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David Crockett was one of America's first national celebrities. He carved out a name for himself from the Western frontier lands of East Tennessee to the halls of Congress in Washington, D.C. He did this not only by prowess with a rifle but through humility, integrity, humor, and a personal character of undeniable authenticity. That character was forged through hardship and self-determination as a youth in East Tennessee. David Crockett grew up poor, with a down-on-his-luck Revolutionary War vet father. At age 10, Davy was indentured to servitude to a man he'd never met. This book examines those formative years that shaped Crockett into the renowned figure he became in his own time and the legend we still know today.

Making Rights Real for Future Generations is a meticulously crafted workbook designed for the strategic implementation of human rights at the local level. This authoritative guide draws from the well-established recommendations of the Cities for CEDAW campaign, initiated in 2014 by the NGO Committee on the Status of Women, New York, in commemoration of Beijing + 20. Aligned with the overarching goal of the campaign to enforce the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), this workbook serves as an indispensable tool in the pursuit of gender equality and human rights for girls and women, embracing their rich diversity. Tailored for a discerning audience, it targets government officials, civil society leaders, and dynamic youth advocates, providing them with a comprehensive resource for informed decision-making and effective advocacy.

As one of the country's most popular recreational streams - with an international reputation for fly fishing - the Au Sable River is a crown jewel of Michigan waterways. However, underneath its surface lies a history of controversy and conflict. For twelve thousand years, its sylvan banks and clear waters have attracted everyone from the First People of North America to European explorers and American settlers. They came to trap, lumber, hunt, fish, canoe, and lately, to conserve. The Big Water: A History of Michigan's Lower Au Sable River is an up-to-date, comprehensive, and unified account of the region's history, from pre-European times through French and English exploitation, American Manifest Destiny, resource extraction and redemption, the rise of outdoor recreation, and the legacy of pollution from modernization. The Big Water is a tale of the Wild West ways of early industrialization that flows hopefully towards a future where we try to live in harmony with wild places.

STORM STRUCK: When Supercharged Winds Slammed Northwest MichiganIt was a hundred-year storm, said some. Thin trees snapped like matchsticks; thick ones toppled, one atop another, like felled soldiers. The storm's straight-wind blast left houses with gaping holes, thousands of residents with no power for days, a Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore that is, said one official, unrecognizable, and a cleanup that could take years.A UNIQUE, CROWD-SOURCED BOOK FROM THE COMMUNITYFollowing a social media blast by Mission Point Press, over 70 local or visiting photographers submitted their visions of the storm, resulting in well over 300 photos from Leelanau County, Traverse City, Old Mission Peninsula, Acme, Williamsburg, Alden, Frankfort, Mackinaw, Kalkaska and Antrim County.Mission Point Press, a Traverse City publisher, will release a book on Sept. 27, 2015, chronicling the historic, tragic event. Titled Storm Struck: When Supercharged Winds Slammed Northwest Michigan, it will include: The storm's anatomy ... what caused it, and why it was so devastating. A foreword by Bob Sutherland, founder of Cherry Republic. Mapped details of the path it followed. Extensive photographs showing the storm and the impact on Leelanau, Grand Traverse and Antrim counties - and more - from more than 70 different photographers. Stories of the people affected - their heroics and the swift response to repair the damage.

