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Gil Hodges
In descriptions of athletes, the word "hero" is bandied about and liberally attached to players with outstanding statistics and championship rings. Gil Hodges: A Hall of Fame Life is the story of a man who epitomized heroism in its truest meaning, holding values and personal interactions to be of utmost importance throughout his life--on the diamond, as a marine in World War II, and in his personal and civic life. A New York City icon and, with the Brooklyn Dodgers, one of the finest first basemen of all time, Gil Hodges (1924-72) managed the Washington Senators and later the New York Mets, leading the 1969 "Miracle Mets" to a World Series championship. A beloved baseball star, Hodges was al...
All Hail King Ramir
In the dark XII Century, the long Iberian war of reconquest rages on between fragmented Christian kingdoms in the nord and Muslims in the south. Ramir was the third son of the late king of Aragon and Navarre and his father had chosen for him an ecclesiastic career. In a monastery he had become a scholar and a man of peace and generosity. His older brothers had perished in the war against the Muslims without children and Ramir, who had become a Bishop, is unexpectedly elected as the new king. He opposes all forms of war and violence but as the sovereign he must witness the progressive desintegration of his realm in civil wars and conflicts. The hostilities from the Moors loom threatingly. In ...
Justice Denied
The "He-Coon" is former U. S. Congressman Bob Sikes, once the most powerful figure in Florida's Panhandle. When he died with a diagnosis of malnutrition and a new secret will surfaced, his daughter retraced his final years and the hijacking of his estate by his new, much younger third wife. She found that during the darkened, helpless final years of his long bout with Alzheimer's disease, Bob Sikes was deprived of medical care, isolated from friends and family, and threatened with being sent to a nursing home if he didn't behave - which made him cry; meanwhile, his wife secretly transferred his assets into her name - with the help of his doctor (a state senator), his secretary, the town mayor, and her friends and her sister. During a decade of court battles, the children and grandchildren of the He-Coon learned that despite copious documentation of evidence, records, and perjury, despite legal precedents and statutes, justice follows political connections and deep pockets.
In Iberia and Beyond
"This collection of articles is an attempt to get at the complexities of Sephardic history by bringing together scholars who approach the topic from quite different points of view and quite different methodologies. It includes twelve essays selected from those presented at a conference at the University of Maryland to mark the 500th anniversary of the expulsion of Jews from Spain." "The papers range chronologically from the eleventh to seventeenth centuries, and geographically from Spain to Italy and the Low Countries."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Models of Lung Disease
This research-level reference provides a review of the morphological techniques that have become a primary method of anatomical study correlating structure and function in lung physiology and pathology. Detailing the evolution of anatomy as a research discipline, it explores general structural techn
Laia's Takeover
Robert Jensen is a successful lawyer who lives tortured by the memory of a horrible family tragedy, for which he feels responsible.Laia Gendrau is the young heiress and single daughter of Archibald Gendrau, an immensely wealthy and famous man. He is worried that his daughter will fall victim to a golddigger and wants Laia to join his company and stay under his surveillance, but Laia prefers to start an independent new life as a teacher in Philadelphia under an assumed name, without breaking relations with her father. She meets falls in love with Robert, but she must overcome enormous difficulties. Robert is emotionally scarred, misogynous, insecure in his relations with women, has weak social skills and is unwilling to discuss the family tragedy or accept help. Laia will have to fight hard to achieve her objectives, but she knows what she wants.
Enemies and Familiars
A prominent Mediterranean port located near Islamic territories, the city of Valencia in the late fifteenth century boasted a slave population of pronounced religious and ethnic diversity: captive Moors and penally enslaved Mudejars, Greeks, Tartars, Russians, Circassians, and a growing population of black Africans. By the end of the fifteenth century, black Africans comprised as much as 40 percent of the slave population of Valencia. Whereas previous historians of medieval slavery have focused their efforts on defining the legal status of slaves, documenting the vagaries of the Mediterranean slave trade, or examining slavery within the context of Muslim-Christian relations, Debra Blumenthal...
Diplomatarium regni Valentiae regnante iacobo i eiusdem conquistadore ex registris papyreis cancellariae deductum
In this volume, a panoramic history of medieval Valencia continues to unfold, as the noted scholar Robert Burns presents a new set of documents from the registers of Jaume the Conqueror at the Crown Archives in Barcelona. Here Burns focuses on 500 government charters covering the years 1264 to 1270, the culmination of the king's warrior fame in Christendom, and places these documents within the context of Jaumes's pan-Mediterranean military and political exploits. The most impressive archives of its kind outside the papal series, this collection is invaluable to medievalists as well as to historians interested in topics ranging from colonialism to rhetoric to economics during the Crusade per...
