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Milwaukee's Brady Street neighborhood, bounded by the Milwaukee River, Lake Michigan, Ogdon Avenue, and Kane Place, is arguably the most densely-populated square mile in the state of Wisconsin. A mix of historic shops, single-family homes, apartments, and condos, Brady Street boasts of great diversity that draws from many distinct eras. It began in the mid-19th century as a crossroads between middle-class Yankees from the east and early German...

The tiny community of Ash Fork lies on the juniper-studded hills some 15 miles west of Bill Williams Mountain. Founded in 1882 when the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad was laying tracks for a transcontinental railroad, Ash Fork became an important rail junction by 1895 when another new line was built, this one south to Phoenix. The storied Route 66 opened in 1926 and U.S. Highway 89 not long after, making Ash Fork the most important link between...

When British general James Oglethorpe landed on Georgia's coast in 1733, he realized that the success of his new colony, Savannah, depended largely on its establishment and development as a commercial port. Only three years later, in 1736, the first lighthouse was built on Tybee Island. Beginning there at the mouth of the Savannah River, this volume travels down the coast, telling the very different stories of the Cockspur Light, Sapelo Light,...

Kenosha on the Go chronicles 110 years of transportation in Kenosha. From the first interurban streetcar that reached Kenosha's northern city limits in 1897 to the existing transit system in 2007, this book covers local streetcar operations, trackless trolley and bus operations, the two electric interurbans that served Kenosha, and the North Western Railway. Kenosha on the Go also brings readers to the rebirth of streetcar operations in Kenosh...

The first English-language comprehensive reference on the history of psychiatry since 1966. The Romans knew that Nero was insane. Shakespeare’s Macbeth asked his doctor to treat "a mind diseased." The people of the European Enlightenment era pondered whether the asylum inmates were mad or simply bad. As a discipline, psychiatry has always walked a fine if not easily defined line between social and biological science. History of Psychiatry an...

At some point, most people have been caught off guard by tough interview questions. This book helps readers take charge of the situation! In Acing the Interview, the employment expert Dr. Phil called "the best of the best" gives job seekers candid advice for answering even the most unexpected questions, including:You really don't have as much experience as we would like -- why should we hire you? How many hours in your previous jobs did you ha...

Database marketing is at the crossroads of technology, business strategy, and customer relationship management. Enabled by sophisticated information and communication systems, today’s organizations have the capacity to analyze customer data to inform and enhance every facet of the enterprise—from branding and promotion campaigns to supply chain management to employee training to new product development. Based on decades of collective research,...

Presents a collection of essays that examines the central themes of natural law, moral action, and virtue emphasized by John Paul II's 1993 encyclical "Veritatis Splendor". This work argues against aspects of more traditional interpretations of the Angelic Doctor.

Whether they realize it or not, all Bible believing Christians are involved in a daily battle against the forces of evil. Derek Prince tells how to fight the battle and win a victory for the Lord's army of conquerors.

This book is a simple, uncomplicated approach to producing a lean, strong, energized body. It gives essential information required to understand how the body actually functions. It provides a 21 day program with exactly what to eat all day long. It also offers an "inner game of eating" section to help deal with addictions, social challenges, travel, patience, commitment and emotional eating. This book offers an opportunity to make a radical sh...

The Golden Ass" tells of a young man changed into an ass by magic. This book follows Apuleius' tale from antiquity through the sixteenth century, tracing its journey from roll to codex in fourth-century Rome, into the medieval library of Monte Cassino, into the hands of Italian humanists, into print, and, finally, over the Alps.

Rental housing is increasingly recognized as a vital housing option in the United States. Government policies and programs continue to grapple with problematic issues, however, including affordability, distressed urban neighborhoods, concentrated poverty, substandard housing stock, and the unmet needs of the disabled, the elderly, and the homeless.

In the early 1880s a disastrous plant disease diminished the yields of the hitherto flourishing coffee plantation of Ceylon. Coincidentally, world market conditions for coffee were becoming increasingly unfavourable. The combination of these factors brought a swift end to coffee cultivation in the British crown colony and pushed the island into a severe economic crisis. When Ceylon re-emerged from this crisis only a decade later, its economy h...

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Human immunosenescence contributes to morbidity and mortality in later life. Understanding the reasons for age-associated alterations to protective immunity in the elderly would ultimately improve and extend healthspan. The majority of the papers collected in this remarkable and timely volume address the mechanisms responsible for immune ageing in humans. They also consider what might be accomplished to redress the erosion of immune competence...

Examines the production, content, and potential effects of NBC's Olympic telecasts. This book outlines the inner workings of the NBC Olympic machine, and offers a survey analyses, which interrogates the extent to which NBC's storytelling process affects viewer beliefs about identity issues.

Some of the greatest voices in speculative fiction join forces in this one-of-a-kind anthology to benefit the American Diabetes Association. Join Robert J. Sawyer, Mike Resnick, Cory Doctorow, and others as a cop-for-hire solves a murder aboard a space station.a Chicano science fiction writer takes mind-blowing (literally!) ride through the Singularity.a third-rate superhero with useless powers finds a place to belong.an antique collector lear...

Will unbelievers and half-hearted churchgoers have 7 more years to make up their minds about Christ after He raptures the Church? LEFT BEHIND gives them all a 'second chance.' But is that what Jesus taught? His parables of the talents, the wise and foolish virgins, the wheat and the tares, and the faithful and evil servant all show him returning unexpectedly with both rewards and punishments in his hands. Neither the parables nor the plain wor...

When serial killer expert Derrick Riggs is brought to New Orleans to assist in a the hunt for a Serial Killer. He quickly realizes it⿿s nothing like anything he ever faced before. A Serial Killer stalks the Big Easy, but only attacks during Mardi Gras. It would take every bit of his experience and knowledge to apprehend the killer, while he has to overcome personal demons of his own.

Ivan Cherevko pushed the boundaries since early childhood, becoming Ukrainian youngest ever university student at the age of twelve, authoring both fiction and scientific works in a wide spectrum of topics. His previous book, My Ten, a compilation of fiction and non-fiction written by boy wonder between six and ten years, was published by Ukrainian Pedagogic Academy in 2002. Now, five years later, Oregon Connect publishes his first book in Ame...