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  Start Ghetto - No-Nonsense Goal...

  la tetra o.

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  A Blueprint for Those Who Can’t Afford to Wait 
  You didn’t wait to be chosen. You chose. Broke. Tired. Still moving. That’s momentum. 
  Start Ghetto is a sharp, irreverent tool for anyone who started with nothing but audacity, old shame, and seven crinkled dollars to their name. This book asks you to build with what you’ve got, from where you are… especially when the world forces you to “make it enough.” 
  Start Ghetto is a field guide for dreamers who are done pretending they don’t want more but are tired of being told to manifest better, dream harder, and pray a little longer. Through real talk, callouts, and permission-free practices, you’ll learn to:Confront the internal lies that keep you stuckRewrite how you speak to yourself when no one’s listeningUnhook from shame-based ambition and false urgencySet grounded goals backed by your truth, not their timeline 
  With the inclusion of the G.H.E.T.T.O. Method™—a radical blueprint for goal-setting that doesn’t require perfection, privilege, or permission—you’ll learn how to move like someone who belongs to themselves. 
  Narrated by the author for an unfiltered, straight-from-the-source experience. 
  The first book in the F*ck Around & Flourish series, Start Ghetto is for the ones still broke, still dreaming, and still not asking for permission.

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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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  Leadership Is Personal - How...

  Brad Mahon

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  In Leadership is Personal, Brad Mahon reveals the transformative power of authentic, community-focused leadership. Drawing from his rich experiences in higher education and the arts, Brad shows how cultivating strong internal cultures and external community connections can drive organizational success.

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  Fort Ticonderoga The Last...

  Mark Edward Lender

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  During the War for Independence, Fort Ticonderoga's guns, sited critically between Lakes Champlain and George, dominated north-south communications in upstate New York that were vital to both the British and American war efforts. The loss of Ticonderoga stunned patriot morale and ignited one of the greatest political firestorms of the war. But the fortunes of war turned. Two months later, the rebels mounted a sensational—if little known—counter-attack on Ticonderoga that had major implications for Burgoyne's eventual defeat at Saratoga in October. Yet Saratoga brought no peace, and Ticonderoga would be central to additional military and political maneuverings—many of them known only to specialist historians—that would keep the region on edge until the end of the war in 1783. 
   
   
   
  Based on new archival research, Fort Ticonderoga, The Last Campaigns: The War in the North, 1777-1783 by distinguished historian Mark Edward Lender highlights the strategic importance of the fort as British, American, and regional forces fought for control of the northern front at a critical point in the war. The book tells the Ticonderoga story in all of its complexity and drama, correcting misconceptions embedded in many previous accounts, and sheds vital new light on this key chapter in America's struggle for independence.

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  Playing through Pain - The...

  Daniel Sailofsky

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  For many fans and casual observers, professional sports and violence are deeply connected. Violence on the field has real consequences for players, notably in the form of life-altering injuries from concussions. Off the field, in the last several decades, scores of athletes have committed violent acts, from domestic abuse and sexual assault to animal abuse and murder. Beyond athletes, sport also serves as a site of political and structural violence, from the displacement and hyperpolicing of everyday people for mega-events to the "sportswashing" of environmentally harmful industries. 
   
   
   
  Daniel Sailofsky examines the endemic violence in professional sports and argues that—while related to masculinity, misogyny, and individual factors like alcohol consumption and gambling—it is most intimately tied to capitalism and to capitalist modes of consumption and profit. Sailofsky explains how capitalism creates the conditions for violence to thrive and uncovers how sports leaders—coaches, league officials, and team owners—obfuscate these relationships to avoid accountability. 
   
   
   
  From minor league baseball exploitation to spectator hooliganism, Sailofsky shows the connections between the business of sports and violence, but also, more importantly, he imagines new forms of sport that are not places of harm.

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  The Adventures of Big-Foot...

  John Crittenden Duval

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  The writer of this book is well aware that it will not stand the test of criticism as a literary production. A frontiersman himself, his opportunities for acquiring information, and for supplying the deficiencies of a rather limited education, have of course been "few and far between;" and therefore it cannot be reasonably expected that he could make a book under such circumstances which would not be sadly defective as to style and composition. However, it can justly lay claim to at least one merit, not often found in similar publications—it is not a compilation of imaginary scenes and incidents, concocted in the brain of one who never was beyond the sound of a dinner-bell in his life, but a plain, unvarnished story of the "'scapes and scrapes" of Big-Foot Wallace, the Texas Ranger and Hunter, written out from notes furnished by himself, and told, as well as my memory serves me, in his own language.

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