“Economic and political forces no longer combat poverty—they generate poverty!" exclaim William Goldsmith and Edward Blakely in their report on the plight of American's urban poor. In this revised and updated edition of their 1992 book Separate Societies,the authors present a compelling examination of the damaging divisions that isolate poor city minority residents from the middle-class suburban majority. They pay special attention to how the needs of the permanently poor have bee...

The best and most revered works of famed poet and author, Edgar Allen Poe.

Edward James Blakely was born on April 21, 1938 San Bernardino, California to a modest African, Native American family. His life mirrors a racially and socially divided post World WarII America. Ed parents and grandparents along with his uncles and aunts were social & civil rights pioneers. His autobigrphy traces how he followed th journey of civil liberty across the United States. Ed carried his famil aspirations into the White House and leading cities and nations globally to become a wor...

This book brings together key essays that seek to make visible and expand our understanding of the role of government (policies, programs, and investments) in shaping cities and metropolitan regions; the costs and consequences of uneven urban and regional growth patterns; suburban sprawl and public health, transportation, and economic development; and the enduring connection of place, space, and race in the era of increased globalization. Whether intended or unintended, many government pol...

Edward Hungerford's "The Story of the Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg Railroad" presents a meticulously researched narrative that chronicles the rise and evolution of one of the most significant railroads in American history. Hungerford employs a richly descriptive literary style, blending historical facts with anecdotal accounts, providing readers with a vivid portrayal of the socio-economic landscape of late 19th and early 20th century New York. This work not only details the technical a...

Richard Diamond, Private Detective is a detective drama which was on radio from 1949 to 1953 and on television from 1957 to 1960. Dick Powell starred in the Richard Diamond, Private Detective radio series as a rather light-hearted detective who often ended the episodes singing to his girlfriend, Helen (played by Virginia Gregg). It began airing on NBC on April 24, 1949, picked up Rexall as a sponsor on April 5, 1950, and continued until December 6, 1950. The shows were wr...

Solarpunk is a type of optimistic science fiction that imagines a future founded on renewable energies. The seventeen stories in this volume are not dull utopias—they grapple with real issues such as the future and ethics of our food sources, the connection or disconnection between technology and nature, and the interpersonal conflicts that arise no matter how peaceful the world is. In these pages you'll find a guerilla art installation in Milan, a murder mystery set in a weather manipulat...

The late Ken Coon spent 13 years of his life, during the 1960s and 1970s, following every lead on Bigfoot sightings that he could in the U.S., A former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s officer, he retired from the force to engage in his search for Sasquatch full time. This book documents the extensive research he compiled but was unable to publish before his death on July 10, 2013.According to Coon, Bigfoot lurks in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest in the United States. It defies...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA collection of one hundred deeply personal stories—covering love and heartbreak, growth and resilience—brought to life by the creator of the wildly popular TikTok account @HunterProsper.Every person has a story.Dick knew that it was love at first sight when he saw Nancy across the church steps—they got married a week later and have been best friends ever since, sti...

Edward J. Blakely has been called upon to help rebuild after some of the worst disasters in recent American history, from the San Francisco Bay Area's 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake to the September 11 attacks in New York. Yet none of these jobs compared to the challenges he faced in his appointment by New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin as Director of the Office of Recovery and Development Administration following Hurricane Katrina.In Katrina's wake, New Orleans and the Gulf Coast suffered a...

Edward J. Blakely has been called upon to help rebuild after some of the worst disasters in recent American history, from the San Francisco Bay Area's 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake to the September 11 attacks in New York. Yet none of these jobs compared to the challenges he faced in his appointment by New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin as Director of the Office of Recovery and Development Administration following Hurricane Katrina.In Katrina's wake, New Orleans and the Gulf Coast suffered a...

The Freedom of the Will (Vol. 1-4) offers Edwards's rigorous compatibilist account: the will follows the strongest motive, and moral, not natural, necessity grounds responsibility. Defining terms with scholastic clarity, he rejects self-determining power and chance, and reconciles divine foreknowledge with accountability. Its exacting, scripture-laced prose situates the treatise within eighteenth-century Calvinist–Arminian debates and engages transatlantic interlocutors such as Daniel Whit...