Virtual Presentations That Work

Joel Gendelman, "Virtual Presentations That Work"
McGraw-Hill | 2010 | ISBN: 007173936X | 288 pages | PDF | 1,6 MB

THE COMPLETE USER'S GUIDE TO GOING VIRTUAL--AND GETTING RESULTS

With today's virtual technology, you can manage your business faster, reduce your expenses, and reach a larger market than ever before. The technology is there. All you need is the imagination and talent to harness its power.

This all-in-one guide is your virtual tool kit of cutting-edge ideas and proven techniques to get the results you want. Learn to . . .

* Master the innovative use of virtual presentation tools such as Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro, WebEx, Microsoft Live Meeting, and GoTo Meeting
* Meet the challenges of motivating an audience that you cannot see
* Deliver active presentations
that compel participants into action
* Use icebreakers, games, and polling to keep your audience engaged every step of the way
* Master the art of moderating thrilling discussions
* End your presentations with a bang

Filled with essential checklists, step-by-step instructions, troubleshooting tips, and revealing case studies, this must-have guide shows you how to make this robust new technology work for you.

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Power Politics: Environmental Activism in South Los Angeles

Karen Brodkin, "Power Politics: Environmental Activism in South Los Angeles"
Rutgers University Press | 2009 | ISBN: 0813546079, 0813546087 | 240 pages | PDF | 1,1 MB

In the late 1990s, when California's deregulation of the production and sale of electric

power created massive energy shortages a group of environmental justice activists, largely high school students, blocked construction of a power plant in their working-class Mexican and Central American neighborhoods. Power Politics is a study of this grassroots campaign and the racial and class dynamics that shape Americans' grasp of labor and environmental issues.

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Cheryl Gray, Joel Hellman, Randi Ryterman - Anticorruption in Transition 2

Cheryl Gray, Joel Hellman, Randi Ryterman - Anticorruption in Transition 2: Corruption in Enterprise-State Interactions in Europe and Central Asia 1999 - 2002
Publisher: World Bank Publications | 2004-03 | ISBN: 0821358081 | PDF | 100 pages | 5.17 MB

Controlling corruption is an essential part of good governance and poverty reduction, and it poses an enormous challenge for governments all around the world. Anticorruption in Transition 2 analyzes patterns and trends in corruption in business-government interactions in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. It points to some encouraging signs that the magnitude and negative impact that corruption exerts on businesses may be declining in many countries in the region. It also shows how some types of firms—most notably small private ones—encounter more corruption than others, and it underscores the importance of policy and institutional reforms in achieving long-term success in the fight against corruption. The longer-term sustainability of recent improvements is not certain, however, and the challenges ahead remain formidable.

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2006 International Residential Code: Looseleaf Version by International Code Council

2006 International Residential Code: Looseleaf Version by International Code Council

2006 International Residential Code: Looseleaf Version by International Code Council
Publisher: Cengage Learning | March 24, 2006 | ISBN: 1580012523 | Pages: 690 | PDF | 46.71 MB

The 2006 International Residential Code® brings uniformity to construction of one- and two-family dwellings and townhouses up to three stories high. A comprehensive code for homebuilding, this book brings together all building, plumbing, mechanical, and electrical provisions. It establishes minimum regulations using prescriptive provisions, and is founded on broad-based principles that make possible the use of new materials and building designs.

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Philosophy and Social Hope: Richard Rorty

Philosophy and Social Hope: Richard Rorty

Philosophy and Social Hope: Richard Rorty
Penguin (Non-Classics) | ISBN: 0140262881 | 2000-01-01 | PDF (OCR) | 320 pages | 12.8 Mb

A superb introduction to one of today's leading and most provocative thinkers.
Since Plato most philosophy has aimed at true knowledge, penetrating beneath appearances to an underlying reality. Against this tradition, Richard Rorty convincingly argues, pragmatism offers a new philosophy of hope. One of the most controversial figures in recent philosophical and wider literary and cultural debate, Rorty brings together an original collection of his most recent philosophical and cultural writings. He explains in a fascinating memoir how he began to move away from Plato towards William James and Dewey, culminating in his own version of pragmatism. What ultimately matters, Rorty suggests, is not whether our ideas correspond to some fundamental reality but whether they help us carry out practical tasks and create a fairer and more democratic society.
Aimed at a general audience, this volume offers a stimulating summary of Rorty's central philosophical beliefs, as well as some challenging insights into contemporary culture, justice, education, and love.

