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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Steven M. Neuse
Amid the chaos of the American Civil War, Captain Fitz Dunaway finds himself torn between honor, loyalty, and survival. After striking his superior officer during the Battle of Bull Run, Fitz faces a court-martial-until a shadowy offer from Washington changes everything. Recruited by the Assistant Secretary of War to serve as a covert operative, Fitz becomes President Lincoln's spy, tasked with infiltrating enemy lines and uncovering conspiracies that threaten the Union from within. As he navigates a city teeming with double agents, traitors, and political schemers, Fitz must decide how far he'll go to protect a president who doesn't even know he exists. Rich in historical detail and gripping in its realism, President Lincoln's Spy blends military drama with political intrigue, exploring courage, betrayal, and the thin line between duty and conscience in America's darkest hour. Fans of Jeff Shaara, Bernard Cornwell, and Robert Harris will find themselves captivated by this story of espionage, loyalty, and the birth of modern intelligence.
The English Channel, Spring 1944. The greatest invasion in history is coming. And the Germans have a weapon that could stop it. Lieutenant Commander Jordan Cole has survived the war so far - but not without cost. The ghost of his executive officer, killed in a PT boat ambush Cole believes he caused, follows him into every battle. Now, commanding a squadron of American PT boats in the treacherous English Channel, Cole is running out of time to make things right before the invasion that will decide the war. Hunting the Allied convoys threading their way through E-boat Alley is Fregattenkapitan Reubold - a brilliant, fearless, and utterly dangerous German S-boat commander who knows these waters like the veins in his own hands. And waiting in the shadows is the Reich's deadliest secret: a new class of hydrofoil torpedo boats - the Trinity - so fast and lethal they could rip through the massive Allied armada before the beaches of Normandy are ever reached. Standing between them and catastrophe is the battered destroyer HMS Firedancer and her indomitable Captain George Hardy - a man who has never once turned away from a fight. Set against the deafening chaos of night sea battles, radar rooms crackling with tension, and the bone-deep exhaustion of men who have seen too much war, Armada is a WWII naval action thriller of breathtaking intensity. From claustrophobic S-boat pens in Cherbourg to the carnage of convoy ambushes in the dark Channel waters, Steven M. Wilson delivers World War II English Channel fiction at its most visceral and authentic. For readers who love D-Day historical novels, WWII naval warfare fiction, and stories where courage is the only weapon that never runs out. The armada must sail. Nothing - and no one - can be allowed to stop it.
The Last Gentleman Smuggler
Steven M Kalish; Nikki Palomino
Steven M. Kalish Nikki Palomino
2026
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Designed for both the practicing choral director and the choral methods student, this is a compact and comprehensive overview of the many teaching methods, strategies, materials, and assessments available for choral sight-singing instruction. Sight-singing is an important, if sometimes neglected, facet of choral music education that often inspires fear and uncertainty in student and teacher alike. Written in an accessible style, this book takes the mystery out of teaching music reading. Topics covered include the history of sight-singing pedagogy and research, prominent methods and materials, and practical strategies for teaching and assessment. This is the only book to provide such a wealth of information under one cover and will become an essential part of every choral conductor's library.
This anthology is intended to be used in Political Philosophy courses. It focuses on contemporary political problems, and it is intended to be paired with any of the numerous readers which are dedicated to the history of political philosophy. History, theory, and political problems are the three pillars of the political philosophy course. However, while the anthologies on the history of political philosophy are numerous, there are relatively few sources (and even fewer single sources) that focus on contemporary political problems. This book fills that gap, with the leading contemporary positions on school vouchers, government support for the arts, pornography, same sex marriage, drug legalization, gun control, terrorism, torture, capital punishment, affirmative action, Immigration, and the environment.
You might think these were sweeping legal reforms that greatly improved American society. Or perhaps you view them as stopgap measures intended to right some grave social injustice. What all these instances of reform share, however, whether sponsored by Democrats or Republicans, is wildly unforeseen consequences--occasionally positive, often regrettable. With a shrewd eye for historical absurdity, Steven M. Gillon takes us on a tour of this century's reforms and legal innovation -- federal welfare policy, community mental health, immigration, and campaign finance reform, to name an additional few--and describes the unintended consequences of their enactment. The result is a brisk, instructive, and disturbing study that will be required reading for all students of government and society, and for anyone who wishes to avoid the perils that stalk any legislative body.
Beginning with a brief overview of the Bible's structure and history, the authors highlight the development of the canon, point out the major events in the story of the Bible's translation into English, and assess the strengths and weaknesses of the different contemporary English translations of Scripture.
