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Notions of Privacy in Early Modern Correspondence
by Michael Green, Lars Cyril Norgaard
English | 2025 | ISBN: 2503612342 | 272 Pages | PDF | 3.1 MB

Our modern notions of privacy have their roots in the early modern period. When studying this historical background, one of the most important sources is correspondence. Letters sent from one person to another reflect specific situations, ideas, thoughts, emotions, and experiences. Contextualizing an epistolary exchange provides information about the world and values of past individuals. This volume presents essays that deal with a variety of early modern correspondence. The letters analysed, written in French, Dutch, German, and English, speak to very different contexts and cultural codes. While each of the letters in question has its own unique story to tell, all contributions come together by focusing on notions of privacy. From the intimacy that unfolds in educational exchanges to specific letter-writers and their strategic use of the private, this volume offers ground-breaking insights that will be relevant to many different researchers and their respective fields: the history of science, the history of Christianity, the history of travel writing and education, gender studies, and the history of diplomacy. In addition, the contributions also tackle the issue of publishing letters in the early modern period, both as a cultural phenomenon and as a material praxis. Together, the essays show how 'privacy' was an ambiguous term in the early modern period; the letter as literary genre and a means of communication demonstrates how privacy was perceived both as valuable and as a potential threat.

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Nutrition and Supplements in Cycling
by Lewis A. Gough, S. Andy Sparks
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032451076 | 348 Pages | True ePUB | 1.06 MB

Nutrition and Supplements in Cycling provides a blueprint for all the key nutritional aspects a cyclist should consider from health to macro- and micro-nutrients, and the finer details, such as sports supplements to improve competitive performance. As a result, cyclists and coaches can use this book as a handbook to help with supporting their own (or their athletes') health and performance through evidence-based nutrition.
The nutritional demands of cycling are as diverse as the number of disciplines in the sport. To address this issue, this book covers the nutritional strategies for short- and long-distance disciplines and considers the implications of training and racing in a variety of environmental conditions. The book is divided into two distinct parts that are structured around the nutrition demands and practices of cyclists and an evaluation of novel and existing supplements that are currently being used or considered by riders.
This book represents a go-to resource for cyclists, performance nutritionists, coaches, and students looking for the most effective and up-to-date evidence-based nutritional strategies for enhancing cycling performance. It brings together a team of emerging and world-leading academics, along with practitioners and riders from the UCI World and Pro Tours, to provide insightful evaluations of the latest science and to translate that knowledge into practical recommendations. Finally, it presents a model of reflective practice designed to enhance the performance nutrition practitioner's development and practices.
This book is key reading for active cyclists, cycling coaches, and athletes, as well as researchers and students of sport and exercise science, nutrition, human performance, and exercise physiology.

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Occupant-Oriented Demand Response with Model Predictive Heating Control in a Multi-Zone Residential Building
Moritz Frahm
English | 2025 | ISBN: 9783731513858 | 130 Pages | True PDF | 1.56 MB

This book introduces a framework for occupant-oriented demand response in residential buildings with distributed energy sources. Using model predictive control, it optimizes heat pump operation while integrating PV, batteries, and occupants' thermal satisfaction. Results show over 20% cost savings and enhanced thermal satisfaction. PV integration further reduces costs by over 50%. The framework provides a practical, data-driven approach for versatile, energy-efficient building solutions.

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Old English Studies and its Scandinavian Practitioners: Nationalism, Aesthetics, and Spirituality in the Nordic Countries, 1733-2023
by Robert E Bjork
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1843847264 | 355 Pages | True ePUB | 16.3 MB

An account of the Scandinavian contributions to the field of Old English studies from the eighteenth century onwards.
The discipline of Old English Studies began in Scandinavia, not England, pioneered by the work of the great Danish scholar, N.F.S. Grundtvig (1783-1872) and continues to flourish in the languages of the region (including Finland). This book offers a history of Scandinavian scholarship, in Neo-Latin, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, as well as Finnish and Sámi, from 1733 to the present day. It surveys the major events and texts in the discipline, and evaluates translations of Beowulf and other Old English prose and verse texts. It argues that nationalism, aesthetics, and spirituality are the chief motivators for Old English studies in the Nordic countries; although Romantic nationalism was a first mover for Old English studies, the qualities Scandinavians now seek in Old English literature-that we all seek-are transnational, existential, spiritual, and human. The study concludes with complete bibliographies of contributions in the Scandinavian languages to Old English studies and of translations of Old English literature into the Scandinavian languages.

