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  The Life of Music in South India

  T. Sankaran

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  This book offers an account of Carnatic music culture drawing on the knowledge of T. Sankaran, a musician raised in an illustrious non-Brahmin devadasi family, and his long affiliation with cultural institutions including All India Radio (AIR) and the Tamil Isai Sangam (Tamil Music Academy). Sankaran examines the cultural and social matrix in which Carnatic music was cultivated and consumed in mid-twentieth century India, including the ways that musicians negotiated caste politics and the double standard for male and female musicians. The memoir provides insight into the way AIR worked as a modern, bureaucratic institution, and how the opening of government music colleges interacted with caste politics and shifted women's participation in public performance. The book is polyvocal, as Sankaran's writing is interwoven with passages from Daniel M. Neuman's book The Life of Music in North India, which inspired Sankaran's project, as well as transcripts from interviews with Sankaran by Matthew Allen. Includes rare archival photos.

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  Queen of the Negro Leagues -...

  James Overmyer

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  The first woman inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, there was no one like Effa Manley in the sports world of the 1930s and 1940s. She was a sophisticated woman who owned a baseball team. She never shrank from going head to head with men, who dominated the ranks of sports executives. That her life story remained unchronicled for so long can only be attributed to one thing: her team, the Newark Eagles, belonged to the Negro Leagues. 
   
   
   
  In Queen of the Negro Leagues: Effa Manley and the Newark Eagles, Negro Leagues Centennial Edition, James Overmyer brings to light new details regarding Effa Manley's fascinating story, including previously-unknown information about her childhood and family. Overmyer wonderfully portrays Effa Manley's trailblazing life, her championship baseball team, and a thriving black community in Newark that took the Eagles into their hearts. In addition, this book contains updates regarding the Negro Leagues, its talented rank of players, and Manley's induction into the Hall of Fame. 
   
   
   
  This important work shines the spotlight on a previously unsung segment of baseball history. Drawing extensively from Eagle team records and Manley's scrapbook, Queen of the Negro Leagues is the definitive biography of a groundbreaking female sports executive.

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  The Heart Chakra Magic - Unlock...

  Elena G.Rivers

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  The Heart Chakra Magic is your all-in-one guide to help you reconnect with the astonishing power of your heart to manifest the life you love, desire, and deserve. No previous spiritual knowledge is required, and the methodology covered in this book is simple, effective, and open to readers of all spiritual backgrounds. 
  Inside, you will discover simple-to-follow techniques and empowerment to get your beautiful heart chakra back in balance it needs to help you manifest a happy, joyful, and abundant life. 
  With the Heart Chakra Magic, You Will Quickly Learn: 
  -The significance and magic of the heart chakra, what happens when it’s out of balance, and what to do about it; 
  -How heart chakra influences your manifestations and why healing it is the fastest way to manifest your deepest desires (the path of least resistance); 
  -Techniques to release negative energies and enjoy the flow of positive, uplifting emotions; 
  - How to unlock inner harmony, strength, courage, and confidence so that you can discover and pursue your life’s purpose; 
  -A myriad of transformative modalities and easy-to-use tools specifically for heart-chakra rebalancing (including inner work, affirmations, meditation, journaling, vibration-healing herbal essences, crystals, essential oils, sounds, and frequencies + more to support your heart-chakra journey); 
  -How to tap into the power of self-love and let it guide you (warning- it can result in most magical manifestations your mind couldn’t even comprehend); 
  -Heart Chakra magic and synchronicities through non-linear healing and gratitude practices; 
  -Specific shadow work prompts to help you release your manifesting blocks and step into your divine power. 
  It’s time to heal and master the creative Heart Chakra energy that can move mountains!

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  Political Heroes - American...

  Kelly Mass

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  This book contains the following subjects: 
  1: Harriet Tubman was an abolitionist and political activist in the United States. Tubman, who was born into slavery, got away and went on to free around 70 enslaved people, which includes family members and good friends, through the Underground Railway, a network of antislavery activists and safe houses. She worked for the Union Army as an armed scout and spy throughout the American Civil War. Tubman was an activist in the women's suffrage movement in her last years. 
  2: Helen Adams Keller was an American author, handicap rights champ, political activist, and speaker who lived from June twenty-seventh, 1880 to June 1st, 1968. She was born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, and following a bout of health problem at the age of 19 months, she lost her sight and hearing. 
  3: John Adams was the 2nd president of the United States, serving from 1797 to 1801. He was an American leader, lawyer, diplomat, author, and Founding Father. He was the first vice president of the U.S.A. and a leader of the American Revolution, which caused the nation's independence from Great Britain. Adams kept a journal and communicated with certain crucial individuals in early American history, including his marriage partner and consultant Abigail Adams and Thomas Jefferson. 
  4: Thomas Paine was a political activist, theorist, political theorist, and revolutionary who was born in England. He wrote 2 of the most popular handouts at the beginning of the American Revolution, Common Sense (1776) and The American Crisis (1776-- 1783) and helped motivate patriots to announce independence from Great Britain in 1776. His thoughts echoed the Knowledge's global human rights concepts.

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  Learning to Disagree - The...

  John Inazu, Tish Harrison Warren

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  Read by the author. 
  Are you discouraged by our divided, angry culture, where even listening to a different perspective sometimes feels impossible? If so, you're not alone, and it doesn't have to be this way. Learning to Disagree reveals the surprising path to learning how to disagree in ways that build new bridges with our neighbors, coworkers, and loved ones--and help us find better ways to live joyfully in a complex society. 
  In a tense cultural climate, is it possible to disagree productively and respectfully without compromising our convictions? Spanning a range of challenging issues--including critical race theory, sexual assault, campus protests, and clashes over religious freedom--highly regarded thought leader and law professor John Inazu helps us engage honestly and empathetically with people whose viewpoints we find strange, wrong, or even dangerous. 
  As a constitutional scholar, legal expert, and former litigator, John has spent his career learning how to disagree well with other people. In Learning to Disagree, John shares memorable stories and draws on the practices that legal training imparts--seeing the complexity in every issue and inhabiting the mindset of an opposing point of view--to help us handle daily encounters and lifelong relationships with those who see life very differently than we do. 
  This groundbreaking, poignant, and highly practical book equips us to:Understand what holds us back from healthy disagreementLearn specific, start-today strategies for dialoguing clearly and authenticallyMove from stuck, broken disagreements to mature, healthy disagreementsCultivate empathy as a core skill for our personal lives and our whole society 
    
  If you are feeling exhausted from the tattered state of dialogue in your social media feed, around the country, and in daily conversations, you're not alone. Discover a more connected life while still maintaining the strength of your convictions through this unique, often-humorous, thought-provoking, and ultimately life-changing exploration of the best way to disagree. 
  The reflection guide can be found in the audiobook companion PDF download.

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  Götz von Berlichingen: A short...

  5 Minutes, 5 Minute Biographies,...

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  Götz von Berlichingen, last of the German knights and famous Goethe protagonist: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best!

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