Marking the 250th anniversary of one of America's oldest and most formidable educational institutions, this comprehensive history of Columbia University extends from the earliest discussions in 1704 about New York City being "a fit Place for a colledge" to the recent inauguration of president Lee Bollinger, the nineteenth, on Morningside Heights. One of the original "Colonial Nine" schools, Columbia's distinctive history has been intertwined with...

Created in 1964 as part of the Mississippi Freedom Summer, the Mississippi Freedom Schools were launched by educators and activists to provide an alternative education for African American students that would facilitate student activism and participatory democracy. The schools, as Jon N. Hale demonstrates, had a crucial role in the civil rights movement and a major impact on the development of progressive education throughout the nation. Designed...

Joe Mallory is a handsome young man gifted by God to run. He passed up options for a college scholarship to care for his ailing mother until God called her home. Joe and his mother believed the voice within our head is the Holy Spirit, who warns us of dangers and encourages actions in our best interest. Joe's mother died leaving no extra cash, only a home with a mortgage and an older vehicle to maintain. Cheryl secretly trained to enter the Olympic...

Not-quite-sixteen year old Lizbet Moore expects a boring last month of summer vacation--and she gets what she's expecting until a fifteen hundred year old Fae named Eamon shows up in her backyard disguised as a down-on-his-luck garden gnome. When Eamon slips an ancient amulet around her neck, the memories of Lizbet's many past lives, including her first life as Morgan Le Fae, come slamming back to her to change her summer plans in a way she could...

The prize-winning PBS correspondent's provocative antidote to America's misguided approaches to K-12 school reform. During an illustrious four-decade career at NPR and PBS, John Merrow-winner of the George Polk Award, the Peabody Award, and the McGraw Prize-reported from every state in the union, as well as from dozens of countries, on everything from the rise of district-wide cheating scandals and the corporate greed driving an ADD epidemic to teacher-training...

Sweethearts of Sumner County, Vol 1 features four individually published, sweet romance short stories/ short novellas: Elle and Danny were childhood sweethearts, who married right out of college and then, divorced. Six months later, they run into each other at his sister's wedding reception. Will sparks fly a second time? Or, will they get burned? Never Let You Go is a sweet contemporary short story about regrets and second chances: 5,200 words....

Four grown men, friends since childhood-a man of though, a man of leisure, an outlaw, and a cop-reunite in San Francisco for a weekend-long game of cards in the Palace Hotel's Enrico Caruso Suite. Every year they do this. It gives them a chance to catch up, to renew their friendships, to relive their glory days. To smoke, drink, laugh, and lose themselves and their cares for a couple of days. It also allows them to reaffirm, by unspoken consent, that...

The year is 1979 and Ezra Solaiman and his family are trapped in a country in turmoil. Their homeland is increasingly ruled by Islamic fundamentalists who are becoming a law unto themselves. The Solaimans plan their escape only to have Ezra captured and imprisoned on trumped-up charges. Unsure just who his enemies are, Ezra is desperate for a way out-out of prison, out of Iran, out of the chaos his life has become. The Moving Prison is a riveting...

Few members of the Wilson family expected young Thomas Woodrow to go into politics. It was unthinkable to them that he could do anything but follow the family tradition and go straight into the Presbyterian ministry, as his father and grandfather had done before him. Certainly, nothing in his early life hinted that Wilson was Presidential timber-and yet he kept insisting that he intended to become President. Thomas Woodrow Wilson followed his aim...

Born in Japanese-occupied Taiwan, raised in the scholarly traditions of ancient China by his grandfather but forced into the Japanese educational system, Hu Taiming, the protagonist of Orphan of Asia, ultimately finds himself estranged from all three cultures. Wu's autobiographical novel, completed in 1945, is widely regarded as a classic of modern Asian literature and a groundbreaking expression of the postwar Taiwanese national consciousness. Originally...