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  Speak Up: Insights from a Life...

  Grant Whitaker

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  Speak Up: Insights from a Life of Leadership and Service 
  Are you looking to advance your career and enrich your understanding through valuable insights from a life full of leadership and service? 
  In search of a detailed guide that provides all the necessary elements to transform lives through powerful insights from experience? 
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  This audiobook is your ultimate companion for deepening your understanding, applying leadership principles, and engaging in practical exercises. With this, you're on the path to success. 
  Updated for current leadership and service dynamics. 
  Key features of this enlightening audiobook include: 
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  - Detailed explanations from a lifetime of leadership and service 
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  The Māori and the Pākehā - A...

  Lillian Brooks

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  The history of New Zealand is deeply shaped by the complex and evolving relationship between the Māori, the country’s Indigenous people, and the Pākehā, the European settlers who arrived in the 18th and 19th centuries. This history is one of resilience, conflict, adaptation, and, ultimately, an ongoing quest for reconciliation. Understanding this shared past is essential to appreciating modern New Zealand’s identity and the challenges that continue to shape its future. 
  The Māori, skilled navigators and settlers from Polynesia, developed a rich and sophisticated culture long before the arrival of Europeans. Their societal structures, traditions, and connection to the land formed the foundation of a thriving civilization. When Pākehā explorers and settlers arrived, they brought not only new technologies and trade but also new challenges. The introduction of muskets, Christianity, and foreign diseases altered the balance of power and drastically reshaped Māori society. 
  One of the most defining moments in New Zealand’s history was the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840. This agreement, meant to establish a partnership between Māori and the British Crown, instead became a source of lasting controversy due to differences in interpretation and breaches of its promises. In the decades that followed, land disputes, armed conflicts, and government policies led to the large-scale alienation of Māori land, significantly impacting Māori communities and their way of life.

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  Slavs and the Slave Trade The:...

  Editors Charles River

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  some historians have aligned the term Slav as deriving from descriptions of slaves: “The word “slave” and its cognates in most modern European languages is itself derived from “sclavus,” meaning “slav,” the ethnic name for the inhabitants of this region.” Some historians have outlined how they believe that Slavic slaves were used intensively in the ninth and tenth centuries and acted as a driver of Western European economic growth and allowed them to “emerge from the Dark Ages.” It is only fair to note that this assertion has been disputed. Separately, other scholars have asserted that Constantinople’s rapid rise to become one of Europe’s largest cities was fueled by a large supply of Slavic slaves. 
  	These trans-European routes diminished somewhat from the thirteenth century but demonstrated how common slave trading was in the region during these centuries. The majority of the people would have been kidnapped from Southeast Europe, as well as the Eurasian and Caucasus regions. Today, that encompasses Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, the Baltic states, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, and the states of the former Yugoslavia. Crucially, an important component of Slavic identity was the Christian faith, in particular Orthodox Christianity.  
  	In the medieval period, a slave trading network became more entrenched, transporting people from Slavic lands in Eastern Europe to the Mediterranean and beyond. The growing schism between the Catholic and Orthodox versions of Christianity made Orthodox Christians targets of the former’s slave traders. As a result, Slavic slaves were captured and taken to parts of Christian Spain, including Aragon and Valencia, in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

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  Ukraine's Many Faces - Land...

  Olena Palko, Manuel Férez Gil

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  Russia's large-scale invasion on the 24th of February 2022 once again made Ukraine the focus of world media. Behind those headlines remain the complex developments in Ukraine's history, national identity, culture and society. Addressing readers from diverse backgrounds, this volume approaches the history of Ukraine and its people through primary sources, from the early modern period to the present. Each document is followed by an essay written by an expert on the period, and a conversational piece touching on the ongoing Russian aggression against Ukraine. In this ground-breaking collection, Ukraine's history is sensitively accounted for by scholars inviting the readers to revisit the country's history and culture.
  With a foreword by Olesya Khromeychuk.

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  Readings From The Garuda Purana

  Veda Vyas

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  The Garuda Purana is primarily concerned with the issues of death and the afterlife and provides a detailed account of the journey of the soul after death. It also contains descriptions of various religious practices, customs, and rituals, as well as stories and legends about gods, sages, and holy places.Reincarnation, also known as transmigration of the soul, is an important concept in yogic philosophy and is mentioned extensively in the Garuda Purana. After a person dies, their soul is reborn into a new body. This cycle of birth, death, and rebirth is known as samsara. In the Garuda Purana, a conversation between Vishnu and Garuda, it is believed the nature of one's next birth is determined by their actions in their previous life. The text describes different types of karma, their consequences, and the methods of attaining liberation from the cycle of samsara. The work divides karma into three categories: good, bad, and mixed. Good karma is accumulated by performing virtuous deeds, such as charity, kindness, and devotion to God or bhakti.The book also describes various methods of attaining liberation. The most important method is devotion, which is believed to purify one's karma and lead to liberation. Other methods include performing good deeds, practicing yoga and meditation, and studying the Vedas The Garuda Purana is a valuable source of information on reincarnation and karma. The teachings on reincarnation in the Garuda Purana continue to be relevant today, providing insight into the nature of existence and the ultimate goal of life.A must-have audiobook for anyone interested in yoga and meditation. Narrated by Emmy-nominated actor Sripad Jagannatha Das.

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  The Confessions of Fiona -...

  Steve Blamires

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  The Confessions of Fiona by Steve Blamires details the beliefs, stories, and tenets of the Sidhe as revealed by one of the Sidhe, Fiona Macleod. For twelve years, this faery woman laid out the entire mythology, pantheon, and rituals of the faeries themselves. This volume reveals, expands, and explains what we can learn from her.  The Secrets of the Sidhe Revealed!  In 1893, the Scottish writer and mystic William Sharp (1855–1905) started writing under the name Fiona McLeod. The name Fiona did not exist before then, at least not in our world. For the following twelve years, Fiona wrote profusely of her own tradition; that is, the mythology and deities that the faeries recognize. None of these myths, legends, gods, or goddesses were known to humans prior to Fiona’s revelations.   Steve Blamires presents those concepts in his new book, The Confessions of Fiona. He has studied the esoteric faery tradition for thirty years. He presents a unique ritual system; previously unknown myths, legends, and gods and goddesses, offering insight to the modern researcher of this fascinating nonhuman magical body of work. Woven into the legends that the faeries share is a whole ritual magical tradition that humans can emulate with a basic knowledge of the Western magical tradition, the four festivals, the four magical tools, and what has come to be known as pathworking. But they are all significantly different from our human perspective.   Faeries are large, shockingly powerful, and, at times, cruel and dangerous. Steve shows how and when these mighty beings of ancient times were literally shrunken to become the Tinkerbells of popular imagery. Because of this important change of perspective, Steve includes in this book an in-depth look at the faery god Dalua—a truly dark, dangerous god but a necessary one.   To help readers access more of Fiona McLeod’s writings and teachings, Steve has included an appendix detailing all her essential works and scores of relevant direct quotations throughout the book.

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