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Drawing on his legendary firearms knowledge and combat
experience, U.S. Navy SEAL and #1 bestselling author of American
Sniper Chris Kyle dramatically chronicles the story of
America--from the Revolution to the present--through the lens of
ten iconic guns and the remarkable heroes who used them to shape
history: the American long rifle, Spencer repeater, Colt .45
revolver, Winchester 1873 rifle, Springfield M1903 rifle, M1911
pistol, Thompson submachine gun, M1 Garand, .38 Special police
revolver, and the M16 rifle platform Kyle himself used. American
Gun is a sweeping epic of bravery, adventure, invention, and
sacrifice.
Featuring a foreword and afterword by Taya Kyle and illustrated
with more than 100 photographs, this new paperback edition features
a bonus chapter, "The Eleventh Gun," on shotguns, derringers, and
the Browning M2 machine gun.
According to a professional association of 67,000 pediatricians,
"the lifelong success of children is based on their ability to be
creative and to apply the lessons learned from playing." But
play-including physical activity, the arts, and even free play-is
being eliminated in our society and schools and despite huge
financial investment these education policies have not improved
learning. In Let the Children Play, the authors, both fathers of
school-age children, tell how switching countries - Pasi Sahlberg
brought his Finnish family to the United States, while William
Doyle brought his American family to Finland - shocked them into
writing this book. With research breakthroughs and case histories
from Finland, China, Singapore, Scotland, New York, Texas, and
around the world, the authors reveal how intellectual and physical
play is the ultimate engine of transforming education - the key to
giving our children the well-being, happiness, and skills they need
to thrive in the 21st century, including curiosity, creativity,
teamwork, problem-solving, communication, and empathy. Written for
parents, educators, and policymakers, this book reveals a striking
vision of an inspiring future of our children's education-and how
to make it happen.
The counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s remains a highly controversial and divisive topic in our society; virtually the only thing that anyone can agree on is its enormous impact on American life. Critics on the right complain of the shattering of cherished social norms, while those on the left take many movements to task for not going far enough and selling out. Amidst the recent flourishing of Sixties scholarship, Imagine Nation is the first collection to focus solely on the counterculture. Its fourteen provocative essays seek to unearth the complexity and rediscover the society-changing power of significant movements and figures. The fascinating constellation of topics covered include feminism, psychedelic drug experimentation, guerrilla theatre, the New Left, Jimi Hendrix, communal living, underground comics, and avant-garde film. As a whole, Imagine Nation offers exciting new interpretations of how the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s irrevocably changed American society.
The French Revolution is a time of history made familiar from
Dickens, Baroness Orczy, and Tolstoy, as well as the legends of let
them eat cake, and tricolours. Beginning in 1789, this period of
extreme political and social unrest saw the end of the French
monarchy, the death of an extraordinary number of people beneath
the guillotine's blade during the Terror, and the rise of Napoleon,
as well as far reaching consequences still with us today, such as
the enduring ideology of human rights, and decimalization. In this
Very Short Introduction, William Doyle introduces the French old
regime and considers how and why it collapsed. Retelling the
unfolding events of the revolution, he analyses why the
revolutionaries quarrelled with the king, the church and the rest
of Europe, why this produced Terror, and finally how it
accomplished rule by a general. Doyle also discusses how and why
the revolution destroyed the age-old cultural, institutional, and
social structures in France and beyond. In this new edition, Doyle
includes new sections highlighting the main developments in the
field since the first edition, before exploring the legacy of the
revolution in the form of rationality in public affairs and
responsible government. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short
Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds
of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books
are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our
expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and
enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly
readable.
What would happen if you built one of the world's most advanced
societies inside a forest-and strove to make women full partners in
power? After living for twenty-five years in New York, Naomi
Moriyama moved with her husband and co-author William Doyle and
their seven-year-old child to the vast forest of Finland's Karelia,
a mysterious region on the Russian border that helped inspire J.R.
R. Tolkien's Middle Earth fantasies. She entered a life-altering
zone of tranquility, peace, and beauty, the spiritual heart of the
nation ranked as the happiest nation on Earth, with among the
world's most empowered women. Finland is also the country with
cleanest air and water and the best schools, a country where
motherhood and fatherhood are championed by law, childhood is
revered, schoolchildren are required to play outdoors multiple
times a day, and trains contain mini-libraries and mini-playgrounds
for children to enjoy. It was here in the Karelian forest that
Naomi found a culinary symphony of succulent wild edibles, herbs,
berries, mushrooms and fish, all freshly plucked from the
moss-carpeted forest and sparkling clear streams. She also found
something that changed her life-a tribe of invincible women who
became her soul-sisters. As an idyllic summer and fall gave way to
a sub-Arctic winter of mind-bending darkness and cold, Naomi faced
her fears and her future. Over the course of six unforgettable
months with her family and her new "sisters", she found her life
transformed, and discovered the power that lay within her all
along. Then she tried to leave. But she kept coming back. Come,
take a journey deep into Europe's most distant, magical wilderness,
and join the sisterhood of the enchanted forest.
In the space of less than twenty years, Napoleon turned Europe
upside down. Rising from obscure origins to supreme power by a
mixture of luck, audacity and military genius, he was able to
harness the energies released by the French Revolution to resolve
the internal problems which it had created, before turning his
restless ambition to remodeling the political structure of the
whole continent in a series of brilliant military victories. He was
never able to finally subdue all his foreign enemies, and in the
end they came together to bring him down; but by then it was
impossible to restore what he had destroyed, or, in France, to
destroy much of what he had created. The memory of his epic
exploits, carefully refashioned during his last years in exile,
haunted Europe for over a century, while the more distant effects
of his career changed the whole destiny of the Americas and of the
world.
The counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s remains a highly controversial and divisive topic in our society; virtually the only thing that anyone can agree on is its enormous impact on American life. Critics on the right complain of the shattering of cherished social norms, while those on the left take many movements to task for not going far enough and selling out. Amidst the recent flourishing of Sixties scholarship, Imagine Nation is the first collection to focus solely on the counterculture. Its fourteen provocative essays seek to unearth the complexity and rediscover the society-changing power of significant movements and figures. The fascinating constellation of topics covered include feminism, psychedelic drug experimentation, guerrilla theatre, the New Left, Jimi Hendrix, communal living, underground comics, and avant-garde film. As a whole, Imagine Nation offers exciting new interpretations of how the counterculture of. the 1960s and 1970s irrevocably changed American society.
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