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  The Art of Taking It Easy - How...

  Dr. Brian King

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  From a psychologist and stand-up comedian comes a practical, yet laugh-out-loud guide to embracing humor to reduce stress and live a happier, fuller life. 
   
   
   
  Dr. Brian King got a degree in psychology before becoming a world-touring comic and the host of humor therapy seminars attended by more than ten thousand people each year. In this brilliant guide he presents hands-on techniques for managing stress by rewiring our brains to approach potentially difficult situations through a lens of positivity. To do so, Dr. King explores what stress is, where it comes from, and what it does to our bodies and brains. He delves deep into how to address everyday stress—as well as anxiety, insecurities, repression, and negativity—and gives insight into resulting ailments such as anxiety disorders, depression, hypertension, obesity, substance abuse disorders, and more. Dr. King's techniques are chemical and cost free, and embrace humor, resilience, relaxation, optimism, gratitude, and acceptance. Instead of a dry medical approach to dealing with stress, this unique volume is filled with life-changing tips and instructions presented with humor and a wealth of memorable, smile-inducing anecdotes.

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  Inheriting the Ancient Near East...

  Editors Charles River

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  On his deathbed, some historians claim that when he was pressed to name a successor, Alexander the Great muttered that his empire should go “to the strongest”. Other sources claim that he passed his signet ring to his general Perdiccas, thereby naming him successor, but whatever his choices were or may have been, they were ignored. Alexander’s generals, all of them with the loyalty of their own corps at their backs, would tear each other apart in a vicious internal struggle that lasted almost half a century before four factions emerged victorious: Macedonia, the Seleucid Empire in the east, the Kingdom of Pergamon in Asia Minor, and the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt. During the course of these wars, Alexander’s only heir, the posthumously born Alexander IV, was murdered, extinguishing his bloodline for ever.  
  	For a time, the Seleucids commanded the largest empire in the world as it stretched from the high plains and deserts of what is now Afghanistan in the east to parts of the Levant and Asia Minor in the west. The empire’s early kings were strong and shrewd and committed to the ideas of Hellenism as much as holding power and expanding the realm of their empire, but later rulers did not prove as capable. In time, the Seleucid royal house often descended into orgies of violence which were driven by ambitious men and women.   
  	Although Alexander never lived to rule over Egypt, one of his generals, Ptolemy I, did, and it was he who established the last great pharaonic dynasty in Egypt, known as the Ptolemaic Dynasty. Despite the infighting among them, one thing Alexander’s generals did agree upon was their Hellenistic culture. Most famously, Ptolemy’s line firmly established the Hellenistic culture of the Greeks while ruling over Egypt, and by marrying within their family line, the Ptolemaic pharaohs kept their Hellenistic heritage until the very end of Ptolemy’s line, which died with Cleopatra in 30 BC.

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  Sahih Al Bukhari English...

  Imam Bukhari, Translator - Dr....

