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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.
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Virgil's Aeneid
W Brown
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R1,234
Discovery Miles 12 340
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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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.
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