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  Tower Hill - A Plantation on the...

  Alan Taylor

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  The Nat Turner rebellion of August 1831, the iconic uprising of enslaved people in the United States, was much more extensive than we have understood. This powerful exploration of a Tidewater Virginia plantation reveals how the daily resistance of the enslaved was heightened by spiritual beliefs to seek the divine overthrow of a wicked world.  
    
  Tower Hill draws on a previously untapped family archive to reveal the routines of daily life and the fraught family dynamics on a slave plantation in southeastern Virginia in the early- to mid-nineteenth century. Owned by generations of a local merchant family, the Blows, Tower Hill was a struggling enterprise mired in debt, degrading soil, volatile climate, endemic diseases, and social isolation. All this exacted an emotional toll that drove the Blows—husbands and wives, fathers and sons—to family turmoil and madness. The enslaved Blacks at Tower Hill endured in part by claiming an evangelical Christianity as their own, embracing its promise of ultimate deliverance from suffering and, in the here and now, its broad communities of support. Nearby, the Great Dismal Swamp provided a haven for runaways who built lasting enclaves there.  
    
  Nat Turner’s rebels struck slaveholding families near Tower Hill suddenly, killing more than fifty men, women, and children in a single day. George Blow helped lead the suppression that took twice that many Black lives. He also helped mold the memory of the uprising as an exceptional event mounted by a lone fanatic leading a few deluded followers. But Alan Taylor shows that the revolt emerged from a broader network of spiritual agitation reaching throughout Tidewater Virginia and North Carolina. A much larger uprising might have erupted but for a mistake in timing by Turner and his followers. The shockwaves of the Turner rebellion, running through secession and civil war, still reach us today.  
    
  "Against ongoing efforts to sanitize the record of slavery, Taylor sweeps away nostalgia for an orderly Old South that never was. From a remarkable collection of family papers, he distills the truth that planters persistently disavowed: They were beset by the implacable resistance of the enslaved and by other forces beyond their control. The story of Tower Hill stands as a warning against the will to dominance."—Vincent Brown, author of Tacky’s Revolt 

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  New York's Secret Subway - The...

  Matthew Algeo

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  In the nineteenth century, Manhattan's streets were so choked with pedestrians, horses, vehicles, and vendors that a trip from City Hall to Central Park could take hours. Alfred Beach had the perfect solution: build a giant pneumatic tube underneath Broadway from the Battery to Harlem. Air pressure would shoot passengers up and down the island in clean, quiet carriages. But Beach was up against the operators of the horse-drawn streetcars and the politicians in their pay, most conspicuously William M. Tweed, the notorious "Boss" of Tammany Hall.New York's Secret Subway: The Underground Genius of Alfred Beach and the Origins of Mass Transit tells a classic story of good versus evil, pitting the mild-mannered Beach, a visionary inventor and entrepreneur, against the oafish tyrant Tweed, the exemplar of corruption in the Gilded Age. It also tells the story of one of the most astonishing feats of engineering in American history, the surreptitious creation of the nation's first operational subway. Unfortunately, political lethargy and greed would conspire to deny the city a subway for another thirty years. Yet Alfred Beach still proved conclusively the feasibility of underground railways in Manhattan, and paved the way for modern mass transportation systems. Although this true story took place more than a century ago, it will at times sound surprisingly familiar.

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  Cybersecurity for Executives - A...

  Claire Donnelly

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  Digital risk is no longer a technical byproduct. It is the primary friction point between your corporate strategy and market extinction. For decades, executives delegated cybersecurity to IT departments, treating it as an operational utility. That era is dead. Today, the velocity of cyber threats outpaces the traditional defenses of the average enterprise.
   
  
   
  Cybersecurity for Executives is a practical guide to digital risk, safer decisions, and better security awareness for modern leaders. This book strips away the technical jargon and provides a framework for leaders to oversee their organization’s most valuable assets. You will learn how to:
   
  - Assess and manage strategic cyber risks.
   
  - Build a resilient culture of security from the top down.
   
  - Govern cybersecurity effectively to prevent brand-shattering breaches.
   
