Historical fiction thriller set in western Kentucky, New Orleans and Brazil. A scheming banker seeks to lay his hands on the properties of undocumented persons with negro blood. After co-opting a rogue doctor, a weak judge and using "scientific racism" to "prove" his victims' lineage, the banker makes his move against the wealthiest citizens in New Orleans, casting his web north into Kentucky, disrupting the lives of folks trying to survive the "Year Without a Summer." Set against worldwide natural phenomena, new technology and a wave of nationalism, "One Drop--A Slave!" captures the conflict of slavery and the "Era of Good Feelings" after the War of 1812
Beating the Odds is the improbable, inspiring autobiography of financial guru Eddie C. Brown, one of the nation's top stock pickers and money managers. It details how Brown skillfully kept Brown Capital Management afloat through the dot-com bust, 9/11 and the Great Recession. Born to a 13-year-old unwed mother in the rural South, this African-American investment whiz created a Baltimore-based financial firm that amassed more than $6 Billion under management. Brown delves into the profound heartbreak and disorientation upon the death of his beloved grandmother – who was his surrogate mother -- and recounts how Brown's moonshine-running Uncle Jake subsequently became the dominant adult figure in Brown's life. His unflinchingly honest, easy-to-read memoir details how intellectual curiosity, abiding self-belief, hard work and divine providence helped Brown earn an electrical engineering degree, become an Army officer, and later a civilian IBM engineer. Readers will learn of the strife that ensued when Brown quit IBM to earn an MBA, leading to investment jobs that prepared him to start his own money management company in 1983.
Whether your collection features a hefty helping of grandmas worn, but cherished cookbooks from years past, or a few recipe-rich treasures of your own, this fact and photo-filled guide will feed any cookbook fascination. This reference, written by the owners of OldCookbooks.com serves up 1,500 American cookbooks and recipe booklets from the 20th century, complete with interesting details and historical notes about each, plus estimated values.
Little Miss Grubby Toes' mother warns her to never go near the edge of the pool, but her friend Tommy Sims tells her it is OK. The children enter the pool area on their own and see a toy sailboat floating near the edge. Tommy urges Little Miss Grubby Toes to lean out and reach it. What do you think will happen?
A revolutionary new approach to medicine could potentially save a quarter of a million lives over the next five years, as well as rising healthcare dollars, and help people better manage their own health. In his new book So You Think Medicine is Modern? Dr Eddie Price calls upon Australia's health professionals, administrators and policy makers to update the diagnostic and treatment methods that are hurting rather than helping patients. Committed to changing the way medicine is practised in Australia, the Sydney practitioner contends that healthcare in the western world has reached crisis point, plagued by the use of outdated science and archaic systems which ignore the theories and discoveries of the 20th Century's great thinkers. After 10 years of research and hypothesising on ground-breaking scientific theories, Dr Price declares that it is time that medical practitioners and administrators alike transform the way they approach their patients' health, and that there is now no denying the scientific basis for a modified approach to treatment. "We now know that all living organisms exist in a much more fluid, dynamic state than we once thought, and that this is the spark of life. We also have the scientific evidence to prove mind can and does affect matter and that past experience affects the physical condition of the body," said Dr Price. "The traditional man as machine approach which reduces the body into its components denies this dynamic state of the human form. Focusing on the patient's living environment, lifestyle and wellbeing as a whole is far more effective than treating body parts in isolation to other organs and systems," he said. Dr Price asserts that thousands of preventable deaths and hospital acquired infections occur in the developed world each year as a result of an antiquated healthcare model which overutilises harmful anaesthetics, invasive diagnostic testing, inappropriate hospitalisations and expensive surgeries that actually reduce rather than improve wellness. Encouraging doctors to embrace computer based diagnostic tests, Dr Price said that there are a range of non-invasive tools now available which allow both practitioners and patients to measure functional health, rather than the condition of an individual body part. "Advances in information technology allow us to update medical practice and gather, process and publish data on health status and gains at the individual, regional and national level," said Dr Price. "These tools do work, and are in many cases far more effective than the expensive and dangerous treatments used in modern medicine. In my own practice, I have used e-health tools to develop preventive health prescriptions for patients and to measure their functional heath status," "It is about time that practitioners moved out of the dark ages, stopped denying a century of scientific breakthroughs and embraced this new technology,
Borley Rectory in Essex, built in 1862, should have been an ordinary Victorian clergyman's house. However, just a year after its construction, unexplained footsteps were heard within the house, and from 1900 until it burned down in 1939 numerous paranormal phenomena, including phantom coaches and shattering windows, were observed. In 1929 the house was investigated by the Daily Mail and paranormal researcher Harry Price, and it was he who called it 'the most haunted house in England.' Price also took out a lease of the rectory from 1937 to 1938, recruiting forty-eight 'official observers' to monitor occurences. After his death in 1948, the water was muddied by claims that Price's findings were not genuine paranormal activity, and ever since there has been a debate over what really went on at Borley Rectory. Paul Adams, Eddie Brazil and Peter Underwood here present a comprehensive guide to the history of the house and the ghostly (or not) goings-on there.
Evolution of the Alabama Agroecosystem describes aspects of food and fiber production from prehistoric to modern times. Using information and perspectives from both the "hard" sciences (geology, biology) and the "soft" science (sociology, history, economics, politics), it traces agriculture's evolution from its appearance in the Old World to its establishment in the New World. It discusses how agricultural practices originating in Europe, Asia and Africa determined the path agriculture followed as it developed in the Americas. The book focuses on changes in US and Alabama agriculture since the early nineteenth century and the effects that increased government involvement have had on the country's agricultural development. Material presented explains why agriculture in Alabama and much of the South remains only marginally competitive compared to many other states, the role that limited agricultural competitiveness played in the slower rate of economic development in the South in general, and how those limiting factors ensure that agricultural development in Alabama and the South will continue to keep up but never catch up.
Beating the Odds is the improbable, inspiring autobiography of financial guru Eddie C. Brown, one of the nation's top stock pickers and money managers. It details how Brown skillfully kept Brown Capital Management afloat through the dot-com bust, 9/11 and the Great Recession. Born to a 13-year-old unwed mother in the rural South, this African-American investment whiz created a Baltimore-based financial firm that amassed more than $6 Billion under management. Brown delves into the profound heartbreak and disorientation upon the death of his beloved grandmother – who was his surrogate mother -- and recounts how Brown's moonshine-running Uncle Jake subsequently became the dominant adult figure in Brown's life. His unflinchingly honest, easy-to-read memoir details how intellectual curiosity, abiding self-belief, hard work and divine providence helped Brown earn an electrical engineering degree, become an Army officer, and later a civilian IBM engineer. Readers will learn of the strife that ensued when Brown quit IBM to earn an MBA, leading to investment jobs that prepared him to start his own money management company in 1983.
Accounting: an introduction by Atrill provides a clear and approachable introduction to accounting and finance for those seeking to understand the main concepts and their practical application to good decision-making.
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