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  • Jamie Sharpe & the Seas of Treachery

    by Gary R. Bush ...
    In 1803, cocky Jamie Sharpe graduates top in his class from Bullard's Academy, aiming to become a ship's captain like his long-at-sea father. Unfortunately, wealthy slave trader Captain Cutts produces a note he holds on the Sharpe family fortune. He demands immediate payment or, in lieu, Jamie's mother's virtue and her daughter's hand in marriage to his son, Simon. Only a small fortune can save ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Families & Change

    Coping With Stressful Events and Transitions

    Edited by Kevin R. Bush, Christine A. Price ...
    Families & Change: Coping With Stressful Events and Transitions presents current literature detailing families’ responses to varied transitions and stressful life events over the life span. Integrating research, theory, and application, this bestselling text implements interdisciplinary content to address a multitude of both predictable and unpredictable problems and stressors as they relate to ... Read more

    $100.79 USD

  • Religion and the Politics of Development

    Edited by P. Fountain, R. Bush, M. Feener ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This volume brings emerging research on religion and development into conversation with politics. Deploying innovative conceptual frameworks, and drawing on empirical research from across contemporary Asia, this collection makes an incisive contribution to the analysis of aid and development processes. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Handbook of Marriage and the Family

    Edited by Gary W. Peterson, Kevin R. Bush ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The third edition of Handbook of Marriage and the Family describes, analyzes, synthesizes, and critiques the current research and theory about family relationships, family structural variations, and the role of families in society. This updated Handbook provides the most comprehensive state-of-the art assessment of the existing knowledge of family life, with particular attention to variations due ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • The Archaeology of Institutional Life

    by Owen Lindauer, Eleanor Conlin Casella, Deborah L Rotman, Lu Ann De Cunzo, Lois M Feister, Stephen G Warfel, David R Bush, Susan Piddock, Sherene Baugher ...
    A landmark work that will instigate vigorous and wide-ranging discussions on institutions in Western life, and the power of material culture to both enforce and negate cultural normsInstitutions pervade social life. They express community goals and values by defining the limits of socially acceptable behavior. Institutions are often vested with the resources, authority, and power to enforce the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • I Fear I Shall Never Leave This Island

    Life in a Civil War Prison

    by David R. Bush ...
    Johnson's Island, in Sandusky, Ohio, was not the largest Civil War prison in the North, but it was the only one to house Confederate officers almost exclusively. As a result, a distinctive prison culture developed, in part because of the educational background and access to money enjoyed by these prisoners.David Bush has spent more than two decades leading archaeological investigations at the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • For Cause and Comrades

    Why Men Fought in the Civil War

    by James M. McPherson ...
    General John A. Wickham, commander of the famous 101st Airborne Division in the 1970s and subsequently Army Chief of Staff, once visited Antietam battlefield. Gazing at Bloody Lane where, in 1862, several Union assaults were brutally repulsed before they finally broke through, he marveled, "You couldn't get American soldiers today to make an attack like that." Why did those men risk certain death, ... Read more

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  • Amazing Women of the Civil War

    Fascinating True Stories of Women Who Made a Difference . . .

    by Webb Garrison ...
    The Civil War is most often described as one in which brother fought against brother. But the most devastating war fought on American soil was also one in which women demonstrated heroic deeds, selfless acts, and courage beyond measure. Women mobilized soup kitchens and relief societies. Women cared for wounded soldiers. Women were effective spies. And it is estimated that 300 women fought on the ... Read more

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  • The Black Civil War Soldier

    A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship

    by Deborah Willis ...
    Series series NYU Series in Social & Cultural Analysis
    "The book aims to bring these stoic portraits of black soldiers to life . . . It's what Willis calls the African American experience, as well as resilience." — The GuardianThough both the Union and Confederate armies excluded African American men from their initial calls to arms, many of the men who eventually served were black. Simultaneously, photography culture blossomed—marking the Civil War ... Read more

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  • Who Was Robert E. Lee?

    by Bonnie Bader, Who HQ ...
    Illustrated by John O'Brien ...
    Series series Who Was?
    Robert E. Lee seemed destined for greatness. His father was a Revolutionary War hero and at West Point he graduated second in his class! In 1861, when the Southern states seceded from the Union, Lee was offered the opportunity to command the Union forces. However, even though he was against the war, his loyalty to his home state of Virginia wouldn’t let him fight for the North. Despite the South’s ... Read more

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  • Women of the Revolution

    Bravery and Sacrifice on the Southern Battlefields

    by Robert Dunkerly ...
    A fascinating account of the women who contributed to the Revolutionary War—both patriots and loyalists—at specific battles in the Carolinas.Each of the Southern Revolutionary battlefields holds the history of soldiers and legends of women. From the wooded slopes of Kings Mountain to the fields of Cowpens, to the lesser-known sites like Fishing Creek and Hanging Rock, author Robert M. Dunkerly ... Read more

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  • Blood and War at My Doorstep

    by Brenda Chambers McKean ...
    "Between these pages the reader will learn that North Carolina citizens did not idly standby as their soldiers marched off to war. The women worked themselves into “patrioticexhaustion” through Aid Societies. Civilians with different means of support from thelower class to the plantation mistress wrote the governor complaining of hoarding,speculation, the tithe, bushwhackers, unionism, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD