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  Melanin Base Camp - Real-Life...

  Danielle Williams

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  Beautiful, empowering, and exhilarating, Melanin Base Camp is a celebration of underrepresented BIPOC adventurers that will challenge you to rethink your perceptions of what an outdoorsy individual looks like and inspire you to being your own adventure. Danielle Williams, skydiver and founder of the online community Melanin Base Camp, profiles dozens of adventurers pushing the boundaries of inclusion and equity in the outdoors. These compelling narratives include a mother whose love of hiking led her to found a nonprofit to expose BIPOC children to the wonders of the outdoors and a mountain biker who, despite at first dealing with unwelcome glances and hostility on trails, went on to become a blogger who writes about justice and diversity in natural spaces. Also included is a guide to outdoor allyship that explores sometimes challenging topics to help all of us create a more inclusive community, whether you bike, climb, hike, or paddle. Join us as we work together to increase representation and opportunities for people of color in outdoor adventure sports.  

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  Insatiably Mine - About...

  Harald Vestgöte Kirsebom

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  This is a book about the type of people who survive through destroying other people. 
  According to the author, we all do our best to make our way through life, and we are all forced to make sense of our own lives. In that respect, there is only one type of human being. You see, none of us really knows why we were born, and the people who have raised us, such as parents and teachers, are equally oblivious. 
  Getting through life involves a lot of pain and in our life journey, we will experience various kinds of pain. The pain has different origins, but it mainly has to do with fear and feelings of separation and isolation. 
  Some people have experienced these emotions to the degree that they have learnt to get through life by sucking the life force out of others; insatiably. The author shares his understanding of the destructive behaviour that comes along with these people. To do this in a balanced manner, the author moves between different vantage points; the emphatic, the accepting and the brutal. 
  This might sound strange, but even the most horrible tyrants are tyrants because they deep down crave to be loved. Reading this book is enlightening for every searching human being. The book can be read for self-development and personal growth, and it can be read to understand more about your own encounters with destructive people. It can help you understand interactions in family situations, childcare, work situations, politics and community life.

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  A Passion for Castles - The...

  Janet Brennan-Inglis

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  In the 1880s two Edinburgh architects began to survey, measure and sketch the castles of Scotland, travelling the length and breadth of the country on trains, bicycles and on foot. Together they produced the five magnificent volumes of The Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland, an unrivalled work of research that surveys more than 700 of Scotland's castellated buildings, ranging from great medieval fortresses to small lairds' houses with pepper-pot turrets, and is illustrated with thousands of sketches and plans.
  The first part of A Passion for Castles tells the life stories of David MacGibbon and Thomas Ross and their work as Edinburgh architects before they embarked on their magisterial survey, revealing interesting and previously unknown details about the two men. The second part of the book sets their enormously ambitious castles project in its historical context, and describes how MacGibbon and Ross managed to achieve their pioneering, systematic and comprehensive survey.
  The final part of the book provides a regional overview of the current status of all the castles surveyed by MacGibbon and Ross, followed by a thematic exploration of those that have been lost, those that have been transformed and those at risk of collapse, before posing questions about what the future holds for the castles of Scotland.

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  Clausewitz : War and Politics

  Saurabh Kumar

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  This book tells us about the man, Karl von Clausewitz. His personal life and career. His theories on war and how politics affect war. This book also tells Clauswitz’s cogent determinants  that prevent absolute war.

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  Picts - Scourge of Rome Rulers...

  Nicholas Evans, Gordon Noble

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  Shortlisted for the EAA Book Prize and the Current Archaeology Book of the Year Award
  The Picts have fascinated for centuries. They emerged c. ad 300 to defy the might of the Roman empire only to disappear at the end of the first millennium ad, yet they left major legacies. They laid the foundations for the medieval Scottish kingdom and their captivating carved stones are some of the most eye-catching yet enigmatic monuments in Europe. Until recently the Picts have been difficult to trace due to limited archaeological investigation and documentary sources, but innovative new research has produced critical new insights into the culture of a highly sophisticated society which defied the might of the Roman Empire and forged a powerful realm dominating much of northern Britain.
  This is the first dedicated book on the Picts that covers in detail both their archaeology and their history. It examines their kingdoms, culture, beliefs and everyday lives from their origins to their end, not only incorporating current thinking on the subject, but also offering innovative perspectives that transform our understanding of the early history of Scotland.

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  Charles Manson - A Life from...

  Hourly History

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  A small man with wild, matted hair, wide eyes, and a swastika tattooed on his forehead, Charles Manson is instantly recognizable as the deranged cult leader who was responsible for the deaths of nine people in the late 1960s. Manson was a career criminal who got his education in the U.S. prison system and learned at an early age that only those who have power over others will survive. 
  In less than three years, Manson transformed his followers from a group of freedom-loving, LSD-dropping hippies into a pack of blood-thirsty murderers who carried out acts of astounding brutality at his request. For many, August 8, 1969, the day the Manson Family murdered Sharon Tate and her guests, marked the end of the Sixties. The Manson Family murder spree shocked the world, and standing silently at the center of it all was one man, Charles Manson.

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