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  Women's Diaries of the Westward...

  Lillian Schlissel, Mary Clearman...

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  More than a quarter of a million Americans crossed the continental United States between 1840 and 1870, going west in one of the greatest migrations of modern times. The frontiersmen have become an integral part of our history and folklore, but the Westering experiences of American women are equally central to an accurate picture of what life was like on the frontier. 
   
   
   
  Through the diaries, letters, and reminiscences of women who participated in this migration, Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey gives us primary source material on the lives of these women, who kept campfires burning with buffalo chips and dried weeds, gave birth to and cared for children along primitive and dangerous roads, drove teams of oxen, picked berries, milked cows, and cooked meals in the middle of a wilderness that was a far cry from the homes they had left back east. Still (and often under the disapproving eyes of their husbands) they found time to write brave letters home or to jot a few weary lines at night into the diaries that continue to enthrall us. 
   
   
   
  In her new foreword, Professor Mary Clearman Blew explores the enduring fascination with this subject among both historians and the general public, and places Schlissel's groundbreaking work into an intriguing historical and cultural context.

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  Oceans of Grain - How American...

  Scott Reynolds Nelson

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  An "incredibly timely" global history journeys from the Ukrainian steppe to the American prairie to show how grain built and toppled the world's largest empires (Financial Times). To understand the rise and fall of empires, we must follow the paths traveled by grain—along rivers, between ports, and across seas. In Oceans of Grain, historian Scott Reynolds Nelson reveals how the struggle to dominate these routes transformed the balance of world power. Early in the nineteenth century, imperial Russia fed much of Europe through the booming port of Odessa, on the Black Sea in Ukraine. But following the US Civil War, tons of American wheat began to flood across the Atlantic, and food prices plummeted. This cheap foreign grain spurred the rise of Germany and Italy, the decline of the Habsburgs and the Ottomans, and the European scramble for empire. It was a crucial factor in the outbreak of the First World War and the Russian Revolution. A powerful new interpretation, Oceans of Grain shows that amid the great powers’ rivalries, there was no greater power than control of grain.“American cotton changed the world in the first half of the nineteenth century, American wheat in its second half. Scott Reynolds Nelson’s globe-spanning exploration of the powers of a humble grain to topple empires, enable industrialization, build cities, and redirect trade flows is the kind of commodity history one wishes for: attentive to politics, connected as well as comparative in perspective, and with a knack for telling details. After reading this fast-paced book, the wars, revolutions, and empires of the nineteenth century will never seem the same.”―Sven Beckert, author of Empire of Cotton

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  The Last Commander - The Once...

  Sami Sadat

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  The compelling inside story of how America abandoned Afghanistan. 
   
   
   
  When America retreated from Kabul amid chaos in 2021, Lieutenant General Sami Sadat, the last commander of the army of the Afghan republic, was still fighting to the end. In this firsthand account, he reveals how his troops were starved of ammunition for two years before the final pullout, while America was glad-handing the Taliban. Although Sadat spent his early career fighting alongside the CIA to track down al-Qaeda in the mountains of the Hindu Kush, it was in conventional combat—leading from the front—that he made his name. In The Last Commander, he contends that Afghanistan could have won the war if support had continued. President Biden may have ended America's longest war, but the story does not end there. Now Sadat's birth country is plunged into barbarism, where women are beaten for showing their face and his former comrades are hunted down and killed. But Sadat is planning to fight back. It will not be easy, but this riveting personal account of combat shows that if anyone can do it, he can. 
   
   
   
  Sadat's story was told in the Emmy Award–winning documentary Retrograde. Now he tells it for himself.

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  Purpose of Love - The Brain’s...

  Usha Topalkatti

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  Purpose of Love is a bold, unfiltered journey into the raw emotions, choices, and consequences that shape our deepest connections. From the opening chapter, “Pain: The Secret Ingredient for Greatness,” the book challenges the reader to see heartbreak not as an ending, but as the beginning of transformation. It asks the timeless question “Love. What’s that?” and guides you toward  “The Ultimate Purpose of Love” with clarity and honesty. 
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  “Understanding How to Love,”the book dives into the delicate moments we rarely talk about like  how to react when someone you cherish says they feel numb. It fearlessly explores betrayal in  “Cheating: A Conscious Crossroad,”  
  digging into the human psyche in  “Why Do People Cheat? A Psychological Lens Beyond Relationships.”  
  But the story doesn’t stop with couples. It exposes the hidden collateral damage in “Cheating’s Silent Victims: Parents, Children, and the PTSD of Broken Families.” 
  Provocative, insightful, and emotionally charged, Purpose of Love is a guide, a mirror, and a wake-up call for anyone searching for truth in love’s chaos

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  Life Under Nazi Occupation - The...

  Paul Roland

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  When the Nazis invaded, they did not intend to govern fairly. Instead they stripped defeated nations of their treasures, industry and natural resources, with the aim of asserting German supremacy and imposing Hitler's New Order in Europe. 
   
  Paul Roland tells the story of daily life under Nazi rule - in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Denmark, Norway, Guernsey and the Channel Islands- to be brought to heel by bribery and brutality, rape and torture, inducement and intimidation as the Germans carried out their vile policies. 
   
  We hear of quislings and collaborators who conspired with their captors, the 'enemies of the Reich' including Jewish citizens who were rounded up and exterminated, as well as stories of incredible courage by individuals who struck back against the Führer.

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  How Challenges Build Champions -...

  Victoria David

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  In a world that often feels relentless, what if you could transform your greatest struggles into your greatest strengths? How Challenges Build Champions Bold and Balanced is not just a book—it's your roadmap to unlocking a new level of resilience and purpose. This isn't about avoiding hardship; it's about embracing it. Author Victoria David reveals how the most daunting obstacles are precisely the crucibles in which true character is forged. 
  Through powerful insights and actionable strategies, you will learn to master your mindset, harness the power of adversity, and cultivate the inner balance needed to thrive. This book will teach you how to shift from a victim of circumstance to a master of your destiny, building a champion's mindset that is both unyielding in its resolve and poised in its approach. Are you ready to stop surviving and start conquering? Your journey to becoming bold and balanced begins here.

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