Download or read book William Walker s Wars written by Scott Martelle and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the decade before the onset of the Civil War, groups of Americans engaged in a series of longshot—and illegal—forays into Mexico, Cuba, and other Central American countries in hopes of taking them over. These efforts became known as filibustering, and their goal was to seize territory to create new independent fiefdoms, which would ultimately be annexed by the still-growing United States. Most failed miserably. William Walker was the outlier. Short, slender, and soft-spoken with no military background—he trained as a doctor before becoming a lawyer and then a newspaper editor—Walker was an unlikely leader of rough-hewn men and adventurers. But in 1856 he managed to install himself as president of Nicaragua. Neighboring governments saw Walker as a risk to the region and worked together to drive him out—efforts aided, incongruously, by the United States' original tycoon, Cornelius Vanderbilt. William Walker's Wars is a story of greedy dreams and ambitions, the fate of nations and personal fortunes, and the dark side of Manifest Destiny, for among Walker's many goals was to build his own empire based on slavery. This little-remembered story from US history is a cautionary tale for all who dream of empire.
Download or read book The War in Nicaragua written by William Walker and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Agent of Empire written by Brady Harrison and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the heart of our ongoing interest in Walker, says Harrison, is the need to understand the ever-shifting ambitions and arguments that have driven American economic, military, and paramilitary ventures around the globe for the past 150 years.".
Download or read book Why We Sleep written by Matthew Walker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sleep is one of the most important but least understood aspects of our life, wellness, and longevity ... An explosion of scientific discoveries in the last twenty years has shed new light on this fundamental aspect of our lives. Now ... neuroscientist and sleep expert Matthew Walker gives us a new understanding of the vital importance of sleep and dreaming"--Amazon.com.
Download or read book William Walker s First Year of Marriage A Horror Story written by Matt Rudd and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2009-09-03 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For anyone who has ever dreamed of finding true love only to discover that happy endings are just the beginning comes this brilliantly comic novel about marriage, ex-girlfriends, ‘performance anxiety’, and what it takes to make happily ever last beyond the honeymoon.
Download or read book Mastery of Being written by William Walker Atkinson and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most significant texts by W.W. Atkinson, Mastery of Being: A Study of the Ultimate Principle of Reality and the Practical Application Thereof breaks into three parts the principles of reality, including atoms, the spirit, and physical manifestation. He uses theories and popularly accepted ideology to prove that reality is true, and uses his ideology to describe how we can apply reality to life, and become "masters of being." American writer WILLIAM WALKER ATKINSON (1862-1932) was editor of the popular magazine New Thought from 1901 to 1905, and editor of the journal Advanced Thought from 1916 to 1919. He authored dozens of New Thought books under numerous pseudonyms, including "Yogi," some of which are likely still unknown today.
Download or read book Betrayal at Little Gibraltar written by William Walker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid, thrilling, and impeccably researched account of America’s bloodiest battle ever—World War I’s Meuse-Argonne Offensive—and the shocking American cover-up at its heart. The year is 1918. German engineers have fortified Montfaucon, an elevated fortress in northern France, with bunkers, tunnels, and a top-secret observatory capable of directing artillery shells across the battlefield. Following a number of unsuccessful attacks, the French have deemed Montfaucon impregnable. Capturing it is the key to success for General John J. Pershing’s 1.2 million troops and his plan to end the war. But a betrayal of Americans by Americans results in a bloody debacle. In his masterful Betrayal at Little Gibraltar, William Walker tells the full story for the first time. After a delay in the assault on Montfaucon, thousands of Americans lost their lives while the Germans defended their position without mercy. Years of archival research show the actual cause of the delay was a senior American officer, Major General Robert E. Lee Bullard, who disobeyed orders to assist in the direct assault on Montfaucon. The result was the unnecessary slaughter of American doughboys during the assault. Although several officers learned of the circumstances, Pershing protected Bullard—an old friend and fellow West Point graduate—by covering up the story. The true and full account of the battle that cost 122,000 American casualties was almost lost to time. A "military history for all libraries" (Library Journal), Betrayal at Little Gibraltar tells of the soldiers who fought to capture the giant fortress and push the American advance. Using unpublished first-person accounts—and featuring photographs, documents, and maps—Walker describes the horrors of combat, the sacrifices of the doughboys, and the determined efforts of two participants to solve the mystery of Montfaucon. This is compelling history, important to be told, an "as valuable account as Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August" (Virginian-Pilot).
Download or read book The Secrets of Mind Power The Secret of Success and Other Essential Works written by William Walker Atkinson and published by St. Martin's Essentials. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of William Walker Atkinson's classic works on the power of the mind The Secrets of Mind Power: Ten Essential Works is the definitive collection of William Walker Atkinson’s published works. Born in 1862, Atkinson became a pioneer of the New Thought movement and wrote prolifically throughout his lifetime, leaving a vast body of published material after his death in 1932. The Secrets of Mind Power is a treasury of ten of his most powerful and innovative teachings combined in a single volume. The books are included in their entirety and are faithfully reproduced as they were originally published to preserve the impact of Atkinson’s work. The Secrets of Mind Power is part of The Library of Spiritual Wisdom, a beautifully designed series of curated classics written by some of the greatest spiritual teachers of all time. With books covering topics ranging from prosperity and motivation to the occult and metaphysical thought, The Library of Spiritual Wisdom is the definitive collection of texts from some of the most revolutionary thought leaders of the last three centuries and belongs on the shelves of home libraries everywhere.