Charles Stuart Tripler built a sterling reputation in the antebellum US Army. Veteran of the Seminole and Mexican-American wars, chief medical officer on the typhoid-ravaged voyage commanded by U.S. Grant, Tripler studied and lectured on advances in military medicine and wrote a standard US Army guidebook. Appointed Medical Director of the Army of the Potomac after First Bull Run, Tripler confronted the daunting task of building a medical infrastructure for America's largest army. His leadership enabled the near-capture of the Confederate capital during the Peninsula Campaign. Instead of advancement, fame, and recognition, lobbying by the US Sanitary Commission torpedoed his promotion. He remained loyal, in uniform, launching a medical installation for veterans - regardless of race - that continues today as a university research and learning facility. Only a tragic death at age sixty put an end to his Army career. Recent scholarship has begun correcting the trope that the Civil War was a medical disaster rife with inexperienced surgeons hacking off limbs. Instead, many practitioners were unsung heroes in a conflict overwhelming in its scope and effect on health and welfare. Tripler is an exemplar, and this freshly researched volume illuminates how health issues can become embroiled in politics, as replicated during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The American Midwest, 1847: After raining down justice upon a demonic hypnotist in St. Louis, former Manhattan police captain Alvord Rawn joins a trapping party bound for the uncharted depths of Upper Michigan's wilderness. Journeying north from Chicago with his newfound companions, rugged mountain man Marcel Durand and Finnbar Fagan, an Irish writer, he anticipates a peaceful and much-needed vacation.But fate has different plans for him. For amidst those myth-haunted woods exists a deadly secret, one viciously guarded for centuries. The trapping party is entering upon a land festooned in reports of unsolved disappearances and unearthly pale-skinned sentinels known to the Chippewa Indians as copper gods. Copper gods grown wrathful as America's Copper Boom brings mining men ever closer to their hallowed territory.Along with the dauntless Marcel and Finnbar, Alvord is inexorably drawn into the lethal vortex revolving around a legendary tribe that will stop at nothing to veil its ancient secret. And what lies at its bloodstained core could demand a drastic revision to American history if they expose it ... unless they too fall victim to Madoc's Legacy.

Orion and her brother, Ollie, just want to have fun at their uncle's farm outside of Lawrence, Kansas, for a few days before school starts, but odd things start happening as soon as they arrive-annoying at first, but growing more sinister day by day. Orion thinks the weird farmhand is picking on them, but Ollie just knows it's a mean ghost. Could the funny-looking little girl following them around have something to do with it? And what about that ancient watch they found in the cellar? Then they hear the rumor that their uncle's barn is haunted by two kids who were caught in a fire when Quantrill's Raiders burned and looted Lawrence. With friends Sal and Sofi, a Ouija Board and a drone, they start unraveling the mystery. Then one terrifying night, with a tornado raging outside, they come face-to-face with the phantoms and the secret behind it all!For photos and more information about the historical sites in The Ghost Adventures of Orion O'Brien, go to www.orionkobrien.com.

Do you know a female athlete struggling with confidence? This fast, fun story solves the self-belief crisis once and for all. Win Like a Girl provides a crucial framework for feeding confidence through strong connections, controlling the controllables, practicing self-leadership, and becoming a broker of hope.Win Like a Girl follows fictional Coach Riley, a former All-American and first-time lacrosse coach, whose relentless emphasis on winning has freshman Mila wanting to quit, Lexie demanding to be made a captain, Valentina trying to keep the peace, and Lexie's mom bellowing insults from the stands. Losses pile up. Overwhelmed and failing, Riley reaches out to her former high school coach for help. Together, they implement activities that teach the girls to:¿ Invest in the team's trust bank¿ Escape Comfort Castle with daily confidence practice¿ Stand up for themselves when it matters mostArmed with newfound courage and belief, the team's performance skyrockets. As the season ends, the players find themselves in the championship game. Will they capture the state title?Perfect for coaches, sports parents, athletes, and teams in all industries, Win Like a Girl provides a roadmap to help anyone dig deep for bravery and win at the game of life.

New York City in 1847 is a boiling stew of ethnic gangs, foul living conditions, and runaway crime. Police captain Alvord Rawn effectively meets violence with violence, until one bloody night he goes too far. Forced to resign, Alvord agrees to help a wealthy society woman locate her missing son, the rising artist Charles Deas, who has been painting and exploring the frontier areas west of St. Louis. Deas has fallen under the spell of the mysterious Count Abendroth, a practitioner of mesmerism. Under the count's sinister occult guidance, Deas's paintings have grown darker and more intense, verging on madness. When Alvord arrives in St. Louis, he finds that Abendroth is much more than a charlatan, and that he is massing his dark powers for nefarious ends. Abendroth is unwilling to let Deas leave without a fight, which is just fine with former police captain Alvord Rawn, because fighting is what he does best. As each side gathers soldiers for a final showdown, author Edward Swanson blends exacting period detail, old time storytelling, and nonstop action into a satisfying climax of good versus evil.

