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  Ratels on the Lomba - The Story...

  Leopold Scholtz

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  “We destroyed a whole enemy brigade (47 Brigade) on the Lomba. History will prove it to be one of the most glorious and successful actions that South African forces ever took part in.” – General Jannie Geldenhuys, as quoted in Cuito Cuanavale 
   
  On 3 October 1987 Charlie Squadron – the iron fist of 61 Mechanised Battalion Group – led the way in a decisive battle on the Lomba River in southern Angola, as part of the South African Defence Force’s Operation Moduler.  
  Although SADF tactical doctrine dictated that the tanks of the Angolan 47 Brigade be countered with tanks, the young conscripts of Charlie Squadron were forced to face their enemy in vastly inferior Ratels, significantly handicapped by the vehicles’ thin armour and low-velocity guns. Not only were they facing a force far superior in terms of weaponry, but they were also hugely outnumbered and had to deal with terrain so dense that their sight was severely impaired and their movement restricted. 
  Through interviews with veterans of the battle and diary entries from the time, Leopold Scholtz recreates the drama of this David vs Goliath battle, taking the reader straight to the heart of the action. A deeply human story, Ratels on the Lomba tells of how individuals react in the face of death, and reveals how the war never left these men, not even when they returned home.

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  Living the Good Life - A...

  Steven J. Jensen

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  Living the Good Life presents a brief introduction to virtue and vice, self-control and weakness, misery and happiness. The book contrasts the thought of Aquinas with popular views, such as moral relativism, values clarification, utilitarianism, Kantian deontology, and situation ethics. Following the Socratic dictum "know thyself," Steven J. Jensen investigates the interior workings of the human mind, revealing the interplay of reason, will, and emotions. 
   
   
   
  Jensen ably guides listeners through Aquinas's philosophy and explains the distinction between the moral and intellectual virtues. The moral virtues train our various desires toward the true good, helping us discard our misguided cravings and teaching us to enjoy what is truly worth pursuing. The virtue of justice directs our hearts to the good of others, freeing us from egoism in order to seek a good shared with others. Most important, the virtue of prudence directs our deliberations to discover the true path of life. 
   
   
   
  Intended as a text for students, beginners of philosophy will gain access to a key aspect of Aquinas's thought, namely, that true happiness is realized not in the animal life of passion and greed but only in the reasonable pursuit of human goods, in which we find true peace and rest from the distractions of this world.

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  Love Nailed To The Doorpost

  Richard Chess

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  In Love Nailed to the Doorpost, Richard Chess offers poems and lyrical prose inspired and informed equally by the pleasures and pressures of everyday life and by sacred and secular texts ranging from Torah to Basho to Robert Creeley. This new work transports us from the biblical past to the present, from creation stories to stories of brotherly struggle to meditations on married and family love. 
  Love—that’s the thing, whether spontaneously arising or commanded, as it is, the commandment to love inscribed on parchment, rolled up and tucked into a small case, a mezuzah, and nailed to the doorpost of the house. You shall love: the challenges of fulfilling that commandment, and the joy and transformation one experiences when one does: that’s what Chess’s powerful new work explores.

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  Circles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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  Ideas widen like ripples—each circle outgrown by the next. In Circles, Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers a bracing meditation on the restless nature of mind, the fluidity of the world, and the courage to abandon yesterday’s certainties for tomorrow’s larger view. With metaphors that still crackle and counsel that feels startlingly modern, Emerson shows how every law, virtue, friendship, and institution is provisional—useful for a season, then superseded by a more generous insight. To live well is to draw new circles: to prefer truth over habit, character over talent, spirit over mechanism, and possibility over fear. 
   
  Narrated with clean, contemporary clarity by Cory Stoutner, this audiobook brings out the essay’s momentum and music, ideal for reflective commutes, study, or a focused hour of renewal. Listeners will encounter unforgettable lines on conversation as a game of circles, literature as a lever to move life, and the divine influx behind true generalization. Circles is a compact guide to intellectual bravery and perpetual self-renewal—an invitation to rise, revise, and begin again.

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  Black Foundation Reconsidered -...

  Joseph Hover

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  This is a diagnostic. It does not offer comfort, and it does not assign blame to outside forces. Instead, it makes a case that is increasingly difficult to avoid: the primary obstacle facing Black communities in America and across the African Diaspora is not racism. It is the systematic destruction of a collective worldview, a shared doctrine rooted in language, that once held communities together and gave individuals the mental architecture to act with purpose. That foundation was dismantled. And until it is rebuilt from the inside, no amount of rights, aid, or representation will close the gap. 
  There is also something practical here: a framework for thinking differently. It draws a precise distinction between racism and xenophobia, two phenomena that are routinely conflated, with real consequences for how people navigate institutions, workplaces, and social environments. It introduces the concept of "rethinking," a deliberate psychological practice of pausing before fast conclusions, as a survival skill capable of interrupting cycles of violence, failure, and self-defeat. And it offers a model for rebuilding the family and community from within, not as a waiting game for external political permission, but as an act of internal will. 
  Some readers will be uncomfortable. The victimhood script that dominates mainstream Black public discourse is challenged here. So are the limits of modern liberalism and the political frameworks that have promised much and delivered little structural change. None of it flatters. But it does something rarer: it takes the community seriously enough to demand more from it.

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  Merian Saras Kahanian

  Santokh Singh Dheer

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  Santokh Singh Dheer’s other stories, “Merian Saras Kahanian” is also a deeply impactful collection. The special quality of these stories is that they emerge from the realities of our everyday surroundings and leave readers and listeners amazed. Within them lies the essence of rural beauty, reflections on social and economic injustice, and a vivid portrayal of the true life of Punjab’s villages.

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