  - Secure supply chains and third-party vendor relationships.
   
  - Future-proof your strategy against emerging technologies.
   
  
   
  If you view security as a checklist for your technicians, you have already surrendered control of your organization’s future. It is time to treat digital stewardship as a fundamental executive mandate.

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  Litigating the Pandemic -...

  Susan M. Sterett

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  As officials scrambled in 2020 to manage the spread of COVID, the reverberations of the crisis reached well beyond immediate public health concerns. The governance problems that emerged in the pandemic would be problems in other climate-related disasters, too. 
   
   
   
  Many of these governance problems wound up in court. Businesses filed insurance claims for lost commerce; when the claims were denied, some companies sued. As state governments ordered closures and otherwise tried to adapt, interest organizations that had long sought to limit government authority challenged them in court. Political officials railed against litigation they argued would stop businesses from reopening. The United States, like other countries, governs partly through litigation, and litigation is one way of seeing the multiple governance failures during the pandemic. 
   
   
   
  Drawing on databases of cases filed, news reports, and other sources, Susan M. Sterett argues that governing during the pandemic must include the human institutions intertwined with the effects of the virus. Those institutions reveal problems well beyond the reach of technical expertise. Failures in private insurance as a way of governing risk, conflicts about the primacy of religion, government authority, and health, are problems that predated the pandemic and will persist in future disasters.

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  Anxiety In Relationships - How...

  Susan Saunders, Albert Stark

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  💔 Do you let your fears dictate the pace of your relationships? 💔  
  🌪 Are whispered worries keeping you awake, questioning the strength and future of your bond? 
  Dive into the depths of Anxiety in Relationships and uncover the unseen forces driving doubt, jealousy, and detachment in love. This isn't just another relationship guide; it's a transformative journey tailored for those who've felt the tightening grip of unease in the midst of love. 
  💡 Inside you'll discover: 
  🌟 Root Causes: Delve deep to understand where your relationship anxieties stem from. Could it be past traumas, or perhaps modern-day pressures? 
  🌟 Tools & Techniques: Equip yourself with proven strategies to soothe the tempest of unease, turning anxiety into understanding, and fear into affection. 
  🌟 Communication is Key: Master the art of open dialogue, ensuring that your fears and concerns are not just heard but understood. Discover the techniques to talk without triggering defenses and how to listen with genuine empathy, setting the stage for mutual growth and alleviated anxiety. 
  🌟 Strengthening Bonds: Learn the art of turning vulnerabilities into strengths, building an unshakable foundation of trust and intimacy with your partner. 
  Whether you're in a new relationship, or have been with your partner for years, Anxiety in Relationships provides the compass to steer clear of the storms and sail into the sunset of deepened love and connection. 
  🌹 Say goodbye to nights of uncertainty and embrace a love story where anxiety no longer writes the script. 🌹 
  Grab your headphones and embark on this enlightening audio-journey today!

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  Sedition - How America's...

  Marcus Alexander Gadson

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  Since protestors ripped through the Capitol Building in 2021, the threat of constitutional crisis has loomed over our nation. The foundational tenets of American democracy seem to be endangered, and many citizens believe this danger is unprecedented in our history. But Americans have weathered many constitutional crises, often accompanied by the same violence and chaos experienced on January 6. However, these crises occurred on the state level. In Sedition, Marcus Alexander Gadson uncovers these episodes of civil unrest and examines how state governments handled them. 
   
   
   
  Sedition takes listeners through six instances of constitutional crisis: The Buckshot War, Dorr's Rebellion, Bleeding Kansas, the Brooks-Baxter War, a successful terrorist campaign to overthrow South Carolina's government during Reconstruction, and the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898. He chronicles these turbulent periods of violent anti-government conflict on the state level, explaining what it was like to experience coup d'états, rival governments fighting in the streets, and disputed elections that gave way to violence. As he addresses constitutional breakdown, Gadson urges Americans to pay increased attention to the risk of constitutional instability in their home states. His sweeping historical analysis provides new insights on the fight to protect democracy today.

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