After the heartbreaking loss of her own father, the youngest daughter, Mary, found a replacement in Reverend Jim Jones. But as a member of his Peoples Temple in California, she soon became overworked, underfed, and was beaten. Meanwhile, her family back home watched helplessly as she slowly disappeared into Jim Jones's clutches. Then, just as her parents' generation once searched for a better life in a new country, Mary moved with her young family to Guyana. Jonestown: An American Family Tragedy tells this story. It also includes Jim Jones's personal history, his rise to enormous power, and his catastrophic downfall that left 913 people dead. Readers will learn about life inside Jonestown, its gradual decline, and the truth of November 18, 1978: it was murder, not suicide. Nevertheless, many people today remain attracted to charismatic leaders promising a better life. Yet often these same leaders can often wind up harming them instead: Jonestown still holds a lesson.

This fun, but educational, book will be perfect for kids of all ages who are new to the great game of football. Burkley, whose dad coaches high school football, is a quick learner and does a great job describing the game. She includes history, fun facts and some things even the most seasoned fan may not know. "Tips From the Pros" features interviews with past and present professionals from each of the position groups, helping readers improve their own game. This book is great for kids of all ages, but also for adults!

Whether you call it marijuana, pot, weed, cannabis, or any of the dozens of other names, this ancient plant is here to stay. You may be all for it. You may be strongly against it. Or, you may have more questions than a four-year-old at bedtime.Angie Roullier has spent the past 12 years in the cannabis retail business, and she's found that most people have very basic questions when it comes to cannabis and how it works in "real life." · Who can it help and who can it harm? · Will holding in my hit increase my high? · Is there a difference between taking drops or eating a gummy? · How is it possible that it can work for so many different things? The answers to these questions are out there; it's just that most are not in plain English, nor are they all in one spot.Pot for the People is here to help you sort some of it out, with history, science, and stories from Roullier's personal interactions with medical marijuana patients, vendors, shop owners, and scientists.Pot for the People also contains a chapter on the cannabis retail arena, including shop organization, hiring, and customer service.

When Michigan joined the Union, in 1837, it acquired nearly 14 million acres of land from the 1836 treaty. It took several years to survey the land, at which point the complex process of land "disposal" began, ultimately resulting in private ownership. This occurred just in time for the lumber industry to move its focus from exhausted lands in New England to the great pine forests of Michigan.By the time the great pine lumbering industry arrived in mid-Michigan, in the 1880s and '90s, the industry had reached its apogee in cutting massive swaths of forests in the northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan. The lumber companies then turned their focus on three counties: Roscommon, Gladwin, and Clare, which included West Nester Township, and two major logging rivers, the Muskegon and the Saginaw. Here, standard-gauge rail lines were needed to extend the range of the river systems to deliver these remote harvests. After the harvest, land speculation of the cut-over sections was the order of the day. Attempts to extract additional value from these lands included agriculture and turpentine production. Using the exemplar of West Nester Township, the author proves the folly of these efforts and reveals the true value of this land.This historical description of that development is rich and fascinating.

Uncanny and apt comparisons of humans to automobiles. Comparisons used to educate readers on the importance of maintaining your body as you maintain your automobile. How often do we rush to the automobile mechanic when we hear a noise in our automobile but neglect to see our physician when our bodies give us warning signs? Hopefully after reading this book, you will care for your body as you would care for your automobile. Whilst parts or entire automobiles are replaceable, despite advances in transplantation, human parts are still hard to replace. Therefore, take good care of your body to enjoy your automobile as you may expire before your automobile. If you find The Human Automobile educative and informative, please share the joy and enlightenment. Your "health" shall thank you for it. Happy reading!

