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  America’s Worst Maritime...

  Charles River Editors

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  There have been countless numbers of shipwrecks over the course of history, but few have had as great an impact as the sinking of the SS Central America in a hurricane in September 1857. The California Gold Rush was in full swing, state of the art steamer ships were used to transport the discovered gold back east, and the Central America was one of them. On its fateful voyage, the ship was carrying nearly 600 passengers and a huge haul of up to 20 tons of gold worth an estimated $2 million at the time. The loss of life was a big enough calamity, but the Central America had gone down with so much gold that it scared the American public, which was already beginning to deal with a financial downturn that culminated in the Panic of 1857.  
  While it might have generated the type of publicity and reaction of the Johnstown Flood of 1889 or the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 under normal circumstances, the explosion and sinking of the Sultana on April 27, 1865 has become something of a historical footnote. Perhaps the cruelest irony of the disaster is that the Sultana was packed full of men who had survived every conceivable trial and tribulation of the war, from wounds and sicknesses to being prisoners. Having lost hundreds of thousands, America was almost numb to the loss of a couple of thousand more, especially when many of the dead were soldiers themselves, and in a sense, it was left for future generations to try to unravel what went wrong and to pay tribute to the men who died on that dark night. 
  On June 15, 1904, an annual gala in New York City was held on the passenger ship General Slocum as it steamed up the East River, with about 1,400 people from St. Mark’s Evangelical Lutheran Church. Consisting mostly of German immigrants, the boat was packed with women and children, and when a small fire started on the ship shortly after the trip began, faulty equipment was unable to put it out.

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  Refreshed - Devotions For Your...

  John Hindley

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  Devotions for a vacation that’s refreshing in every way.Vacations often give us an opportunity to rest and reflect. However, when our normal routines and habits are suspended, it can be hard to spend time with God.These 30 devotions have been specifically designed to help you to rest in the Lord’s goodness and glory during your time away so that you can return home feeling refreshed spiritually as well as physically.Author John Hindley, who also wrote Serving without Sinking, says this:“I want to help you find rest, peace, joy, hope, and renewed zeal. We go away to be refreshed. Christ is the one who sets his Spirit in our hearts to cause streams of living water to well up within us and flow from us. Sometimes we rest away from Jesus, but how much better to rest with and in him? He is where our true refreshment is found.”You can pick and choose which devotions to read depending on the type of vacation you are on (for example, city break or beach) and there are optional family activities and questions linked to each devotion giving other family members an opportunity to reflect alongside you.

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  30: A Year of Poems

  Richard Kish

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  “How do you measure a year?” 
  Turning 30 is a milestone age in anybody’s life, so why not chart the span of a year by writing a poem a day? Capturing the highs and lows of life and love, this poetry collection houses poems from the deeply personal to the truly random. It’s a picture of one man’s year through a poetic lens.

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  The Proactive Leader

  Sherif Khaled

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  The proactive leader does not wait for danger. 
   They do not respond to crises after they occur. 
   Instead, they read the signals while the threat is still an idea, 
   and neutralize it before it turns into a catastrophe. 
  This book is not about reaction; 
   it is about a mind that operates ahead of time, 
   seeing what others cannot see, 
   and acting in the narrow space that exists just before the moment of explosion. 
  The Proactive Leader reveals how leadership is built 
   on anticipation, analysis, and calm control of the situation, 
   and how experience evolves from the mere accumulation of years 
   into a mental capability that prevents danger before it is born. 
  You will discover the mindset of a leader 
   who is not only concerned with extinguishing fires, 
   but with preventing them from igniting in the first place, 
   creating a safe environment where others never realize 
   how close the threat truly was. 
  If you believe that the greatest victories 
   are the ones no one ever sees, 
   and that true leadership is measured by what never happened, 
   then this book was written for you.

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  American Indians - Fourth Edition

  William T. Hagan, Daniel M. Cobb

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  William Hagan’s classic American Indians has become standard reading in the field of Native American history. Daniel M. Cobb has taken over the task of updating and revising the material, allowing the book to respond to the times. Spanning the arrival of white settlers in the Americas through the twentieth century, this concise account includes more than twenty new maps and illustrations, as well as a bibliographic essay that surveys the most recent research in Indian-white relations. With an introduction by Cobb, and a foreword by eminent historian Patricia Nelson Limerick, this fourth edition was published to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the original publication of American Indians.

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  The Status and Recognition of...

  Richard Colbey

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  The only book in English on the subject. Of topical relevance in the context of the current conflict in Ukraine.

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