On December 7, 1941, Keiko Tanaka finds her whole world affected by the Pearl Harbor bombings. Normally friendly neighbors are suddenly suspicious of her Japanese ancestry, and her engagement to James Armstrong—a Caucasian—becomes a crisis rather than a celebration. Despite their parents' protests, Keiko and James decide to marry before she is sent to the internment camps and he to the war. Nearly sixty years later, Keiko's daughter, Kazuko—born in the camps—attends to Keiko on her deathbe...

" This is the book that throws down a forceful gauntlet on how, at last, to create an equitable America." —William A. Darity Jr., Samuel DuBois Cook Distinguished Professor of Public Policy, Duke UniversityFor some Americans, freedom means the provision of life's necessities, those basic conditions for the "pursuit of happiness." For others, freedom means the civil and political rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights and unfettered access to the marketplace—nothing...

Raymond Charles Brickman III and Kathy Ann Erickson—two individuals who will never meet in space—by chance collide in time. Both think they’ve been wronged and plan retribution. To avenge long-held grievances originating from America’s Civil War, Brickman intends to extract concessions by threatening to destroy critical American satellites. Erickson seeks no such concession. Her family killed during the Soviet war with Afghanistan, her objective is the total annihilation of her homeland, t...

In 1889, one of the worst environmental disasters to befall the United States occurred in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. More than 2,200 people died when a poorly maintained sporting dam gave way and destroyed the town.Only minutes before the catastrophe, a nineteen-year-old girl enters a church in Johnstown, puts a letter into a bottle, and places it inside a safe. In the year 2009, that safe is unearthed. The letter reveals that the author knew of the impending flood. At the same time,...

Dr. Victor Mark Silverstein is a Jewish African-American whose background is as unusual as his personality. He lives a privileged life as the Naval Research Laboratory's preeminent meteorologist and scientist. But beneath the facade of a self-centered, arrogant personality lies a seething, vulnerable man whose secrets have plagued his sleep since 1982. That's when he discovered the truth about what happened to his girlfriend, Sylvia.In the year 2007, his nightmares become a reality...

Dr. Linda Kipling has had her share of excitement working as a meteorologist with the Naval Research Laboratory. Twice in four years, she and her boss, the arrogant Dr. Victor Silverstein, have faced international crises requiring heroic action. Now, in 2011, Kipling faces her most formidable foe yet: her only remaining relatives, the Müller family.Debates about climate change continue as two researchers in Greenland mysteriously disappear. Kipling soon comes to a horrific realizat...

The Fifth Edition adds new material addressing the many authentication issues that can arise as digital evidence is presented at trial. The authors have drawn upon excellent work by others to present the new material so that it is clear and understandable.Table of Contents:Section I: Direct ExaminationPurpose, Form, and StructureRecollectionDocuments and Electronically St...

This book introduces young lawyers to the art of trial advocacy. The author provides a historical context and shares engaging stories of exemplary trial lawyers throughout history. He then walks the reader through the role and qualities of the trial lawyer and presents an in-depth primer on rhetoric and persuasion. Each stage of the trial is considered in depth with examples from real cases.

It started innocently in Ireland in the mid 1800's between a young man Jim Callahan and the love of his life Molly O'Brien. However, there were tidal forces working against them both. The families didn't approve, the Church could be bought with emoluments and was by a wealthy Irish Lord. He destroyed Jim's family and stole the love of his life.After trying to enact vengeance, Jim finds himself a wanted fugitive of the redcoats and flees with his family to a distant land called Amer...

It's 1966, November, and Steve's just gotten a one month reprieve from the front lines of Viet Nam, through his father, an ex-Colonel from World War II. When Steve's girlfriend invites him on a month long cruise out of Tokyo, with two other couples, aboard a small sailing yacht, he accepts. Their vacation soon takes a change, when they are attacked by modern day pirates in the open sea, South of Guam. With their boat taking on water, they land on one of several uncharted islands. The follo...

In 1972, an intrepid group of teachers and students at New Trier High School (Winnetka, IL) formed the Center for Self-Directed Learning. Each student would design their own program instead of following the daily grind of standardized courses with off-the-shelf textbooks, canned lectures, and, of course, the all-important final exam. Approximately 600 students took the plunge into the unknown during the Center’s 10 years. Now, more than 35 Center graduates look back on their experience, ea...

Across the globe today, hundreds of archaeologists are engaged in the study of slavery (now better known as enslavement) and its contemporary legacies. Many work collaboratively at times, either in the field or in the lab, but for the most part, these researchers tend to operate in sub-disciplinary silos whose parameters are defined both temporally and geographically: Ottoman Slavery, North American Slavery, Roman Slavery, and so on. The Oxford Handbook of the Comparative Archaeology o...