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  Hidden History of Texas 1836 –...

  Hank Wilson

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  The Texans have defeated Santa Anna at San Jacinto and now start the process of establishing an identify for themselves. First as a Republic and then as a new state and part of the United States. 
   
  This was a chaotic time in Texas history. There was infighting among the leaders, violent and bloody clashes with the native peoples, distrust of the Mexican population, and a lust for power among the new Anglo immigrants. This book covers the policies of one of the great Texas political leaders Sam Houston and one of the most power-hungry leaders in Texas history Mirabeau B. Lamar. 
   
  Topics include a look at the Comanche, Apache, Kiowa, and Cherokee peoples, how they lived and how they were affected by this new country. I also take a preliminary look at a group who is, depending on your point of view, either famous heroes or infamous villains, Los Diablos Tejanos, AKA, the Texas Rangers. I talk about how Texas was formed into an actual independent nation, and I look at exactly how Texas finally ended up being annexed by the United States not as a territory but rather as a state. 
   
   
  Track List 
  Introduction 1:48 
  Chapter 1 – Independence 7:37 
  Chapter 2 – Sam Houston and the New Republic 12:11 
  Chapter 3 – The Republic and Relations with the Tribes 8:33 
  Chapter 4 – The Comanches - Finest Horsemen on the Plains 10:24 
  Chapter 5 -  The Apaches - Fierce Warriors of the Southwest 15:56 
  Chapter 6 – The Kiowa - Nomadic Warriors of the Plains 11:52 
  Chapter 7 – The Cherokee – The Principal People Part 1 10:28 
  Chapter 8 – The Cherokee – The Principal People Part 2 6:31 
  Chapter 9 – Los Diablos Tejanos – 6:54 
  Chapter 10 – Texas Finally Becomes a Nation 12:34 
  Chapter 11 – Texas Becomes a State 11:03 
  Conclusion 00:54

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  The Grammar Of Restraint - A...

  Dolly Ronnai

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  The Grammar of Restraint is a structural inquiry into what happens when lived experience exceeds the narrative systems designed to contain it. 
  Western literature possesses refined tools for argument, theology, psychology, and analysis — but lacks a stable grammar for inner dialogue. When anomalous experience appears, it is often reduced to doctrine, diagnosis, or dismissal. 
  This book proposes something different: restraint. 
  Through four structural "Arcs," Dolly Ronnai examines how experience moves through stages of interpretation: 
  • Experience without instruction 
  • Analysis without doctrine 
  • Narrative without authority 
  • Incarnation without command 
  Rather than offering belief, this work offers containment — a method for holding unresolved experience without collapsing it into premature explanation. 
  Blending philosophy, narrative theory, religious history, and epistemological reflection, The Grammar of Restraint asks: 
  What if the problem is not the experience — but the grammar that attempts to contain it? 
  For readers interested in philosophy of consciousness, metaphysics, narrative structure, religious foundations, and the boundary between dreaming and waking life, this book offers a disciplined alternative to belief and denial alike. 
  It does not instruct. 
  It does not convert. 
  It does not conclude. 
  It builds a structure that can hold uncertainty without distortion.

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  Social Security Horror Stories -...

  Terry Savage, Laurence J. Kotlikoff

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  Learn how to make sure you get the correct Social Security benefits, avoid frightening clawbacks, and how to deal with the opaque bureaucracy of Social Security. 
   
   
   
  Social Security admits it has made $21.6 billion in incorrect benefits payments! Now it wants its money back—from widows, orphans, retired schoolteachers, and even young children whose parents received disability benefits on their behalf. 
   
   
   
  Often with no explanation, they send threatening letters clawing back amounts ranging from several thousand dollars to more than $100,000. The clawback notices all carry the threat that benefits will be stopped immediately if a repayment plan is not set. 
   
   
   
  But it's almost impossible to get an explanation, the records, or an appointment for a resolution of these clawback demands. It could happen to you—or to someone you love. 
   
   
   
  We wrote this book to help you and let you know you're not alone. We are also working to pressure Congress and the Treasury Secretary to prevent these intimidating clawback interactions that impact our most vulnerable citizens.

