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  The Forgotten Slave Trade - The...

  Simon Webb

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  Everybody knows about the transatlantic slave trade. A century before Britain became involved in this terrible business, whole villages and towns in England, Ireland, Italy, Spain, and other European countries were being depopulated by slavers, who transported the men, women, and children to Africa where they were sold. This is the forgotten slave trade; one which saw over a million Christians forced into captivity in the Muslim world. 
   
   
   
  Starting with the practice of slavery in the ancient world, Simon Webb traces the history of slavery in Europe, showing that the numbers involved were vast and that the victims were often treated far more cruelly than black slaves in America and the Caribbean. Castration, used very occasionally against black slaves taken across the Atlantic, was routinely carried out on an industrial scale on European boys who were exported to Africa and the Middle East. Most people are aware that the English city of Bristol was a major center for the transatlantic slave trade in the eighteenth century, but hardly anyone knows that 1,000 years earlier it had been an important staging-post for the transfer of English slaves to Africa. 
   
   
   
  This book will forever change how you view the slave trade and show that many commonly held beliefs about this controversial subject are almost wholly inaccurate and mistaken.

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  Golda Meir - A Life from...

  Hourly History

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  Golda Meir began her career as a grassroots activist whose tireless efforts helped ensure the creation of a Jewish homeland. As a diplomat and negotiator, she played a pivotal role in securing the recognition and funding that made the founding of Israel possible in 1948. She would go on to serve as the new nation’s foreign minister and, ultimately, as its prime minister—one of the first women in the world to hold such an office. 
  Her dedication to the cause came at a great personal cost, however, since her own family was often neglected by her absence from their lives. Her children would long speak of how lonely they were without their mother. Yet in light of all she had achieved, Golda Meir readily declared that she would do it all again if she had to. Because for her, there were some things that were bigger than herself—bigger even than her own family. She had latched onto a goal she wished to see to fruition, and she wasn't going to let anything stop her. This is the life and the long-lasting legacy of Golda Meir.

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  Sakuni

  Kshitiz Pokharell

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  He is remembered as the greatest villain of the Mahabharata. But before the dice, there was a dungeon. 
  The world knows Sakuni only as the sly uncle, the master manipulator, the man whose loaded dice shattered the Kuru dynasty. History has painted him in the darkest shades of adharma, a caricature of treachery without motive. 
  But no one remembers the beginning. 
  Before he was a gambler, Sakuni was a prince of Gandhara. Before he whispered poison into Duryodhana's ear, he watched his father and one hundred brothers starve to death in a cold, forgotten dungeon beneath Hastinapur's glittering halls. One meal a day. One bowl of rice. Enough to survive, never enough to hope. 
  And when only Sakuni remained, he emerged not as a man, but as a weapon. 
  From the sacred bones of his family, he carved his dice. From the silence of a court that looked away, he forged his vengeance. His goal was not to win a game, but to shatter the board itself. 
  Sakuni is not a justification. It is a ledger. A harrowing reimagining of the Mahabharata's most misunderstood figure, told from the shadows where history never bothers to look. This is the story of how a loving brother became the architect of annihilation. Of how a dungeon of hunger birthed a storm that would consume an empire. 
  The dice were never loaded by chance. They were loaded by grief.

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  Trapped in America’s Safety Net...

  Andrea Louise Campbell

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  When Andrea Louise Campbell’s sister-in-law, Marcella Wagner, was run off the freeway by a hit-and-run driver, she was seven-and-a-half months pregnant. She survived—and, miraculously, the baby was born healthy. But that’s where the good news ends. Marcella was left paralyzed from the chest down. This accident was much more than just a physical and emotional tragedy. Like so many Americans—50 million, or one-sixth of the country’s population—neither Marcella nor her husband, Dave, who works for a small business, had health insurance. On the day of the accident, she was on her way to class for the nursing program through which she hoped to secure one of the few remaining jobs in the area with the promise of employer-provided insurance. Instead, the accident plunged the young family into the tangled web of means-tested social assistance.
   
  A social policy scholar, Campbell thought she knew a lot about means-tested assistance programs. What she quickly learned was that missing from most government manuals and scholarly analyses was an understanding of how these programs actually affect the lives of the people who depend on them. Using Marcella and Dave’s situation as a case in point, she reveals their many shortcomings in Trapped in America’s Safety Net. 
   
  
  And, while Marcella and Dave’s story is tragic, the financial precariousness they endured even before the accident is all too common in America, where the prevalence of low-income work and unequal access to education have generated vast—and growing—economic inequality. The implementation of Obamacare has cut the number of uninsured and underinsured and reduced some of the disparities in coverage, but it continues to leave too many people open to tremendous risk.
   
  
  Behind the statistics and beyond the ideological battles are human beings whose lives are stunted by policies that purport to help them. In showing how and why this happens, this book offers a way to change it.

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  Tulsa Race Massacre - A History...

  Hourly History

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  In 1921, the Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was one of the most prosperous and well-established black areas in the United States. At a time when many black Americans faced discrimination and poverty, the around 10,000 mainly black residents in Greenwood were served by black-owned businesses, sent their children to schools with black teachers, and attended churches with black congregations served by black ministers. There was nothing quite like Greenwood anywhere else in America, and when this area had been visited by a prominent black rights activist a few years before, he coined it the “Black Wall Street.”
   
  But on the dawn of June 1, 1921, this haven of black progress came under a brutal and unrelenting attack when several hundred armed white people launched an assault on Greenwood. Among them were members of the Tulsa Police Department, supported by aircraft and even a heavy machine gun. They murdered Greenwood’s inhabitants and systematically looted and burned its buildings. By afternoon, virtually nothing remained of Black Wall Street, and those of its residents who had survived the assault were arrested and confined in make-shift internment camps.
   
  None of the people involved in this atrocity—the single worst example of racially motivated violence in America—ever faced charges. How could the Tulsa Race Massacre happen, and how could this appalling event be effectively erased from America’s history for 75 years? This is the horrifying true story of the Tulsa Race Massacre.

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  Effective Communication - Learn...

  Frederick Lederman

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Do you struggle to create real, deep relationships? 
  Discover the key to having genuine and lasting relationships with Effective Communication. 
   
  Life is full of relationships, from friends to colleagues and family, but how many of them are truly deep and satisfying? We often stop short due to a lack of understanding, prejudices, and judgment towards others. 
  But what we do know is that communication is a crucial aspect in any relationship. That's why I want you to know about the book, "Effective Communication." With it, you will learn how to develop crucial skills for creating genuine and lasting relationships. 
  You will learn to communicate with empathy, to be authentic, and to understand others, which will allow you to eliminate negative thoughts and open the door to deeper connections. Additionally, you will develop a greater understanding of your own thoughts and feelings, which will allow you to communicate more effectively with others. 
   
  No more superficial relationships. With this book, you will learn how to create real and lasting relationships and experience greater satisfaction in your daily interactions. You will learn to truly listen, understand, and communicate authentically and empathetically. 
    
  Don't miss the opportunity to transform your relationships forever.

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