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  1984 : Sikh Katl-e-aam da Sach -...

  Jarnail Singh

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  1984 : Sikh Katl-e-aam da Sach 
  Author: Jarnail Singh 
  This book tells the story of the tragic 1984 anti-Sikh riots that happened after Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated. Journalist Jarnail Singh explains how thousands of Sikhs were killed, focusing on the failure of the government and the role of political leaders. Using survivor stories and records, the book reveals the truth about the violence and highlights the need for justice for the victims. 
  You can order it from Sikh Siyasat and get it delivered anywhere in the world.

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  Prophetic Leadership and...

  Barbara Will

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  Thirty years have passed since Cornel West's book Race Matters rose to the top of the bestseller lists in 1993. Yet his book remains as relevant as ever to American culture—even more so, if one considers its influence on contemporary racial justice movements such as Black Lives Matter, prison justice, and the fight for police reform. Prophetic Leadership and Visionary Hope looks back to the original 1993 text and forward into the future of racial understanding and healing in our current century. 
   
   
   
  Prophetic Leadership and Visionary Hope offers new points of entry into the thorny issues that the 1993 text addressed: the challenge of leadership in a culture marked by the legacy of white supremacy; the limited value of liberal affirmative action programs in promoting the affirmation of Black humanity; the dangerous seductions of African American conservatism and the question of Black self-regard; the necessity and difficulty of cross-race solidarity and cross-religious affinity; the need to channel legitimate Black rage over untenable conditions of existence into productive opportunities and viewpoints. With essays that span the topics of history, politics, philosophy, religion, cultural studies, music, and aesthetics, Prophetic Leadership and Visionary Hope is as wide-ranging as the thinker whose ideas it engages, interrogates, and celebrates.

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  Polyvagal Practices - Anchoring...

  LCSW Deb Dana

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  Bringing the benefits of polyvagal theory to listeners through easy-to-implement exercises. 
   
   
   
  Here, for the first time, is a layperson's explanation of polyvagal theory, an approach to mental health and well-being that has taken the clinical world by storm. A polyvagal approach to life is based on the knowledge that the autonomic nervous system is shaped by early experience and reshaped with ongoing experience. This short book will offer an overview for nonspecialists and provide a series of exercises and meditations (practices) that will allow listeners to tune into their nervous systems, providing calming prompts to build and strengthen ventral vagal connections. 
   
   
   
  This book includes a comprehensive chapter on polyvagal theory, preceded by exercises that focus on mapping, reflecting, listening, deepening, creating, and connecting. Listeners who want to change a pattern and find new rhythm for their nervous systems can use this material to work toward those goals.

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  Occupied - Civilian Life During...

  Davis Truman

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  Occupied: Civilian Life During World War II reveals the untold story of ordinary people living under extraordinary circumstances. Set in France during the Nazi occupation, this book brings to life the daily struggles, quiet acts of courage, and moral dilemmas faced by civilians caught between survival and resistance. 
  Through meticulous research and vivid storytelling, Occupied captures a world where scarcity shapes every meal, whispers replace open conversation, and even small choices carry weighty consequences. From families stretching rations and bartering for coal, to neighbors deciding whom they could trust, it paints an intimate portrait of life lived under constant watch. 
  This is not a history of generals and battlefields, but of kitchens, marketplaces, and hidden courtyards. It is the story of mothers and fathers, children and grandparents, whose endurance and humanity carried them through the darkest years of the twentieth century. 
  Occupied is both a moving testimony to resilience and an essential lens on the human cost of war, a reminder that behind every headline of conflict are countless lives forever altered by occupation.

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  Collective Souls - Generations...

  Daljeet Peterson

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  Collective Souls weaves generational theory, astrology and mythic storytelling into a groundbreaking exploration of how time moves through us. Drawing on the cyclical insights of Pluto's transits and the archetypes of each generation, astrologer and educator Daljeet Peterson offers a map for navigating the cultural, psychological and spiritual crisis of our age. 
  As America celebrates its 250th birthday and Pluto returns to the very place it stood in 1776, we find ourselves at a crossroads of history and soul. Polarization deepens, institutions falter, and meaning seems harder to find. But what if there's a deeper pattern behind the chaos? 
  From the prophetic fire of the Baby Boomers, to the bridge-building resilience of Generation X,  the visionary drive of the Millennials, and the rising transformative spirit of Gen Z, this book reveals how each generation carries a vital piece of the collective puzzle—and how their dynamic interplay shapes the soul of history itself. 
  Part cultural cartography, part spiritual guide book, Collective Souls invite you to step into a deeper awareness of your place in time. It is a book for anyone seeking to orient themselves in the great turning of the age.

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  Tracing Florida Journeys -...

  Leslie Kemp Poole

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  How has Florida's land changed across five centuries? What has stayed the same, and what remains only in memory? In Tracing Florida Journeys, Leslie Poole delves into the stories of well-known explorers and travelers who came to the peninsula and wrote about their experiences, looking at their words and the paths they took from the perspective of today. 
   
   
   
  In this book, John Muir and Harriet Beecher Stowe write about their visits to Florida, reflecting their expectations of a place that was touted to be "paradise." John James Audubon finds riches of bird life in the Keys. Zora Neale Hurston travels to turpentine camps and sawmills documenting the stories and music of workers and residents. Jonathan Dickinson and Stephen Crane recount shipwrecks along a sparsely populated coastline. 
   
   
   
  Using journals and articles by these and other authors that date back to the early European exploration of the region, Poole retraces their steps. The land they write about is often hard to imagine in today's Florida, a top destination for tourists filled with almost twenty-two million residents. These stories show the evolving history of the state and the richness of its natural resources. Poole's comparisons also point to the people who have been displaced and the ecosystems that have been dramatically altered by exploration and development.

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