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  Winter Time Folk Tales

  Niina Niskanen

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  "Winter Time Folk Tales" is an audiobook collection of traditional winter folk tales from around the world, compiled by folklorist Niina Niskanen. These captivating stories transport listeners to enchanting snowy landscapes, where magic and wonder abound. From frosty forests to cozy hearths, Niskanen's expertly selected tales capture the essence of winter through themes of resilience, friendship, and the power of storytelling. Whether you're curled up by the fire or out for a snowy stroll, "Winter Time Folk Tales" is the perfect companion for a cold winter's night. 
  Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of winter folktales with our "Enchanted Winter Tales: Folklore and Fables Audiobook." Inspired by the rich tradition of storytelling during the cold months, this audiobook brings together timeless tales that have warmed hearts for generations. Each story in this collection was carefully selected and narrated to transport listeners to magical realms filled with wonder and adventure. Our creation process involved researching historical folktales from various cultures, ensuring each story captures the essence of winter's magic. 
  How to Enjoy This Audiobook: 
  Bedtime Storytelling: Create a cozy bedtime routine with enchanting tales. 
  Family Gatherings: Share the magic of these stories with loved ones during winter get-togethers. 
  Personal Relaxation: Unwind with a warm drink and lose yourself in these captivating narratives. 
  Road Trips: Make winter travels more enjoyable with immersive storytelling. 
  Classroom Use: Educators can introduce students to the beauty of traditional folklore.

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  Why Argument Matters

  Lee Siegel

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  An impassioned case for argument's central role in human life, by one of America's most distinguished cultural critics 
   
   
   
  From Eve's crafty exchange with the serpent, to Martin Luther King's soaring, subtle ultimatums, to the throes of Twitter—argument's drainpipe—the human desire to prevail with words has been not just a moral but an existential compulsion. In this dazzling reformulation of argument, renowned critic Lee Siegel portrays the true art of argument as much deeper and far more embracing than mere quarrel, dispute, or debate. It is the supreme expression of humanity's longing for a better life, born of empathy and of care for the world and those who inhabit it. With wit, passion, and striking insights, Siegel plumbs the emotional and psychological sources of clashing words, weaving through his exploration the untold story of the role argument has played in societies throughout history. Each life, he maintains, is an argument for that particular way of living; every individual style of argument is also a case that is being made for that person's right to argue. Argument is at the heart of the human experience, and language, at its most liberated and expressive, inexorably bends toward argument.

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  The Dhammapada Vol 4 - The Way...

  Osho

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  The Dhammapada is a collection of sayings of the Gautama the Buddha in verse form and one of the most widely read and best known Buddhist scriptures. This is volume four of a 12-volume series of Osho Talks, where Osho brings Buddha's Dhammapada into the 21st century, opening them for a new understanding for contemporary mankind.
  In alternating chapters, Osho comments on specific sutras of Buddha and responds to questions from his audience, deepening the understanding of these timeless works. "My talking on Buddha is not just a commentary: It is creating a bridge. Buddha is one of the most important masters who has ever existed on the Earth - incomparable, unique."
  The setting of these talks is an open-air auditorium at the Osho International Meditation Resort in Pune, India. Osho and his audience sit surrounded by trees, and the elements of nature - the chirping of birds, wind, and the cracking bamboos as well as the distant sound of the local Pune-Mumbai morning train - are all parts of these recordings and give them a truly existential flavor.
  Osho employs his penetrating insight and wonderful humor to remove the dust of many misunderstandings gathered on Buddha's teachings and again emphasizes meditation over dogma, meditation being Buddha's greatest contribution to the development of human consciousness.
  "Buddha transformed the word meditation. Meditation had always been something of the mind, and Buddha brought a new quality, so totally new, diametrically opposite to the old meaning: He said meditation means a state of no mind. It is not concentration; it is not contemplation. It is not thinking; it is not thinking about God. It is not even prayer, because thinking is of the head, intellectual; prayer is emotional. That is another side of the head, not very far away from it - a different language used by another part of the head."
  Osho Talks are "meditating talks", allowing the listener an experience of meditation. "These words of Buddha come from eternal silence. They can reach you only if you receive them in silence."
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  - Better than a Hundred Years
  - The Highest Flower of Creativity
  - There Is No Hell
  - Truth Is Always Very Simple
  - Dust Thrown against the Wind
  - The Great Gift of Life
  - See Yourself in Others
  - The Ultimate Luxury
  - Awake to the Law
  - Aes Dhammo Sanantano
  © & ℗ 1979 OSHO International Foundation

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  Out of Time and Out of Place: A...

