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  The Invention of Jane Harrison

  Mary Beard

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  Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928) is the most famous female Classicist in history, the author of books that revolutionized our understanding of Greek culture and religion. A star in the British academic world, she became the quintessential Cambridge woman—as Virginia Woolf suggested when, in A Room of One's Own, she claims to have glimpsed Harrison's ghost in the college gardens. 
   
   
   
  This lively and innovative portrayal of a fascinating woman raises the question of who wins (and how) in the competition for academic fame. Mary Beard captures Harrison's ability to create her own image. And she contrasts her story with that of Eugénie Sellers Strong, a younger contemporary and onetime intimate, the author of major work on Roman art, and once a glittering figure at the British School in Rome—but who lost the race for renown. The setting for the story of Harrison's career is Classical scholarship in this period—its internal arguments and allegiances and especially the influence of the anthropological strain most strikingly exemplified by Sir James Frazer. Questioning the common criteria for identifying intellectual "influence" and "movements," Beard exposes the mythology that is embedded in the history of Classics. At the same time she provides a vivid picture of a sparkling intellectual scene. The Invention of Jane Harrison offers shrewd history and undiluted fun.

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  Dave Radford: The Beast of the...

  Bob Bourne

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  What makes a man fight? To answer this question we must first understand the actual man himself. 
  Follow his journey, walk alongside him as he treads his life’s highway. A route that led him to the 
  steps of a boxing ring in South Africa, where he fought Roberto Duran, a pathway that has presented 
  him with obstacles to battle with outside of a ring of bales, invisible behemoths to defeat in order to 
  continue. 
  An avenue that delivered him to arena of bareknuckle fighting, where he claimed the title 
  of UK’s Middle Weight Bareknuckle champion.

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  Mothercare - On Obligation Love...

  Lynne Tillman

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  Brilliantly original novelist and cultural critic Lynne Tillman became one of nearly 53 million Americans who care for a sick family member when her mother developed an unusual and little understood condition called Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus. 
   
   
   
  Instantly, Tillman's independent and spirited mother went from someone she knew to someone else, a woman entirely dependent on her children—an eleven-year process through which her mother underwent many surgeries and some misdiagnoses, while the family navigated consultations and confrontations with doctors, adjusting to the complexity of her cognitive issues, including memory loss. 
   
   
   
  With her notoriously exquisite writing style and reputation as a "rich noticer of strange things" (Colm Toíbín), Tillman describes, without flinching, the unexpected, heartbreaking, and frustrating years of caring for a sick parent. 
   
   
   
  Mothercare is both a cautionary tale and sympathetic guidance for anyone who suddenly becomes a caregiver, responsible for the life of another—a parent, loved or not, or a friend. This story may be helpful, informative, consoling, or upsetting, but it never fails to underscore how impossible it is to get the job done completely right.

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  Myopia - A Father’s Journey into...

  Mohan Ranga Rao

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  When Yogita, his beloved daughter, is born blind, Mohan’s world undergoes a radical transformation. The additional demands of being a new father while managing a faltering business force him to question his past choices and redefine what it means to live a meaningful life. 
  Told with unflinching honesty, Myopia explores the beauty and pain of parenting a child with unique challenges and the gifts of resilience, acceptance, and spiritual growth that arise from suffering. Mohan’s journey teaches us that life’s hardest trials often contain the greatest treasures, revealing strength we never knew we possessed. 
  For anyone who has faced life’s deepest sorrows and is searching for a way to endure—and even thrive—this memoir is a testament to the power of love, the wisdom of loss, and the enduring light that guides us through the darkest times. 
  Told with unflinching honesty, Myopia explores the beauty and pain of parenting a child with challenges and the gifts of resilience, acceptance, and growth that arise from suffering.

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  The Authentic St Germain

  M. Doreal

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  Among the figures occupying a prominent place in modern occultism is the so-called ascended master St. Germain. Much has been told, and a, greater amount surmised about this mysterious being - mysterious because the average student of occultism has had no opportunity to examine the records which give all that is actually known about this curious personage.

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  Sisters Women of Wisdom: The...

  Geoffrey Giuliano

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  In this unique inspirational audiobook, we remember we take a deep dive and remember the almost superhuman contributions of black leaders of our greatest black leaders from the 20th century. Each in their own way educating liberating and freeing untold millions of souls from the heartless bondage they were forced to endure at the hands of a cruel largely racist self-interested society. Fighting a Goliath of ignorance with little chance of success each in their own way overcame incredible obstacles to implement the finer attributes of Justice truth and freedom in the troubled world around them 
   
  Painstakingly put together by author Geoffrey Giuliano here is a unique inside look at the lives loves tragedies and triumphs of our most precious black heroes of Justice. 
   
  An absolute must for any educational system those interested in black studies and everyone who counts himself as a lover and defender of freedom everywhere. 
   
  Featuring the histories and inspirational words of Vice President Kamala Harris, Angela Davis, Rosa Parks, Sojourner Truth, First Lady Michelle Obama, transgender activist Francis Thompson, Barbara Jordan, Aretha Franklin, Ella Baker, Dr. Kathleen Cleaver, Fannie Lou Hamer, and the extraordinary Eartha Kitt. 
   
  With a timely moving contribution from Richie Havens and iconic singer Ben E. King.

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