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  Borders - A Very Short...

  Joshua Hagen, Alexander C. Diener

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  First published in 2012, Borders: A Very Short Introduction began with the premise that "we live in a very bordered world." The intervening decade has witnessed a flurry of events and developments that continue to highlight the centrality of borders in contemporary domestic and international affairs, as well as the interstices between the two, including sudden surges in migrant and refugees flows; renewed emphasis on traditional border security and wall construction; growing tensions concerning maritime sovereignty; rapid advances in cybersecurity, surveillance, and biometrics; expanded detention and deportation infrastructures; proliferation of transborder organizations; revived populist and nationalist sentiments; and protectionist and integrationist trade practices, to name some prominent examples from recent headlines. 
   
   
   
  This revised edition accounts for recent developments including Brexit, the 2015 migration crisis across Europe, efforts to build a border wall between the United States and Mexico, growing isolationist and nativist sentiments, demands for indigenous homelands, transnational protest movements, Russian cross-border incursions, and insurgencies and rebellions across much of North Africa and Southwest Asia.

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  Dublin's Fighting Story 1916 -...

  The Kerryman

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  Major Haig ordered them to 'prepare to fire', whereupon they the fired indiscriminately, point blank, at the people in the street. Four people were killed and thirty-seven wounded. All Ireland seethed with indignation . . . '&newpara;This new edition of Dublin's Fighting Story with an introduction by Diarmaid Ferriter features stories and reports from every aspect of the War of Independence, from the formation of the Fianna Éireann and the Volunteers, through the Great Dublin Strike and Lock-out in 1913 and the 1916 Rising to the death of Seán Treacy in a bloody street shoot-out, the triumph and tragedy of Bloody Sunday and the burning of the Customs House. Dublin's Fighting Story offers the perspective of the eye witnesses and fighting men themselves to the struggle for independence in Dublin.

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  Face Forward Thrive Guide

  Michele Howe Clarke

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  Thrive Guide is about turning on a light when life seems darkest. You will learn to thrive along your natural lines of growth to be where you want to be. As you build trust in Y.O.U. (Your Own Uniqueness), enthusiastic faith will bloom as the good you have caused keeps appearing at your door. All you need do is begin to engage your Thrive Drive. Thrive Guide is as easy as ABC. This book will take you by the hand and help you let go of your fear. The content unfolds in a step by step process that leads you to greater harmony. As you progress and learn to access all the good that is inherently within, you will feel better and better. The good will flow as you flip on the switch of your excellence. All you need to do is begin.The Thrive Guide provides a step by step guide that:•Shares simple and proven principles to build positive energy•Provide a path to move towards the life you want and deserve•Design a life you’ll love and more!From the foreword by bestselling author Kristen MoellerAs we all know, not every surprise in life is a pleasant or easy one. And, understandably, most people feel lost, broken or to blame during difficult times. Experience taught Michele that with every challenge there is a hidden gem, a portal of strength that births us into the next brilliant version of ourselves.All you need are the right tools to find your brilliance. The very tools Michele discovered during her transformational journey, which taught her how to face forward, survive and ultimately thrive. Now in the Thrive Guide, Michele shares how you too can reach for relief and end needless suffering. In working with the Thrive Guide, you will build trust in Y.O.U. With Michele as your guide, no matter what you are facing, no matter how hard things appear, no matter what life throws at you, you will find that you too can THRIVE.

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  Your Word Is Your Wand

  Florence Scovel Shinn

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  YOUR WORD IS YOUR WAND was written by writer, artist and illustrator, Florence Scovel Shinn. It was first published in 1928. 
  It's considered a classic in New Thought philosophical arenas and a leader in metaphysical spiritual literature.  
  This book emphasizes how powerful our words are in shaping our lives. Scovel Shinn offers affirmations and teachings about how to use our spoken words and thoughts to manifest what we truly need according to Divine Design. 
  This is a sequel to Scovel Shinn's book, THE GAME OF LIFE AND HOW TO PLAY IT. It’s relatively short --  less than 100 pages long and just over an hour, narrated. 
  It consists largely of affirmations, teachings, metaphysical insights, and practical examples from Shinn’s experience and the experience of her clients. It's a great reminder and practical guide as to exactly how powerful our thoughts and words are to create a life we love.

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  Spain’s Explorers in the Age of...

  Editors Charles River

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  The most seminal event of the last millennium might also be its most controversial. As schoolchildren have been taught for over 500 years, “In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” In October of that year, the Italian Christopher Columbus immortalized himself by landing in the New World and beginning the process of European settlement in the Americas for Spain, bringing the Age of Exploration to a new hemisphere with him. Ironically, the Italian had led a Spanish expedition, in part because the Portugese rejected his offers in the belief that sailing west to Asia would take too long. 
  If Columbus and Cortés were the pioneers of Spain’s new global empire, Pizarro consolidated its immense power and riches, and his successes inspired a further generation to expand Spain’s dominions to unheard of dimensions. Furthermore, he participated in the forging of a new culture: like Cortés, he took an indigenous mistress with whom he had two mixed-race children, and yet the woman has none of the lasting fame of Cortés’s Doña Marina. With all of this in mind, it is again remarkable that Pizarro remains one of the less well-known and less written about of the explorers of his age. 
  Today Ferdinand Magellan is remembered as the first man to circumnavigate the globe, an ironic legacy given that he died half a world away from completing that journey. But though it ended catastrophically for Magellan and most of his crew, his expedition accomplished its objective, and in economic terms, the opening up of new trade routes with Asia was a more significant development than the conquest of the Americas for the Europeans of the early 16th century.

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  FEDERALIST No 66 Objections to...

  Alexander Hamilton

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  The Federalist Papers is a series of 85 articles arguing in favor of ratification of the United States Constitution by the thirteen original colonies.  When the Constitutional Convention met in 1787 to revise the Articles of Confederation, James Madison and Alexander Hamilton advocated instead for the creation of a new government.  The delegates used the principles contained in Madison’s Virginia Plan to create  the Constitution, which was submitted to the states in September 1787.  The Federalist papers were written in response to criticism of the Constitution. Federalist No. 66 is a continuation of the argument in Federalist No. 65 for the Senate as the trial venue for impeachments. In No. 66 he addresses specific anti-Federalist objections in a series of four rebuttals. The issues addressed are: first, the concern that the Senate is encroaching on the powers of the courts; second, that the Senate itself may become too aristocratic; third, that impartiality may suffer when trying appointed officials previously approved by the same body; and, fourth, that the Senators may be unable to judge their own actions impartially in ratifying treaties.

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