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  Everything You Know About...

  Matt Brown

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  A highly entertaining read for anyone interested in English history and culture, this great myth-busting book takes you on a great ride through history and the national character. Think we're the land of Punch and Judy and Morris Dancing? Think again as both traditions started in southern Europe. Love Winston Churchill's wartime speeches? Well, they were recorded by an actor.
  Packed with details on real English history, the book explodes a range of national myths from bluebirds in Dover (they are not indigenous European birds) to the origin of the Cornish pasty (they might have been invented in London), from our stiff upper lip (an Americanism) to where you can spend a Scottish bank note. English arts, entertainment, food, drink, kings and queens, traditions as well as politics are all covered to give you a fascinating insight into the true England.
  Includes an additional chapter on Scottish, Welsh and Irish myths that we've been peddling in England for decades and need to be laid to rest. 

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  A High Price for Freedom -...

  Clyde W. Ford

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  The author and director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Library Publishing Project gives voice to long silent African Americans from the past, allowing them to tell their own stories that shed new light on critical moments in the Black Freedom Struggle, challenging what we think we know about Black history.  
  History is at its best when new findings and perspectives challenge old ideas and notions about the past, and even overturn common wisdom. 
  What if a former enslaved man in Galveston, Texas, witnessed the first Juneteenth and told a completely different story from what most of us know about that day? Why were slave ships most prone to rebellion, including those carrying the most African women? How has Islam found its way into R&B, soul, jazz, and other American popular music? Who was Benjamin Banneker, really? 
  In A High Price for Freedom, historian Clyde W. Ford addresses these and other questions, amplifying little-known voices from the African American past. In this wide-ranging, impeccably researched book, Ford begins with the 1656 court case of a woman named Elizabeth Key, who won a verdict for her freedom against her would-be enslaver—a victory that would forever change the nature, brutality, and course of American slavery. 
  Ford examines a range of topics, from the role of women in fomenting slave revolts to an in-depth look at how Selma was not really about voting rights or even Martin Luther King, Jr, but about a twenty-six-year-old Black man named Jimmie Lee Jackson who was killed by an Alabama state trooper. As he laying dying in the only hospital that would treat Black people in February 1965, Jimmie Lee whispered to his nurse, a Catholic nun, “Sister, isn’t this a high price for freedom?” 
  Eye-opening, enlightening, and often counterintuitive, this fascinating history includes compelling, heartrending, and factual accounts about people and events in the African American past that teach us things we never learned and challenge the stories we thought we knew.

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  Essays: First Series History

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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  Time does not hold history—people do. Emerson's History is not a chronicle of names and dates, not a reverence for the past, but a revelation: every life is a vessel of all that came before. The individual is not separate from history but its continuation, its living pulse.
  Emerson does not ask his readers to study history; he asks them to recognize themselves within it. Every triumph, every downfall, every flash of genius from ages past is not distant—it is ours, woven into the mind that thinks, the hand that writes, the heart that dares. He strips away the illusion that history is locked in books and monuments, revealing it instead as something fluid, intimate, immediate.
  To read History is to sense the weight of the past not as burden, but as inheritance. It is to understand that the great figures of history are not giants standing above us but reflections of what we, too, might become. Emerson does not speak of history as a scholar—he speaks of it as a force, a presence, a whisper in the ear of every thinker bold enough to listen.

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  The Art of Syntax - Rhythm of...

  Ellen Bryant Voigt

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  With intelligence and precision, Ellen Bryant Voigt parses out the deft and alluring shape of poetic language in The Art of Syntax. Through brilliant readings of poems by Bishop, Frost, Kunitz, Lawrence, and others, Voigt examines the signature musical scoring writers deploy to orchestrate meaning. "This structure―this architecture―is the essential drama of the poem's composition," she argues. The Art of Syntax is an indispensable book on the writer's craft by one of America's best and most influential poets and teachers.

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  Empowering the Modern Witch -...

  Laurel Kelly

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  Tap into your truth. Unleash your power. Live unapologetically. 
  This collection of 3 books is designed to give everyone the discover Traditional Witchcraft and begin the journey toward their true purpose. Become a confident spellcaster, develop psychic abilities, and protect yourself from the negative energies around you.Book 1 - The Practical Witch’s Beginner Spellbook 
  Discover the path to your true self. 
  Within you lies limitless potential and the ability to take charge of your destiny.Discover the different types of witchcraft and which are best suited to you,Crafting your own spells, charms, and sigils, andMaster 11 increasingly challenging spells to build up your grimoire.Book 2 - Meditations for Psychics and Empaths 
  Are the people around you draining your energy? Damaging your mental health? 
  Psychics and empaths just experience the world differently.Tools to block, shield, and reflect negative psychic energy,Control of your abilities so you only receive psychic energy or experience empathic resonance when you desire, andWays to ground and center yourself to recharge your mind, body, and spirit.Book 3 - Protection and Reversal Spells 
  Does it feel like the universe is working against you? 
  There are forces beyond the physical realm, and not all of them are on your side.Craft your own protection charms and runes,Counter and reflect curses, hexes, and black magic with white magic, andCleanse yourself from internal negative energy and thoughts.

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  Advanced English Conversations...

  Robert Allans

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  You may have asked yourself whether there is some effective method that can make you speak English fluently, efficiently and with confidence. 
  Well, there is such a method! 
  Advanced English Conversations will first and foremost help you gain mastery and command of those tricky idioms and phrases that are so common in English. In this book you are going to be acquainted with 90 active dialogues that present the language functionally. In other words, you are going to learn exactly where and how to use the phrases effortlessly and with ease. All you need to do is to do the exercises below the dialogues and subsequently create similar dialogues on your own. This will integrate the phrases in your head in the form of a network. As a result, you are expected to master all the idioms and the phrases practically. Advanced English Conversations is designed to make a difference in the field of acquiring English as a Second Language. READ & SUCCEED

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