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  Black Country Music - Listening...

  Francesca Royster

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  Black Country Music tells the story of how Black musicians have changed the country music landscape and brought light to Black creativity and innovation. 
  After a century of racist whitewashing, country music is finally reckoning with its relationship to Black people. In this timely work—the first book on Black country music by a Black writer—Francesca Royster uncovers the Black performers and fans, including herself, who are exploring the pleasures and possibilities of the genre. 
   
  Informed by queer theory and Black feminist scholarship, Royster’s book elucidates the roots of the current moment found in records like Tina Turner’s first solo album, Tina Turns the Country On! She reckons with Black “bros” Charley Pride and Darius Rucker, then chases ghosts into the future with Valerie June. Indeed, it is the imagination of Royster and her artists that make this music so exciting for a genre that has long been obsessed with the past. The futures conjured by June and others can be melancholy, and are not free of racism, but by centering Black folk Royster begins to understand what her daughter hears in the banjo music of Our Native Daughters and the trap beat of Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road.” A Black person claiming country music may still feel a bit like a queer person coming out, but, collectively, Black artists and fans are changing what country music looks and sounds like—and who gets to love it.

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  Lifting Heavy Things - Healing...

  Laura Khoudari, Licia Sky

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  In this innovative title, celebrated trainer and trauma practitioner Laura Khoudari brings a fresh approach to healing after trauma, using strength training as an embodied movement practice. Compassionate, witty, and fastidiously researched, Khoudari's debut, Lifting Heavy Things, is a breakthrough title that will empower and inspire you to develop resilience and build emotional and physical strength through working out with weights, while mindful of the ways that trauma can compromise the wellbeing of the mind and body. 
   
   
   
  In Lifting Heavy Things, you'll learn about: managing chronic pain; creating the conditions for training and healing; understanding how trauma shows up in daily life; using embodied movement practices (beyond yoga) as a tool to comfortably re-inhabit the body; navigating interpersonal relationships during and after the healing process; why you don’t have to tell your trauma story (to everyone); and thriving with and moving beyond trauma. 
   
   
   
  With humor, tenderness, and grit, Lifting Heavy Things takes listeners on a journey of personal revelation and integration, helping them to lighten their emotional burden and build deep inner strength to lift all of the heavy things that life may bring with greater ease.

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  Conversational Phrases Filipino...

  FilipinoPod101.com, Innovative...

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  Are you trying to learn Filipino…but having trouble speaking?
   
  Do you struggle coming up with your own Filipino sentences?
   
  Are you tired of not understanding how Filipino grammar works?
   
  
   
  If you answered yes to any of these questions, …
   
  
   
  ...then the Conversational Phrases Audiobook, Level 1 - Absolute Beginner is for you!
   
  
   
  In this beginner-level Audiobook, you will master over 25 common sentence patterns across 25 simple lessons. By the end, you’ll be able to ask common questions and answer them in your own way, all while acquiring over 100 Filipino words. 
   
  
   
  Most importantly, you’ll be able to have real conversations in various social situations.
   
  
   
  How, you may ask? Each lesson introduces a new conversation reflecting a real-world situation, including casual chats between friends as well as dialogues in more formal settings. Learning is made easy with three simple steps:
   
  
   
  1. Get familiar: First, you get a sample conversation and its translation.
   
  2. Understand: Then, we explain an underlying sentence pattern, so you can grasp the grammar and actually understand how the Filipino works.
   
  3. Practice: Lastly, you create your own responses… and start speaking Filipino!
   
  
   
  Lessons in this audiobook include:
   
  - Going Sightseeing
   
  - Going to a Restaurant
   
  - Giving Directions
   
  - Going to the Movies
   
  - Renting an Apartment
   
  And much more!
   
  
   
  Conversational Phrases Audiobook, Level 1 - Absolute Beginner contains:
   
  - 25 Lessons 
   
  - 4 Hours+ of Content
   
  - 1 Core Pattern Per Lesson
   
  - 100+ Filipino Vocabulary Words
   
  - 28 Page Accompanying PDF eBook
   
  
   
  Download the PDF and read along

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  Origin of the Illuminati

  Raphael Terra

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  This audiobook has been recorded using Text to speech (TTS). 
   
  There is an elite group that control the world. They run governments, companies and religions. They have done so for a very long time. 
   
  Their names have changed, their faces altered but their bloodlines remain the same. 
   
  We see glimpses of their power. We see the outcomes of their plots and schemes. We see revolutions and war. We succumb to their propaganda and manipulation again and again. Most have no idea that they are under the spell. 
   
  In the 18th century they emerged briefly into the spotlight to bring about world-wide cataclysmic change and they called themselves the Illuminati. 
   
  Quickly they spread and embedded themselves and their ideals within other secret societies. The French had a bloody revolution. America turned the tide against a royal regime. Russia, Spain and more, all fell to the zeal of a new world order. 
   
  This is the story of the world's most powerful secret and sacred order.

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  Virtuous Minds - Intellectual...

  Philip E. Dow

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  Our culture today is in a state of crisis where intellectual virtue is concerned. Dishonesty, cheating, arrogance, laziness, cowardice—such vices are rampant in society, even among the world's most prominent leaders. We find ourselves in an ethical vacuum, as the daily headlines of our newspapers confirm again and again. Central to the problem is the state of education. We live in a technological world that has ever greater access to new information and yet no idea what to do with it all. 
   
   
   
  In this wise and winsome book, Philip Dow presents a case for the recovery of intellectual character. He explores seven key virtues—courage, carefulness, tenacity, fair-mindedness, curiosity, honesty, and humility—and discusses their many benefits. The recovery of virtue, Dow argues, is not about doing the right things, but about becoming the right kind of person. The formation of intellectual character produces a way of life that demonstrates love for both God and neighbor. 
   
   
   
  Dow has written an eminently practical guide to a life of intellectual virtue designed especially for parents and educators. The book concludes with seven principles for a true education.

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  The Present Professor -...

  Elizabeth A. Norell

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  In a world where stress is unavoidable—where political turmoil, pandemic fallout, and personal challenges touch everyone—this book offers guidance for cutting through the emotional static that can hold teachers back. A specialist in pedagogical strategies with extensive classroom experience, Elizabeth A. Norell explains how an educator's presence, or authenticity, can be critical to creating transformational spaces for students. And presence, she argues, means uncovering and understanding one's own internal struggles and buried insecurities—stresses often left unconfronted in an academic culture that values knowing over feeling. Presenting the research on how and why such inner work unlocks transformational learning, The Present Professor equips educators with the tools for crafting a more authentic presence in their teaching work. 
   
   
   
  At a time of crisis in higher education, as teachers struggle to find new ways to relate to, think about, and instruct students, this book holds a key. Implementing more inclusive pedagogies, Norell suggests, requires sorting out our own identities. In short, if we want to create spaces where students have the confidence, comfort, and psychological safety to learn and grow, we have to create spaces where we do, too. The Present Professor is dedicated to that proposition, and to helping educators build that transformational space.

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