its most compelling juxtapositio...

50 Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories 8: More Than 32 Hours of Classic Science FictionStep into a time machine of imagination with 50 Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories 8, an extraordinary collection featuring more than 32 hours of classic science fiction from the pioneers who helped shape the genre we know today.Travel to distant worlds, encounter mysterious alien civilizations, witness astonishing inventions and explore unforgettable visions of the f...

In the richly evocative anthology, 'The Horrors for the Long Christmas Night,' readers are treated to a broad panorama of Victorian and Edwardian literature, where the enchantment of Christmas intertwines with the eerie charm of ghost stories. This collection showcases an intriguing range of styles—from the subtle psychological tension to the overtly supernatural. Each piece, masterfully crafted, transports readers into a time when storytelling was an art form, wielded to captivate audienc...

Research on Schools, Neighborhoods, and Communities: Toward Civic Responsibility focuses on research and theoretical developments related to the role of geography in education, human development, and health. William F. Tate IV, the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis and former President of the American Educational Research Association, presents a collection of chapters from across disciplines to further understand...

William Allen presents Book 2 in the Tertiary Effects series.

Not Man Enough To Be A Woman, in and of itself, is nonsensical. It is something my father said to me the night I told my parents about my pending transition, after he concluded a discourse on the virtues of his sisters. The story behind the title is in Chapter 1.This book is a love story and an apology to my family. It's a father son story of love and hate, a 23-year estrangement and a deathbed reconciliation. It's the story of my lifelong struggle with gender dysphoria and transit...