Unearthed: A History Nerd Abroad in Europe - Dig History. Travel Light. Embrace Chaos.From the author of Lightbulb Moments in Human History comes a hilarious and heartfelt travel memoir that blends historical insight, personal misadventure, and an entirely unreasonable amount of beer.Determined to stop just reading about the past and start living it, a history-obsessed writer and his long-time best mate, CJ, embark on a European adventure decades i...

Why did nine brothers and sisters from a large Irish family take dangerous ocean voyages to the Australian colonies, on the other side of the globe? They came alone or in groups over 23 years and some of them were children as young as 13 or 14. Most never saw their parents or their birth country again.There must be hundreds of descendants of the Irish Carrs living today. How much do we know of our ancestors? Where did they come from and why did they come? What did they do when they...

In May 1985 the University of Massachusetts held the first conference on the parameter setting model of grammar and acquisition. The conference was conceived in the belief that there is a new possibility of tightly connecting grammatical studies and language acquisition studies, and that this new possibility has grown out of the new generation of ideas about the relation of Universal Grammar to the grammar of particular languages. The papers in this volume are all concerned in one way or a...

Regimes of Derivation in Syntax and Morphology presents a theory of the architecture of the human linguistic system that differs from all current theories on four key points. First, the theory rests on a modular separation of word syntax from phrasal syntax, where word syntax corresponds roughly to what has been called derivational morphology. Second, morphosyntax (corresponding to what is traditionally called "inflectional morphology") is the immediate spellout of the syntactic m...

Why should you consider a commercial skunk raising operation? Can skunks bring a source of untapped riches and wealth?William Edwin Pratt provides surprising answers in his 1915 book "Practical Skunk Raising: A Book of Information concerning the Raising of Skunks for Profit."As Pratt explains, skunks raise a better coat in captivity than when wild, because their food is gotten without hunting for it, and are beyond danger of man, dogs, and other intruders. Striped skunks in...

From the first flickers of ingenuity, humankind has excelled in civilization-defining inventions and innovations. Lightbulb Moments in Human History takes a positive, playful and perceptive look at how these big ideas have driven humanity’s inevitable rise.Be astounded by the accidental invention of writing by Sumerian bookkeepersBe amazed at how humanity’s fixation with beer kick-started civilizationBe appalled by Zeus' shape-shi...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. DIG HISTORY • TRAVEL LIGHT • EMBRACE CHAOSOne very angry Louvre guard. Two suspiciously charming Eastern Europeans who may or may not be mafia hitmen. And a chain-smoking American dubbed Cruella.A history-obsessed writer and his beer-loving best friend, CJ, finally embark on their long-delayed European adventure. Armed with shaky navigation skills and an unquenchable thirst for craft beer, they stumble from London's plague pits to ...

The supply of wild fur has already fallen behind the demand and the time is in sight when wild fur will form but a small per cent of that in use. All furs trapped in steel traps are less beautiful because the animal suffers. It is a well-known fact that the less the animal suffers, the better the fur. The time is not far away when nearly all fur will be grown on fur-ranches. Fur-farming unquestionably has a great future as an industry. Without detailing countless fa...

A young boy, Travis, moves from cotton farms in isolated areas to a small cotton farm a short walking distance down a dirt road to the very small but thriving town of Keiser, Arkansas. Three families live in his yard. Two of the families are black, and one of these families has four children about the same age as him. Most of this book centers around the relationships and activities between Travis and these families. Ben Whistle is a craggy old neighbor who provides the drama. The purpose ...

Invited by the guildmaster, Ryoma attends a training meetup for new adventurers as one of the teachers. On the second day of the camping lesson at the Poison Bug Plains, he teaches unique ways of building bases and methods of telling the edible from the inedible in ways that are easy to understand, drawing everyone's attention. Then, at the request of the students, a mock battle is held between the teachers, and Ryoma demonstrates how to use a bow in combat! And as usual, there are new sli...

With more than 120 titles still in print, Louis L'Amour is recognized the world over as one of the most prolific and popular American authors in history. Though he met with phenomenal success in every genre he tried, the form that put him on the map was the short story. Now this great writer—The Wall Street Journal recently compared with Jack London and Robert Louis Stevenson—will receive his due as a great storyteller. This volume kicks off a series that will, when complete, anth...

Bringing together bad women of every stripe and variety - the scandalous, the brash, the fearless, the downright nasty and some who just went a little bit wrong - in the one big book.Some are wicked, some are scandalous, some are downright mean and ruthless and some just went a little bit sideways. Meet the bad women of Australia: the femmes who challenge our ideas of what women should be - together in the one big book.tilly Devine, Mary Bryant, Helena Rubinstein, Lola Montez - thes...