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It is Memorial Day weekend, 1975. Far removed from his death-defying battlefield experiences on Iwo Jima and post-war Marine Corps occupation of China, Bill "Reddog" Olson is now a successful engineer anticipating a holiday in the sleepy beach town of Belmont Shore, California. Unknown to Olson, a letter would summon once familiar ghosts and trigger a new episode of post-traumatic stress, not least the long-buried secret of killing a prominent colonel in Mao's insurgent army. Wartime reflections will fray his resolve to secure a professional opportunity to return to China in a U.S. government...

Far from offering a thin patina of "niceness" spread over standard educational philosophy, Steven Loomis and Paul Spears set forth a vigorous Christian philosophy of education that seeks to transform the practice of education. Beginning with a robust view of human nature, they build a case for a decidedly Christian view of education that still rightfully takes its place within the marketplace of public education.

Contesting prior assumptions that institutions simplify the world for the sake of efficiency, this book argues that rather than institution expansion indicating the movement of markets to optimal states, expanding institutions generate information costs.