An exploration of how memories of the Holodomor famine shaped Ukraine's national identity, existential threat perceptions, and resistance against RussiaFor many international observers of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Holodomor is the most important story they have never heard. When the Ukrainian Sun Rises explores the domestic, international, and geopolitical implications of this 1932–33 genocide—an artificial famine in Joseph Sta...

This insightful study describes and illustrates the troops fielded by the Ptolemaic regime in North Africa throughout its turbulent 275-year existence.Founded by Ptolemy I Soter, a close companion of Alexander the Great, the Ptolemaic Empire encompassed Egypt, northern Libya and parts of the Levant for nearly three centuries. Initially, its armies fought in the Wars of the Diadochi, as Alexander's successors disputed his conquests. Intermittent conflicts with the e...

This fully illustrated study explores and depicts the machine-gun tactics employed by both sides on the Western Front in 1914–18.During World War I, machine guns made an enormous combat contribution in the hands of both Entente and Central Powers forces, not only during the trench warfare of 1914–17 but also in the more mobile climactic battles of 1918. While light machine guns and 'automatic rifles' were widely issued to infantry at platoon level, this book focuse...

A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation" trilogy. All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about love, and inspiration to help us instill caring, compassion, and strength in our homes, schools, and workplaces.“The word ‘love’ is most often defined ...

From New York Times bestselling author, feminist pioneer, and cultural icon bell hooks, an evergreen treatise on how patriarchy and toxic masculinity hurts us all.Feminist writing did not tell us about the deep inner misery of men.Everyone needs to love and be loved—including men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the ways in which patriarchal culture keeps them from understanding themselves. In The Will to...

This innovative and insightful book presents a motivational and transformational framework designed to help individuals close the gap between knowing and doing, with a focus on disciplined execution and personal leadership.Through a structured dialogue between the Seeker and the Master, the author explores the psychological and practical barriers to finishing what matters, such as internal negotiation, perfectionism, and reliance on motivation.

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.She dreamed of exposing the truth. Instead, she became the story.On September 7, 1997, nineteen-year-old Brook Baker, a journalism student at Vincennes University, was found brutally murdered inside her off-campus home in Vincennes, Indiana. She had been stabbed multiple times in a crime so violent it stunned the quiet college town and left investigators searching desperately for answers.

This book presents a comprehensive framework for achieving enrollment mastery through the Fig Tree Enrollment Model™, which integrates eleven sequential strategies that transform enrollment from an uncertain act into a disciplined, repeatable process.The author combines practical communication techniques with deep inner mindset development, emphasizing that true enrollment is rooted in personal certainty, alignment, and identity rather than persu...

She dreamed of exposing the truth. Instead, she became the story.On September 7, 1997, nineteen-year-old Brook Baker, a journalism student at Vincennes University, was found brutally murdered inside her off-campus home in Vincennes, Indiana. She had been stabbed multiple times in a crime so violent it stunned the quiet college town and left investigators searching desperately for answers.In the days that followed, rumors spread across campu...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER by the author of All About Love!“When truth teller and careful writer bell hooks offers a book, I like to be standing at the bookshop when it opens.” –Maya AngelouIntimate, revealing, provocative, Communion challenges every woman to courageously claim the search for love as the heroic journey we must all choose to be truly free. In her trademark commanding and lucid language, hooks explores the ...

Some walls are built from brick. Others are built from fear, silence, grief, memory, and survival.Behind the Walls: Poems of Light and Dark is a powerful collection of poetry that explores the emotional spaces people rarely reveal. Through deeply personal and thought-provoking verses, the book moves between darkness and light—examining pain, loneliness, inner conflict, healing, strength, faith, and hope.Each poem offers a glimpse behind the walls we build to protect ourselves...

From New York Times bestselling author, feminist pioneer, and cultural icon bell hooks, an evergreen treatise on how patriarchy and toxic masculinity hurts us all.Feminist writing did not tell us about the deep inner misery of men.Everyone needs to love and be loved—including men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the ways in which patriarchal culture keeps them from understanding themselves. In The Will to...