The establishment of the African Union and its African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA) in 2002 marked a fundamental transformation in how African states collectively address security challenges. This book examines the origins, institutional design, and early performance of APSA, revealing the political dynamics that shaped this landmark initiative in regional security governance.Drawing on extensive elite interviews with key decision-makers, such as former Nigerian President...

This collection of sermons is the result of nearly two decades of bi-vocational ministry. Serving as both pastor and full-time worker presents unique challenges. The responsibilities of hospital visits, counseling, funerals, weddings, administrative duties, and sermon preparation, often while maintaining secular employment-can be demanding and, at times, overwhelming.This volume was prepared as a practical resource for ministers who faithfully labor in similar circumstances. These ...

“It is God’s intention that you and I may act upon what the Spirit seeks to give us so we may be sustained and transformed; strong and holy; fit for mission and for the kingdom of heaven.”As a fruit of the Holy Spirit, self-control reveals the presence of the Spirit at work within the soul, conferring strength and wisdom and helping us to endure, with fidelity, those temptations that may cause us to lose our spiritual, moral and rational balance.This title examines the frui...

How to Steal a Whole Life Insurance Policy via Forgery and TheftWhat happens when an ordinary citizen takes on a powerful insurance company and refuses to back down?HOGAN v. GUARDIAN is a gripping true legal story that follows one man's years-long battle to reclaim his whole life insurance policy after discovering what he believes were forged documents, unauthorized withdrawals, and a wrongful policy termination....

Governments worldwide are developing sunshine policies that increase transparency in politics, where a key initiative is regulating lobbyists. Building on the pioneering first edition, this book updates its examination of all jurisdictions with regulations, from the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Asia, and Australia. Unlike any book, it offers unique insights into how the regulations compare and contrast against each other, offering a revamped theoretical classification of different regula...

Chicago's Motor Row earned a spot in the National Register of Historic Places by pioneering a new way to market an invention that was remaking America--the automobile. From approximately 1905 to 1936, well over 100 makes of car were offered by dealers in the 28-acre district. Motor Row started when Henry Ford, the best known name in automobile manufacturing, opened one of his first dealerships outside Detroit on South Michigan Avenue near the homes of Chicago's most affluent citizens. Othe...

Harrowing experiences and shocking details regarding the societal phenomenon known as, Racial Profiling fill the pages of this true story based on the life of New Jersey State Trooper John Hogan. Following his involvement in the infamous, Turnpike Shooting which ignited the nations firestorm regarding the issue of racial profiling, observe a first hand look at how New Jerseys politicians, not the facts of the case, influenced the outcome of this tragedy. Turnpike Trooper is an emotional de...

This accessible and stirring book not only introduces readers to the work of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), the domestic antipoverty and social justice program sponsored by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, but also inspires us to service. With John P. Hogan as our guide, we are invited to walk with those who serve and those who are served in confronting the daily reality of poverty as well as the root causes and structures that cause it. Written with t...

A good story sets the stage for engaged learning.Nowhere is this more important than in foundational courses, such as Introductory or History of Psychology. By weaving foundational and modern characters across a historical landscape, John Hogan’s Twenty-Four Stories from Psychology captivates readers with the rich stories- the who, what, where, why and how- for many of the major theories and colorful characters who have shaped the development of Psychology...

The Ogden Gas Affair represented the biggest political scandal of Chicago's first sixty years. Mayor John P. Hopkins and Democratic Party boss Roger Sullivan conspired with ten other insiders to form a dummy corporation to blackmail Peoples Gas Company. The scam poured money into the coffers of beneficiaries who were never prosecuted, including the governor of Illinois, John P. Altgeld. As their lengthy swindle ran its course, Hopkins and Sullivan rubbed elbows with the most notorious graf...

This in-depth history of the Memorial Day Massacre brings new clarity to the conflicting reports that left too many questions unanswered.A violent period of American labor history reached its bloody apex in 1937 when rattled Chicago police shot, clubbed, and gassed a group of men, women, and children attempting to picket Republic Steel's South Chicago plant. Ten died and over one hundred were wounded in what became known as the Memorial Day Massacre.A newsr...

An "exhaustive" account of the pivotal incident between "native-born Protestant Chicagoans who founded the city and newer German and Irish immigrants" ( Bloomberg).In 1855, when Chicago's recently elected mayor Levi Boone pushed through a law forbidding the sale of alcohol on Sunday, the city pushed back. To the German community, the move seemed a deliberate provocation from Boone's stridently anti-immigrant Know-Nothing Party. Beer formed the centerpiece ...