The deregulation, increasing regionalization, and keen competition that have characterized the banking industry in recent years have made this a challenging period for bank managers and directors alike. Today, more than ever, directors need a readable, comprehensive reference, not only for their day-to-day responsibilities, but also to guide them through the unprecedented changes that are transforming the financial services industry. The information and insights in "The Bank Director's Handbook" enable board members to take the active, responsible role that promotes a bank's success.

Hereafter Knowing in Sonnets and Other Similars explores the work of prominent poets through a philosophical and theological lens. The book focuses on the well-travelled yet precarious achievement that is Petrarch's writing of the sonnet in Italian, his English successors Wyatt and Spenser with their own amatory strategies, and how Shakespeare's sonnets turn the many difficult corners for imagining a writing against the untimely. Its reach includes ancient, medieval, and modern philosophy; scripture; patristic theology; Renaissance and Contemporary poetry; and numerous language traditions including Greek, Latin, Italian, French, German, and English. Robert Mueller explores a set of writers who address themselves to significant Others-Dan Machlin to his body, Augustine to God, Petrarch to Laura, etc.-alongside Aristotelian and other forms of epistemology. Through exacting, insightful, and original readings of these writers, Mueller analyzes the circuits and relations that connect them to those they address, with particular attention to the ways they know and understand the objects of their poems and the temporal positions they adopt in respect to these objects. It offers new readings of canonical and noncanonical texts and assembles a singular archive of writers across many centuries and language traditions.

In April 1917, as the United States entered World War I, the Aviation Section of the U.S. Army Signal corps had only a handful of usable flying fields. This number quickly grew exceeding 40 by the end of the war. By the end of 1943, these fields had grown to an astounding peak of 783- 345 main bases, 116 subbases, and 322 auxiliary fields - a number not including the many depots and ranges. This manuscript details 89 bases in a statistical format, which their histories - a topic of particular interest both inside and outside the Air Force.

On 6 June 1944, 156,000 American, British, and Canadian servicemen fought ashore on beaches along the Normandy coast or landed from the air to begin wresting back Nazi occupied Europe. The D-Day invasion was the largest amphibious landing in history. Although successful, it was only precursor to months of the deadly fighting necessary to dislodge stubborn German defenders from the Norman countryside and eventually liberate France. As a visitor's guide, Fields of War: Battle of Normandy presents the actual locations of key events in the struggle to free France from German occupation. Each battlefield visit begins with a succinct history of events followed by a description of the intense military action that determined success or failure. Extensive detailed maps illustrate the flow of the battle across the landscape and the units that participated. Detailed driving instructions and GPS co-ordinates direct visitors to each battlefield site. Descriptions of museums, memorials, cemeteries, and surviving artefacts are given along with their hours of operation. Mailing, email, and web addresses are also provided.

"'Tis the night before Jesus when all through the earth,
Every creature is stirring for a new baby's birth."
Here is a Christmas Eve service that persons of all ages will enjoy. It may easily be presented by the younger members of your congregation.
It includes a complete order of service with:
- Suggested music for children's choir
- Hymns for the entire congregation
- Parts for a speaking choir
- A brief monolgue by Mary
- One page listing additional hymns that could be used with the service
Robert Mueller is a native of Arkansas and has been pastor of Lutheran congregations in Louisiana, Kansas, and Iowa. He is presently a free-lance writer living near Ponchatoula, Louisiana. His other CSS books include "For People Just Like Us," "Seven Tell Their Story," and "Good Morning, Jersalem "