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  History's Greatest Battles -...

  Nigel Cawthorne

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  Great battles mark history's turning points, occurring where cultures and ideologies clash. While some battles have been won by the superior force, others have been won by a sheer dogged refusal to surrender in the face of overwhelming odds. Superior weaponry has sometimes brought victory, as at Plassey, while the extraordinary generalship of a Napoleon, a Wellington, or a Marlborough has won the day on other occasions. 
   
  From the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC, when the vastly-outnumbered Athenian army turned back an invasion of the mighty Persian empire, up to the Vietnamese defeat of the French army at the battle of Dien Bien Phu, the battles in this book demonstrate that fate is not always on the side of the big battalions.

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  Jack the Ripper - Victims &...

  Liam Dale

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  Today, bustling East London seems a world away from its dark past just a century ago, when terror reigned - the infamous Whitechapel Murders by Jack the Ripper. 
   
  Tourists are drawn to this chilling tale, a mix of fascination and dread that began in 1888 and still haunts us today. 
   
  Transport yourself to the 1880s, a maze of fog-draped alleyways and dimly lit cobbled streets. Commercial Street, once a bustling market, was now a place of panic in Whitechapel. 
   
  One name struck fear into the hearts of the residents: Jack the Ripper. What happened back then still intrigues modern historians and amateur sleuths, urging them to unravel the mystery of this shadowy figure. 
   
  You'll explore: 
  - Victim profiles and discovery sites 
  - Suspects that emerged 
  - Jack the Ripper's chilling letters to the police 
   
  Discover the haunting secrets of Jack the Ripper's reign of terror, a chilling saga that continues to captivate minds today.

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  Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic...

  Kathryn Ecclestone, Denis Hayes

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  The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education confronts the silent ascendancy of a therapeutic ethos across the educational system and into the workplace. Controversial and compelling, Kathryn Ecclestone and Dennis Hayes’ classic text uses a wealth of examples across the education system, from primary schools to university and the workplace, to show how therapeutic education is turning children, young people and adults into anxious and self-preoccupied individuals rather than aspiring, optimistic and resilient learners who want to know everything about the world.Remaining extremely topical, the chapters illuminate the powerful effects of therapeutic education, including:How therapeutic learning is taking shape, now and in the futureHow therapeutic ideas from popular culture have come to govern social thought and policiesHow the fostering of dependence and compulsory participation in therapeutic activities that encourage the disclosing of emotions, can undermine parents’ and teachers’ confidence and authorityHow therapeutic forms of teacher training undermine faith in the pursuit of knowledgeHow political initiatives in emotional literacy, emotional wellbeing and ‘positive mental health’ propagate a diminished view of human potential throughout the education system and the workplace.The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education is an eye-opening read for every teacher and leader across the field of education, and every parent and student, who is passionate about the power of knowledge to transform people’s lives. It is a call for a debate about the growing impact of therapeutic education and what it means for learning now and in the future.

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  The Pineal Eye - Third Eye of...

  M. Doreal, ALIO Publishing Group

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  From the original English translator of The Emerald Tablets of Thoth! Lost esoteric writings on the metaphysical wisdom and occult history behind the pineal gland - or as it is more frequently known: "the Third Eye". Author Doreal reminds us that Christ called it the "Single Eye", and at one time - eons before Old Testament events, when Earth was still shrouded in mists - it was more prominent in man's physiology. However: that's not to say it has vanished, or even ceased to function completely...

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  My Soul Look Back in Wonder -...

  Geneva Napoleon Smitherman

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  This is the story of Dr. Geneva Smitherman, aka "Dr. G," the pioneering linguist often referred to as the "Queen of Black Language." In a series of narrative essays, Dr. G writes eloquently and powerfully about the role of language in social transformation and the academic, intellectual, linguistic, and societal debates that shaped her groundbreaking work as a Black Studies O.G. and a Womanist scholar-activist of African American Language. 
   
   
   
  These eleven essays narrate the development of Dr. G's race, gender, class, and linguistic consciousness as a member of the Black Power Generation of the 1960s and 70s. In My Soul Look Back In Wonder, Dr. G links the personal to the professional and the political, situating the struggles, and successes, of a Black woman in the Academy within the historical experiences and development of her people. 
   
   
   
  As Dr. G enters her eighth decade, in this Black Lives Matter historical moment, she seeks to share the meaning and purpose of a life of study and struggle and its significance for all those who seek racial and social justice today.

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  Stalking the Great Killer -...

  Larry C. Floyd, Joseph H. Bates

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  Stalking the Great Killer is the story of Arkansas's struggle to control tuberculosis, and how the state became a model in its treatment of the disease. 
   
   
   
  To place the story of tuberculosis in Arkansas in historical perspective, the authors trace the origins of the disease. Arkansas suffered some of the worst ravages of the disease, and the authors argue that many of the improvements in the state's medical infrastructure grew out of the desperate need to control it. 
   
   
   
  In the early twentieth century, Arkansas established a sanatorium and thirty years later, the segregated Black sanitorium. These institutions helped slow the disease but at a cost: removed from families and communities, patients suffered from the isolation. Joseph Bates saw this when he delivered an uncle to the sanitorium in the 1940s. In the 1960s, Bates, now a physician, and his colleague Paul Reagan overcame a resistant medical-political system to develop a new approach to treating the disease. 
   
   
   
  In the age of Covid-19, this history offers valuable lessons about community involvement in public health, the potential efficacy of public-private partnerships, and the importance of leadership in the battle to eradicate disease.

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