When campaigning began anew after the winter of 1863-64, the Battle of Wilderness seemed merely a reprise of earlier struggles, but Grant changed the pattern by refusing to withdraw and instead attacked again and again throughout the summer of 1864. This is the story of the 1864 Virginia campaign.

The original plan was to ride from Tokyo, Japan to St. Petersburg, Russia via Mongolia and the Central Asian Republics. The twists and turns of fate saw them return home through Africa, which had never been part of the plan. From the fabled Silk Road route to Timbuktu there was plenty of adventure and challenges. After 50,000kms and through 30 countries Monica missed out on learning how to change a tyre as she didnt even manage to get a flat. The trip was one of extreme travel and adventure and a wonderful way of spending a year. Monica and Simon managed to return home still married and keen to travel more.

Keep It Moving is a dynamic lifestyle management book for self-enhancement. Written in basic, clear, down-to-earth language, it is the first step to developing your inborn skills, making life changes, and setting and reaching your goals. With advice both personal and professional, author Michele Morris introduces a new, interactive learning concept called S*E*T* Management Strategies. The concept of S*E*T* combines self, environment, and time with the ability to achieve and succeed. S*E*T* offers systems, solutions, and inspiration with motivation as well as individual participation. It is dedicated to the whole person and the uniqueness of that person. You are the main character of this journey. You will experience change that will teach you how to enhance your perception of self. Become an individual with enough self-reliance and discipline to alter your life. Realize you must refocus, regroup, and refire! Take the positive actions presented in this book and find your new, amazing, and awesome self. As an aspiring new author, a certified life coach specializing in time management, productivity consultant, public speaker, and entrepreneur, Michele writes from information received both personally and professionally. By giving detailed information to her reading audience, she hopes to be the solution to someone’s problems. God has blessed her to be a blessing. Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly. —Proverb This is not another self-improvement book. Keep It Moving: Get Ready, S*E*T*, Go! is written in basic, clear, down-to-earth language. It is to be used as your first step to a lifestyle management program for self-enhancement with a new interactive learning experience called S*E*T* management strategies. The concept of S*E*T* is that it combines one’s self, environment, and time with his or her ability to achieve and succeed over things that affect his or her life. S*E*T* offers systems, solutions, and inspiration with motivation as well as individual participation. It’s dedicated to the whole person and the uniqueness of that individual. The reader is the main character. He or she will experience change in ways that will teach him or her how to enhance his or her perception of self. Be that individual with enough self-reliance and discipline to go through with change. Take the positive actions presented in this book and find your new, amazing, awesome self. Become the one who realizes you must refocus, regroup, and then refire! If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. —Milton Berle

A comprehensive history of roads and road-building in Ontario. In this beautifully illustrated book, virtually every facet of the road building industry in Ontario is discussed, from labour relations to safety, politics, and financing. Follow the history of road-building technology from the first crude trails hacked through dense forests by homesteaders to the corduroy roads, planks roads, stone roads, macadam pavements, hot mix asphalt pavements, and concrete roads. See how the engineering and construction of bridges has progressed from the first jack pine logs placed across a stream to the complex structures that span international waters and thousands of rivers today. Follow the development of construction equipment from the first steam shovels and cable-operated machines of the late 1800s to diesel-powered machines in the 1940s and later hydraulics. Meet the companies that made the equipment and the people who sold and rented it. From the 1930s forward the early story of roads is told largely by the people who lived and made the history. Over 120 contractors, engineers, government officials, and others were interviewed and the last eighty years of the industry’s history unfolds in the way they remember it. Share their memories and stories, some hilarious and some tragic, as they talk about their projects, their businesses, their successes, and their hardships.