Author: John DonelsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tennessee
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Diary of a Journey Down the Holston and Tennessee Rivers in 1779-1780
Author: John DonelsonJourney Along the Holston
Author: Brian Keith NicholsLife After Deaf
Author: Noel HolstonPublisher: Skyhorse
ISBN: 9781510746879
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From a renowned media critic to a man with sudden and full hearing loss, Noel Holston ran the gauntlet of diagnoses, health insurance, and cochlear implant surgery. On a spring night in 2010, Noel Holston, a journalist, songwriter, and storyteller, went to bed with reasonably intact hearing. By dawn, it was gone, thus beginning a long process of hearing-restoration that included misdiagnoses, an obstinate health-insurance bureaucracy, failed cochlear-implant surgery, and a second surgery that finally worked. He negotiated the gauntlet with a wry sense of humor and the aid of his supportive wife, Marty. Life After Deaf details his experience with warmth, understanding, and candor. It’s the story not only of his way back to the world of the hearing, but of a great marriage that weathered serious testing. Their determination and resilience serve as a source of inspiration for all. Life After Deaf is not just for the more than forty million people in the United States alone who cope with some form of hearing loss, but is also for their wide circles of friends, family, caregivers, and audiologists. This highly readable book will be an invaluable guide and source of hope for the large number of baby boomers now handling hearing loss.
Holston Women
Author: Elizabeth T. FowlerPublisher:
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Category : Methodist women
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Historical and Statistical Information Respecting the History, Condition and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States: Information respecting the history, condition and prospects of the Indian tribes of the United States
Author: Henry Rowe SchoolcraftPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Historical and Statistical Information Respecting the History, Condition, and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States
Author: Henry Rowe SchoolcraftPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Historical and Statistical Information Respecting the History, Condition and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States Collected and Prepared Under the Direction of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Per Act of Congress of March 3d, 1847 by Henry R. Schoolcraft
Author: A History of the Baptists Volumes I and II
Author: John T. ChristianPublisher: Solid Christian Books
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
In attempting to write a history of the Baptists no one is more aware of the embarrassments surrounding the subject than the author. These embarrassments arise from many sources. We are far removed from many of the circumstances under survey; the representations of the Baptists were often made by enemies who did not scruple, when such a course suited their purpose, to blacken character; and hence the testimony from such sources must be received with discrimination and much allowance made for many statements; in some instances vigilant and sustained attempts were made to destroy every document relating to these people; the material that remains is scattered through many libraries and archives, in many lands and not always readily accessible; often, on account of persecutions, the Baptists were far more interested in hiding than they were in giving an account of themselves or their whereabouts; they were scattered through many countries, in city and cave, as they could find a place of concealment; and frequently they were called by different names by their enemies, which is confusing. Yet it is a right royal history they have. It is well worth the telling and the preserving.
The Quaker and the Gamecock
Author: Andrew WatersPublisher: Casemate
ISBN: 1612007821
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
This story of a conflict between two commanders amid the struggle to oust the British from South Carolina is “great for anyone teaching leadership” (Military Review). As the newly appointed commander of the Southern Continental Army in December 1780, Nathanael Greene quickly realized victory would not only require defeating the British Army, but also subduing the region’s brutal civil war. “The division among the people is much greater than I imagined, and the Whigs and the Tories persecute each other, with little less than savage fury,” wrote Greene. Part of Greene’s challenge involved managing South Carolina’s determined but unreliable Patriot militia, led by Thomas Sumter, the famed “Gamecock.” Though Sumter would go on to a long political career, it was as a defiant partisan that he first earned the respect of his fellow backcountry settlers, a command that would compete with Greene for status and stature in the Revolutionary War’s “Southern Campaign.” Despite these challenges, Greene was undaunted. Born to a devout Quaker family, and influenced by the faith’s tenets, Greene instinctively understood that the war’s Southern theater involved complex political, personal, and socioeconomic challenges, not just military ones. Though he was never a master of the battlefield, Greene’s mindful leadership style established his historic legacy. The Quaker and the Gameccock tells the story of these two wildly divergent leaders against the backdrop of the American Revolution’s last gasp, the effort to extricate a British occupation force from the wild and lawless South Carolina frontier. For Greene, the campaign meant a last chance to prove his capabilities as a general, not just a talented administrator. For Sumter, it was a quest of personal revenge that showcased his innate understanding of the backcountry character. Both men needed the other to defeat the British, yet their forceful personalities, divergent leadership styles, and opposing objectives would clash again and again, in a fascinating story of our nation’s bloody birth that still influences our political culture. “A brilliant account of the military campaigns and collaborations between Greene and Sumter.” —The Colonial Review
Information Respecting the History, Condition and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States
Author: Henry Rowe SchoolcraftPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description