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Old English Studies and its Scandinavian Practitioners: Nationalism, Aesthetics, and Spirituality in the Nordic Countries, 1733-2023
by Robert E Bjork
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1843847264 | 355 Pages | PDF | 38 MB

An account of the Scandinavian contributions to the field of Old English studies from the eighteenth century onwards.
The discipline of Old English Studies began in Scandinavia, not England, pioneered by the work of the great Danish scholar, N.F.S. Grundtvig (1783-1872) and continues to flourish in the languages of the region (including Finland). This book offers a history of Scandinavian scholarship, in Neo-Latin, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, as well as Finnish and Sámi, from 1733 to the present day. It surveys the major events and texts in the discipline, and evaluates translations of Beowulf and other Old English prose and verse texts. It argues that nationalism, aesthetics, and spirituality are the chief motivators for Old English studies in the Nordic countries; although Romantic nationalism was a first mover for Old English studies, the qualities Scandinavians now seek in Old English literature-that we all seek-are transnational, existential, spiritual, and human. The study concludes with complete bibliographies of contributions in the Scandinavian languages to Old English studies and of translations of Old English literature into the Scandinavian languages.

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I. Proudfoot, "Old Muslim Calendars of Southeast Asia"
English | 2006 | ISBN: 9004154140 | PDF | pages: 147 | 65.2 mb
Director of the Malay Concordance Project, Proudfoot explains the peculiar form of the Muslim calendar that was widely used in Southeast Asia but is not so well known elsewhere in the Islamic world. They operated on an eight-year cycle, had been replaced by more orthodox versions of the Islamic calendar everywhere but in Java by the 20th century. Though his explanation may help correct errors in dating old texts, his main concern is to cast light on aspects of older Malay science and culture. The disk contains tools for converting Malay and Javanese dates to a range of variant calendars. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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On Character: Choices That Define a Life by General Stanley McChrystal
English | May 13th, 2025 | ISBN: 0593852958 | 304 pages | True EPUB | 0.88 MB
From the bestselling author of Team of Teams and My Share of the Task, reflections on character, and who we choose to be.

"Reputation is what men and women think of us;
character is what God and angels know of us."
-Thomas Paine
How to measure a life? After a career of service, retired four-star general Stanley McChrystal had much to contemplate. He pondered his successes and failures, his beliefs and aspirations, and asked himself, Who am I, really? And more importantly, who have I become? When I die, how will I be measured?
In the end, McChrystal came to a conclusion as simple as it was profound: the reality of who we are cannot be recorded in dates or accomplishments. It is found in our character-the most accurate, and last full measure, of who we choose to be.
On Character offers McChrystal's blueprint for living with purpose and integrity, challenging us to examine not just our deeds but who we become through them. Drawing from a lifetime of experience, he distills profound insights on setting and meeting standards, aligning actions with beliefs, and offers practical advice on overcoming obstacles and pursuing self-improvement.
According to McChrystal, character is not a trait inherited at birth, nor does it automatically come from education, position, or experience. Character, instead, comes down to a succession of choices, most mundane, several momentous, that reveal the deep truth of our capacity for virtue.
In an era where understanding and upholding our ideals is more crucial than ever, On Character offers an inspiring roadmap for personal growth and integrity-a call to become our best selves, both as individuals and as Americans.

