Like tentacles on a vast octopus, the firsthand investigations in The Blood Bankers all lead to one core. A financial detective of sorts, investigative journalist Jim Henry analyzes a range of scandals, including the looting of the Philippines by the Marcos family and the financial collapse of nati[...]

George Armstrong Custer's fabled Fifth Regiment fougth with great distinction throughout the American Civil War and suffered teh third highest total of men in the Union cavalry who were either killed in action or died of their wounds. James Henry Avery was one of Custer's feared "Wolverines." Beside[...]

Almost entirely rewritten and reformatted with many more learning tools, this classic text now has even greater appeal to today's students. This edition features much more discussion of how research methods are relevant for practitioners, and many examples are based on field research and service del[...]

This book explores Henry James's negotiations with nineteenth-century ideas about gender, sexuality, class, and literary style through the responses of three women who have never before been substantively examined in light of their relationships to his work. Writing in different times and places, An[...]