First Sergeant Mack McClanahan always wanted a big family. When his wife couldn’t give him one, she left him, so he’d have a chance to fulfill the dream with someone else. He couldn't convince her that the only thing he really wanted was her… that she was all the family he needed.Now he’s retired, alone, living like a hermit trying to forget what he lost.Then he gets a call from an Army buddy, now spy, asking him to hide an agent after their cover was burned. To hi...

This is a novel about a single-A baseball team in California called The Dog Sox. It is owned by a woman who received it as a birthday gift from her boyfriend. The team has a phenomenal pitcher with a very strange delivery and a drunken and abusive father. This is a love story about the sport of baseball, a story which is replayed every summer in every state. The characters come alive in this lively and often humorous novel

In this take-no-prisoners survey of a nation in the grip of multiple crises, Jack Cafferty turns his unflinching sights on what needs to go right in President Obama's first term. Putting his own signature stamp on Obama's campaign slogan, he tells the charismatic new leader that this is a time for "change we will believe in when we see it."Cafferty applies his heat-seeking scrutiny to the hot-button issues that will top the 2009 agenda, including the continuing economic and energy ...

The contributors to this book utilize the Public Choice approach to interpret, analyze, and at times even predict policy outcomes from a variety of contexts around the world. Applications of Public Choice Theory to Public Policy emphasizes how much can be learned from studying real people in the process of navigating political processes and institutional change. The volume directly addresses what the Public Choice approach is, its relationship to policy analysis, and how both can be improv...

In Communicated Stereotypes at Work, the editors and contributors posit that stereotypes communicated in the workplace remain a pervasive issue due to the dichotomy between the discriminatory and functional roles that these stereotypes can play in a range of professional settings. Contributors demonstrate that while the use of stereotypes in the workplace is distasteful and exclusionary, communicating these stereotypes can also appear-on the surface-to provide a pathway toward bon...