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Table Top Battling Fidget Spinners are the precision engineered aluminum tops that make any work space more elegant and relaxing. Just spin and release them on the "battle base." Each CNC-machined top is hand finished for a superior tactile experience and a smooth, long-lasting battle. Includes two tops and battle base.

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Bella Abzug’s promotion of women’s and gay rights, universal childcare, green energy, and more provoked not only fierce opposition from Republicans but a split within her own party. The story of this notorious, galvanizing force in the Democrats’ “New Politics” insurgency is a biography for our times.Before Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Elizabeth Warren, or Hillary Clinton, there was New York’s Bella Abzug. With a fiery rhetorical style forged in the 1960s antiwar movement, Abzug vigorously promoted gender parity, economic justice, and the need to “bring Congress back to the people.”The 1970 congressional election season saw Abzug, in her trademark broad-brimmed hats, campaigning on the slogan “This Woman’s Place Is in the House―the House of Representatives.” Having won her seat, she advanced the feminist agenda in ways big and small, from gaining full access for congresswomen to the House swimming pool to cofounding the National Women’s Political Caucus to putting the title “Ms.” into the political lexicon. Beyond women’s rights, “Sister Bella” promoted gay rights, privacy rights, and human rights, and pushed legislation relating to urban, environmental, and foreign affairs.Her stint in Congress lasted just six years―it ended when she decided to seek the Democrats’ 1976 New York Senate nomination, a race she lost to Daniel Patrick Moynihan by less than 1 percent. Their primary contest, while gendered, was also an ideological struggle for the heart of the Democratic Party. Abzug’s protest politics had helped for a time to shift the center of politics to the left, but her progressive positions also fueled a backlash from conservatives who thought change was going too far.This deeply researched political biography highlights how, as 1960s radicalism moved protest into electoral politics, Abzug drew fire from establishment politicians across the political spectrum―but also inspired a generation of women.

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History comes alive in the gripping biography of fur trader Ed Nagle. Jordan Zinovich has unearthed a fascinating, unsung Canadian hero.

Inmates, know your civil rights and how to defend them in court! This self-help manual guides readers through the complex U.S. civil court system, teaches them how to pursue a lawsuit in the face of the constraints imposed by incarceration, and enables a successful outcome for the prisoner's civil rights lawsuit. Includes extensive case-law citations and advice on organizing, investigating and prosecuting a case.

In its natural condition the Sacramento Valley was a flood-ravaged region where an inland sea a hundred miles long regularly formed during the rainy season, to drain slowly away by the summer months. Today the Valley is marvelously productive, with a great capital city at its center, but only after a seventy-year struggle to devise and build an intricate thousand miles of levees and drains. Robert Kelley sets that battle within the encompassing national political culture, which produced, through the Republican and Democratic parties, widely diverging ideas about how best to reclaim the Valley from flood. He draws on approaches developed in the field of policy analysis to examine the relationship between American political culture and environmental policy-making. We find that the prolonged controversy over the Sacramento Valley illuminates American decision-making, then and now.

Serious illness can be devastating. Imagine what it takes to overcome it - to overcome the devastation to the body, to be robbed of one’s identity, confidence or independence, to face death, to persevere through the horrors required to hold it at bay and, finally, to rebuild a life that will never be the same. Now imagine having to do it over and over and over again. That is exactly what Dr. Marie Kirchner Stone had to do, and she shares her experiences in her striking new memoir, "Battling Death: A Different Life." Diagnosed at age twenty with Hodgkin’s Disease, Dr. Stone did not know as she entered treatment that her health would never return to her. Throughout the following forty years, she faced the Hodgkin’s Disease, breast cancer, thyroid cancer, cervical cancer, endometriosis, open-heart surgery, a debilitating stroke and skin cancer; some were the result of her radiation treatments for the Hodgkin’s, others were not. Yet her tale is not a simple litany of diseases and treatments, but rather an inspiring and motivational triumph of the spirit over adversity, as she never once let the diseases that riddled her keep her from living a full and productive life. Dedicated to teaching, she was repeatedly forced to start anew, yet she never let go of her determination to teach and help the children realize the best in themselves. To Dr. Stone, "[t]eaching promoted a symbiotic, constructive, and mutually beneficial mind-body outcome both for the students and me." A shining example of what it means never to quit, Dr. Stone’s extraordinary tale shows that while "Battling Death" may indeed lead to a different kind of life, it can be a life well lived.

Throughout history, from Kublai Khan's attempted invasions of Japan to Rommel's desert warfare, military operations have succeeded or failed on the ability of commanders to incorporate environmental conditions into their tactics. In Battling the Elements, geographer Harold A. Winters and former U.S. Army officers Gerald E. Galloway Jr., William J. Reynolds, and David W. Rhyne, examine the connections between major battles in world history and their geographic components, revealing what role factors such as weather, climate, terrain, soil, and vegetation have played in combat. Each chapter offers a detailed and engaging explanation of a specific environmental factor and then looks at several battles that highlight its effects on military operations. As this cogent analysis of geography and war makes clear, those who know more about the shape, nature, and variability of battleground conditions will always have a better understanding of the nature of combat and at least one significant advantage over a less knowledgeable enemy.

