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Teachings of the Santería Gods

The Spirit of the Odu

By: Ócha'ni Lele

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Teachings of the Santería Gods

The Spirit of the Odu

By: Ócha'ni Lele

The first book to explore the sacred myths of Santería • Includes more than 100 myths, stories, and histories about the odu and the orishas • Reassembles the oral fragments from the African diaspora into coherent stories • Demonstrates that the African peoples, specifically the Yoruba, were deeply spiritual At the core of the diloggún--the sacred divination system of Santería--are the sacred stories known as the patakís, narratives whose themes are as powerful and relevant today as they were in the minds of the ancient Yoruba who safeguarded them. Each patakí is connected to one or more of the 16 odu, the principal creative forces of Santería. Some recount the lives of orishas on earth, others the lives of individuals in heaven, and some tell of the odu themselves, for even they once walked the earth as mortals. The first book to explore these ancient African stories in English, Teachings of the Santería Gods recounts more than 100 of these sacred parables, including many stories reassembled from the oral tradition of the African diaspora. Ranging from creation myths to what happens when a love potion works far too well, these stories share the wisdom and spirituality of the Yoruba people of ancient Africa and form the living, oral bible of one of the world’s fastest-growing faiths.

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Simon and Schuster

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1594779082

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9781594779084

Selected Stories

By: Eilis Ni Dhuibhne

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Selected Stories

By: Eilis Ni Dhuibhne

This volume collects new short stories from one of Ireland’s leading writers in both the Irish and English languages. Eilis Ni Dhuibhne’s stories are widely acclaimed for their acute perception of Irish women’s lives, the power of her verbal economy, and her skillful and unique use of both humor and the fantastic.

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Deep Vellum Publishing

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1628972653

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9781628972658

Stone Cold

Book Eight of the SoulShares Series

By: Rory Ni Coileain

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Stone Cold

Book Eight of the SoulShares Series

By: Rory Ni Coileain

The sex is hot, the twists in the plot are shattering and exciting to follow, the characters are wonderful, and it is so easy to fall in love with them. --USA Today, Happy Ever After In Stone Cold, the eighth title in the Rainbow-Award-nominated M/M paranormal Soulshares series, Maelduin Guaire is a Fae with a mission. An obsession, really. He’s trained his entire life to become the greatest scian-damhsa, blade-dancer, the Fae have ever known, for the sole purpose of killing the blade-dancer who murdered his father and gave House Guaire its reputation as the Cursed House. Now he’s followed Tiernan Guaire through the Pattern to the human world, to fulfill his oath or die trying... but the passage has cost him all his skill with a blade. Terry Miller, Josh LaFontaine’s business partner at the Raging Art-on Tattoo and Piercing Parlor, has the worst luck with men since... well, since ever, as far as he’s concerned. Years ago, he walked out on a great thing with Josh, when Bryce Newhouse offered to play sugar daddy for Terry’s ballet company; then Bryce kicked him to the curb, and Terry ended up relying on big-hearted Josh to help him get back on his feet. And now a too-good-to-be-true stranger has turned up in Terry’s half-built dance studio, with a beautiful sword and a bloody nose. In order to regain the grace and skill he needs to keep his vow, a Fae cursed with the inability to love must SoulShare with a human convinced that love runs screaming when it sees him coming. All with the Marfach looking over their shoulders. No pressure...

