This volume is the first complete English translation and annotated study of Bartolomé de Las Casas’s important and provocative 1552 treatise commonly known as the Confesionario or Avisos y reglas. A text that generated controversy, like Las Casas’s more famous Brevísima relación, the Confesionario outlined a strikingly novel and arguably harsh use of confession for those administering the sacrament to conquistadores, encomenderos, slav...

This compelling memoir chronicles a man's extraordinary journey through law enforcement, juxtaposed with his personal struggles and triumphs. Spanning decades, it weaves gripping tales of crime, resilience, and the complexities of human nature with razor-sharp wit and vivid storytelling.Beginning in 1974, the author recounts his transformation from a disillusioned Vietnam-era veteran and Russian linguist in the Air Force to a cadet in the Pima County Sheriff's Department. With keen...

David Thomas spent over thirty-four years in the criminal justice system, serving in corrections, law enforcement, the courts, and as a defense investigator. Most of his career was focused on investigations, including roles as a detective, detective sergeant, and supervisor of investigations. Born and raised in Arizona, David is a U.S. Air Force veteran and holds a B.A. in Liberal Arts from the University of Arizona. He was married to his beloved wife, Karen, for over forty-six years. Her ...

Senior homicide detective Frank Spencer bears the scars of many battles with his superior officers and a failed marriage. Dealing with his personal demons Frank struggles to hold on to the one thing he has left: his career.Assigned to a new case, Frank is teamed up with general investigations detective Mike Estrada. Young and eager, Mike has his own problems trying to navigate the minefield of detective work while keeping his family life from falling apart.The pair soon fin...

Senior homicide detective Frank Spencer bears the scars of many battles with his superior officers and a failed marriage. Dealing with his personal demons Frank struggles to hold on to the one thing he has left: his career.Assigned to a new case, Frank is teamed up with general investigations detective Mike Estrada. Young and eager, Mike has his own problems trying to navigate the minefield of detective work while keeping his family life from falling apart. The pair soon find themselves fo...

Revised and updated, this long-awaited second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to what the most thoughtful Americans have said about the American experience from the colonial period to the present. The book examines the political thought of the most important American statesmen, activists, and writers across era and ideologies, helping another generation of students, scholars, and citizens to understand more fully the meaning of America.This new second edition of the b...

Brought to you by Penguin.February 1944. Six months since Nazi forces occupied Rome.Inside the beleaguered city, the Contessa Giovanna Landini is a member of the band of Escape Line activists known as ‘The Choir’. Their mission is to smuggle refugees to safety and help Allied soldiers, all under the nose of Gestapo boss Paul Hauptmann.During a ferocious morning air raid a mysterious parachutist lands in Rome and disappears into the backstreets. Is h...

**"A majestic book." --Bessel van der Kolk, MD, author of The Body Keeps the ScoreA unique joint memoir by a U.S. Marine and a conflict photographer whose unlikely friendship helped both heal their war-wounded bodies and souls"The dueling-piano spirit of SHOOTING GHOSTS works because its authors are so committed to transparency, admitting readers into the dark crevices of their isolation." Wall St Journal**War tears people apart, but it can also br...

Whose Middle Ages? is an interdisciplinary collection of short, accessible essays intended for the nonspecialist reader and ideal for teaching at an undergraduate level. Each of twenty-two essays takes up an area where digging for meaning in the medieval past has brought something distorted back into the present: in our popular entertainment; in our news, our politics, and our propaganda; and in subtler ways that inform how we think about our histories, our countries, and ourselves. Each a...

What is political correctness? What is conformism? And could one say that pre-emptive conformism is a part of the increasingly prevalent climate of political correctness encountered today? The authors of "PC on Earth" take issue with a fashionable phenomenon emerging from North American campuses that is beginning to take hold in Europe, too: the dangerous consequences of identity politics and pre-emptive conformism, which they define as an essential element of political correctness. This b...

As the Ice Age ends and the glaciers release their hold on North America, a brave band of people make their way into the new continent. The climate is changing and the game is scarce. A hostile tribe pursues them, driving them ever southward. In their midst rises a young shaman, who receives a Dream from the spirit of the Wolf, a vision of paradise on the other side of the impenetrable ice. An older, more powerful Dreamer teaches the young man how to find the path to the new land, but they...

Sheed & Ward, in partnership with the Commonweal Foundation and with funding from the Pew Charitable Trust, proudly presents the first of two volumes in a groundbreaking series called American Catholics in the Public Square. The result of a three-year study sponsored by Pew aimed at understanding the contributions to U.S. civic life of the Catholic, Jewish, mainline and evangelical Protestant, African-American, Latino, and Muslim communities in the United States, the two volumes in this se...