![]() ![]() Garfield survived the attack, but become the object of bitter, behind-the-scenes struggles for power-over his administration, over the nation's future, and, hauntingly, over his medical care. But four months after Garfield's inauguration in 1881, he was shot in the back by a deranged office-seeker named Charles Guiteau. Born into abject poverty, he rose to become a wunderkind scholar, a Civil War hero, a renowned congressman, and a reluctant presidential candidate who took on the nation's corrupt political establishment. James Abram Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president. The extraordinary account of James Garfield's rise from poverty to the American presidency, and the dramatic history of his assassination and legacy, from the bestselling author of The River of Doubt. ![]()
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![]() ![]() “The Poor Planter’s Physician” section contains an entry about “Suppression of the Courses,” which reads: We found a 10th edition to the same “American Instructor” published by Franklin and Hall in 1758, which carries almost the same material as the previous edition. in the British Edition of this Book, there were many Things of little or no Use in these Parts of the World: In this Edition those Things are omitted, and in their Room many other Matters inserted, more immediately useful to us Americans. Published by Franklin and his printing partner David Hall, this manual was essentially a reprint of the British version with new sections added, including John Tennent’s “ The Poor Planter’s Physician.” The preface to the new edition states: ![]() Franklin had been looking to adapt the British manual titled “The Young Man’s Companion” published in London a few decades earlier, with significant changes. In 1748, Franklin’s printing house published a manual titled “The American Instructor or Young Man’s Best Companion,” which provided all kinds of advice on arithmetic, writing and spelling, bookkeeping and more. When founding father Benjamin Franklin set about adapting a British manual for the American colonies, he also happened to include a recipe for how to bring about an abortion. ![]() ![]() ![]() The tale of two strategies we’ve seen in 2019 continued with Marvel publishing more different periodical titles, and DC and Image publishing fewer. , and some funky stuff is happening overalls with several publishers adjusting their output, John Jackson Miller reports (quoted with permission): What did I tell ya about everyone pivoting to all ages? If you’d told me an explicitly YA Catwoman graphic novel would one day lead sales in comics shops I would have plotzed. Maybe less is more after all.ĭC also led graphic novels sales units with Catwoman: Under the Moon, the first release in the YA Ink line. Marvel still led DC in dollars, but DC came close in units, losing by a mere 1% despite publishing half as many books! Very interesting. which was the top periodical for the month. DC had a dream month with a new issue of Doomsday Clock, lots of Batman and a new blockbuster in DCeased #1. After a pretty glum April, comics sales were a bit better in May, according to sales figures just released by Diamond. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Like many Germans, Hitler came to believe the country’s devastating defeat could be attributed not to the Allies, but to insufficiently patriotic “traitors” at home-a myth that would undermine the post-war Weimar Republic and set the stage for Hitler’s rise.Īfter Hitler returned to Munich in late 1918, he joined the small German Workers’ Party, which aimed to unite the interests of the working class with a strong German nationalism. A month later, he was recuperating in a hospital at Pasewalk, northeast of Berlin, when news arrived of the armistice and Germany’s defeat in World War I. Hitler was wounded twice during the conflict: He was hit in the leg during the Battle of the Somme in 1916, and temporarily blinded by a British gas attack near Ypres in 1918. When World War I broke out the following summer, he successfully petitioned the Bavarian king to be allowed to volunteer in a reserve infantry regiment.ĭeployed in October 1914 to Belgium, Hitler served throughout the Great War and won two decorations for bravery, including the rare Iron Cross First Class, which he wore to the end of his life. In 1913, Hitler moved to Munich, in the German state of Bavaria. