Original and deeply human, this tense and surprising story, filled with indecisive bureaucrats, uninformed leaders, hotheaded politicians, and dedicated soldiers, is a clear and intimate portrait of the prolonged drama that unfolded at Fort Sumter and incited the first shot of the Civil War on April[...]

An incisive biography of the prolific photo-essayist W. Eugene SmithIn an interview with Philippe Halsman, W. Eugene Smith remarked: I didn t write the rules why should I follow them? Famously unabashed, Smith is photography s most celebrated humanist. During his reign as a photo-essayist at Life ma[...]

For freshman/junior-level courses in Political Philosophy and Social Philosophy. This is the first available text/reader in applied social and political philosophy - i.e., decision-making in difficult, complex, and urgent matters in which everyone's interests are at stake and, in which - at the sam[...]

Strong leadership in the church is exactly what God had in mind. However, very few people, Gene Getz believes, understand the biblical pattern for church leadership. He has written "Elders and Leaders" to unravel the mystery and alleviate the confusion surrounding this critical topic. In the first p[...]

March 1862. The Union ironclad warship, Monitor, with its two eleven inch Dahlgren smoothbores in a unique revolving turret assembly, leaves New York City under tow to serve blockade duty off the coast of North Carolina. Meanwhile, the Confederate ironclad Virginia (formerly the wooden frigate Merri[...]