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  The Eternal Decline and Fall of...

  Edward J. Watts

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  As this book intriguingly explores, for those who would make Rome great again and their victims, ideas of Roman decline and renewal have had a long and violent history. 
   
   
    
  The decline of Rome has been a constant source of discussion for more than 2200 years. Everyone from American journalists in the twenty-first century AD to Roman politicians at the turn of the third century BC have used it as a tool to illustrate the negative consequences of changes in their world. Roman prophets of decline were, ultimately, proven correct—a fact that makes their modern invocations all the more powerful. 
   
   
   
  The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome tells the stories of the people who built their political and literary careers around promises of Roman renewal as well as those of the victims they blamed for causing Rome's decline. The story begins during the Roman Republic just after 200 BC. It proceeds through the empire of Augustus and his successors, traces the Roman loss of much of western Europe in the fifth century AD, and follows Roman history until its fall in 1453. If Rome illustrates the profound danger of the rhetoric of decline, it also demonstrates the rehabilitative potential of a rhetoric that focuses on collaborative restoration, a lesson of great relevance to our world today.

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  Izabela the Valiant: The Story...

  Adam Zamoyski

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  A Spectator Best Book of the Year 
  Trawling through a vast family archive and arcane sources in half a dozen languages, Adam Zamoyski has revealed the dramatic life of his great-great-great grandmother, an uneducated, vulnerable girl cast into a man’s world. 
  Her aristocratic position enmeshed her in high politics and close encounters with Frederick the Great, Benjamin Franklin, Rousseau, Joseph II, Marie-Antoinette and Tsar Alexander I, and earned her the enmity of Catherine the Great. She lived through revolution and no less than five wars, in which her cherished homes were devastated, her possessions looted and her children scattered. Caught up in tempestuous love affairs which led her to nervous breakdown and the brink of suicide, exploited by her lovers, she remained undaunted and liberated herself through education. And, unusually for her time, she became a caring mother devoted to her children. 
  She learned much by travelling extensively around Europe at a time of political and ideological change, and her observations, particularly on Georgian Britain, are remarkable. She gradually won the admiration of learned men and intellectual honours. She pioneered schooling for children of the poor and developed her own educational methods. Fascinated by the power of objects to kindle memories and arouse emotions, she was an avid collector of anything with a sensuous association and built two unique museums to act as teaching aids. 
  This is a story of triumph over adversity and betrayal. It was not achieved by her looks: ‘I have never been beautiful, but I have sometimes been pretty,’ she wrote. It was achieved by force of character and resilience. 
  This non-fiction biography of Izabela the Valiant, a woman of character and resilience, takes the reader on a journey through the rebellions and revolutions of her time. Her story, deeply intertwined with the history of Poland, is a captivating exploration of royalty, politics, and personal strength. 
  For fans of Christopher Clark (Kaiser Wilhelm II), Martyn C. Rady (The Habsburgs), Norman Davies (George II), Tom Holland (Athelstan), and Simon Sebag Montefiore (Jerusalem). 
  HarperCollins 2024

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  St Petersburg

  Kelly Mass

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  St Petersburg's structures lay over the skeletons of the press-ganged servant workers who worked to build it, making it the label "the city built on bones." Historians approximate that 100,000 18th-century slaves are buried underneath the city's stunning Italianate estates and large Parisian-style streets.They passed away of cold, appetite, illness, or, if they were truly unfortunate, wolves. They were drawn from all around the Russian Empire at the time. They dedicated their lives for the magnificence of Imperial Russia, and the city they built, St Petersburg, stands as a testimony to the Russian state's single-mindedness.Its extravagant palaces radiate European elegance and were actively built in a Western way to bring Russia closer to Europe.Still, more than 3 centuries later, Russia has yet to finish this journey, and St Petersburg is a witness to the trouble of the journey.Let’s take a look at what else makes Saint Petersburg such a unique place.

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  Power Of Small Wins The: How...

  Frederick Keith Lancaster

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  We can  teach young boys essential qualities that can foster lifelong confidence, high performance, and emotional wellbeing: core qualities needed for them to cultivate a complete dimensional life  In The Power of Small Wins: How Tiny Steps Can Lead to Big Success: 10 Must Have attributes Young Boys Need in Their Quest to Build Super Performance  Confidence  for Life, young boys will learn to develop these core attributes to transform their lives into strong and confident  people  to win every day of their lives. And the good news is that parents and teachers will assist them in this development efforts. 
  The book contains fun, exciting, and enjoyable exercises, with sections useful for young boys, their parents, and teachers to explore. They will also find tools to use in helping them along that journey. Caution: be prepared for your son’s and students’ dramatic positive changes. 
  This  is What They are Saying: 
  " It's advice strives to be immediately useful and often seems easy to implement" - Kirkus  
  ." The Power of Small Wins: How Tiny Steps Can Lead to Big Success beautifully reflects the very principles that guided our journey as a family.”- Rhonda Myers, mother of Miami Marlins outfielder Dane Myers 
  " This book resonates directly in helping boys to thrive, and it may serve toward that winning path”–Dr. Jacquelyn L. Denson-retired educator and current Presiding Elder, Montgomery/Selma, Alabama, 9th Episcopal District of The African Methodist Episcopal Church.

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  Easy Money - American Puritans...

  Dror Goldberg

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  A sweeping history of the American invention of modern money. 
  Economists endlessly debate the nature of legal tender monetary systems—coins and bills issued by a government or other authority. Yet the origins of these currencies have received little attention. 
  Dror Goldberg tells the story of modern money in North America through the Massachusetts colony during the seventeenth century. As the young settlement transitioned to self-governance and its economy grew, the need to formalize a smooth exchange emerged. Printing local money followed. 
  Easy Money illustrates how colonists invented contemporary currency by shifting its foundation from intrinsically valuable goods—such as silver—to the taxation of the state. Goldberg traces how this structure grew into a worldwide system in which, monetarily, we are all Massachusetts. Weaving economics, law, and American history, Easy Money is a new touchstone in the story of monetary systems.

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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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