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Building the Empire State examines the origins of American capitalism by tracing how and why business corporations were first introduced into the economy of the early republic. Brian Phillips Murphy follows the collaborations between political leaders and a group of unelected political entrepreneurs, including Robert R. Livingston and Alexander Hamilton, who persuaded legislative powers to grant monopolies corporate status in order to finance and manage civic institutions. Murphy shows how American capitalism grew out of the convergence of political and economic interests, wherein political culture was shaped by business strategies and institutions as much as the reverse.

Focusing on the state of New York, a onetime mercantile colony that became home to the first American banks, utilities, canals, and transportation infrastructure projects, Building the Empire State surveys the changing institutional ecology during the first five decades following the American Revolution. Through sustained attention to the Manhattan Company, the steamboat monopoly, the Erie Canal, and the New York & Erie Railroad, Murphy traces the ways entrepreneurs marshaled political and financial capital to sway legislators to support their private plans and interests. By playing a central role in the creation and regulation of institutions that facilitated private commercial transactions, New York State's political officials created formal and informal precedents for the political economy throughout the northeastern United States and toward the expanding westward frontier. The political, economic, and legal consequences organizing the marketplace in this way continue to be felt in the vast influence and privileged position held by corporations in the present day.

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A thousand years before Isaac Asimov set down his Three Laws of Robotics, real and imagined automata appeared in European courts, liturgies, and literary texts. Medieval robots took such forms as talking statues, mechanical animals, and silent metal guardians; some served to entertain or instruct while others performed disciplinary or surveillance functions. Variously ascribed to artisanal genius, inexplicable cosmic forces, or demonic powers, these marvelous fabrications raised fundamental questions about knowledge, nature, and divine purpose in the Middle Ages.

Medieval Robots recovers the forgotten history of fantastical, aspirational, and terrifying machines that captivated Europe in imagination and reality between the ninth and fourteenth centuries. E. R. Truitt traces the different forms of self-moving or self-sustaining manufactured objects from their earliest appearances in the Latin West through centuries of mechanical and literary invention. Chronicled in romances and song as well as histories and encyclopedias, medieval automata were powerful cultural objects that probed the limits of natural philosophy, illuminated and challenged definitions of life and death, and epitomized the transformative and threatening potential of foreign knowledge and culture. This original and wide-ranging study reveals the convergence of science, technology, and imagination in medieval culture and demonstrates the striking similarities between medieval and modern robotic and cybernetic visions.

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The Rise and Fall of the American Department Store

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The geography of American retail has changed dramatically since the first luxurious department stores sprang up in nineteenth-century cities. Introducing light, color, and music to dry-goods emporia, these "palaces of consumption" transformed mere trade into occasions for pleasure and spectacle. Through the early twentieth century, department stores remained centers of social activity in local communities. But after World War II, suburban growth and the ubiquity of automobiles shifted the seat of economic prosperity to malls and shopping centers. The subsequent rise of discount big-box stores and electronic shopping accelerated the pace at which local department stores were shuttered or absorbed by national chains. But as the outpouring of nostalgia for lost downtown stores and historic shopping districts would indicate, these vibrant social institutions were intimately connected to American political, cultural, and economic identities.

The first national study of the department store industry, From Main Street to Mall traces the changing economic and political contexts that transformed the American shopping experience in the twentieth century. With careful attention to small-town stores as well as glamorous landmarks such as Marshall Field's in Chicago and Wanamaker's in Philadelphia, historian Vicki Howard offers a comprehensive account of the uneven trajectory that brought about the loss of locally identified department store firms and the rise of national chains like Macy's and J. C. Penney. She draws on a wealth of primary source evidence to demonstrate how the decisions of consumers, government policy makers, and department store industry leaders culminated in today's Wal-Mart world. Richly illustrated with archival photographs of the nation's beloved downtown business centers, From Main Street to Mall shows that department stores were more than just places to shop.