Download or read book Practical Mental Influence written by William Walker Atkinson and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Secret of Success written by William Walker Atkinson and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Need motivation? Read on. The topic of success has been revisited in countless thousands of books, but in this self-help classic, renowned author William Walker Atkinson reveals a surprising secret -- each of us already possesses the mental, spiritual, and psychological tools we need to achieve success, happiness, and fulfillment in life. The real challenge lies in tapping into our inborn potential and channeling it in the right way.
Download or read book The Law of the New Thought written by William Walker Atkinson and published by Health Research Books. This book was released on 1996-09 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1902 a study of fundamental principles & their application. Contents: What is the New Thought?; Thoughts Are Things; the Law of Attraction; Mind Building; the Dweller of the Threshold; Mind & Body; the Mind & its Planes; the Sub-conscious Plane;.
Download or read book A Perpetual Menace written by William Walker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-09-14 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a leading scholar in the field of nuclear weapons and international relations, this book examines ‘the problem of order’ arising from the existence of weapons of mass destruction. This central problem of international order has its origins in the nineteenth century, when industrialization and the emergence of new sciences, technologies and administrative capabilities greatly expanded states’ abilities to inflict injury, ushering in the era of total war. It became acute in the mid-twentieth century, with the invention of the atomic bomb and the pre-eminent role ascribed to nuclear weapons during the Cold War. It became more complex after the end of the Cold War, as power structures shifted, new insecurities emerged, prior ordering strategies were called into question, and as technologies relevant to weapons of mass destruction became more accessible to non-state actors as well as states. William Walker explores how this problem is conceived by influential actors, how they have tried to fashion solutions in the face of many predicaments, and why those solutions have been deemed effective and ineffective, legitimate and illegitimate, in various times and contexts.
Download or read book Against the Tide of Years written by S. M. Stirling and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999-05-01 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “STIRLING HAS SURPASSED HIS PREVIOUS WORK,” raved Science Fiction Chronicle of his bestselling novel Island in the Sea of Time, and George R. R. Martin hailed it as “an utterly engaging account of what happens when the isle of Nantucket is whisked back into the Bronze Age.” Now, the adventure continues... In the years since the Event, the Republic of Nantucket has done its best to recreate the better ideas of the modern age. But the evils of its time resurface in the person of William Walker, renegade Coast Guard officer, who is busy building an empire for himself based on conquest by technology. When Walker reaches Greece and recruits several of their greater kinglets to his cause, the people of Nantucket have no choice. If they are to save the primitive world from being plunged into bloodshed on a twentieth-century scale, they must defeat Walker at his own game: war.
Download or read book Self Healing by Thought Force written by William Walker Atkinson and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Thought proponents at the turn of the 20th century sought to use mysticism to unleash the forces of the universe in themselves. One of the most influential thinkers of this early "New Age" philosophy promises here, in this 1902 book, to reveal the secrets of using one's own innate mental powers to battle such afflictions as: . stomach troubles . constipation . "the special physical weakness of women" . "nervousness-the American disease" . and more. American writer WILLIAM WALKER ATKINSON (1862-1932) was editor of the popular magazine New Thought from 1901 to 1905, and editor of the journal Advanced Thought from 1916 to 1919. He authored dozens of New Thought books under numerous pseudonyms, some of which are likely still unknown today, including "Yogi Ramacharaka" and "Theron Q. Dumont."
Download or read book In the Isles of the Sea written by William Walker and published by Trafford. This book was released on 2006 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Isles of the Sea reveals God's best kept secret regarding the identity of the British and American people and their ultimate destiny linked to Biblical prophecy.
Download or read book Stories of Sovereign Man written by William Walker and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-21 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of Sovereign Man is a collection of stories, poems and accompanying illustrations inspired by a lifelong desire and ongoing exploration of what it is to be a free man. I have a compulsion to know myself distinctly as a man, not as any sort of perfect specimen, but as the realest, richest, freest version of who and what I am. It appears to be a journey with no end and constant discovery. This quest has led me to seek out experiences, resonances and intimacy with nature, the world, and ancestry in unconventional ways and to find brothers, mentors and teachers-dare I say heroes-in unexpected places. Some of the men in the following stories are real, in the flesh, others are mythic men I met in the labyrinth of my own soul. May these stories show you a side of your own face.
Download or read book The Kybalion written by William Walker Atkinson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive edition of the most widely read occult book of the past century-now published with a groundbreaking introduction that establishes its true authorship and history. This volume also features a previously unpublished work by the original author. It is one of the most mysterious and hotly debated esoteric works ever written-and without question the most popular and influential volume of arcane philosophy of the twentieth century: The Kybalion. Reputedly based on the ancient Greek-Egyptian wisdom, The Kybalion has been credited only to the cryptic 'Three Initiates' since its first appearance in 1908. Readers have long debated the identity of the Three Initiates, along with the nature of the Hermetic mystery teachings from which the book is believed to be derived. The Kybalion: The Definitive Edition presents the first full- scale analysis of this work of practical occult wisdom. In an engaging introduction, religious scholar Philip Deslippe authoritatively surveys book's context, history, and far reaching influence (including its legacy as a source of spiritual insight to communities ranging from New Thought to Black Nationalism), Deslippe further provides a biographical sketch of its elusive and influential author, the New Thought pioneer William Walker Atkinson. This special edition features both the original text of The Kybalion and the first-ever publication of Atkinson's previously unknown post-Kybalion work: The Seven Cosmic Laws. As valuable to newcomers as it is to longtime readers who crave more knowledge about Atkinson and his work, The Kybalion: The Definitive Edition illuminates the strange and significant history of this long-cherished work.
