Discover the American Civil War beyond the generals, battle maps, and famous speeches.In A Peek into the Past, Dr. Robert Ray Meadows presents a fascinating and accessible exploration of the people, events, innovations, and experiences that shaped one of the most transformative periods in American history.Readers will learn about the everyday lives and hardships of Union and Confederate soldiers, the changing roles of women, and the courageous fema...

This book draws on a variety of substantive examples from science, technology, medicine, literature, and popular culture to highlight how a new technoscientifically mediated and modified phase and form of technosleep is now in the making – in the global north at least; and to discuss the consequences for our relationships to sleep, the values we accord sleep and the very nature and normativities of sleep itself.The authors discuss how technosleep, at its simplest denotes the ‘comin...

Mitchell the house mouse is cozy in his shoebox home in Grammy's closet. What will he do when her granddaughter snatches the box away to make a miniature float for a Carnival contest? Maybe he will pitch in and even get to ride! Young readers will thrill to Mitchell's adventure involving the long-beloved childhood tradition of crafting a Mardi Gras float from a cardboard shoebox.

'Robert Twigger is not so much a travel writer as a thrill-seeking philosopher' EsquireThe Himalayas beckon and we go ... Some to make real journeys and others to make imaginary ones. These mountains, home to Buddhists, Bonpos, Jains, Muslims, Hindus, shamans and animists, to name only a few, are a place of pilgrimage and dreams, revelation and war, massacre and invasion, but also peace and unutterable calm.In an exploration of the region's seismic...

Bloomsbury presents Where the Iron Crosses Grow: The Crimea 1941-44 by Robert Forczyk, read by Mark Meadows.The Crimean Peninsula was the setting for the destruction of a number of armies in World War II, both Soviet and German.When the Soviets fortified Sevastopol in 1941 it heralded the beginning of a period of intense fighting over the Crimea. In this remarkable work, acclaimed author Robert Forcyzk assembles new research to investigate the inte...

Denis is searching for his mother’s past, knowing she had secrets. In Nice, he finds her friends, Monique and Clemence. In the 1950s, they were Matisse’s assistants when he was old and ill, pinning up his coloured paper shapes, putting the great cut out works together. Monique inspired his great designs in the chapel at Vence, Clemence, in pursuit of love, was caught in an affair that led to violence and disaster. So they have their own intense and colourful past – but they hold the key to...

'Love Through the Eras' encapsulates not only a vast temporal sweep but also a rich tapestry of literary styles and thematic depth, encompassing seventy historical romances penned by a constellation of great authors. From the nuanced realism of Jane Austen's Regency England to the dramatic passions of Alexandre Dumas' France and beyond, the anthology celebrates love's multifaceted expressions across different societies and epochs. Each narrative, unique in its own right, coalesces into a c...

Have you ever wondered what your cat is thinking or trying to tell you in his language?For many of us, cat language feels foreign, difficult to understand, and even harder to decipher.We all know about the effects that an untrained cat can have on our stress levels and wallet.Proper training and care can make it easy to raise a well-behaved and loving companion.More often than not, cats can have tricky to solve behavior problems that can easily escalate with...

Have you ever wondered what your cat is thinking or trying to tell you in his language?For many of us, cat language feels foreign, difficult to understand, and even harder to decipher.We all know about the effects that an untrained cat can have on our stress levels and wallet.Proper training and care can make it easy to raise a well-behaved and loving companion.More often than not, cats can have tricky to solve behavior problems that can easily escalate with...

A detailed guide for effective resume writing. Write a resume that lands interviews, getting your foot in the door.Your Resume is a powerful career marketing tool; thus, your resume should be a persuasive marketing piece and not a dull career biography.Don't let your resume go unnoticed: take charge, and follow this course to learn how to get your foot in the door and market your greatest commodity: yourself.This two-in-one bundle series

This book brings together an unprecedented number and range of contributions from different disciplines relating to sleep in one comprehensive volume.The contributors explore the science of sleep - what it is, what makes it happen and why we do it - as well as the measurement of sleep, its importance for daytime performance and its sociological and cultural aspects. Sleep disorders, sleep quality and the importance of sleep for daytime performance are also explored, as are the ways...

Haworth, West Yorkshire, 1848.Branwell Brontë - unexhibited artist, unacknowledged writer, sacked railwayman, disgraced tutor and spurned lover -finds himself unhappily back in Haworth Parsonage, to face the crushing disappointment of his father and his three sisters, whose own pseudonymous successes - allegedly kept secret from him – are only just becoming apparent.With his health failing rapidly, his literary aspirations abandoned and his once loyal circle of friends shri...