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 The Rights of My People: Liliuokalani's Enduring Battle with the United States 1893-1917 By Neil Thomas Proto 2009 | 252 Pages | ISBN: 0875867200 | PDF | 3 MB Liliuokalani led two battles for Hawaii's sovereignty -- fighting the 1893 coup d'etat and to avoid outright annexation in 1898 and, through 1910, the taking of the Crown lands by the United States, a quarter of Hawaii's territory. The Rights of My People revisits these battles from a new perspective, against the backdrop of the harsh remnants of the Civil War, the missionary's disquieting view of race, and the emerging role of Hawaiian women.A lawyer who has represented the interests of Hawaii, Neil Thomas Proto examines court papers and other original documents that disclose new details of this historic confrontation. Woven into the story are threats of execution and assassination and the forces of bigotry, condescension, and deception Liliuokalani confronted. She challenged the United States before Congress repeatedly for complicity in taking the Crown lands. The author gives the first detailed and documented description of the seizure of the Crown lands, a quarter of the Hawaii islands, in 1893. This illegal move was contested aggressively by Liliuokalani for nearly two decades.With previously unexamined documents, court records, and correspondence, and with an engaging prose and graphic portrayals, author Neil Thomas Proto weaves into the story Liliuokalani's political, legal, and media maneuvering, and the exercise of her harshly learned wisdom and skill in forming and giving life to her claim that the taking of the Crown lands by the United States was immoral and illegal. The threat of execution and assassination and the continued use of religious and racial condescension and deception by her adversaries, old and new, unfold in Honolulu, Hilo, and on to the continent in San Francisco, Boston, and Washington, D.C. Over more than a decade, the queen took up residence in the nation's capital, often for months at a time, to challenge the complicity of the United States in the media and before Congress. The story ends with the lawyers' arguments and the final decision in Liliuokalani v. United States of America in 1910. In the grandeur of what is now the Renwick Art Gallery, the United States Court of Claims heard and decided the case and sealed the islands' fate; a fate that neither Liliuokalani nor her people accepted through her death in 1917. With an easily accessible but penetrating analysis, Proto demonstrates the deliberate effort by Liliuokalani's own lawyers to denigrate her claim. The epilogue reflects the queen's intent through the end of her life to ensure persistence among her people and discomfort among those who had taken Hawaii. There is no conclusiveness or note of warmth to the ending. Through Proto's new perspective and exploration, Liliuokalani's cosmopolitan character and her place in a larger history emerge with clarity as do the continued contentiousness within Hawaii and between its native people and the United States.  The Right Mistake: The Further Philosophical Investigations of Socrates Fortlow By Walter Mosley 2008 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 046500525X | PDF | 1 MB Living in South Central L.A., Socrates Fortlow is a sixty-year-old ex-convict, still strong enough to kill men with his bare hands. Now freed after serving twenty-seven years in prison, he is filled with profound guilt about his own crimes and disheartened by the chaos of the streets. Along with his gambler friend Billy Psalms, Socrates calls together local people of all races from their different social stations-lawyers, gangsters, preachers, Buddhists, businessmen-to conduct meetings of a Thinkers' Club, where all can discuss the unanswerable questions in life. The street philosopher enjoins his friends to explore-even in the knowledge that there's nothing that they personally can do to change the ways of the world-what might be done anyway, what it would take to change themselves. Infiltrated by undercover cops, and threatened by strain from within, tensions rise as hot-blooded gangsters and respectable deacons fight over issues of personal and social responsibility. But simply by asking questions about racial authenticity, street justice, infidelity, poverty, and the possibility of mutual understanding, Socrates and his unlikely crew actually begin to make a difference. In turns outraged and affectionate, The Right Mistake offers a profoundly literary and ultimately redemptive exploration of the possibility of moral action in a violent and fallen world.  The Right Hand: Conversations with the chiefs of staff to the world's most powerful people by Phoebe Saintilan-Stocks English | 4 November 2025 | ISBN: 1761355740, 9781761355752 | True EPUB | 304 pages | 1.2 MB 'If you've got the political bug - you will love this book. If you don't, this book will give it to you.'  Jared Hudson, "The Rhetoric of Roman Transportation: Vehicles in Latin Literature" English | ISBN: 1108481760 | 2021 | 348 pages | MOBI | 1054 KB Latin literature is crowded with portraits of Romans in transit, but despite this ubiquity scholars have been reluctant to read vehicles as significant conveyors of textual and cultural meaning. This book offers the first systematic analysis of the representation of Roman vehicles in Latin literary texts. By moving past approaches that count such vehicular portrayals as either transparent glimpses of reality or soaring poetic symbols, it demonstrates how these conveyances work as a system of representation to structure both the texts in which they appear and underlying cultural discourses surrounding power, gender, and empire. Arranged as a series of interlocking studies, each chapter explores the representation of a particular conveyance across author and text, from the humblest and most quotidian (plaustrum) to the most exalted and symbol-laden (currus).  