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  When the Declaration of...

  Emily Sneff

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  Tracing the moments after its creation, this groundbreaking story follows how news of the Declaration of Independence spread to people throughout the thirteen colonies and the Atlantic world.In 1776, people could hear the Declaration of Independence proclaimed in public squares and could read it in the pages of their local newspapers. Although stories of the Declaration typically recount the work of the Continental Congress, the work of spreading the news involved printers, post riders, ship captains, civic leaders, soldiers, clerks, orators, preachers, diplomats, and translators.When the Declaration of Independence Was News reveals the stories behind how the Declaration was communicated in the New and Old worlds. Tracing the travels of the founding document of the US from Philadelphia to New York, Boston, Charleston, Europe, and beyond, Emily Sneff shows how people both celebrated and critiqued the Declaration. In the weeks after the document was penned, it was printed in newspaper columns, translated into German and French, and shared with Native American allies. The document compelled some people to make public their privately held beliefs about whether they wanted the United States to be independent or to reconcile with King George III. The questions of who experienced the news of independence, when, and how reveal an expansive and complex history of a critical moment in the American Revolution.Published for the 250th anniversary of US independence, When the Declaration of Independence Was News returns to a time before the legacy of these words was known to reconsider what the founding of the US meant to the people who were living through it.

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  The Good Life - Helen and Scott...

  Scott Nearing, Helen Nearing

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  This one-volume edition of Living the Good Life and Continuing the Good Life brings these classics on rural homesteading together. This couple abandoned the city for a rural life with minimal cash and the knowledge of self-reliance and good health. 
   
  This audiobook is expertly read by Suzie Althens, with audio engineering by Katie Jackson. It was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont. 
   
  Preface copyright (c) 1989 by Helen Nearing. Living the Good Life copyright (c) 1970 by Schocken Books Inc. Copyright (c) 1954 by Helen Nearing. Copyright renewed 1982 by Helen Nearing. Continuing the Good Life copyright (c) 1979 by Helen Nearing and Scott Nearing. Recorded by arrangement with Schocken Books, an imprint of The Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. (P) 2026 Echo Point Books and Media LLC.

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  Composition as Conversation -...

  Heather M. Hoover

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  Teaching writing is not for the faint of heart, but it can be a tremendous gift to teachers and students.  Students often approach writing courses with trepidation because they think of writing as a mystical and opaque process. Teachers often approach these same courses with dread because of the enormous workload and the often-unpolished skills of new writers. This approachable composition textbook for beginning writers contends that writing can be a better experience for everyone when taught as an empathetic and respectful conversation. In a time in which discourse is not always civil and language is not always tended carefully, a conversation-based writing approach emphasizes intention and care. 
   
  Written by a teacher with more than fifteen years of experience in the college writing classroom, Composition as Conversation explores what happens when the art of conversation meets the art of writing. Heather Hoover shows how seven virtues--including curiosity, attentiveness, relatability, open-mindedness, and generosity--inform the writing process and can help students become more effective writers. She invites writers of all skill levels to make meaningful contributions with their writing. 
   
  This short, accessible, and instructive book offers a reflective method for college-level writing and will also work well in classical school, high school, and homeschool contexts. It demystifies the writing process and helps students understand why their writing matters. It will energize teachers of writing as they encourage their students to become careful readers and observers, intentional listeners, and empathetic arguers. The book also provides helpful sample assignments.

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  Unruly Desires - American...

  William Benemann

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  In its voracious hunger to fill its decks and spars with the bodies of strong young sailors, the nineteenth century US Navy and the commercial maritime industry welcomed eccentrics, criminals, outcasts, and misfits into a community of the marginalized, one that held very different values and expectations than the towns and villages from which the young men fled, a community that offered a tentative refuge to men who were sexually attracted to other men. 
   
   
   
  Drawing from biographies and autobiographies, diaries, newspapers, government reports, Congressional hearings, religious tracts, pornography, ships' logs, medical treatises, maritime fiction, court-martial reports, personal letters and business correspondence, Benemann provides an in-depth examination of nineteenth century LGBTQ culture as it developed at sea and in America's port cities.

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  Summa Theologica - 12 Pars...

  Saint Thomas Aquinas

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  The Summa Theologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written 1265–1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–1274) although it was never finished. It was intended as a manual for beginners and a compilation of all of the main theological teachings of that time. It summarizes the reasoning for almost all points of Christian theology in the West, which, before the Protestant Reformation, subsisted solely in the Roman Catholic Church. The Summa's topics follow a cycle: the existence of God, God's creation, Man, Man's purpose, Christ, the Sacraments, and back to God. (Summary adapted from the Wikipedia)This selection of the Summa Theologica covers questions 171-189 of the Secunda Secundae ("Second-half of the Second Part"), which comprise Treatises on the Gratuitous Graces (questions 171-182) and the States of Life (questions 183-189), with which the Second Part concludes.

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  DRY CLEANED - The Spy the Bag...

  David R. Hickox

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  He knew too much. He asked to go home. He never made it. 
  On August 23, 2010, police entered a quiet London flat and found MI6 codebreaker Gareth Williams padlocked inside a red sports bag in his bathtub. The heating was on full. The lights were off. Every fingerprint had been professionally removed from every surface that mattered. The key was inside the bag. Beneath his body. 
  Forensic experts made four hundred attempts to replicate how he got in. They failed every single time. The coroner ruled unlawful killing. The Metropolitan Police ruled tragic accident. A family in Wales is still waiting for the truth. 
  Dry Cleaned is the complete, unflinching account of Britain's most baffling and most deliberately obscured modern mystery — told chapter by chapter, forensic detail by forensic detail, institutional failure by institutional failure, until the picture is so complete that the right question becomes impossible to avoid. 
  Was the truth ever really meant to come out? 
  👉 Hit play. By the end of Chapter One, you won't be able to stop.

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