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On Hunger: Violence and Craving in America, from Starvation to Ozempic
by Dana Simmons
English | 2025 | ISBN: 0520412982 | 234 Pages | True ePUB | 4.6 MB

In this book, Dana Simmons explores the enduring production of hunger in US history. Hunger, in the modern United States, became a technology-a weapon, a scientific method, and a policy instrument. During the nineteenth century, state agents and private citizens colluded in large-scale campaigns of ethnic cleansing using hunger and food deprivation. In the twentieth century, officials enacted policies and rules that made incarcerated people, welfare recipients, and beneficiaries of foreign food aid hungry by design, in order to modify their behavior. With the advent of ultraprocessed foods, food manufacturers designed products to stimulate cravings and consumption at the expense of public health. Taking us inside the labs of researchers devoted to understanding hunger as a biological and social phenomenon, On Hunger examines the continuing struggle to produce, suppress, or control hunger in America.

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On Hunger: Violence and Craving in America, from Starvation to Ozempic
by Dana Simmons
English | 2025 | ISBN: 0520412982 | 234 Pages | True PDF | 6.5 MB

In this book, Dana Simmons explores the enduring production of hunger in US history. Hunger, in the modern United States, became a technology-a weapon, a scientific method, and a policy instrument. During the nineteenth century, state agents and private citizens colluded in large-scale campaigns of ethnic cleansing using hunger and food deprivation. In the twentieth century, officials enacted policies and rules that made incarcerated people, welfare recipients, and beneficiaries of foreign food aid hungry by design, in order to modify their behavior. With the advent of ultraprocessed foods, food manufacturers designed products to stimulate cravings and consumption at the expense of public health. Taking us inside the labs of researchers devoted to understanding hunger as a biological and social phenomenon, On Hunger examines the continuing struggle to produce, suppress, or control hunger in America.

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On Oil (Field Notes) by Don Gillmor
English | April 22nd, 2025 | ISBN: 177196667X | 144 pages | True EPUB | 1.15 MB
A journalist, and former roughneck, considers our long, complex, tortured relationship with oil.

Oil has dominated our lives for the last century. It has given us warmth, progress, and life-threatening pollution. It has been a gift and is now a threat. It has started wars, ended wars, and infiltrated governments-in some cases, effectively become the government. And now oil's enduring mythology is facing a messy, complicated twilight.
In On Oil, Don Gillmor, who worked as a roughneck on oil rigs during the seventies oil boom in Alberta, looks at how the industry has changed over the decades and illustrates the ways our dependence on oil has led to regulatory capture, in Canada and elsewhere, and contributed to armed conflict and war across the world. Gillmor documents the myriad ways that oil companies have misdirected environmental action and misinformed the public about climate concerns and illuminates where we went wrong-and how we might yet change course.

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Nikki Rowe, "Once a Girl, Now a Woman"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1452510407 | EPUB | pages: 72 | 0.5 mb
Have you ever travelled down a road that has been little explored? Have you been driven to tears by feelings of isolation, by the feeling that you are somehow different? Do you hunger for truth? You are not alone. It is no coincidence that you've found this book, that you've picked it up, or that you're reading it now. You are here at the exact moment you were always meant to be. It is time you came to understand the beat of your own heart, the music in your soul, the peace in your mind, and the healing abilities of your precious body temple. In her deeply inspirational work, Once a Girl, Now a Woman, author Nicolle Rowe taps into the deepest recesses of her soul and brings forth the truth and the wisdom you've been craving. By sharing some of her most intimate moments of growth on her journey to an eternal self, Nikki has found the entrance of a path leading past the ego and to the soul that only you may tread. You can experience a conscious awakening and gain an understanding of yourself that only you can discover.

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One in Six Million: The Baby by the Roadside and the Man Who Retraced a Holocaust Survivor's Lost Identity by Amy Fish
English | April 1st, 2025 | ISBN: 1773104241 | 216 pages | True EPUB | 2.24 MB
Maria was eight months old in 1942 when a childless couple found her, wrapped in a blanket, at the side of a road near Krosno, Poland. A note pinned to the blanket stated only her first name and her date of birth. The couple picked up Maria and raised her, but she grew up longing for identity and connection. Who was she, and what had happened to her family?

