Winner, 2024 Book Award, Society for History in the Federal GovernmentIn 1974, the Hughes Glomar Explorer, ostensibly an advanced deep-sea mining vessel owned by reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes, lowered a claw-like contraption to the floor of the Pacific Ocean. This high-tech venture was only a cover story for an even more improbable scheme: a CIA mission to retrieve a sunken Soviet submarine. Like a Jules Verne novel with an Ian Fleming twist, the sag...

World War II coincided with cinema’s golden age. Movies now considered classics were created at a time when all sides in the war were coming to realize the great power of popular films to motivate the masses. Through multinational research, One World, Big Screen reveals how the Grand Alliance — Britain, China, the Soviet Union, and the United States — tapped Hollywood’s impressive power to shrink the distance and bridge the differences that separated them. The Allies, M. Todd Benn...

Winner, 2024 Book Award, Society for History in the Federal GovernmentIn 1974, the Hughes Glomar Explorer, ostensibly an advanced deep-sea mining vessel owned by reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes, lowered a claw-like contraption to the floor of the Pacific Ocean. This high-tech venture was only a cover story for an even more improbable scheme: a CIA mission to retrieve a sunken Soviet submarine. Like a Jules Verne novel with an Ian Fleming twist, the sag...

**A clear-eyed yet hopeful history of the United States, revisiting the state of the union every fifty years since America’s birth.“Brilliantly written and illuminating.” —Douglas Brinkley, New York Times bestselling author of Silent Spring Revolution**America is the rare country that was founded on an idea, and it was a truly radical idea for its time: the belief that the people of a country could govern themselves.The Flag Was Still There

This issue of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Clinics of North America focuses on Patient Safety, and is edited by Drs. David Todd and Jeffrey D. Bennett. Articles will include: General concepts of patient safety for the oral surgeon; Proper management of medications to limit errors; Preventing wrong site surgery for the oral and maxillofacial surgeon; Fire safety for the oral surgeon and staff; Preoperative preparation and planning of the oral and maxillofacial surgery patient; Team, staff...

A World of Letters is a joyful alphabet adventure that transforms everyday moments into magical discoveries. The journey begins the moment the door opens, inviting young readers into a vibrant world where every letter springs to life.With playful rhymes, bright imagery, and engaging scenes, this charming picture book turns ABC learning into a delightful exploration of the world around us. Children will love spottin...

The purpose of Communicating in the Anthropocene: Intimate Relations is to tell a different story about the world. Humans, especially those raised in Western traditions, have long told stories about themselves as individual protagonists who act with varying degrees of free will against a background of mute supporting characters and inert landscapes. Humans can be either saviors or destroyers, but our actions are explained and judged again and again as emanating from the individual. And yet...

Since 2013, David Chrisinger has taught military veterans, their families, and other trauma survivors how to make sense of and recount their stories of loss and transformation. The lessons he imparts can be used by anyone who hasexperienced trauma, particularly people with a deep need to share that experience in a way that leads to connection and understanding.Stories Are What Save Us shows—through striking memoir, writing exercises, and lessons learned from Chrisinger’s stu...

Community justice is a phenomenon of growing interest among academics, policy makers, and criminal justice practitioners. The term reflects the increasing collaboration between criminal justice agencies and communities in the joint pursuit of public safety and a less tangible, but no less significant, pursuit of justice for victims, offenders, and all community members affected by crime. In this book, several leading scholars examine the central concerns of this emerging field. Subjects di...

“A swashbuckling adventure.” —Booklist“A rollicking Indiana Jones flick with a female lead.” —BCCBThe Last Magician meets A Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue in this thrilling, “breathless” (Kirkus Reviews) tale filled with magic and set in the mysterious Carpathian Mountains where a girl must hunt down Vlad the Impaler’s cursed ring in order to save her father.Some...

Ohio. A suicide, no fingerprints, no identity.In July 2002, the Eastlake police discovered a decomposed body in a modest studio apartment in Cleveland, Ohio. It appeared to be a suicide by firearm. The man was Joseph Newton Chandler III, a retiree whom neighbors and former colleagues described as quiet, secretive, and strange. But as the investigation progressed, less and less about Joseph's life and identity made sense.In 2018, thanks to scientific advance...

Major Megan McClung is the first female United States Naval Academy graduate to be killed in action since the school’s 1845 founding and the highest-ranking female U.S. Marine Corps officer to die during the Iraq war. Be Bold is Megan’sinspirational story of defying steep odds, making the ultimate sacrifice and paving the way for a new era of women at war.