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This Great Struggle

America's Civil War

Referring to the war that was raging across parts of the American landscape, Abraham Lincoln told Congress in 1862, "We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope on earth." Lincoln recognized what was at stake in the American Civil War: not only freedom for 3.5 million slaves but also survival of self-government in the last place on earth where it could have the opportunity of developing freely. Noted historian Steven E. Woodworth tells the story of what many regard as the defining event in United States history. While covering all theaters of war, he emphasizes the importance of action in the region between the Appalachians and the Mississippi River in determining its outcome. Woodworth argues that the Civil War had a distinct purpose that was understood by most of its participants: it was primarily a conflict over the issue of slavery. The soldiers who filled the ranks of the armies on both sides knew what they were fighting for. The outcome of the war—after its beginnings at Fort Sumter to the Confederate surrender four years later—was the result of the actions and decisions made by those soldiers and millions of other Americans. Written in clear and compelling fashion, This Great Struggle is their story—and ours.

JOHN BROWN'S HARPERS FERRY RAID AND THE ELECTION OF 1860
hroughout the decade of the 1850s, the momentum seemed to shift constantly
back and forth between politics and practical action, between the men in frock
coats and other men who would not hesitate at all to dirty their hands in any
number of ways. John Brown was one such man. He had perpetrated the
Pottawatomie killings in Kansas back in 1856. He had also led antislavery militia
in battle there against ...

The Ultimate Dehydrator Cookbook

The Complete Guide to Drying Food, Plus 398 Recipes, Including Making Jerky, Fruit Leather & Just-Add-Water Meals

The dehydrator is an incredibly useful tool for long-term food storage and making the most of your garden harvest.

Brown. Sugar. Pumpkin. Bread. Makes one 9 x 5-inch loaf 2 tablespoons
powdered dehydrated pumpkin 1 cup boiling water 11⁄2 cups all-purpose flour 2
teaspoons pumpkin pie spice 11⁄ 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon baking
soda 1⁄2 teaspoon coarsely ground dehydrated ginger 1⁄2 cup (1 stick) butter,
softened 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar 2 large eggs, beaten 1. Preheat the
oven to 350°F. Spray a 9 x 5-inch loaf pan with cooking spray ...

Hollywood Left and Right

How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics

In Hollywood Left and Right, Steven J. Ross tells a story that has escaped public attention: the emergence of Hollywood as a vital center of political life and the important role that movie stars have played in shaping the course of American politics. Ever since the film industry relocated to Hollywood early in the twentieth century, it has had an outsized influence on American politics. Through compelling larger-than-life figures in American cinema--Charlie Chaplin, Louis B. Mayer, Edward G. Robinson, George Murphy, Ronald Reagan, Harry Belafonte, Jane Fonda, Charlton Heston, Warren Beatty, and Arnold Schwarzenegger--Hollywood Left and Right reveals how the film industry's engagement in politics has been longer, deeper, and more varied than most people would imagine. As shown in alternating chapters, the Left and the Right each gained ascendancy in Tinseltown at different times. From Chaplin, whose movies almost always displayed his leftist convictions, to Schwarzenegger's nearly seamless transition from action blockbusters to the California governor's mansion, Steven J. Ross traces the intersection of Hollywood and political activism from the early twentieth century to the present. Hollywood Left and Right challenges the commonly held belief that Hollywood has always been a bastion of liberalism. The real story, as Ross shows in this passionate and entertaining work, is far more complicated. First, Hollywood has a longer history of conservatism than liberalism. Second, and most surprising, while the Hollywood Left was usually more vocal and visible, the Right had a greater impact on American political life, capturing a senate seat (Murphy), a governorship (Schwarzenegger), and the ultimate achievement, the Presidency (Reagan).

With union leaders committing their organizations to Brown, the Republican
reached out to rankandfile members. Judging from popular responses, Reagan's
efforts proved successful. An Orange County union member's wife told him that
despite instructions “from their San Francisco headquarters,” there is “strong
feeling running in your favor.” The Brown forces grew increasingly concerned as
letters poured in from longtime party loyalists warning, “We may be Democrats,
but find more ...

Freakonomics

A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Cult bestseller, new buzz word... Freakonomics is at the heart of everything we see and do and the subjects that bedevil us daily: from parenting to crime, sport to politics, fat to cheating, fear to traffic jams. Asking provocative and profound questions about human motivation and contemporary living and reaching some astonishing conclusions, Freakonomics will make you see the familiar world through a completely original lens.

Kennedy, a folklorist at heart, apparently wanted to put across the most dramatic
story possible, and therefore included not only his own antiKlan activities but
those of another man, codenamed John Brown. Brown was a union worker and a
former Klan official who had changed his ways and offered to infiltrate the Klan. It
was John Brown who apparently performed many of the most dramatic and
dangerous episodes portrayed in The Klan Unmasked—physically attending
Klan ...

The Day After The Day After

My Atomic Angst

Steven Church grew up in the 1970s and ’80s in Lawrence, Kansas, a town whose predictable daily rhythms give way easily to anxiety—and a place that, since Civil War times, has been a canvas for sporadic scenes of havoc and violence in the popular imagination. Childhood was quiet on the surface, but Steven grew up scared—scared of killer tornadoes, winged monkeys, violent movies, authority figures, the dissolution of his parents’ marriage, and most of all in Reagan’s America, nuclear war. His fantasies of nuclear meltdown, genetic mutation, and post-apocalyptic survival find a focal point in 1982 when filming begins in Lawrence for The Day After, a film which would go on to become the second-highest Nielsen-rated TV movie. Despite cheesy special effects, melodramatic plotlines, and the presence of Steve Guttenberg, the movie had an instant and lasting impact on Church, and an entire generation. Combining interview, personal essay, film criticism, fact, and flights of imagination, Church’s richly layered and darkly comic memoir explores the meaning of Cold War fears for his generation and their resonance today.

