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Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Prologue -- The Steel Family: 1805 -- Fred Bailey: Circa 1825 -- Araminta "Minty" Ross: 1844 -- 1. Surveying the Route -- 1619: Two Beginnings -- Contradictions on Rehoboth Bay -- A Negro Man Called Black Will -- 2. Laying the First Tracks -- Fifty-Dollar Reward -- For Their Good Service -- Steel Flees Again -- Thomas Garrett and the Devil on the Nanticoke -- Monument to a Mistake -- 3. Delaware's Underground Railroad Starts Rolling -- Birth of Delaware's Underground Railroad -- Thomas Garrett, Stationmaster -- William Still: For Liberty and Improvement -- Escape of Frederick Douglass -- Escape of the Hawkins Family -- The Trial of Samuel Burris, John Hunn and Thomas Garrett -- 4. Harriet Tubman in Delaware -- The Great Escape on the Pearl -- Harriet Tubman's Quest for Freedom -- Thomas Garrett's Prophecy -- Harriet Tubman Rescues Kizzy -- Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass and Some System about This Business -- 5. Violence on the Track -- The Fugitive Slave Law -- Harriet Tubman Returns for Her Brothers -- Harriet Tubman: In Broad Daylight -- The Dover Eight -- Escape by Sea -- Captains Audacious -- 6. Taking Up the Tracks -- War -- End of the Line -- Notes -- Bibliography -- About the Author.

"This book argues that the Russian thinker Petr Kropotkin's anarchism was a bio-political revolutionary project. It shows how Kropotkin drew on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European and Russian biosocial-medical scientific thought to the extent that ideas about health, sickness, insanity, degeneration, and hygiene were for him not metaphors, but rather key political concerns. It goes on to discuss how for Kropotkin's bio-political anarchism the state, capitalism, and revolution were medical concerns whose effects on the individual and society were measurable by social statistics and explainable by biosocial-medical knowledge. Overall, the book provides a refreshing, innovative approach to understanding Kropotkin's anarchism"--

The Fight for the Moral Soul of Modern Sport: Dueling Amateur and -- Professional Conceptions of Sport in the Early Modern Olympic Games, 1896- -- Formalism and Sport -- Broad Internalism, Moral Realism, and Sport: The Metaphysical Version -- Broad Internalism, Moral Realism, and Sport: The Discourse Version -- What A Conventionalist Ethical Theory of Sport Doesn't Look Like: -- The Case Against Coordinating, Deep, and Constitutive (Surface) Conventions -- A Conventionalist Ethical Theory of Sport -- Sport, Moral Progress, and Moral Entrepreneurs.

Introduction -- Resumé of an alcoholic -- Attachment-sensitive counseling -- Addiction: facts & myths -- Neurobiology basics -- Wired for connection: addiction as an attachment disorder -- Adversity, trauma and toxic stress: the royal road to addiction -- Impact and implications of childhood adversity -- Recovery: the road to (re-)connection -- Social ecology and poverty of the spirit -- A circle of compassion.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The Social and Intellectual Gifts of Black Folk: Foundations and Legacies of a Humanistic Democratic Ethos -- 1. "There Will Be a Day of Reckoning": What Is a Slave? -- 2. "I Found That There Were Puzzling Exceptions": The Economic Foundations of Race during Slavery and Jim Crow -- 3. In a Cage of Obscene Birds: Slavery's Consequences for Slaveholders and the Nation -- 4. "Cruelty Is Inseparable from Slavery": Violence, Rape, and the Right of Self-Defense -- 5. Democracy Meets the Industrial Revolution: Reconstruction Achievements and the Counterrevolution against Them -- 6. Ethical Transmissions: Consultations with the Emancipation Generation -- 7. Ethical Legacies for the Twenty-First Century: Apologies, Regrets, Therapy, and Reparations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

1. A crusade for erosion control -- 2. The search for organization -- 3. States adopt the standard act -- 4. From erosion control to soil conservation -- 5. Organizational issues reopened -- 6. The organizational issue resolved -- 7. From programs to projects -- 8. Federal-state-district relations -- 9. State-district relations -- 10. District program and policy functions -- 11. The districts' part in the agricultural conservation program -- 12. Soil conservation or multiple-purpose districts? -- 13. Retrospect and prospect.

Stories of Afghanistan -- The security infrastructure of post-Taliban Afghanistan -- Victory over terrorism in the presidential election -- Vengeance, theTaliban strikes back after the election -- The assembly elections -- Prospects for Afghan democracy