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  The Power of Mentorship

  Will Jawando

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  As a man born of a Nigerian father and a white mother, Jawando is our guide for the essential gift of mentorship and how staggeringly transformative it can be for an entire community. It’s a reminder of how even a brief encounter of positive mentoring can make all the difference for all our children, most especially those at risk.

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  American Idolatry - How...

  Andrew L. Whitehead

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  2024 Midwest Book Award Winner in Religion & Philosophy 
   
  Power. Fear. Violence. These three idols of Christian nationalism are corrupting American Christianity. 
   
  Andrew Whitehead is a leading scholar on Christian nationalism in America and speaks widely on its effects within Christian communities. In this book, he shares his journey and reveals how Christian nationalism threatens the spiritual lives of American Christians and the church. 
   
  Sharing stories from pastors, teachers, and other lay Christians, Whitehead explores 
   
  ● the harm we cause our neighbors when we embrace the idols of power, fear, and violence; 
  ● key examples that demonstrate how these idols violate core Christian beliefs; 
  ● expressions of Christianity that confront Christian nationalism; 
  ● the work we can do to disentangle Christianity from Christian nationalism; and 
  ● a faithful path forward, embodying the life and teachings of Jesus and the gospel. 
   
  "Heartfelt, incisive, and worthy of thoughtful consideration."--Library Journal 
   
  "A fascinating investigation of politics and racism in American Christian evangelicalism."--Foreword Reviews

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  Anusual

  Anu Aggarwal

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  Anu Aggarwal, a Delhi girl, shot to fame with her very first Bollywood movie, Aashiqui, but then turned her back on films and went and joined a yogashram. She had a near-fatal car accident that put her in coma for twenty-nine days but from which she miraculously recovered. She took sanyas, but then returned to Mumbai to teach yoga.
  
  Storytel brings to you the story of this "Anusual" woman in her own voice.

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  The Age of Gladiators - Savagery...

  Rupert Matthews

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  This was Rome, a city of bloodshed and laughter, of food and starvation. But why was so much wealth, time and trouble lavished on free entertainments? 
   
  The Age of the Gladiators explores many savage spectacles of Ancient Rome, many of which have become proverbial for their cruelty, bloodlust and glory. From Gladiator fights in grand amphitheaters to chariot racing at the Circus Maximus, Romans had their pick of extreme spectator sports. 
   
  Rupert Matthews explores the development of these customs, from religious rites into opportunities to bolster political esteem. Were Romans truly free citizens, governed by a fair democracy? And if not, what part did these free entertainments play in the political chess game? This fascinating book reveals all.

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  The Politics of Collecting -...

  Eunsong Kim

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  In The Politics of Collecting, Eunsong Kim traces how racial capitalism and colonialism situated the rise of United States museum collections and conceptual art forms. Investigating historical legal and property claims, she argues that regimes of expropriation—rather than merit or good taste—are responsible for popular ideas of formal innovation and artistic genius. In doing so, she details how Marcel Duchamp's canonization has more to do with his patron's donations to museums than it does the quality of Duchamp's work, and she uncovers the racialized and financialized logic behind the Archive of New Poetry's collecting practices. Ranging from the conception of philanthropy devised by the robber barons of the late nineteenth century to ongoing digitization projects, Kim provides a new history of contemporary art that accounts for the complicated entanglement of race, capital, and labor behind storied art institutions and artists. Drawing on history, theory, and economics, Kim challenges received notions of artistic success and talent and calls for a new vision of art beyond the cultural institution.

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  Of The Social Contract -...

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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  "Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains" 
  These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir vigorous debate since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over others, Rousseau argues instead for a pact, or 'social contract', that should exist between all the citizens of a state and that should be the source of sovereign power. From this fundamental premise, he goes on to consider issues of liberty and law, freedom and justice, arriving at a view of society that has seemed to some a blueprint for totalitarianism, to others a declaration of democratic principles.It's publication in 1762 lead to great discussion about 'what is government' on both sides of the Atlantic, and is still essential reading today. 
  How much government is too much? What rights should be given up for government? It is the Social Contract which is the foundational discussion on these topics.

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