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  The Model Black - How Black...

  Barbara Banda

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  This book is for anyone who wants to understand what being more inclusive at work means, especially as it relates to black leaders. Based on candid interviews with thirty successful black leaders, it peels away the multifaceted layers of black British leaders in organizations to offer a new way of thinking about the black British experience. 
   
   
   
  This book provides the insights and ideas required to have positive conversations about race at work and to create work environments where black leaders can thrive. This book offers new ways of thinking about black people at work that help to further inclusion. It shines a light on the daily reality of being a black leader in the workplace, providing an alternative entry point for conversations around inclusion and explores what individuals and organizations can do to increase inclusion in the workplace. Through firsthand stories this book explores the challenges, compromises, struggles, and successes that black people encounter, and the range of strategies they employ to achieve success as they navigate the "white" workplace. 
   
   
   
  It is essential for business leaders in the private, public, and third sector, human resources professionals, students, anyone teaching or mentoring black students or leaders, and everyone interested in understanding race and furthering inclusion in the workplace.

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  Plans For Your Good - A Prime...

  Scott Morrison, Mike Pence

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  Read by the author.  
  Scott Morrison, Australia's 30th Prime Minister (2018-2022), offers a unique insider's account of a Christian who was open about his faith and operated at the top level of politics for more than a decade. During one of the toughest periods since the second world war, covering drought, wildfires, a global pandemic and recession, he chronicles God's faithfulness throughout, win or lose, public criticism or public success. 
  Less political memoir and more pastoral encouragement, Morrison is passionate about encouraging others to discover how they can access and see the many blessings of God in their own lives, no matter their circumstances, drawing on Jeremiah 29:11, that God's plans are for our good and not our harm, to give us a future and a hope. In each section Morrison asks the questions all of us are looking to find answers to:Who am I? Discovering your purpose.How should I live? Finding your pathway.What should I hope for? Embracing your future. 
    
  Full of fascinating insights into the handling of some of the most significant global events and issues of our time Morrison's honest, vulnerable and reflective answers offers a unique lens to better understand your relationship with God and the blessing that can flow from such a relationship. 
  Alongside an account of high-level politics in a new media age where cancel culture, identity politics and deep secularization is taking hold across so many western societies, creating a truly post Christian west, Morrison testifies to the faithful love and blessings of God.

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  Blood of The Gods - From...

  Olivia Sanchez

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  In Blood of the Gods, journey into the heart of the Aztec civilization, where spirituality and ritualistic violence coexisted in a breathtakingly intricate tapestry. This compelling narrative uncovers how the Aztecs' deep religious convictions shaped their society and justified the bloodshed that sustained their universe. 
  The Aztecs believed that their gods demanded blood to maintain cosmic harmony. This book immerses you in their world through vivid descriptions of grand ceremonies at the Templo Mayor and detailed accounts of human sacrifices. Discover how these rituals, though brutal, were viewed as sacred acts that honored the divine and ensured the survival of their society. 
  Blood of the Gods explores how these acts were not mere barbarity but deeply ingrained in their religious and cultural framework, intended to appease and connect with their gods. With stunning visuals and insights from the latest archaeological research, this book focuses on the grandeur and grimness of Aztec life.  
  Perfect for history enthusiasts and those intrigued by ancient cultures, this book is a deep dive into a world where the sacred and the savage were inseparable.

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  999 Inside Death Row in the...

  Arnaud Gaillard

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  On death row, the poorest and most numerous, with no family and no decent lawyer, are sometimes executed before all their appeals have been exhausted. Their fate consigned to modest prison cemeteries. In Texas, the number engraved on the cement stone begins with 999.
  Out of 50 American states, 34 still have the death penalty. Why and how? The author's investigation took him to California, Utah, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi and Pennsylvania. A human immersion into the heart of American society and its judicial system, through encounters with death row inmates, lawyers and victims' families.
  This fascinating book finely deconstructs the American myth of fair and infallible justice—from the deplorable conditions of confinement to daily abuse, from random legal recourse to political and judicial manipulation. More than just a sentence, the death penalty appears to be torture with many faces. And in an America on the move, there are signs that abolition is on the way. 
  999, is the fruit of a fact-finding mission carried out by the French association, Ensemble contre la peine de mort (ECPM), with financial support from the European Union.

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  Start of the French Revolution...

  Editors Charles River

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  As one of the seminal social revolutions in human history, the French Revolution holds a unique legacy, especially in the West. The early years of the Revolution were fueled by Enlightenment ideals, seeking the social overthrow of the caste system that gave the royalty and aristocracy decisive advantages over the lower classes. But history remembers the French Revolution in a starkly different way, as the same leaders who sought a more democratic system while out of power devolved into establishing an incredibly repressive tyranny of their own once they acquired it.  
  	The French Revolution was a turbulent period that lasted several years, and one of the most famous events of the entire revolution came near the beginning with the Tennis Court Oath. By July of 1788, King Louis XVI agreed to call the Estates-General, a large, traditional legislative body, for the first time since 1614. The country's finances, already quite tenuous, reached a crisis stage in August 1788 as France faced bankruptcy.  
  	In the spring of 1789, Louis XVI summoned the Estates-General. They were to convene at Versailles on April 27, but did not do so until May 5. Late elections continued into the summer as conditions around the country delayed many elections. At the same time, bread prices reached an all-time high, leading to riots throughout the country, particularly in Paris. During the formal ritual that welcomed the Estates-General on May 4, 1789, in a precursor of things to come in the following months, the Third Estate refused to kneel before the king. The deputies of the Third Estate came before the king, walking two at a time, and bowed before Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. Not surprisingly, those witnessing the parade of the Estates-General had hoped for reform but came to expect that the Estates-General would serve as a tool of the administration. Instead, the start of the French Revolution would soon follow.

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  The Hitler Bloodline -...

  David Gardner

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  The astounding story of the quest to find the living descendants of the most monstrous tyrant in history - Adolf HitlerAdolf Hitler was one of six children born to his mother, and one of eight born to his father from two of his three marriages. Alois Hitler, né Schicklgruber, was an official of the Austrian customs service, and the combination of an imperial uniform and a severe drinking habit seems to have ensured that Hitler's father was a drunken bully given to beating his children if they were not instantly obedient.Alois had two children, Alois junior and Angela, by his second wife, and six by his third, Hitler's mother Clara, of whom four, all boys, died at birth or in infancy. Young Adolf was therefore left with a half-brother, Alois, and half-sister, Angela, and a full sister, Paula, who died in 1960. When Hitler killed himself in April 1945, all his siblings were still living and some had children of their own. So, what happened to them?The answer is that no one was really certain until David Gardner published this book in 2001, having patiently and steadfastly tracked down Hitler's living relations to the USA, and made contact with some of them. Now revised and updated, this is a fascinating study of a little-known side of Hitler's history, as well as a riveting account of how the author traced and contacted the survivors of a bloodline that most of the world probably hoped had become extinct.

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