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Whether you have a close relative with dementia, a history of
high-risk factors for this condition, or a diagnosis of MCI (mild
cognitive impairment) you may be concerned to know how personally
'at risk' you or a loved one is, and what you can do to 'dodge'
what is definitely not inevitable. In this second edition of her
highly regarded Essential Guide to Avoiding Dementia, Mary Jordan
guides readers through the many factors associated with developing
dementia and the science behind our current understanding,
including: diet, exercise, trauma, pharmaceuticals, genetics,
social isolation, sleep, neurological deficits such as hearing
loss, insulin resistance and diabetes type 2. Based on her
professional and personal experience of working, Mary offers a
programme from which the individual reader can choose what works
for them and their individual risks and circumstances.
There is a steady stream of articles and books about 'miraculous'
cures from the chronic illnesses that face us in the 21st century:
autoimmune conditions such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis;
neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson's, MS and
Alzheimer's; and many cancers. But if all these individual cases
are brought together and reviewed systematically, something much
more practical and less miraculous emerges - a set of principles to
guide us to better health and a greater chance of recovery. Dr
Jerry Thompson draws on an immense range of case histories and
research studies to show how what we eat, the toxic load we carry,
the environmental electromagnetic fields we live in, and our
beliefs and attitudes to health and illness can change the course
of disease. The result is a practical guide to what we can learn
from 'survivors' about how to improve our chances of good health
and recovery.
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Walker Evans: Labor Anonymous (Hardcover)
Walker Evans; Edited by Thomas Zander; Text written by David Campany, Heinz Liesbrock, Jerry Thompson
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As many as 9,5000 men of Hispanic heritage fought in the United
States' Civil War. In Texas, the bitter conflict deeply divided the
Tejanos- Texans of Mexican heritage. An estimated 2,500 fought in
the ranks of the Confederacy while 950, including some Mexican
nationals, fought for the Stars and Stripes, Vaqueros in Blue &
Gray, originally published in 1976, is the story of these Tejanos
who participated in the Civil War. This valuable resource for both
the history of the Civil War and for the important role of the
Tejanos in the history of Texas relates the various battles and
skirmishes at Eagle Pass, Laredo, Carrizo (Zapata), Los Patricios,
Las Rucias, the final Confederate expedition against Brownsville,
and the last battle of the Civil War at Palmito Ranch. Included is
the story of the Tejanoswho fought in the Union Army and saw action
in Louisiana and in the Rio Grande Valley. This new edition of the
history of these vaqueros contains the first comprehensive list,
containing almost 4,000 names, ever compiled of the Confederate and
Union Hispanics from Texas who served in the war. Vaqueros in Blue
& Gray presents a stirring saga of these brave people, their
land, and their epic role in the Civil War and in the history of
Texas.
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Berkeley Noir (Hardcover)
Jerry Thompson, Owen Hill; Contributions by Barry Gifford, Jim Nisbet, Lexi Pandell, …
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Beautifully written and illustrated, this Special Edition of FUZZIE
WUZ SHE includes questions and discussion located conveniently in
the back of the book to help parents, teachers and facilitators
impart wisdom, insight, and teach young children some of their most
important lessons Be sure to order the Young Readers Edition of
FUZZIE WUZ SHE
At a time when the U.S.-Mexican border was still not clearly
defined and when the doctrine of Manifest Destiny and land hunger
impelled the Anglo presence ever deeper and more intrusively into
South Texas, Juan Nepomucino Cortina cut a violent swath across the
region in a conflict that came to be known as The Cortina War. Did
this border caudillo fight to defend the rights, honour, and legal
claims of the Mexicans of South Texas, as he claimed? Or was his a
quest for personal vengeance against the newcomers who had married
into his family, threatened his mother's land holdings, and
insulted his honour? Historian Jerry Thompson mines the archival
record and considers it in light of recent revisionist history of
the region. As a result, he produces not only a carefully nuanced
work on Cortina - the most comprehensive to date for this pivotal
borderlands figure - but also a balanced interpretation of the
violence that racked South Texas from the 1840s through the 1860s.
