In 1944, at the age of five, William Graves was taken from England to the delightful mountain village of Deya in Majorca, where his father - the poet Robert Graves - had returned with his new family to the place he had lived with Laura Riding before the war.Young William grew up in the shadow of this great writer in the Englishness of the Graves household, while experiencing the ways of life of the Majorcans, which had hardly changed for hundreds of years.Wonderfully observ...

America's Siberian Adventure 1918-1920 recounts the covert campaign by the US to stabilize a region plagued by an uprising of multiple conflicts following the end of World War 1. Author General William Graves was the man sent to Siberia to lead an expeditionary force deep into the frozen interior, where Graves and his hardy men had to contend with Russian warlords, the Red Army, a roving brigade of Czechoslovakian troops, the need to protect the Trans-Siberian Railway, extreme wea...

Oregon Health & Science University seemed stuck in the backwaters of the nation’s academic health centers when Dr. Peter Kohler became its president in 1988. Its hospital hemorrhaged money, served rusty water from its faucets, and sometimes forced women in its cramped maternity ward to deliver babies in hallways. Legislators proposed bills to close it. State support for the university was on the decline as was maintenance on its aging buildings. Roofs leaked, walls cracked, and researchers...

Divine Blessings is an uplifting and inspiring book. It suggests ways to be kind and encourages blessings others as God has richly blessed you, like sharing a warm smile at someone or paying for the meal of the person in line behind you at a lunch counter.Kindness can be a catalyst for changing people's hearts, minds, and souls. Moreover, when you embrace those with genuine kindness and love, you mirror Jesus's universal love. So follow Jesus's example and be kind to someone you wo...

History records the box score. It does not record the cost.On a warm June night in 1970, Dock Ellis took the mound in San Diego and etched his name into baseball immortality. The world remembers the no-hitter. It remembers the controversy. It remembers the myth.But myths leave out the things that breathe.Seams of the Infinite pulls back the curtain on that night and reveals the truth Dock never told: the strike zone bending at impossible angles, the umpire speaking ...

Facing tragedy in her life, seventeen-year-old Rachel McDonald goes on a spiritual journey as Christ Jesus answers her questions. Rachel knows that God loves her, but she still is unclear about why bad things have happened to her, her sister, and her best friend. This narrative study explains Gods love and compassion for Rachel and for everyone through the inspired Word of His Son, Christ Jesus.Jesus, I Dont Understand describes Gods endless love, mercy, and grace as Chris...

In "America's Siberian Adventure 1918-1920," William Sidney Graves provides a compelling account of the American military intervention in Siberia during the aftermath of World War I. Graves'Äô narrative is marked by a meticulous attention to detail and a blend of firsthand observations and analyses, exploring both the geopolitical implications and the human experiences of those involved. The book is anchored in the broader context of the Allied intervention against the Bolsheviks and the t...

This left the allied forces with a number of difficulties and so they decided to intervene in the Civil War for three reasons:Firstly, to prevent Allied war material stockpiles in Russia from falling into German or Bolshevik hands.Secondly, to rescue the 50,000 troops in the Czechoslovakian Legion who were stranded along the Trans-Siberian Railroad.And thirdly, to resurrect the Eastern Front by installing a White-backed government.In July 1918, against the advic...

"I have not written this book with the object of justifying any act of mine or of the American Military in Siberia.My principal reason for recording the facts and circumstances connected with intervention is the belief that there is an erroneous impression, not only in the United States but elsewhere, as to the orders under which American troops operated while in Siberia..."W.S.G.The Chief of Staff, in his report to the Secretary of War for the fiscal year ending June...

What will higher education look like in 20 years? Will a bachelors degree still be viableor even valuable? How will we assess learning? Will it be competency based? Determined by the sum experience of individual achievement? Or measured by student peers? How will learning be delivered? In the classroom? Over the internet? Or through mobile devices untethered by time and place? And by whom? By professors dedicated to their disciplines, by volunteers driven by a passion to share, or by new k...

The rapid evolution of Charlotte, North Carolina, from “regional backwater” to globally ascendant city provides stark contrasts of then and now. Once a regional manufacturing and textile center, Charlotte stands today as one of the nation’s premier banking and financial cores with interests reaching broadly into global markets. Once defined by its biracial and bicultural character, Charlotte is now an emerging immigrant gateway drawing newcomers from Latin America and across the globe. Onc...

Liam Luckett is on an adventure. He's dropped out of his master's program without telling his overbearing parents and set off on a road trip across the country. Armed with little more than his guitar, he's looking for his best life. He never expected his car to break down in the middle of nowhere Vermont with a huge storm pending, leaving him stranded and at the mercy of a hunky local mechanic.Jasper Cunningham is in a holding pattern. Three years after the death of his husband, he...