This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.A War Divided A Nation. One Boy’s Journey Would Divide His Soul.Seventeen-year-old Horace Lanham never wanted to fight. But when the winds of the American Civil War sweep across his Carolina home, choice becomes a luxury he no longer has. Torn from the quiet tobacco fields of his youth and thrust onto the blood-soaked battlefields of Western Virginia and Tennessee, Horace is forced to confront not only the enemy before him, but the doub...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.A War Divided A Nation. One Boy’s Journey Would Divide His Soul.Seventeen-year-old Horace Lanham never wanted to fight. But when the winds of the American Civil War sweep across his Carolina home, choice becomes a luxury he no longer has. Torn from the quiet tobacco fields of his youth and thrust onto the blood-soaked battlefields of Western Virginia and Tennessee, Horace is forced to confront not only the enemy before him, but the doub...

Modern Thoracic Oncology is the first comprehensive publication on thoracic oncology. Contributors who are world experts have authored concise, relevant and current topics in this field. Whether one desires information regarding lung cancer screening, esophageal cancer staging, mutational analysis, targeted therapies, stereotactic ablative radiation with real-time imaging, minimally-invasive and robotic surgery, combination immunotherapy, microwave/cryoablation, or methods of early cancer ...

Assessing a university’s legacy in the age of segregationThis anthology reckons with the University of Virginia’s post-emancipation history of racial exploitation. Its fifteen essays highlight the many forms of marginalization and domination at Virginia’s once all-white flagship university to uncover the patriarchal, nativist, and elitist assumptions that shaped university culture through the late nineteenth century and well into the twentieth. Including community ...

Somewhere over the rainforest in Guyana there’s a land called the Rupununi, a creek-crossed savannah inhabited for millennia by Indigenous people of great capacity. This is where Dr. Jamshid Aidun, a Persian Canadian surgeon and a humble man of faith, went to lead the Bahá’í Community Health Partnership, and to heal his own broken heart.Moving to Guyana from his surgical practice in Manitoba, Aidun was the only doctor for 17,000 people scattered across a region the size of Nova Sco...

An expert playbook for effective strategy execution with a focus on proven, real-world, implementationIn The Execution Challenge: Delivering Great Strategy at Scale, a team of renowned strategy execution researchers and consultants delivers a practical and insightful new take on how to effectively execute strategy in today's complex, fast-changing environments. The authors focus on the often missing “HOW” of strategy execution — exploring the holistic pers...

The historic election of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States had a significant impact on both America and the world at large. By voting an African American into the highest office, those who elected Obama did not necessarily look past race, but rather didn’t let race prevent them for casting their ballots in his favor. In addition to reflecting the changing political climate, Obama’s presidency also spurred a cultural shift, notably in music, television, and film.In...

New Authors and collections. Following the great success of 2015's Gothic Fantasy, deluxe edition short story compilations, Ghosts, Horror and Science Fiction, this latest in the series is packed with detectives, mystery and murder. Whodunnits and mysteries from classic authors are cast with previously unpublished stories by exciting budding contemporary crime writers. Classic authors include Ernest Bramah, G.K. Chesterton, Wilkie Collins, Richard Harding Davis, ...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. All over the world, economic inclusion has risen to the top of the development discourse. A well-performing education system is central to achieving inclusive development - but the challenge of improving educational outcomes has proven to be unexpectedly difficult. A...

The Writers of Southern Nevada disbanded in 2024. As their last act, they asked Henderson Writers Group (a non-profit organization with a goal of helping writers of all skill levels improve their craft) to use the last of their funds for the benefit of writers. With that in mind, HWG initiated a short story workshop and contest. The stories published here are the result of the contest, minus any non-winning works pulled by the authors.Enjoy this multitude of works ...

This is the ideal way to quickly master the Cockney (British) accent using a combination of approaches from pronunciation and oral posture techniques to dialect development (Cockney rhyming slang) and practice exercises. The course also contains guidance on developing a basic British accent to underpin a Cockney accent if desired dependent on your native accent. This course can help you prepare for a Cockney role or audition on stage or screen. The exercises deconstruct the elements of a C...

The premiere issue of Further Light, a semiannual magazine featuring science fiction, fantasy, alternate history, magical realism, and light horror short fiction, creative scriptural retellings, poetry, and literary criticism in the Latter-day Saint tradition. The magazine that seeks to explore the restored gospel through the medium of the human imagination. Our goal is to enjoy the fandoms we love, to experience new ones, and to expound on the eternal truths buri...