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As a teacher of Philosophy courses, I have a preference for this excellent American writer. This volumn clearly marks Rorty's pragmatic move toward politics and society. It is not only this practical application of Philosophy that interests me, but his re-vitalization of Philosophy on the terms of Pragmatism and radical (non-reductionist) empiricism.

Review: Today's word is "panrelationalism"
Rorty's Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, though excellent, is dense, and assumes a lot of knowledge of Western philosophical traditions. This book, by contrast, is pretty straightforward, and has excellent prose. Rorty argues once again for social constructionism, which, contrary to what rabid critics say about it, is neither nihilistic nor relativistic. Rorty is persuasive and straightforward, and does an excellent job of suggesting ties between the philosophy which he advocates and the politics of "social hope" which he stands for.
By dividing this apologia for social constructionism into several short chapters (most of them originally published as stand-alone essays), Rorty provides responses to many objections which have been made to his previous work. Some of these essays are pretty useless for most readers (e.g., an essay on Derrida's Specters of Marx), but most are models of simple and well-formed expository writing.

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The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan

The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan

The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan
Publisher: Harvard University Press | ISBN: 067402690X | edition 2008 | PDF | 448 pages | 1,4 mb

The Taliban remain one of the most elusive forces in modern history. A ragtag collection of clerics and madrasa students, this obscure movement emerged out of the rubble of the Cold War to shock the world with their draconian Islamic order. The Taliban refused to surrender their vision even when confronted by the United States after September 11, 2001. Reinventing themselves as part of a broad insurgency that destabilized Afghanistan, they pledged to drive out the Americans, NATO, and their allies and restore their "Islamic Emirate."
The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan explores the paradox at the center of this challenging phenomenon: how has a seemingly anachronistic band of religious zealots managed to retain a tenacious foothold in the struggle for Afghanistan's future? Grounding their analysis in a deep understanding of the country's past, leading scholars of Afghan history, politics, society, and culture show how the Taliban was less an attempt to revive a medieval theocracy than a dynamic, complex, and adaptive force rooted in the history of Afghanistan and shaped by modern international politics. Shunning journalistic accounts of its conspiratorial origins, the essays investigate broader questions relating to the character of the Taliban, its evolution over time, and its capacity to affect the future of the region.

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Growing Smarter: Achieving Livable Communities, Environmental Justice, and Regional Equity (Urban and Industrial Environments)

Growing Smarter: Achieving Livable Communities, Environmental Justice, and Regional Equity

Growing Smarter: Achieving Livable Communities, Environmental Justice, and Regional Equity (Urban and Industrial Environments)
Publisher: The MIT Press | ISBN: 0262026104 | edition 2007 | PDF | 427 pages | 4,1 mb

The smart growth movement aims to combat urban and suburban sprawl by promoting livable communities based on pedestrian scale, diverse populations, and mixed land use. But, as this book documents, smart growth has largely failed to address issues of social equity and environmental justice. Smart growth sometimes results in gentrification and displacement of low- and moderate-income families in existing neighborhoods, or transportation policies that isolate low-income populations. Growing Smarter is one of the few books to view smart growth from an environmental justice perspective, examining the effect of the built environment on access to economic opportunity and quality of life in American cities and metropolitan regions.

