"R.H. Williams, a proslavery English adventurer who had joined the KGC...claimed...its real object was to bring about Secession." - Knights of the Golden Circle: Secret Empire (2013)"R. H. Williams...spent sixteen years out West as lieutenant in the Kansas Rangers and afterwards captain in the Texas Rangers." -The Sphere (1908)"Ranger R.H. Williams...wrote...frontier Rangers...could not effectively protect the lives of ranchers and their property fro...

How far would you travel to save the Earth? Captain John Russell and the crew of the Starship Destiny are sent on a mission to deliver one hundred colonists to Mars, with a secret secondary objective: to prepare for and annihilate a religious cult, known as the Dawn of Revelations, whose sole purpose is to destroy humanity, and possibly the world. While on route, Destiny is flung far into the Andromeda galaxy, millions of light years from home. There, they make a remarkable discovery, that...

This is a story of friendship, love, loss, and drag told with humour and compassion. In 1977, the author, then a naïve young man, escapes his pulp and paper mill town in northern New Brunswick and goes in search of his gay self. After two years studying in Toronto, he moves to Edmonton, begins his career as a prison guard and timidly comes out into the gay scene. A lasting and sometimes tumultuous friendship develops with Joe, a drag queen and in the summer of 1982 they move to Vancouver i...

An Appalachian memoir about growing up on a Kentucky farm under the steady guidance of a grandfather who believed that land, faith, and quiet work shape a life that lasts.

This book takes a new approach to examining the relationship between China and Russia, departing from the standard debate over whether the relationship is a true strategic partnership or merely an axis of convenience. Instead, the book argues that the best way to gain an understanding of ties between Beijing and Moscow is to watch how they interact “on the ground” in regions of the world where they both have important interests at stake. It provides an in-depth analysis of Chinese-Russian ...

In the hills of Appalachia, lives were built not on recognition or wealth, but on work, family, and quiet endurance. Brickyard Hill is a remembrance of that world.Through stories and photographs, Robert Hamilton reflects on the people who shaped his life — his grandparents and the generations of hardworking families who built their lives in the coal towns and mountain communities of eastern Kentucky. These are the kinds of lives that rarely make it into history books, yet ...

Winner of an Abraham Lincoln Institute Book AwardThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the complex nature of views on Lincoln through the writings and thought of Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary Mc...

Indigenous peoples in Canada are striving for greater economic prosperity and political self-determination. Investigating specific legal, economic, and political practices, and including research from interviews with Indigenous political and business leaders, this collection seeks to provide insights grounded in lived experience. Covering such critical topics as economic justice and self-determination, and the barriers faced in pursuing each, Wise Practices sets out to understand ...

This book introduces new audiences to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s final initiative, the multiracial Poor People’s Campaign (PPC) of 1968. Robert Hamilton depicts the experience of poor people who traveled to Washington in May 1968 to dramatize the issue of poverty by building a temporary city, Resurrection City. His narrative allows us to hear their voices and understand the strategies, objectives, and organization of the campaign. In addition, he highlights the campaign's educational asp...

Mental toughness is the key to endurance events and business success. Robert Hamilton Owens is a master of the mental game - he completed 5 major endurance events in one year- at the age of 65. This former Air Force Pararescueman shares his compelling stories of overcoming physical and mental pain and how he accomplished so much on one year.

" The City Always Wins powerfully transmits the hope and despair of Egypt's Tahrir Square generation . . . one of the defining novels of the Arab Spring." —Toby Lichtig, The Wall Street JournalNamed as one of the Best Books of 2017 by The Boston Globe and The Arts DeskWe've been doing the same thing for hundreds of years. Marching, fighting, chanting, dying, changing, winning, losing. This time will be different. Th...

In 1899, when film projection was barely three years old, Herbert Beerbohm Tree was filmed as King John. In his highly entertaining history, Robert Hamilton Ball traces in detail the fate of Shakespeare on silent films from Tree’s first effort until the establishment of sound in 1929. The silent films brought Shakespeare to a wide public who had never had the chance to see his plays in the theatre. And Shakespeare gave the film makers an air of respectability that was badly needed by a med...