NAMED ONE OF THE “100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR” BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW From the widely celebrated New York Times bestselling author of Last Call—this “rigorously historical” (The Washington Post) and timely account of how the rise of eugenics helped America keep out “inferiors” in the 1920s is “a sobering, valuable contribution to discussions about immigration” (Booklist). A forgotten, dark chapter of American history with implications for the current day, The Guarded Gate tells the story of the scientists who argued that certain nationalities were inherently inferior, providing the intellectual justification for the harshest immigration law in American history. Brandished by the upper class Bostonians and New Yorkers—many of them progressives—who led the anti-immigration movement, the eugenic arguments helped keep hundreds of thousands of Jews, Italians, and other unwanted groups out of the US for more than forty years. Over five years in the writing, The Guarded Gate tells the complete story from its beginning in 1895, when Henry Cabot Lodge and other Boston Brahmins launched their anti-immigrant campaign. In 1921, Vice President Calvin Coolidge declared that “biological laws” had proven the inferiority of southern and eastern Europeans; the restrictive law was enacted three years later. In his trademark lively and authoritative style, Okrent brings to life the rich cast of characters from this time, including Lodge’s closest friend, Theodore Roosevelt; Charles Darwin’s first cousin, Francis Galton, the idiosyncratic polymath who gave life to eugenics; the fabulously wealthy and profoundly bigoted Madison Grant, founder of the Bronx Zoo, and his best friend, H. Fairfield Osborn, director of the American Museum of Natural History; Margaret Sanger, who saw eugenics as a sensible adjunct to her birth control campaign; and Maxwell Perkins, the celebrated editor of Hemingway and Fitzgerald. A work of history relevant for today, The Guarded Gate is “a masterful, sobering, thoughtful, and necessary book” that painstakingly connects the American eugenicists to the rise of Nazism, and shows how their beliefs found fertile soil in the minds of citizens and leaders both here and abroad.

In this age of information, many of us are finding it ever increasingly difficult to manage all of the information coming at us from many mediums. Whether through your email gate, desk gate, or mobile phone gate, you can become overwhelmed by an avalanche of incoming data and potentially miss key communications that require your attention. Rod's easy-to-follow system for guarding your gates centers around three keys for high productivity: Organize, Defend, and Guard!

Kientz unlocks the book of Nehemiah to show how the story has much to teach about courage, leadership, faithfulness to Gods call, sexual purity, and more. (Christian)

From the cradle to the pulpit, precious things have been taken from God's people. Somewhere, someone left a gate open; somewhere, someone failed to guard a gate and the enemy seized the opportunity to break in and run off with the good stuff. There is a growing, holy roar in the kingdom of God and amongst His people. They are awake and want their things back! God has provided a divine strategy to regain possession of the gates. That strategy is found in our radical obedience to Him. The battle begins with the reconstruction of individual gates first. Who's Guarding the Gates? is the engaging question that every person must ask and be prepared to answer.Nancy Robinson serves as an Elder at The Word Church in Cleveland, OH, which is under the leadership of Dr. R.A. Vernon and First Lady Victory Vernon. She conducts training sessions and facilitates classes for altar workers, intercessors, and congregants that focus on spiritual warfare and enriching their personal walk with God. Robinson graduated from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York with a Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design and Illustration. She is certified through the Caribbean Ministerial Academy of Tuscaloosa, Alabama in Studies in the Life of Christ, and by AACC (the American Academy of Christian Counselors) for studies in Christian Counseling. Nancy has also received an Associate's Degree equivalent in Black Biblical Studies from the McCreary Center in Cleveland, Ohio. Who's Guarding the Gates? is her first literary work. The author is a devoted mother of two children, Ariel and Akira, and doting grandmother of two beautiful granddaughters, Aiyana and Tiasha. www.whosguardingthegates.com

Winner of the 2019 William E. Colby Award "The book I had been waiting for. I can't recommend it highly enough." —Bill Gates The era of autonomous weapons has arrived. Today around the globe, at least thirty nations have weapons that can search for and destroy enemy targets all on their own. Paul Scharre, a leading expert in next-generation warfare, describes these and other high tech weapons systems—from Israel’s Harpy drone to the American submarine-hunting robot ship Sea Hunter—and examines the legal and ethical issues surrounding their use. “A smart primer to what’s to come in warfare” (Bruce Schneier), Army of None engages military history, global policy, and cutting-edge science to explore the implications of giving weapons the freedom to make life and death decisions. A former soldier himself, Scharre argues that we must embrace technology where it can make war more precise and humane, but when the choice is life or death, there is no replacement for the human heart.

With this study the cattle guard joins the sod house, the windmill, and barbed wire as a symbol of range country on the American Great Plains. A U.S. folk innovation now in use throughout the world, the cattle guard functions as both a gate and a fence: it keeps livestock from crossing, but allows automobiles and people to cross freely. The author blends traditional history and folklore to trace the origins of the cattle guard and to describe how, in true folk fashion, the device in its simplest form—wooden poles or logs spaced in parallel fashion over a pit in the roadway—was reinvented and adapted throughout livestock country Hoy traces the origins of the cattle guard to flat stone stiles unique to Cornwall, England, then through the railroad cattle guard, in use in this country as early as 1836, and finally to the Great Plains where, probably in 1905, the first ones appeared on roads. He describes regional variations in cattle guards and details unusual types. He provides information on cattle-guard makers, who range from local blacksmiths and welders to farmers and ranchers to large manufacturers. In addition to documenting the economic and cultural significance of the cattle guard, this volume reveals much about early twentieth-century farm and ranch life. It will be of interest not only to folklorists and historians of agriculture and Western America, but also to many Plains-area farmers, ranchers, and oilmen.

Discover the power of Prophetic Dance Intercession. A mandatory read for all worship dancers, this book will grow you in the understanding of your calling and teach you how to use your gift of dance in power. You will come out with a clear understanding of who you are and how your gift functions in the Kingdom of God. Worshippers of every level can benefit from the powerful revelations that are in this book!The paperback book features reflection pages at the end of each chapter to journal and reflect on the material as you grow and learn more about Prophetic Dance Intercession.