Despite the restrictions on their work and actions, the economists of the Soviet period produced a great deal of bold and important work. With the erosion of the old Stalinist controls, economists in the Soviet Union themselves became very interested in the history of their profession, not least in order to find authentic voices that might offer reinforcement or counterpoint to the policy analyses and recommendations with which policy makers in the transition countries are today being bomb...

Before Alaska became a mining bonanza, it was a scenic bonanza, a place larger in the American imagination than in its actual borders. Prior to the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1897, thousands of scenic adventurers journeyed along the Inside Passage, the nearly thousand-mile sea-lane that snakes up the Pacific coast from Puget Sound to Icy Strait. Both the famous—including wilderness advocate John Muir, landscape painter Albert Bierstadt, and photographers Eadweard Muybridge and Edward Curt...

In Beijing, Li Bing continues his quest to enter the imperial civil service.

Before Alaska became a mining bonanza, it was a scenic bonanza, a place larger in the American imagination than in its actual borders. Prior to the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1897, thousands of scenic adventurers journeyed along the Inside Passage, the nearly thousand-mile sea-lane that snakes up the Pacific coast from Puget Sound to Icy Strait. Both the famous—including wilderness advocate John Muir, landscape painter Albert Bierstadt, and photographers Eadweard Muybridge and Edward Curt...

Robert Campbell Roberts here offers an introduction to virtue ethics, suitable for students, that covers the topic along multiple dimensions--a historical and conceptual survey, a proposal for a new virtue ethics drawing on ancient practices, and a case study in support of that proposal. First, Roberts introduces virtue ethics historically and conceptually, in its ancient and more recent versions. He starts with Greek virtue ethics, using the thought of Socrates, Stoicism, and Aristotle, a...

Shadowed by oil wells and cattle and serenaded by the eerie music of cicadas, Blackthorne, Texas, is a strange, dark place with the malevolent area crime family and its affiliated biker gang. The atmosphere is already discomfiting, but when they murder Sheriff Booger Burkett’s girlfriend, who had married into the family, the tension becomes unbearable. Aided by a Texas Ranger, the colorful giant Burkett is determined to bring the guilty to justice regardless of what it takes. The murdered ...

I became intrigued by the universal mind or universal consciousness while reading “Finnegans Wake,” which doesn’t refer to a funeral but rather says the Finnegans are waking up. I wondered, what the heck is Joyce doing? I had been noticing the startling personal relevancies and realized that they were there for everyone. He was expressing the consciousness that connects all humanity, showing that separations by race, age, gender, social class and other things are artificial, that people ar...

Lost in the wilderness of The Yellowstone for over a month, nearly dying of starvation and wild animal attack, despairing of ever finding his way out. Here are six relatively unknown early pieces about the U.S.A.’s first national park. The first is a U.S. Geological booklet about initial exploration and Congress’s institution of the park. The next two are articles from Scribner’s Monthly, 1871, a very popular magazine of the time, describing the park’s features . The fourth piece is a narr...

The legendary 1911 is America’s gun, and a century after this iconic pistol first appeared, it is more popular than ever.Now is the Golden Age of the 1911. Never before have there been more choices for the 1911 enthusiast, and this brand-new, completely revised and expanded second edition covers significant changes that have occurred in the 1911 world, including new makers, new models, new holsters and accessories, and new ammunition choices.New, up-to-date info

Everything You Need to Know About the Most Famous Handgun in the World!To shooters, collectors, and historians, there's only one serious candidate for the title of the World's Greatest Pistol-the Model 1911. Now, just in time for its hundredth anniversary, comes The 1911-A Guide to the Greatest Pistol of All Time, a book destined to become a classic of firearms literature.Written by renowned 1911 authority Robert K. Campbell, The 1911-A Guide to the Greatest ...

Illuminates the beginnings, downfall, and legacy of the acid-inspired, spontaneous, and playful approach to life and music in Haight-Ashbury from 1964–1967.Combining literature, social history, and personal experience, author Robert J. Campbell traces the birth, downfall, and legacy of the innovative, playful, and spontaneous counterculture launched in 1960s Haight-Ashbury. In a lively writing style, Campbell describes the discovery of LSD, its slow adoption, and t...

Four lives. Four unique journeys. One thin line between reality and the unexpected. In Imaginary, a collection of diverse short stories, the ordinary moments of life twist into extraordinary revelations. Step into the backyard of a man whose quiet afternoon shatters when a simple squirrel coaxes him into a mini-forest—and into a completely different world. Follow a worker stepping into the office, completely unaware that a routine workday is about to deliver a life-changing surprise. Walk ...