" 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 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 ...

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...

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...

During the 1970s on a magic mushroom harvesting adventure in the Bayou, a young, aspiring rock and roll musician discovers the voice of Voodoo, which not only alters his life, but the life of his band, the Divebomberz.When the band is on the verge of making it big, tragedy strikes, and Jesse is confronted with the hard truth that life is often a spiritual obstacle course designed to see if you can get over yourself.A book for rock and rollers of all...

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...

It's June 1885 and their jet has just crash landed. Angry Apaches, a roughshod Army, Gunslingers, Rattlesnakes, Gila Monsters and a Droid intent on their destruction. The old west was never this wild or exciting!

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...

For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Petroleum geologists job, or to apply for a better job.What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that the narrative will follow a logical structure and reminds you not to leave out the most important points. With this book, you'll be able to revise your application into a muc...

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.

Intent on finding his career path, a rookie reporter struggles to become a journalist at an Indiana newspaper in 1973.He climbs the ladder from writing obituaries to covering cops and teacher strikes and murder trials and community disasters. As he navigates the competitive politics of the newsroom, he gradually earns the trust of his curmudgeonly city editor. Along the way, he begins performing with a rock and roll band and falls in love.The choice...