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Author discusses several topics - Theatre Experiences, Reflective Retirement, Morality, Banking System Failure, Socialism, Existentialism and Love & Marriage

Tom Murphy's often acerbic description of the people he met and the events that shaped his life while he was growing up and earning a living in Buffalo NY. Later, he reflects on his pleasures, discomforts and concerns he experienced while living in Florida during his retirement years.

This insightful look into the long-ignored treatment of slaves by the Jesuit order sheds new light on The Society of Jesus during the 18th and early 19th centuries.

During the Cold War, the West tended to paint communism with a broad brush, defining it simply as all that was evil about the Eastern Bloc and presuming it was more or less the same everywhere. Yet culture and geography contributed to different forms of communist society in different places. Drawing on interviews with nearly 100 former citizens, the author describes day-to-day life in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. Their recollections paint a more complex picture of the life on the other side of the Iron Curtain, from the beginning of Soviet control in 1960 through the 1990 formation of the democratic Czech Republic.

From the colonial period through the early nineteenth century, Father Thomas J. Murphy writes a compelling chronology and in depth analysis of Jesuit slaveholding in the state of Maryland.

William Tecumseh Sherman is known primarily for having cut a swath of destruction through Georgia and the Carolinas during the Civil War. From the fame of these years, however, he moved into an eighteen-year phase of "insuring the tranquility" of the vast region of the American West. As commander of the Division of the Missouri from 1865 to 1869 and General of the Army of the United States under President Grant from 1869 to 1883, Sherman facilitated expansion and settlement in the West while suppressing the raids of the Cheyenne, Arapahoe, Kiowa, Comanche, and Crow Indians. Robert G. Athearn explores Sherman's and his army's roles in the settling of the West, especially within the broad framework of railroad construction, Indian policy, political infighting, and popular opinion.

As South Las Vegas Community College is prepared for demolition, three of its faculty members fight to keep the school open long enough to graduate one last class of students. But nothing is ever what it seems in the Nevada desert. Soon, the down-on-their-luck, lovable-but-misguided rogues are stumbling their way through casinos and gentlemen's clubs, as they attempt to save ALL the women of Las Vegas from pirates, ghosts, and angry club owners. Along the way, maybe they'll even find the treasure that's buried somewhere on campus. Without digging up the dead bodies.