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Bleeding Kansas and the American Civil War
Price range: $29.99 through $58.99This book includes events that led up to the American Civil War. Kansas is where it all began. The book starts out with the U.S. Presidential Elections of 1852 and the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854, which allowed settlers, not Congress, to determine by popular vote, if they wanted to be admitted into the United States as a Free State or a Slave State. Streams of emigrants began to settle from Midwestern States, Northern States, and Southern States to make land claims in the Kansas Territory. It became a battleground. Politics, violent murders, rivalry governments, and election fraud in Kansas Territory, all played an important role leading up to the American Civil War. Abolitionist John Brown, his militants, and his sons, played a role in the violent murders in the Kansas Territory. Details of John Brown’s raid into neighboring State of Missouri are also included, where he freed 11 slaves, murdered a slave owner, and stole several ox, wagons, supplies, and valuables. He was condemned by both Free-State and Pro-Slavery newspapers across the country, as well as the President of the United States and the Governor of Missouri, who both off ered a combined reward of $3,250 for the capture of John Brown. He was a wanted man on the run. John Brown’s unsuccessful raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia, including Robert E. Lee and J.E.B. Stuart’s involvement, and John Brown’s subsequent hanging are noted in the book. All major battles during the Civil War in Kansas are mentioned in the book, with troops strength details, casualty details, and colored battlefi eld maps showing the positions of the troops, including Maj Gen Sterling Price’s retreat southwards with 500 supply trains, and Quantrill’s Lawrence Massacre, where over 200 men and boys in town were killed, and the town was pillaged and burned. Th is massacre became the bloodiest atrocity in the American Civil War. The book summarizes the places to stay and places to visit in Kansas by County, including battlefi elds, historical sites, museums, and cemeteries.
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Preacher’s Kid
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99Being a member of a preacher’s family brings on a myriad of expectations. The preacher’s wife must always project an image of being in tune with godliness. That is a learned condition where she walks around with an angelic smile and speaks softly to the congregants and is always available with a sympathetic ear and assurances that she will bring up their concerns to the pastor.
The preacher’s progeny is expected by everyone to be an example that all people can point to as a kid that the congregants can hold up to their normal children to aspire to. This is not only the expectation of the congregants but also of the preacher. Their mother, who did not get the calling, is responsible to see that they live up to their expectations as the preacher is too busy counseling the congregants and their children.
It is expected of a preacher’s kid, that they attend and lead in children and youth groups and that they by example extend the Christian teachings of their father. Also, is expected that a preacher’s kid is not worldly. He or she does not really know what life is all about for those who must struggle in the real world to survive. He or she have never been subjected to the words that get a mule team moving on a cold morning or the vagrancies of a Jersey cow who will only quit kicking at the milk bucket when she is told loudly that she is about to receive a swift kick in the ass with proper invectives. They don’t really know what life is all about and therefore are really not viable functioning people like normal kids are.
Of course, there is the other expectation of the maverick preacher’s kid. He is the kid that gets in trouble just like any normal kid and because he or she does not participate in the ministries to the church is considered a bad seed and unfortunately hinder the ministry of the preacher to his congregants.
The following is the story of a real preacher’s kid and his family from the recollections of a preacher’s kid.
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How I Got Off That Tree Limb
Price range: $3.99 through $8.99How I Got Off That Tree Limb is based on an experience that I had when I was 22 years of age and a preacher that I had worked with in a revival in Little Rock, Arkansas said to me, “Get off that Limb” He explained to me that if I wanted to make an apple pie I would have to get the apples off the tree to make a delicious Apple Pie. This book shares early beginnings of my childhood. It takes you through my journey of getting off of the tree limb. I have had lots of highs and lows in my life but I have learned how to push myself forward. And today I continue to push forward to be the very best that I can be and try every day to make a positive difference in myself and others.
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Southern Gardens 101: Helpful Hints For The Beginner Vol. 1
Price range: $3.99 through $24.99SOUTHERN GARDENS 101, Volume I is dedicated to flowers that bloom spring to early summer. It is a basic guide that everyone can easily follow. The novice gardener can produce a lovely landscape that will be the envy of the neighborhood.
