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"In Invisible Generals, Melville shares his quest to rediscover his family's story across five generations, from post-Civil War America to modern day Asia and Europe. In life, the Davises were denied the recognition and compensation they'd earned, but through his journey, Melville uncovers something greater: that dedication and self-sacrifice can move proverbial mountains-even in a world determined to make you invisible. Invisible Generals recounts the lives of a father and his son who always maintained their belief in the American dream. As the inheritor of their legacy, Melville retraces their steps, advocates for them to receive their long-overdue honors and unlocks the potential we all hold to retrieve powerful family stories lost to the past" --

The true story of America's first Black generals--Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. and Jr.--a father and son who helped integrate the American military and created the Tuskegee Airmen.

The summer before his senior year in college, Greg Melville worked at the cemetery in his hometown, and thanks to hour upon hour of pushing a mower over the grassy acres, he came to realize what a rich story the place told of his town and its history. Thus was born Melville's lifelong curiosity with how, where, and why we bury and commemorate our dead. Melville's Over My Dead Body is a lively (pun intended) and wide-ranging history of cemeteries, places that have mirrored the passing eras in history but have also shaped it. Cemeteries have given birth to landscape architecture and famous parks, as well as influenced architectural styles. They've inspired and motivated some of our greatest poets and authors-Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson. They've been used as political tools to shift the country's discourse and as important symbols of the United States' ambition and reach. But they are changing and fading. Embalming and burial is incredibly toxic, and while cremations have just recently surpassed burials in popularity, they're not great for the environment either. Over My Dead Body explores everything-history, sustainability, land use, and more-and what it really means to memorialize. A lively tour through the history of US cemeteries that explores how, where, and why we bury our dead.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. The Body Politic and the Rise of the Safavids -- 2. The Qazvin Period and the Idea of the Safavids -- 3. Man of the Pen, Pillar of the State: Hatem Beg Ordubadi and the Safavid Empire -- 4. The Idea of Iran in the Safavid Period: Dynastic Pre-eminence and Urban Pride -- 5. Safavid Town Planning -- 6. From Absolute Prince to Despot: The Political Representations of Safavid Iran in Seventeenth-Century France -- 7. The Idea of Baqer al-Majlesi as 'The Idea of Iran: The Safavid Era' -- 8. Practising Philosophy, Imagining Iran in the Safavid Period -- 9. Popular Religiosity and Vernacular Turkic: A Qezelbash Catechism from Safavid Iran -- 10. 'O Muhibbi! You've Lit Your Lamp with Khosrow's Burning Passion': Persian Poetry as Perceived by Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Authors -- 11. Commercial Relations between Safavid Persia and Western Europe -- 12. 'The World is an Oyster and Iran, the Pearl': Representations of Iran in Safavid Persian Travel Literature -- 13. Local and Transregional Places in the Works of Safavid Men of Letters -- 14. Shi'i Rulers, Safavid Alliance and the Religio-Political Landscape of the Deccan -- 15. Safavids and Ozbeks -- 16. The Evolution of the Safavid Policy towards Eastern Georgia -- 17. Flora in Safavid Paintings from Shah Tahmasp's Shahnama and Later Works -- 18. The Making of New Art: From the Khazana to its Audience at the Court of Shah Soleyman -- Index.

The central question of the book is as follows: To what extent does the community present a challenge in the life of the individual? Well-known international Philosophers, historians, anthropologists, political scientists, theologians and sociologists attempted to find explications by intercultural comparison.

Old age isn't for wimps, nor is it for those without a sense of humor. The Big Book of Senior Moments is chock full of those small blunders, momentary lapses, and misplaced keys that happen to all of us. Humor might not help you remember your cat's name, but it will certainly make you feel less alone! Did you know that Albert Einstein once searched frantically for his misplaced train ticket because he couldn't remember where he was going? Or that Marilyn Monroe forgot the same line through 52 takes during the filming of Some Like it Hot? Can you believe that Marlon Brando had to have his lines written on another actor's forehead so he could get through a scene? If you have done something like this, don't despair, for you are among other greats like Lincoln, Beethoven, Newton, Toscanini, and a whole assortment of presidents, poets, philosophers, popes, and Nobel Prize-winners. The Big Book of Senior Moments will be sure to bring a smile to friends and family alike. Don't forget to pick up your copy today!