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Young Minds in Social Worlds: Experience, Meaning, and Memory

Young Minds in Social Worlds: Experience, Meaning, and Memory

Young Minds in Social Worlds: Experience, Meaning, and Memory
Harvard University Press | 2007-02-15 | ISBN: 0674023358 | 330 pages | PDF | 2 MB

Katherine Nelson re-centers developmental psychology with a revived emphasis on development and change, rather than foundations and continuity. She argues that children be seen not as scientists but as members of a community of minds, striving not only to make sense, but also to share meanings with others.

A child is always part of a social world, yet the child's experience is private. So, Nelson argues, we must study children in the context of the relationships, interactive language, and culture of their everyday lives.

Nelson draws philosophically from pragmatism and phenomenology, and empirically from a range of developmental research. Skeptical of work that focuses on presumed innate abilities and the close fit of child and adult forms of cognition, her dynamic framework takes into account whole systems developing over time, presenting a coherent account of social, cognitive, and linguistic development in the first five years of life.

Nelson argues that a child's entrance into the community of minds is a slow, gradual process with enormous consequences for child development, and the adults that they become. Original, deeply scholarly, and trenchant, Young Minds in Social Worlds will inspire a new generation of developmental psychologists.

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After 9/11 - Cultural Dimensions of American Global Power

After 9/11 - Cultural Dimensions of American Global Power

Richa Crockatt, "After 9/11 - Cultural Dimensions of American Global Power "
Publisher: Routledge | 2007 | ISBN 0415392845 | PDF | 272 pages | 13.6 MB

This is a readable and incisive analysis of American foreign policy and international politics since the end of the Cold War.
It is organized around two key themes, the role of culture in international politics and the changing nature of American power. Richard Crockatt addresses such key issues as:
* the relationship between US power and the post-Cold War international system
* US relations with Europe and Islam
* the intensity of anti-American feeling after September 11th
* the rebirth of American nationalism
* the war in Iraq and its aftermath.
After 9/11 is a much-needed balanced account of the most significant political questions of the twenty-first century.

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The Digital Handshake: Seven Proven Strategies to Grow Your Business Using Social Media

The Digital Handshake: Seven Proven Strategies to Grow Your Business Using Social Media

Paul Chaney, "The Digital Handshake: Seven Proven Strategies to Grow Your Business Using Social Media"
Wiley | 2009 | ISBN: 0470499273 | 272 pages | PDF | 1,3 MB

Practical applications for using social media to boost your business

Even today’s most successful businesses are seeing shrinking returns on their advertising and marketing dollars. The Digital Handshake explains why advertising and marketing are losing their effectiveness and how to solve the problem using social media to corral elusive consumers. It explains the best practical business applications in current use and how you can use them to ramp up your business.

Using case studies gleaned from real businesses, author Paul Chaney shows you how companies both large and small that can tap social media to mitigate market changes and reap valuable business benefit in the real world.

• Explains how you can use social media to grow your business and connect with consumers
• Author Paul Chaney is a leading authority on blogging and social media
• Covers practical, effective business applications for blogging, social networking, online video, microblogging and much more
• Shows how to design a comprehensive marketing strategy using traditional and new media platforms

Today’s technology can either undermine your marketing efforts or enhance them. The Digital Handshake helps you make sure the Internet grows your business for the long run.

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Handbook of Cross-Cultural Developmental Science

Handbook of Cross-Cultural Developmental Science

Handbook of Cross-Cultural Developmental Science By Marc H. Bornstein
Publisher: Psychology Press 2009-08-05 | 624 Pages | ISBN: 0805863303 | PDF | 4.8 MB

Researchers and theoreticians commonly acknowledge the profound impact of culture on all aspects of development. However, many in the field are often unaware of the latest cultural literatures or how development proceeds in places other than their home locations. This comprehensive handbook covers all domains of developmental science from a cultural point of view and in all regions of the globe. Part 1 covers domains of development across cultures, and Part 2 focuses on development in different places around the world. The Handbook documents child and caregiver characteristics associated with cultural variation, and it charts relations between cultural and developmental variations in physical, mental, emotional, and social development in children, parents, and cultural groups.

