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  Mary Founder of Christianity

  Chris Maunder

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  A radical reassessment of the role of Mary the mother of Jesus and other women in the early Church 
   
   
   
  Despite the commonly held assumption that the Bible says little about the mother of Jesus, there are many indications that Mary preceded and inspired her son in fostering the emergence of a new faith community. In the Gospel of John, Mary instigates Jesus' first miracle, and in all four gospels she is present at the crucifixion, suggesting hers was a place of unparalleled importance in the Christian story. 
   
   
   
  Setting aside presuppositions based on doctrine, Chris Maunder returns to the New Testament to answer the question 'Who was Mary?' He re-examines the virgin conception of Jesus, Mary's contribution to Jesus' ministry, and her central role in the events of the crucifixion and the resurrection. In so doing, Maunder casts a thought-provoking new light on Mary and the women, including Mary Magdalene, who stood alongside her.

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  Parallel Lives - A Love Story...

  Iain Pears

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  An extraordinary love story of two unlikely figures played out against the backdrop of the Cold War. 
    
  Best-selling novelist and art historian Iain Pears enchants readers with the real-life romance between Larissa Salmina, a Russian art curator, and Francis Haskell, a British art historian. His fabulous book brings into sharp focus the strange world of the Soviet Union, and the even stranger world of a certain variety of the English elite. It seeks to show how leaving the Soviet Union was a sacrifice for her and how it was the English man, not the Russian woman, who was set free because of their meeting. 
    
  Larissa was born in northern Russia, the daughter of a Soviet army officer from a noble family who survived the siege of Leningrad by eating cats’ tails and being evacuated over the ice. Francis was the grandson of an Iraqi Jew, forever feeling out of place in his adopted country of England. Parallel Lives is the story of how these two star-crossed lovers met, instantly understand each other, and were prepared to risk heartbreak, and in her case, retribution, to be together. 
    
  Escaping Leningrad, teenage Larissa lived in the Urals surrounded by Spanish revolutionaries, and after the war rose to become the youngest commissar in the Soviet Union and keeper of Italian drawings at the Hermitage. She took the Russian contribution to the Venice Biennale in 1962 and lost it on the journey. She briefly absconded with her supervisor’s corpse, developed a useful sideline in forgery, and stole (“I didn’t steal it. I liberated it”) a Matisse from the Italian government. Francis was a distinguished art historian, comfortably at home in King’s College Cambridge. But he was lonely, self-doubting, and had all but abandoned hope of falling in love. Larissa swept away all the years of anguish in one meal. 
    
  Iain Pears, who was neighbors with Larissa and Francis in Oxford, knew both his principal characters well. In telling Larissa and Francis’s love story, he is also capturing the Europe of a bygone era: a world of dancers, exiles, and the occasional spy, of artists, aristocrats, and academics. It is a tale of a world we have lost.

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  Female Fear Factory -...

  Pumla Dineo Gqola

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  "Patriarchy does not respect national boundaries. It is unabashedly promiscuous in its influences and tethers. Yet, it does use nationalism very productively."
  
  An empty street at night. A crowded bus. A lecture hall. All sites of female fear, instilled in women and those who have been constructed female, from an early age.
  
  Drawing on examples from around the world - from Uganda, Nigeria, South Africa to Saudi Arabia, the Americas and Europe, Gqola traces the construction and machinations of the female fear factory by exposing its lies, myths, and seductions. She shows how seemingly disparate effects, like driving bans, street harassment, and coercive professors, are the product of the ever-turning machinery of the female fear factory, and its use of fear as a tool of patriarchal subjugation and punishment.
  
  Female Fear Factory: Unravelling Patriarchy's Cultures of Violence is a sobering account of patriarchal violence in the world, and a hopeful vision for the work of unapologetic feminist imaginative strategies across the globe.

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  The Colony - Faith and Blood in...

  Sally Denton

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  On the morning of November 4, 2019, a caravan of women and children was ambushed by masked gunmen on a desolate stretch of road in northern Mexico controlled by the Sinaloa drug cartel. Firing semi-automatic weapons, the attackers killed nine people and gravely injured five more. The victims were members of the LeBaron and La Mora communities—fundamentalist Mormons whose forebears broke from the LDS Church and settled in Mexico when their religion outlawed polygamy in the late nineteenth century. The massacre produced international headlines for weeks, and prompted President Donald Trump to threaten to send in the US Army. 
   
   
   
  In The Colony, Sally Denton delves into the complex story of the LeBaron clan. Their homestead—Colonia LeBaron—is a portal into the past, a place that offers a glimpse of life within a polygamous community on an arid and dangerous frontier in the mid-1800s, though with smartphones and machine guns. Rooting her narrative in written sources as well as interviews with anonymous women from LeBaron itself, Denton unfolds an epic, disturbing tale that spans the first polygamist emigrations to Mexico through the LeBarons' internal blood feud in the 1970s and up to the family's recent alliance with the NXIVM sex cult, whose now-imprisoned leader, Keith Raniere, may have based his practices on the society he witnessed in Colonia LeBaron.

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  Transform Your Nights: Find Deep...

  Orson Nightvale

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  Transform Your Nights: Find Deep Sleep and Shed Pounds 
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  This audiobook is your ultimate resource for deepening your understanding, honing your skills, and engaging in practical exercises. With its guidance, you're set up for success in transforming your nights. 
  Updated for the latest methods and strategies promoting restful sleep and weight management. 
  Key features of this comprehensive guide include: 
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  This guide stands out with its exhaustive coverage, ensuring you have everything you need for your personal growth journey. Concepts aren’t just touched upon; they are explored in depth. 
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  Elevate Your Security Knowledge...

  Tristan Eldridge

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  'Unlock Lifelong Success Through Comprehensive Security Understanding' 
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  Are you eager to advance in your career and cement your knowledge for long-term success? 
  Looking for an all-encompassing guide that provides everything you need to enhance your security expertise? 
  Your quest ends here! 
  This guide serves as your ultimate resource for expanding your knowledge, applying your skills, and engaging in practical exercises. With this, you are fully prepared for success. 
  Updated for 2024-2025 Learning Requirements. 
  Key features of this enhanced guide: 
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  Our guide sets itself apart through its extensive coverage, which is vital for your success in achieving comprehensive security understanding. Concepts are explored in detail, ensuring clarity and depth. 
  Please note that this guide is an independent resource, not affiliated with any official entity. 
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  Why wait? Click the BUY NOW button, secure your guide, and embark on your path to unlocking lifelong success through comprehensive security understanding! 
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