Jack Colcroft, former Marine, former professor, former war protester, has left a declining America for a comfortably meaningless life on an island paradise, after breaking up with his musician wife, Sally, a leading protestor against the war, and falling out with his late father, a distinguished public servant who was high in the councils waging that war and was defeated by it. Jack’s best friend, Max McKenzie, plagued by his memories of combat in the Vietnam jungle, commits suicide. Stung...

How does a democracy hollow out from within?In Fascists, Not Today: How Executive Power Was Seized, Normalized, and What Happens Next, analytical non-fiction author Harry R. Schroeder delivers a powerful, non-partisan structural analysis of the modern American imperial presidency. Moving far beyond surface-level political theater, Schroeder exposes the systemic design flaws and decades of incremental compromises that transformed a constitutional system mean...

Time is fleeting. Days become months. Months become years. And years turn into decades. Significant moments in our eternity that are marked by love, lust, fashion, and memories, which can never be replaced.Welcome to Devious, Delicious Decades! A collection of stories that span time to entertain you. Set in the past, present, and maybe the future, the SaSS26 anthology will take you on a journey never seen before.

"Wonderfully, in Akashic's Oakland Noir, the stereotypes about the city suffer the fate of your average noir character--they die brutally. Kudos to the editors, Jerry Thompson and Eddie Muller, for getting Oakland right. All those outsize statistics don’t reveal a real city, but this collection of local voices--both established and new--brings it thrumming to life...Readers who know the city will relish its sense of place, and those who only know the stereotypes will be in for a p...

This highly accessible book provides new material and a fresh perspective on American National Intelligence practice, focusing on the first fifty years of the twentieth century, when the United States took on the responsibilities of a global superpower during the first years of the Cold War. Late to the art of intelligence, the United States during World War II created a new model of combining intelligence collection and analytic functions into a single organization—the OSS. At the end of ...

The extraordinary breakthrough management program--heralded by GE, Motorola, and AlliedSignal--that is sweeping corporate America with its unprecedented ability to achieve superior financial results.Six Sigma is the most powerful breakthrough management tool ever devised, promising increased market share, cost reductions, and dramatic improvements in bottom-line profitability for companies of any size. The darling of Wall Street, it has become the mantra of Fortune 500 boardrooms a...

Harris Huxley experiences a disturbing earthquake that leave him questioning his safety only to find out that one of his friend's safety is really at stake. He and the guys hurdle at the chance to help Lena, and together they find a fissure to the past, only to discover that Hilde has fallen into the fissure. Both exhilarating and terrifying, the past is a place of extraordinary experiences. Harris learns new sword skills along with table manners as he maneuvers his way through an amazing ...

Harris Huxley has been feeling strange. His eye has been twitching and his knee has been jerking at the most inopportune times, and he can't shake the feeling that something big is about to happen. Unexpectedly, Harris finds himself in a place very similar, but completely different. His parents are not at all like his parents, even though they look the same, but most disturbing is that his friends have altogether changed. The kids he detest the most are now his best friends, and his closes...

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...

Katzenmusik und Katerstimmung»Was der Teufel für die Geige, das scheint die Hauskatze für das Klavier zu sein«, schreibt Bruno Aulich in »Mondscheinsonate und Katzenfuge«. Elke Heidenreich weiß, wovon er spricht: Ihr Kater Nero lief mit Vorliebe nachts über die Tasten und weckte alle mit modernster Musik. Auch in Frühlingsnächten ertönt Katzenmusik, wenn es bei den Katern um die Liebe und die Revierverteidigung geht. Kurzum: das Feld der Katzenmusik ist ein weites....

Little doors and windows have been popping up on trees all over town. They look so sweet and draw a lot of attention, but what Harris Huxley finds is not what he expects. Little men lurking in his back yard, his house and his neighborhood, watching every move he makes. Wee people who have nothing better to do than torment Harris and his friends. They wreck his club house, steal his mom's garden gnomes and write strange messages on his face and body while he sleeps. Harris and his friends s...