Cures and Care in Niagara County, New York is a series of articles published in the Lockport Union Sun & Journal in Lockport, New York from 2016-2017 with a focus on local history, early medicine, alternative medicine, social service programs and care in a rural NY state county.These ventures were often based upon an alternative view of health care that differed from the traditional care that was available during 1830 - 1930. In the same period, health products ranging fro...

The author investigates historic springs, leading to an underground history of the Niagara, New York region, presenting the colorful stories of Bootleg Spring, Devil's Cave Spring, Hollow Log Salt Spring and Sulphur Springs. The hidden "Chief Joseph Brant Spring" is revealed shrouded in abandoned mystery along with its disturbing past as a "A European Military Associated Mohawk Habitation Site" during the Revolutionary War, 1775-1783.In those early times, t...

This handbook is focused on the preservation and restoration of neglected cemeteries, emphasizing the importance of recognizing and honoring the interred. The authors, experienced historians, draw on years of experience in cemetery rescue, including the use of cadaver dogs and ground-penetrating radar (GPR).

No Harm Was Done-Alternative Medicine in Lockport, New York is based up a series of published articles and lectures from 2015- 2017. When studying care and healing in Western New York the author discovered a number of offerings that were based upon an alternative view of health that differed from the traditional (often called allopathic) medicine of the time. The mainstream medicine practiced in the 1800s into the early 1900s was primitive. Doctors were often untrained, science la...

From Israel's leading historian, a sweeping history of 1967—the war, what led up to it, what came after, and how it changed everything. Tom Segev's acclaimed works One Palestine, Complete and The Seventh Million overturned accepted views of the history of Israel. Now, in 1967—a number-one bestseller in Israel—he brings his masterful skills to the watershed year when six days of war reshaped the country and the entire region.Going far beyond a military acc...

In the tradition of The Perfect Storm, The Whale Warriors takes us on a hair-raising journey aboard a whale-saving pirate ship with a vigilante crew whose mission is to stop illegal Japanese whaling in the stormy remote seas off Antarctica.For two months, journalist Peter Heller rode aboard the vegan pirate ship Farley Mowat as it stalked its prey—a Japanese whaling fleet—through the storms and ice of Antarctica. The ship is black, flies under a jolly rog...

This thesis analyzes the political role of the German General Staff as well as civil military relations in Germany from the late 19th century until 1933. Specifically, it examines the rise and fall of Kurt von Schleicher. Together with Generals Paul von Hindenburg, Erich Ludendorff, and Wilhelm Groener, Schleicher shaped the politics of the Weimar Republic, right up to the end that he—unintentionally—hastened when his intrigues paved the way for Adolf Hitler's dictatorship.During Wo...

"Giving great personalized customer service has always been the foremost goal in my family, but one thing we never lose sight of is that you can't possibly deliver great service if you don't treat your own associates right." So says Jack Mitchell, CEO of his family's astoundingly successful chain of clothing stores. In Hug Your People, he shares his secrets for creating happy employees, secrets as simple as they are revolutionary:—Be NICE to them (and hire nice people to b...

Much has been written about Thomas Jefferson, with good reason: His life was a great American drama—one of the greatest—played out in compelling acts. He was the architect of our democracy, a visionary chief executive who expanded this nation's physical boundaries to unimagined lengths. But Twilight at Monticello is something entirely new: an unprecedented and engrossing personal look at the intimate Jefferson in his final years that will change the way audiences think about this ...

Charles F. Haanel’s groundbreaking and timeless work returns in this modern interpretation. Reconnect with your utmost potential and discover that you hold the key to manifesting the life of your dreams!Learn how to unlock thought as creative energy and power, and become the “Master Key” to your own success with this self-help classic. Thought is the powerful catalyst toward making any idea into a reality. Based upon the principle of using thought as the manifestat...

This is the epic history of the "iron men in wooden boats" who built an industrial empire through the pursuit of whales."To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme," Herman Melville proclaimed, and this absorbing history demonstrates that few things can capture the sheer danger and desperation of men on the deep sea as dramatically as whaling. Eric Jay Dolin begins his vivid narrative with Captain John Smith's botched whaling expedition to the New World in 1614. He th...

Written nearly a century ago and recently rediscovered by Rhonda Byrne, creator of The SecretBecoming rich is not a matter of environment or talents. Money and property come to us as a result of doing things in a certain way. This is a natural law -- the Law of Attraction -- that specific actions always produce like effects. As a result, anyone who learns to do things in a certain way will ultimately become prosperous.There exists a science of getting rich -- and i...