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  Vagabonds - Life on the Streets...

  Oskar Jensen

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  Dickensian London is brought to real and vivid life in this innovative, accessible social history, revealing the true character of this place and time through the stories of its street denizens—shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2023 
   
   
   
  London, 1857: A pair of teenage girls holding a sign that says "Fugitive Slaves" ask for money on the corner of Blackman Street. After a constable accosts them and charges them with begging, they end up in court, where national newspapers pick up their story. Are the girls truly escaped slaves from Kentucky? Or will the city's dystopian Mendicity Society catch them in a lie, exposing them as born-and-raised Londoners and endangering their safety? 
   
   
   
  With its many accounts of people like these who lived and made their living on the streets, Vagabonds forms a moving picture of London's most compelling period (1780–1870). Piecing together contemporary sources such as newspaper articles, letters, and journal entries, historian Oskar Jensen follows the harrowing, hopeful journeys of the city's poor: children, immigrants, street performers, thieves, and sex workers, all diverse in gender, ethnicity, ability, and origin. For the first time, their own voices give us a radical new perspective on this moment in history, with its deep inequality that bears an astonishing resemblance to our own era's divides.

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  Random Thoughts for a Friday...

  Kathryn L. Hunter

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  This engaging collection of essays was originally published in The Daily Post Athenian newspaper during the tumultuous 2-year period of 2020-2021. The author, Kathryn L. Hunter, who holds a masters degree in Forestry from Yale University, deftly weaves natural science with social commentary into each article, creating a result that is both entertaining and wise.

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  The Grammar of Self - Collected...

  George Watt

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  In THE GRAMMAR OF SELF, George Watt presents a lifetime of memories, which seemingly move at random from decade to decade, from continent to continent, from cosmos to microcosm. It does have one central goal: to look at poetry as an attempt towards objectification of aspects of personal identity, as a means through which the self may be confronted, challenged and celebrated. But the volume of verse does more than that as it subscribes to a notion from Thomas Szasz about the self: it is “not something that one finds. It is something that one creates.” (T.S. Szasz, The Second Sin (New York: Anchor Press, 1973, p. 49.) This volume accepts that the poetic text, or multiples thereof, is one means through which a self finds articulation. This articulation is open-ended, chaotic, composed of innumerable experiential fragments that come from deed, time, place and person. The self in this volume is composed of psychic jigsaw pieces (single poems) each of which assert their right to placement, but which will never collate into a perfect picture. This volume of poetry is a collection of many of these pieces, which together present an incomplete movement towards Szaszian self-creation.

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  Norse Mythology Legends - Epic...

  History Brought Alive

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  Discover The Legendary Characters of Norse Mythology & Their Epic Stories 
  The Norse God Odin went to great lengths in his quest for knowledge…and as long as there is breath in your lungs, your quest for knowledge should never stop… 
  Odin learned alone, but he would often turn to the council of gods and his ravens for guidance...Imagine yourself as Odin and us as your ravens who have collected the stories, myths and legendary characters of Norse Mythology for you. 
  So, take your place upon your own Hlidskjalf, and let’s get ready to meet the characters of Norse mythology! 
  Inside this book you will discover:The Characters of Norse Mythology - Myths, Quests, Stories & MoreExplore The History of Norse Mythology & The Viking Age - what happened, what drove them to pillage and plunder, and was it all just myths?Enjoy Epic Stories including - The Aesir-Vanir War, Loki’s Pranks, Thor & The Giant’s Bride, Valhalla, The Twilight of The Gods & many moreA Brief But Detailed Re-Telling of The Creation Myth + we can’t mention creation without destruction - Ragnarök & The End of The World!Discover The Nine Realms of Norse Cosmology Held in the Branches & Roots of The World Tree of YggdrasilUncovering The History & Beliefs of Ásatrú (the ancient religion of The Vikings) 
  And much, much more! 
  Begin your quest into Norse Mythology & its Legendary Characters with This Book!

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  Black History - The History of...

  Kelly Mass

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  This book contains 2 topics, which are subdivided into a first and second section. The topics are these: 
  Topic 1: The history of African-Americans has been complicated and controversial. While some will fight against racism, others deny the severity of it throughout the ages. Whether or not the issue is as serious as it used to be, is a separate topic for debate. 
  In this guide, you will not read much about opinions but about facts. Society has come a long way since the inauguration of slavery and suppression of the minority in the United States. As leaders stood up and laws have been adjusted one by one, more freedoms have been secured to what nowadays constitutes about 10-20% of the population. Whether it’s enough, is another question that divides political enthusiasts. 
  You will learn more about the first slavery, the rise of the cotton market in the southern states, the abolitionism of slavery, the separation, and individuals like Martin Luther King and Malcolm X who have made a significant impact on the common perspective on these issues. Many things have changed over the past two centuries. Let’s find out what. 
  Topic 2: The Haitian Revolution has played a big role in the history of abolishing slavery. Its significant influence on the Civil War in the United States in the 1860s has probably been underestimated by many. 
  The English and French already had conflicts elsewhere, and the Napoleon wars greatly contributed to these disagreements. Aside from that, the nation of Haiti was still in its early stages, with plantations being populated by African slaves the settlers had captured and brought into servitude. Abuse and exploitation were common faces in many people’s lives, but the Haitian Revolution brought many changes to that.

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  Geronimo - The Influential...

  Kelly Mass

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  Geronimo, a legendary Apache leader and medicine man from the Bedonkohe band, played a pivotal role in resisting Mexican and American military forces during the 19th century. Between 1850 and 1886, he worked with warriors from three other Chiricahua Apache bands—Tchihende, Tsokanende, and Nednhi—to carry out daring raids and resist encroachments on Apache lands. Their campaigns spanned northern Mexico, including the states of Chihuahua and Sonora, and the southwestern territories of the United States, particularly New Mexico and Arizona.  
  This era of conflict was part of the broader Apache–United States struggle, which arose after American colonization of Apache territories following the conclusion of the U.S.-Mexico War in 1848. For the Apaches, life on government-imposed reservations clashed with their fiercely independent spirit and traditional nomadic lifestyle. Geronimo emerged as a key figure leading resistance against these constraints. Despite his reputation, Geronimo was not a chief of the Chiricahua or Bedonkohe bands. However, his exceptional skills as a leader in raids and warfare earned him the loyalty of many Apache warriors, often commanding between 30 and 50 fighters at a time. 

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