Government policies created for one set of purposes almost always generate additional results that were not part of the original plan. Very often these unintended consequences are seriously adverse, and in some cases are so severe as to render the policy a failure.In Aftermath, noted economist Thomas Hall examines four major instances of significant unintended consequences, all of them negative, resulting from major public policies: the federal income tax, cigarette taxes,...

The Detroit Lions won their fourth and final NFL Championship in 1957. Since then, they've been a second-tier team that won 42 percent of their games, earned just three division titles, posted a 1-12 playoff record, and suffered through a "perfect" 0-16 season.A major problem has been mismanagement. William Clay Ford purchased the team in 1963 and during fifty years of control oversaw one rebuilding program after another involving over twenty head coaches and hundreds of players. D...

Tapper Jones has landed his dream job as a professor at an idyllic Midwestern college. His dream is shattered when he discovers that he has entered a snake pit: a history department at war. Tapper's chances for advancement and tenure depend upon a handful of ethically-challenged senior professors, some of whom did not want him hired in the first place, who spar continuously over trivial issues. Success requires Tapper to walk a fine line, further complicated by his growing love for Katheri...

In the summer of 1922, young Joe Wilson is a gardener at a wealthy family's estate. When the chauffeur falsely accuses Joe of a misdeed and attacks him, Joe injures the chauffeur in self-defense. Knowing the law will be after him, Joe skips town and heads to Detroit, Michigan where his cousin lives.It's the Roaring Twenties and Detroit is an exciting place. The automobile industry is booming, people are flooding into the city to work in the busy factories, fortunes are being made, ...

The Great Depression was the worst economic catastrophe in modern history. Not only did it cause massive worldwide unemployment, but it also led to the rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany, World War II in Europe, and the tragic deaths of tens of millions of people. This book describes the sequence of policy errors committed by powerful, well-meaning people in several countries, which, in combination with the gold standard in place at the time, caused the disaster. In addition, it details attem...

Winry lives a cozy, quiet life in the small town of Aster Creek, where she runs Crossroads Books and Café with her longtime friend and business partner, Ivy.She has a loving, close-knit family, including her sisters Waverly and Wyla. Unknown to her family, Winry has fought a secret battle with mental health issues. She keeps her walls firmly in place and pushes the worst of her struggles down for the sake of her family.Graham enters her world, and Winry fee...

Owen WestSure, Waverley Bennett is undeniably gorgeous with her long black hair and blue eyes that rival the sky. She's also annoying, smart-mouthed, and oh yeah, my boss's daughter… but those eyes. It doesn't matter anyway; I don't have the time for a relationship. Nothing serious suits me just fine. I've got my sister and niece to support. But when my sister takes things too far, I move Annabelle in with me and my cool uncle status goes straight down the drain as...

WylaMy trip to Nashville for my sister's bachelorette trip was going to be my weekend to let go. I was starting my last year of college and I finally felt like I had a plan for my life. I wanted one weekend of freedom. My plan was to drink some whiskey, sing karaoke, and ride that mechanical bull. But after meeting a sexy stranger, the bull took the backseat, and I went on a different kind of ride.Jett was sweet, funny, and beyond gorgeous, but we agreed on...

This "toothy follow-up to Datlow's first-rate Blood Is Not Enough " offers "admirably inventive variations on vampirism" ( Kirkus Reviews ).Featuring stories by Jonathan Carroll, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and Robert Silverberg, A Whisper of Blood is a "consistently engrossing anthology" from award-winning editor Ellen Datlow ( Publishers Weekly). Continuing to expan...

Crew Lawless was just doing his job when he saved Aspen McKay from that fire.The call should've been routine: get the vic out, pass her off to the paramedics, and forget about her. But there's nothing routine about the feelings Aspen stirs in him, and there's definitely no forgetting her. Especially not when, down on her luck after her ordeal, he offers her a place to stay—with him.Private investigator Aspen McKay came to Dusk Valley looking into a serial k...

Origen of Alexandria (185-254), one of the most prolific authors of antiquity and arguably the most important and influential pre-Nicene Christian theologian, was a man of deep learning and holiness of life. Regrettably, many of his works are no longer extant, in part due to the condemnation of his ideas by the Fifth Ecumenical Council in 553. The condemnation, however, took little account of his historical circumstances and the tentative nature of his speculations. The anathemas were more...

When lawyer Jenny Cooper is appointed Severn Vale District Coroner, she's hoping for a quiet life and space to recover from a traumatic divorce, but the office she inherits from the recently deceased Harry Marshall contains neglected files hiding dark secrets and a trail of buried evidence. Could the tragic death in custody of a young boy be linked to the apparent suicide of a teenage prostitute and the fate of Marshall himself? Jenny's curiosity is aroused. Why was Marshall behaving so st...