Inexperience will be replaced with confidence. You will learn the size of the bloom or height of the plant. Also, you will learn the type of soil requirements and how to amend the soil, where and how to plant them and how to care for each plant. You will also be able to identify and treat most disease and pests that affect each plant.
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Road Map To Tomorrow: It’s Easier to Get There If You Know Where You’re Going
Price range: $3.99 through $24.99Change how a person thinks, and you will change how they feel. Change how they feel, and you will change how they perform. Change how they perform and you will change the results. Change the results and you will change their lives. This quote from R. W. Ross perfectly exemplifies my vision and dreams for Road Map to Tomorrow.
Road Map to Tomorrow was inspired by the responsibility of my generation to transfer the knowledge of the past while laying the foundation for the technology of the future. The generational shift together with our exploding technology and gentrification of our world and everything in it. You will either be prepared or you won’t. You will either adapt or you will professionally die. This book creatively provides a technology road map that takes you into the future with contributions from over 100 scientific experts providing you with insights into the future. Their studies and opinions touch on everything from computers to robots, medical science to nanotechnology, transportation to education, employment to politics, and entrepreneurial opportunities to love.
Our new world is exciting! It presents an abundance of opportunities the likes of which we have never seen. Change can cause both devastation and opportunity and those that prepare, learn to react, and position themselves professionally will be light years ahead on their journey to success. This book is your personal Road Map to Tomorrow.
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Magic Square: Its New Discoveries and Applications
Price range: $3.99 through $8.99Magic Square is no longer magic, but the era of magic square puzzle has just begun. This outstanding application at Magic Square will be played by millions throughout the world, I appeal to educators to adopt magic square puzzles to school’s curriculum. If you are interested, e-mail me at dwkmei815@gmail.com.
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Surviving in a Dangerous World
Price range: $3.99 through $9.95We tend to shy away from our responsibilities simply because we perceive danger. We become uncomfortable with life, people, and work; therefore, we often avoid them.
This book exposes how dangerous the world is, but it also presents how to enjoy a quality life regardless. Furthermore, it addresses the need to remain committed to work, participate in social activities, and continue to enjoy family and friends.
Surviving in a Dangerous World includes examples from personal life experience to educate readers on how to survive in today’s dangerous world. There are also techniques on how to prepare for inevitable emergency situations.
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Entrepreneurial Edge: Essential Skills for Business Success
$16.99The era of ChatGPT, artificial intelligence, disruptive innovation, and environmental dynamics poses a unique challenge to leaders of entrepreneurial business venture as they seek to achieve superior competitive advantage for their firms in a global marketplace. The challenge doesn’t only stem from domestic and international competitors but also from other external sources such as man-made and natural disasters that are beyond the control of entrepreneurs or business leaders. While entrepreneurs seek to establish innovative, growth-oriented, and competitive ventures, business managers on the other hand pursue tasks to ensure the survival, profitability, and sustainability of business firms.
Entrepreneurship and the management of the entrepreneurial companies are comprised of interrelated activities and disciplines. Entrepreneurship and its management are fascinating subjects because they perform critical functions in society and occur within all industries, economic sectors, and countries. Entrepreneurs with strong managerial and leadership skills are likely to be highly successful in their endeavors.
This short book is about the basics of entrepreneurship and management. It is designed for individuals of different background including students, managers, business owners, entrepreneurs, and the public at large. The book seeks to address important issues related to the entrepreneurial ecosystem as well as explain essential matters and challenges that face the management of entrepreneurial companies. It is assumed that the reader has scant or no knowledge about entrepreneurship, management, U.S. industries, the economy, or the inner workings of business firms.
The book aims to accomplish several objectives:
· Help readers learn the process of entrepreneurship and the principles of managing a business enterprise, including the intricacies of business strategies.
· Overview the techniques and methods essential for business growth and achieving sustainable competitive advantage.
· Enable readers to become successful entrepreneurs and effective business leaders.
The emphasis in this book is on business entrepreneurship. However, business as well as social entrepreneurs play an indispensable role in society for a host of reasons including job creation and contribution to national income. In recent years, an increasing segment of U.S. population has acquired the entrepreneurial mindset (or spirit) as evidenced by the growing numbers of new business firms. This book provides a road map for starting a new venture, managing the venture, and growing the business.