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Riverdale Avenue Books LLC

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1626014043

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9781626014046

The Diloggún

The Orishas, Proverbs, Sacrifices, and Prohibitions of Cuban Santería

By: Ócha'ni Lele

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The Diloggún

The Orishas, Proverbs, Sacrifices, and Prohibitions of Cuban Santería

By: Ócha'ni Lele

The first book on Santería’s holiest divination system to thoroughly explore each family of odu and how their actions and reactions affect the spiritual development of the client. • Includes the major considerations for sacrifice, providing the diviner with ways to placate and supplicate the Afro-Cuban deities known as orishas. • Demonstrates how to properly end a reading so that negative vibrations are fully removed from the diviner's home. • Provides a thoroughly detailed description of each of the 12 families of odu that exist in the diloggun--from Okana through Ejila Shebora. The diloggun is more than a tool of divination. It is a powerful transformational process, and the forces that are set in motion when it is cast determine the future evolution of the adherent. The Diloggun is the first book to explore this Afro-Cuban oracle from the perspective of diaspora orisha worship. It is also the first book to explore the lore surrounding this mysterious oracle, which is the living Bible of one of the world's fastest growing faiths. The twelve families of odu that are available to the diviner include 192 omo odu, the children of the odu, and each of these patterns or letters has its own proverbs, meanings, prohibitions, and sacrifices. Ócha'ni Lele provides the secret but essential information that the adept diviner needs to know to ensure that every element affecting a client's spiritual development is taken into consideration during a reading. His book is also the first to detail how to properly end a session so that negative vibrations are absorbed by the orishas and fully removed from the diviner's home. For those seeking the wisdom of ancient Africa, The Diloggun is an indispensable guide to the mysteries of the orishas.

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Simon and Schuster

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1594778620

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9781594778629

No Boyz Allowed

By: Ni-Ni Simone

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No Boyz Allowed

By: Ni-Ni Simone

Simone tells authentic stories of teen life in the 'hood better than any other author currently writing contemporary YA street lit. --Library Journal on Teenage Love Affair (starred review) True story: I'm Gem, G-E-M, like a precious jewel, and my life has been nothing like my name. I've been on my own since I was nine and now I'm sixteen. But so what. I'm good, and so is my little brother. So why the state won't let us do our own thing is beyond me. Instead, we've been forced to live with a foster family who wants to love us, but I'm not beat--I'm just trying to do me. To make matters worse, I've been checking for this guy, Ny'eem. But my new clique has an unbreakable rule--no boyz allowed to come between our friendship--which is forcing me to keep my relationship with Ny'eem a secret. Though not for long. . .because in high school secrets are always exposed, scandals always rewrite the rules, and friendships are never what they seem. . . . "Excitement, drama, and life lessons. . .. Upgrade U is sure to be a classic." --A.J. Byrd, author of Losing Romeo "A new series with a pair of drama-fueled stories about girls looking for love in all the wrong ways." --Publishers Weekly on The Break-Up Diaries

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Kensington Publishing Corp.

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0758280122

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9780758280121

The Curse of Kim's Daughters

A Novel

By: Kyŏng-ni Pak,Choonwon Kang

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The Curse of Kim's Daughters

A Novel

By: Kyŏng-ni Pak,Choonwon Kang

Songsu Kim is orphaned when his father runs away from home and her mother takes poison. Raised by his uncle, he inherits the family pharmacy and later invests in a small fishing fleet. He marries Punshi of his uncle's choosing and has five daughters, but curse is the undercurrent of their lives--the eldest daughter by an allegation of baby murder; the second daughter by a failed love affair; the third by insanity resulting from her shameless pursuit of personal happiness; and the fourth by a grave misfortune at sea.

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Homa & Sekey Books

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1931907102

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9781931907101

Land

By: Park Park Kyong-ni

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Land

By: Park Park Kyong-ni

Acclaimed as an important piece of modern Korean writing, this book is set against the background of the struggle between conservative and modernizing forces at the turn of the century. It follows the fortunes of several generations of Korean villagers during a time of turbulence and change.

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Routledge

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1317727037

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Land

By: Kyung-ni Pak

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Land

By: Kyung-ni Pak

Global Oriental is pleased to announce publication of the English translation of Part I (in three volumes) of Pak Kyung-ni’s Land (T’oji). Originally published in five parts, the work is widely regarded as a masterpiece of Korean literature and has achieved unprecedented popularity in Korea. The epic follows the fortunes and misfortunes of several generations of villagers of a traditional farming community, and at the same time chronicles Korea’s tumultuous history from 1897 to 1945. Part I, which is a self-contained story and considered the most powerful example of her writing, deals with the first ten years of the Ch’oe farming household and opens with the village celebration of the Harvest Moon Festival.

