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  The Moods of Ginger Mick

  C. J. Dennis

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  The Moods of Ginger Mick by C. J. Dennis is a powerful and emotionally rich collection of narrative poetry that captures the spirit, humor, and hardship of working-class life in early 20th-century Australia. First published in 1916, the work is part of Dennis's celebrated Songs of a Sentimental Bloke series and follows the character of Ginger Mick, a rough yet deeply human figure shaped by friendship, loyalty, and wartime experience.
  
  Through vivid verse and colloquial language, Dennis brings to life the world of Mick, a spirited Australian "larrikin" whose personality blends toughness with unexpected sensitivity. The poems trace Mick's journey from carefree urban life to the harsh realities of war, revealing the emotional transformation of a man confronted by duty, loss, and sacrifice.
  
  Set against the backdrop of World War I, the collection explores how ordinary individuals respond to extraordinary circumstances. Ginger Mick's experiences at the front lines highlight the courage, fear, and camaraderie shared by soldiers, while also revealing the emotional cost of conflict on those who serve.
  
  Dennis's use of Australian vernacular gives the poetry a distinctive voice, grounding the narrative in everyday speech and making the characters feel immediate and authentic. This stylistic choice enhances both the humor and emotional depth of the work, creating a strong sense of place and identity.
  
  Themes of friendship, loyalty, patriotism, love, and resilience run throughout the collection. At its heart, the work is a tribute to the strength and humanity of ordinary people facing extraordinary challenges.
  
  The poems balance humor with poignancy, often shifting between lighthearted moments and deeply moving reflections on war and sacrifice. This contrast gives the collection its enduring emotional power.
  
  The Moods of Ginger Mick remains one of C. J. Dennis's most important works, admired for its lyrical storytelling, character-driven narrative, and heartfelt depiction of Australian life during a time of global upheaval.
  
  Ideal for readers of narrative poetry, historical literature, and wartime verse, this collection offers a vivid and moving portrait of friendship, courage, and the human spirit under pressure.

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  Crying Wolf - A Memoir

  Eden Boudreau

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  Shortlisted for the 2024 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction
  
  It's a tale as old as time. Girl meets boy. Boy wants girl. Girl says no. Boy takes what he wants anyway.
  After a violent sexual assault, Eden Boudreau was faced with a choice: call the police and explain that a man who wasn't her husband, who she had agreed to go on a date with, had just raped her. Or go home and pray that, in the morning, it would be only a nightmare.
  In the years that followed, Eden was met with disbelief by strangers, friends, and the authorities, often as a result of stigma towards her non-monogamy, sex positivity, and bisexuality. Societal conditioning of acceptable female sexuality silenced her to a point of despair, leading to addiction and even attempted suicide. It was through the act of writing that she began to heal.
  Crying Wolf is a gripping memoir that shares the raw path to recovery after violence and spotlights the ways survivors are too often demonized or ignored when they belong to marginalized communities. Boudreau heralds a new era for others dismissed for "crying wolf." After all, women prevailing to change society for others is also a tale as old as time.

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  Grand Old Unraveling - The...

  John Kenneth White

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  It didn't begin with Donald Trump. Since the time of FDR, the Republican Party has been home to conspiracy thinking, including a belief that lost elections were rigged. And when Republicans later won the White House, the party elevated their presidents to heroic status—a predisposition that eventually posed a threat to democracy. John Kenneth White proposes to explain why this happened—not just the election of Trump but the authoritarian shift in the party as a whole that led to the insurrection of January 6, 2021, and its aftermath. 
   
   
   
  White presents a clear and concise analysis of how the modern Republican Party came to be by tracing historical patterns that reach back to the 1930s. He argues that the rise of Republican authoritarianism has been decades in the making, going back to the desperation that took hold among party elites in the wake of twenty years of Democratic dominance between 1932 and 1952. The fear of losing that overtook the party during the Roosevelt period eventually led to an escalation of intrigue that included the rise of the John Birch Society in the 1950s and QAnon today. White traces the development of this culture of conspiracy theories within the GOP and explains how the emphasis on winning at any cost created a cult of personality and a willingness to seize power by any means necessary.

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  Wait You Need It When?!? - The...

  Peter Economy

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  Reclaim your time! Set priorities, stop procrastinating, and get your stuff done!While some believe that you’re either born a great time manager or you’re not, that’s not really the case at all. Anyone can learn the powerful habits of being more effective and more productive—and getting things done.Wait, You Need It When?!? is the essential guide to learning how to better manage your time, become more productive, and create the daily habits that will make this personal transformation stick in the long run—not just for a day or two. In today’s work environment, we need these habits more than ever before. Regardless of where we work—an office or traditional business establishment, at home, or at the local Starbucks—we can all benefit from applying better time management habits. Learning the abilities of self-direction and how to stay on task are long-term building blocks for any successful career.Set yourself up for success Optimize your workplace Limit outside disruptions Know the eleven habits that get things doneBased on proven approaches, the latest research, and the advice of workplace experts, Wait, You Need It When?!? will provide you with detailed and unambiguous advice on how to hone your time management skills and learn new ones. 

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  Making Makers - The Past the...

  Michael P. M. Finch

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  Making Makers presents a comprehensive history of a seminal work of scholarship which has exerted a persistent attraction for scholars of war and strategy: Makers of Modern Strategy. It reveals the processes by which scholars conceived and devised the book, considering both successful and failed attempts to make and remake the work across the twentieth century, and illuminating its impact and legacy. It explains how and why these volumes took their particular forms, unearths the broader intellectual processes that shaped them, and reflects on the academic parameters of the study of war in the twentieth century. In presenting a complete genesis of the Makers project in the context of intellectual trends and historical contingency, this book reflects on a more complex and nuanced appraisal of the development of scholarship on war. In so doing it also offers contributions to the intellectual biographies of key figures in the history of war in the twentieth century, including Edward Mead Earle and Peter Paret. Making Makers contributes to an intellectual history of military history and contextualizes the place of history and historians in strategic and security studies. It is not only a history of the book, but a history of the networks of scholars involved in its creation, their careers, and lines of patronage, crossing international boundaries, from Europe to the USA, to Asia and Australia.

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  Washington's Heir - The Life of...

  Gerard N. Magliocca

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  The first biography of George Washington's extraordinary nephew, who inherited Mount Vernon and was Chief Justice John Marshall's right-hand man on the Supreme Court for nearly thirty years. 
   
   
   
  In Washington's Heir, Gerard N. Magliocca gives us the first published biography of Bushrod Washington, one of the most underrated Founding Fathers. Born in 1762, Justice Washington fought in the Revolutionary War, served in Virginia's ratifying convention for the Constitution, and was Chief Justice John Marshall's partner in establishing the authority of the Supreme Court. Though he could only see from one eye, Justice Washington wrote many landmark decisions defining the fundamental rights of citizens and the structure of the Constitution, including Corfield v. Coryell—an influential source for the Congress that proposed the Fourteenth Amendment. As George Washington's personal heir, Bushrod inherited both Mount Vernon and the family legacy of owning other people, one of whom was almost certainly his half-brother or nephew. Yet Justice Washington alone among the Founders was criticized by journalists for selling enslaved people and, in turn, issued a public defense of his actions that laid bare the hypocrisy and cruelty of slavery.

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