The Revolt Eclipses Whatever the World Has to Offer (Semiotext(e) / Intervention) by Idris Robinson English | November 25, 2025 | ISBN: 1635902436, 9781635902440 | True EPUB | 256 pages | 0.2 MB A series of reflections surveying the events of an ailing country traversed by civil war on multiple fronts.  The Resume Makeover By Jeffrey G. Allen 2001 | 298 Pages | ISBN: 0471436402 | PDF | 1 MB The Resume MakeoverSecond EditionThe first and only interactive resume guide from the nation's leading job-search expertIn today's tumultuous job market, a lackluster resume isn't even worth the cost of a stamp or the click of a mouse. Make your resume shine with the help of the one-on-one guidance found in The Resume Makeover. Written by bestselling career author Jeffrey Allen, this updated how-to manual is loaded with insider tips and step-by-step guidelines on how to create attention-grabbing, high-profile resumes guaranteed to get you the interviews you desire. Once your resume is written, simply send it to the address listed in the book and, in just one week's time, your resume will be returned to you with a point-by-point critique and a detailed list of expert recommendations on how to make it even better! You also receive:* Before-and-after examples from a wide array of fields that reveal the do's and don'ts of writing effective resumes * New information on techniques for Internet transmittal of resumes* Special chapters on successful cover letters and follow-up letters* The best typefaces and types of paper to use for different markets* A new list of the most popular Internet resume posting services, their addresses, and focusGet more interviews and land the job of your dreams with the surefire tips found in The Resume Makeover!  Peter Heather, "The Restoration of Rome: Barbarian Popes and Imperial Pretenders" English | ISBN: 0199368511 | 2014 | 488 pages | MOBI | 4 MB In 476 AD, the last of Rome's emperors, known as "Augustulus," was deposed by a barbarian general, the son of one of Attila the Hun's henchmen. With the imperial vestments dispatched to Constantinople, the curtain fell on the Roman empire in Western Europe, its territories divided among successor kingdoms constructed around barbarian military manpower.  Joanna Stalnaker, "The Rest Is Silence: Enlightenment Philosophers Facing Death " English | ISBN: 0300181345 | 2025 | 304 pages | PDF | 2 MB A moving, intimate portrait of the Enlightenment philosophers as they faced the end of their lives and their historical moment  The Responsibilities of Senior Engineers: Judgment, Stewardship, and Decision-Making in Long-Lived Software Systems English | 10 Jan. 2026 | ASIN: B0GG4M9R7Z | 160 pages | EPUB (True) | 2.79 MB The Responsibilities of Senior Engineers Judgment, Stewardship, and Decision-Making in Long-Lived Software Systems Most software engineering books teach you how to build systems. This book is about what happens after you are trusted with them. As engineers become more senior, technical skill stops being the primary constraint. Output becomes less visible. Authority becomes indirect. Decisions become harder to reverse. Responsibility expands-often without clear boundaries, explicit instruction, or formal power. The Responsibilities of Senior Engineers examines that transition. This book is written for experienced engineers who are accountable not just for solutions, but for consequences: systems that must endure, decisions that shape future options, and organizations that rely on judgment rather than control. It explores what senior engineering work actually demands when competence is assumed and ambiguity is permanent. Rather than offering checklists or career advice, this book focuses on the deeper responsibilities that emerge with seniority: how influence replaces authority, why control becomes a liability at scale, how technical decisions accumulate irreversible consequences, and why stewardship-not optimization-is the defining obligation of senior engineers. Across ten chapters, the book explores: how systems behave over time rather than in isolation; why optionality matters more than speed; how architecture functions as a social contract; how senior engineers shape strategy without titles; and what it means to leave systems-and people-stronger than you found them. This is not a book about promotion, tools, or frameworks. It assumes technical competence and focuses instead on judgment under uncertainty, responsibility without guarantees, and long-horizon thinking in complex environments. If you are a senior, staff, or principal engineer who feels the weight of decisions that outlast code, this book will help you name that responsibility, understand it more clearly, and carry it deliberately. Order Now  The Resilient Woman's Guide: Navigating Midlife & Beyond with Strength and Grace: Embrace Change, Rediscover Your Purpose, and Thrive Through Perimenopause, Empty Nest, and Career Evolution by Eleanor Vance English | August 9, 2025 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0FLWCQVMX | 45 pages | EPUB | 7.20 Mb 🌟 Feeling Lost in Your Own Life? You're Not Having a Crisis-You're Having an Awakening! 🌟 |
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