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  The Great Depression - A Look at...

  Vicky V. Choudhary

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  What is the Great Depression? Why does the Economic World consider it an important event of the 20th Century? How to content ourselves with the event of the Great Depression? 
  So, if these questions tickle your curiosity, consider taking the journey to discover what it truly is? 
  Introducing To You:  
  "The Great Depression: A Look at The Events and Circumstances That Led to One of The Most Devastating Downturns in The Economic History" 
  This book is a short read that covers the Great Depression and is based on the work of different scholars and the opinions of various economists and professionals. 
  The Great Depression was a period of severe economic suffering in the United States that lasted from 1929 to 1941. It was the country's longest and most severe economic downturn in history. 
  The book describes the events and conditions that led to the Great Depression and the long-term consequences it had on generations of Americans. 
  This book is an excellent resource for anybody interested in learning more about this pivotal period in American history. The book takes an in-depth look at the individuals and places touched by this tragic event. 
  What can you learn from the book? 
  What is exactly the Great Depression? 
  Economic History of the Great Depression 
  Severity Around the Globe 
  Causes of the Great Depression 
  Stock Market Crash 
  Banking Panics and Monetary Contraction 
  The Gold Standard 
  International Lending and Trade 
  Sources of Recovery 
  Economic Impact 
  End of the Great Depression 
  Summary 
  Happy learning! Enjoy Your Book!

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  Summary of Thomas Jefferson: The...

  Readtrepreneur Publishing

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  Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham | Book Summary | Readtrepreneur(Disclaimer: This is NOT the original book, but an unofficial summary.)All of the remarkable achievements of Thomas Jefferson converged in one amazing title. Thomas Jefferson takes you into the mind of one of America's most brilliant men and also one of its founding fathers. In this title, you will get to know Jefferson as a politician and a president but also as a human being by talking about his philosophy so you can understand this complex individual and the way he always found the positive side in his errors as a way to improve.(Note: This summary is wholly written and published by readtrepreneur. It is not affiliated with the original author in any way)"He dreamed big but understood that dreams become reality only when their champions are strong enough and wily enough to bend history to their purposes." – Jon MeachamDare to see the world as Thomas Jefferson saw it, a man who hated confrontation but had a deep understanding of power and of human nature. Thomas Jefferson also has information about his passions and his hobbies, so you won't look this man solely as a politician but also his demeanors and hobbies while he wasn't on duty. Jon Meacham assures you that you'll see a side of Thomas Jefferson which you have never seen before. Get to know one of America's founding father in this amazing title.P.S. Thomas Jefferson is an extremely informative book that will make you learn all about the teachings of one of America's founding fathers.

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  Start of the Crusades The: The...

  Charles River Editors

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  Though it went largely unremarked in the Islamic world at the time, the First Crusade has since become a contentious symbol of European imperialism in the Middle East. Debate over whether the Crusades can truly be perceived as an early example of European colonialism continues in medieval historiography, though the evidence for this is thin. The territory taken by the Franks from the Turks had previously belonged to Eastern Christians and had only recently been seized by the Turks themselves. The Crusader States were relatively small and weak, and they were reconquered centuries before modern European colonialism began. The Crusaders themselves saw it as a holy war of reclamation of previously lost (albeit almost-mythical) territory. To them, the Muslims were the first aggressors, and they were somewhat bolstered in this view by the support that they largely held from local Christians.   
  	The Crusader States were relatively small and weak, and while they tried to be a bulwark of Christianity in the Holy Land, the Crusader States were reconquered centuries before modern European colonialism began. Nonetheless, the Crusades and the Crusader States galvanized the Christians of Western Europe to expand their world. While it remains unclear how much that world expanded in practical terms such as trade, or how it affected later attitudes during the expansion to the New World and other regions, it definitely engaged the European mind in both positive and negative ways. As such, the crusades soon achieved near-mythic status in the European literature and remain among the most important events of the Middle Ages.  
  At the same time, the Crusader States were not one homogenized region but actually several distinct territories that had their own unique histories and interests. In fact, many of them were founded a century apart.

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  Mrs Cook and the Klan - Booze...

  Tom Chorneau

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  On the day she was murdered, Myrtle Underwood Cook boasted to local authorities about new evidence of a major bootlegging ring operating out of the Rock Island train depot behind her house in a small town in eastern Iowa. Then, as she sat at her window sewing, she took a single slug through the heart. She was president of the local temperance union; her killing made the front page of the New York Times. The next day her funeral made national news due to the eerie presence of a small army from the Ku Klux Klan, its members, donned in full regalia, drawn from three surrounding states. 
   
   
   
  It was September 1925, and Al Capone had just taken over the Chicago Outfit, evangelist Billy Sunday was converting thousands to temperance, and the KKK had marched on Washington, DC. During its first half century of statehood, Iowa lurched from wet to dry and back eight times before Prohibition was ratified in 1919. And when Iowa was still a territory, its Black Codes imprinted generations with a legacy of intolerance and racism. 
   
   
   
  Mrs. Cook and the Klan is a true crime investigation that not only sheds new light on Myrtle Underwood Cook's unsolved killing but also explores the confluence of the social, political, and economic forces that brought the Klan, street gangs, a local mob boss, and the temperance movement together in a small American town.

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  Sandman

  Sally Cook

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  Sandman tells the story of the origin of the Sandman, cultural sleeping habits around the world, sleeping in the Middle Ages, sleep remedies and potions, how humans fall asleep and where. and cultural customs and views regarding sleep as well as the plethora of things which keep us awake.

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  The 21 - A Journey into the Land...

  Martin Mosebach

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  Behind a gruesome ISIS beheading video lies the untold story of the men in orange and the faith community that formed these unlikely modern-day saints and heroes.In a carefully choreographed propaganda video released in February 2015, ISIS militants behead twenty-one orange-clad Christian men on a Libyan beach.In the West, daily reports of new atrocities may have displaced the memory of this particularly vile event. But not in the world from which the murdered came. All but one were young Coptic Christian migrant workers from Egypt. Acclaimed literary writer Martin Mosebach traveled to the Egyptian village of El-Aour to meet their families and better understand the faith and culture that shaped such conviction.He finds himself welcomed into simple concrete homes through which swallows dart. Portraits of Jesus and Mary hang on the walls along with roughhewn shrines to now-famous loved ones. Mosebach is amazed time and again as, surrounded by children and goats, the bereaved replay the cruel propaganda video on an iPad. There is never any talk of revenge, but only the pride of having a martyr in the family, a saint in heaven. “The 21” appear on icons crowned like kings, celebrated even as their community grieves. A skeptical Westerner, Mosebach finds himself a stranger in this world in which everything is the reflection or fulfillment of biblical events, and facing persecution with courage is part of daily life.In twenty-one symbolic chapters, each preceded by a picture, Mosebach offers a travelogue of his encounter with a foreign culture and a church that has preserved the faith and liturgy of early Christianity – the “Church of the Martyrs.” As a religious minority in Muslim Egypt, the Copts find themselves caught in a clash of civilizations. This book, then, is also an account of the spiritual life of an Arab country stretched between extremism and pluralism, between a rich biblical past and the shopping centers of New Cairo.

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