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  Tocharians The: The Enigmatic...

  Editors Charles River

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  Located in the Tarim Basin of Asia during the first few centuries CE, a people and a kingdom grew to prominence in medieval central and east Asian geopolitics. The people are known today as the Tocharians, and their primary kingdom was Kucha, but despite their longevity, this incredible kingdom and its people have been overlooked and misunderstood by modern societies and historians for centuries. The lack of in-depth studies on the Tocharians largely stems from the fact that they are relatively newcomers to the modern academic scene - it was only in the late 19th century that historians identified them as a distinct ethnic group, and even today, philologists, historians, and archaeologists still have much to uncover about these enigmatic people and their kingdom. A potential early misidentification caused much of this confusion, yet scholars were also left wondering how the Tocharians came to occupy the Tarim Basin, which was perhaps based on the biases of 19th century historians. What has been uncovered so far is truly fascinating and important in the larger picture of Asian and Indo-European history. 
  When scholars first discovered the Tocharians in the late 19th century, they were amazed that Caucasian people who spoke an Indo-European language flourished so far away from the Indo-European homeland and other Indo-European peoples. Scholars immediately developed several theories to explain this apparent anomaly: some were quite logical and formed the basis for current models, while others were quickly and rightfully forgotten. An examination of the textual, archaeological, and art history sources reveals that the Tocharians played a major impact in the affairs of East and Central Asia, indirectly through their predecessors and their descendants, but also directly through trade, diplomacy, and most of all, religion. 

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  Practices for Growing Up Mindful...

  PsyD Christopher Willard

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  We do our best when we feel relaxed, capable, and confident. Teenagers and children are no different. Practices for Growing Up Mindful offers parents, educators, counselors, and caregivers a wealth of exercises and meditations to empower our kids to handle the stress and complexity of modern life in wise and healthy ways.With this audio companion to his book Growing Up Mindful, Dr. Christopher Willard brings you the tools he has found the most effective in his work with children and teens and as a leader in training educators, therapists, and other professionals. Organized to address the three core building blocks of mindfulness, here are 38 practices including:• Guided visualizations that tap the power of the imagination to strengthen our ability to pay attention on purpose• Body-based practices to cultivate present moment contact• Self-compassion practices for acceptance and non-judgment• Portable short practices to instill mindful moments into your day“Mindfulness practice encourages us to slow down, stop the rush, be instead of do, and experience instead of just think,” teaches Dr. Willard. Practices for Growing Up Mindful is your entryway to sharing the life-changing art of mindfulness.

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  The Night is Long but Light...

  Catherine Meeks, Michael B. Curry

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  From the winner of The President Joseph R. Biden Lifetime Achievement Award, a spiritual guide to restoring yourself from racial trauma and committing to the long work of dismantling racism. 
   
   
   
  In her work as executive director of the Absalom Jones Center for Racial Healing, Meeks has fought tirelessly to shed light on racism and provide tools and experiences to enable faith communities to work to combat it. In this new book, she shares highlights and insights from her journey and offers a much-needed meditative guide for the weary and frustrated. By looking inward and at each other clearly, she argues, good people of all backgrounds can forge a long term and individual path to making a difference. With personal stories and thoughtful direction, she takes the listener on the trajectory from self-awareness to recognition of the past to a new and individual way forward. 
   
   
   
  Meditation topics include how to work through fear and rage, how stories can help heal, honoring your ancestors while looking toward the future, what it really means to love one another, and the meaning of social justice.

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  Pizza Before We Die - An...

  Hassan Kanafani, Yasuko Thanh

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  A heart-wrenching personal account of the ongoing devastation in Gaza by an ordinary citizen who bears witness to the undoing of his community and homeland
  		 
  The human tragedy unfolding in Gaza has been made all the more tragic by the widespread denial and apathy expressed by much of the rest of the world. Here is an urgent first-hand account of life and death in Gaza, written not by a war correspondent, but an ordinary citizen whose life was upended when the genocide began.
  		 
  In the midst of the chaos, Hassan began posting about his daily experiences on Reddit. Three activists, moved by his words, started collecting his posts without a clear plan - only the conviction that his story needed to be seen and the hope that somehow, it might help raise funds for him. By chance, those posts found their way to award-winning author Yasuko Thanh, who helped Hassan frame them for a book.
  		 
  Hassan's missives are a vivid, heartbreaking account of war and its toll - on families, on children, on innocent civilians. These are stories of hunger, survival, and death. These are stories that demand to be heard. And yet, stories like these are not being told: Mainstream media has largely remained silent. Foreign journalists are barred from Gaza. Local journalists are being killed. In this vacuum, Hassan's voice breaks through out of the darkness and into the light.
  		 
  Pizza Before We Die is literary journalism at its rawest and most urgent - clear eyed, unflinching, and deeply humane. Hassan captures the unspeakable horror of the tragedy in Gaza with restraint and precision, never sensationalizing, always bearing witness. It is a work of raw power and emotion, and a reminder that in the midst of chaos and tragedy, our shared humanity remains intact.

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  EQ+MH=PH Emotions! How to live...

  Dr. Uma Arora

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  “How emotional you are!”  
  So often we hear this comment from a friend or a family member.   
  Mostly we fumble as we think of a response because we do not know what to say as we cannot relate to what it means to be ‘emotional.’  
  Emotions make us human.  
  They give us information about what is going on inside us.  
  Emotional Quotient (EQ) is the level of awareness of what is taking place or going to take place. It is the ability to comprehend and use that knowledge effectively. Emotions help us reflect on how we are mentally equipped to give our life direction. Our emotional responses make us win friends, build healthy relationships or lose them. It is our EQ that allows us to stay ahead at work, and be focused and cheerful.   
  In recent times there is a lot of focus on one dimension of human well-being, physical health.  
  But then, physical health is just one part of our overall health. A partial one.  
  The equation to have a healthy life begins with a healthy and high EQ plus a healthy mind.  
  Once these two, our emotional quotient (EQ) and mental health (MH) are in place then our physical health (PH) will be in good shape. If we have a high EQ then even if we have any physical illness it will not make us stressed or discouraged to live a good and effective life. This seems understandable and logical but is very difficult to follow. This is where this book helps. Not only to open the perspective of well-being and health to have a multidimensional outlook but also to sustain it. too,  
                  
                          

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  Lords of the Southern Plains -...

  Ibnul Jaif Farabi

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  Hear the thunder of hooves that shaped a continent. This is the definitive saga of the Comanche nation, the undisputed lords of the American West whose mastery of the horse forged a warrior empire that held global powers at bay for a century. Their story is the true, unvarnished history of the frontier's violent birth. 
  Ibnul Jaif Farabi’s masterful narrative spans the full sweep of the Comanche dominion, from their revolutionary adoption of the Spanish horse to the final, tragic stand at the edge of a modernizing world. The audiobook delves into the intricate culture of these peerless horsemen, the forty-year war that stalled a nation's expansion, and the profound human drama of captives, chiefs, and the clash of civilizations. 
  You will experience the visceral thrill of the buffalo hunt, the cunning strategies of plains warfare, and the intimate portraits of legendary figures whose lives defined an era. This listening journey reveals how the fate of empires—Spanish, French, Mexican, and American—was decided on the Comanche's own terms. 
  Prepare to have your understanding of American history transformed. This is the monumental chronicle, narrated with gripping authority, of the tribe that truly ruled the West.

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