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Sugar to Ivy: A Young Man's Toils from the Rural South to the Ivy League

Product Description Product DescriptionAnyone who has ever had big dreams yet faced seemingly insurmountable obstacles will find Sugar to Ivy irresistible. It’s the inspirational memoir of an adolescent’s long road from a poor Southern town to the Ivy League, Big Ten and corporate America. Darrell Farlough had one dream: to become a mechanical engineer. Everyone thought he had too many strikes against him: His parents were uneducated and penniless, his neighborhood contained hostile relatives, and there were few role models. Darrell never let his environment define him. Using his quick wits and tremendous maturity, he developed the strategies to reach his goal and mastered the timeless values of hard work, integrity, self-discipline and resilience. Through his powerful story, he shares his philosophy for overcoming obstacles and negative environments. As a sixth-generation American, Darrell fought for success just as valiantly as his great-great-grandfather did in the Union Army during the Civil War. Without any family assistance, he bought a car at 16, received three college degrees and worked for four Fortune 500 companies by the age of 27. Sugar to Ivy describes Darrell’s struggles and successes in rural Louisiana, New Orleans, Illinois, New York, Ohio, Great Britain, New Jersey and Indiana. More than one man’s story, Sugar to Ivy is also the history of the last 160 years of African-American life. Darrell Farlough is a manager at a Fortune 500 company and lives in Michigan. He has a B.S. from Dillard University, a B.S. from Columbia University and a M.B.A. from Indiana University.

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The Crimean Journals of the Sisters of Mercy, 1854-56

Product Description Product DescriptionIn December 1854 fifteen nuns from Ireland arrived in the Crimea to nurse the sick and wounded British soldiers who were fighting in the Crimean War. The head of this mission was Mother M. Francis Bridgeman of Kinsale, and among her community were Sister M. Doyle of Gort and Sister M. Joseph Croke of Charleville. All three kept an account of their experiences, recording the conditions under which they travelled to the Crimea, the state of the hospitals they worked in, their relationships with the soldiers, medical and military authorities. Florence Nightingale was already building her reputation with the work she and her assistants were carrying out in the hospitals. Mother Francis Bridgeman, in her first negotiations with Nightingale, noted that she had ?€˜an ambitious woman to deal with on whom she could not rely?€™. Bridgeman and Nightingale were both strong personalities who were unwilling to concede authority and control to the other. Issues of power, class and identity formed the basis of the disagreements that developed between the two women. This is the first publication of these three journals, which include letters from Florence Nightingale. Relating tales of danger, intrigue and heroism these journals provide a new insight into the medical conditions under which nursing took place during the war, and the disputes that occurred between the Irish Sisters and Nightingale.

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The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde

Product Description Product DescriptionHere is Oscar Wilde revealed in his own words--including more than 200 previously unpublished letters--available to coincide with the one hundredth anniversary of his deathDeliciously wicked, astoundingly clever, and often outright shocking, Oscar Wilde put his art into his work and his genius into his life. In this collection, replete with newly discovered letters, the full extent of that genius is unveiled.Charting his life from his Irish upbringing to fame in his fin de si?cle London to infamy and exile in Paris, the letters--written between 1875 and 1900 to publishers and fans, friends and lovers, enemies and adversaries--resound with Wilde's wit, brilliance, and humanity. Wilde's grandson, Merlin Holland, and Rupert Hart-Davis have produced a provocative and revealing self-portrait. Wilde's reputation as a serious thinker, humorous writer, and gay icon continues to flourish. The Complete Letters is an intimate exploration of his life and thoughts--Wilde in his own words.

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The Watcher on the Cast Iron Balcony

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Salisbury: Victorian Titan

Product Description Product DescriptionAt six years of age, Robert Cecil, the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, was sent to a brutal boarding school he likened to ?€œan existence among devils.?€ By 23, he was a member of the British Parliament. And before his death at age 73 in 1903, he would spend nearly two decades as Britain?€™s Prime Minister, single-mindedly driving the British Empire to extend its iron grip to five continents. This multiple award-winning biography sheds uncompromising light on Lord Salisbury?€™s troubled family life, his transformational experiences in Australia, India, and Africa, and his dogged pursuit of political power in the court of Queen Victoria.

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Domesday People: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1066-1166 I: Domesday Book

Product Description Product DescriptionThis is the first of two volumes offering for the first time an authoritative and complete prosopography of post-Conquest England, 1066-1166. Based on extensive and wide-ranging research, the two volumes contain over eight thousand entries on persons occurring in the principal English administrative sources for the post-Conquest period -- Domesday Book, the Pipe Rolls, and Cartae Baronum. Continental origin is a major focus of the entries, as well as the discussion of family and descent of fees which characterise the whole work; genealogical tables are included. An introduction discusses Domesday prosopography; an appendix gives the Latin texts of the Northamptonshire and Lindsey surveys.Post-Conquest genealogy and manorial history start with Domesday Book: genealogists will welcome this work.

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