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In late August 1862 Robert E. Lees Army of Northern Virginia and John Popes Army of Virginia found themselves fighting over nearly the exact same land the South and North fought over in the First Battle of Bull Run, the first major land battle of the Civil War. Fresh off forcing George McClellans Army of the Potomac to quit its Peninsula Campaign, Lees army struck north, and John Pope hoped to smash Stonewall Jacksons corps before James Longstreets could link back up with it. However, miscomm...

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African American faculty in higher education often encounter microaggressions that reflect and reinforce broader systems of racial inequality. These instances can include questioning their credentials, misidentifying them as non-faculty, or expecting them to represent the entire Black experience. While less overt than traditional forms of racism, microaggressions carry significant psychological and professional consequences, contributing to feelings of isolation, burnout, and underapprecia...

Murder, Suspense, Sex, Comedy.Sandtrap has it all, from biting satire to steamy romance to absolute horror. Readers should be careful not to blink, because either the killer or the punch line may be lurking just beyond the turn of the next page.Can you guess which characters are suspects and which are only comic relief? NO FAIR PEEKING!

History tells us that the Second World War broke Britain as a great power, diminishing its military strength, ruining its economy, and precipitating a striking wave of decolonization. Nationalists and new superpowers dominated the post-war landscape, and the country was on the slide. But no one knew this in 1945 - the leading politicians, the top civil servants, and the most knowledgeable experts, all expected the British Empire to remain intact long into the future. There was no hint of i...

There are many books about long-distance sailing. At one extreme these often involve sailors in traditional cruising boats taking years to achieve their adventures after cutting their ties to family and homes on land. At the other extreme, there are all-out racers who cross oceans with little time to appreciate the extraordinary oceans and lands they pass through. This book describes one attempt at a middle ground involving a short sailing sabbatical on a modern sailing yacht configured fo...

Mid-Infrared Fibre Photonics: Glass Materials, Fibre Fabrication and Processing, Laser Sources and Devicess combines the latest glass chemistry, fibre fabrication and post processing techniques to provide a comprehensive reference on the fundamental science and latest research in fibre photonics for the mid-infrared range. The book systematically reviews the key glass materials systems including fluorides, chalcogenides, and oxides. Each materials chapter includes discussion of composition...

The poppy.Opium. Morphine. Heroin.The Sumerians — thousands of years before the birth of Christ — knew of the powers of the wild poppy plant. Today 40% of the world's production is grown in Tasmania.The Poppy fields of this island state are the most secure in the world. Or are they?David Barron of the Federal Police is sent to check security and uncovers a seemingly simple plan to steal from the protected fields. Soon the simple plan becomes complex — murder...

Off the barren west coast of Tasmania a fishing boat crew drag two sailors from the ocean. The only clue as to why they were there is held in a sailor's diary – written in a foreign language. Unravelling the mystery, the Australian authorities must find the vessel on which the sailors had sailed before other interested parties get to it first.The discovery of the vessel becomes a deadly race when a saboteur is despatched to ensure that it will be destroyed, regardless of who or wha...

Hadrian Marlowe, a man revered as a hero and despised as a murderer, chronicles his tale in the galaxy-spanning debut of the Sun Eater series, merging the best of space opera and epic fantasy.It was not his war.The galaxy remembers him as a hero: the man who burned every last alien Cielcin from the sky. They remember him as a monster: the devil who destroyed a sun, casually annihilating four billion human lives—even the Emperor himself—against Imperial orde...

The God Who Blesses: 50 Reflections on Blessing and Blessedness is a fresh, imaginative look at a concept that is paradoxically familiar yet also little understood by Christians. Written for the thoughtful lay person, The God Who Blesses explores the who, what, where, when, why and how of blessings, emphasizing their rootedness in God's grace. Included are various case studies of blessing in Scripture. The book also addresses how we trivialize the concept of blessing, when we say things li...

History tells us that the Second World War broke Britain as a great power, diminishing its military strength, ruining its economy, and precipitating a striking wave of decolonization. Nationalists and new superpowers dominated the post-war landscape, and the country was on the slide. But no one knew this in 1945—the leading politicians, the top civil servants, and the most knowledgeable experts, all expected the British Empire to remain intact long into the future.How do we account...