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  History of Marathas EP15 - 1761...

  Vikrant Pande

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  The flat plains of Panipat had seen the battle in 1526 and 1555 where Babar defeated Ibrahim Lodi and Akbar defeated the Afghan army led by Hemchandra, aka Hemu, who was captured and beheaded by Behram Khan.
  Now two and half centuries later, two mega armies stood waiting for a battle.
  What kind of enemy's strength are we talking of? There are many records, one of them is written by Kasiraj, a sixty year old man, who was part of Bhau's huge army. He wrote his Kasiraj bakhar, nearly nineteen years after the war. He estimates Abdali's men to be around eighty thousand while the Marathas had seventy thousand. There are many historians who have given different figures but what we are looking is the fact that they two armies were well matched.

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  The Cure for Mental Illness -...

  David William Jones

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  Nothing beats lived experience. 
  After more than 10 years of writing, David William Jones unveils the first part of his long anticipated series: THE CURE FOR MENTAL ILLNESS, beginning with THE SOLUTION TO SUICIDE. In this part of the series, he shares from his profound lived experience; a unique and deeply thought provoking perspective on suicide prevention. From years of dealing with an incompetent mental health system, to jumping out of an aeroplane, followed by years of inner work towards enlightenment, David shines a light on what is wrong with the mainstream mental health systems and their approaches. 
  With a profound insight into transformation, David shares his lived experience, knowledge and wisdom for how to both prevent and overcome suicidal thoughts, emotions and behaviours.

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  Cuckoo in the Nest - as featured...

  Fran Hill

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  It’s the heatwave summer of 1976 and 14-year-old would be poet Jackie Chadwick is newly fostered by the Walls. She desperately needs stability, but their insecure, jealous teenage daughter isn't happy about the cuckoo in the nest and sets about ousting her.

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  Warrior's Heart - Navigating the...

  Ron Marcus

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  "Warror's Heart: Navigating the Depths of Masculine Emotion" is a transformative exploration of masculinity by Ron Marcus. Through profound insights and introspection, Marcus delves into the intricate layers of male emotion and identity. Within the pages of this compelling work, readers discover the depth and complexity of the warrior archetype, uncovering both its strength and vulnerability. With practical guidance and reflective exercises, "Warrior's Heart" offers a roadmap for men to embrace their emotions, cultivate resilience, and navigate life's challenges with courage and authenticity. This empowering book inspires men to tap into their inner warrior and live with purpose and passion.

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  Future Tense - Reflections on My...

  Tony Leon

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  ‘From the vantage point of years in active politics, Tony Leon provides a lucid analytical balance sheet of SA Ltd 2021. Eschewing political correctness, Leon tells it as he sees it.’ – Judge Dennis Davis 
    
  ‘Anyone who wants to understand South Africa today – a country so beautiful, yet so broken – simply has to read this book.’ - Niall Ferguson, author of The Ascent of Money 
  In his riveting new book, Future Tense, Tony Leon captures and analyses recent South African history, with a focus on the squandered and corrupted years of the past decade. With unique access and penetrating insight, Leon presents a portrait of today’s South Africa and prospects for its future, based on his political involvement over thirty years with the key power players: Cyril Ramaphosa, Jacob Zuma, Thabo Mbeki, Nelson Mandela and FW de Klerk. His close-up and personal view of these presidents and their history-making, and many encounters in the wider world, adds vivid colour of a country and planet in upheaval. 
    
  Written during the first coronavirus lockdown, Future Tense examines the surge of the disease and the response, both of which have crashed the economy and its future prospects. 
    
  As the founding leader of the Democratic Alliance, Leon also provides an insider view for the first time of the power struggles within that party, which saw the exit of its first black leader in 2019. 
    
  There is every reason to fear for the future of South Africa but, as Leon argues, ‘the hope for a better country remains an improbable, but not an impossible, dream’.

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  The Digital Factory - The Human...

  Moritz Altenried

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  The Digital Factory reveals the hidden human labor that supports today’s digital capitalism. 
    
  The workers of today’s digital factory include those in Amazon warehouses, delivery drivers, Chinese gaming workers, Filipino content moderators, and rural American search engine optimizers. Repetitive yet stressful, boring yet often emotionally demanding, these jobs require little formal qualification, but can demand a large degree of skills and knowledge. This work is often hidden behind the supposed magic of algorithms and thought to be automated, but it is in fact highly dependent on human labor. 
    
  The workers of today’s digital factory are not as far removed from a typical auto assembly line as we might think. Moritz Altenried takes us inside today’s digital factories, showing that they take very different forms, including gig economy platforms, video games, and Amazon warehouses. As Altenried shows, these digital factories often share surprising similarities with factories from the industrial age. As globalized capitalism and digital technology continue to transform labor around the world, Altenried offers a timely and poignant exploration of how these changes are restructuring the social division of labor and its geographies as well as the stratifications and lines of struggle.

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