Years later, Maria's story came to the attention of Stanley Diamond. Diamond was the founder of Jewish Records Indexing-Poland, one of the largest databases of Jewish vital records and a crucial tool in researching the stories of the victims and survivors of the Holocaust.
In this engrossing story, Amy Fish shows how Diamond and an intrepid band of international volunteers compared photographs with genealogical records and smuggled DNA tests to provide Maria with family ties that she thought were lost to her forever. A tale of unexpected coincidences, astonishing revelations, and more than a little luck, One in Six Million is an amazing story of lost - and found - identity.

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Gary Keating, "One Lasting Tribute: Celebrating A Father's Life, Son Who Will Never Give Up"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1956096914 | EPUB | pages: 516 | 2.1 mb
Born in Fanwood. New Jersey; now resides in Gainesville Florida. Following his own playing days, Gary Keating joined his father on the bench as a basketball coach.

After his Graduation from St. John's University, Gary became an assistant men's college basketball coach, at the age of 23. He would step away his coaching to help his father who has Parkinson's disease.
Later, at the age of 38, Gary himself would be diagnosed with young-onset Parkinson's.
He now has dedicated himself to helping people in a new way. Those who have the same disease, especially other young onset, to believe that life is not over.
Has participated in several research studies to better assess the disease. Find better ways to diagnosed, treat, and maybe lead to that ultimate goal.
As it was during the days of playing and coaching. Every day with Parkinson's it is "Game On". Now adapting additional phrase, "Never Giving Up".

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Asif Siddiqi, "One-Track Mind (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series)"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0367553732, 0367553724 | PDF | pages: 309 | 30.2 mb
The song remains the most basic unit of modern pop music. Shaped into being by historical forces―cultural, aesthetic, and technical―the song provides both performer and audience with a world marked off by a short, discrete, and temporally demarcated experience. One-Track Mind: Capitalism, Technology, and the Art of the Pop Song brings together 16 writers to weigh in on 16 iconic tracks from the history of modern popular music. Arranged chronologically in order of release of the tracks, and spanning nearly five decades, these essays zigzag across the cultural landscape to present one possible history of pop music. There are detours through psychedelic rock, Afro-pop, Latin pop, glam rock, heavy metal, punk, postpunk, adult contemporary rock, techno, hip-hop, and electro-pop here. More than just deep histories of individual songs, these essays all expand far beyond the track itself to offer exciting and often counterintuitive histories of transformative moments in popular culture. Collectively, they show the undiminished power of the individual pop song, both as distillations of important flashpoints and, in their afterlives, as ghostly echoes that persist undiminished but transform for succeeding generations. Capitalism and its principal good, capital, help us frame these stories, a fact that should surprise no one given the inextricable relationship between art and capitalism established in the twentieth century. At the root, readers will find here a history of pop with unexpected Description twists, colorful protagonists, and fitting denouements.

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Opening to Channel: How to Connect With Your Guide by Sanaya Roman, Duane Packer
English | January 27th, 2012 | ISBN: 1583193758 | 252 pages | True EPUB | 5.34 MB
Note: The revised eBook edition has the addition of several color illustrations and has been updated, however the processes and information in both the printed and eBook editions are essentially the same.

