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A Different Brand Of English

Andrew Mason

A World War Two Travel Guide to Singapore and the Thai-Burma Railway. It covers how the tourist can visit all the places synonomous with WW2 battlesites, POW Camps, Cuttings and war cemeteries in Singapore and Thailand. With personal graves of luminaries to visit in those cemeteries. A guide of how to get there, what to see and an overview of the history with POW interviews, quotes from POW and over 150 war time and contemporary pictures with maps and references.


Shakespeare's World

Debra Johanyak

Shakespeare's World provides an easy-to-read overview of the period that nurtured William Shakespeare's dramatic genius. Shakespeare's life and works, Elizabethan England, Renaissance Europe, and the colonized world are described in text and artwork that bring this exciting era to life.


The Third Reich, A Revolution of Ideological Inhumanity: Volume 1: The Power of Perception

Everette Lemons

The Third Reich RII is a two volume book, the first of which is a comprhensive account of Adolf Hitler's rise to power within Germany. The book focuses on the psychological nature of humans operating within close perceptual proximity and in terms of contentment. Many subject areas are covered in the first volume including economics, politics, history, psychology, and even genetics. The book is very thought provoking as it requires the reader to ultimately contemplate their own psychological mannerisms.


The JACKEL, JECKEL, JAECKEL, IEKEL, YAKEL Family History Book

Joseph Yakel

Author Joseph Yakel presents the intriguing history of the JACKEL, JECKEL, JAECKEL, IEKEL, YAKEL families. Originally rooted in the villages of Hergenfeld, Schoneberg, Spabrucken, and Wallhausen, located in Kreis Kreuznach, Rhineland, Germany, this extensive history traces the lineage (originally spelled JACKEL and JECKEL), from the mid 1600's, through the family’s emigration to the United States in 1847, and into present times.


The Autograph Memories of Mary Yakel

Joseph Yakel

A 'must-have' for upstate New York history buffs who seek out obscure yet detailed reference materials, or just simply enjoy family history, and like to reminisce about the 'olden days'. "The Autograph Memories of Mary Yakel" is a wonderful book containing personal poems, comments, words of hope and comfort from Yakel family members and friends. Originally penned in Albany, NY, primarily in the 1896-1897 time period, the book contains the names of many local families.


Don't Call Me Rosie, the Women who Welded the LSTs and the Men who Sailed on Them

Kathleen Thomas

In 1941, Winston Churchill realized that if the Allies were to win the war, a new type of ship needed to be designed and constructed. A ship that could land directly on the beaches of Africa and Europe and discharge troops and equipment. This ship became the Landing Ship, Tank or LST. But the United States was already at war and there was a shortage of men in the shipyards. It was the women that went to the shipyards and built the LSTs. These women were not riveters - they were welders. These are the stories, remembered 60 years later, of the women welders who built the LSTs and the men who sailed on them.


Postcards of Nursing: A Worldwide Tribute

Michael Zwerdling, R.N.

Postcards of Nursing is an entertaining and therapeutic art and history book, connecting worldwide nursing to all aspects of twentieth century culture. Postcards of Nursing explores new territory and holds as much interest for the general public as it does for the international nursing community.


White-Washing America

Troy Morris

For decades America’s children have spent years in Public Schools being spoon-fed pro-government propaganda, blind patriotism, racism, and sexism. In twelve powerful chapters, the author explores the lies and propaganda that are being taught as fact in our public schools and provides examples of the true history of America. He explains why many of the world’s historians consider Christopher Columbus the “Proto-Nazi” and Andrew Jackson is considered the “Father of Ethnic Cleansing”. He explores presidential history and demonstrates how some of our most beloved Presidents misled the people and shows how our ignorance is allowing history to repeat itself.


Bandits, Stalkers, & Murder: Life of the Tetched Phoebe Wise

Brett Mitchell

She lived alone on the heights that overlooked the city. Her neighbors called her 'tetched'. She was tortured by bandits seeking a hidden treasure buried in the walls of her home. She killed a mad man with a Winchester .32 whose love lust turned into a fanatic infatuation. She wore wide brimmed hats decorated with fresh flowers, a long yellow taffeta with a trailing train, and lacey gloves revealing her worthless gems all the while shaking her fist and lashing out at those who dared to glance her way. She conversed with only those she thought worthy and talked to dogs and her guard horse as though they were her friends. Though she was made famous by Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist and distant relative, Louis Bromfield it was simply the life she led that would ultimately create a legend of Phoebe Wise. Her life seemed surreal and her stories are what fiction is made of. Yet, her life was anything but fiction.


The Atlantis-Eden Connection

Bill Hanson

Atlantis and Eden were one and the same: The Eden stories in Genesis correspond to the history of Atlantis found in Plato's "Dialogs".


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A well-crafted and revealing look at love in the modern mental health system. It is fascinating for its realistic depiction of emotional interplay and manipulation by not only the two lovers Don and Ariel, but by the verbal and emotional guidance - and sometimes abuse - from the nurses and the general public.

The story is unflinching in its audacity to uncover the strain for love - which we all crave - that causes the two main characters to unravel mentally. The writing evokes empathy for Ariel's Schizo-affective (dual-diagnosis)illness as well as for Don's Paranoid-schizophrenic disorder which are felt through the pair's dialogue exploring their desire, attraction and shared despondancy.

In a system with little support, the two lovers weaknesses together make them stronger for awhile as Ariel's mood swings and Don's jealousy are accepted by one another - but as the plot goes the tension mounts into blatant selfishness and confrontation when the two are pressured from internal and external influences.

Bauder's tone in the book is gritty yet not without compassion for the two main characters who are believable because Bauder has battled schizophrenia himself for 27 years. Some readers may be put off a bit by the alternately mushy and then stormy relationship between Ariel and Don; however, Bauder calls it as he sees it in this personal and at times almost Pygmalion passion for his creation, Ariel.

He strongly identifies as Don, the shy, reserved man who is taught how to live again by the femme fatale, or temptress, Ariel, through their relationship which winds through the boarding home blues, the warm feelings in the pubs and the surprising ending.

Bauder's THE TEMPTRESS ARIEL breaks down walls of misunderstanding that the public has all-too-long kept, that dreams and the quest for love and a fulfilling life are shared by even the mentally ill, the lost souls we so often write off. And Bauder is right on.
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