From colonial times to the present, the United States has been home to a steady stream of utopian experimental communities. In Experimental Americans, George L. Hicks takes us inside one of the longer-lived of such communities, Celo Community in western... [More...]

This nonfiction story of colonial America provides a powerful account of war, individual struggle, and American destiny. This readable, relevant snapshot of history describes events surrounding a diverse people who settled around the southern coastal plains... [More...]

The French and Indian War was over. The British were undisputed masters of North America. The celebration would be brief, for as the victorious English consolidated western land won from the French, cries of war echoed from the Great Lakes to the old... [More...]

The mighty British army conquered the Southern colonies step by step. Important Southern towns fell to superior British military precision, destroying two Southern Continental armies in the process. But Southerners were not subdued. Amid government and... [More...]

More than 100,000 women across Asia were victims of enforced prostitution by the Japanese Imperial Forces during World War II. Until as recently as 1993 the Japanese government continued to deny this shameful part of its past. George Hicks's groundbreaking... [More...]

Providing equal coverage of both cardiovascular and pulmonary systems, this text offers in-depth information on cardiopulmonary anatomy and physiology. The pulmonary and cardiac care systems are presented separately, then demonstrated together. The visually... [More...]