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Product Description: In 1861, New Bremen, Ohio was a dot of a place a German-speaking hamlet settled by immigrants who came to America for cheap land, low taxes and to keep their sons out of the draft. Yet, when President Lincoln called for volunteers, forty-five sons of New Bremen enlisted to preserve a nation which many of them barely knew and whose language few of them spoke...read more

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As the nineteenth century turned, the small-town America in which Huck Finn fished was yielding to an age of industry, of a remarkable new form of energy, electricity; of a remarkable new toy, the automobile. It was a plastic age, as uncertain as our own, a time when the future was ready to be shaped. Grand Eccentrics is a group biography of a half dozen individuals - Orville and Wilbur Wright; Charles Kettering; John H. Patterson; Arthur Morgan, and James Cox -- who explored those new possibilities. Their lives crossed and recrossed. They collaborated, bankrolled each other's undertakings, founded and joined the same clubs, tried to run each other out of town. And in all of this -- in flight, the automobile, salesmanship and more -- they did much to create the American 20th century, the America that is now yielding to the rise of the electronic technologies and a global marketplace, creating an uncertainty like that to which a century ago, these men gave form. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Available July 2, 2014. A story of civic valor - the willingness to place nation ahead of self and justice ahead of expediency. William Moore McCulloch played a pivotal role in the passage of the major civil rights legislation of the 1960s...read more

Product Description: That human beings have greater cosmic significance than non-human animals is pervasively believed as a self-evident truth. For millennia, we have been informed that the interests of humans count more than the interests of animals, and that the lives of humans are more valuable than the lives of non-human animals...read more

Product Description: Good neurosurgical practice is based not only on evidence, skills, and modern equipment, but also on good values. This book is the first to discuss specifically the ethical issues that arise during the daily practice of neurosurgery...read more

Product Description: It took a village to make a book. A black and white text with historical photos examines the unique life of the small village of New Bremen, Ohio, in the heart of Auglaize County, known to some as God’s Country.

Product Description: It took a village to make a book. This four-color, contemporary, pictorial documentary examines the unique life of the small village of New Bremen, Ohio, in the heart of Auglaize County, known to some as God’s Country. The award-winning Cincinnati photographer, Bob Flischel, had remembered New Bremen with affection from an earlier visit...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The future of energy consumption, prices, and intensity remains uncertain, but this analysis suggests that greater energy efficiency has had, and may continue to have, a positive effect on the Massachusetts economy. Together, targeted energyefficiency programs in commercial, industrial, and residential sectors have the potential to continue to provide benefits to Massachusetts, and they remain a costeffective option for meeting the state's increasing energy demand...read more

Product Description: The future of energy consumption, prices, and intensity remains uncertain, but this analysis suggests that greater energy efficiency has had, and may continue to have, a positive effect on the Minnesota economy.

Product Description: Addresses the public benefits of improvements in energy efficiency to the economy of Washington State

Presents the history of World War II as told by radio announcer Edward E. Murrow and his fellow correspondents, with over fifty audio broadcasts narrated by Dan Rather.

The journalists and the reports that brought World War II to life share accounts of the London Blitz, Eric Sevareid's parachuting over Burma from a crippled aircraft, Howard K. Smith's narrow escape from Nazi Germany on December 6, 1941, and more, in a volume that also includes an audio CD of the actual radio reports of the time. 50,000 first printing. (view table of contents)