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When death takes a "special person," it hurts. But it hurts a little less with time. And still less with more time.

One morning you will wake up and your loss will not be the first thing you think about. And then you will know that it's just a bit better than it was in the beginning. . .

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It hurt to lose someone you love
I was not pleased.I ordered the one pictured which had the rocking chair
on it and got the one with the flower.This happened 2 times and I am not
happy with this order.

The content of the booklet is excellent, but I would like the right booklet.

Thanks so much for listening
Dorcas

A Solacing Balm
I received this booklet as a gift a few weeks after the death of my father.It has been a great comfort and I reccomend it for those seeking healing for their loss and for those who would like to help friends andfamilyfind comfort for their loss.

wonderful for people who has lost someone to death
I have given many of these booklets to friends who have lost loved ones, & they have been a great comfort to them.I highly recommend them in place of a sympathy card. ... Read more

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Chapters: James Kelly, Matthew Egan, David Wojcinski, Cameron Ling, Colin Sylvia, Shane Mumford, Patrick Dangerfield, Mark Jamar, Kane Tenace, Brent Moloney, David Johnson, Matthew Carr, Campbell Brown, Lewis Roberts-Thomson, Mark Seaby, Daniel Harris, James Podsiadly, Jason Porplyzia, Adam Cooney, Robert Warnock, Luke Power, Darren Glass, Jason Blake, Farren Ray, Bernie Vince, Matthew Bate, Harry O'brien, Simon Hogan, Brock Mclean, Chris Dawes, David Mackay, Jeff Garlett, Jobe Watson, Amon Buchanan, Clayton Collard, Kepler Bradley, Michael Jamison, Ryan Jackson, Josh Carr, Will Minson, Ryan Houlihan, Shaun Burgoyne, Brian Lake, Scott Harding, Andrew J. Krakouer, Brent Renouf, Brad Sewell, Mark L. Williams, Corey Jones, Scott Stevens, Michael Warren, Jordan Bannister, Ryan Hargrave, David Armitage, Zac Dawson, Toby Thurstans, Cameron Thurley, Paul Chapman, Kurt Tippett, Tim Boyle, Jay Schulz, Brett Jones, Alipate Carlile, Jarrad Waite, Shannon Hurn, Beau Muston, Luke Ablett, Jarred Moore, Sam Butler, Robert Copeland, Nathan Lovett-Murray, Mark Mcveigh, Andrew Welsh, Graham Johncock, Jared Petrenko, Jake King, James Sellar, Jared Brennan, Jed Adcock, Chris Mayne, Daniel Connors, Andrew Swallow, Liam Picken, Brent Staker, Daniel Wells, Lachlan Hansen, Bret Thornton, Dennis Armfield, Jake Edwards, Jarrod Harbrow, Travis Tuck, Brodie Martin, Wade Thompson, Robert Eddy, Brady Rawlings, Ben Mckinley, Ashley Hansen, James Ezard, Sam Jacobs, Brock O'brien, Daniel Motlop, Jaxson Barham, Andy Otten, Garrick Ibbotson, Ben Rutten, Jay Neagle, Matthew Spencer, Leigh Adams, Garry Moss, Xavier Ellis, Adam Thomson, Nathan Grima, Chance Bateman, Jordan Mcmahon, Leigh Fisher, Josh J. Kennedy, Shane Tuck, Joel Reynolds, Robert Murphy, Leigh Brown, David Hale, Mark Austin, Nathan Foley, Sam Power, Anthony Corrie, Patrick Ryder, Robin Nahas, David Ellard, Peter Street, Jayden Attard, Steven Browne, Josh Head, Cameron Faulkner, Adam Hunter, Wayd...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=4952673 ... Read more

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The "Young American" critics—Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford—are well known as central figures in the Greenwich Village "Little Renaissance" of the 1910s and in the postwar debates about American culture and politics.In Beloved Community, Casey Blake considers these intellectuals as a coherant group and assesses the connection between thier cultural criticisms and their attempts to forge a communitarian alternative to liberal and socialist poitics.

Blake draws on biography to emphasize the intersection of questions of self, culture, and society in their calls for a culture of "personality" and "self-fulfillment."In contrast to the tendency of previous analyses to separate these critics' cultural and autobiographical writings from their politics, Blake argues that their cultural criticism grew out of a radical vision of self-realization through participation in a democratic culture and polity.He also examines the Young American writers' interpretations of such turn-of-the-century radicals as William Morris, Henry George, John Dewey, and Patrick Geddes and shows that this adversary tradition still offers important insights into contemporary issues in American politics and culture.

