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  Mounted - On Horses Blackness...

  Bitter Kalli

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  Joining the growing Black creative movement currently refashioning horses and cowboy imagery, a thoughtful, probing exploration of the shared history of Blackness and horses which reveals what its image can teach us about nationhood, race, and culture. 
   Drawing on their personal history as a former urban equestrian, Black queer person, and child of Jamaican and Filipino immigrants, essayist and art critic Bitter Kalli contends the horse should be regarded as a critical source of power and identity in Black life. 
  In a series of astute essays, Kalli explores the work of Black artists and influencers from Beyoncé to filmmakers Tiona Nekkia-McClodden and Jeymes Samuel and explores their own life-long relationship to equines. Alternatively playful and critical, meditative and biting, these essays navigate time and place—from the shadows of racetracks where jockey culture and the ubiquity of “equestrian chic” was born, to the reclamation—or, in Lil Nas X’s word, yeehawification—of the image of the cowboy, to the fraught connections of equestrian sport to slavery, US militarization, and European colonial domination. At heart, Kalli probes a central question: What does it mean for Black people to ride and tend horses in the context of a culture that has also used horses against them? 
  Throughout these essays, Kalli reflects on the experience of being the only Black member of the equestrian team at Columbia University, and how the aesthetics, ethos, and practice of horse stewardship contributed to their understanding of gender, sexuality, and radical community building. Mounted moves beyond the reductive stereotypes that dominate our perceptions of “horse people”—the swaggering masculinity, snooty elitism, and assumed whiteness—to reveal how Black people relate to the image and physical presence of the horse in nature and culture, considering violence, sexualization, power, migration, and more through its image.

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  Safe Haven - The United...

  Robert Sherwood, Jon Silverman

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  The controversial 1991 War Crimes Act gave new powers to courts to try non-British citizens resident in the UK for war crimes committed during WWII. But in spite of the extensive investigative and legal work that followed, and the expense of some £11 million, it led to just one conviction: that in 1999 of Anthony (Andrzej) Sawoniuk. 
   
   
   
  Safe Haven considers for the first time why and how convictions failed to follow investigations. Within the broader context of war crimes investigations in the United States, Germany, and Australia, the authors reassess the legal and investigative processes and decisions that stymied inquiries, from the War Crimes Act itself to the restrictive criteria applied to it. Taken together, the authors argue that these—including the interpretations of who could and should be prosecuted and decisions about the nature and amount of evidence needed for trial—meant that many Nazi collaborators escaped justice and never appeared in a criminal court. 
   
   
   
  The authors situate this history within the legacy of the Holocaust: how, if at all, do the belated attempts to address a failure of justice sit with an ever-growing awareness of the Holocaust, represented by memorialization and education? In so doing, Safe Haven provokes a timely reconsideration of the relationship between law, history, and truth.

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  The Ottoman Empire - A History...

  Hourly History

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  Over the course of just two hundred years, the Ottoman Empire grew from a small, obscure Anatolian state into the most powerful Muslim nation in the world, controlling vast swathes of the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and North Africa. Within the empire science, medicine, technology, and art flourished, and the Ottoman army became one of the most feared and efficient fighting forces in existence. Then came a period of gradual decline. Beset by external enemies and torn apart by conflicting elements inside, over the next three hundred and fifty years the Ottoman Empire lost power, territory, and prestige until it became “the sick man of Europe.” 
  This is the dramatic story of the rise, fall, and eventual disintegration of the Ottoman Empire, of its conquests and defeats, and of its sultans who ranged from the grandeur of Suleiman the Magnificent to the obsession and confusion of Mustafa the Mad. The story begins with the dream of the first Ottoman sultan, Osman I, in 1300, and ended with the nightmare of the last sultan, Abdulmejid II, in 1922. This is the story of the Ottoman Empire, from beginning to end.

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  Party People - Candidates and...

  Allan Sikk, Phillip Koker

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  Candidates are the literal "face" of political parties, yet they are not wedded to them permanently: candidates can enter or leave politics, switch parties, move along or stay behind when parties split or merge. Even in parties that look stable, candidate change happens below the surface, ultimately altering what the parties stand for. Inspired by evolutionary theories, Party People: Candidates and Party Evolution conceptualizes candidates as "party genes" and develops a candidate-based approach to party evolution. Tracking candidates between elections and parties opens up new perspectives on party development in complex and dynamic settings in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and beyond. Based on a new database of 200,000 electoral candidates from over sixty elections across nine CEE democracies, this book presents a groundbreaking study of party evolution using candidate change as an indicator of party change. Allan Sikk and Philipp Köker offer a series of methodological and conceptual advances for the measurement of candidate turnover, party fission and fusion, programmatic change, and party leadership change; the resulting analyses make a significant contribution to the study of CEE party politics as well as to the general scholarship on elections, parties, and political change.

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  Egyptian Mythology

  Sofia Visconti

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  Drama, death, glory, and love flowed through the blood of the Egyptians under the watchful eyes of their gods and goddesses...Ancient Egypt was one of the greatest and most powerful civilizations in the world ever.And of all ancient civilizations, Egyptians rule supreme when it comes to mystery and fantasy...From the lavish colors of their papyruses to how they mastered building technology thousands of years before anyone else, and to the legends surrounding the lives and deaths of their kings. Egyptians are an eternal source of awe.Not only did they know how to build great structures, they also knew how to have fun. They loved beer and board games, they used makeup, and they allowed women more freedom than many other women in the ancient world.You see, Game of Thrones has nothing on the intricacies, wars, and battles Egyptian dynasties fought for thousands of years. Ancient Egypt has it all: drama, love stories, myths, massive buildings, death, destruction, and pain. Let’s listen to them and explore their timeless stories!All of this and much more, including:- The timeline of Ancient Egypt: the rise and the fall- Discover the gods and goddesses of Ancient Egypt and their classic stories- The mystery and miracle of how the pyramids were built (was it aliens or astronomy?)- Cleopatra's legacy: the most famous pharaoh and femme fatale- Isis and Osiris: the greatest love story of all time- The mummy curse - what killed people and who opened King Tut’s tomb- Decoding the secrets of Egyptian hieroglyphs- Interesting facts about Egyptian culture: art, music, and literatureAnd much, much more...Begin your journey of discovering not only Ancient Egypt, but also its legends, mythology, and much more with this book.©2020 Sofia Visconti (P)2021 Sofia Visconti

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  The Mariner's Whisper - Islamic...

  Zaid Shaikh

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In the bustling ports of the ancient East, Zayd ibn Musa is known for his unmatched skill and his paralyzing anxiety. His small dhow, Al-Barakah, is his last hope for survival against the oppressive monopoly of the great merchant Bahlul. Forced onto the treacherous Deep Route—a sea of uncharted shallows and violent squalls—Zayd’s preparations are stripped away, forcing him to confront his deepest fear: the loss of control. 
   
  From a miraculous escape from the Sea of Shallows to weathering a devastating squall, Zayd’s voyage becomes a sequence of physical and moral tests. His ultimate challenge is Layla, a young fugitive carrying explosive evidence against Bahlul, offering Zayd instant, but morally corrupted, wealth. 
   
  Listen to this epic journey of self-discovery where the power of human effort (Asbab) meets the serenity of divine reliance (Tawakkul). Discover what Zayd finds in the wreckage of his ship: a certainty (Yaqeen) that provision comes not from the ledger, but from the purity of the heart.

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