Requiem for a Lost City: A Memoir of Civil War Atlanta and the Old South

A Carver Policy Governance Guide, Ends and the Ownership (J-B Carver Board Governance Series) (Volume…

The Carver Policy Governance® Guide series includes six booklets that offer board members a description of John Carver's Policy Governance model of board leadership. Policy Governance ...

A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Law (The University Center for Human Values Series)…

We are all familiar with the image of the immensely clever judge who discerns the best rule of common law for the case at hand. According to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a judge like ...

The Invention of Air: A Story Of Science, Faith, Revolution, And The Birth Of America

From the author of The Ghost Map and Everything Bad Is Good for You, a new national bestseller: the "exhilarating"( Los Angeles Times) story of "a founding father long ...

Barbarians within the Gates of Rome : A Study of Roman Military Policy and the Barbarians, Ca. 375-425…

"Excellent." —The Reader’s Review"Thomas Burns takes us thoroughly through this moment of crisis, giving us a precise analysis of the principal players in this period of ...

A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow

The civil rights movement was arguably the most successful social movement in American history. In a provocative new assessment of its success, David Chappell argues that the story of civil rights is ...

Where We Worked: A Celebration of America's Workers and the Nation They Built

Muhammad: A Story of God's Messenger and the Revelation That Changed the World

“Compassionate and clear…a courageous undertaking.” —Greg Mortenson, New York Times bestselling author of Three Cups of Tea and Stones into Schools

Wuhan, 1938: War, Refugees, and the Making of Modern China (Philip E. Lilienthal Book in Asian Studies)…

During the spring of 1938, a flood of Chinese refugees displaced by the Anti-Japanese War (1937-1945) converged on the central Yangzi valley tricity complex of Wuhan. For ten remarkable months, in a ...

The Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State, 1688-1783

This powerful interpretation of English history provides a completely new framework for understanding how Britain emerged in the eighteenth century as a major international power. ...

The Marne, 1914: The Opening of World War I and the Battle That Changed the World

For the first time in a generation, here is a bold new account of the Battle of the Marne, a cataclysmic encounter that prevented a quick German victory in World War I and changed the course of two ...