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  Tenth Army Commander - The World...

  Christopher L. Kolakowski

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  Finalist, 2024 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Awards"...an outstanding volume, which is extremely beneficial for two key reasons. First, it adds significantly to one’s understanding of the Battle of Okinawa and to the operations of the Alaska Defense Command. Second, it provides readers with an opportunity to become acquainted or to greatly improve their understanding of Buckner." — Military Review
  
  Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. was a major figure of the Pacific War, both for his command in Alaska and in his key role heading Tenth Army during the Battle of Okinawa in the spring of 1945. Buckner was the senior U.S. officer killed by enemy fire in World War II when Japanese artillery cut him down on June 18, 1945, one month shy of his 59th birthday. The shelling ended a remarkable life – son of a Confederate Lieutenant General and governor of Kentucky, the “Child of the Democracy” in the 1896 Presidential election campaign, educated at West Point, myriad service as a student and instructor at various Army posts and schools from 1917 to 1936, command in Alaska from 1940 to 1944, and ultimately of Tenth Army from 1944 to his death.
  
  General Buckner kept a diary covering the period from January 1, 1944 to June 17, 1945, which has never been fully published until now. Buckner made notes every day, often in great detail; his chief of staff thought Buckner wanted to write a memoir after the war, but the papers were scattered after his death. In addition to the Okinawa material, Buckner’s diaries discuss his departure from Alaska and service in Hawaii as Tenth Army commander. Topics include his daily life in wartime Hawaii, troop training, comments on war events, gossip, notes on his travels to Guam and the Philippines, and his role in the Smith vs Smith controversy after the Battle of Saipan. The diary text is augmented by letters from General Buckner to his wife Adele during March to June 1945, and a letter from the Tenth Army Chief of Staff to Adele detailing Buckner's death.
  
  Tenth Army Commander is an important account from a too-long-silent voice among Pacific War leaders.

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  The Nail in the Skull and Other...

  Simon Young

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  In the last fifty years, folklorists have amassed an extraordinary corpus of contemporary legends including "the Choking Doberman," "the Eaten Ticket," and "the Vanishing Hitchhiker." But what about the urban legends of the past? These legends and tales have rarely been collected, and when they occasionally appear, they do so as ancestors or precursors of the urban legends of today, rather than as stories in their own right. 
   
   
   
  In The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends, Simon Young fills this gap for British folklore (and for the wider English-speaking world) of the 1800s. Young introduces seventy Victorian urban legends ranging from "Beetle Eyes" to the "Shoplifter's Dilemma" and from "Hands in the Muff" to "the Suicide Club." While a handful of these stories are already known, the vast majority have never been identified, and they have certainly never received scholarly treatment. 
   
   
   
  Young begins the volume with a lengthy introduction assessing nineteenth-century media, emphasizing the importance of the written word to the perpetuation and preservation of these myths. He draws on numerous nineteenth-century books, periodicals, and ephemera, including digitized newspaper archives—particularly the British Newspaper Archive, an exciting new hunting ground for folklorists.

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  Technology and Work - Revealing...

  Zoey Fraisers

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  Prepare to see your professional and digital life through an entirely new lens. 
  In this groundbreaking collection, we examine the hidden forces reshaping our workplaces and technological experiences. Drawing from extensive research and firsthand accounts, this comprehensive guide equips you with crucial insights that could transform your career trajectory, digital habits, and overall wellbeing. 
  THE SHOCKING TRUTH ABOUT WORKPLACE HARASSMENT 
   The systemic patterns enabling harassment to persist in modern organizations and the institutional failures that protect perpetrators. Uncover the documented tactics used to silence victims, the real costs beyond lawsuits, and actionable strategies to create genuinely safe work environments. 
  THE SHOCKING TRUTH ABOUT WORK ETHICS 
   How corporate culture manipulates employees through weaponized values and hollow mission statements. Learn to identify toxic productivity demands, recognize when loyalty is exploited, and develop personal boundaries that protect your wellbeing while advancing your career on your terms. 
  THE SHOCKING TRUTH ABOUT TECHNOLOGY ADDICTION 
   The deliberate design choices that keep you scrolling, clicking, and engaged beyond healthy limits. Discover the neurological impacts of constant connectivity, the data collection occurring during every interaction, and practical methods to reclaim your attention and mental space. 
  THE SHOCKING TRUTH ABOUT ONLINE EDUCATION 
   The gap between educational promises and outcomes in the digital learning revolution. Explore how credentials are being commodified, attention spans undermined, and which approaches actually deliver meaningful learning experiences versus those designed primarily for profit. 
  Stop accepting workplace dysfunction and technological manipulation as inevitable.

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  How to Be Curious

  Olivia Werner

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  [How to Be Curious] unfolds like a meditation on the art of questioning everything, weaving together the delicate threads of wonder and discovery that shape our understanding of the world. Within these pages lies an intricate exploration of what it means to remain perpetually inquisitive, told with the same careful attention to the inner workings of human nature that marks the best contemporary literary fiction. Through lyrical prose that captures the essence of intellectual awakening, this guide illuminates the subtle ways curiosity transforms ordinary moments into extraordinary revelations. Drawing from both scientific rigor and artistic sensitivity, it challenges readers to rediscover their capacity for wonder, teaching them to navigate the delicious uncertainty that lies between knowing and not knowing. This isn't just another self-help manual – it's an intimate conversation about the courage it takes to remain open to life's endless possibilities, about finding beauty in the questions themselves rather than rushing toward answers.

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  Nineveh - History of the Ancient...

  Kelly Mass

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  Nineveh was an age-old Assyrian city in Upper Mesopotamia, near Mosul in modern-day northern Iraq. It was the capital and biggest city of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, and the world's biggest city for some decades, and is on the eastern bank of the Tigris River. It's now a prevalent name for the portion of Mosul that's on the Tigris' eastern bank, and it is also the name of the nation's Nineveh Governorate. 
  It was the world's largest city for about fifty years till it was sacked by a union of its previous subject tribes, including but not limited to the Babylonians, Medes, Persians, Scythians, and Cimmerians, in the year 612 BC, following a severe period of civil dispute in Assyria. The city was never ever a political or administrative center again, though it was the seat of a Christian bishop by Late Antiquity. Throughout the Middle Ages, it weakened in contrast to Mosul and was mainly deserted by the 13th century AD. 
  In the Bible, it has been mentioned several times, and it is the center of attention in the story of Jonah, who was swallowed up by a whale or fish and spat out on the beach, only to hear from God that he still needed to go to Nineveh and give the people a chance to repent. 
  There is much more to this mysterious city of the ancient. Learn more by reading or listening to this book!

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  24 Hours in Ancient China - A...

  Yijie Zhuang

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  Spend twenty-four hours with the ancient Chinese. 
   
   
   
  Travel back to AD 17, during the fourth year of the reign of Wang Mang of the Han dynasty, a vibrant and innovative era full of conflicts and contradictions. But as different as the Han culture might have been to other great ancient civilizations, the inhabitants of ancient China faced the same problems as people have for time immemorial: earning enough money, coping with workplace dramas, and keeping your home in order—although the equivalent in this era was more about bribing inspectors, avoiding bullying from abusive watchmen, and trying to keep your house from being looted by Huns. 
   
   
   
  In each chapter we meet one of twenty-four citizens of this ancient culture, from the midwife to the soldier, the priest to the performer, and the blacksmith to the tomb looter, and see what an average day in ancient China was really like.

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