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American Governance in the Twentieth Century

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In the wake of the New Deal, U.S. politics has been popularly imagined as an ongoing conflict between small-government conservatives and big-government liberals. In practice, narratives of left versus right or government versus the people do not begin to capture the dynamic ways Americans pursue civic goals while protecting individual freedoms. Brian Balogh proposes a new view of U.S. politics that illuminates how public and private actors collaborate to achieve collective goals. This "associational synthesis" treats the relationship between state and civil society as fluid and challenges interpretations that map the trajectory of American politics solely along ideological lines. Rather, both liberals and conservatives have extended the authority of the state but have done so most successfully when state action is mediated through nongovernmental institutions, such as universities, corporations, interest groups, and other voluntary organizations.

The Associational State provides a fresh perspective on the crucial role that the private sector, trade associations, and professional organizations have played in implementing public policies from the late nineteenth through the twenty-first century. Balogh examines key historical periods through the lens of political development, paying particular attention to the ways government, social movements, and intermediary institutions have organized support and resources to achieve public ends. Exposing the gap between the ideological rhetoric that both parties deploy today and their far less ideologically driven behavior over the past century and a half, The Associational State offers one solution to the partisan gridlock that currently grips the nation.

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The Struggle for an International Language

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The problems of international communication and linguistic rights are recurring debates in the present-day age of globalization. But the debate truly began over a hundred years ago, when the increasingly interconnected world of the nineteenth century fostered a desire for the development of a global lingua franca. Many individuals and social movements competed to create an artificial language unencumbered by the political rivalries that accompanied English, German, and French. Organizations including the American Philosophical Society, the International Association of Academies, the International Peace Bureau, the Comintern, and the League of Nations intervened in the debate about the possibility of an artificial language, but of the numerous tongues created before World War II, only Esperanto survives today.

Esperanto and Its Rivals sheds light on the factors that led almost all artificial languages to fail and helped English to prevail as the global tongue of the twenty-first century. Exploring the social and political contexts of the three most prominent artificial languagesVolapuk, Esperanto, and IdoRoberto Garvia examines the roles played by social movement leaders and inventors, the strategies different organizations used to lobby for each language, and other early decisions that shaped how those languages spread and evolved. Through the rise and fall of these artificial languages, Esperanto and Its Rivals reveals the intellectual dilemmas and political anxieties that troubled the globalizing world at the turn of the twentieth century.

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Managing and Restoring the Native Grasslands of South-eastern Australia

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Native temperate grasslands are Australias most threatened ecosystems. Grasslands have been eliminated from across much of their former extent and continue to be threatened by urban expansion, agricultural intensification, weed invasion and the uncertain impacts of climate change. Research, however, is showing us new ways to manage grasslands, and techniques for restoration are advancing. The importance of ongoing stewardship also means it is vital to develop new strategies to encourage a broader cross-section of society to understand and appreciate native grasslands and their ecology.

Land of Sweeping Plains synthesises the scientific literature in a readily accessible manner and includes a wealth of practical experience held by policy makers, farmers, community activists and on-ground grassland managers. It aims to provide all involved in grassland management and restoration with the technical information necessary to conserve and enhance native grasslands. For readers without the responsibility of management, such as students and those interested in biodiversity conservation, it provides a detailed understanding of native grassland ecology, management challenges and solutions and, importantly, inspiration to engage with this critically endangered ecosystem.

Practical, easy to read and richly illustrated, this book brings together the grassland knowledge of experts in ethnobotany, ecology, monitoring, planning, environmental psychology, community engagement, flora and fauna management, environmental restoration, agronomy, landscape architecture and urban design.

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Nicholas S.G. Williams, Adrian Marshall, John W. Morgan

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How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures

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We are doomed to repeat history if we fail to learn from it, but how are we affected by the forces that are invisible to us?

What role does Neanderthal DNA play in our genetic makeup? How did the theory of eugenics embraced by Nazi Germany first develop? How is trust passed down in Africa, and silence inherited in Tasmania? How are private companies like Ancestry.com uncovering, preserving and potentially editing the past? In The Invisible History of the Human Race, Christine Kenneally reveals that, remarkably, it is not only our biological history that is coded in our DNA, but also our social history. She breaks down myths of determinism and draws on cutting-edge research to explore how both historical artefacts and our DNA tell us where we have come from and where we may be going. 

