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  The Goddess Book - A Celebration...

  Nancy Blair

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  An illustrated seasonal celebration of goddesses"The Goddess Book is a joyful celebration of perennial goddess wisdom that nourishes, expands, and inspires.”  —HeatherAsh Amara, author of Warrior Goddess Training This is a book of mediations that celebrate the divine feminine. It is an exploration of representations of the goddess throughout history. Here are heroines, queens, witches, healers, proud princesses, courageous daughters, and cranky crones. Organized by the four seasons, author Nancy Blair groups these goddesses according to the seasons in which their energies are most potent. These meditations and affirmations challenge readers to:Awaken the divine feminineJoin the seasonal circle of goddessesCreate meaningful, simple, heart-nourishing ritualsLet the goddess inform daily lifeCreate the life you wantHere is a book of earth-based spirituality, informed by perennial goddess wisdom. The words and the stunning art of artist Thaila Took create a sacred space that will nourish women around the world. From Aphrodite, Brigit, Hekate, and Lilith to Baba Yaga, Kuan Yin, Oshun, and Sekmet this is a treasury to let the goddesses empower and inspire you."Every woman needs this book on her bedside table. An active and animated must-read.”—Emma Mildon, bestselling author of The Soul Searcher’s Handbook and Evolution of Goddess 

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  Augustine the African

  Catherine Conybeare

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  An extraordinary work of revisionist history that centers Africa in the life of one of our greatest philosophers. 
   
   
   
  Augustine of Hippo (354–430), also known as Saint Augustine, was one of the most influential theologians in history. His writings, including the autobiographical Confessions and The City of God, helped shape the foundations of Christianity and Western philosophy. But for many centuries, Augustine's North African birth and Berber heritage have been simply dismissed. Catherine Conybeare, a world-renowned Augustine scholar, here puts the "African" back in Augustine's story. As she relates, his seminal books were written neither in Rome nor in Milan, but in Africa, where he had returned as a wanderer during a perilous time when the Western Roman Empire was crumbling. Using extant letters and other shards of evidence, Conybeare retraces Augustine's travels, revealing how his groundbreaking works emerge from an exile's perspective within an African context. In its depiction of this Christian saint, Augustine the African upends conventional wisdom and traces core ideas of Christian thought to their origins on the African continent.

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  Summary of Andrea Elliott's...

  Falcon Press

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  Buy now to get the main key ideas from Andrea Elliott's Invisible Child 
    
  In 2018, around 41.3 percent of New York City residents lived in near poverty, and as of early 2020, New York’s homeless population was estimated at around 91,000. In recent years, poverty and homelessness have reached their highest levels in New York since the Great Depression. Meanwhile, the state has yet to adopt effective measures to address the core issues, including racism, inequality, and a flawed system.  
  Invisible Child (2021) is the true story of a homeless family of ten wandering through the streets and shelters of New York. Andrea Elliott immerses readers in the struggles of the eldest child, Dasani – a fierce, clever, and ambitious girl paving her path in a life marked by the challenges of poverty, hunger, sickness, racism, and addiction. 
   

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  Peloponnesian War The: A...

  Michael L. Field

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  The Peloponnesian War: A Complete History of the Peloponnesian Conflict is an in-depth historical account of the Peloponnesian War, the monumental struggle between Athens and Sparta that shaped the course of ancient Greek history. This history of the Peloponnesian War examines the military strategies, key battles, and political turmoil that defined this pivotal war. 
  From Pericles' Golden Age of Athens to the brutal Spartan military campaigns, this book brings to life the power struggles, betrayals, and the ultimate downfall of the Athenian empire. It covers decisive moments like the Battle of Sphacteria, the Sicilian Expedition, the Fall of Athens, and the strategic brilliance of leaders like Alcibiades and Brasidas. 
  Through a combination of primary historical sources, modern interpretations, and military analysis, this book provides a comprehensive understanding of the Peloponnesian War, its origins, its catastrophic effects on the Greek world, and its lasting influence on military history, democracy, and Western civilization. 
  Perfect for history enthusiasts, scholars of classical studies, military historians, and anyone fascinated by the epic conflicts of ancient Greece.

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  Younger Dryas Period The: The...

  Editors Charles River

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  From about 12,900 to 11,700 before present (BP), near Ice Age conditions returned to the Northern Hemisphere of the planet. It was a sudden shift from the warm temperatures that had prevailed for nearly 2,000 years. This period is referred to by archaeologists, geologists, and earth scientists as the Greenland Stadial, but it is more commonly known as the Younger Dryas. The Younger Dryas marked the end of the last glacial period, the end of the Pleistocene Era, and the beginning of the Holocene Era, which is the current era. It was a period of great change, when climate change happened quite quickly, directly affecting the flora, fauna, and humans of the Northern Hemisphere in the process. The impact on the human populations was perhaps most important because, in some places, it virtually destroyed emerging cultures, while in other places, it might have propelled humans to develop new survival traits and technologies later used to move humanity into the Neolithic era. Although scholars now know quite a bit about the Younger Dryas, many elements of it are still debated. Other aspects serve as a predictor of what humans can expect in the future. 
  	There is, however, still plenty of information about the Younger Dryas that remains unknown or open to debate. Not all scholars agree on the dates of the Younger Dryas or how long it lasted. Even more controversial are the alternate theories about what caused the Younger Dryas and the effect it had on the Northern Hemisphere’s bio-populations. This book examines the background of the Younger Dryas, its effects on bio-populations, and how it contributed to the emergence of the Neolithic Era. Alternative theories will be examined and compared to more standard ideas currently prevailing in academia.

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  A Programme of Absolute Disorder...

  Françoise Vergès, Paul Gilroy

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  "A complete overhaul of the Western museum tradition" —Publishers Weekly 
   
   
   
  "An impressive critique of the universal museum as complicit in the damages inflicted by colonial power" —Isaac Julien, artist and filmmaker 
   
   
   
  "Should fascinate anyone interested in social justice, post-colonialism and the arts" —Euronews 
   
   
   
  "Powerful and so relevant" —Diacritik 
   
   
   
  The Western museum is a battleground—a terrain of ideological, political, and economic contestation. Almost everyone today wants to rethink the museum, but how many have the audacity to question the idea of the universal museum itself? 
   
   
   
  In A Programme of Absolute Disorder, Françoise Vergès puts the museum in its place. Exploring the Louvre's history, she uncovers the context in which the universal museum emerged: as a product of colonialism, and of Europe's self-appointed claim to be the guardian of global heritage. 
   
   
   
  Vergès outlines a radical horizon: to truly decolonize the museum is to implement a "programme of absolute disorder", inventing other ways of apprehending the human and non-human world that nourish collective creativity and bring justice and dignity to the dispossessed.

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