At the battle of Gettysburg, a twenty year old Confederate officer, Major John Stewart Hard, raised his sword to signal the 7th SC infantry, the lead regiment directing the advance of Longstreet's Corps. Marching in disciplined order, they entered into a violent maelstrom of the battle's second day, in which thousands upon thousands of Blue and Gray soldiers would lose their lives. Somewhere behind the advancing line of Confederates, a man by the name of Aleck stood by, perhaps holding the...

In Retracing the Keowee Trail, the author tells the story of the Cherokee Path that connected the low country of colonial Carolina with the mountain homeland of the Cherokee Nation. The Keowee Trail was a busy trading route for a burgeoning deerskin trade. Along this same path, epidemic disease made its way inexorably from the colony toward Cherokee society, reducing their population by more than half. Along this path, warfare was waged in both directions, by Cherokee war parties determine...

This powerful and reflective book explores the losses encountered during social research—of people, communities and environments—collectively referred to as The Lost. Drawing on the contributors’ varied research experiences, it gives voice to lives marked by marginalisation, trauma or quiet disappearance. Stories emerge from women who didn’t survive domestic abuse to those displaced by ‘natural’ disasters, or affected by homelessness. Through deeply personal and ethical reflections, each c...

The relationship between drugs and crime is well-established, yet far more nuanced and complex than we might think. This fresh, critical text unites key themes like media, ethnicity, race, gender and sexuality to explore radical new perspectives. In this book you will encounter:- The misconceptions surrounding drug use and its association with criminal activity- Contemporary topics, from the US opioid crisis to technical advancements in drug distribution- An analysis ...

Ancient African Futures provides a creative and critical account of the history and form(s) of systemic constellations practice (SCP) applying a decolonial lens, emphasizing the profound significance of Zulu epistemology on its origins.The volume opens with an autoethnographic account of the author’s African diasporan / European identity and its bearing within the SCP profession. It offers a summary introduction to SCP as a discrete modality of Western psychotherapy, commo...

Second floor tour Eiffel around a big oak round table sit Eisenhower King Cnut King Arthur James the first Elizabeth the first Sir Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery Lady Jane Nicholasses I and II St Nicholas Stanley Proudfoot Field Marshall Erwin Rommel Brigadier Blinkinstopp Major General Johnny Walker Nelson Higginsbottom and Aphrodite. They all eat oranges and sign in turn. The great peace treaty. Seven white doves are released peace at last.

What began that night shocked Duke University and Durham, North Carolina.And it continues to captivate the nation: the Duke lacrosse team members' alleged rape of an African-American stripper and the unraveling of the case against them.In this ever-deepening American tragedy, Stuart Taylor Jr. and KC Johnson argue, law enforcement, a campaigning prosecutor, biased journalists, and left-leaning academics repeatedly refused to pursue the truth while scapegoats...

When Edward Snowden hit the send button on a laptop in Hong Kong in June 2013, just shy of his 30th birthday, he became the poster boy for an acutely American conundrum: the tension between the government’s constitutional commitment to the privacy of individuals and its responsibility for the safety of the nation. Stuart Taylor, Jr. reviews 200 years of surveillance in the U.S., the leading actors in the NSA debate since Snowden’s leaks, and the challenges that lie ahead-namely, finding th...

The debate over affirmative action has raged for over four decades, with little give on either side. Most agree that it began as noble effort to jump-start racial integration; many believe it devolved into a patently unfair system of quotas and concealment. Now, with the Supreme Court set to rule on a case that could sharply curtail the use of racial preferences in American universities, law professor Richard Sander and legal journalist Stuart Taylor offer a definitive account of what affi...

This is the coolest story of an unwanted little Austin 7 car called Austin... Austin is book 1 of the Austin Chronicles adventure series for children.So who is Austin?Austin is a wreck! He's overgrown with weeds and brambles and he lives at the back of Farmer Oats' old barn behind the rickety stone wall. In our story, Vole, Hedgehog and the Blackbird family shelter inside Austin and when the rickety stone wall finally collapses one day, causing a public menace, Austin i...

This ebook is a usefull guide on how to prepare for and survive a nuclear disaster.it includes a list of items you may need , and how to construct a shelter in your home.

Canadians are proud of their multicultural image both at home and abroad. But that image isn’t grounded in historical facts. As recently as the 1960s, the Canadian government enforced discriminatory, anti-Black immigration policies, designed to restrict and prohibit the entry of Black Barbadians and Black West Indians. The Canadian state capitalized on the public’s fear of the “Black unknown” and racist stereotypes to justify their exclusion.In Flying Fish in the Great White No...