Diverse perspectives on Lincoln's assassination, its aftermath, and its place in national memory from some of today's leading Lincoln scholars.The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln remains one of the most significant events in US history. It continues to attract the interest of scholars, writers, and armchair historians, ranging from painstaking new research to wild-eyed speculation. Now leading scholars of Lincoln and his murder offer in one volume their ...

The 50+ poems amid these pages span such an incredible array of subjects as to nearly defy description. From main-stream topics like fear, dreams, frustration and love, to adult material that will offend the delicate sensibilities of many, Richard Sloane's debut will most assuredly shock little old ladies straight into a coma with his vulgar confessions, taboo hilarity and his own custom genre, 'vigilante horror'. Using numerous rhyming schemes, thematic patterns and perspectives gives thi...

Tieve Tara was the name of a private house and semi-detached General Practice surgery in Airedale, Castleford, West Yorkshire. It has been occupied by the author's family almost continuously since 1923. He and his parents were GPs who worked and lived there. His wife was the practice manager. The book is the history of that building. It describes how the building evolved into the Tieve Tara Medical Centre, semi-detached from the renamed private Hill House. It is about loyalty, teamwork, cl...

A groundbreaking, comprehensive program for designing effective and socially equitable groups of all sizes—from businesses and social justice groups to global organizations.Whether you work in business or schools, volunteer in neighborhoods or church organizations, or are involved in social justice and activism, you understand the enormous power of groups to enact powerful and lasting change in the world. But how exactly do you design, build, and sustain effective ...

Pharmacists who refuse to fill prescriptions for contraceptives. Surgeons who pray in the OR. Pro-life clinics and end-of-life interventions, intelligent-design activists and stem-cell-research opponents. Is this the state of modern medicine in America ?In Blind Faith, Dr. Richard P. Sloan examines the fragile balance and dangerous alliance between religion and medicine—two practices that have grown disconcertingl...

The official journal of the Mid-America Theatre ConferenceWhere past and performance converge—scholarship that moves the stage forward.Theatre History Studies (THS) is a peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-America Theatre Conference (MATC), a regional body devoted to theatre scholarship and practice. The conference encompasses the states of Illinois, Iowa, Nebra...

The American Civil War was a crucible of conflicting ideals, fierce combat, and defining moments that continue to shape the nation's identity. Yet behind every battle map and famous general's portrait stood countless ordinary men, called from their farms, workshops, and city streets to don uniforms. Meanwhile, the testimonies of commanding officers shed strategic insight on the human cost of this monumental conflict. Their experiences, from the harsh realities of frontline warfare to momen...

"The Road Not Taken" offers a searing post-mortem of the Democrats' 2024 presidential loss. It overturns the conventional wisdom that Donald Trump won in a landslide and outlines a complete strategy for winning in 2028 and 2032. A veteran political strategist, Rick Sloan, unveils a bold, data-driven plan to build a 100-million-vote coalition. This is a playbook for future leaders, detailing the math, messaging, and mindset needed to decisively defeat autocracy and win back America's future...

Peter Kempinsky (if that’s his real name) is a highly skilled Russian assassin who is in England to try to assassinate the new American President who is here on her first official tour abroad. Jack Sanderson, Head of Operations for MI5, is assigned to stop him. But this is easier said than done. After two weeks of intensive searching, he is tracked down to Windsor where his plot is finally exposed, aided by a brilliant young hacker on his team. But he still manages to escape back to London...

The patent system was originally designed as a noble contract: in exchange for publicly sharing the details of their invention, creators were granted a temporary monopoly to profit from their work. This was meant to fuel human progress. Today, however, that system has been weaponized into a multi-billion-dollar extortion racket that actively suffocates innovation and protects corporate monopolies. Welcome to the world of patent trolls, or "Non-Practicing Entities." These shell companies pr...

The themes running through the book are friends and friendships. It is not an academic study of friendship. It is about the relationships with some of the people the author has encountered during his life. Readers will be able to define for themselves whom they regard as good, best, close etc. friends. This book should act as a catalyst for them to arrive at these definitions. The book shows how the class ceiling was broken by his liberal thinking parents, university education and marriage...

Southerners should be proud of their ancestors who fought with great courage and sacrifice in the Civil War. This anthology is dedicated to the brave solders of the Rebellion. They are scorned in the pages of history books, but each and every one of them deserves our deepest respect and admiration. These courageous young men valiantly defended their homeland, fought bravely, and ultimately gave their lives for the land they were born in. These are not the rich plantation owners and politic...