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rouse argues that queer suffragists did take meaningful action to assert their identities and legacies by challenging traditional concepts of domesticity, family, space, and death in both subtly subversive and radically transformative ways. However, owing to the constant pressure to present a "respectable" public image, suffrage leaders publicly conformed to gendered views of ideal womanhood in order to make women's suffrage more palatable to the public. Rouse reveals that, contrary to popular belief, the suffrage movement included a variety of individuals who represented a range of genders and sexualities. The women's suffrage movement, much like many other civil rights movements, has an important and often unrecognized queer history. ![]() Restores queer suffragists to their rightful place in the history of the struggle for women's right to vote 2023 Judy Grahn Award-Publishing Triangle Finalist ![]() ![]() ![]() Thus was this precocious and gifted writer poised to dramatize the clash of two cultures-the Enlightenment that celebrated reason and science and the Romantic age that celebrated passion and art. She was in a privileged position to craft this rich cultural-historical document because her father William Godwin was a leading enlightenment philosopher, her mother Mary Wollstonecraft was a pioneer English feminist who defended the rights of women, and her husband Percy Shelley was a leading romantic poet. Title page of the first edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, 1818. It has become a classic of English literature. ![]() Over two hundred years ago Mary Shelley, at age nineteen, published the gothic novel Frankenstein. ![]() ![]() ![]() Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow has it all: a well-defined and enchanting fantasy world, page-turning suspense, hairpin story turns, a strong female lead, real emotional resonance, and fresh humor complete with quick, quippy dialogue. Morrigan Crow's come to town, and she and her Wundrous world cast an irresistible magical spell. Morrigan's feelings of insecurity as an outsider will ring true and resonate meaningfully with readers. Unusual for a fantasy, the emotional life of the protagonist is expertly drawn. ![]() ![]() But there are also plenty of light, playful fantasy elements, making this a fun, enticing world. There's some dark fantasy violence or threat of it, complete with gruesome references to monsters made of graveyard bones, and a head preserved in a bottle. It features a misfit girl developing strong magical powers, who has a wry, feisty take on her circumstances, making her a strong female role model. Parents need to know that Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow, by Australian author Jessica Townsend, is the very worthy sequel to her best-selling fantasy Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow. Adult woman in crowd smokes.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel is set in an era in which interstellar travel is in the process of being discovered and perfected. ![]() The novel is loosely related to the future history into which he attempted to integrate his science fiction output, connecting several ideas from earlier and later novels, including non-human intelligence, sentient planets (Erythro), and rotor engines (Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain). One of his later science fiction novels, it was published in 1989, three years before his death. Nemesis is a science fiction novel by American writer Isaac Asimov. 1989 first year edition Doubleday publishers, New York, London hardbound very good condition with unmarked pages dust jacket very good. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He takes us through South America, from the fog-bound coasts of Tierra del Fuego to the tropical forests of Guyana, in search of these birds: striated caracaras, which still exist, though they're very rare. ![]() Darwin wondered why these birds were confined to remote islands at the tip of South America, sensing a larger story, but he set this mystery aside and never returned to it.Īlmost two hundred years later, Jonathan Meiburg takes up this chase. In 1833, Charles Darwin was astonished by an animal he met in the Falkland Islands: handsome, social, and oddly crow-like falcons that were tame and inquisitive, quarrelsome and passionate, and so insatiably curious that they stole hats, compasses, and other valuables from the crew of the Beagle. full of insights into not only our planet's evolutionary past but also its future' ***** Mail on Sunday An enthralling account of a modern voyage of discovery as we meet the clever, social birds of prey called caracaras, which puzzled Darwin, fascinate modern-day falconers, and carry secrets of our planet's deep past in their family history. ![]() ![]() Teachers and schools should add this to their reading lists."-Claire Martin, The Denver Post, ''.an enduring joy. ![]() "A charming read that extends from prehistory to nuclear warfare and can be enjoyed also by adults in search of an instructive overview of the human drama."-First Things, "Gombrich accomplishes what many university-level Western Civilization classes cannot-a riveting account of events that shaped the world from the Stone Age to the 1930s, illustrating the relevance of history to current events. ![]() |