Opening to Channel is a book with a startling message for the millions of curious Americans who are eager to learn more about this fascinating experience.
The authors, Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer, with their guides Orin and DaBen, have demonstrated that anyone can become a channel, connect at will with a spirit guide or their higher self, and achieve remarkable and life-changing results. This book takes the reader step-by-step into the experience of channeling. The book provides a frame of reference by weaving in the story of how the authors became channels and then taught other people how to channel.
This has become a bestselling classic, and a national and international best-seller. Sanaya and Duane's books have been translated into over 24 languages, in over 2,000,000 books worldwide.
This book is a definitive, inspirational, and easy-to-use guide to the art of channeling. You can use these methods to open to channel a guide or your higher self. Opening to Channel includes practical hands-on instruction in how to know if you are ready; how to attract a high-level guide, go into a channeling state, channel for friends or yourself, use channeling to expand your consciousness, and open to the higher dimensions.
Orin and DaBen, two wise and gentle spirit guides, prepare you for channeling and let you know what to expect. You will learn how to recognize and attract a high-level guide, as well as how to recognize and reject entities that are less evolved. You will discover more about how guides communicate with you and your role as a receiver.
You will be guided through your first meeting with a guide, explore how to verbally channel a guide, and be given questions to ask your guide as well as information on what to expect when you first start verbally channeling. Instructions are provided for giving yourself a reading as well giving readings to others. You will learn more about how to look into your future with your guide.
As you read you will learn how to develop and strengthen your channeling. Guidance is provided on how often to channel, how to receive specific information, and other ways guides can work through you such as through art or music. Various questions people frequently ask are addressed, such as; can you channel the same guide as others, lose your channeling ability, or channel when you are sick? You will also discover how to deal with doubts that your channeling is real.
Opening to Channel is a breakthrough book. Channeling your guide could be the key to accelerating your spiritual growth and opening the doorway to enlightenment.
The benefits from channeling are unlimited, such as:
* A greater awareness of spiritual worlds and the beings of light
* Connecting with high beings from higher realms of light
* Access to knowledge that was not previously available
* Heightened creativity
* Having more confidence in yourself and the choices you make
* Experiencing greater wisdom
* Understanding reasons for apparent obstacles encountered in daily life
* Learning about opportunities for your life regarding relationships, abundance, or career
* Substantial acceleration of your spiritual growth and unfoldment
* Feeling that you are living a purposeful life
* Clarifying your life purpose
* Developing your innate talents and gifts
* Finding your path of world work

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Opposition by Imitation: The Economics of Italian Anti-Mafia Activism
by Christina Jerne
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1517916054 | 248 Pages | True ePUB | 1.6 MB

Defying the mafia with everyday acts of resistance
For more than 150 years, Italy has been home to a resilient and evolving resistance against the pervasive influence of mafias. While these criminal organizations are renowned for their vast international business enterprises, the collective actions taken to oppose them are less known. In Opposition by Imitation, Christina Jerne explores anti-mafia activism, revealing how ordinary people resist, counter, and prevent criminal economies from proliferating.
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among anti-mafia alliances in Campania, Sicily, and other parts of Italy, Jerne details a particular aspect of mafia activities: providing cash relief and other forms of patronage to individuals and groups. Her research shows how activism has evolved to imitate this sustaining role. Activists are increasingly challenging mafia control both by creating alternative economies-from producing food that interrupts mafia labor practices to organizing tourism that supports anti-mafia hospitality-and by subversively adopting business tactics similar to the mafia's to compete with their social influence and legitimacy. Exposing the political implications of this mimetic opposition, Jerne points to its potential impact on crime prevention and criminalization, both in Italy and globally.
Opposition by Imitation shows how these modern-day Robin Hoods are redefining collective action, taking what was controlled by the mafias and returning it to the collective. This contentious economic turn, against the backdrop of broader social movements, reveals significant political possibilities afforded by imitative opposition.

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Ordinary People Don't Carry Machine Guns: Thoughts on War
by Artem Chapeye
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1644214598 | 128 Pages | True ePUB | 1.32 MB

A reporter and novelist who is also a soldier in the Ukrainian army reconsiders his pacifism and the choices one makes when war is waged against you.
"Chapeye represents a modern-day Ukrainian counterpart to classic American writers like Mark Twain or O. Henry, capturing the dignity and respect his characters might not get but nonetheless long for and deserve." -Kate Tsurkan, Los Angeles Review of Books
In Ordinary People Don't Carry Machine Guns, Artem Chapeye reveals his war, intimate and senseless, withholding nothing about his motivations, his nightmares, his new relationship with the world. Here one man, a pacifist turned fighter, a story writer turned soldier, a father and husband, considers the reasons for and reactions to war on a very personal level.
An avowed pacifist until 2022, Chapeye joined the Ukrainian army in the first days of the Russian invasion. He tries to understand the large-scale decision-making that has a defining impact on both individual citizens and society-at-large: many of his fellow soldiers never considered enlisting before finding themselves at war; others flee the country. He wonders from the front lines what his young children at home are doing and what they're feeling.
The book is written in three parts, offering historical analogies and literary references throughout.