I also learned how in one skirmish south of Lawrence, near the Kansas–Missouri
border, John Brown and a band of followers descended on a small community
supposedly dominated by proslavery sympathizers. He and his men rode in on
horseback, attacking the mostly defenseless farmers, hacking dozens of them to
death with broadswords and machetes. By most accounts, Brown was also a
raving homicidal lunatic. But he was our raving homicidal lunatic. We loved him
for the ...

A Guide to the Birds of Colombia

Describing all of Colombia's birds, Steven Hilty and William Brown bring together information on one of the world's largest avifaunas-nearly 1,700 species. Over half of all the species of birds in South America are included, thus making the book useful in regions adjacent to Colombia, as well as in the country itself. The primary purpose of the work is to enable observers to identify the birds of the region, but it also provides detailed species accounts and will serve as an important handbook and reference volume. Fifty-six lavish color plates, thirteen halftone plates, and ninety-nine line drawings in the text illustrate over 85% of the species, including most of the resident birds. Notes on the facing-page of each place, and range maps of 1,475 species, facilitate identification. Written with the field observer in mind, the text gives special attention to comparisons of similar species, transcriptions of voices, and comments on behavior, status, and habitat. It also provides ranges, breeding data, and references. Notes outline taxonomic problems and briefly describe species that eventually may be found in Colombia. Introductory chapters and photographs highlight Colombia's geography, climate, and vegetation, and discuss migration and conservation questions, and the history of Colombian ornithology. Appendices contain a large bibliography, a section on birding locations, and coverage of two of Colombia's far-flung island territories, Isla San Andrés and Providencia. Maps depicting vegetation zones, political boundaries, national parks, and the most text localities are included.

The primary purpose of the work is to enable observers to identify the birds of the region, but it also provides detailed species accounts and will serve as an important handbook and reference volume.

Navigating the Medical Maze

A Practical Guide

Consumers are bombarded with competing health-care suggestions. Too often, decisions are made from emotions, peer pressure, or marketing, rather than through careful investigation. Steven L. Brown guides readers through issues impacting medical choices, weaving a Christian worldview throughout his approach. Beginning with the positive and negative attributes of medical doctors, Brown examines principles of practice and the effect bias can have on a physician's recommendations. The author also gives readers tools to navigate the world of alternative medicine and work through the emotional impact of illness. A section of frequently asked questions rounds out an insider's view of some of the critical health-care issues of our time.

A Practical Guide Steven L. Brown. so the way to treat pneumonia is to administer
medications that cause vomiting. I explained this to Phronesis as gently as I could
. “I understand. My cousin had the same problem and got better after the same
treatment.” I spoke with her husband, Marcus, before I left. “Will she recover?” “In
all probability, yes. Not everyone with pneumonia recovers, but her youth is in her
favor.” ...

Dislocating Race & Nation

Episodes in Nineteenth-century American Literary Nationalism

American literary nationalism is traditionally understood as a cohesive literary tradition developed in the newly independent United States that emphasized the unique features of America and consciously differentiated American literature from British lite

It is generally acknowledged that Charles Bro ckden Brown was an American
literary nationalist. In his oft-cited prefatory note to Edgar Huntly (1799), he called
on American writers to address “the condition of our country,” maintaining that “
the field ofinvestigation, opened to us by our own country, should differ
essentially from those which exist in Europe.” Among the “new views” open to the
American writer, he stated somewhat self-servingly, were “incidents of Indian
hostility, and the ...

U.S. Traffic Calming Manual

A comprehensive how-to manual for traffic calming in the United States. Planners and engineers can look to this manual for guidance on the appropriate use, design, and signing and marking of traffic-calming measures. For local officials, developers, and community associations, it is an introduction to the goals and tactics of traffic calming. Based in part on the first traffic-calming manual taken through a formal rule-making process and adopted by a state department of transportation as a supplement to its roadway design manual, this book catalogs principles that have been modified by many local jurisdictions to match local priorities and preferences. Standardization is key to the success of traffic-calming initiatives, and this book explains the processes, tools, and design needed to create a standard traffic-calming program. It also shows how municipalities can build needed flexibility into such programs. Signage and markings are also key, and a chapter is devoted to these issues. This is the book that states and municipalities need to create effective traffic-calming programs.

"Appendix F: Emergency Response Tests in Beverly Hills" -- "F.1 Maneuverability Test" -- "F.2 Travel Time Test" -- "Appendix G: Traffic Diversion in Sacramento" -- "Index

FUGITIVE JUSTICE

Tells the stories of three of the most dramatic fugitive-slave trials of the 1850s, bringing to life the determination of the fugitives, the radical tactics of their rescuers, the brutality of the slave hunters and the response of the federal courts.

trials of the Oberlin rescuers attracted national attention in the spring and summer
of 1859, but they were soon overshadowed by events. Before the end of the year,
John Brown staged his attack at Harpers Ferry, only to be captured and hanged
for murder and treason. Brown's execution was inevitable from the moment of he
was taken prisoner, but the Virginia au- thorities still proceeded with the formality
of a trial. That trial provided Brown with the opportunity to deliver his defiant final
 ...