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  The Missing Anthology: Stories...

  nor, Vanessa Ho, Raksha Mahtani

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  Sex workers in Singapore — and most places around the world — tend to be dehumanised, glamourised or sensationalised by the public and media alike. Rarely do mainstream narratives centre sex workers’ voices and agency. The Missing Anthology presents fifteen bold new voices from sex workers, whose writings resist society’s simplistic assumptions about sex work. In these works, authors recount their lived experiences, share their struggles and triumphs, and imagine different futures for the sex industry. 
   
  Born from an open call and writing workshops organised by Project X — the only non-profit organisation in Singapore that provides social, emotional, and health services to people in the sex industry — these pieces daringly experiment with form, genre, and perspective. In these pages, you’ll find two “chickens” discussing their dreams while blowing up a condom; pieces on the dynamics of domme-ing and servicing second-hand hearts; essays on the importance of activism and its obstacles; short fiction exploring fantasies of violent liberation; tender letters to loved ones and younger selves that reflect on their journeys and how far they’ve come. 
   
  The Missing Anthology re-centres sex workers’ voices from the margins, bringing them into the conversation about an industry often treated as illicit and taboo. By doing so, it aims to address issues of inequality, social and economic mobility, stigmatization, and safety that are fuelled by misconceptions about sex workers and their profession.

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  The True Story of Thanksgiving...

  William Blatch

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  History is full of missing pieces, fragments, and half-truths... The tale of our beloved Thanksgiving is no exception.  
  We know the story of the Pilgrims and the Wampanoags that taught them how to harvest the land. We celebrate Thanksgiving each year to commemorate their friendly interaction through feasts of our own.  
  But the stories we know of the happy gathering in 1621 aren’t all that they seem.  
  Amongst the feasting and budding relationships were genocide, disease, and atrocities too great to include around the dinner table.  
  Legacies worthy of being told are shared. The violence following the giddy union is brought to light. The genocide of the native peoples of America is uncovered. The True Story of Thanksgiving, Smallpox, and Native Genocide amplifies the voices muffled by historians to reveal the true history of the holiday.  
  Join William Blatch in his first book in the History as We Never Knew It series and learn how to look at history with a critical eye. unravel the false truths of well-known stories and tales. examine the bigger picture behind retellings of history. see the full truth in all its depth and color.  
  History is written by the winners... but not in its entirety. Read now to see all sides of the story and determine for yourself what truths should be told! 

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  The Era of Revolution - 1775-1796

  George Washington, Maximilian de...

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  Six speeches about freedom and revolution from the American, French and Irish revolutions.The first two speeches are from the American Revolutionary war (1775-1783). Patrick Henry’s “Give me Liberty or give me death” is recognized even today, two centuries since Henry spoke at the Second Virginia Convention to an audience including Thomas Jefferson and George Washington. The speech is credited with providing troops from Virginia for the revolutionary war.In the Newburgh Address, Washington and implores his army to put their faith in him. A mutiny was proposed because Congress has not paid them as promised. Washington needed to make clear to his generals that there was no option to surrender or turn away to unsettled lands, and that he was with them and on their side in the thick of both war and politics.Next is William Wilberforce’s Abolition Speech to the British parliament in 1789, the apex of a campaign that led to slavery being outlawed across the British Empire.Speeches from the French revolution then follow. First, there is the reaction from the aristocracy in England; a valediction from Edmund Burke, an MP in the British Parliament, on the beauty of Marie Antoinette and his sadness at her passing.Four speeches follow by Maximilien de Robespierre, a foundational member of the French Revolution, who laid down the political philosophy of liberty and the moral law over divinity and customary law. The speeches are filled with a passion for direct democracy and the rule of the people, not the elites.The volume ends with a more measured, but no less impassioned, address by the Irish lawyer and statesman John Curran. It was given in Curran’s defence of Archibald Rowan, who was sentenced to transportation to Australia for his treasonous activities fighting for Irish independence. While unsuccessful, this rallying cry for genuine self-determination and free speech captures the heart of the conflicts that defined the era.

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