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The Invention of Rum

Creating the Quintessential Atlantic Commodity

by Jordan B. Smith ...

Series series Early American Studies
A complex history of rum, from its production to its consumption, and from its origins in the Caribbean to its impact on the Atlantic worldIt was strong. It was cheap. It was ubiquitous. Fermented and distilled from the refuse of sugar production, rum emerged in the seventeenth-century Caribbean as a new commodity. To conjure something desirable from waste, the makers, movers, and drinkers of rum ... Read more

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A complex history of rum, from its production to its consumption, and from its origins in the Caribbean to its impact on the Atlantic worldIt was strong. It was cheap. It was ubiquitous. Fermented and distilled from the refuse of sugar production, rum emerged in the seventeenth-century Caribbean as a new commodity. To conjure something desirable from waste, the makers, movers, and drinkers of rum
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Governing States and Localities

by Kevin B. Smith, Alan H. Greenblatt ...

The #1 book in the market for state and local politics!The trusted and proven Governing States and Localities guides students through the contentious status of state and local politics, helping them understand the ins and outs of these systems and why they′re important. With engaging journalistic writing and crisp storytelling, Kevin B. Smith and Alan Greenblatt use a comparative approach to ... Read more

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The #1 book in the market for state and local politics!The trusted and proven Governing States and Localities guides students through the contentious status of state and local politics, helping them understand the ins and outs of these systems and why they′re important. With engaging journalistic writing and crisp storytelling, Kevin B. Smith and Alan Greenblatt use a comparative approach to
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Reclaiming Patriotism in an Age of Extremes

by Steven B. Smith ...

Narrated by Mack Sanderson ...

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6 hours 53 min

A rediscovery of patriotism as a virtue in line with the core values of democracy in an extremist ageThe concept of patriotism has fallen on hard times. What was once a value that united Americans has become so politicized by both the left and the right that it threatens to rip apart the social fabric. On the right, patriotism has become synonymous with nationalism and an “us versus them” ... Read more

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A rediscovery of patriotism as a virtue in line with the core values of democracy in an extremist ageThe concept of patriotism has fallen on hard times. What was once a value that united Americans has become so politicized by both the left and the right that it threatens to rip apart the social fabric. On the right, patriotism has become synonymous with nationalism and an “us versus them”
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Exit Stalin

The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953-1991

by Mark B. Smith ...

**A "Best Non-Fiction to Read This Year" Selection from The New StatesmanA magisterial, revisionist narrative history of the Soviet Union in its post-Stalin heyday, bringing a forgotten society to vivid life and offering a new explanation for how it suddenly collapsed.**To those of us in the West, the Soviet Union is synonymous with Stalinism. The common view of the USSR is of a brutal regime that ... Read more

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**A "Best Non-Fiction to Read This Year" Selection from The New StatesmanA magisterial, revisionist narrative history of the Soviet Union in its post-Stalin heyday, bringing a forgotten society to vivid life and offering a new explanation for how it suddenly collapsed.**To those of us in the West, the Soviet Union is synonymous with Stalinism. The common view of the USSR is of a brutal regime that
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Mississauga Portraits

Ojibwe Voices from Nineteenth-Century Canada

by Donald B. Smith ...

The word “Mississauga” is the name British Canadian settlers used for the Ojibwe on the north of Lake Ontario – now the most urbanized region in what is now Canada. The Ojibwe of this area in the early and mid-nineteenth century lived through a time of considerable threat to the survival of the First Nations, as they lost much of their autonomy, and almost all of their traditional territory.Donald ... Read more

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The word “Mississauga” is the name British Canadian settlers used for the Ojibwe on the north of Lake Ontario – now the most urbanized region in what is now Canada. The Ojibwe of this area in the early and mid-nineteenth century lived through a time of considerable threat to the survival of the First Nations, as they lost much of their autonomy, and almost all of their traditional territory.Donald
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Before I Forget

Love, Hope, Help, and Acceptance in Our Fight Against Alzheimer's

by B. Smith, Dan Gasby, Michael Shnayerson ...

