Privatizing Military Family Housing: A History of the U.S. Army’s Residential Communities Initiative, 1995-2010, documents the Army’s efforts to leverage the resources of the private sector to upgrade the service’s dilapidated inventory of family housing. The 335-page book recounts the challenges, successes and lessons learned in the Residential Communities Initiative (RCI) program, the Army’s pioneering effort to partner with industry to improve quality of life for soldiers and their families. The RCI program has provided over 27,000 new homes and nearly 23,000 renovated homes across 44 U.S. Army installations, and will eventually replace approximately 98 percent of the on-post family housing in the United States.
The authors, all historians at Historical Research Associates, Inc., studied ten installations that served as case studies to demonstrate the financials mechanics, contractual arrangements, and political maneuvering inherent to the privatization process. “Privatizing Military Family Housing also draws heavily on the more than 75 oral history interviews that the authors conducted with personnel at Army installations, high-level Army officials, current and former staff of the RCI Office in Washington D.C., private company CEOs, and several members of Congress. The book is illustrated with more than 150 color photographs and maps, and includes a foreword by the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army Joseph F. Calcara and an appendix detailing the transaction history of each RCI project.

Privatizing Military Family Housing: A History Of The Army's Residential Communities Initiative

History

Godfrey, Matthew C.

Vogel, Dawn

Sadin, Paul

Pollarine, Joshua

Kryloff, Nicolai

Military

Government Printing Office

In February 2009, America celebrates the bicentennial of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, and the pace of new Lincoln books and articles has already quickened. From his cabinet’s politics to his own struggles with depression, Lincoln remains the most written-about story in our history. And each year historians find something new and important to say about the greatest of our Presidents.
Lincoln Revisited is a masterly guidePub to what’s new and what’s noteworthy in this unfolding story―a brilliant gathering of fresh scholarship by the leading Lincoln historians of our time. Brought together by The Lincoln Forum, they tackle uncharted territory and emerging questions; they also take a new look at established debates―including those about their own landmark works.
Here, these well-known historians revisit key chapters in Lincoln’s legacy―from Matthew Pinsker on Lincoln’s private life and Jean Baker on religion and the Lincoln marriage to Geoffrey Perret on Lincoln as leader and Frank J. Williams on Lincoln and civil liberties in wartime.
The eighteen original essays explore every corner of Lincoln’s world―religion and politics, slavery and sovereignty, presidential leadership and the rule of law, the Second Inaugural Address and the assassination. In his 1947 classic, Lincoln Reconsidered, David Herbert Donald confronted the Lincoln myth. Today, the scholars in Lincoln Revisited give a new generation of students, scholars, and citizens the perspectives vital for understanding the constantly reinterpreted genius of Abraham Lincoln.

Lincoln Revisited: New Insights from the Lincoln Forum (Lincoln Forum Books)

Biographies & Memoirs

Holzer, Harold

Historical

Fordham University Press

Religion & Spirituality

When Svetlana Tereshchenko, captain of the airship The Silent Monsoon, catches wind that a cask of mythical Cranglimmering whiskey has been stolen, she and her renegade crew of outcasts fly off in search of it. With the promise of a reward worthy of the cask's legendary lineage from both the Heliopolis Port Authority and the head of the Kavisoli crime family, Svetlana and her crew embark on a breathless chase that takes The Silent Monsoon from one end of the Republic to the other. What Svetlana assumes will be an easy search and recover mission quickly becomes more complicated as each step she takes uncovers secrets and lies about the cask and its contents. Now, with an ethereal Ghost Ship haunting their path, friends reveal themselves as enemies and alliances develop with the most unlikely associates. The lives of her crew hang in the balance as Svetlana makes the crucial choice of whom she can trust and whom she should fear.

The Cask of Cranglimmering (Brass & Glass)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

A collection of thirteen Steampunk stories full of high adventure and sumptuously surreal settings, We've got airships and mechanical men, a hint of magic and a strong smell of steam and gunsmoke. Our stories are set throughout time (and space) but most are rooted in a classic Victorian world that didn't quite exist, where everything is slightly sepia toned and the view from the gondola of the skyship is exquisite.

Runs Like Clockwork (Wyldblood Anthologies)

Literature & Fiction

Short, Lisa

Hogan, Liam

Schofield, Holly

Rossman, Jennifer Lee

Nikel, Wendy

Bilsborough, Mark

Rains, Riv

Strickman, Rose

Hunter, Valerie

Short Stories & Anthologies

Wyldblood Press

Do you love new planets, spaceships, and adventure? You'll love this collection of science fiction stories, because it's stuffed full of amazing futuristic excitement! Zip through the stars in spaceships while exploring uncharted universes in these amazing adventures for girls, boys and robots of all ages! Get it now, and blast off today!

2017 Young Explorer's Adventure Guide (Young Explorer's Adventure Guides)

Children's Books

Choi, Eric

Souza, Doug C.

Crilly, Brandon

ALLEN, MAGGIE

Shepard, Zach

Angway, Marilag

Toonder, Scott

Barretta, Michael

Casha, Salena

Dreaming Robot Press

In Denizens of Distant Realms, fantastical things intertwine in half a dozen fantasy short stories. Dragons and witches fend off suitors by unconventional means, old pacts with demons are fixed with true love, dark magic threatens lives and livelihoods, and magical shoes and mermaids both offer young women new opportunities.

Denizens of Distant Realms

Fantasy

DefConOne Publishing

The Cask of Cranglimmering (Brass and Glass)

The Long-Cursed Map (Brass and Glass)

In the turbulent skies of the Republic, it's not always easy to outrace the storm ... With their destination determined, Captain Svetlana Tereshchenko and the crew of The Silent Monsoon are in pursuit of the Last Emperor's Hoard and the fabled Gem of the Seas. Or they will be, once they rescue their pilot, make a deal with a notorious scoundrel, and outfit themselves for their plunge into the Boiling Sea. When they realize what the Gem of the Seas is capable of, they must struggle with their loyalties, morality, and unforeseen complications to choose the right path. With alliances tested and rivalries resurfacing, Svetlana must lead her crew and associates on their most dangerous mission yet!

The Boiling Sea (Brass and Glass)

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