Beloved Community reestablishes the democratic content of the Young Americans' ideal of "personality" and argues against viewing a monolithic therapeutic culture as the sole successor to a Victorian "culture of character." The politics of selfhood that was so critical to the Young Americans' project has remained a contested terrain throughout the twentieth century. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: David Stephens, Simon Spender, Graham Williams, Thomas Bender, Wayne Mumford, Mark Bradley, Jeff Hopkins, Andy Williams, Phil Bater, Steve Aizlewood, Aaron Cook, Dai Lawrence, Ray Bennion, John Quantick, Jack Powell, Jimmy Evans, Alan Jones, Grant Davies. Excerpt:Aaron Cook Aaron Cook (born December 6, 1979 in Caerphilly , Wales ) is a Welsh semi-professional footballer , currently playing for Conference South side Eastleigh where he plays as a centre back . Career Cook started his career at Portsmouth . He made 1 appearance at the South Coast club before he moved on loan to Crystal Palace . In November 2008 he joined Newport County from Salisbury City initially on loan. He was named the Blue Square South All Stars team for the 2008-09 season, in June 2009. (The selection is voted for by the Team Managers of Blue Square South teams). In October 2009 he joined Eastleigh at a time for the Spitfires when Southampton were in negotiations with Eastleigh regarding Aaron Martin's move from the Silverlake Stadium (which went through in early November). Aaron made a positive start in his Eastleigh debut and helped the defence keep a clean sheet against Hampton ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Emerging Infectious Diseases, published by U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases on August 1, 2009. The length of the article is 563 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Avian Influenza.(Book review)
Author: Elizabeth Mumford
Publication: Emerging Infectious Diseases (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2009
Publisher: U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases
Volume: 15Issue: 8Page: 1334(1)

Article Type: Book review

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New Orleans was the largest city—and one of the richest—in the Confederacy, protected in part by Fort Jackson, which was just sixty-five miles down the Mississippi River. On April 27, 1862, Confederate soldiers at Fort Jackson rose up in mutiny against their commanding officers. New Orleans fell to Union forces soon thereafter. Although the Fort Jackson mutiny marked a critical turning point in the Union's campaign to regain control of this vital Confederate financial and industrial center, it has received surprisingly little attention from historians. Michael Pierson examines newly uncovered archival sources to determine why the soldiers rebelled at such a decisive moment.

The mutineers were soldiers primarily recruited from New Orleans's large German and Irish immigrant populations. Pierson shows that the new nation had done nothing to encourage poor white men to feel they had a place of honor in the southern republic. He argues that the mutineers actively sought to help the Union cause. In a major reassessment of the Union administration of New Orleans that followed, Pierson demonstrates that Benjamin "Beast" Butler enjoyed the support of many white Unionists in the city.

Pierson adds an urban working-class element to debates over the effects of white Unionists in Confederate states. With the personal stories of soldiers appearing throughout, Mutiny at Fort Jackson presents the Civil War from a new perspective, revealing the complexities of New Orleans society and the Confederate experience. ... Read more

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I found it very disappointing
In my opinion the author had a poor understanding of the battle or the times and the text is filled with inaccuracies. The obvious is restated page after page for him to make some point that few would dispute.Yes, the troops left to defend New Orleans were not first line troops those had long ago departed for the fronts in Tennessee or Virginia.New Orleans was the least Southern city in the confederacy, it was filled with recent foreign immigrants and northerners, it was also very dependent on trade which dried up with the onset of the blockade.We can agree not all people in the region supported the Confederacy and when times got tough many more loss faith in the Southern cause.

But the mutiny was strategically unimportant as once the forts were past there was no defense of the city.Contrary to his assertions the CSS Louisiana was not a threat to the northern fleet and it was never going to become one, it was at best a poorly positioned gun platform.There were no facilities at Fort Jackson to get it seaworthy and carpenters could not fix the problems it had.

Inaccuracies abound, there was no road north of Fort Livingston to surrender on as Fort Livingston was and is on an Island, no road has ever gone there; Camp Street has never been in the French Quarter, his dates and service of the few soldiers mentioned are often in conflict with the "Records of Louisiana Soldiers and Commands" which I believe are accurate.

Uninteresting, tedious and uninformative. If there was any value it was in the footnotes which provide references to materials that may be of some interest in their own right.