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Global Oriental

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9004218009

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Diloggún Tales of the Natural World

How the Moon Fooled the Sun and Other Santería Stories

By: Ócha'ni Lele

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Diloggún Tales of the Natural World

How the Moon Fooled the Sun and Other Santería Stories

By: Ócha'ni Lele

Sacred myths from Santería centered on nature and the natural world • Includes more than 40 myths, stories, and histories from the Lucumí tradition • Reassembles the oral fragments from the African diaspora into coherent stories • Demonstrates that the African peoples, specifically the Yoruba, had deep philosophies and metaphysics involving nature and the natural world Since ancient times the Yoruba of West Africa created sacred stories--patakís--to make sense of the world around them. Upon arrival in the New World, the Yoruba religion began to incorporate elements from Catholic and Native traditions, evolving into Santería, and new patakís were born, adding to the many chapters already found in the odu of the diloggun--the sacred oral teachings and divination system of the Yoruba, or Lucumí, faith. Comparable to the myths of ancient Greece and Rome and rich with jewels of wisdom like the I Ching, these Santería stories are as vast as the Hindu Vedas and as culturally significant as the parables in the Torah, Talmud, and Christian Bible. Diloggun Tales of the Natural World presents more than 40 patakís that shed light upon the worldview of Santería. Each story in this collection, reassembled from the oral tradition of the African diaspora, is centered on a spiritual principle in nature: the waxing and waning of the moon, solar and lunar eclipses, the phenomenon of shooting stars, the separation of sky and earth, and the origins of the animals and birds who play key roles in Santería symbology. Revealing the metaphysics, theology, and philosophy of the Yoruba people, this volume shows these stories to be as powerful and relevant today as they were to the ancient Yoruba who once safeguarded them.

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Simon and Schuster

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1594778035

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The Selected Letters of Master Daie Soko

With Commentary by Venerable Myokyo-ni

By: Venerable Myokyo-ni

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The Selected Letters of Master Daie Soko

With Commentary by Venerable Myokyo-ni

By: Venerable Myokyo-ni

Master Daie Soko was one of the most distinguished masters of the Sung dynasty. His teaching methods shaped the development of Rinzai Zen practice. This book is a selection of his letters to his disciples and the commentaries by Venerable Myokyo-ni bring these letters alive for modern day readers and practitioners of Zen.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3759724205

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Hysteria

By: Ni Wa

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Hysteria

By: Ni Wa

PRESENT PAST AND FUTURE has no value so at a reflection where time does not exist this book is written. Explanations of a golden Universe and how it can be manipulated fanatically. The travel takes place with poetry.

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AuthorHouse

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1504945980

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9781504945981

Building Business-Government Relations

A Skills Approach

By: Anna Ni,Montgomery Van Wart

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Building Business-Government Relations

A Skills Approach

By: Anna Ni,Montgomery Van Wart

This book introduces business-government relations in the institutional context of the United States from a practitioner’s perspective. It provides the historical, descriptive, and comparative accounts of the public and private sectors, the different roles government plays with business, including several conceptual models to understand the social interactions between the two sectors, and various economic policies associated with business. Business-government relations are framed into three different social economic contexts: The sociopolitical arena, in which government’s role as agent of business, interest groups, and government’s limited role as social architect, are introduced. The local economic development, in which government acts as a promoter of, partner with, and buyer from, business. The global market, where government mainly plays a role as promoter of domestic business. In the course of discussion, a set of skills, such as searching government jobs, starting a business, analyzing stakeholders, ethical reasoning, advancing a business agenda, leveraging public resources, contracting with government, interpreting global trends, doing business abroad, and leveraging international resources, are introduced and exercised.

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Routledge

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1317503260

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Being Poland

A New History of Polish Literature and Culture since 1918

By: Tamara Trojanowska,Joanna Ni?y?ska,Przemys?aw Czapli?ski

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Being Poland

A New History of Polish Literature and Culture since 1918

By: Tamara Trojanowska,Joanna Ni?y?ska,Przemys?aw Czapli?ski

Being Poland offers a unique analysis of the cultural developments that took place in Poland after World War One, a period marked by Poland's return to independence. Conceived to address the lack of critical scholarship on Poland's cultural restoration, Being Poland illuminates the continuities, paradoxes, and contradictions of Poland's modern and contemporary cultural practices, and challenges the narrative typically prescribed to Polish literature and film. Reflecting the radical changes, rifts, and restorations that swept through Poland in this period, Polish literature and film reveal a multitude of perspectives. Addressing romantic perceptions of the Polish immigrant, the politics of post-war cinema, poetry, and mass media, Being Poland is a comprehensive reference work written with the intention of exposing an international audience to the explosion of Polish literature and film that emerged in the twentieth century.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442650184

