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  This is Not America

  Tomiwa Owolade

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  Across the West, racial injustice has become a matter of urgency. Terms like 'critical race theory' and 'intersectionality' are everywhere and, in the rush to get it right, Britain has followed the lead of the world's dominant political power: America. But what if we've been looking in the wrong place? 
  In This is Not America, Tomiwa Owolade argues that too much of the debate around racism in Britain is viewed through the prism of American ideas that don't reflect the history, challenges and achievements of black communities at home. 
  Humane, empirical and passionate, this book promises to start a new conversation around race and, vitally, shed light on black British life today.

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  The Watkins Book of African...

  Helen Nde

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  From creation myths and foundation legends to fascinating stories of human relationships and animal tales, these stories provide a diverse look at the countries and cultures across the African continent. Noted folklorist Helen Nde provides context for history and colonial influences for the stories. 
   
   
   
  Discover the geographical and cultural variety of the continent with stories such as: 
   
   
   
  ● FROM ALGERIA: "The Story of the First Man and Woman", who meet when they struggle over access to a well, but go on to have 100 children and start the human race. 
   
   
   
  ● FROM SUDAN: "Okwa and the River Maiden", a tale about the great-grandson of the first man who seeks the river spirit's approval to marry two river maidens, half women and half crocodiles. 
   
    
   
  ● FROM ZIMBABWE: "The Moon and His Wives", a story about the first man who pleads with the creator to become mortal and go to earth, where the first star becomes his companion. 
   
   
   
  ● FROM GHANA: "How Goat Caused a War" by tricking the Supreme Being and giving his holy message to the wrong prince. 
   
   
   
  ● FROM TANZANIA: "The Singing Kaguru Birds", who offer help and riches to poor folk in exchange for a strict rule or even a trick.

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  Calm in the Storm: Women’s Path...

  Olivia Bennett

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  Anger is sometimes misinterpreted, particularly in women who may feel pressured by society to repress their feelings. "Calm in the Storm" is a novel and empowering method of managing anger that is especially suited for females. This book defies conventional wisdom by assisting you in accepting anger as a strong, normal feeling that, when appropriately handled and understood, may promote emotional equilibrium and personal development. 
  You will examine the underlying reasons for anger, learn to recognize your emotional triggers and find healthy outlets for your emotions over the course of five enlightening chapters. Using cognitive-behavioral methods, mindfulness, and meditation, this book gives you useful tools to help you take back control when you're feeling frustrated. You will also learn how crucial emotional intelligence is to upholding positive relationships, establishing limits, and encouraging self-compassion. 
  "Calm in the Storm" focuses on self-awareness, empathy, and enduring peace. It gives you the tools to regain emotional well-being by turning your anger into a strength rather than stifling it. Whether you find it difficult to communicate your emotions or want to mend emotional scars from the past, this book offers a clear route to inner peace and personal development.

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  The Mythology Builder’s Toolkit...

  Hannibal Hills

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  Nine mythologies. Nine toolkits. One complete system for building worlds that breathe. 
  Myth isn't a relic. It's the oldest technology for making sense of a world that refuses to stay simple, and you don't need a degree in classics to wield it. 
  The Mythology Builder's Toolkit gives you nine complete workshop chapters, each packed with archetypes drawn from mythologies worldwide, worked examples you can steal from, and creative dares that won't let you play it safe. 
  WHAT'S INSIDE: 
  The Genesis Engine: six ways worlds begin, and how creation shapes the map 
  The Divine Spectrum: gods, ghosts, and the hungry dead as one living ecosystem 
  The Mirror Framework: heroes and villains built as two halves of one wound 
  The Hunger Principle: why every monster worth building wants more than it eats 
  The Pairing Principle: relics and sanctums that need each other to matter 
  The Scale Shift: every quest is a small apocalypse; every apocalypse is someone's quest 
  From Greek and Norse to Yoruba, Hindu, Maya, Aboriginal Australian, and dozens more, this book draws on over 100 cultural traditions to give you frameworks that work for any world you're building. 
  A through-line mythology called the Loom runs across all nine chapters, built from scratch, showing every toolkit in action: creation to apocalypse, gods to monsters, tricksters to prophecy. 
  Whether you're writing a novel, designing a tabletop campaign, or building a world from the ground up, this is the craft book that treats mythology as a living practice, not a museum exhibit. 
  From the creator of Gods and Monsters, one of the largest mythology encyclopedias on the web, and the daily Substack read by over 50,000 mythology lovers. 
  No formulas. No footnotes. No permission required. Start building.

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  Unjust Debts - How Our...

  Melissa B. Jacoby

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  Named one of the Best Summer Books in Economics by the Financial Times 
   
   
   
  A groundbreaking look at the hidden role of bankruptcy in perpetuating inequality in America 
   
   
   
  Bankruptcy is the busiest federal court in America. In theory, bankruptcy in America exists to cancel or restructure debts for people and companies that have way too many—a safety valve designed to provide a mechanism for restarting lives and businesses when things go wrong financially. 
   
   
   
  Legal scholar Melissa B. Jacoby shows how bankruptcy has also become an escape hatch for powerful individuals, corporations, and governments, contributing in unseen and poorly understood ways to race, gender, and class inequality in America. When cities go bankrupt, police unions enjoy added leverage while police brutality victims are denied a seat at the negotiating table; the system is more forgiving of civil rights abuses than of the parking tickets disproportionately distributed in African American neighborhoods. Unjust Debts reveals the hidden mechanisms by which bankruptcy impacts everything from sexual harassment to health care, police violence to employment discrimination, and the opioid crisis to gun violence.

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  Fences - A worldview A plea

  Ken La Salle

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  For Ken La Salle, any 21st century American existentialist philosophy must, after half a decade of division, begin at the core of that division, not with the memes or the keywords but with the instrument of division itself. 
  Some of those instruments, like ICE or MAGA or even religion, appear to be the key but they are simply manifestations of our division. Our fawning over billionaires is a manifestation of what divides us. Our love of guns, our ideas of “charity,” property value, our veneration of our military – everything from gambling to psychics – they’re all just a manifestation of the divisions we build all around us. 
  We have a perfect metaphor for the divisions we build, that we constantly build, all around us in the fences encircling our homes, our schools, cities and country, dividing you, defining you. We build them all the time in ways both literal and figurative. 
  Welcome, then, to Fences. Fences is an anti-division, anti-gambling, anti-“charity”, anti-psychic, anti-manifesting, anti-religion, anti-politics, anti-military, anti-gun, anti-billionaire, anti-ICE, anti-MAGA, anti-fence plea to a dissolving America.

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