A collection of short stories with strong cultural references that will delight most readers. Jambalaya of Stories is narrated with a fair sprinkling of humor, and the tales are palatable, easy to read, and greatly digestible. Here is the lineup:My God Is Not Your God, Get Your Own God - an allegory on religion. Double Whammy - a fraudster defrauds a school boy.Charity - cultural misunderstanding and education.Recession Hits Down Under - a recession affects every business.The Witch Next Door - a genetic disease is mistaken for witchcraft.The Religious Destruction Of Gonama - religion fueling global warming. The Case Of The Disappearing Genitals - superstition may be lethal. There are strong cultural references that could serve as primers on cross-cultural education. Enjoy and share the joy.

In a daring operation involving sewers, cardboard boxes, and trucks; Ntagbu, the village rat rescues Anya Ukwu and the town rats from Ajo Obodo where they face the constant threat of death by clobbering, poisonings, and flooded sewers. While the rats are the main actors, The Village Rat and Town Rat, also illustrates the folly of humans who build houses in their ancestral villages that are unoccupied for several years effectively turning them into rat castles. Francis Ogoegbunam Chukwudi Nwankwo is a philosopher, humorist, author, physician, poet, satirist, polemicist, and logician. He is the author of The Human Automobile and Jambalaya of Stories.

Unable to forget the horrors of 9/11 or the Iraq war that killed his friends, aviation science student Jack Rigley enrolls in Western Michigan University's Army Reserve Officer Training Corps. As Jack's college graduation nears, he and his fiancée, Annie Miller, find themselves headed to Fort Rucker, Alabama, where he will learn to fly helicopters. This career move, however, does not sit well with Danny Miller, Annie's father, whose older brother was killed in Vietnam flying helicopters. In spite of his objections, Jack and Annie choose the military and face the trials of military life: family separations caused by long deployments to dangerous combat zones, relocations to meet the needs of the service, deaths of loved ones, and the tug of heartstrings firmly rooted where each grew up, in Empire, Michigan. Ultimately, Jack will be forced to make a difficult choice: family or career, the very same choice America's truest heroes must make every day while serving our country.

Sisu, a spunky little kitten, is growing up and loves to get into mischief while playing. But when she spills a few things at home, she runs and hides. This escape takes her on a series of adventures, where she meets new animal friends and discovers the wild outdoors.When the day is done and night is falling, the kitten finds herself alone. She must rely on her brains and her Sisu, a Finnish word for "strength," to find her way back home.

A MAN AGAINST INSANITY describes the remarkable life and career of Dr. John (Jack) Ferguson, a man who began his medical career late in life with the simple goal of becoming a simple country doctor.But Dr. Ferguson was anything but a simple man, and this book provides an insightful description of a tumultuous early life that led to a relentless pursuit of goals motivated by an insatiable need for approval. Despite repeated financial set- backs, a divorce, a heart attack, a barbiturate addiction and several psychiatric hospitalizations, Ferguson persevered and eventually graduated medical school 20 years after he first enrolled. He then realized his dream when he was hired as the town doctor in a small, rural community. The dream didn't last: after only one year, he abruptly abandoned his position and collapsed into a fog of psychosis with grandiose delusions, delusions that led to an attempt to poison his wife and kill himself. Over the next 13 months, Ferguson would be hospitalized three times as a barbiturate psychotic, finally emerging as a "new man." Humbled and compassionate, Fer- guson credited supportive psychotherapy and the warmth of the hospital attendants with helping him find a new direction for life-to serve psychiatric patients.

