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A master artist and teacher of metalwork presents a bold new approach to creative expression in metal. Believing that the time has come for the artist to free himself from the functional forms that have dominated the metal smith's craft-the cup, the box, the pitcher, etc.-Heikki Seppa urges the craftsman to create in terms of pure form, and in this book he shows him how.

This biography evaluates and examines James A. Garfield's military career, the congressional years and the Presidency. Allan Perkins has had access to the Garfield and other papers, as well as drawing upon other resources of the Reconstruction Era.

Agriculture continues to be the largest industry in the US with over 2.2 million farms. Amazingly, well over 100,000 new small family farms have sprung up in the past few years . . . and almost no one noticed. Why Cows Need Names follows one young Amish family as they dream about and then struggle to establish a profitable and quintessentially American small farm.

Complementing Confederate Tide Rising, which covers the origins of the Maryland campaign, Taken at the Flood is a detailed account of the military campaign itself. It focuses on military policy and strategy and the context necessary to understand that strategy.

Explores the complex relationships among events, memory, and portrayal of those events and the deepest questions of human experience, all viewed through a range of disciplinary lenses but grouped into three sections, each with its own focus and meaning.

In this inaugural volume historian John T. Hubbell, editor of Civil War History for thirty-five years until 2000, has selected fifteen groundbreaking essays from Albert Castel, Gary Gallagher, Mark Neely, and others that treat military matters in a variety of contexts, including leadership, strategy, tactics, execution, and outcomes.

Explores Lewis's personal and professional engagement with medieval literature and culture and argues convincingly that medieval modes of creativity had a profound impact on Lewis's imaginative fiction.

What is it like to be a student nurse washing the feet of a dying patient? To be a newly graduated nurse, in charge of the Intensive Care Unit for the first time, who wonders if her mistake might have cost a life? This book reveals a glimpse into the minds and hearts of those who care for us when we are at our most vulnerable.

The letters in this collection were written mostly by British military officers and diplomats reporting directly to their superiors in London. Many of the writers were actively engaged in fighting the Americans from 1775 until 1783; others were colonial administrators traveling through North America assessing the progress of British troops.

Offers a glimpse into the creative workings of the Inklings. This book challenges the standard interpretation that Lewis, Tolkien, Charles Williams, Owen Barfield, and the other Inklings had little influence on one another's work, drawing on research in composition studies and the sociology of the creative process.

An engrossing analysis of the fiction of nuclear war In Pat Frank's 1959 novel Alas, Babylon, the character Helen says of her children: "All their lives, ever since they've known anything, they've lived under the shadow of war--atomic war. For them the abnormal has become normal." The threat of nuclear annihilation was a constant source of dread during the Cold War, and in Under the Shadow, author David Seed examines how authors and filmmakers made repeated efforts in their work to imagine the unimaginable. Seed discusses classics of the period like Nevil Shute's On the Beach, but he also argues for recognition of less-known works such as Walter M. Miller's depiction of historical cycles in A Canticle for Leibowitz, Bernard Wolfe's black comedy of aggression in Limbo, or Mordecai Roshwald's satirical depiction of technology running out of human control in Level 7. Seed relates these literary works to their historical contexts and to their adaptations in film. Two prime examples of this interaction between media are the motion pictures Fail-Safe and Dr. Strangelove, which dramatize the threat posed by the arms race to rationality and ultimate human survival. Seed addresses the attempts made by characters to remap America as a central part of their efforts to understand the horrors of the war. A particular subset of future histories is also examined: accounts of a Third World War, which draw on the conventions of military history and reportage to depict probable war scenarios. Under the Shadow concludes with a discussion of the recent fiction of nuclear terrorism.

When the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) between the Soviet Union and the US faltered during the administration of Jimmy Carter, National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski claimed that 'SALT lies buried in the sands of the Ogaden'. Historian Louise Woodroofe takes Brzezinski's claim as a starting point to analyse superpower relations during the 1970s, and in so doing reveals how conflict in East Africa became a critical turning point in the Cold War battle for supremacy.

These quasi-autobiographical poems and prose poems range from topics such as clairvoyant grandmas, roosters of questionable pedigree, one-armed farmhands, and a girl obsessed with holding her breath.

The Special Activities Group (SAG) and its subordinate companies have received little attention from historians, despite being an elite combat unit and participating in highly classified and dangerous missions in Korea. Spare Not the Brave corrects this omission, telling the story of the missions carried out by this group of extraordinary soldiers.

Addresses the challenges of adaptation confronting the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation in the early twenty-first century. Comprised of essays from a range of experts, each chapter examines an aspect of NATO's difficult adjustment to the post Cold War security challenges within and without its treaty-based responsibilities and competencies.

Brings together a collection of essays by leading American, South Korean, and Japanese scholars that probe the historical documents formed and driven by the Korean security dilemma.

The Battle of Antietam was the bloodiest single day of the Civil War, with 23,000 casualties on both sides. After the battle, two photographers, Alexander Gardner and James Gibson, recorded the horror of war with the first-ever images of dead American soldiers. In Shadows of Antietam, Robert J. Kalasky has painstakingly re-created Gardner's and Gibson's output, retracing their footsteps by location, date, and time to chronologically and sequentially place their images.

An anthology of thirteen true crime stories that includes the mysterious slaying of Charles Walton, found in an area notorious for its associations with black magic; the terrorizing of Hammersmith, London, by the nocturnal appearance of a ""ghost""; the Salem witchcraft trials; and the murder of Rasputin.

Collects the best essays and reviews on The Garden of Eden - pieces that examine the novel's themes, its composition and structure, and the complex issue of editing a manuscript for posthumous publication - and places them in a single, cohesive volume.

Since World War II, American historians have traditionally sided with the Loyalist supporters in the Spanish Civil War, validating their arguments that the pro-Nationalists were un-American for backing an unpalatable dictator. Here, the author examines the long-overlooked pro-Nationalist argument using new archival sources.

Founded in 1870 The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine offered its predominantly upper-middle-class readership historical and biographical essays, serialized novels, scientific and technological updates, and discussions of contemporary events and issues