Political Thinking, Political Theory, and Civil Society
DeLue Steven M.; Timothy M. Dale
Routledge
2016
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This comprehensive overview of the Western tradition of political thought approaches concepts with the aim of helping readers develop their own political thinking and critical thinking skills. This text is uniquely organized around the theme of civil society — what is the nature of a civil society? why is it important? — that will engage students and help make the material relevant. Major thinkers discussed in the text are explored not only with the goal of understanding their views, but also with an interest in understanding the relationship of their ideas to the notion of a civil society. DeLue and Dale contend that a civil society is important for securing the way of life that most of us value and want to preserve, a way of life that allows people to live freely and place significance on their own lives. New to the Fourth Edition Connects traditional political theory to contemporary challenges to civil society including new coverage of US electoral politics, the Black Lives Matter movement, Citizens United, and Robert Putnam’s view of the decline of social support systems. Updates the coverage of feminism and feminist thinkers, including coverage of gay marriage, in the context of civil society. Expands coverage of global civil society, especially in terms of contemporary challenges posed by ISIS, the failure of the Arab Spring, and ongoing humanitarian crises in Syria, Iran, and beyond.
This classic textbook is now in its fourth edition and Steven Stanley has teamed up with John Luczaj, an award winning field geologist. Written from a truly integrated earth systems perspective this updated edition includes new coverage on mass extinction, the hot topic of climate change and Proterozoic history. There is a wide range of interactive studying and teaching tools available with this text, because of LaunchPad access. Earth System History is available with LaunchPad. LaunchPad combines an interactive ebook with high-quality multimedia content and ready-made assessment options, including LearningCurve adaptive quizzing. See `Instructor Resources’ and `Student Resources’ for further information.
Offering a new perspective on medical progress in the nineteenth century, Steven M. Stowe provides an in-depth study of the midcentury culture of everyday medicine in the South. Reading deeply in the personal letters, daybooks, diaries, bedside notes, and published writings of doctors, Stowe illuminates an entire world of sickness and remedy, suffering and hope, and the deep ties between medicine and regional culture.In a distinct American region where climate, race and slavery, and assumptions about ""southernness"" profoundly shaped illness and healing in the lives of ordinary people, Stowe argues that southern doctors inhabited a world of skills, medicines, and ideas about sickness that allowed them to play moral, as well as practical, roles in their communities. Looking closely at medical education, bedside encounters, and medicine's larger social aims, he describes a ""country orthodoxy"" of local, social medical practice that highly valued the ""art"" of medicine. While not modern in the sense of laboratory science a century later, this country orthodoxy was in its own way modern, Stowe argues, providing a style of caregiving deeply rooted in individual experience, moral values, and a consciousness of place and time.
Americans wrote fiercely during the Civil War. War surprised, devastated, and opened up imagination, taking hold of Americans' words as well as their homes and families. The personal diary—wildly ragged yet rooted in day following day—was one place Americans wrote their war. Diaries, then, have become one of the best-known, most-used sources for exploring the life of the mind in a war-torn place and time. Delving into several familiar wartime diaries kept by women of the southern slave-owning class, Steven Stowe recaptures their motivations to keep the days close even as war tore apart the brutal system of slavery that had benefited them. Whether the diarists recorded thoughts about themselves, their opinions about men, or their observations about slavery, race, and warfare, Stowe shows how these women, by writing the immediate moment, found meaning in a changing world.In studying the inner lives of these unsympathetic characters, Stowe also explores the importance—and the limits—of historical empathy as a condition for knowing the past, demonstrating how these plain, first-draft texts can offer new ways to make sense of the world in which these Confederate women lived.
Americans wrote fiercely during the Civil War. War surprised, devastated, and opened up imagination, taking hold of Americans' words as well as their homes and families. The personal diary—wildly ragged yet rooted in day following day—was one place Americans wrote their war. Diaries, then, have become one of the best-known, most-used sources for exploring the life of the mind in a war-torn place and time. Delving into several familiar wartime diaries kept by women of the southern slave-owning class, Steven Stowe recaptures their motivations to keep the days close even as war tore apart the brutal system of slavery that had benefited them. Whether the diarists recorded thoughts about themselves, their opinions about men, or their observations about slavery, race, and warfare, Stowe shows how these women, by writing the immediate moment, found meaning in a changing world.In studying the inner lives of these unsympathetic characters, Stowe also explores the importance—and the limits—of historical empathy as a condition for knowing the past, demonstrating how these plain, first-draft texts can offer new ways to make sense of the world in which these Confederate women lived.
Take your healing to a higher level. You are looking for answers. You've got challenges in your life that you would like to solve. You've probably tried many possible solutions already so I'm going to be frank: most of the advice in the Self-help Industry doesn't work very well. And there are three good reasons for this. Most self-help advice is trying to get you to change your behaviors, such as how you eat or exercise, or to change what you think or feel. This advice is way too superficial to treat the real roots of your problems. Your lifestyle behaviors are symptoms of deeper issues that need to change. Most advice doesn't work well with how your unconscious mind works. Your unconscious mind runs your body and holds most of the beliefs that make up your world view. If you don't make changes in there, whatever behavioral changes you make just won't hold. Most violate one or more laws of Consciousness. And our society rarely even talks about these. Yet Consciousness is the root of everything, including your problems. Unless you are working to change those factors that determine how you manifest Consciousness, you are treating symptoms-what has already been created-not roots. The Seven Tools of Healing approach solves these problems and teaches you the skills you need to just naturally advance your healing.