When George Tyler, captain of the slave ship Charlotte, is becalmed in the middle of the Atlantic, time is not on his side. In the cargo hold are hundreds of thirsty slaves, and water supplies are low. Running out of options Tyler orders the crew to do the unthinkable and throw many of the slaves overboard to drown. As Tyler sails back into Bristol, the story of the Charlotte ignites a debate about the future of slavery. On one side are the abolitionists, determined to force the government...

James Page shares an intimate look at his ownership of several small manufacturing companies in this guide for employees, managers, and aspiring entrepreneurs.He takes a candid look at how he entered various businesses, the product lines he produced, and the ultimate dispensation of those product lines.The book is a compilation of why this and why now thought processes and an explanation of how he navigated serving different industries over several decades.His initi...

Peace education is now well recognized within international legal instruments and within critical educational literature as an important aspect of education. Despite this, little attention has been given in the critical literature to the philosophical foundations for peace education and the rationale for peace education thus remains substantially an assumed one. This investigation explores some possible ethico-philosophical foundations for peace education, through an examination of five sp...

This mission/movement is laid out some in the book . This is a spiritual journey that seek empowerment for the people . The have nots can have alot . Apples For All - is the slogan that is like occupy wall street and other cause that want equeal life for all , not 1% over 99% . Please be apart of this movement to up lift people . We seek to come up without knocking others down . Apples for all , rise and be wise , devil desprise and love is the prize . This movement will move mountains and...

Prisoner of War - 12 Civil War Memoirs gathers twelve firsthand narratives of captivity into a compelling record of the Civil War's human costs. Moving between recollection, documentary testimony, moral reflection, and vivid adventure narrative, the volume illuminates capture, transport, prison discipline, hunger, illness, exchange, escape, and endurance. Its varied prose—from restrained chronicle to emotionally charged reminiscence—belongs to the rich postwar literature through which Amer...

A concise and practical guide to understanding the fascinating world of Native American magic, this useful little book looks at how the spirit world impacts the everyday culture of the Native Americans.

James Lynn Page has written a creative and practical guide to an ancient and mysterious tradition that is enjoying an astonishing revival worldwide. He separates fact from fiction, myth from magic, and brings the reader closer to the truth in this fascinating study of the Celts: their traditional ceremonies, rituals and lore linked to the seasons; Halloween and modern Witchcraft (or Wicca); the Celtic gods, goddesses and heroes. And then he tells us how to make the magic happen for ourselves,...

During the Civil War, James Madison Page was a prisoner in different places in the South. Seven months of that time was spent at Andersonville. While there he became well acquainted with Major Wirz, or Captain Wirz, as he then ranked. Page takes the stand that Captain Wirz was unjustly held responsible for the hardship and mortality of Andersonville. It was his belief that the Federal authorities must share the blame for these things with the Confederates, since they well ...

The True Story of Andersonville Prison is a polemical memoir and historical defense that revisits one of the Civil War's most infamous prison sites. Written in plain but forceful prose, the book challenges the dominant postwar narrative that made Andersonville synonymous with deliberate Confederate cruelty, especially through the figure of commandant Henry Wirz. Blending personal recollection, documentary argument, and moral indictment, it belongs to the literature of Civil War prison test...

During the Civil War, James Madison Page was a prisoner of war and seven months of that time was spent at Andersonville. Page takes the stand that Captain Wirz was unjustly held responsible for the hardship and mortality of Andersonville. It is his belief that the Federal authorities must share the blame for these things with Confederate authorities, since they were well aware of the inability of the Confederacy to meet the reasonable wants of their prisoners of war, as they lacked supplie...

Following the death of her father, Isabel Archer leaves the comforts of Albany, New York to stay with her aunt Lydia Touchett at her London estate. There she meets Lydia's rich husband, David, her cousin Ralph, and the Touchetts's proud neighbor, Lord Warburton. Soon, too, come marriage proposals from Lord Warburton and Caspar Goodwood, the son of a wealthy mill owner. Although Isabel declines both offers, she eventually gives her hand to Gilbert Osmond, an American ex-pat in Florence.

Global James Bond: (Re) Imagining and Transplanting a Popular Culture Icon focuses on the ambivalent yet fascinating interplay between the global and the local in the longest running film franchise in history. It explores how James Bond established itself as a global standard for action-spy film making and even as a minor global cinema (i.e. imagining), and hot the franchise subsequently inspired a series of genre bending, blending, and breaking in local visual and some literary c...