Cortina's influence in the region made him a force to be reckoned
with during the American Civil War. He influenced Mexican politics
from the 1840s to the 1870s and fought in the Mexican Army for more
than forty-five years. His daring cross-border cattle raids,
carried out for more than two decades, made his exploits the stuff
of sensational journalism in the newspapers of New York, Boston,
and other American cities. By the time of his imprisonment in 1877,
Cortina and his followers had so roiled South Texas that Anglo
reprisals were being taken against Mexicans and Tejanos throughout
the region, ironically worsening the racism that had infuriated
Cortina in the beginning. The effects of this troubled period
continue to resonate in Anglo-Mexican and Anglo-Tejano relations,
down to this very day. Students of regional and borderlands history
will find this premier biography to be a rich source of new
perspectives. Its transnational focus and balanced approach will
reward scholarly and general readers alike.
Growing up, Jerry Thompson knew only that his grandfather was a
gritty, ""mixed-blood"" Cherokee cowboy named Joe Lynch Davis. That
was all anyone cared to say about the man. But after Thompson's
mother died, the award-winning historian discovered a shoebox full
of letters that held the key to a long-lost family history of
passion, violence, and despair. Wrecked Lives and Lost Souls, the
result of Thompson's sleuthing into his family's past, uncovers the
lawless life and times of a man at the center of systematic cattle
rustling, feuding, gun battles, a bloody range war, bank robberies,
and train heists in early 1900s Indian Territory and Oklahoma.
Through painstaking detective work into archival sources, newspaper
accounts, and court proceedings, and via numerous interviews,
Thompson pieces together not only the story of his grandfather -
and a long-forgotten gang of outlaws to rival the infamous Younger
brothers - but also the dark path of a Cherokee diaspora from
Georgia to Indian Territory. Davis, born in 1891, grew up on a
family ranch on the Canadian River, outside the small community of
Porum in the Cherokee Nation. The range was being fenced, and for
the Davis family and others, cattle rustling was part of a way of
life - a habit that ultimately spilled over into violence and
murder. The story ""goes way back to the wild & wooly cattle
days of the west,"" an aunt wrote to Thompson's mother, ""when
there was cattle rustling, bank robberies & feuding."" One of
these feuds - that Joe Davis was ""raised right into"" - was the
decade-long Porum Range War, which culminated in the murder of
Davis's uncle in 1907. In fleshing out the details of the range war
and his grandfather's life, Thompson brings to light the brutality
and far-reaching consequences of an obscure chapter in the history
of the American West.
"Robert E. Lee in Texas" introduces a little known phase of the
great General's career--his service in Texas during the four
turbulent years just preceding the Civil War. In this account Carl
Coke Rister takes us with Lee to his lonely posts on the border,
and we share with him the hazardous and often fruitless chases
after bands of American Indians and Mexicans. We see through the
eyes of the "Academy man" the raw life on the frontier and hear
through his own words his impressions of the country and
people.
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For a half century, John Ellis Wool (1784-1869) was one of
America's most illustrious figures - most notably as an officer in
the United States Army during the War of 1812, the Mexican-American
War, and the Civil War. At the onset of the Civil War, when he
assumed command of the Department of the East, Wool had been a
brigadier general for twenty years and, at age seventy-seven, was
the oldest general on either side of the conflict. Courage Above
All Things marks the first full biography of Wool, who aside from
his unparalleled military service, figured prominently in many
critical moments in nineteenth-century U.S. history. At the time of
his death in 2016, Harwood Hinton, a scholar with an encyclopedic
knowledge of western history, had devoted fifty years to this
monumental work, which has been completed and edited by the
distinguished historian Jerry Thompson. This deeply researched and
deftly written volume incorporates the latest scholarship to offer
a clear and detailed account of John Ellis Wool's extraordinary
life - his character, his life experiences, and his career, in
wartime and during uneasy periods of relative peace. Hinton and
Thompson provide a thorough account of all chapters in Wool's life,
including three major wars, the Cherokee Removal, and battles with
Native Americans on the West Coast. From his distinguished
participation in the War of 1812 to his controversial service on
the Pacific coast during the 1850s, and from his mixed success
during the Peninsula Campaign to his overseeing of efforts to quell
the New York City draft riots of 1863, John Ellis Wool emerges here
as a crucial character in the story of nineteenth-century America -
complex, contradictory, larger than life - finally fully realized
for the first time.
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