**“A powerful portrait of Alzheimer’s…marked by strong emotions and often bleak honesty.”—The Washington Post“The vulnerability, courage, and honesty in Before I Forget are heart-opening. Fear can be paralyzing…yet B. and Dan beautifully demonstrate that there is a different way to approach this stealthy invader. Alzheimer’s needs to come out of the shadows, and this book is an important step.”** ... Read more

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**“A powerful portrait of Alzheimer’s…marked by strong emotions and often bleak honesty.”—The Washington Post“The vulnerability, courage, and honesty in Before I Forget are heart-opening. Fear can be paralyzing…yet B. and Dan beautifully demonstrate that there is a different way to approach this stealthy invader. Alzheimer’s needs to come out of the shadows, and this book is an important step.”**
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The Golden Age of Battlefield Preservation

The Decade of the 1890’s and the Establishment of America’s First Five Military Parks

by Timothy B. Smith ...

The 1890s, argues Timothy B. Smith in his new book, represented the climax of battlefield preservation in America. But what makes this decade so important?This decade was the perfect time for the establishment of these national parks. Five Civil War battlegrounds—at Gettysburg, Chickamauga and Chattanooga, Shiloh, Antietam, and Vicksburg—were commemorated as national sites during this time. Just ... Read more

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The 1890s, argues Timothy B. Smith in his new book, represented the climax of battlefield preservation in America. But what makes this decade so important?This decade was the perfect time for the establishment of these national parks. Five Civil War battlegrounds—at Gettysburg, Chickamauga and Chattanooga, Shiloh, Antietam, and Vicksburg—were commemorated as national sites during this time. Just
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I Lived the 80s

by B. Harrison Smith ...

Gen X is the "forgotten generation." We made our own meals after school and Saturday mornings, we got dirty, played miles away from home with no way to reach us, we told offensive jokes, we built and jumped bike ramps, broke bones and drank from garden hoses, we had three network channels, we didn't "mediate" with bullies--we kicked their asses, we had land lines, house phones and cordless phones ... Read more

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Gen X is the "forgotten generation." We made our own meals after school and Saturday mornings, we got dirty, played miles away from home with no way to reach us, we told offensive jokes, we built and jumped bike ramps, broke bones and drank from garden hoses, we had three network channels, we didn't "mediate" with bullies--we kicked their asses, we had land lines, house phones and cordless phones
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Healthy Brain Happy Life: Conversation With a Better Self

by Daniel B. Smith ...

The first part of this book is reserved for the most important human organ: the brain. I will briefly introduce this "data processor" in the first chapter, and along the way you will discover information on: factors that negatively affect the brain, the most common diseases, how to care for this organ, its mysteries, the importance of education and last but not least, the joy of living.A balanced ... Read more

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The first part of this book is reserved for the most important human organ: the brain. I will briefly introduce this "data processor" in the first chapter, and along the way you will discover information on: factors that negatively affect the brain, the most common diseases, how to care for this organ, its mysteries, the importance of education and last but not least, the joy of living.A balanced
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Business Administration Enhanced: Part 1

by Daniel B. Smith ...

The world we live in changes dramatically every second.The globalization, the terrorism, the poverty and all other problems have a huge impact on our economy and security.For the next period, these two main domains of study will be predominant because nowadays, the world faces multiple risks and challenges.If you wanted to succeed in growing your business and reaching new markets, you would need ... Read more

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The world we live in changes dramatically every second.The globalization, the terrorism, the poverty and all other problems have a huge impact on our economy and security.For the next period, these two main domains of study will be predominant because nowadays, the world faces multiple risks and challenges.If you wanted to succeed in growing your business and reaching new markets, you would need
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Grow!

How Entrepreneurial Leaders Optimize for Growth

by Jonathan B. Smith, Jeanet L. Wade ...