This contemporary and scholarly resource of culture in development covers theoretical, methodological, substantive, and ethnic issues as well as geographic approaches. Each chapter includes an introduction, historical and demographic considerations, theory, an overview of the most important classical and modern research studies, recommended future directions in theory and research, and a conclusion. The chapters focus on children from the prenatal stage through adolescence.

Interdisciplinary in nature, the Handbook will appeal to human development theoreticians, researchers, and students in psychology, education, and pediatrics. Ideal for those new to the field, readers will appreciate the plethora of cultural examples from all fields of child and human development and developmental examples from all fields of cultural study.

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Innovative Lean Development: How to Create, Implement and Maintain a Learning Culture Using Fast Learning Cycles

Innovative Lean Development: How to Create, Implement and Maintain a Learning Culture Using Fast Learning Cycles

Timothy H. Schipper, Mark D. Swets, "Innovative Lean Development: How to Create, Implement and Maintain a Learning Culture Using Fast Learning Cycles"
Productivity Press 2009 | ISBN-10: 1420092987 | 200 Pages | PDF | 2,3 MB

Authored by two experts in lean, this manual shows how the lean approach can be very effective with those businesses that are innovation-based in terms of product development. This text acts as a template for starting and maintaining the lean process. To this end, the authors focus on the six key areas necessary for dramatic development: innovation, rapid prototyping, knowledge capture, learning cycles, process stabilization, and lean management standards. With explanations and examples, the book shows how to establish, promote, and maintain these principles in an organization in a way that allows creative thinking and practice to converge.

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Heather Pierce - Persuasive Proposals and Presentations: 24 Lessons for Writing Winners

Heather Pierce - Persuasive Proposals and Presentations: 24 Lessons for Writing Winners

Heather Pierce - Persuasive Proposals and Presentations: 24 Lessons for Writing Winners
Publisher: McGraw-Hill | 2004-11-19 | ISBN: 0071450890 | PDF | 48 pages | 1.06 MB

This book speaks directly to sales and marketing professionals and managers, showing them how to write proposals and presentations that sell
It takes a short, no-nonsense approach, and delivers the lessons that make the difference between being the winner and being an "also-ran."
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John Zenger, Joseph Folkman, John Zenger, Joseph Folkman - The Handbook for Leaders: 24 Lessons for Extraordinary Leaders

John Zenger, Joseph Folkman, John Zenger, Joseph Folkman - The Handbook for Leaders: 24 Lessons for Extraordinary Leaders
Publisher: McGraw-Hill | 2004-01-01 | ISBN: 0071435328 | PDF | 64 pages | 1.04 MB

