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Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Alan Taylor tells the riveting story of a war that redefined North America. In a world of double identities, slippery allegiances, and porous borders, the leaders of the American Republic and the British Empire struggled to control their own diverse peoples. Taylor’s vivid narrative of an often brutal—sometimes farcical—war reveals much about the tangled origins of the United States and Canada.

By turns entertaining and tragic, this beautifully written history reveals the origins of a great university in the dilemmas of Virginia slavery. It offers an incisive portrait of Thomas Jefferson set against a social fabric of planters in decline, enslaved Black families torn apart by sales, and a hair-trigger code of male honor. A man of “deft evasions” who was both courtly and withdrawn, Jefferson sought control of his family and state from his lofty perch at Monticello.

Over the last generation, historians have broadened our understanding of colonial America by adopting both a trans-Atlantic and a trans-continental perspective, examining the interplay of Europe, Africa, and the Americas through the flow of goods, people, plants, animals, capital, and ideas. In this Very Short Introduction, Alan Taylor presents an engaging overview of the best of this new scholarship.  

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Becoming a godfather was a close second. Paul and Emily Clarke have been my best friends for over twenty years. We've gone through it all. We were the three musketeers. When my best friends are ripped from all of our lives, leaving behind a broken piece of themselves, I know it's up to me to put things back together.

The enemy you see isn't the one you should fear. A genetically manipulated disease has fallen into the wrong hands. The Taskforce – a highly classified Special Forces unit – faces their most lethal mission yet. The Black Widows, a group of female suicide terrorists known for their unrivalled...

Para Ivan Pritchard, reunir-se à tripulação da Mad Astra é a última cartada em busca de um futuro melhor para sua esposa e filhos. Decidido a dar à sua família uma vida melhor, Ivan Pritchard se aventura no limite do espaço conhecido a bordo da Mad Astra. Ele está preparado para suportar o trabalho duro como minerador e a solidão - mas não para o inimaginável.

Economics isn't just about numbers: It's about politics, psychology, history, and so much more. We are all economists - when we work, save for the future, invest, pay taxes, and buy our groceries. Yet many of us feel lost when the subject arises. Award-winning professor Timothy Taylor here tackles all the key questions and hot topics of both microeconomics and macroeconomics, so you can understand and discuss economics on a personal, national, and global level.

Humans are a varied and divergent bunch with all manner of beliefs, morals, and bodies. Systems of oppression thrive off our inability to make peace with difference and injure the relationship we have with our own bodies. The Body Is Not an Apology offers radical self-love as the balm to heal the wounds inflicted by these violent systems. World-renowned activist and poet Sonya Renee Taylor invites us to reconnect with the radical origins of our minds and bodies and celebrate our collective, enduring strength.

Following on from Jack Goldstein and Frankie Taylor's popular 101 Amazing Harry Potter Facts, this wonderful audiobook contains over 100 amazing facts covering topics such as muggles in the series, the Ministry of Magic, the Weasleys, quidditch, the triwizard tournament and much more! Through JK Rowling's novels and films, we have been introduced to a fantastic and magical world that many of us would like to visit, despite the chance of running into a Death Eater or even Voldemort himself.

Danny's past is catching up with him. And she wants him to suffer forever. Five years ago, Danny Pearson destroyed the Volkov empire. Now the heir wants payback—and death would be mercy. Annika Volkov spent five years rebuilding her father's Russian Mafia dynasty. Five years hunting the man who killed him. Five years planning the perfect revenge.

When an SAS brother goes missing, Danny Pearson and his team are coming for answers. And God help anyone standing in their way. The call comes from the Norfolk coast: Smudge is in trouble. By the time Danny and Fergus arrive, their teammate has vanished—leaving only his diving gear and a brick of cocaine behind. One missing soldier. One deadly trail. One very bad decision by the people who took him.

When a desperate government agency faces budget cuts and extinction, they make Danny the fall guy. His cover's blown. His handlers have vanished. And now he's got ex-special forces soldiers—men as lethal as he is—hunting him through the streets of London.

They tried to assassinate him. Big mistake. A secret organization controls the world from the shadows. Danny Pearson just became their biggest threat. A simple favour in Vienna. Pick up a package, get out clean. But when Danny arrives, a lethal Chinese assassin is already there—and he's not leaving witnesses.

Danny Pearson just wants to be left alone. Haunted by the deaths of his wife and son, he's scraping by doing freelance security work—anything to fill the days. But when his best friend Scott calls in a favor, Danny stumbles into something bigger than both of them.

When the London mob collides with the Russian Mafia, ex-SAS soldier Danny Pearson faces an impossible choice: end the war or watch his family die. Fresh from the SAS, Danny takes a job with his uncle Harry Knight—only to discover Harry's empire is under siege. South of the river, Viktor Volkov wants Harry's territory, and he'll burn London to get it. Bodies pile up. The fragile peace shatters when Viktor's ruthless older brother arrives from Moscow.

A renal diet is a highly nutritious one for patients with kidney issues. It is estimated that only 25 percent of the entire amount of nephrons are required to keep renal function. That usually means that the renal failure process is well protected from failure. It also suggests that at the time a patient has symptoms and signs of renal failure, kidney damage has occurred.

In this book, the author teaches you everything you need to know to have a successful blog. If you want to know the types of blog and how to start making money online then Blog Mastery is the perfect book for you.

Danny Pearson thought Nicholas Snipe was finished. Defeated. Dead. But the government had other plans—they brought the psychopathic mercenary back from the brink, wiped his memory, and turned him into their perfect weapon. Then Snipe's memories came flooding back. Mid-assignment, the brainwashing shatters. The monster returns. And now Snipe's loose with the world's most powerful compact nuclear weapon and a grudge that won't quit.

If you had told Darlene Taylor that she’d pack her bags after a rocky divorce to move across the country at the request of her ex-husband, she would have laughed in your face. And she would’ve asked to sip whatever it was you were drinking. But that’s exactly what happened—and it changed the course of her family.