What's holding your company back from the growth you know is possible?Every entrepreneurial leader eventually hits a ceiling. The skills and grit that fueled your start-up can't carry you through scale-up. Instead of freedom, you feel frustration-people problems, profit pressures, lack of control, or endless firefighting.In Grow!, Expert EOS ImplementersⓇ Jonathan B. Smith and Jeanet L. Wade ... Read more

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What's holding your company back from the growth you know is possible?Every entrepreneurial leader eventually hits a ceiling. The skills and grit that fueled your start-up can't carry you through scale-up. Instead of freedom, you feel frustration-people problems, profit pressures, lack of control, or endless firefighting.In Grow!, Expert EOS ImplementersⓇ Jonathan B. Smith and Jeanet L. Wade
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Kid's Treasury: 99 Classic Children's Books to Enlighten and Educate

A Treasury of Fairy Tales, Adventures, Nature Studies, Myths, and Moral Classics

by C. E. Smith, Louey Chisholm, Harrison Weir, Harriet Putnam, Thomas Lambert Sappington, Carl Sandburg, Patten Beard, Margaret Warner Morley, Hector Malot, Charles Dickens, Catharine Shaw, Evelyn Sharp, Johanna Spyri, Heinrich Hoffmann, Roy Rutherford Bailey, Pamela Grey, E. Nesbit, Edward Stratemeyer, Loïs Bates, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Josephine Daskam Bacon, John Habberton, James Otis, Padraic Colum, Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, E. Louise Smythe, F. J. Cross, Vesta J. Farnsworth, Douglas English, Francis Rolt-Wheeler, Ella Rodman Church, H. Lee M. Pike, Luna May Ennis, Claire Martha Coburn, Florence Emma Voigt Mendel, Mary F. Nixon-Roulet, Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade, Wm. H. Meadowcroft, Etta Blaisdell McDonald, James H. Shaw, Georgia Eldridge Hanley, W. Harcourt Bath, Paul B. Du Chaillu, Norman F. Langford, Jean M. Thompson, W. Warde Fowler, Katharine Elizabeth Dopp, Joseph Grinnell, Elizabeth Grinnell, Alfred John Church, Homer, A. L. O. E., C. M. Stevens, Francis La Flesche, Karl Friedrich Becker, George P. Upton, Paul Hume, Ruth Fox Hume, Rebecca Deming Moore, Helen Mildred Owen, L. WÃ¼rdig, Elisha Noyce, Julia Dalrymple, Henry C. McCook, Jim Kjelgaard, William Shakespeare, Mary Elting, Edith M. Patch, Mary Proctor, Olive Thorne Miller, Kathrine Lois Scobey, Olive Brown Horne, H. R. Hall, Ray Stannard Baker, Bernadine Bailey, E. F. Buckley, Rupert Sargent Holland, Benjamin Brewster, Neltje Blanchan, Burren Laughlin, L. L. Flood, Sarath Kumar Ghosh, Dorothy Crain, Oliver Optic, Dillon Wallace, Charles H. L. Johnston, G. E. Mitton, Mary Macgregor, John Bunyan, Jesse Lyman Hurlbut, Josephine Pollard, May Farinholt Jones, Harriet Pearl Skinner ...

Kid's Treasury: 99 Classic Children's Books to Enlighten and Educate surveys the capacious educational imagination of children's literature, bringing together moral tales, folklore, adventure narratives, animal studies, historical retellings, poetry, drama, and popular fiction. Its range moves from domestic realism and cautionary fantasy to natural-history writing and inherited classical ... Read more

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Kid's Treasury: 99 Classic Children's Books to Enlighten and Educate surveys the capacious educational imagination of children's literature, bringing together moral tales, folklore, adventure narratives, animal studies, historical retellings, poetry, drama, and popular fiction. Its range moves from domestic realism and cautionary fantasy to natural-history writing and inherited classical
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