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  Ministers of a New Medium -...

  Kirk D. Farney

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  Named Best Major Publication by Concordia Historical Institute
  During the anxiety-laden period from the Great Depression through World War II to the Cold War, Americans found a welcome escape in the new medium of radio. Throughout radio's "Golden Age," religious broadcasting in particular contributed significantly to American culture. Yet its historic role often has been overlooked.
  In Ministers of a New Medium, Kirk D. Farney explores the work of two groundbreaking leaders in religious broadcasting: Fulton J. Sheen and Walter A. Maier. These clergymen and professors—one a Catholic priest, the other a Lutheran minister—each led the way in combining substantive theology and emerging technology to spread the gospel over the airwaves. Through weekly nationwide broadcasts, Maier's The Lutheran Hour and Sheen's Catholic Hour attracted listeners across a spectrum of denominational and religious affiliations, establishing their hosts—and Christian radio itself—as cultural and religious forces to be reckoned with.
  Farney examines how Sheen and Maier used their exceptional erudition, their sensitivity to the times, their powerful communication skills, and their unwavering Christian conviction, all for the purpose of calling the souls of listeners and the soul of a nation to repentance and godliness. Their combination of talents also brought their respective denominations, Roman Catholicism and Missouri Synod Lutheranism, from the periphery of the American religious landscape to a much greater level of recognition and acceptance. With careful attention to both the theological content and the cultural influence of these masters of a new medium, Farney's study sheds new light on the history of media and Christianity in the United States.

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  Great Empires - History of the...

  Kelly Mass

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  This book contains several titles, which are the following: 
  Genghis Khan - Genghis Khan was the Mongol emperor who has expanded his region to the biggest empire on the face of the earth ever. His empire stretched from East Asia all the way to various European countries, the Middle East, and beyond. 
  What made Genghis Khan so successful? 
  Was he a brute, rapist, and pillaging dictator, or did he have a tolerant side as well? 
  You will learn more about his early life, his relationships, marriage, families and children, his attacks, his unification of the Mongolian Federations, his death, succession, and the continuing of the Mongolian Empire after his death. 
  Mongolian Empire - The Mongolian Empire was not to be trifled with! Genghis Khan and his followers conquered a vast part of Asia, Europe, and beyond. There aren’t many people who haven’t heard of these conquerors and their achievement. Honor them or despise them, but at least acknowledge their existence. 
  How did the Mongol Empire grow so big? 
  What was it like before the expansion? 
  These questions and many others will be answered in this historical guide. Their dominance, their attitude, and their culture will be explained, as well as their practices of war and various other parts of their society. 
  Attila the Hun - You may have heard about him: Attila the Hun. Let's discover who this individual actually was and why he has such a bad track record of being a callous, aggressive conqueror in the first millennium after Christ. Attila the Hun was the ruler of the Huns from the year 434 till his death in the month of March in the year 453. Also, he was the leader of a tribal realm which consisted mainly of Huns, Ostrogoths, Alans and Bulgars, to name a few, in Central Europe and in Eastern Europe.

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  Gather - Black Food Nourishment...

  Ashanté M. Reese

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  A vibrant new vision of food justice that celebrates Black food and recognizes the power of gathering to create sustainable, systemic change. 
   
  How can we create a world where everyone has enough? We can start by focusing less on lack and more on abundance. 
   
  In Gather, anthropologist Ashanté M. Reese argues for a new vision of food justice that centers the resilience of Black communities and argues that community nourishment deserves as much consideration as individual health. Highlighting four spaces of gathering―gardens, family reunions, repasts, and protests ―Reese offers rich, on–the–ground studies of the places and people who make up the food justice movement. From Black church networks and community farms to student protests, these studies illuminate ways we can challenge structures of power and nourish ourselves, body and soul. In a world of social isolation and unequal food systems, Gather offers a compelling argument for the beauty and political power of togetherness.