A New York Times Notable Book

The richest, freshest, most fun book on genetics in some time. New York Times Book Review

Original and provocative. New Yorker

[A] sparkling, sometimes harrowing read. Nature

Shortlisted 2015 Stella Prize
Shortlisted 2015 Queensland Literary Awards
Winner 2015 Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing

Christine Kenneally is an award-winning journalist and author who has written for the New Yorker, the New York Times, Slate, Time magazine, New Scientist, the Monthly, and other publications. She is the author of The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. She currently lives in Melbourne.

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If I Was A Bird What Kind Of A Flock Would I Fly With?

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People are different! They look different, come from different parts of the world, and believe in different things. 

To some people you look different too! This is what makes you special. This is what makes us all special. We are all here to make the world a better place to live in because each of us brings something different to it.

In If I Was A Bird What Flock Would I Fly With? psychologist Peter Sacco tells the fictional account of Billy Connors, a fifth-grader learning how to fit in at school. Billy learns that its okay to be himself and to believe in what he believes in. Equally important, Billy learns that its okay for others to believe in what they do as well, even if they do seem a little different. 

Along the way, Billy learns a valuable lesson: to accept other people for who they are and what they believe without judging them.

Now available in 5 languages: English, Spanish, Hindi, Mandarin and Japanese.

50% of royalties will be donated to the charity organization, Canadian Centre For Abuse Awareness (www.abusehurts.com)


All the great religions teach peace and love as the basis for human interaction and yet we seem predisposed to focus on having, and demonstrating, power over one another. Abuse and bullying are prime examples. Peter Sacco gets to the root of this and, once again, offers practical steps to finding positive solutions. - Sanderson Layng, President Abuse Hurts, Canadian Centre For Abuse Awareness

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Explore the variety of ways humans experience the holy through 150+ one-page biographies of notable masters from the worlds great spiritual traditions.

Key historical figures vividly come to life with pertinent biographical details presented in a readable, conversational style by a well-respected figure in the Episcopal Church.

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A woman finds her everyday life engulfed by vivid fantasies, a businessman explores new ways to deal with his rage, a young woman is stuck on a boat with a bunch of delinquents, a diary is discovered, a commune goes wrong ...

In this captivating collection of short fiction, award-winning novelist Amanda Lohrey explores the dilemmas of modern life. Her characters find themselves caught between body and spirit, memory and desire, ambition and mortality and they must transform themselves or be trapped.

Shot through with a serene intelligence, these tales enlighten and entertain in equal measure.

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Shortlisted for the Glenda Adams Award for New Writing in the 2014 NSW Premier's Literary Awards

Beyond the killing fields and the temples of Angkor is Cambodia: a country with a genocidal past and a wide, open smile. A frontier land where anything is possible at least for the tourists.

In Holiday in Cambodia Laura Jean McKay explores the electric zone where local and foreign lives meet. There are tender, funny moments of tentative understanding, as well as devastating re-imaginings of a troubled history.

Three backpackers board a train, ignoring the danger signs and find themselves in the hands of the Khmer Rouge.

Elderly sisters are visited by their vampire niece from Australia and set out to cure her.

A singer creates a sensation in swinging 1969, on the eve of an American bombing campaign.

These are bold and haunting stories by a remarkable new talent.

Each of these stories is like catching a snippet of a conversation or looking into a lit window in a dark night, and loitering longer than you should to hear and see what characters inadvertently reveal about themselves. Holiday in Cambodia shows the ugly side of post-colonial tourism as well as moments of great pathos and dignity; in a compelling and empathetic voice. Alice Pung

Polished, Hemingwayesque snapshots, vivid and atmospheric - Steven Carroll

a serious and impressive attempt to engage with Cambodia in all its pock-marked history. - Sunday Age

Mckays artful balancing of strong themes with perceptive detail, even humour, allows Holiday in Cambodia to explore what many of its characters are only half-heartedly searching for: the real Cambodia, a country still trying to recover. - Australian Book Review

The range of perspectives offered across these stories works like word of mouth, building a picture of a country on trust. - the Australian

Laura Jean McKays writing has been published in The Best Australian Stories, Sleepers, the Big Issue, Women of Letters and Going Down Swinging. She has been shortlisted for national and international awards and in 2011 won the Alan Marshall Short Story Award. She lives in Melbourne.

