Robert’s journey through his life has been one of overcoming hardship. His poetry is of his life’s experience, the wealth of his hope, threaded like a string throughout the tapestry of his life, is present throughout his innumerable poems. His spirit sails within his poems like words that sing within the wind. The symphony of an exquisite Catskills Mountain sunset inspires his poetry and the expression of beauty within one’s soul. About the Author Robert Earl Bliss is a patriot, a decorated Marine Corps, Vietnam veteran, poet, editor, photographer, and philanthropist. Bliss is known for sitting quietly outside with the view of the Catskill Mountains around him and his dog Maude beside him. His gaze, so affected by nature’s beauty, searches and writes from within the depths of himself.
Robert’s journey through his life has been one of overcoming hardship. His poetry is of his life’s experience, the wealth of his hope, threaded like a string throughout the tapestry of his life, is present throughout his innumerable poems. His spirit sails within his poems like words that sing within the wind. The symphony of an exquisite Catskills Mountain sunset inspires his poetry and the expression of beauty within one’s soul. About the Author Robert Earl Bliss is a patriot, a decorated Marine Corps, Vietnam veteran, poet, editor, photographer, and philanthropist. Bliss is known for sitting quietly outside with the view of the Catskill Mountains around him and his dog Maude beside him. His gaze, so affected by nature’s beauty, searches and writes from within the depths of himself.
This is the first in a series of journals written by Robert Hall Tinker. Volume one covers the adolescence of the young Mr. Tinker and the details of his life growing up in western New York until his marriage to Mary Dorr Manny in 1879. Mr. Tinker describes life in antebellum New York before moving to the "Wild West" of Illinois to make a new home in Rockford. The journals end just before Mr. Tinker takes his vows of marriage. --P. [4] of cover.
Robert Pierce Forbes goes behind the scenes of the crucial Missouri Compromise, the most important sectional crisis before the Civil War, to reveal the high-level deal-making, diplomacy, and deception that defused the crisis, including the central, unexpected role of President James Monroe. Although Missouri was allowed to join the union with slavery, the compromise in fact closed off nearly all remaining federal territories to slavery. When Congressman James Tallmadge of New York proposed barring slavery from the new state of Missouri, he sparked the most candid discussion of slavery ever held in Congress. The southern response quenched the surge of nationalism and confidence following the War of 1812 and inaugurated a new politics of racism and reaction. The South's rigidity on slavery made it an alluring electoral target for master political strategist Martin Van Buren, who emerged as the key architect of a new Democratic Party explicitly designed to mobilize southern unity and neutralize antislavery sentiment. Forbes's analysis reveals a surprising national consensus against slavery a generation before the Civil War, which was fractured by the controversy over Missouri.
The political and policy implications of recent developments in neuroscience, including new techniques in imaging and neurogenetics. New findings in neuroscience have given us unprecedented knowledge about the workings of the brain. Innovative research—much of it based on neuroimaging results—suggests not only treatments for neural disorders but also the possibility of increasingly precise and effective ways to predict, modify, and control behavior. In this book, Robert Blank examines the complex ethical and policy issues raised by our new capabilities of intervention in the brain. After surveying current knowledge about the brain and describing a wide range of experimental and clinical interventions—from behavior-modifying drugs to neural implants to virtual reality—Blank discusses the political and philosophical implications of these scientific advances. If human individuality is simply a product of a network of manipulable nerve cell connections, and if aggressive behavior is a treatable biochemical condition, what happens to our conceptions of individual responsibility, autonomy, and free will? In light of new neuroscientific possibilities, Blank considers such topics as informed consent, addiction, criminal justice, racism, commercial and military applications of neuroscience research, new ways to define death, and political ideology and partisanship. Our political and social institutions have not kept pace with the rapid advances in neuroscience. This book shows why the political issues surrounding the application of this new research should be debated before interventions in the brain become routine.
Edward Ephraim Cross (1832-1863) accomplished more in his short lifetime years than most men who live to be 100. By the eve of the Civil War, he had traveled from Cincinnati to Arizona working as a political reporter, travel writer, editor, trail hand, silver mine supervisor, and Indian fighter. In the summer of 1861, he became colonel of the Fighting Fifth New Hampshire Volunteers and gained fame as a fearless battlefield commander during action at Fair Oaks, Antietam, Fredricksburg, and Chancellorsville before being mortally wounded at Gettysburg. However, behind this great soldier lay a flawed man, an alcoholic with a short temper who fought a constant battle with words against immigrants, abolitionists, and others with whom he disagreed. This detailed biography presents a full portrait of this controversial and little-known figure, filling a critical gap in the literature of the northern Civil War experience.
Consulting continues to be a lucrative, growing industry, practiced by large and small consulting companies and by thousands of solo practitioners. Consulting applies to every occupational field and profession. This author's book is the best and most comprehensive book on the subject. Hailed by the critics in its original edition, the book is now fully updated and revised.
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