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This novel, The Salt Slave, is about a first century family in Jerusalem while under Roman occupation and the struggle of a grandson who feels squeezed between the conflicting religious beliefs of his father and grandfather. He develops a fanatical hatred for the Romans, especially after he saw his parents killed at the hands of the Romans. The issue in the family is centered upon the Messiahship of Jesus of Nazareth. As a boy, Eliab escaped the Roman attack on Jerusalem in 70 AD with the help of some Zealots who fled to the fortress at Masada. When Flavius Silva led Roman legions against the fortress, Eliab was able to escape for the purpose of telling the story of all those who died on the mountain. As a young man, Eliab fought along side of a band of Zealots in a guerilla war against Roman occupiers of the Holy Land until he was captured. Salt Slave is a story of a man finding truth and purpose for life. Through his personal conflict, love, war, imprisonments, beatings, shipwreck, slavery, and then the ultimate deliverance, Eliab finally makes his choice and it is costly, but he finds his answer to his own existence.

The purpose of this study is to examine the post-evaluation experience of a group of applicants denied disability benefits (cases) and to contrast their experience with a group of applicants allowed benefits (controls). It includes an analysis of the current medical, vocational, and socioeconomic status of the two groups of disability applicants. The findings will provide some objective measure of the efficacy and accuracy of the guides used in benefit determinations. The specific objectives of the study are: (1) to assess the effectiveness with which the guides measure severity of disability, by analyzing survivorship experience of the two applicant groups; (2) to assess the accuracy of the guides in measuring severity of disability and inability to work, by evaluating illness, impairment, and functional limitation characteristics of allowed and denied applicants; (3) to evaluate the measure of "ability to engage in gainful employment," by analyzing work experience and occupational changes of applicants; (4) to assess the influence of disability determinations on applicants'' subsequent levels of income and economic resources; and (5) to examine the pattern of medical and rehabilitation services utilized by applicants, as a reflection of the guides used to measure severity of disability. The study was conducted during the period of March 1964 through September 1966, in Baltimore. All aspects of the investigation carried out by an independent research team are covered herein. The findings of the present study thus serve two major purposes: an evaluation of the disability program on a limited scale, and a design and replication model for carrying out further studies.

This appealing narrative history of one of the Civil War''s most pivotal campaigns analyzes how the western Confederate army under John B. Hood suffered a devastating defeat at the hands of George H. Thomas''s Union forces. Ideal for general readers interested in military history of the Civil War as well as those concentrating on the western campaigns, The 1864 Franklin-Nashville Campaign: The Finishing Stroke examines how the strategic and tactical decisions by Confederate and Union commanders contributed to the smashing Northern victories in Tennessee in November–December 1864. The book also considers the conflict through the lens of New Military History, including the manner in which the battles both affected and were affected by civilian individuals, the environment, and common soldiers such as Confederate veteran Sam Watkins. The result of author Michael Thomas Smith''s extensive research into the Civil War and his recognition of inadequate coverage of the final western campaigns in the existing literature, this work serves to rectify this oversight. The book also questions the concept of the outcome of the Civil War as being essentially attributable to superior Northern organization and management—the "organized war to victory" theory as termed by its proponents.