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  West Virginia and the Civil War...

  Mark A. Snell

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  The only state born as a result of the Civil War, West Virginia was the most divided state in the nation. About forty thousand of its residents served in the combatant forces about twenty thousand on each side. 
   
   
   
  The Mountain State also saw its fair share of battles, skirmishes, raids, and guerrilla warfare, with places like Harpers Ferry, Philippi, and Rich Mountain becoming household names in 1861. When the Commonwealth of Virginia seceded from the Union on April 17, 1861, leaders primarily from the northwestern region of the state began the political process that eventually led to the creation of West Virginia on June 20, 1863. Renowned Civil War historian Mark A. Snell has written the first thorough history of these West Virginians and their civil war in more than fifty years.

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  The Book of Kin - On Absence...

  Jennifer Eli Bowen

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  A remarkable debut that explores the imperfect ways we care for one another and how we seek repair when care fails.“What is our obligation to each other?” asks Jennifer Eli Bowen in this propulsive exploration of community, solitude, and love. Drawing on her experiences as a mother, daughter, and founder of the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop, the country’s largest and most enduring prison-based literary organization, she examines the wild spectrum of shapes that care can take. She investigates the role of community across the world and in her own neighborhood, driven by a curiosity to uncover what might be gleaned from various vanishments in her own life: the shadow of her father, disappeared backyard chickens, a Moleskine notebook that passes in and out of her Little Free Library.Tracing both connection and its lack, Bowen uncovers what happens when it’s missing, how we find it, and how it heals individuals, communities, and systems—from the incarcerated caretakers of newborn foals in Norway to the time-bending drama of watching children grow into adults. And through this winding quest to understand love, she moves readers out of their complacency not only about the state of American incarceration but about what we owe ourselves and society.Unflinching, vulnerable, and surprisingly funny, The Book of Kin encourages us not to abandon each other, reminding us that “harm is shared, and healing is too.”

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  Rivals of Rome The: The History...

  Charles River Editors

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  The Roman Republic’s development from a city state into a world power that controlled large swathes of modern Italy, Gaul and Spain, as well as other parts of Europe is seen by many as being the direct result of Roman fear of the “Celtic Threat.” The sacking of Rome by the Gauls in 386 B.C. became indelibly imprinted into the Roman psyche, and with this fear came a desire to put as much distance as possible between the city of Rome and any potential enemy. The result was the gradual acquisition of buffer zones that became provinces of an empire that grew without any particular thought out or deliberate strategy of expansion. 
  	Carthage was one of the great ancient civilizations, and at its peak, the wealthy Carthaginian empire dominated the Mediterranean against the likes of Greece and Rome, with commercial enterprises and influence stretching from Spain to Turkey. In fact, at several points in history it had a very real chance of replacing the fledgling Roman empire or the failing Greek poleis (city-states) altogether as master of the Mediterranean. Although Carthage by far preferred to exert economic pressure and influence before resorting to direct military power (and even went so far as to rely primarily on mercenary armies paid with its vast wealth for much of its history, it nonetheless produced a number of outstanding generals, from the likes of Hanno Magnus to, of course, the great bogeyman of Roman nightmares himself: Hannibal.  
  	By the 4th century A.D., The Goths were among the prominent barbarian groups who became a threat to the Roman Empire, but they also had contacts with the Romans well before then, and they even traded for awhile. The two branches of the Goths that are best known, the Visigoths and Ostrogoths, stared down the Roman Empire as it neared its collapse and supplanted it with a kingdom in Italy in the 5th and 6th centuries respectively. 

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  Talking Down The Clock - and...

  Seamus Cashman

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  Talking Down The Clock is Seamus Cashman's fifth volume of poetry. It follows his 2015 ekphrastic book-length poem, The Sistine Gaze, from which this following quotation is taken: 
  "We are lovers of the earth, not its spouses bound or bought. We are siblings of the stars, sating history's well. Lovers live in beauty's orbit, bypassing time. We change words to love all over again; we mould our shadows with pigments; we make alternatives." (Verse 130, The Sistine Gaze) 
  Cashman Appreciated that TIME was the key challenge, and ventured two poetic sequences, intending to follow where they might lead. These sequences, 'Notebook Exits' and 'Daily Breaks', find time becoming a circus master and cracking the whip daily. Between these sequences are poems for young readersm and lyrics of people, places and sorrow each reflecting Palestine's endurance. 
  In his early collections there was a focis on village life and personal mythologies, the poet found 'fire crackling faggots / at my feet / I inhaled it's fragrance / and forgave myself. / I still could see.'. Now he seeks within, threading the ordinary through the abstract, linking the human via buttonholes of experience, philosophy and the uncertain, clearly enjoying what is encountered enroute. He relishes experiment, as in 'To The Naked Women In The Far Window', 'Be Still', 'Owl', 'Composition', 'Fractalities', 'Catastrophe Turnings' and others. 
  This collection's title poem is a spiral of excitement and image, leading readers through time's impositions and confusions – seeking to seize and to size it, facing the impossibility of ignoring it. We taste how to 'Just Be' as we observe time abseiling life within us to its own rhythms. 
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  Audiobook recorded by Adam Shanahan, Dublin, Ireland.

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  Through Magic Glasses and Other...

  Arabella B. Buckley

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  Lectures for children on what instruments reveal: the microscope, the telescope, the spectroscope and the camera, and what each has shown that the eye cannot. Arabella Buckley had been secretary to the geologist Charles Lyell and wrote the best popular science for children of her generation. She explains the instrument first and the discovery second, which is the right order and a rare one. Its 64 original illustrations have been carefully restored and coloured for this edition.

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  Western and Eastern...

  Captivating History

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  Embark on a Captivating Journey through the Epochs of Human History 
  Two manuscripts in one audiobook:Western Civilization: A Captivating Guide to Ancient Greek and Roman Civilizations, Christianity, Medieval Europe, and Modern TimesEastern Civilization: A Captivating Guide to Ancient Chinese, Japanese, and Indian Civilizations, Buddhism, Medieval Asia, and Modern Times 
  In the part Western Civilization, you will:Uncover the profound impact of Greek and Roman civilizations on modern thought.Delve into the symbiotic relationship between Christianity and Greek philosophy, reshaping Western intellectual discourse.Trace the transformative journey from the Fall of the Western Roman Empire to the rise of a new Europe.Relive the fervor of the High Middle Ages and the Crusades, a testament to the indomitable human spirit.Explore the Renaissance and Reformation, eras of awakening that redefined human potential and aspiration.Navigate the complex dynamics of power and influence that forged the West's path to modernity. 
  In the part Eastern Civilization, you will:Explore the origins and evolution of ancient Chinese, Indian, and Japanese civilizations.Gain insights into the spiritual and philosophical milestones that defined Eastern thought.Witness the profound influence of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Confucianism on Eastern societies.Understand the impact of colonialism and imperialism and the East's journey to modernism.Appreciate the interconnectedness and unique contributions of Eastern civilizations to the global cultural mosaic. 
  Click the “add to cart” button to embark on this captivating journey through the annals of Western and Eastern Civilizations.

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