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  A Year in Provence

  Peter Mayle

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  More than 40,000 listeners have enjoyed this story on cassette. Now anyone who's ever dreamed of getting away from it all can enjoy the charms and challenges of A Year in Provence on CD!Peter Mayle and his wife had been to Provence as tourists. They had dreamed of one day trading the long, gray winters and damp summers of England for the blue skies and sunshine of the coast of southern France. And then they made it happen. They moved into an old farmhouse at the foot of the Luberon mountains and embarked on a wonderful, if at times bewildering, new life. Among their experiences that first year: being inundated with builders and visitors, grappling with the native accent, taking part in goat races and supervising the planting of a new vineyard. Peter Mayle personally recounts the pleasures and frustrations of Provençal life--sharing in a way no one else can, the unique and endearing culture that is Provence.A Year in Provence was a New York Times bestseller for three years and won the British Book Awards' "Best Travel Book of the Year."

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  WARRIORS OF THE FIRST NATIONS...

  Quentin Drummond Anderson

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  From the bestselling author of Empire of Fear, War Beneath the Waves, Lions and Foxes, and the Human Condition Quartet 
  Every tribe called ferocious was, in fact, a nation fighting for survival. 
  For four centuries, the peoples of Native America fought one of the longest and most consequential wars in human history — against Spanish conquistadors, French missionaries, British redcoats, and American cavalry. They fought for their land, their families, their ceremonies, and their right to exist on the continent they had inhabited for ten thousand years. 
  Warriors of the First Nations is the definitive narrative military and cultural history of Indigenous North America — sweeping, rigorously researched, and compulsively readable. 
  Meet the Comanche horsemen who built an empire larger than France. The Apache guerrillas who evaded the US Army for three decades. The Nez Perce who conducted a fighting retreat of twelve hundred miles, defeating the Army battle after battle before being caught thirty miles from safety. 
  Meet Geronimo, who held two national armies to a standstill with thirty-eight people. Crazy Horse, whose genius destroyed Custer at the Little Bighorn in under an hour. Tecumseh, who came closer than any man to uniting the continent against expansion. Chief Joseph, whose surrender — From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever — is one of the great documents of human dignity. 
  Drawing on decades of research, Quentin Drummond Anderson brings twenty chapters of unsparing history to a story buried under two centuries of mythology. 
  This is not a book about defeat. It is a book about what human beings are capable of when they refuse to stop fighting for what is theirs. 
  The nations are still here. The warriors are still at their work. 
  20 chapters · Four centuries · Little Bighorn, Pueblo Revolt, Wounded Knee, and more · Full portraits of Geronimo, Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Tecumseh, Chief Joseph, and others · Extensive notes and bibliography

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  Poor Folk

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

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  "We are poor people, we are simple people, but we have hearts and souls too."
  
  Before the psychological labyrinths of Crime and Punishment, a young Dostoevsky captured the world's attention with this exquisite epistolary novel. Through a series of increasingly desperate letters, we witness the relationship between Makar Devushkin, a lowly, aging copy clerk, and Varvara Dobroselova, a fragile young seamstress. Living in squalid rooms across a dismal St. Petersburg courtyard, they exchange words of comfort, shared bread, and the flickering hope of a better life. Poor Folk is a searingly intimate portrait of the "little man" struggling to maintain his humanity in a society that views him as nothing more than a smudge on a ledger.
  
  The Birth of Psychological Realism: Dostoevsky takes the traditional "sentimental" epistolary form and infuses it with a brutal, modern realism. He elevates the clerk—a figure usually mocked in Russian literature—to a tragic hero. Makar's obsession with his social standing and his desperate attempts to appear "respectable" even as he starves reveal the deep psychological scars of class inequality.
  
  A Tragedy of Self-Sacrifice: As their financial situation deteriorates, the letters become a battleground between love and survival. Makar's selfless devotion to Varvara leads him to ruin, while Varvara is forced to make a heart-shattering choice between the man who loves her and the safety of a wealthy, predatory suitor. It is a story that proves the greatest tragedies are often the quietest ones, occurring behind closed doors in the poorest corners of the city.
  
  Witness the soul of a genius in its first bloom. Purchase "Poor Folk" today and experience the novel that changed Russian literature forever.

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