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Five Essential Books For Understanding Haitian History After waging a thirteen-year revolution against slavery in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, the island’s Black freedom fighters declared their independence on January 1, 1804. In the country’s …

Five Essential Books For Understanding Haitian History by Marlene Daut 🇭🇹
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Best possible news to wake up to at 3:30 in the morning

If not Bigfoot then something aquatic maybe?

Actually she likes being swaddled in a towel like a baby, or a feline cigarette. Still not keen on liquid oral meds

One of my cats had an infection that required an oral antibiotic twice a day, which meant rolling her in a towel twice a day. I used to sing " roll, roll, roll the cat, gently in the towel. Meow meow meow, life is such a howl". She became very accustomed to being rolled in a towel.

Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police Reading List In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and police repression, we offer an extensive reading list about border and police ab...

In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and police repression, we put together an extensive reading list about border and police abolition.

“I can’t think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people’s understanding of what’s going on in the world.”

Seamus Heaney

The epic story of Australia and its first peoples — like you've never seen it The story of Australia and its peoples is vast and deep. It's one you should know, but possibly one you've never been told. Well, not like this anyway.

A momunmental achievement and wonderfully presented by the Story Lab.

Also gotta note the timing of its release - the same week as Tony Abbott's "history" of Australia book/doco.

New article of mine with @medievalists.bsky.social
on the most famous Mongolian wrestler princess

I just love when they insist we get paid move here. Where is my money? Or how so many men think they can have their foreign wives deported whenever they want. haha no.

I'm sorry the process is so hard for you. It really shouldn't be this way. I also agree about Canadians that insist immigration is easy. Over the years I've explained how it works to them and show them the website that explains it all, it did not move their opinion at all. They want to believe lies

It's depressing to know almost everyone I've met since moving to Canada is just fine with me ending up on the train to nowhere. They just shrug when I point it out what would happen to me.

We are offering Coptic again!

Enjoy 70% off thousands of featured books during the annual sale, including The I Ching: A Biography by Richard J. Smith.

Discover how the I Ching became one of the most widely read and influential books in the world.

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This doesn’t stop tourists unfortunately. 😣

I've seen them. Only thing worse is German tacos.

I translate books from Korean into English. I was shortlisted for and later judged the International Booker Prize. I have thirteen (?) books scheduled to be published over the next three years.

Next up is CAPITALISTS MUST STARVE by Park Seolyeon, for which I am touring the UK later this month.

To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement by Benjamin Nathans

Benjamin Nathans

Congratulations to Benjamin Nathans, whose book To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause won the @aseees.bsky.social Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in History, recognizing an outstanding history monograph published on Russia, Eastern Europe, or Eurasia!

Explore his monumental work here: hubs.ly/Q03LzMJl0

I need this as a mug

YouTube video by StPBrokenBonesVEVO St. Paul & The Broken Bones - Fall Moon | Live From Vevo Studios

Great song
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YouTube video by Colemine Records Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio - Cold As Weiss [FULL ALBUM STREAM]

Love this group. This album is gold all the way through
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Really like this title of an upcoming book.

Hope we can do away with the whole "Marco Polo went to China" trope with this.
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The cover of Circe: A Novel by Madeline Miller. Circe is bronze, staring at the reader in the style of an ancient Greek stucco, either braids of laurels on the side of her crowned head. There are quotes about how good it is and Madeline Miller also wrote Song of Achilles.

"I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer. Then, child, make another." Madeline Miller's Circe is an retelling of the life of Greek myth's most famous witch, through love, turmoil, and the struggles of immortality. #MythologyMonday

Roshan Institute to Establish Persian Digital Library | Maryland Today Supported by $1.8M Private Gift, Project Will Be First of Its Kind

"[T]he initiative will provide free, global access to a constantly expanding body of classical and modern Persian texts. The project will also partner with institutions to help safeguard thousands of at-risk manuscripts and rare books from collections in India, Pakistan and beyond."

Front cover of 'The Book of Japanese Folklore'

Illustration of a white nine-tailed fix and red torii in a forest.

Illustration of a tengu, winged being with long red nose.

Open page of book with text about bakeneko and nekomata and illustration to match.

My next #MythologyMonday book recommendation is 'The Book of Japanese Folklore' by Thersa Matsuura (@uncannyjapan.bsky.social). It introduces a collection of yokai with Thersa's wonderful storytelling and gorgeous illustrations by Michelle Wang. She's also got a #yokai oracle deck on the way.

Five books by author Matthew Meyer, each in the same style but with different coloured covers. Books are listed on his website yokai.com

My first book recommendation for #MythologyMonday is anything by Matthew Meyer (@yokai.com). His books are absolutely amazing and they feature his full page illustrations and information about each yokai. Matthew is continuously illustrating new yokai and translating the folklore into English.
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Black History Month 2025 in Britain and Ireland! In recognition of Black History Month in Britain and Ireland this October, and celebrating the 80th anniversary of the Pan-African Congress in Manchester in 1945, we are offering 40% off books on the ...

In celebration of Black History Month in Britain and Ireland, we're offering readers 40% off a range of titles on Black radical lineages, legacies, and futures. Check out the full list here ⬇️
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Debates around politics and economics are never far from the headlines in France today — but what about in 1789? What do your students think truly sparked the French Revolution: politics, economics, or both? Sign up as a member to access this course for free.

Mass migrations of younger people I guess. I mean I won't stay in Alberta if Alberta leaves Canada and I know a lot of people that say the same thing.

You can now read and download the Introduction to my new book Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt - to be published in January. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...