" 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...

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...

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...

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...

They went to Midian to barter their goods, when the old seer Nimit told them they would return. Moshe was the chosen one to face GOD, and when they returned to their village of Mitzpe Ramon in the southern Sinai plateaus, everything was dust.And so it was as had been predicted, they returned to Midian and Moshe climbed the holy mountain once climbed by Moses, and GOD instructed him to visit the city of those who kidnap humans and demand that the people be freed. That Moshe would kn...

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...

It's late 1965 as the Sabre's have moved to a new home. New times for this family during these great growing years, and life growing up in a very different and younger Southern California, the times the family shared, the places they visited and one small kid trying to get through The Growing Years culminating to that special mid summer vacation trip in 1970. The world was surely changing, and this meant changing with the times and growing from that change.

In 1996 the sun went supernova and what fortunate humans discovered the hidden portals or some select military made it onto the alien Ahgundy world called "Ciera" a desert world in a dual binary star system where time moves much slower than on Earth.Sheriff Wyler Scott and his Department were the sole law in the remaining human colony. However, nothing stays the same forever, and the peace was about to explode under a tyrant General hooked up with ancient devilish aliens intent on ...

A historical western set between the years 1858 through the early 1900's from Texas and the wild west through California. Grizzly Bears, Marauding Indians, Flash Floods, Bush-Whackers, Gun-Slingers, "The San Gabriel Years" brings to life real historical figures like you have never read before in this rare and fast-paced tale by American Author and Poet "Mark Paul" Sebar. Travel the lonely mesas, scale steep mountains, travel through poison oak and talk to ghosts of the past as the main cha...

The first in the new Cahuilla Mini Series off-shoot of the original Sheriff Wyler Scott Series. Picks up after Under Sheriff Mohany Rodriguez and Sheriff Wyler Scott retired. The story shows us how both men and their wives went their separate directions, but a series of events will soon bring them together, and the former sheriff may one last time need a super charged aging Cahuilla Indian, Mohany Rodriguez as danger grows to an explosive ending. In the tradition of the high energy Sheriff...

The Sabre's in the early 1960's Los Angeles. Baldwin Hills California, the dam break, the NuPike in Long Beach California, fishing barges, a new romance in school and a childhood bully straight from hell.The prequel to the novel "Schmattah's" at a younger time, bigger families, a very different era when things were about to explode in growth with life changes that the family grew from. The excitement, the innocence, and everything that would spring this family forward during its gr...

The high powerful American fashion industry. The runway models, fashion shows, wild buyers, showroom girls, road travel, glitz and glamour. It's 1980 and the Sabre's are at the top of the Southwest Fashion Industry with one of the more famous sales reps in its history, Saul Sabre. This wild story follows the exploits of his sons and friends in the biz and outside it as the season revs up for a great show at the Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel and an explosive fun filled ending. Business not as ...