Chronicles of Valor: 50 Historical Adventure Novels gathers a capacious tradition of romance, war narrative, sea tale, imperial adventure, and chivalric quest into a single panorama of the past. Ranging from medieval courts and revolutionary upheavals to frontier conflicts and oceanic voyages, the volume reveals how historical fiction converts research, legend, and national memory into suspenseful storytelling. Its selections juxtapose swashbuckling intrigue, moral ordeal, comic adventure,...

Miracles can and do happen— when one does the footwork. Dr. Walter Turnbull dreamed of creating opportunities and better lives for the children of Harlem, and Lift Every Voice is the inspirational story of how he realized his dream. Dr. Turnbull shares the hard-bought wisdom he learned throughout his life— from his impoverished childhood in backwoods Mississippi to his experiences as founder and director of the Grammy Award-winning Boys Choir of Harlem. Turnbull shares insights on...

Walter Schmid, a member of Rommel's Afrika Korps, was one of hundreds of thousands of POWs interned in the United States during World War II. Drafted into the German army at twenty, he had fought for only five months when captured in Tunisia in May 1943. Schmid was sent first to POW camps in Oklahoma (Gruber, Bixby, and McAlester) and was soon transferred to New Mexico in July 1944.Walter Schmid worked in southern New Mexico's Mesilla Valley picking cotton and harvesting melons alo...

Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham is an engrossing compendium that invites readers into the burgeoning world of Birmingham during a time of significant cultural transition and historical development. The anthology boasts a rich tapestry of entries that range from terse factuality to eloquent anecdotes, presenting a vivid tableau of the city's life and history. Within its pages, one discovers a multiplicity of genres, styles, and voices, all converging to depict the cultural and industrial...

Race and Displacement captures a timely set of discussions about the roles of race in displacement, forced migrations, nation and nationhood, and the way continuous movements of people challenge fixed racial definitions.The multifaceted approach of the essays in Race and Displacement allows for nuanced discussions of race and displacement in expansive ways, exploring those issues in transnational and global terms. The contributors not only raise questions about ra...

The objective of this textbook is to provide the mathematical models and algorithms needed to develop a thorough understanding of all control system functions of a rigid body spacecraft. Relatively simple, but practically applicable algorithms are presented rather than recent advances. We try to avoid detailed and specialized issues that are of less importance for the fundamental understanding, such as detailed environment models, etc. Furthermore, control problems that can be cast in stan...

The feast of Corpus Christi, one of the most solemn feasts of the Latin Church, can be traced to the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 and its resolution of disputes over the nature of the Eucharist. The feast was first celebrated in Liège in 1246, thanks largely to the efforts of a religious woman, Juliana of Mont Cornillon, who not only popularized the feast, but also wrote key elements of an original office.This volume presents for the first time a complete set of source materials ...

We have all heard the benefits of medical marijuana and some of the miracles people claim it has done for them, but marijuana can be harmful to dogs. Like I said before CBD oil for dog seizures has little to no THC in it making it perfect for any furry friend out there. Some cannabis oil may be THC free and this might be safe for your dog, however, CBD for dogs is most likely to be THC free (you may want to double check still) and will be tailored to give the most benefits to our four-legg...

Study the wisdom of Ben Sira.A deuterocanonical collection of proverbs from the intertestamental period, the Book of Sirach has been treated by many Protestants as a bit of Catholic trivia. Yet careful study of Sirach reveals fascinating insights into Jewish thought two centuries before Jesus. Walter T. Wilson invites scholars and nonspecialists alike to discover the wisdom of this important yet under-studied text.A temple scribe writing in the second centu...

"In the Key of M" chronicles the distinguished life and career of megachurch Bishop Dr. Walter Thomas Richardson, including his rhetorical skill, musical gifting and studious nature that manifested opportunities allowing him to help transform his South Florida community. He has been "the first" in many instances throughout his career, such as the first black president of the YMCA in South Dade. He has interacted or been commissioned by every U.S. president since George H. W. Bush ...

An accomplished artist and teacher, Walter T. Foster began producing his classic art instruction books in the 1920s. He wrote, illustrated, printed, bound, packaged, shipped, and distributed his books from his own home for decades, before moving the business to a commercial facility to accommodate his international trade. This comprehensive volume combines four of the artist's vintage instructional manuals to form an essential guide to illustrating the head and face."Let your drawin...

As early as the 1940s, Walter L. Shaw was thinking of speakerphones, conference calls, and call forwarding. Of the thirty-nine patents to his credit, those three telephonic breakthroughs were his biggest inventions, yet nobody knows his name. Ahead of the world by decades, Shaw spent a lifetime inventing and patenting the many means of communication we take for granted, but he was repeatedly cheated by shrewd businessmen and big corporations.His son, Walter T. Shaw, was enraged by ...