"The Handbook for Leaders" contains 24 lessons for extraordinary leadership. 'What makes a great leader?' Thousands of workers in both North America and Europe were asked that one simple question. Their top responses are compiled in "The Handbook for Leaders". This precise, no-nonsense rulebook lists the 24 competencies and guidelines identified time and again as essential for becoming an effective and extraordinary leader, including: focus on results; cultivate interpersonal skills; lead organizational change; learn from mistakes; develop your people; be open to new ideas; take initiative; build strengths; fix fatal flaws; take a non-linear approach; and, be accountable.The ability to lead is far more than just a natural gift. Study after study shows that leadership is a concrete and learnable skill, one that can be acquired and honed by studying and applying specific proficiencies, attitudes, and habits. Let "The Handbook for Leaders" introduce you to the requirements for effective leadership, then provide you with a systematic program for attaining, developing, and implementing those skills. John H. (Jack) Zenger, D.B.A., is executive vice president and a director of Provant, Inc. , and the author or coauthor of a number of books on the drivers and principles of leadership, including "The Extraordinary Leader" and "Results-Based Leadership". Joe Folkman, Ph.D., is managing director of Novations Group, Inc., and the author of "Turning Feedback Into Change", "Making Feedback Work", and "Employee Surveys That Make a Difference".
"What makes a great leader?"
Thousands of workers in both North America and Europe were asked that one simple question. Their top responses are compiled in The Handbook for Leaders. This precise, no-nonsense rulebook lists the 24 competencies and guidelines identified time and again as essential for becoming an effective and extraordinary leader, including:
Focus on results
Cultivate interpersonal skills
Lead organizational change
Learn from mistakes
Develop your people
Be open to new ideas
Take initiative
Build strengths
Fix fatal flaws
Take a non-linear approach
Be accountable
The ability to lead is far more than just a natural gift. Study after study shows that leadership is a concrete and learnable skill, one that can be acquired and honed by studying and applying specific proficiencies, attitudes, and habits. Let The Handbook for Leaders introduce you to the requirements for effective leadership, then provide you with a systematic program for attaining, developing, and implementing those skills.
John H. (Jack) Zenger, D.B.A.,is executive vice president and a director of Provant, Inc., and the author or coauthor of a number of books on the drivers and principles of leadership, including The Extraordinary Leader and Results-Based Leadership.
Joe Folkman, Ph.D., is managing director of Novations Group, Inc., and the author of Turning Feedback Into Change, Making Feedback Work, and Employee Surveys That Make a Difference.

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Finding Your Sacred Contract

Finding Your Sacred Contract

Self Esteem: Your Fundamental Power
Hay House | ISBN: 1401902049 | 2003-04-01 | MP3 | 279 MB

This workshop, recorded live in Chicago, Illinois, focuses on how to find your life’s mission, or “Sacred Contract.” By coming to know your mission, you can live your life in a way that makes best use of your energy. Finding out where you invest your energetic currency can show you how to manage your power as opposed to being managed by it. When you’re working well with your energy, you’re also making the best expression of it and living in accord with your Sacred Contract.

Caroline Myss shows you how to discover your archetypal patterns, both symbolically and literally, and how to find the four archetypes we all share and the eight that are uniquely ours. By using these patterns, she teaches you how to use the “Archetypal Wheel” as an intuitive method to interpret the behind-the-scenes patterns of your life, revealing that your experiences and relationships to be spiritual dramas that are filled with opportunities for personal transformation.

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Safe Rooms and Shelters - Protecting People Against Terrorist Attacks

Safe Rooms and Shelters - Protecting People Against Terrorist Attacks

Safe Rooms and Shelters - Protecting People Against Terrorist Attacks
Publisher: FEMA | ISBN: N/A | edition 2006 | PDF | 264 pages | 14 mb

This manual is intended to provide guidance for engineers, architects, building officials, and property owners to design shelters and safe rooms in buildings. It presents information about the design and construction of shelters in the work place, home, or community building that will provide protection in response to manmade hazards. Because the security needs and types of construction vary greatly, users may select the methods and measures that best meet their individual situations. The use of experts to apply the methodologies contained in this document is encouraged.
The information contained herein will assist in the planning and design of shelters that may be constructed outside or within dwellings or public buildings. These safe rooms will protect occupants from a variety of hazards, including debris impact, accidental or intentional explosive detonation, and the accidental or intentional release of a toxic substance into the air. Safe rooms may also be designed to protect individuals from assaults and attempted kidnapping, which requires design features to resist forced entry and ballistic impact. This covers a range of protective options, from low-cost expedient protection (what is commonly referred to as sheltering-in-place) to safe rooms ventilated and pressurized with air purified by ultra-high-efficiency filters. These safe rooms protect against toxic gases, vapors, and aerosols (finely divided solid or liquid particles).