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Most people know Arthur Conan Doyle created Sherlock Holmes. But he was a prolific writer throughout his long career, producing far more than just the Holmes mysteries. This volume assembles 65 of his non-Sherlockian tales, covering a wide range of subjects: mysteries, adventure, supernatural, medical, nautical, and pugelist stories are just the tip of the iceberg! Here, in more than 1,100 pages, is one of the largest collections of Doyle short stories ever published. Included are:
THE LOST SPECIAL
THE BEETLE-HUNTER
THE MAN WITH THE WATCHES
THE JAPANNED BOX
THE BLACK DOCTOR
THE JEW'S BREASTPLATE
THE NIGHTMARE ROOM
THE HORROR OF THE HEIGHTS
THE LEATHER FUNNEL
THE NEW CATACOMB
THE CASE OF LADY SANNOX
THE TERROR OF BLUE JOHN GAP
THE BRAZILIAN CAT
BEYOND THE CITY
THE DEBUT OF BIMBASHI JOYCE
THE SURGEON OF GASTER FELL
BORROWED SCENES
THE MAN FROM ARCHANGEL
THE GREAT BROWN-PERICORD MOTOR
THE SEALED ROOM
A PHYSIOLOGIST'S WIFE
BEHIND THE TIMES
HIS FIRST OPERATION
THE THIRD GENERATION
THE CURSE OF EVE
A MEDICAL DOCUMENT
THE SURGEON TALKS
THE DOCTORS OF HOYLAND
CRABBE'S PRACTICE
THE BROWN HAND
THE USHER OF LEA HOUSE SCHOOL
B. 24
THE GREAT KEINPLATZ EXPERIMENT
CYPRIAN OVERBECK WELLS
PLAYING WITH FIRE
THE RING OF THOTH
THE LOS AMIGOS FIASCO
HOW IT HAPPENED
LOT NO. 249
"DE PROFUNDIS"
THE LIFT
TALES OF PIRATES AND BLUE WATER
CAPTAIN SHARKEY
THE DEALINGS OF CAPTAIN SHARKEY WITH STEPHEN CRADDOCK
THE BLIGHTING OF SHARKEY
HOW COPLEY BANKS SLEW CAPTAIN SHARKEY
THE "SLAPPING SAL"
A PIRATE OF THE LANDONE CROWDED HOUR
THE STRIPED CHEST
THE CAPTAIN OF THE "POLESTAR"
THE FIEND OF THE COOPERAGE
JELLAND'S VOYAGE
J. HABAKUK JEPHSON'S STATEMENT
THAT LITTLE SQUARE BOX
THE CROXLEY MASTER
THE LORD OF FALCONBRIDGE
THE CRIME OF THE BRIGADIER
THE KING OF THE FOXES
THE BULLY OF BROCAS COURT
A STRAGGLER OF '15
THE POT OF CAVIARE
THE GREEN FLAG
THE THREE CORRESPONDENTS
THE MARRIAGE OF THE BRIGADIER
THE LORD OF CHATEAU NOIR
If you enjoy this book, search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see the more than 200 other entries in the series, covering science fiction, modern authors, mysteries, westerns, classics, adventure stories, and much, much more!

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Puerto Rico in the Crucible of the Second World War

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Despite Puerto Rico being the hub of the United Statess naval response to the German blockade of the Caribbean, there is very little published scholarship on the islands heavy involvement in the global conflict of World War II. Recently, a new generation of scholars has been compiling interdisciplinary research with fresh insights about the profound wartime changes, which in turn generated conditions for the rapid economic, social, and political development of postwar Puerto Rico. The island's subsequent transformation cannot be adequately grasped without tracing its roots to the war years.

Island at War brings together outstanding new research on Puerto Rico and makes it accessible in English. It covers ten distinct topics written by nine distinguished scholars from the Caribbean and beyond. Contributors include experts in the fields of history, political science, sociology, literature, journalism, communications, and engineering.

Topics include US strategic debate and war planning for the Caribbean on the eve of World War II, Puerto Rico as the headquarters of the Caribbean Sea frontier, war and political transition in Puerto Rico, the war economy of Puerto Rico, the German blockade of the Caribbean in 1942, and the story of a Puerto Rican officer in the Second World War and Korea. With these essays and others, Island at War represents the cutting edge of scholarship on the role of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean in World War II and its aftermath.

