From the rocky slopes of Kings Mountain to the plains of Hannah's Cowpens, the Carolina backcountry hosted two of the Revolutionary War's most critical battles. On October 7, 1780, the Battle of Kings Mountain utilized guerilla techniques- American Over Mountain Men wearing buckskin and hunting shirts and armed with hunting rifles attacked Loyalist troops from behind trees, resulting in an overwhelming Patriot victory. In January of the next year, the Battle of Cowpens saw a different strategy but a similar outcome: with brilliant military precision, Continental Regulars, dragoons and Patriot militia executed the war's only successful double envelopment maneuver to defeat the British. Using firsthand accounts and careful analysis of the best classic and modern scholarship on the subject, historian Robert Brown demonstrates how the combination of both battles facilitated the downfall of General Charles Cornwallis and led to the Patriot victory in America.

Maggie is desperate to end an emotionally abusive relationship, and must gather the courage to do so. Amidst her husband and three children, she has lost herself along the way. It's 1934 and The Great Depression is in full swing. To keep afloat during the depression, Tony gets into moving liquor for the mob. The wife he knocks about stays home with the kids while he's running around with women and whiskey. Maggie tolerates as much as she can, from the mouthy children, to the secrets of her in-laws. She's finding herself again, but she's had enough of men. Then again...there is this one gypsy. Maybe one day Maggie will come to appreciate the mysterious man standing outside her window at night?...Or not. Only time will tell which man will be the one who deserves her love. Maggie's family is stronger than ever as their deepest, darkest secrets find the light. Don't judge anyone else's position while your skeletons are crashing through the closet door. Is that bootleg liquor you're distilling?

This book is a collection of memories of a young man growing up in rural White County, Arkansas, who goes from illiteracy and poverty to becoming a scholar and physician.

This story takes place in today's world where an alien spaceship is pursued by another alien race and a battle ensues. The fleeing ship winds up in our sector of the universe needing extensive repairs and our industrial complex to repair their problems. Beyond the mechanical repairs required, the crew will not be able to return to their home without facing further encounters which require them to enlist additional crew members from Earth to help man their spaceship safely to their home planet.

This beautifully crafted memoir explores the life of the Reverend Howard William Brown, a senior pastor with the United Methodist Church, with powerful stories of one man's inner quest to grasp the very nature of eternity. "When I Get to Heaven" achieves a memorable portrait of Reverend Brown's dynamic spiritual journey, from his early childhood memories to an enlightened vision of the great beyond. Penned in the final year of his life, the book reveals deep insights into the 'great spirit of expectation' that captivates us while on earth and illuminates our path toward life eternal. From his last notes:

I am not afraid of my journey past this life. Heaven is wonderful and I could talk forever about eternity, but I will only say that I am not afraid to go on. How did I come to be a believer? The walk I have taken began in a crowded bakery in the 1930s in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I stood in line for my mother, waiting nervously to order one dozen coconut jelly cakes. Somehow, I found my way, many years later, to the steps of Drew Seminary where I found the grace and the words to begin to become a preacher. Yet there was more to come much more before I would step into my first pulpit. As life would have it, I would go off to war to find the prayer I did not know was in me, the prayer that would lead me to the ministry but that was years away, and I still had many life lessons to learn.

The thesis advanced in this book is that feeling and cognition actualize through a process that originates in older brain formations and develops outward through limbic and cortical fields through the self-concept and private space into (as) the world. An iteration of this transition deposits acts, objects, feelings and utterances. Value is a mode of conceptual feeling that depends on the dominant phase in this transition: from desire through interest to object worth. Among the topics covered are subjective time and change, the epochal nature of objects and their temporal extensibility and the evolution of value from inorganic matter into organic form. The theory of microgenesis informs this work. According to this theory, acts and objects evolve in milliseconds through phases that replicate patterns in forebrain evolution. The progression in the actualization of the mind/brain state is from archaic to recent in brain formation, from unity to diversity, from past to present and from mind to world. An account is given of the diversity of felt experience avoiding the reductionist moves characteristic of biological materialism and the inherent dualism of psychoanalytic and related theories. This book is intended for any reader interested in the psychology of the inner life and philosophy of mind, including philosophers, psychologists, psychiatrists and others with an interest in problems of value and moral feeling.

A representation gap has appeared in the British workplace as trade unions have declined. This book presents original research material from the ESRC's Future of Work program to assess current attempts to close the representation gap. Part One examines initiatives to restore the fortunes of the trade union movement through organizing, partnership and the representation of minorities in the workforce. Part Two looks at non-union representation and the role that works councils, voluntary organizations and single-issue campaigns can play in giving British workers a new voice at work.