With style and straight talk, musician and changemaker Lachi flips disability and neurodivergence into an empowering identity, a cultural movement, and an innovation engineWhat if the most taboo parts of our identity—the parts we’re taught to mask—are exactly the ones that hold our greatest power? Lachi is an award-winning singer and leader who awakens the world to this truth: Disability has long shaped our culture and is an identity worth brazenly reclaiming. In t...

What we will cover inside this book are the 7 propensities for outstandingly effective individuals that permits them to carry on with their very own exceptional existence plan, and to achieve the groundbreaking outcomes they need on a predictable premise.Recall that an excursion of a thousand miles starts with the initial step. Take each propensity in turn, and gradually begin disguising them once again time. This is a long distance race not a run, so be in this as long as possible....

Ep 3: I did what?A horrified Mr Enfield recalls his encounter with Jekyll. Utterson becomes paranoid and decides to send Hastie and Mr Enfield to Hyde’s for answers.

In the year 2211, empathy is dangerous, memories can be hacked, and reality itself is no longer trustworthy. After a near-death experience awakens impossible abilities, Rosa Lejeune becomes entangled in a conspiracy that stretches beyond science, consciousness, and even death itself. Joined by a transhuman investigator, a brilliant hacker, and others pulled into the same impossible mystery, she must uncover the truth behind a murdered genius before an unseen force rewrites humanity's futur...

Samiyah, a young peasant on a quest to find love and honor, wins a chance to attend the royal ball. Beyond her wildest dreams, she finds herself dancing in the arms of Prince Chad, heir to the throne.As there brews a violent struggle between the brutal ruling-class and the oppressed peasantry, Chad and Samiyah's growing, talk-of-the-town love spawns whispers of bloody uprisings and plots of swift usurpation.

A young peasant uses her wit, grace and determination to climb the ranks of the power hungry ruling class. Though she seeks to bridge the divide, the nation's corrupt leaders will stop at nothing to keep her and her people from power,

During the nineteenth century, Maori women produced letters and memoirs, wrote off to newspapers and commissioners, appeared before commissions of enquiry, gave evidence in court cases, and went to the Native Land Court to assert their rights. He Reo Wahine is a bold new introduction to the experience of Maori women in colonial New Zealand through Maori women's own words – the speeches and evidence, letters and testimonies that they left in the archive. Drawing from over 500 texts...

A transformative account of Māori society during World War II.Te Hau Kāinga unveils the untold stories of the Māori home front during World War II, exploring how this pivotal conflict reshaped Māori communities, culture, and identity. Through vivid narratives and meticulous research, the authors shed light on the challenges and triumphs of Māori whānau as they navigated wartime mobilization, economic shifts, and social change.Discover how Māori lea...

Whakaheke toto tonu ana te iwi Maori ki te Pakanga Tuarua o te ao. I te tuwheratanga o te whawhai nui ka puta noa nga taitama hei tuao ki te Taua Tuarua o Aotearoa. Kua rongo pai te iwi mo nga mahi rongonui a nga tupuna hoia, tae noa ki te Ope Taua 28. Engari, he aha ra nga korero mo te hunga i noho tonu ai ki te kainga?Kei a Raupanga he korero mo te ao Maori i te wa o te Pakanga Tuarua, ara, mo nga mahi me nga wheako o te hunga i noho nei ki te kainga. E toru tekau ma iwa nga purak...

As modern European empires expanded, written language was critical to articulations of imperial authority and justifications of conquest. For imperial administrators and thinkers, the non-literacy of “native” societies demonstrated their primitiveness and inability to change. Yet as the contributors to Indigenous Textual Cultures make clear through cases from the Pacific Islands, Australasia, North America, and Africa, indigenous communities were highly adaptive and created novel,...

This book examines encounters between the Christian church and Maori. Christian faith among Maori changed from Maori receiving the missionary endeavours of Pakeha settlers, to the development of indigenous expressions of Christian faith, partnerships between Maori and Pakeha in the mainline churches, and the emergence of Destiny Church. The book looks at the growth, development and adaptation of Christian faith among Maori people and considers how that development has helped shape New Zeal...

Like the clear morning song of te koparapara, the bellbird, this book allows the Maori world to speak for itself through an accessible introduction to Maori culture, history, and society from an indigenous perspective. In 21 illustrated chapters, leading scholars introduce Maori culture (including tikanga on and off the marae and key rituals like powhiri and tangihanga), Maori history (from the beginning of the world and the waka migration through to Maori protest and urbanization), and Ma...