This is the story of a man who like many faced many trials and tribulations. It tells of a family life blessed with an abundance of love, but struggled day to day to make ends meet. It’s a story rich in lifelong friendships among men trying to find their way in this life. In the midst of his journey, author Russell Butler tells of his battle with depression and perpetual suicidal thoughts. He tells of his victory in the war for his mind, and explains step by step how he was able to overcome. After winning his own battle with depression, one of Russell’s dear friends fights a very similar battle, and loses it by taking his own life. Russell feels it is his mission in this life to help so many who fight this war for their mind. He feels that like he and his dear friend, there are so many that do not know how to talk about this dark subject, or are ashamed of themselves for feeling and thinking the way they do. This book was written for the purpose to bring depression and suicide to the surface, but also to give hope to the hopeless. It is written to also tell of the beauty Russell found in an everyday life that was once a blur to him. His mission is to help those in a dark place find the light and to be the light for others. In his words, “find your divine purpose in this life, and put one foot in front of the other until you’ve arrived at your destiny. Along the way, really stop and see all of God’s glory in the trees, the blue sky, the birds chirping, and in all the love that surrounds you.”

Throughout history, from Kublai Khan's attempted invasions of Japan to Rommel's desert warfare, military operations have succeeded or failed on the ability of commanders to incorporate environmental conditions into their tactics. In Battling the Elements, geographer Harold A. Winters and former U.S. Army officers Gerald E. Galloway Jr., William J. Reynolds, and David W. Rhyne, examine the connections between major battles in world history and their geographic components, revealing what role factors such as weather, climate, terrain, soil, and vegetation have played in combat. Each chapter offers a detailed and engaging explanation of a specific environmental factor and then looks at several battles that highlight its effects on military operations. As this cogent analysis of geography and war makes clear, those who know more about the shape, nature, and variability of battleground conditions will always have a better understanding of the nature of combat and at least one significant advantage over a less knowledgeable enemy.

BG Robert F. McDermott, West Point graduate, WWll combat pilot and Harvard MBA, led a revolution in modern military education when he was assigned to the newly created Air Force Academy. Military retirement did not end his story. In his second illustrious career as Chairman and CEO of USAA, McDermott turned USAA into a national success story, and at the same time led the civic movement to modernize the city of San Antonio, TX.

Survivors of the unit recall the four major battles they fought in Italy, France, the Ardennes, and Germany.

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Inmates, know your civil rights and how to defend them in court! This self-help manual guides readers through the complex U.S. civil court system, teaches them how to pursue a lawsuit in the face of the constraints imposed by incarceration, and enables a successful outcome for the prisoner's civil rights lawsuit. Includes extensive case-law citations and advice on organizing, investigating and prosecuting a case.

Carl von Clausewitz (1780–1831), the Prussian military theoretician who wrote On War, is known above all for his famous dictum: “War is the continuation of politics by other means.” In René Girard’s view, however, the strategist’s treatise offers up a more disturbing truth to the reader willing to extrapolate from its most daring observations: with modern warfare comes the insanity of tit-for-tat escalation, which political institutions have lost their ability to contain. Having witnessed the Napoleonic Wars firsthand, Girard argues, Clausewitz intuited that unbridled “reciprocal action” could eventually lead foes to total mutual annihilation. Haunted by the Franco-German conflict that was to ravage Europe, in Girard’s account Clausewitz is a prescient witness to the terrifying acceleration of history. Battling to the End issues a warning about the apocalyptic threats hanging over our planet and delivers an authoritative lesson on the mimetic laws of violence.  

Battling the Buddha of Love is a work of advocacy anthropology that explores the controversial plans and practices of the Maitreya Project, a transnational Buddhist organization, as it sought to build the "world's tallest statue" as a multi-million-dollar "gift" to India. Hoping to forcibly acquire 750 acres of occupied land for the statue park in the Kushinagar area of Uttar Pradesh, the Buddhist statue planners ran into obstacle after obstacle, including a full-scale grassroots resistance movement of Indian farmers working to "Save the Land."Falcone sheds light on the aspirations, values, and practices of both the Buddhists who worked to construct the statue, as well as the Indian farmer-activists who tirelessly protested against the Maitreya Project. Because the majority of the supporters of the Maitreya Project statue are converts to Tibetan Buddhism, individuals Falcone terms "non-heritage" practitioners, she focuses on the spectacular collision of cultural values between small agriculturalists in rural India and transnational Buddhists hailing from Portland to Pretoria. She asks how could a transnational Buddhist organization committed to compassionate practice blithely create so much suffering for impoverished rural Indians.Falcone depicts the cultural logics at work on both sides of the controversy, and through her examination of these logics she reveals the divergent, competing visions of Kushinagar's potential futures. Battling the Buddha of Love traces power, faith, and hope through the axes of globalization, transnational religion, and rural grassroots activism in South Asia, showing the unintended local consequences of an international spiritual development project.