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Jorge Rodriguez Beruff, Jose L. Bolivar Fresneda

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An Insider's Story of a Life In and Out of Hillsong

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The eighties were my formative years, and while other teenagers were gyrating to rock 'n' roll, we were praying for revival. We were taking communion, not cocaine. We treated virginity like a wedding present, not a cold sore.

And why wouldn't we? We were told we could be, we already were, anything we wanted to be ... We were armed and dangerous. Armed with the power of God and dangerous in the eyes of Satan.

Tanya Levin grew up in the church that became Hillsongthe countrys most ambitious, entrepreneurial and influential religious corporation.

People in Glass Houses tells how a small Assemblies of God church in a suburban school hall became a multi-million dollar tax-free enterprise and a powerful force in Australia today.

Opening up the world of Christian fundamentalism, this is a powerful, personal and at times very funny exploration of an all-singing, all- swaying mega church.

Shortlisted, 2007 Walkley Non-Fiction Book Award

Tanya Levin is the author of Crimwife: An Insider's Account of Love Behind Bars and People in Glass Houses: An Insider's Story Of A Life In & Out Of Hillsong.

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Restoring Trust in the Wake of Misconduct

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In the wake of misconduct by trusted clergy and lay leaders, members of congregations find themselves adrift. Often there are deep divisions within the church and open, direct, honest communication ceases. Wholeness After Betrayal offers an understanding of these dynamics and a process to help members take the first steps toward reconciling relationships with one another.

This specialized instruction is tested and proven, having been used effectively many times in a variety of congregational settings. It holds tremendous value for institutional healing, both immediately following misconduct or even decades later.

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Practical and theoretical instruction for mainline church planting.

The Episcopal Church has recognized that planting new churches is a high priority through the Mission Enterprise Zones initiative, which provides grant funding for new worshiping communities, in partnership with dioceses. While there is significant literature and training available for church planters in evangelical contexts, very little is available for planters in the Episcopal/mainline context.

This book addresses how to rise up and train leaders for the difficult task of planting new churches in the twenty-first century. It answers the essential questions, such as why should we plant churches, what models of church planting are most successful, what kinds of leaders are necessary, and what problems can be expected. Through the authors personal experience and interviews with diocesan experts and leaders in mainline denominations, it provides strategies, approaches, and problem-solving techniques.

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Famous for their pulled pork and smoked ribs, Corkys teaches you how to recreate the much-loved flavors of its Southern heritage in its cookbook. A comprehensive collection of favorite recipes from family, employees and far-flung fans; including an entire chapter devoted to the art of making beans and slaw. Finally Corkys lets you in on one of the secrets of its to-die-for desserts, including Smore pie, Mississippi mud cake and so much more!

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Essential Oils for Dogs: Natural Remedies and Natural Dog Care Made Easy

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Includes Essential Oils for Puppies and K9's

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"Essential Oils for Dogs: Natural Remedies and Natural Dog Care Made Easy" carries the reader into the world of essential oils. After a working definition is provided, the author then goes into detail about the various uses of essential oils in the care of man's best friend. Essential oils are typically used by people who don't want to use chemically based treatments to cure certain problems. It is never usually considered as an alternate treatment for pets. The author provides information on the types of essentials oils that can safely be used on dogs and the best ways to administer said oils.

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The sacred mysteries essential to Viking survival will be lost if Inge Andersdottir cannot find a daughter to inherit the ancient wisdom. Inge and her husband Karl-Eirik adopt Thora, a young thrall with skaldic (poetic) powers and more. Thora kills a glasscaster and the king condemns her to Lesser Outlawry:  a long season of exile to the rivers of Russia and then Istanbul - on Karl's boat, The Seafarers.

Reluctantly, Inge agrees to go along and finds a stormy voyage - a grueling portage, an encounter with the Overlord of Kiev, her former lover, with a suspected Greek spy and an attack by the savage Pechenegs. The crew must deal with an unexpected change in captains. Thora is captured and put into an Arab harem.

It is up to Inge and her wondrous skills to save the boat, the crew and her daughter.