Jack Kerkhoff was born to the news. His parents both worked at the Grand Rapids Herald, and Jack got an early start at the Traverse City Record-Eagle. Bigger papers followed: the Detroit News, New York Journal-American, and the New York Post.But Kerkhoff's professional success was overshadowed by personal tragedy. His wife died suddenly in 1940 and then his 25-year-old daughter eight years later. Severe depression and two suicide attempts followed.Kerkhoff had done some growing up in the Traverse City area - his parents owned a home on Old Mission Peninsula - and he was well aware of the form and function of the State Hospital.How many times I had scampered up that driveway with my gang, fearful yet curious. How many times we had wandered outside the bleak, tower-topped buildings that had iron bars at the windows, and shouted at the men and women behind the bars and giggled over the obscenities they tossed back at us.So, on a wintery November day, Kerkhoff checked himself into the asylum, hoping that the treatment provided there would lift the veil of sadness.How Thin the Veil is a 45-day account of Kerkhoff 's treatment, his conversations with the nurses and doctors (some of them with their real names), his interactions with the inmates, and his trips to downtown Traverse City watering holes. There's also romance in the form of Suzy, a pretty, lisping waif whose "bad spells" had kept her hospitalized for eight years.First published in 1952, How Thin the Veil shines a "hard-boiled" light on the mid-century conditions of patients of mental illness. Booze and cigarettes abound. Insulin-shock therapy was in vogue, as was what the patients called "eloctros." However, the overall treatment is ultimately sympathetic and humane. Kerkhoff recovered and returned to work.

In Fixey Fox Lights the Night, a story for young readers, Fixey carries the legend of Fox Fire in his heart. When he moves to a new home-a special farm and botanic garden-he finds a chance to be a superhero-and a friend to all who live there, including bats, fairies, a deer, and a boy and his mother. His powers are challenged by a pack of fierce coyotes that threaten to destroy all that he's come to love. Can the daring "Fox of Fire" save his new home and friends?

My parents' determination to survive gives strength to our spirits. Their laughter echoes through the generations, and I see shadows of their gentle smiles on the faces of their great-grandchildren. The blood of our ancestry forever runs through our hearts, and their songs give peace to our souls. We cannot simply disappear, one by one, but must live on in these pages forever. Without our roots we die.A story of strength and tenacity, war and peace, The Empty Sleeve is a heartfelt memoir by the youngest daughter of Latvian immigrants.The author begins her memoir with tales of her parents growing up in the hidden gem of Latvia, a place that for many years was not recognized as a sovereign nation. When WWII breaks out, Germany and Russia battle over the small and defenseless Baltic States, bringing sorrow and wartime hardships.Amid personal tragedy, several years of displacement in Germany, and immigration to the United States, readers get a firsthand and personal look at the courage and strength of one family and their ability to develop roots to grow and flourish in the United States.

Orion and her brother Ollie think it's just a funny, old mirror, until they see the reflection of a girl who isn't really there. Not only that, she looks like somebody from another time. With neighbors Sal and Sofi Martelli, they learn the story of Susanna Chase, who escaped from slavery on the Underground Railroad in 1860. Susanna was waiting for her father to run away from his master and go with her to Canada, but she died of the measles before he could meet up with her. She never knew if he got away, and she can't "die satisfied" until she finds out. The kids seek help from Granny, who reveals a long-buried secret. A diary, a doll and a harmonica lead them to answers for Susanna, but they're almost out of time-they have to tell her before she goes back to her grave forever! The bonus? An amazing connection that nobody expected.

Everybody who looks at the Great Lakes knows they're big, but why are they Great? From sea serpents to sunken ships, from lonely lighthouses to fish on Prozac, this book engages the reader in a quest to find what's beneath the surface.¿¿FLOW's mission is to ensure the waters of the Great Lakes Basin are healthy, public, and protected for all. The public trust doctrine holds that certain natural resources like navigable waters are preserved in perpetuity for the benefit of the public to use and enjoy. Under the public trust, the waters of the Great Lakes Basin can never be controlled by or transferred to private interests for private purposes or gain. Our rights to use the water of the Great Lakes Basin cannot be alienated or subordinated by our governments to special private interests. Founded in 2011 by pioneering environmental leader and attorney Jim Olson, FLOW is tackling, among other threats, the antiquated Line 5 petroleum pipeline through the Straits of Mackinac, the commercialization of water, and raw sewage contaminating groundwater and surface water.