100+ Civil War Soldier Memoirs assembles a capacious, often conflicting archive of lived experience from the American Civil War. Ranging from battlefield recollection, campaign narrative, naval observation, prison testimony, and partisan chronicle to retrospective meditation, these memoirs reveal how war was recorded in both immediate sensory detail and later acts of remembrance. Accounts of celebrated operations stand beside less familiar episodes of marching, illness, comradeship, comman...

The Black Chicago Renaissance emerged from a foundational stage that stretched from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition to the start of the Great Depression. During this time, African American innovators working across the landscape of the arts set the stage for an intellectual flowering that redefined black cultural life.Richard A. Courage and Christopher Robert Reed have brought together essays that explore the intersections in the backgrounds, education, professional affiliati...

Encapsulating a rich mosaic of philosophical thought and practical wisdom, 'The Greatest Guides to Achieving Peace & Prosperity' brings together a distinguished array of historical and modern thinkers, each exploring variants of self-development and success. This anthology spans an impressive range of literary styles from the affirmative aphorisms of James Allen to the principled pragmatism of Marcus Aurelius, each contributing uniquely to the overarching themes of peace and prosperity. Th...

The mind did not evolve to think. It evolved to forage.Knowing this, what if hypnosis isn't something strange or rare—but something your brain already knows how to do?In Mental Foraging and the Evolution of Memory, clinical hypnotist James M. Harrison argues that long before hypnosis was an idea about the workings of the unconscious mind, nervous systems had already evolved the ability to mentally forage. Pausing to simulate, rehearse, and test possibilities before acting, ...

Do you want to get paid more?Do you want people to respect you more?Are you sick of being taken for granted?Do you feel that you're not getting the respect and appreciation you deserve?Have you been living your life as another face in the crowd and want it all to change?If any of these apply to you, listen up. The answer to your problems has nothing to do with getting the right job, going to the right schools, or winning the right awards. What will t...

Eight years before Charles Lindbergh became a global icon for crossing the Atlantic, two British aviators completed the exact same impossible journey in an open-cockpit, modified World War I bomber made of wood and canvas. The 1919 flight of John Alcock and Arthur Brown remains one of the most daring and criminally overlooked achievements in aviation history. Taking off from a rocky field in Newfoundland, the duo faced immediate, catastrophic failures. Their radio broke, stripping them of ...

The law of the sea is an important area of international law which must be able to adapt to the changing needs of the international community. Making the Law of the Sea examines how various international organizations have contributed to the development of this law and what kinds of instruments and law-making techniques have been used. Each chapter considers a different international institution - including the International Maritime Organization and the United Nations - and analyses its f...

Together with My Cousin & Me: And Other Animals plus Wolves: Ryders in the Whirlwind, this book comprises a trilogy, I call The Land. They tell the epic story of four generations of a Celtic family battling the elements and the animals to scrape a living from a land with no fat and little lean. Ours was a wilderness farm in Central Ontario populated by animals, insects, and rocks. The early generations killed the animals and fought the land. My g...

"Abraham Lincoln was the son of Nancy Hanks by Abraham Enloe...the story has been in circulation in North Carolina since the earliest times, and it has found many believers in Kentucky and Illinois." - Publications of the Southern History Association, 1904In 1899, James Cathey published "The Genesis of Lincoln: Truth is Stranger Than Fiction," an account of the parentage of Abraham Lincoln. His little book struck a popular chord and passed through three ed...

Indy 500 champion Alex Moretti set the sporting world abuzz when he proposed marriage to Amanda Cook right on the victory podium, following a tumultuous trial clearing him of statutory rape, a charge that was made at the behest of Amanda's vindictive father.Substituting for his brother, Tony, who was recovering from a serious racing accident, Alex makes an impressive debut in Formula 1 when Amanda and her sister, Allison, are suddenly kidnapped in front of a popular Paris bistro. F...

Young Alex Moretti is a budding superstar who drives for his father, Andy, a motorsport legend and now expanding team owner. The team hit pay dirt when landing a lucrative multi-year sponsorship with Unibank, a major banking institution based in Charlotte, North Carolina..Just when Moretti Motorsport was advancing toward super team status and entering Formula 1, the sponsor relationship explodes when young Alex is involved in a serious car accident, injuring the bank CEO's ...

Whispers in the Dark is a gripping collection of 15 interconnected short stories that explore the hidden forces shaping our lives—be it fear, love, secrets, or the supernatural. Each story delves into the whispers that echo through time, urging characters to confront truths they've long ignored. From eerie late-night phone calls to mysterious voices in the woods, this collection weaves together a chilling narrative about t...