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The official banking institutions for rural China are Rural Credit Cooperatives (RCCs). Although these co-ops are mandated to support agricultural development among farm households, since 1980 half o …

The year 2018 will herald the 200th anniversary of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. The timing seems right for the story of a real monster. German-born immig …

Early on the morning of October 3, 1923, the inmates of Eddyville penitentiary in western Kentucky were preparing to leave their cells for breakfast. That was when Chester Walters, known as Monte Tex …

A successful doctor faces the lingering trauma of sexual abuse—and the former Scoutmaster who molested him—in this “refreshingly honest” memoir (Publishers Weekly).   Growing up on Staten Island …

Ask yourself, what may have made this young woman, Susan Smith, drive her two little baby boys into a lake; then claim a man had hijacked her car and drove off with the two babies in the back seat? N …

Beyond the Classroom provides an easy-to-read plan for church pastors and church leaders to improve Christian education in the church. Teaching and teacher training are the main emphasis of the book. …

Conspiracy theory and American foreign policy examines the relationship between secrecy, power and interpretation around international controversy, where foreign policy orthodoxy comes up hard agains …

Once in an erstwhile peaceful land rich in repose and sharing gifts endlessly, a sanguine merriment quickly evaporated into the caustic reign of the false and deadly. It was during this long drag of …

About 30 years after the ascension of Jesus, Paul warns the Ephesian elders in Acts 20:29–30 ESV: “I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock; and from …

Ed Morrison’s brother, Michael, and his spunky girlfriend, Debra Means, never made it home from the Mascoutah Community High School prom held on May 3, 1969. Two days later, their bodies were discove …