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  Mary and Margaret - Whence Comes...

  Clark Thomas Riley

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  Mary Bennet and Margaret Dashwood, the youngest sisters of Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. were women on surpassing intelligence and strength of character. Mary joins forces with the nascent abolition movement in collaboration with the underappreciated William Collins. Under the pen name of Joseph Weatherstone, they create together a philosophic giant who advances the cause. Margaret with her minder Jane siezes her wanderlust and escapes from cold gray England for the warm, spice filled air of the Caribbean. Each achieves great victories, overcoming the strictures of a male dominated society.

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  To The Call of Bugles - A...

  Bill Openshaw

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  This highly readable illustrated biography on the Percy Tenantry Volunteers has been written with exclusive access to the current Duke of Northumberland's treasure trove of archive records. This book is for anyone interested in military history, especially Revolutionary and the Napoleonic war period, and for those looking at the local history of Northumberland, and especially Alnwick Castle.
  The history of Britain's conflict with France between 1793 and 1815 is well documented. Nevertheless, one aspect that has scant coverage, is that of the role of Volunteers.  In 1798, afraid of impending invasion by France's all-conquering armies the British desperately needed to defend their shores. To The Call of Bugles reveals, for the first time, how among those who stood forward in Home Guard style military bodies, there was no finer example than that of the valiant Percy Tenantry Volunteers, created by the 2nd Duke of Northumberland, General Hugh Percy. This amateur body of men, 1,500 strong, consisting of cavalry, artillery and riflemen, was put together, trained, armed, dressed and operated by General Hugh Percy. This book provides stories from the original volunteers, an in-depth understanding of how such a corps was organised and reveals how they were fashioned into an elite and innovative fighting force.

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  ECO: Elevate Your Understanding...

  Gideon Vexley

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  ECO: Elevate Your Understanding of Economics with Simple Insights   
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  What sets this guide apart is its in-depth coverage, crucial for your understanding. Concepts are explored thoroughly and with clarity.   
  Designed with a coherent structure and straightforward language, our economics guide ensures a seamless flow between topics. Say farewell to complex jargon and welcome clear, concise, and technically accurate content.   
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  ECO: Elevate Your Understanding of Economics with Simple Insights

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  Of The Social Contract -...

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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  "Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains" 
  These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir vigorous debate since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over others, Rousseau argues instead for a pact, or 'social contract', that should exist between all the citizens of a state and that should be the source of sovereign power. From this fundamental premise, he goes on to consider issues of liberty and law, freedom and justice, arriving at a view of society that has seemed to some a blueprint for totalitarianism, to others a declaration of democratic principles.It's publication in 1762 lead to great discussion about 'what is government' on both sides of the Atlantic, and is still essential reading today. 
  How much government is too much? What rights should be given up for government? It is the Social Contract which is the foundational discussion on these topics.

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  The Seven Seeds of Wisdom - A...

  Moysekou Camara

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  You are not short of information. You are short of wisdom. 
    
  Sit down. The fire is lit. The griot is waiting. 
    
  In a village where the Niger River winds through West Africa, an old griot named Jeliba opens a calabash and reveals seven seeds — ancient principles that have guided leaders, farmers, healers, and builders for generations. Through his stories — a farmer who planted baobabs he would never harvest, a king who dammed a river and lost a kingdom, a spider who crossed an uncrossable desert — you will learn a way of seeing that no framework or formula can teach: 
    
  Patience — See in generations, not seasons 
  Consequence — Watch the ripples before you throw the stone 
  Pathfinder — Break the impossible into solvable pieces 
  Drum — Let truth travel on the wings of story 
  Scale — Choose what matters over what glitters 
  Weaver — See the pattern in the chaos 
  Lever — Find the fulcrum that moves mountains 
    
  This is not a framework to memorize. It is a fire to sit beside — again and again, at every crossroads, with those you lead and those who come after you. 
    
  The teaching does not happen in the reading. It happens in the doing. 
    
  The calabash is in your hand. The path is before you. Walk it well.

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  Women in Ancient Sparta: The...

  Charles River Editors

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  The most unique city-state in ancient Greece was Sparta, which continues to fascinate people today. It is not entirely clear why Sparta placed such a great emphasis on having a militaristic society, but the result was that military fitness was a preoccupation from birth. If a Spartan baby did not appear physically fit at birth, it was left to die. Spartan children underwent military training around the age of seven, and every male had to join the army around the age of 18.  
  	Sparta will forever be known for its military prowess, but they had lives off the battlefield as well, and their way of life was also unique. For example, Spartan females were formally educated, which was a rarity among the city-states, and according to Plutarch, when Leonidas’s wife Gorgo was asked why Spartan women held such places of prominence in society, she replied, “It is because we Spartan women are the only ones who give birth to men."  
  	Athenian girls were married at 14 to husbands they had never met, whereas Spartan girls married in their late teens or twenties. Athenian women were expected to stay indoors, be segregated from men, remain uneducated, and be silent, while Spartan women trained in athletics, exercised in public in scant clothing or none at all, owned property in their own names, and spoke their minds. By the 4th century B.C., according to Aristotle, they owned 40% of the land across the entire polis, and they were credited by foreign observers with influence over their husbands that no other Greek women possessed. 
  While all of this was acknowledged, the sources are uneven regarding the actual lives of Spartan women, from how they were raised to how they spoke and worshiped. All that can be said for sure is that Sparta had a society in which the female half of the citizen population occupied a position more nearly equal to that of men than anywhere else in the ancient Mediterranean world.

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