Safford: 17 books

The Ideal of the Practical is a study of efforts by a segment of the upper class in an aristocratic Latin American society to alter cultural values in the society, creating stronger orientations toward the technical and the practical. Frank Safford describes attempts by members of Colombia’s nineteenth-century...

Two veterans from our recent wars catch up on mutual friends, their experiences, then ask the one question that seems the most important one of all.

Will Chambers is reluctant to try infidelity. When he meets Missy Short, the two of them end with as many questions as answers.

Ed Dillon has been on the road for his own reasons. A stop in Texas is far too typical, proving you can't outrun memory.

An Unsung Cat explores the life and music of jazz saxophonist, Warne Marsh. Safford Chamberlain follows the artist from his start in youth bands like the Hollywood Canteen Kids and The Teen-Agers through his studies under Lennie Tristano, his brilliant playing of the 1950s, his disappearance from...

Chicago police detective Tom Herlihey is called to a church desecration. What should be a routine investigation takes a surprising turn, with the deeper mystery coming after the person responsible is caught.

Where does poetry come from? For Janet Safford Cline, her poetry comes from a lifetime of loving words and putting them together to express her faith in Jesus Christ. A lifelong Christian, in her inspiring poetry collection, God Speaks to Me in Silence, she imagines biblical scenes and stories in...

Two stories of life, death. the after-life, and the power of love. In "Drawing Down Dark", Christ Helms gets some help finding his way back to his Mom and Dad. "From The Other Side" is a send-up of popular paranormal investigation programs, told from the ghosts point-of-view. If you ever wondered what they were doing in the midst of all the madness, here's your chance.

The odyssey begins, “James Polk Woodard, whose absence in the family graveyard in northwest Alabama led me on a search and the cause of his death in the Civil War.” Merle recalls visiting the cemetery with her family, in the heat of an Alabama summer day, when only four years old. There were six...

The Malagasy region contains one of the most extraordinary concentrations of biodiversity in the world. Its recognition as a zoogeographic region in its own right has recently been confirmed and, all taxa combined, the region was found to hold the second most distinct assemblage of vertebrates in...

The author of the romance “A Captive of the Roman Eagles”— published in Germany under the title of “Bissula”— is one of the most distinguished novelists of the present day in his own country, and will doubtless be equally appreciated by Americans.

Only through the same virtues by which they were founded will kingdoms be maintained.

Reading for pleasure urgently requires a higher profile to raise attainment and increase children’s engagement as self-motivated and socially interactive readers. *Building Communities of Engaged Readers *highlights the concept of ‘Reading Teachers’ who are not only knowledgeable about texts...

In North America, concepts of Historical Range of Variability are being employed in land-management planning for properties of private organizations and multiple government agencies. The National Park Service, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Forest Service, and The...