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Discover the power of pickleball as a force for positive change. This insightful book explores how the sport can be used as a platform for social justice, community building, and creating a more equitable world.

By the end of this audiobook, you will have found out just how much of a 90s music wizard you really are—and better yet, increased your knowledge even further so that any pub quiz team would be lucky to have you as their music round secret weapon!

Under the Skin investigates the role of cross-cultural body modification in seventeenth-century and eighteenth-century North America, revealing that the practices of tattooing and scalping were crucial to interactions between Natives and newcomers. These permanent and painful marks could act as signs of alliance or signs of conflict, producing a complex bodily archive of cross-cultural entanglement. Indigenous body modification practices were adopted and transformed by colonial powers, making tattooing and scalping key forms of cultural and political contestation in early America.

This Audiobook functions as an engaging exploration of 101 incredible buildings that I encountered during my studies in architecture. It’s designed to be your convenient pocket guide to remarkable architectural works and act as a valuable resource when searching for outstanding buildings. Whether you're a prospective student considering a path in architecture or an experienced architect seeking design inspiration, this collection is essential.

Tchaikovsky is famous for all the wrong reasons. Portrayed as a hopeless romantic, a suffering melancholic, or a morbid obsessive, the Tchaikovsky we think we know is a shadow of the fascinating reality. It is all too easy to forget that he composed an empire's worth of music, and navigated the imperial Russian court to great advantage. In this iconoclastic biography, celebrated author Simon Morrison recreates Tchaikovsky's complex world.

Ignoring the systemic racial inequalities in film is losing the industry $10 billion a year. Yet, parity, diversity, and inclusion are fundamental issues that the Oscar Awards are only just beginning to address. In this book, award-winning writer, broadcaster, model, and fashion designer, Ben Arogundade, provides a manual for deconstructing everything you thought you knew about Hollywood - documenting the stories and struggles of black artists within the movie industry that have so far been left out of the canon.