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  Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī is a collection of hadīth compiled by Abu Abdullāh Muhammad Ibn Ismā`īl al-Bukhārī(rahimahullāh). The translation provided here is by Dr. M. Muhsin Khan. 
  Volume 3 contains hadith 1773-2737 of 7563 in book 26-54: 
  26 Al-Umrah (Minor pilgrimage) Hadith 1773-1805 
  27 Al-Muhsar (Pilgrims Prevented from Completing the Pilgrimage) H 1806-1820 
  28 penalty for hunting (by a muhrim) and similar things Hadith 1821-1866 
  29 Virtues of Madinah Hadith 1867-1890 
  30 The Fasting (As Saum) Hadith 1891-2007 
  31 Taraweeh Prayers at Night in Ramadaan Hadith 2008-2013 
  32 Superiority of the Night of Qadr Hadith 2014-2024 
  33 Retiring to a Mosque for Remembrance of Allah (Itikaf) Hadith 2025-2046 
  34 Sales (Bargains) Hadith 2047-2238 
  35 The Sales in Which a Price is Paid for Goods to be Delivered Later(As-Salam) Hadith 2239-2256 
  36 Right of First Refusal, re-emption (ash-shuf'a) Hadith 2257-2259 
  37 Hiring (Concerning Hiring) Hadith 2260-2286 
  38 Transferance of a Debt from One Person to Another (Al-Hawaalat) H 2287-2289 
  39 Kafalah Hadith 2290-2298 
  40 Representation (or Authorization) Hadith 2299-2319 
  41 Cultivation and Agriculture Hadith 2320-2350 
  42 Watering (Distribution of Water) Hadith 2351-2384 
  43 Loans, payment of loans, Freezing of Property, Bankruptcy Hadith 2385-2409 
  44 quarrels, disputes Hadith 2410-2425 
  45 Lost Things Picked up by Someone (Al-Luqatah) Hadith 2426-2439 
  46 Oppressions, Injustices (Al-Mazalim) Hadith 2440-2482 
  47 Partnership Hadith 2483-2507 
  48 mortgaging in places occupied by settled population Hadith 2508-2516 
  49 Manumission of Slaves Hadith 2517-2559 
  50 Al Mukatab Hadith 2560-2565 
  51 gifts and the superiority of giving gifts H 2566-2636 
  52 Witnesses, Testimonies Hadith 2637-2689 
  53 Peacemaking, Reconciliation Hadith 2690-2710 
  54 Conditions Hadith 2711-2737

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  Wild Girls - How the Outdoors...

  Tiya Miles

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  Harriet Tubman, forced to labor outdoors on a Maryland plantation, learned from the land a terrain for escape. Louisa May Alcott ran wild, eluding gendered expectations in New England. The Indigenous women's basketball team from Fort Shaw, Montana, recaptured a sense of pride in physical prowess as they trounced the white teams of the 1904 World's Fair. Celebrating women like these who acted on their confidence outdoors, Wild Girls brings new context to misunderstood icons like Sacagawea and Pocahontas, and to underappreciated figures like Native American activist writer Zitkála-Šá, farmworkers' champion Dolores Huerta, and labor and Civil Rights organizer Grace Lee Boggs. 
   
   
   
  This work of history puts girls of all races—and the landscapes they loved—at center stage and reveals the impact of the outdoors on women's independence, resourcefulness, and vision. For these trailblazing women of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, navigating the woods, following the stars, playing sports, and taking to the streets in peaceful protest were not only joyful pursuits, but also techniques to resist assimilation, racism, and sexism. Lyrically written and full of archival discoveries, Wild Girls evokes landscapes as richly as the girls who roamed in them—and argues for equal access to outdoor spaces for young women of every race and class today.

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  Your Conscience Against Some...

  Robert Wagenaar

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  The former pastor who wrote this booklet realized his conscience could not accept at least three of the Bible's teachings. Some parts of it contradicted others and some scientific discoveries (not hypotheses) went against at least two of its teachings. This booklet is short because he wanted to focus on solid arguments against it all being "God-spirited."

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  Histories of Racial Capitalism

  Justin Leroy, Destin Jenkins

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  The relationship between race and capitalism is one of the most enduring and controversial historical debates. The concept of racial capitalism offers a way out of this impasse. Racial capitalism is not simply a permutation, phase, or stage in the larger history of capitalism—since the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade and the colonization of the Americas, capitalism, in both material and ideological senses, has been racial, deriving social and economic value from racial classification and stratification. Although Cedric J. Robinson popularized the term, racial capitalism has remained undertheorized for nearly four decades. 
   
   
   
  Histories of Racial Capitalism brings together for the first time distinguished and rising scholars to consider the utility of the concept across historical settings. These scholars offer dynamic accounts of the relationship between social relations of exploitation and the racial terms through which they were organized, justified, and contested. Throughout, the contributors consider and challenge how some claims about the history and nature of capitalism are universalized while others remain marginalized. By theorizing and testing the concept of racial capitalism in different historical circumstances, this book shows its analytical and political power for today's scholars and activists.

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