But they did Mutiny
This book is well written and easy to read and understand.The author proposed that the garrison of Fort Jackson, the major southern fort guarding New Orleans, intentionally preformed poorly during the passage of the Union fleet to capture New Orleans and then mutinied, deserted, and that some even joined the Union ranks.There are many graphics scattered through the text, photographs of principles, numerous contemporary drawing and photographs of the restored fort to show the fort and its condition before and after the battle.The book is a unique look at an ignored incident.The loss of the forts guarding New Orleans, the largest city in the South, struck a heavy blow to southern hopes.This account of a mutiny by Southern troops in favor of Union occupation and victory is sure to arouse the ire of Lost Cause advocates who would prefer the view that all Southerners were brave and loyal to the cause.The author is hampered with no first-hand accounts left by the mutineers or their officers (one fearing reprisals and the other reprimand).Union records and accounts mention this Mutiny in describing the capture of the Forts.The author builds on period accounts of the conditions in New Orleans before and during the beginning of the Civil War to find the reasons behind the Mutiny.New Orleans was the most diverse southern city and after the initial enlistments of volunteers (troops that were sent to the east or north to Tennessee), new troops were literally pressed into service to defend the city.New Orleans had a large foreign-born population, with lots of work available to skilled tradesman and laborers in the busiest port in America where the commerce of the Mississippi basin was offloaded, stored and reloaded onto oceangoing ships or riverboats.There were strong nativist sentiments in the New Orleans so the foreign born troops felt no great love to the Southern cause and slavery was viewed as limiting oppertunities and keeping wages low.These troops could actually have hoped for a Union victory and a return to antebellum conditions with plentiful work in a busy port.Pierson also describes other Southern units from New Orleans that melted away as the men returned to their homes in occupied New Orleans.
This mutiny took place early in the war before the attitudes had hardened and many still hoped for an early peace.In another year few troops would have considered changing sides to fight for the enemy.I rank this book highly, it looks at this Mutiny as a sign of the many different factions struggling for power in the early days of the Civil War.

I wish I could get my money back!
I will not waste to much time in reviewing this book, as the aforementioned negative review hit the nail on the head. I believe he was too kind to issue three stars.The book is very difficult to read, as the write repeats his point over and over again. He could have written a short article instead of 191 page of conjecture.According to this writer, with the utter lack of support of the lower classes, it is hard to believe the Civil War took place at all!

why mutiny
The mutineers at Fort Jackson serve as a window into Confederate and Union sentiments and the complex social mosaic of New Orleans.There is a careful depiction of the relationships between the elite, working class, and foreign-born illuminating the strikes, sabotage and recruitment problems of Confederate New Orleans.In addition, there is an excellent description of the quick success of Major General Benjamin F. Butler's governance of the captured city that counters the usual poor report on his time there.

A New View of New Orleans & the CSA
Pierson has taken on a task for himself, and the results are well worth the trouble. The problem: How can you find out why the majority of the 600 man garrison in the main CSA fort protecting New Orleans mutinied when they left no written record of their motives? The answer, apparently, is to read widely into the letters, diaries and newspapers of the time & place to develop the context in which the mutinying soldiers lived. This book told me a lot about what people in New Orleans went through in 1861, and why they might well dislike the CSA enough to rebel against it. It was one of the book's pleasures to see the author piece all of this together bit by bit.

There are many little details here, and each chapter starts with an anecdote or person. The story of Henry Snyder is very telling, for example! Throughout the book we meet southerners who supported the CSA, but the author has also found many from New Orleans who evaded CSA service, sabotaged the CSA Navy, mutinied (and not just in Ft Jackson), or just plain deserted the CSA when the chips were down. This seems more realistic and human than the "everyone in the city was a diehard Confederate" story that we have gotten from most historians. The city, after all, voted for Unionists like Douglas and Bell in 1860, not for the secessionist Breckinridge.

I didn't sense a bias here: all of these stories and letters added up to the wholly plausible conclusion that many whites in New Orleans thought that the USA would be a better government for them than the CSA. This helps to explain why New Orleans held such successful elections to the US Congress in 1862. It seems to me that there is no anti-southern bias--the book's heroes, if we think about it, are the mutineers, and they are certainly southerners. Nor is Butler glorified--at least I read it as saying that he was efficient & good at his job, but also a bit of a showman and sometimes quite brutal when he thought he had to be.

There is social history here of the soldiers and their families, balanced by an interest in the military campaign (the fighting at Fort Jackson gets chapters 1 and 4), and another two chapters on Butler's government of the city. There's a lot of new perspectives, all presented in a reasonably short, very readable book. And there are good pictures & drawings that I haven't seen before. ... Read more