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The Death Penalty in the United States
A Complete Guide to Federal and State Laws, 2d ed.
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
The death penalty landscape has changed considerably since the 1998 first edition of this book. For example, six states that had the death penalty—Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, New Mexico and New York—no longer impose the punishment. Some of the changes set out in this second edition...
Observing Hancock at Gettysburg
The General's Leadership through Eyewitness Accounts
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
General Winfield Scott Hancock was perhaps the most influential officer in the federal lines, though he commanded only one of seven Union corps at Gettysburg. On day one, he rallied fleeing troops and placed them in the formidable position the Union army occupied for the remainder of the battle. In...
by Brian Allen Santana
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
For nearly 150 years, William Lloyd Garrison, founder of the famed antislavery newspaper The Liberator, has been represented by scholars, educators, politicians and authors as the founder of the American abolitionist movement. Yet the idea that Garrison was the leader of a coherent movement was strongly...
by Paul R. Misencik
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
Sally Townsend of Oyster Bay was a petite, vivacious, intelligent and remarkably beautiful young lady with beguiling eyes. A 1779 Valentine poem from an admiring British officer reads: “Thou know’st what powerful magick lies Within the round of Sarah’s eyes.” She was the sister of Robert Townsend,...
The Timberclads in the Civil War
The Lexington, Conestoga and Tyler on the Western Waters
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2008
In the most detailed history ever of Union warships on the western waters of the Civil War, the author recounts the exploits of the timberclad ships Lexington, Tyler, and Conestoga. Converted to warships from commercial steamboats at the beginning of the conflict, the three formed the core of the...
Tinclads in the Civil War
Union Light-Draught Gunboat Operations on Western Waters, 1862-1865
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2010
Once the Union Army gained control of the upper rivers of the Mississippi Valley during the first half of 1862, slow and heavy ironclads proved ineffective in patrolling the waters. Hastily outfitted steamboats were covered with thin armor and pressed into duty. These “tinclads” fought Confederate...
North Carolina Musicians
Photographs and Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Daniel Coston’s career in photography began accidentally. A magazine writer, he began taking photographs for his stories when the regular photographer was unavailable, and his contacts as a writer led him to invitations to take pictures of local musicians. His life-long fascination with the sounds...
Mike Torrez
A Baseball Biography
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
The history of baseball is filled with players whose careers were defined by one bad play. Mike Torrez is remembered as the pitcher who gave up the infamous three-run homer to Bucky "Bleeping" Dent in the 1978 playoffs tie-breaker between the Red Sox and Yankees. Yet Torrez's life added up to much...
The Monetary Imagination of Edgar Allan Poe
Banking, Currency and Politics in the Writings
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
In this first-of-its-kind treatment, Heinz Tschachler offers an account of Edgar Allan Poe’s relation to the world of banking and money in antebellum America. He contends that Poe gave the full force of his censure to the acrimonious debates about America’s money, Andrew Jackson’s bank war,...
Friendship and Happiness
And the Connection Between the Two
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
This philosophical and sociological look at friendship and happiness begins with a review of Aristotle’s three categories of friendship—friends of utility, friends of pleasure and friends of the good. Modern variations—casual friends, close friends, best friends—are described, along with the...
Beyond Sustainability
A Thriving Environment
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
This book approaches the study of the environment from two academic disciplines: both sociologists and philosophers have concerns about our environment’s ability not only to sustain itself but to thrive. The book examines the differences between “sustainability” and “thrivability.” Such...
The Postmodern Joy of Role-Playing Games
Agency, Ritual and Meaning in the Medium
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Historian Johan Huizinga once described game playing as the motor of humanity’s cultural development, predating art and literature. Since the late 20th century, Western society has undergone a “ludification,” as the influence of game-playing has grown ever more prevalent. At the same time, new...
Historicism, Originalism and the Constitution
The Use and Abuse of the Past in American Jurisprudence
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
The use of history in law is a time honored tradition. Over the years the practice has assumed many forms, including historicism, intentionalism, interpretivist history, law office history, historical narrative, originalism, etc. This book picks up where past commentators have left off. The different...
The Dream of Christian Nagasaki
World Trade and the Clash of Cultures, 1560-1640
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Nagasaki, on the west coast of the Japanese island of Kyushu, is known in the West for having been the target of an atomic bomb attack on August 9, 1945. Less well known is that the city was founded by Europeans, Jesuit missionaries who arrived in the area in the second half of the 16th century. The...