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  Curious Punishments of Bygone Days

  Alice Morse Earle

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  Brought to you by Altrusian Grace Media and human-narrated by Matthew Schmitz. Curious Punishments of Bygone Days by Alice Morse Earle is a fascinating historical survey of the unusual, often humiliating punishments once used in colonial and early American communities. Drawing on court records, town histories, diaries, and other period sources, Earle describes devices and penalties such as the stocks, pillory, whipping post, ducking stool, branding, public cages, scarlet letters, and other forms of corporal punishment and public disgrace. Beyond cataloging these practices, she shows how punishment reflected the religious beliefs, moral standards, social expectations, and communal authority of earlier generations, when offenses ranging from drunkenness and gossip to Sabbath-breaking and disorderly behavior could bring highly visible consequences. Written with an antiquarian's eye for vivid detail, the book offers both an entertaining collection of strange historical customs and a revealing look at how ideas of crime, shame, discipline, and justice have changed over time.

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  Make Your Own History - Timeless...

  Joseph Holland

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  Celebrating the vast breadth and scope of Black excellence, Make Your Own History spotlights the principles of success exemplified by the lives of 120 Black role models who have blazed trails throughout American history. 
   
   
   
  Make Your Own History gathers together motivational quotes, historical contexts, and enlightening precepts from Black trailblazers spanning the eighteenth century to the present. These insights encompass twelve central themes: courage, self-discipline, compassion, perseverance, teamwork, integrity, industriousness, self-reliance, optimism, purposefulness, civility, and faith. These vigorous virtues will: 
   
   
   
  ● Deepen your courage through journalist Ida B. Wells's activism in the face of professional and personal peril 
   
   
   
  ● Fuel your perseverance through tennis superstar Serena Williams's journey to 23 Grand Slam singles titles 
   
   
   
  ● Spark optimism through poet Langston Hughes's work as an artistic and intellectual catalyst for the Harlem Renaissance 
   
   
   
  Through these perspectives and so many more, Make Your Own History serves not only as an uplifting historical resource, but also as a spiritual road map for the lifelong journey of purposefully setting and meeting personal goals.

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  El futuro se cuida solo

  José Andrés Rojo

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  «Quizá este ensayo no sea al fin y al cabo nada más que eso, un laboratorio de pruebas donde hacer resonar las voces de diferentes historiadores y pensadores y de distintos escritores y artistas para que sus obras sirvan como avanzadilla para entender el momento al que hemos llegado».
  Rojo explora las transformaciones de la sociedad moderna y a través de una mirada al pasado y de la mano de la literatura, la historia y la música profundiza sobre conceptos como «La nada» en torno a las revoluciones de 1848, «El grito» que aborda las vanguardias de principios del siglo xx, «El vals» sobre la reconstrucción de Europa y «La fractura» del fin de un mundo tras la caída del muro de Berlín, los atentados del 11-S y la llegada de la era digital.
  El futuro se cuida solo no pretende ofrecer respuestas fáciles ni un relato cerrado de la historia. Es una invitación a cada época desde sus propias circunstancias y a reflexionar sobre cómo han condicionado la forma en que entendemos nuestro tiempo. Una obra que invita al lector a reconocer los ecos del pasado en el presente y a cuestionar la consolidación de este nuevo soberano que, de la mano del móvil, lo quiere todo y lo quiere ahora.

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  Dirty Linen - The Troubles In My...

  Martin Doyle

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  Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times, offers a personal, intimate history of the Troubles seen through the microcosm of a single rural parish, his own, part of both the Linen Triangle – heartland of the North’s defining industry – and the Murder Triangle – the Badlands roamed by the Glenanne gang of security forces colluding with loyalist paramilarites. He lifts the veil of silence drawn over the horrors of the past, recording in heartrending detail the terrible toll the conflict took – more than 20 violent deaths in a few square miles – and the long tail of trauma it has left behind. He also conveys the texture of the times, the high streets where cars could not be left unattended, the newsflashes, the constant background buzz of threat and fear. 
  Neighbours and classmates who lost loved ones in the conflict, survivors maimed in bomb attacks and victims of sectarianism, both Catholic and Protestant, entrust him with their stories. Doyle marries his local knowledge with a literary sensibility and skilfully shows how the once dominant local linen industry serves as a metaphor for both communal division but also the solidarity that transcended the sectarian divide. 
  To those who might ask why you would want to reopen old wounds, the answer might be that some wounds have never been allowed to heal. It is by sharing our stories that we build a ridge of common ground from which good things can grow.

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  Westover - Giving Girls a Place...

  Laurie Lisle

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  Westover, a girls' high school in Middlebury, Connecticut, has evolved from a finishing school for the Protestant elite, including F. Scott Fitzgerald's first love, to a meritocracy for pupils of many religions and races from all around the world. The fascinating account of the ups and downs of this female community is the subject of Laurie Lisle's well-researched and beautifully illustrated book. It tells an important story about female education during decades of dramatic social change in America. 
  This school for girls was founded in 1909 by emancipated New Women. The author describes the innovations of the idealistic minister's daughter who founded the school, her intellectual successor who turned it into a college preparatory school in the 1930s, the quiet headmaster who struggled to keep it open during the turbulent 1970s, and the prize-winning mathematics teacher, wife, and mother who then lead the school into a new era.

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  Innocence of Mind

  James Dooley

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  This collection of stories centres on the evolution and state of modern society and explores the influences that science and education have on the psychology of youth.
  
  It is my hope that by sharing my life experiences, I might inspire new, different, and interesting ways to be…
  
  …when have you last thought about how you think? Or, when was the last time you were wondering where your dreams come from? And then, have you ever wondered if thinking and/or dreaming have any real significance at all?
  
  According to the stories in this book, "thinking and dreaming" are the foundations of being yourself, being creative, and nurturing a healthy mind/body spirit. Also, the stories within offer new ways to expand the imagination, to see different possibilities, and to go beyond the obvious. Indeed, these stories hope to inspire higher levels of being who you actually are, or better yet, who you might want to be.

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