“Now what should I do?” This is a question academic leaders ask themselves with great regularity. As ironic as it may seem, very few academic leaders have had any formal training in academic administration, or in any kind of administration at all. For the most part, academic administrators learn on the job. They also seek advice wherever they can get it. The purpose of this book is to offer such advice. The book is written both for academic administrators at all levels as well as for those...

Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in terms of how the Civil War has come to be studied, documented, and analyzed.The Atlanta campaign and Sherman’s March to the Sea changed the course of the war in 1864, in terms both of the up...

Robert lives in Hermiston Oregon with his wife and two dogs. While driving truck for a local farming company many thoughts wopuld stream through his mind until he decided to write them down. Using his celphone he texted hundreds of poems with sunrise and local scenery pictures to his wife and friends. The practice continued until it was suggested he put them into a book. The cell phone camera proved unreliable to reproduction but the poems became a lifeline to many as he was impressed to w...

Hanson W. Baldwin was America’s best-known military writer and analyst in the 20th century covering conflicts from World War II to the Vietnam War. He was the military editor of the New York Times for forty years and his dispatches from Guadalcanal and the Western Pacific won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1943.This first biography of this Naval Academy graduate begins with an appreciation of the human and literary values learned from his Baltimore newspaper family. His midshipman years,...

A comprehensive perspective of evidence, and future directions associated with the UFO phenomenonIncludes review and analysis of studies, evidence, theories, and research needs involving UFO topicsExtensive scientific endnotes

One who massacres first class killers and everyone less than that. Whether it be the slow torturous way, or the quick and bloody way, the Butcher kills a high number of people in its life time. Throughout history, the only reason a Butcher ever stopped killing, was death by natural causes, or running into another Butcher. This is the story of not only how one person became a Butcher. This is the story of a group of Butchers. Although they all had different personalities, they banded together,...

Although there is nothing sweeter than the Gospel, there is much more sweetness to be enjoyed. Few Christians seem to experience the transformation they hoped for, and often burn out too early. This is because we cannot escape the interpretation war each day over our identity. What if we are ruled by a lie more than the truth about who we are? What if condemnation has been their primary motivation, and has functioned for us more than grace, for too many years?What if, on the front ...

The Christian life is a battle, but many believers today don’t realize their involvement in spiritual warfare.Our secular society, characterized by doubt and spiritual skepticism, leaves many Christians embarrassed even to talk about demonic forces of opposition. In order to awaken Christians to the battle around them and prepare them for it, Robert Smart surveys the terrain, identifies the enemy, and conveys defensive and offensive maneuvers for combating Satan.Just as mil...

Holy War and Human Bondage: Tales of Christian-Muslim Slavery in the Early-Modern Mediterranean tells a story unfamiliar to most modern readers—how this pervasive servitude involved, connected, and divided those on both sides of the Mediterranean. The work explores how men and women, Christians and Muslims, Jews and sub-Saharan Africans experienced their capture and bondage, while comparing what they went through with what black Africans endured in the Americas.Drawing hea...

Since my youth I have always believed there was something extraordinarily important that I was supposed to accomplish. This book is that endeavor. It is now time for me, in honor and appreciation of those responsible for my good upbringing and my good direction in life, to give back to succeeding generations. I have labored for 20 years with these writings, and in the process have literally put my heart, and soul, into this work. This book is my wish for the reader to lead a life of qualit...

Robert Leon Davis was a respected police officer in New Orleans serving for four years until 1979-when he was arrested. He had begun his career with aspirations of being a great cop. But he was exposed to a darker side of law enforcement. While partnered with a veteran Robert first witnessed an officer violate the very laws he vowed to uphold - and shared his crime. One compromise led to another, and Davis faced arrest. From studying criminal law at Loyola University and becoming an award ...