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Mark Briggs, "Journalism 2.0 How to Strive and Thrive: A Digital Literacy Guide for the Information Age "

Journalism 2.0 How to Strive and Thrive: A Digital Literacy Guide for the Information Age

Mark Briggs, "Journalism 2.0 How to Strive and Thrive: A Digital Literacy Guide for the Information Age "
Knight Citizen News Network | 2007 | ASIN: B001U4KZGO | 132 pages | PDF | 2 MB

Journalism 2.0 is an initiative of J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism, a center of the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism, and of the Knight Citizen News Network, which is funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
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We’ve added a link to your great guide from the resources section at our immigrant media project “New Routes”. We look forward to building on your lessons with a very diverse group of citizen media makers.
Catherine Stifter 9/04/07

FYI I am using parts of your book for my New Media Workshop undergraduate and graduate classes - I teach at Hong Kong University’s Journalism & Media Studies Ctr.
Rebecca MacKinnon 9/04/07

I don’t have words to describe what a great and much-needed resource this is. I’m a recent college graduate with a Broadcast Journalism degree and worked at a local affiliate. I plan to share this with all of my old professors and colleagues. Thanks for helping all of us to navigate the digital world.
Lacey Hanson 9/26/07

Great work- so needed in Digital AGE! Thank you for providing a great resource that can be used to shift paradigms and support innovative programs and thinkers concerned with role of media in an increasingly cybercivilization.

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Drug War Deadlock: The Policy Battle Continues

Drug War Deadlock: The Policy Battle Continues Publisher: Hoover Institution Press | English | ISBN: 0817946527 | edition 2005 | PDF | 302 pages | 1,3 mb The dynamics of our drug policies in the United States are a complex puzzle to which there are no simplistic solutions. Drug War Deadlock presents a diverse collection of readings from scholarly journals, government reports, think tank studies, newspapers, and books that offer a comprehensive look at the drug debate. Each section of the book features opposing articles written by many of the foremost authorities in their respective fields, offering a concise view of the many divergent viewpoints surrounding drug policy in America. The authors discuss the cases for and against such alternatives as legalization, decriminalization, and harm reduction. In addition, they examine Europe's more liberal drug policies and debate whether they could be effectively applied in the United States. Throughout the book, they consider the moral implications of drug use and the thorny questions surrounding the nature and limits of restrictions that society can exercise over free individuals regarding their personal choices. My Links Uploading Bitroad

An Encyclopedia of Humor By Lowell D. Streiker

An Encyclopedia of Humor

An Encyclopedia of Humor
By Lowell D. Streiker
Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers | 1998 | 416 Pages | ISBN: 1565635000 | PDF | 8.43 MB

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Laughter is meant to inspire and heal, not belittle and harm. This new collection provides abundant "good clean fun," whenever you need inspirational slices of life, bracing quips, quotable wisdom, or a refreshing dose of nonsense. Church quirks, or corporate perks? From family life to the afterlife, Lowell has it covered. Best of all, to find the pertinent anecdote, you don't have to read the whole book (though you'll want to). Each of these jokes is categorized and indexed so you can find it on demand. Perhaps you're a public speaker who wants plenty of sparkling witticisms to hone your point. Or maybe you (and your family) simply want to enjoy thousands of fresh jokes. Either way, let An Encyclopedia of Humor help you find the "good" in "good hearty laugh!"

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Tim McNeese, "Civil War Leaders"

Civil War Leaders

Tim McNeese, "Civil War Leaders"
Chelsea House Publications | 2009 | ISBN: 1604130334 | 144 pages | PDF | 2,7 MB

Though historians could name hundreds of political and military leaders who left their mark during the Civil War, "Civil War Leaders" presents the lives and contributions made by the era's greatest leaders, representatives of both sides in the conflict, Northerners and Southerners alike. While their efforts may, at times, have pitted one against the other, their legacies represent a patchwork of American biographies. Each pursued goals that were set by the course of the nation as it became increasingly fractured. Through secession and the bloodiest war to date in American history, the United States emerged on the other side of the conflict once again united, its weaknesses healed, and its future more secure than it had been before the ordinance of war briefly ruled the American landscape. Learn about the intriguing leaders of the Civil War era, their convictions, and their decisions during this tumultuous time in American history.

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