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When Europeans first arrived in North America, between five and eight million Indigenous people were already living there. But how did they come to be here? What were their agricultural, spiritual, and hunting practices? How did their societies evolve, and what challenges do they face today? Eminent historians Theda Perdue and Michael Green begin by describing how nomadic bands of hunter-gatherers followed the bison and woolly mammoth over the Bering land mass between Asia and what is now Alaska between 25,000 and 15,000 years ago, settling throughout North America.

Acclaimed historians Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green paint a moving portrait of the infamous Trail of Tears. Despite protests from statesmen like Davy Crockett, Daniel Webster, and Henry Clay, a dubious 1838 treaty drove 17,000 mostly Christian Cherokee from their lush Appalachian homeland to barren plains beyond the Mississippi. For 4,000, this brutal forced march lead only to their deaths.

When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the US Navy had a total of 111 submarines. It was mostly a collection of aging boats. Fortunately, with the war in Europe was already two years old and friction with Japan ever increasing, help from what would become known as the Silent Service in the Pacific was on the way: there were 73 of the new fleet submarines under construction. The Silent Service in World War II tells the story of America's intrepid underwater warriors in the words of the men who lived the war in the Pacific against Japan.

Quickies demonstrates that the best sex therapy is often the briefest, presenting listeners with a refreshing array of time-efficient, client-focused approaches to sexual problems. The third edition includes new chapters on the impact of the internet in relationships, infidelity, and same-sex and transgender affirming therapy.

From Buffett to Bono, here is how todays leading philanthropists are revolutionizing the field, using new methods to have a vastly greater impact on the world.For philanthropists of the past, charity was often a matter of simply giving money away. For the philanthrocapitaliststhe new generation of billionaires who are reshaping the way they giveits like business.

In The Little Book of Trading Options Like the Pros, a team of veteran options and derivatives traders delivers an expert account of how to master the zero-sum game of options trading. In the book you'll learn how to "become the house," consistently making a small amount of money—on average—on each trade, in a similar fashion to a casino in Las Vegas.

Discover the secret to graceful aging and lifelong vitality—even if age-related challenges have held you back for years! Do you dream of a vibrant, healthy life but struggle with aches, mental fog, or isolation? Are you overwhelmed by conflicting health advice and unsure whom to trust? You’re not alone. Over 50% of seniors worry about maintaining their health and independence. But imagine a life filled with energy, purpose, and deep connections—this isn’t wishful thinking.

Having survived a devastating Super-SARS pandemic, a small group of the Chatfield family escape the repressive regime at Haver Hall in the UK, and sail back to the southern hemisphere. Stopping in South Africa and then Australia, they are faced by unexpected dangers but also the hope that there might be other survivors. What awaits them in New Zealand, though, is even more challenging. And can those left in the UK survive one another? An exciting page-turner that keeps surprising… up to the last page.

For more than 50 years Michael Green's The Art of Coarse Acting has been essential reading for anyone with a passion for theatre, both amateurs and professionals alike. This acerbic yet affectionate work remains one of the funniest books about acting ever written. It's a "[W]ickedly irreverent" (The Stage) exposé which ridicules pretentiousness, pokes fun at incompetence and disaster and generally lays bare life backstage. Even after all this time it remains true that however much the theatre may change, coarse actors don't.

Not What You Think blows the dust off dated misperceptions of the Bible and engages the problems of this book head-on--the parts that make modern readers squeamish, skeptical, and uncertain. If you're skeptical about the Bible, you're not alone. The Bible is seen by many contemporary readers as...

When a devastating, Super-SARS pandemic strikes, members of the Chatfield family, scattered around the globe, discover they possess a crucial gene that gives them immunity. Knowing that for their ultimate survival they must increase their gene pool, two members of the New Zealand branch of the family embark on a perilous journey in a small yacht. The community they find in England is a very different one, based on the rule of fear. Not only does it look impossible to take anyone back to New Zealand, but it may also be impossible for them to escape themselves… A dazzling debut, sharp, ...

Following a devastating Super-SARS pandemic, the Chatfield family, scattered across the globe, fight for survival. Their only hope is to form one strong community together, but power struggles, violence and disruption keep them apart. In this thrilling conclusion to the Blood Line Trilogy, the New Zealand community makes a last desperate bid to return to their relatives and Blood Roots in England. Along the way they discover more survivors, but is this new addition to the gene pool more trouble than it’s worth? Blood Roots is another exciting page turner that will keep you guessing till ...

'Big Aggie' Sails Again continues the hilarious misadventures of skipper Blanco White as he sails his yacht 'Big Aggie' around New Zealand's Hauraki Gulf. Blanco and his yacht mysteriously return after having been missing for ten years. Blanco is still a bachelor, and remains as accident prone as ever. His endeavors to find a partner and settle down at Gulf Harbour are as hilarious and disastrous as his sailing adventures.

Big Aggie Sails the Gulf relates the hilarious misadventures of skipper Blanco White sailing his yacht 'Big Aggie' in New Zealand's beautiful Hauraki Gulf. Blanco, who has no sailing experience, launches his yacht and sets off with his friends into Auckland Harbour. He causes chaos on the launching ramp, drifts into a fleet of keelers jockeying position at the start of race, and finally runs aground on Mission Bay beach. And that is only the start of his troubles...

Read by the authors. Realizing how little control we have over our lives can make us fearful and anxious--or it can lead to greater intimacy with God, a richer prayer life, and a joyful eternal perspective. Seasons of grief, pain, and loss of control are inevitable. Despite our best efforts...

Before the "Bronx Zoo" of George Steinbrenner and Billy Martin, there were the Oakland Athletics of the early 1970s, one of the most successful, most colorful - and most chaotic - baseball teams of all time. They were all of those things because of Charlie Finley. Not only the A's owner, he was also the general manager, personally assembling his team, deciding his players' salaries, and making player moves during theseason - a level of involvement no other owner, not even Steinbrenner, engaged in.

This is a collection of seven contemporary robot tales written by some of today's most acclaimed science fiction authors. A sentient war machine combs a beach for trinkets to create memorials for its fallen comrades in the Hugo Award-winning story, "Tideline", by Elizabeth Bear. In "Balancing Accounts", by James Cambias, a small-time independent robotic space tug is hired by a mysterious client for a voyage between two of Saturn's moons.

A collection of stories from men and women who grew up in the foster care system or worked in foster care. These stories will inspire and motivate you as you read about their strength and resilience while overcoming hurt, resentment, loss, and abuse. The authors in this book and the other Faces of Foster Care books in this series are dedicated to fostering change and giving others who grew up in the same conditions and circumstances as themselves a reason to overcome.

The online posting had turned an unknown organization into a national sensation. Now, 20 desperate players, each dreaming of the three million dollars prize, travel to a remote island to participate in the two-day contest. But as the game begins, the players learn the rules have changed. Victory comes at a price. Set in the near future, Concealment 48 is a story of survival and sacrifice, of putting aside differences for the common good.

Average aviation enthusiast covering all things aviation and flight simulation. Hosted by Johnny Green Michael Salmon and Charlie Roper