When Cade Mercer joins a pack train bound for Granite Crow Basin, he quickly learns the cargo is worth killing for.Hidden among the supplies is a payroll box—and evidence that could destroy the ruthless Red Spur Outfit. With gunmen tracking their every move, Cade, Norah Bellamy, and veteran packer Tobin Sykes must push their horses through dangerous mountain country, narrow passes, and deadly ambushes.For Cade, the trail is personal. The same men hunting the pack train may ...

Caleb Stone only wants water for his horse.What he finds instead is a rifle pointed at his chest and a weathered sign that reads KEEP OUT.The river at Coyote Bend runs through land claimed by Amos Cutter — a hard, solitary settler who believes a man's word is law and a Winchester makes it binding. Cutter says the crossing is closed. Stone says no river belongs to one man.Pride turns to warning.Warning turns to gun smoke.As tensions rise and old grudg...

Broken Ridge was quiet country — the kind of place a man could disappear if he chose to.Until someone started killing for it.When former trail scout Ethan Calloway rides into the high timber, he finds a valley locked in fear. Two hired guns are holding the ridge for a shadowy investor who wants the land cleared — one way or another. A wounded rancher swears he saw who gave the orders. No one else is willing to speak.The law is miles away.And winter is closin...

Winter keeps its own law along the Powder River.When Zebedee Titus rides into a burned trading post and finds three trappers dead in the snow, he knows it isn't the work of hunger or revenge. Nothing of value was taken. Powder barrels remain untouched. Rifles still hang on the wall.Only the account books are gone.Someone is tightening control over the Powder River trade routes — forcing independent trappers to sign contracts or disappear. Freight companies backed by...

The outlaw came riding under the blazing noon sun with murder on his mind and a Colt in his hand. Trapped inside a lonely prairie homestead, one man and one frightened woman stand between him and the vengeance he crossed half the territory to claim. By high noon, blood will stain the dust… because mercy has already left town.

The payroll was supposed to be easy money.Ride in. Grab the strongbox. Ride out before anyone knew better.But someone was waiting.Now the streets run hot with gunfire, and the men who came for gold are dropping one by one—cut down by a killer who doesn't miss and doesn't care who falls next.Marshal Ezra Tate knows this isn't just a robbery gone bad. It's a hunt.And he's running out of time to stop a man who's already decided how it ends.Becau...

The official guide to SIMSOC, the dynamic group simulation game whose “potential for stimulating the learning process is staggering” (Teaching Sociology), in which players grapple with the challenge of governing society.In SIMSOC, players confront issues like abuse of power, justice, diversity, trust, and leadership as they negotiate their way through labor-management strife, political turmoil, and natural disasters. Success or failure is dependent upon de...

This shocking, surprisingly entertaining romp into the intellectual nether regions of today's underthirty set reveals the disturbing and, ultimately, incontrovertible truth: cyberculture is turning us into a society of know-nothings.The Dumbest Generation is a dire report on the intellectual life of young adults and a timely warning of its impact on American democracy and culture.For decades, concern has been brewing about the dumbed-down p...

Schools have failed our individual needs, supporting false and misleading notions of 'progress' and development fostered by the belief that ever-increasing production, consumption and profit are proper yardsticks for measuring the quality of human life. Our universities have become recruiting centres for the personnel of the consumer society, certifying citizens for service, while at the same time disposing of those judged unfit for the competitive rat race. In this bold and provocative bo...

Few writers ask us to question our fundamental assumptions about education as provocatively as Alfie Kohn. Time magazine has called him'perhaps the country's most outspoken critic of education's fixation on grades [and] test scores.' And the Washington Post says he is 'the most energetic and charismatic figure standing in the way of a major federal effort to make standardized curriculums and tests a fact of life in every U.S. school.'In this new collection of essa...

The Paideia Proposal is a system of liberal education intended for all children. It was a response to what Adler characterized as the United States' antidemocratic or undemocratic educational system, a holdover from the 19th century, when the understanding of basic human rights fell short of 20th century expectations.The Paidea Proposal was based upon the following assumptions: 1) All children are educable; 2) Education is never completed in school or higher institutions of learnin...

Philip Selznick's renowned book Leadership in Administration -- it practically invented the genre of executive leadership studies and is the lively response to the "rationalist" approach to organizations -- has been re-released in ebook formats, adding a new introduction by Robert E. Rosen.Foundational study of how institutions work and how leadership promotes them, often cited in many fields and assigned to classes in a variety of departments -- including sociology and business, p...