"It's Necessary to Cultivate Your Garden" details the experience of the everyday people of Ukraine, workers and peasants, who look forward to returning to simpler lives.
The last section, "People Aren't Divided into Brands," critiques the elitism of those who consider themselves above those who "simply" fight.
Deeply thought-provoking, intelligent, and heartbreaking, this is an essential book for anyone who wants to understand the ways that war can change everything.

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Orient: Two Walks at the Edge of the Human
by David Hinton
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1645472752 | 112 Pages | True ePUB | 41 MB

Join renowned author David Hinton on two walks into the wild beauty and archaeological ruins of the desert Southwest, where he maps the edges of consciousness and our place in the Cosmos.
Walks in the desert and journeys through Ch'an (Zen) enlightenment. Meditations on the nature of perception and on the nature of ruins. Topographies of mind and of space-time. Poetry and prose. This talismanic book is all of these and more.
In this poetic odyssey of nature writing that blurs the line between observer and landscape, Hinton's project is nothing less than to map our place in the cosmos and awaken to our interconnectedness with the wild spontaneity of the natural world. It is the culmination of Hinton's philosophical adventure, deeply informed by his nearly forty years of translating and contemplating China's ancient poets, Taoist sages, and Ch'an masters. Like Henry David Thoreau and other great literary walkers, Hinton joins philosophical meditations with a keen eye for the slightest of nature's details. In following these walks, we journey into wondrous and even ecstatic clarities about the nature of mind and existence itself.

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Belinda Webster, Joe Fullman, "Origami Make-Believe (First Steps in Origami)"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1725314940, 1725314924 | EPUB | pages: 24 | 6.0 mb
Readers can make paper creations that are out of this world with this how-to guide to origami. Easy instructions show readers how to fold paper step-by-step into interesting and fun shapes. All the projects are based on fictional themes: a flying saucer, monster claws, a ghost, and a vampire. Readers will learn about different geometric shapes and symmetry. This book makes it easy to learn the Japanese art of origami while celebrating all things make-believe.

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Monique Joiner Siedlak, "Orishas of Trinidad"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1950378284 | EPUB | pages: 124 | 0.3 mb
Trinidad Orisha: Spirit, Color, and Drums

Orisha is a colorful and misunderstood religion practiced in Trinidad and Tobago with ties to the Yorba culture of Nigeria. A spiritual tradition with celebrations of food, drums, dance, and prayer, Orisha has millions of followers in the world.
Orishas of Trinidad, by Monique Joiner Siedlak, explores this African-routed tradition starting with a look at the roots of this vibrant and colorful tradition and how it evolved to where it is today. This fascinating book covers topics such as the past persecution of Orisha followers, the religion's deities, practices, ceremonies, and ties to aspects of the Catholic Church.
Monique brings light to the fact that there are those who, in their ignorance, still demonize this religion. The truth is, there is nothing demonic about Orisha. While it is a non-Christian religion, it shares the ideas of baptism and one supreme God - Oludumare.
Readers will love reading about the Orisha spirits, equated with Christian saints, and seen as messengers between man and Oludumare's divine Kingdom. For example, Osain, the Yoruba god of herbal medicine, healing, and prophecy associated with St Francis, and Shakpana, a healer of children's diseases related to St Jerome. Then there is Ogun, the warrior god of iron and steel, associated with St Michael.
Order your copy of Orishas of Trinidad by Monique Joiner Siedlak today, and introduce yourself to a rich and fascinating African-rooted tradition called Orisha. You will enjoy reading about this extraordinary tradition.

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