After a bitter divorce, she is cast aside and underestimated—yet everything changes when she steps into high society on her own terms. No longer defined by her past, she becomes a sought-after presence among the powerful and wealthy. As those who once ignored her now compete for her favor, she rises with confidence and grace. A captivating story of transformation, independence, and a woman who turns heartbreak into power.

Using authentic letters, the author chronicles the experiences of the men who fought in the 59th Alabama Volunteer Regiment throughout the Civil War.The 59th Alabama Volunteer Regiment originated in the spring of 1862 as Hilliard's Alabama Legion. Its volunteers ranged from sixteen to sixty years old; many were illiterate; very few owned slaves. After the harrowing battle at Chickamauga, the legion was reformed under the dynamic, New York-born Brig. Gen. Archibald ...

Tap into the power of Photopea and learn photo editing, digital painting, and how to design graphics for social media, marketing, and merchandise with this self-paced manual written by multidisciplinary visual artist, Michael BurtonKey FeaturesGain foundational skills in photo editing, design, and digital paintingDiscover tools for selections, color adjustments, text application, and content creationExplore the latest updates and plug-ins for m...

‘A sparkling book… a joy to read’ Peter Frankopan, Professor of Global History at Oxford University and author of The Silk Roads“You’re good at languages. That means you go into the Diplomatic,” pronounced the father of the teenage Michael Burton.And so began a diplomatic career, ranging from Khartoum to the Khyber Pass, that encompassed a wide variety of experiences: resolving tribal uprisings among Gulf Arabs, helping from Paris to achieve Britain’s entry into Europe, smoothing the path ...

Perhaps the most extraordinary period in modern British history, the years between the Great Recession and Brexit have often been dubbed ‘the lost decade’ because of the economic and political turmoil caused by those two great events. Michael Burton outlines how the first led to the second, assisted by a rare confluence of other, often unrelated, social and political factors that delivered the shock Leave verdict in the EU referendum of 2016. These included the longstanding grievances of v...

The Reality Coach is a tool to inspire and guide thoughts to enable change.You can use the Reality Coach in a variety of different ways. The concept bridges our inner and outer realities; helping you to search within to imagine possibilities for change in the wider world. It uses metaphors to prompt thoughts and create space, giving you the means to consider options and providing oxygen for your creative sparks. It will challenge you to see beyond normalisations and to escape the l...

This compelling and convincing study represents the culmination of the authors' several decades of research on the pivotal role played by elites in the success or failure of political regimes. Revising the classical theory of elites and politics, John Higley and Michael Burton distinguish basic types of elites and associated political regimes. They canvas political change during the modern historical and contemporary periods to identify circumstances and ways in which the sine qua non of l...

What Does It Mean to Be Human? And Who Could We Become in a World in Crisis?In the face of climate change and the challenges of sustaining a global population, humanity will evolve. But how far are we willing to go, and who will we become in the process?Acclaimed artists Michael Burton and Michiko Nitta (Burton Nitta) explore these pressing questions through captivating artworks, visionary creatures, and groundbreaking technologies. Their creations offer thought-provoking a...

"You Just Don't Know My Struggle" is a compilation of journals entries and self-talks with Michael Burton, a guy from the south that struggled for over 20 years with alcohol and drug addiction. Along with thoughts of suicide, health and family issues and constant reminders of his past with time and lots of prayer Michael was able to overcome all of it through his faith. This book is a great reminder that no matter where you are in life with God on your side anything is possible.

This book considers the relationship between public spending and public deficit and the varying successes and difficulties governments have had in recent years to balance the two. As the fiscal crash of 2007/8 turned into the Great Recession and tax revenues tumbled, public finances across the UK, the USA and Europe plunged into deficit. Controversial attempts by governments to balance their budgets, commonly described as austerity by critics, had mixed success, politically and economicall...

"A detailed dramatic narrative . . . Vivid." —Times (London) Literary Supplement. How the Allies kept the population of West Berlin alive in the face of a Russian blockade.In the summer of1948, the Russians occupied all of Eastern Europe. Behind Russian lines, the Allied-controlled part of the great city of Berlin stood as the lone Western outpost in a sea of Communist occupation. Then the Soviets closed all Allied traffic through their zone, sealing off t...

The second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern stateWriting in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama's Origins of Political Order "magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in its ambition." In The New York Times Book Review, Michael Lind described the book as "a major achievement by one of the leading public intellectuals of our time." And in The Washington Post, G...