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Introducing "Gaslighting and Narcissistic Abuse Recovery: Reclaim Your Power and Heal!" Are you ready to break free from the chains of gaslighting and narcissistic abuse? "Gaslighting and Narcissistic Abuse Recovery" is the essential guide that will empower you to reclaim your power, rebuild your self-worth, and embark on a journey of healing and transformation. Gaslighting and narcissistic abuse can leave deep scars on your emotional well...

In the late 19th century, an estimated 11 million Americans believed in something called Spiritualism. They believed in it so ardently that it came to be thought of as a religion, and it became the seventh most popular religion in the United States. It's fundamental tenet-virtually its only tenet-was that it was possible for the living to communicate with the dead. America's philosopher king William James believed in it. Thomas Edison believed...

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From Sputnik and the beginning of the space race to Little Richard and the underappreciated influence of rock n' roll in bringing blacks and whites closer together, to President Eisenhower's Interstate Highway Act, which forever changed the landscape, 1957 represents the year when all of the energy and anxiety that had followed the end of World War II exploded.

There is no collective bargaining without the strike. Joe Burns' Strike Back helps awaken the labor movement to our collective power. This book belongs in the hands of every unionist who wants to build power for working people through militant grassroots activism." -SARA NELSON, President of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO During the 1960s and 1970s, teachers, police, firefighters, sanitation workers and many other public ...

VOR UNS DAS MEER erzählt die außergewöhnliche Geschichte von Donald Crowhurst (Colin Firth), einem Amateursegler, der 1968 beim Sunday Times Golden Globe Race angetreten ist, um der schnellste Mensch zu werden, der allein und ohne Zwischenstopp die Welt umsegelt. Mit seinem unfertigen, selbst entworfenen Boot und mit der Hoffnung durch das Preisgeld seine Firma zu retten und seiner Familie ein besseres Leben zu ermöglichen, sticht Crowhurst sc...

VOR UNS DAS MEER erzählt die außergewöhnliche Geschichte von Donald Crowhurst (Colin Firth), einem Amateursegler, der 1968 beim Sunday Times Golden Globe Race angetreten ist, um der schnellste Mensch zu werden, der allein und ohne Zwischenstopp die Welt umsegelt. Mit seinem unfertigen, selbst entworfenen Boot und mit der Hoffnung durch das Preisgeld seine Firma zu retten und seiner Familie ein besseres Leben zu ermöglichen, sticht Crowhurst sc...

There has never been a novel like Mid-Strut, virtually a genre unto itself Friday, October 1, 1965. Arnie Stats Castig is a fine, upstanding citizen of a dying western Pennsylvania steel town---until he snaps. He dashes onto the field at halftime of a high school football game and throws his arms around a majorette. But their feet get tangled and he falls on top of her. I just wanna hold you, he keeps saying, as she shrieks into the night. He ...

There has never been a novel like Mid-Strut, virtually a genre unto itself Friday, October 1, 1965. Arnie Stats Castig is a fine, upstanding citizen of a dying western Pennsylvania steel town---until he snaps. He dashes onto the field at halftime of a high school football game and throws his arms around a majorette. But their feet get tangled and he falls on top of her. I just wanna hold you, he keeps saying, as she shrieks into the night. He ...

Examines the biographies of some of the most famous figures in American history, from Benjamin Franklin to Oprah Winfrey. Through these case studies, Eric Burns considers the evolution of celebrity throughout the ages. More controversially, he questions the very status of fame in the twenty-first century.

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Burns's compelling yet accessible history of the reading experience rejoices in the diverse motivations and methods in the developing relationship between readers and writers even as he voices concern at the powerful forces of ignorance and censorship that seek to keep them apart.

The Roaring Twenties" is the only decade in American history with a widely applied nickname, and our collective fascination with this era continues. But how did this surge of innovation and cultural milestones emerge out of the ashes of The Great War? No one has yet written a book about the decade's beginning. Acclaimed author Eric Burns investigates the year of 1920, which was not only a crucial twelve-month period of its own, but one that fo...

Eleanor Roosevelt is viewed as one of the most pioneering women in American history. But she was also one of the most enigmatic and lonely. Her loveless marriage with FDR was no secret, and she had a cold relationship with most of her family, as well, from her distant mother to her public rivalry with her cousin, Alice. Yet she was a warm person, beloved by friends, and her humanitarian work still influences the world today. But who shaped Ele...

More than a century has passed since Theodore Roosevelt was in the White House, but he still continues to fascinate. Never has a more exuberant man been our nation's leader. He became a war hero, reformed the NYPD, busted the largest railroad and oil trusts, passed the Pure Food and Drug Act, created national parks and forests, won the Nobel Peace Prize, and built the Panama Canal-to name just a few. Yet it was the cause he championed the hard...

Jane Taylor is independent and happy raising her daughter, Britt any, as a single mother. With a fulfilling and lucrative job, she and Brittany have a good life together. But it's all cut short when Jane is attacked and murdered by an unknown, masked assailant. The same man also goes after fourteen year-old Brittany, who barely manages to escape his clutches. Five years later, she is still struggling to cope with the loss.Now a sophomore in co...

In this fresh, informative work, Burns brings the Founding Fathers down off their pedestals to reveal the flesh-and-blood men who overcame their faults to establish a new nation.