On December 7, 1941, Keiko Tanaka finds her whole world affected by the Pearl Harbor bombings. Normally friendly neighbors are suddenly suspicious of her Japanese ancestry, and her engagement to James Armstrong—a Caucasian—becomes a crisis rather than a celebration. Despite their parents' protests, Keiko and James decide to marry before she is sent to the internment camps and he to the war. Nearly sixty years later, Keiko's daughter, Kazuko—born in the camps—attends to Keiko on her deathbe...

" This is the book that throws down a forceful gauntlet on how, at last, to create an equitable America." —William A. Darity Jr., Samuel DuBois Cook Distinguished Professor of Public Policy, Duke UniversityFor some Americans, freedom means the provision of life's necessities, those basic conditions for the "pursuit of happiness." For others, freedom means the civil and political rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights and unfettered access to the marketplace—nothing...

Honey and Leonard are in their seventies when they fall in love. Leonard is in the early stages of Alzheimer's and Honey thinks her love will cure him.When their heirs try to keep them apart, they flee to France in violation of court orders. Pursued by police, press, and private investigators, they become an international media sensation. In a time just before cell phones and the Internet, they become the Bonnie and Clyde of love.Their whirlwind romance enc...

During the 1970s on a magic mushroom harvesting adventure in the Bayou, a young, aspiring rock and roll musician discovers the voice of Voodoo, which not only alters his life, but the life of his band, the Divebomberz.When the band is on the verge of making it big, tragedy strikes, and Jesse is confronted with the hard truth that life is often a spiritual obstacle course designed to see if you can get over yourself.A book for rock and rollers of all...

Mark Paul Smith graduated college on an Air Force scholarship with dreams of becoming a pilot. He had some downtime after graduation and before reporting for duty so he decided to hitchhike the world. A decision that would change his life forever.As he traveled, his approach to life and his future decisions changed. He hitchhiked through the Iron Curtain and worked on a collective farm in Hungary only to find that communism wasn't our real enemy. He met people from North Vietnam wh...

Intent on finding his career path, a rookie reporter struggles to become a journalist at an Indiana newspaper in 1973.He climbs the ladder from writing obituaries to covering cops and teacher strikes and murder trials and community disasters. As he navigates the competitive politics of the newsroom, he gradually earns the trust of his curmudgeonly city editor. Along the way, he begins performing with a rock and roll band and falls in love.The choice...

Across the globe today, hundreds of archaeologists are engaged in the study of slavery (now better known as enslavement) and its contemporary legacies. Many work collaboratively at times, either in the field or in the lab, but for the most part, these researchers tend to operate in sub-disciplinary silos whose parameters are defined both temporally and geographically: Ottoman Slavery, North American Slavery, Roman Slavery, and so on. The Oxford Handbook of the Comparative Archaeology o...

This book introduces young lawyers to the art of trial advocacy. The author provides a historical context and shares engaging stories of exemplary trial lawyers throughout history. He then walks the reader through the role and qualities of the trial lawyer and presents an in-depth primer on rhetoric and persuasion. Each stage of the trial is considered in depth with examples from real cases.

Raymond Charles Brickman III and Kathy Ann Erickson—two individuals who will never meet in space—by chance collide in time. Both think they’ve been wronged and plan retribution. To avenge long-held grievances originating from America’s Civil War, Brickman intends to extract concessions by threatening to destroy critical American satellites. Erickson seeks no such concession. Her family killed during the Soviet war with Afghanistan, her objective is the total annihilation of her homeland, t...

It's 1966, November, and Steve's just gotten a one month reprieve from the front lines of Viet Nam, through his father, an ex-Colonel from World War II. When Steve's girlfriend invites him on a month long cruise out of Tokyo, with two other couples, aboard a small sailing yacht, he accepts. Their vacation soon takes a change, when they are attacked by modern day pirates in the open sea, South of Guam. With their boat taking on water, they land on one of several uncharted islands. The follo...

In 1972, an intrepid group of teachers and students at New Trier High School (Winnetka, IL) formed the Center for Self-Directed Learning. Each student would design their own program instead of following the daily grind of standardized courses with off-the-shelf textbooks, canned lectures, and, of course, the all-important final exam. Approximately 600 students took the plunge into the unknown during the Center’s 10 years. Now, more than 35 Center graduates look back on their experience, ea...

They went to Midian to barter their goods, when the old seer Nimit told them they would return. Moshe was the chosen one to face GOD, and when they returned to their village of Mitzpe Ramon in the southern Sinai plateaus, everything was dust.And so it was as had been predicted, they returned to Midian and Moshe climbed the holy mountain once climbed by Moses, and GOD instructed him to visit the city of those who kidnap humans and demand that the people be freed. That Moshe would kn...