For 150 years Confederate monuments and other memorials dotted the American landscape. Few people objected. After all, a third of the American people are descended from Confederate soldiers and Congress has officially and legally declared Confederates to be "American veterans."That time has passed.There is an epidemic of hate and fear sweeping the land; a wave of hostility and intolerance that shows no sign of slowing or stopping; its fury is directed at Southern symbols—fl...

MANY AMERICANS BELIEVE that the coming of the blue soldiers of the North, emissaries of emancipation, was a joyful event for African Americans. Nothing could be further from the truth.How do we know this?Because we have their recorded accounts.Ending slavery, contrary to self-congratulatory American myth, was not a righteous crusade. It was a byproduct of a brutal war of conquest and invasion—a total war against civilians in which black Southerners suffered as much if ...

IN NONSENSE ON STILTS, Paul Graham takes the reader on a historical and philosophical quest to separate the lofty prose from the hard facts regarding the American founding as put forth by Abraham Lincoln in his Gettysburg Address.For Graham, the imaginary "nation" and its faux "mission" as articulated in Lincoln's most famous address is the major source of today's deadly division between the government and the real living people of America and we continue to revere it at our peril....

To truly love someone, you have to know him. And to truly love God, we must know him too—not just that he exists, but who he is and what he is like.This exploration of God’s unchanging character, as revealed in thirteen stories from the Bible, offers you this opportunity—to get to know him better and love him more. Each chapter focuses on a different attribute of God, how it influences your understanding of him, and how you can apply it to your daily life.This fresh look at...

'A monumental achievement - one of the great scientific biographies.' Michael FraynThe Strangest Man is the Costa Biography Award-winning account of Paul Dirac, the famous physicist sometimes called the British Einstein. He was one of the leading pioneers of the greatest revolution in twentieth-century science: quantum mechanics. The youngest theoretician ever to win the Nobel Prize for Physics, he was also pathologically reticent, strangely literal-minded and legendarily ...

"The computer world is like an intellectual Wild West, in which you can shoot anyone you wish with your ideas, if you're willing to risk the consequences. " --from Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age, by Paul GrahamWe are living in the computer age, in a world increasingly designed and engineered by computer programmers and software designers, by people who call themselves hackers. Who are these people, what motivates them, and why should you care?C...

A Warhammer Horror anthologyEleven stories from the worlds of Warhammer explore the darker side of the 41st Millennium and the Mortal Realms, with tales of psychological torment, visceral horror and the supernatural from Black Library authors old and new.READ IT BECAUSEIt's a spine-chilling look into the dark places of the Warhammer universes, from some incredible talent, including a host of new-to-Black Library authors such as Cassa...

In the underhives of Necromunda, many bounty hunters ply their trade but none are as successful or infamous as Kal Jerico. Rogue, swashbuckler and illegitimate son of the world's ruler, he is expert at getting himself (and his long-suffering companion Scabbs) into danger and fighting his way out. This omnibus edition collects together three novels in one action-packed omnibus taking you into the darkest depths of the Underhive.Read it BecauseThere are no gre...

Roger Murray (1911–1998) was a crucial figure in the history of value investing. A financial professional, economist, adviser to members of Congress, and educator, Murray was the successor to the legendary Benjamin Graham as professor of the securities analysis course at Columbia Business School. There, he mentored generations of students, including Mario Gabelli, Charles Royce, Leon G. Cooperman, and Art Samberg.This book offers a compelling account of Murray’s multifaceted career...

WITH A FOREWORD BY TIM BUTCHERIn 1935 Graham Greene set off to discover Liberia, a remote and unfamiliar West African republic founded for released slaves. Crossing the red-clay terrain from Sierra Leone to the coast at Grand Bassa with a chain of porters, he came to know one of the few areas of Africa untouched by Western colonisation.

Few places in the United States feel the impact of courthouse disasters like the state of Georgia. Over its history, 75 of the state's counties have suffered 109 events resulting in the loss or severe damage of their courthouse or court offices. This book documents those destructive events, including the date, time, circumstance, and impact on records. Each county narrative is supported by historical accounts from witnesses, newspapers, and legal documents. Maps show the geographic extent ...

This true soul-baring story of grief, tragedy and eventual triumph will have you turning the pages, alternately laughing and crying. The author, consumed by grief banished himself to a strange mountain called Mt Bandi Bandi in the western hills of New South Wales in Australia. When young man arrived with a strange story to tell, they became a team. Together they build a house entirely with bare hands and very modest tools. Soon others joined, forging their way up the almost inaccessible mo...