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  Tamerlane: The Life and Legacy...

  Editors Charles River

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  Though history is usually written by the victors, the lack of a particularly strong writing tradition from the Mongols ensured that history was largely written by those who they vanquished. Because of this, their portrayal in the West and the Middle East has been extraordinarily (and in many ways unfairly) negative for centuries, at least until recent revisions to the historical record. The Mongols have long been depicted as wild horse-archers galloping out of the dawn to rape, pillage, murder and enslave, but the Mongol army was a highly sophisticated, minutely organized and incredibly adaptive and innovative institution, as witnessed by the fact that it was successful in conquering enemies who employed completely different weaponry and different styles of fighting, from Chinese armored infantry to Middle Eastern camel cavalry and Western knights and men-at-arms. Likewise, the infrastructure and administrative corps which governed the empire, though largely borrowed from the Chinese, was inventive, practical, and extraordinarily modern and efficient. This was no fly-by-night enterprise but a sophisticated, complex, and extremely well-oiled machine.  
  	Aside from Genghis and his grandson Kublai Khan, the most famous Mongol conqueror was Tamerlane, who dominated Eurasia in the 14th century. He was known by the name Timur in Asia, while the Europeans used the name Tamerlane, which came from the Persian Timur-i-Leng, meaning “Timur the Lame.” This was intended to be an insult referring to crippling injuries he received to his right leg and arm as a young man, probably from arrows, but clearly his injuries did not prevent him from spending much of his lifetime in the saddle. Tamerlane came from a Turkicized Mongol tribe, the Barlas, which had several constituent sub-clans. A number of original Mongol tribes had migrated west, where the majority of the population was Turkish, and over time, the Mongols blended with the Turks.

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  5 Puritan Women - Portraits of...

  Jenny-Lyn de Klerk, Karen...

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  What the Lives of 5 Puritan Women Teach about Holy Living and Devotion to God
  The writings of the Puritans have had a recent resurgence, but many Puritan women have often been overlooked or misunderstood. As mothers, daughters, grandmothers, and wives, the vibrant faith of Puritan women has much to teach modern day readers.
  In 5 Puritan Women: Portraits of Faith and Love, Jenny-Lyn de Klerk shows how the lives and writings of Christian women encourage the beauty of holy living and provide practical wisdom for the home and the church. Each chapter portrays a different Puritan woman—Agnes Beaumont, Lucy Hutchinson, Mary Rich, Anne Bradstreet, and Lady Brilliana Harley—telling their stories of devotion, lament, and family. By studying their faith journeys, modern readers can learn more about their roles in church history and glean insights into the Christian life. 
  
  - Accessible Introduction: An affordable, easy-to-read format to introduce readers to the neglected writings of Puritan women
  - Applicable: Explains the need for, and the value of, studying Puritan women today and highlights spiritual disciplines that these women demonstrate
  - Women in Church History: Broadens the reader's understanding of women's roles in furthering God's kingdom throughout history
  - Foreword by Karen Swallow Prior

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  Orso - Wartime Journals of an...

  Lorenzo Orsetti

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  Orso: Wartime Journals of an Anarchist contains the first-person narrative of Lorenzo Orsetti—also known as Heval Tekoşer Piling, now Şehîd (martyr) Tekoşer—an internationalist soldier in Rojava. It was published in its original Italian following his death. 
  This first English edition from Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness includes additional essays and a preface by James Stout, sharing the historical and cultural context in which Orso lived, fought, and died, bringing his message to a new audience. The struggle against Daesh for an autonomous, liberated region in Rojava is bigger than one person, but one person’s life can offer us a glimpse of a vast project and how one life can fit into it.

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  Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains

  Charles Eastman

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  From the pen of a Santee Sioux— Charles Eastman— come these biographical portraits of American Indian leaders Red Cloud, Spotted Tail, Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and Chief Joseph. Eastman was born in Red Falls, Minnesota, and raised by his grandmother and uncle in Manitoba, Canada, where he learned Native American traditions and lore. Eastman's writings are truly invaluable and unique, as he is known to have been acquainted with the individuals about whom he wrote. Performed with musical accompaniment by Lorenzo Baca— a Native American artist of Mescalero Apache and Isleta Pueblo descent— this recording honors the legacy of these men and their place in history.

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  Nowhere like This Place - Tales...

  Marilyn Carr

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  Marilyn Carr’s family arrived in Deep River, Ontario in 1960 because her dad got a job at a mysterious place called “the plant.” The quirky, isolated, residence for the employees of Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories was impeccably designed by a guy named John Bland. It’s a test-tube baby of a town that sprang, fully formed, from the bush north of Algonquin Park, on the shore of the Ottawa river. Everything has already been decided, including the colours of the houses, inside and out. What could possibly go wrong? 
  Nowhere like This Place is a coming-of-age memoir set against the backdrop of the weirdness of an enclave with more PhDs per capita than anywhere else on earth. It’s steeped in thinly veiled sexism and the searing angst of an artsy child trapped in a terrarium full of white-bread nuclear scientists and their nuclear families. Everything happens, and nothing happens, and it all works out in the end. Maybe. 
  Marilyn Carr is a class of 2020 MFA graduate from the University of King’s College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, which is her fourth degree, but who’s counting? (She is.) She blogs about the absurdness of everyday life at www.marilyncarr.com, and is currently working on the next installment of her memoirs, How I Invented the Internet.

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  Trump and Racism - The Untold...

  Dr. Joseph Della-Giustina

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  Have you ever heard of Palm Beach? 
  This book is filled with secrets that have been kept in Palm Beach. These secrets are revealed by Dr. Joseph Della-Giustina, an Italian American who decided to move to Palm Beach in the 1980s. 
  Having lived there for over 40 years, he has witnessed many of the events that have occurred in Palm Beach. From hidden political secrets to individual murders, cheating, manipulation, and more... 
  Dr. Joseph Della-Giustina, after much hard work within the unknown community, built his presence in Palm Beach and was honored as a commissioner during Donald Trump's presidency. He has seen many things that remain hidden from the world. 
  While you may have heard of some incidents, this book will reveal the secret stories behind these events and the politics that Dr. Joseph Della-Giustina has seen with his own eyes. 
  Do you want to know the hidden secrets of Palm Beach? 
  Are you interested? 
  Just open this book to discover it all, including the personal and professional experiences of Dr. Joseph Della-Giustina in Palm Beach. 
  As Joseph often says, "What we do for ourselves dies with us; what we do for others lives on."

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