More than 40 million Americans have served in the U.S. military during wartime. Only 3500 have been awarded the Medal of Honor. Of these, three have received the medal twice. One was recommended for it a third time. Marine Corps Sergeant Major Daniel J. Daly was an unlikely hero at five feet, six inches tall and 132 pounds. What he lacked in size he made up for in grit. He received his first Medal of Honor for single-handedly holding off enemy attacks during China's Boxer Rebellion of 1900...

Charles Sweeny (1882-1963) was the heir to a fortune. Renouncing a life of comfort, he became a warrior for causes he believed in. Twice kicked out of West Point, he fought in revolts against three Latin American dictators. He was a decorated officer in the French Foreign Legion and in the U.S. Army during World War I, a brigadier general in the Polish-Soviet War and a military advisor in the Greco-Turkish War. He led a flying squadron in Morocco's Rif War, advised Loyalists in the Spanish...

Blues Book of the Year—26th Annual Living Blues AwardsContributions by Luther Allison, John Broven, Daniel Droixhe, David Evans, William Ferris, Jim O'Neal, Mike Rowe, Robert Sacré, Arnold Shaw, and Dick ShurmanFifty years after Charley Patton's death in 1934, a team of blues experts gathered five thousand miles from Dockery Farms at the University of Liege in Belgium to honor the life and music of the most influential artis...

Architecture and urban design are typically considered as a result of artistic creativity performed by gifted individuals. Postphenomenology and Architecture: Human Technology Relations in the Built Environment analyzes buildings and cities instead as technologies. Informed by a postphenomenological perspective, this book argues that buildings and the furniture of cities—like bike lanes, benches, and bus stops—are inscribed in a conceptual framework of multistability, which is to say that ...

Carmine Fatico was in trouble with the law in 1966 for the death plot to kill East Rockaway businessman Bernard Reissman. The third of four sons born to a Brooklyn immigrant family, Carmine earned a police record as early as December 1937. He was charged with leaving the scene of an accident near the Stagg Street Police Station in Brooklyn. Driving away rather than turning around as ordered, Fatico was apprehended by a Brooklyn patrolman. Carmine Fatico is best known for his tutelage of Ga...

Beer culture has grown exponentially in the United States, from the days of Prohibition to the signing of HR 1337 by then-President Jimmy Carter, which legalized homebrewing for personal and household use, to the potential hop shortage that all brewers are facing today. This expansion of the culture, both socially and commercially, has created a linguistic and cultural turn that is just now starting to be fully recognized. The contributors of Beer Culture in Theory and Practice: Unders...

Charles "Charley" Veneziale headed a mob gang that specialized in the bootleg liquor trade. On October 3, 1958 the Philadelphia Inquirer reported that subpoenas had been issued to three senior New Jersey syndicate members. Among the most prominent names listed were East Hanover, NJ mobster Alfred H. Salerno, Veneziale enforcer Anthony Caponigro and Philadelphia mobster Peter Casella. Trials followed with convictions in 1959 and 1960. These Mafiosi were contemporaries of prominent Philadelp...

A road trip through Steinbeck’s America—revisited, reimagined, and reinterpreted.Steinbeck’s Uneasy America is the first collection of critical scholarship devoted to Travels with Charley in Search of America, John Steinbeck’s best-selling, late-career travel memoir. In 1960, Steinbeck was a renowned man of American letters. Many considered him America’s troubadour of ordinary people, the conscience of the country. But weakened by two sma...

Full-Cast Audiobook!Go Beyond Your Wettest Dreams... as If You Are Penniless and Yet Listening From Outside the Globe Theater!In the last decade of the 16th century, William Shakespeare could not dare write A Midsummer Night's (Wet) Dream unabridged. By the happenchance of his birth-century, The Bard wrote in a poetic 'Shakespearean Code', hinting at sexualities and paraphilias he fully intended to compose and expose his Elizabethan audien...

Corrupt governments, secret societies, mutated creatures, and post-apocalypse Earth meet strong-willed characters, unexpected hope, and gripping action.For fans of Suzanne Collins, James Dashner, and George Orwell, a new dystopian ebook bundle is here! Filled with seven action-packed stories that pose the questions: What would you do in the face of disaster? And how far would you go to save the world?Table of Contents"Platypus" by J. D. Brink"Scaveng...

Worn out from exams at college, our hero meets a Chinese student who also seeks a diversion. They decide to take their three months summer vacation and travel on a quest in search of a lost Ming Vase belonging to the Chan Family. Their exploration for the ancient vase takes them on adventures beyond their wildest imaginations.