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9781442650183

The Tao of Fertility

A Healing Chinese Medicine Program to Prepare Body, Mind, and Spirit for New Life

By: Daoshing Ni,Dana Herko

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The Tao of Fertility

A Healing Chinese Medicine Program to Prepare Body, Mind, and Spirit for New Life

By: Daoshing Ni,Dana Herko

An esteemed doctor who has helped countless women achieve their dream of having a child offers his program for enhancing fertility through traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Dr. Daoshing Ni, descended from more than 70 generations of Taoist masters, has achieved renown among high-tech infertility specialists, TCM practitioners, and his many devoted patients. The Tao of Fertility is the first book combining a practical plan for conceiving using TCM with empowering Taoist principles that can carry you through pregnancy, childbirth, and beyond. Structured according to a woman’s journey to conception, The Tao of Fertility includes: A questionnaire assessing fertility potential A 28-day fertility enhancement program Simple meditations and acupressure points to improve reproductive circulation and relaxation Guidelines for mapping your fertility using Chinese methods of diagnosis Information on how herbs and acupuncture can increase fertility Eating plans for pregnancy, postpartum, and while breast-feeding. and much more Enriched by moving stories of women who became pregnant using TCM, this is a compassionate, comprehensive handbook.

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Harper Collins

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0061757233

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Memoirs from the Beijing Film Academy

The Genesis of China's Fifth Generation

By: Zhen Ni

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Memoirs from the Beijing Film Academy

The Genesis of China's Fifth Generation

By: Zhen Ni

After graduating from the Beijing Film Academy in 1982, directors like Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou transformed Chinese cinema with Farewell My Concubine, Yellow Earth, Raise the Red Lantern, and other international successes. Memoirs from the Beijing Film Academy tells the riveting story of this class of 1982, China’s famous "Fifth Generation" of filmmakers. It is the first insider’s account of this renowned cohort to appear in English. Covering these directors’ formative experiences during China’s tumultuous Cultural Revolution and later at the Beijing Film Academy, Ni Zhen—who was both their screenwriter and teacher—provides unique insights into the origins of the Fifth Generation’s creativity. Drawing on his personal knowledge and interviews conducted especially for this volume, Ni Zhen demonstrates the diversity of the Fifth Generation. He comments on the breadth of styles and themes explored by its members and introduces a range of male and female directors, cinematographers, and production designers famous in China but less well-known internationally. The book contains vivid descriptions of the production processes of two pioneering films—One and Eight and Yellow Earth.

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Duke University Press

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0822384175

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9780822384175

Morality Vs. Christianity

By: N. I. Zimudo

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Morality Vs. Christianity

By: N. I. Zimudo

There is more to Christianity than being kind, empathetic, and decent. In fact, there is a great gulf that separates morality from Christianity. One does not need to become a Christian to be moral, but one certainly needs Christ to become a child of God. N. I. Zimudo, who has spent his life teaching others to walk with the Lord, notes that if morality was all that God required of us, then Christ would not have needed to die on the cross. It’s clear that Christianity goes beyond right and wrong to address matters at the core of our human existence. As you read, you’ll explore themes such as morality, religion, repentance, and Christianity, including the differences between them. Consider questions such as: • Can morality exist outside of a religious system? • What are the practical differences between good morals and Christianity? • What more does Christianity have to offer besides good behavior? • Why is morality a risky business? The author contends that we don’t become Christians to find morality but rather to become children of God. Find out what God expects of you and how to take hold of his blessings with this book.

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WestBow Press

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1664286306

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9781664286306

Enlightenment

Mother of Spiritual Independence : the Teachings of Hui Neng

By: Hua Ching Ni

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Enlightenment

Mother of Spiritual Independence : the Teachings of Hui Neng

By: Hua Ching Ni

Enlightenment is the inspiring story of Hui Neng, 6th Patriarch and father of Zen Buddhism. Although intellectually unsophisticated, Hui Neng became a true spiritual revolutionary who said that You have been programmed to believe that a godly way of life is different from what you are doing right here, right now. This is the main obstacle that you need to overcome.

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Wisdom of Three Masters

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093706419X

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9780937064191

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