  Editors Charles River

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  “Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect - but maybe the universe doesn't insist on cause and effect.” - Edward M. Lerner, physicist and author  
  	We take time for granted as it passes during every moment of our existence. Other things may change, but time remains constant and predictable. The past, the present, and the future exist within a harmonious, reliable, and never-changing system. Or at least that’s how it seems… 
  	It was Albert Einstein who, in 1905, first theorized that time might not be quite as straightforward as that. In one of the most influential papers on physics ever published[1], he proposed something called “time dilatation.” This suggested that time was neither fixed nor constant and that the passage of time was related to the relative speed of the observer. The closer an object approached the speed of light, the more notable this effect was. For example, if it were possible to build an interstellar craft capable of reaching speeds that approached the speed of light, the passengers on that ship might experience the passage of a single year during a voyage, but when they returned to Earth, they might find that dozens of years had passed on the planet. 
  	That was a truly revolutionary idea back in 1905, and it wasn’t until the 1960s that technology had advanced to the point that it was possible to conduct experiments to check Einstein’s theory by measurement. Those experiments and subsequent tests proved that he was entirely correct. Even in 1908, new theories proposed that time was the fourth dimension of spacetime and that it wasn’t fixed at all but governed by the same laws of relativity that applied to other aspects of physics. 
  	These were exciting developments, and current theories of physics have taken this idea even further, suggesting that both space and time are “emergent.”

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  The Myth of Left and Right - How...

  Verlan Lewis, Hyrum Lewis

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  A groundbreaking argument that the political spectrum today is inadequate to twenty-first-century America and a major source of the confusion and hostility that characterize contemporary political discourse. 
   
   
   
  As American politics descends into a battle of anger and hostility between two groups called "left" and "right," people increasingly ask: What is the essential difference between these two ideological groups? In The Myth of Left and Right, Hyrum Lewis and Verlan Lewis provide the surprising answer: nothing. As the authors argue, there is no enduring philosophy, disposition, or essence uniting the various positions associated with the liberal and conservative ideologies of today. Far from being an eternal dividing line of American politics, the political spectrum came to the United States in the 1920s and, since then, left and right have evolved in so many unpredictable and even contradictory ways that there is currently nothing other than tribal loyalty holding together the many disparate positions that fly under the banners of "liberal" and "conservative." Cutting against the grain of most scholarship on polarization in America, this book shows why the idea that the political spectrum measures deeply held worldviews is the central political myth of our time and a major cause of the confusion and vitriol that characterize public discourse.

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  The Original Peer Support...

  Gregorio Lewis

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  The Original Peer Support Recovery & Coping Skills Workbook & Curriculum is a book by someone who believes in recovery with all his heart. That guy's name is Gregorio Lewis. 
  Sometimes, life happens and things change. This author walked his talk straight into the gutter-living a fairly desperate and upsetting, yet transformative life while homeless-until a mere 3 years and two months ago. Now, living a new life. Truly alive and well in the heart of Mexico. He's evidence that if you want to get better, do the work, experience the improvements. 
  This workbook and curriculum is for people like me: the poor, the unwanted, the blamed, the hurt, the labeled, the outcast, and the rejected. This workbook and curriculum is for people like you: the carers, the lovers, the educators, the agents-of change and the healers. Everything you read in this book was learned and earned the hard way. 
  Recovery is some of the hardest work possible. Do it, and keep doing it and maybe, just maybe, your dreams will also come true.

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