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The North won the Civil War, but it took a Jefferson Davis to reunite the nation.It's 1876, the last days of postwar Reconstruction in the South, when a nineteen-year-old artistic prodigy from Georgia, with a troublesome name, heads to Yankee Philadelphia and the country's first World's Fair since the Civil War. A call for artists to participate in the Fair's art exhibit, the largest in the nation, sends Thomas J. on his way. A hilarious comin...

Managing Your Own Learning at University is a practical self-help guide for new and continuing students who are faced with taking responsibility for their own studies in college and university.

Using new archival material from the Bureau of Military History, Fergus O'Farrell documents Brugha's career as a revolutionary. This closely-researched work examines Brugha's complex attitudes to violence, illuminating how Brugha sought to marry force with politics in the pursuit of Irish independence.

Get an introduction to the visual design of GraphQL data and concepts, including GraphQL structures, semantics, and schemas in this compact, pragmatic book. In it you will see simple guidelines based on lessons learned from real-life data discovery and unification, as well as useful visualization techniques. These in turn help you improve the quality of your API designs and give you the skills to produce convincing visual communications about ...

Celebrate the seasons with your feathered friends! Spot nesting blue jays in spring, and hoot hoot with an owl in winter. Artist Molly Hashimoto's bright bird prints and author Zoe Burke's rhyming text guide young birdwatchers through the year. A review section at the end of the book names each bird and helps little ones learn the seasons and months of the year.

A culmination of more than 30 years of research, this first volume (in a series of 10) gives us the ancestors of Prince Henry Sinclair, showing how he came to be the Earl of Scotland the Jarl of Orkney, a protectorate of Norway.While only the first four generations of his descendants are represented here, each of his children (and their spouses) descendants will be offered in the following volumes. This is done in order to keep each volume und...

Spend the day with three rambunctious bunnies as they romp through the quiet life of their uncle, Mr. Reginald, who likes things just so, and his perfectly tidy neighbor, Mrs. Paddock. Full of sweet mischief, the youngsters bumble and tumble while the adults mumble and grumble through a chaotic spring holiday. With whimsical illustrations and read-aloud giggles galore, Mr. Reginald and the Bunnies celebrates childhood (bunny slippers for ev...

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Parenting can be a struggle, especially parenting a child with Sotos syndrome. In her heartrending memoir, Kramar skillfully describes championing her disabled child through his short life. Written in starkly honest prose, Searching for Spenser examines the experience of loving and losing a child.After she has attained success in her career, Margaret eagerly anticipates motherhood. When she gives birth to her second child Spenser, who suffers ...

This second edition volume expands on the previous edition with updated discussions on new genetic, molecular, and cellular methods used to study somatic stem cells. The chapters in this book focus on the isolation, classification, purity, and plasticity of these stem cells in a variety of organic tissues. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lis...

THE HERO Versus Me & Monkey Jo chronicles of adventures of Henry Neis who arrives in Vietnam an innocent youth from Kansas, and quickly falls in with addicts and lost souls. His story describes his rescue of a baby monkey, who becomes his faithful companion. Henry's mission is to get active-duty soldiers to fill out required paperwork for the US military with the name of their next of kin, given their likelihood of dying in battle. This is a s...

Die 20 jungen Männer, die am 9. September 1893 den FV Stuttgart 1893 gründeten, konnten nicht ahnen, was aus ihrer großen Liebe zum Sport entstehen sollte: Der VfB Stuttgart ist heute der mit Abstand größte Sportverein in Baden-Württemberg und einer der traditionsreichsten Deutschlands. Dieser elegant gestaltete und wunderschön illustrierte Band zum 125-jährigen Jubiläum stellt den Klub in 125 bunten Geschichten vor. Meisterschaften und große ...

Ein »Dankeschön« kann wahre Wunder wirken. Kaum ausgesprochen, schon bringt es die Augen zum Leuchten und zaubert ein Lächeln ins Gesicht. Es gibt viele Anlässe, sich zu bedanken. Und keine dieser Gelegenheiten sollte man versäumen, und keinen Empfänger auslassen: sei es der beste Freund oder die Liebste, die Mutter, der liebe Gott oder das Leben selbst, oder sei es auch nur ein winziger Bindfaden, ein Knopf oder ein schlichter Hocker. Denn - ...

»Wir« zu sagen, ein »Wir« zu bilden ist die politische Handlung par excellence. Wie aber konstituiert sich ein politisches Subjekt? Wie funktioniert diese Identitätsbildung? Und wie hat sie sich historisch in den letzten zwei Jahrhunderten entwickelt? Das sind die Fragen, denen Tristan Garcia in seinem neuen hochaktuellen Buch nachgeht. Eine fulminante Analyse der Identitätspolitik.Der »Kampf der Kulturen«, die Debatte um »den« Islam, um Geflü...

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In Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften wird oft ein Zusammenhang zwischen der gegenwärtigen Gesellschaftsform und psychischen Krankheiten postuliert. Zwar ist es epidemiologisch umstritten, ob diesem als »Burnout« oder »Erschöpfungssyndrom« diskutierten Phänomen ein realer Anstieg psychischer Erkrankungen entspricht. Dennoch kommt im Begriff der Erschöpfung eine Dynamik von Beschleunigungsphänomenen zum Ausdruck, die ihm eine zeitdiagnostisch...

Sixty-two-year-old Clara leads a virtuous life. She spends all her time helping others and she always puts her friends and family first. It's a shame that nobody, including her four siblings and their myriad of children, ever stops to say thank you and appreciate all she does.. . . until wealthy Uncle Simon comes into her life. Like Clara, Simon never married, never had children and he lived alone - the two understood each other like no one el...