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“Thursday, June 15, 2017, will be embedded in my memory forever,” says author Iain MacLeod. “I greeted the summer day eager to face the world with my usual free-spirited independence, and ended the day lying in the Intensive Care unit of a hospital in...

100 Facts About Giving

This book '100 Facts About Giving' was birthed out of prayer; and it is the very first piece of work of the author, which is full of Spirit-filled nuggets and facts. The book actually seeks to uncover all the benefits which accompany the act of...

101 Amazing Statistics

Did you know that you’re almost two thousand times more likely to die from an asteroid hitting the earth than you are from a terrorist attack?Would you be shocked to learn that almost half of pilots surveyed admitted to falling asleep during a...

101 Amazing Unusual Deaths

Death is the one thing about life that we can all be sure of. But exactly how we shuffle off this mortal coil is another story altogether. The boring among us may well gently drift off in our sleep, gratefully avoiding the fate of those whose inner...

1177 B.C.

This audiobook narrated by acclaimed archaeologist and bestselling author Eric Cline offers a breathtaking account of how the collapse of an ancient civilized world ushered in the first Dark AgesIn 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea...

12 Marriage Safeguards

Marriage is a gift from God! It is designed to be the great joy and source of life! If that's true, then why does it seems like it can often be one of the greatest sources of frustration, pain, and often heartache? Why do so many marriages end in...

32 Steps

Global peace is one of those goals that everyone would like to see happen, but at the same time thinks is impossible.Society and humanity at large are just a collection of individuals. When we think about how a society is changing, what we are really...

7 Attitudes of the Helping Heart

Feel like you should do more for the poor but aren't sure where to start? Want to feel closer to God by helping those in need?In this book, author John Christopher Frame, PhD, having encountered poverty around the world, will help you on your journey...

999 Powerful Affirmations for Black Women, 999 Positive Affirmations for Black Women Volume 2, Spiritual Self-Care for Black Women

Discover the transformative power of "999 Powerful Affirmations for Black Women," an extraordinary audiobook carefully curated to uplift and empower the phenomenal souls of Black women everywhere.Within these pages, you'll find a collection of 999...

A Burst of Light

"Lorde's words — on race, cancer, intersectionality, parenthood, injustice — burn with relevance 25 years after her death." — O, The Oprah MagazineWinner of the 1988 Before Columbus Foundation National Book Award, this path-breaking collection of...

A Canadian Shame

A Canadian Shame is a disturbing collection of information that forces every listener to meditate on the atrocities of government and institutions. Grimes' heritage and personal experience make him the perfect author for this book, but the superior...

A Catholic’s Guide to the Spirituality of Death and Dying

If you or someone you love is facing death, this deeply compassionate series offers hope and comfort.While conversations about dying and death have become more popular in recent years, a decidedly Catholic perspective is often missing. Now, this...

A Handbook for Migrants

A Reflective Guide for Meaningful and Whole-Life ExperienceImmigrants are important contributors to the success and growth of many countries. But they face challenges before they can fully attain social and economic balance. Each immigrant needs all...

A Knock on the Door

“It can start with a knock on the door one morning. It is the local Indian agent, or the parish priest, or, perhaps, a Mounted Police officer.” So began the school experience of many Indigenous children in Canada for more than a hundred years, and so...

A Lot of People Are Saying

How the new conspiracists are undermining democracy—and what can be done about itConspiracy theories are as old as politics. But conspiracists today have introduced something new—conspiracy without theory. And the new conspiracism has moved from the...

A Macat Analysis of Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities

Some people think nationhood is as old as civilization itself. But for anthropologist, historian, and political scientist Benedict Anderson, nation and nationalism are products of the communication technology of the era known as the modern age, which...

A Macat Analysis of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique

Born in 1921, Betty Friedan was an American psychology graduate, political activist, journalist, wife, and mother, who challenged the vision 1950s America had of itself as a nation of happy housewives in contented families.In 1963’s The Feminine...

A Macat Analysis of C. L. R. James's The Black Jacobins

Published in 1938, Cyril Lionel Robert (C. L. R.) James’s The Black Jacobins is the little-known story of the only successful slave revolution known in history. It was this 12-year struggle of the African slaves in the French colony of San Domingo...

A Macat Analysis of C. Wright Mills’s The Sociological Imagination

When American sociologist C. Wright Mills’s The Sociological Imagination was first published in 1959, it provoked much hostile reaction. This was understandable: the book was a hard-hitting attack on how sociology was practiced—and on a number of...

A Macat Analysis of Claude Lévi-Strauss's Structural Anthropology

Anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss first published Structural Anthropology in his native French in 1958. Not only did the book transform the discipline of anthropology, it also energized a movement (called structuralism) that came to dominate the...

A Macat Analysis of Clifford Geertz's The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays

American anthropologist Clifford Geertz (1926–2006) earned his PhD from the prestigious Harvard University, where he followed the interdisciplinary approach pioneered by the institution’s Department of Social Relations.Previous generations of...

A Macat Analysis of David Brion Davis’s The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823

Davis’s 1975 work looks to answer a question that had been all but ignored up to that point. Slavery had been accepted in Western culture for centuries. So why did a movement suddenly rise up in the industrial era calling for the slave trade to be...

A Macat Analysis of David Riesman's The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character

American lawyer-turned-sociologist David Riesman published his first book, The Lonely Crowd, in 1950. Aimed at academics, it nonetheless gained a large popular audience. In it, Riesman explores the links between social character—the ways in which...

A Macat Analysis of Douglas McGregor's The Human Side of Enterprise

Douglas McGregor’s 1960 book The Human Side of Enterprise is a groundbreaking study of the conditions that make employment satisfying and meaningful.Traditionally, managers assumed people were lazy and would not work unless strictly controlled....

A Macat Analysis of E. E. Evans-Pritchard's Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande

Social anthropologist Edward Evans-Pritchard wrote Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic among the Azande after 20 months’ fieldwork with the Azande people of the South Sudan. It became the founding text in the anthropology of witchcraft, and has been hailed...