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  Utopia

  Thomas More

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  Utopia by Thomas More is a seminal work of literature that has long been regarded as one of the most influential pieces of philosophical and political writing in history. In this text, More sets out to create an idealized version of a commonwealth in order to explore the most desirable forms of government and social organization. Through his vivid imagery, he creates a vision of a utopian society that is based upon the socio-economic principles of communal ownership, religious tolerance, and gender equality. Read in English, unabridged.

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  A Zebra among Horses - You're...

  René Richter

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A book for people who feel too much, think too deeply, and have never quite felt like they fit into this world. 
   
  Do you often feel too sensitive, too intense, or too complicated for this world? 
   
  Do you get the sense you’ve spent your whole life trying to function as “normal”—and lost yourself along the way? 
   
  Then this book is for you. 
   
  A ZEBRA AMONG HORSES is written for people who feel deeply, think fast, and notice everything — yet still often feel out of place. 
   
  For anyone who senses: I don't fit into this world. 
   
  René Richter, a board-certified psychiatrist and psychotherapist, doesn’t understand neurodivergence as a diagnosis, but as an inner landscape. Using the powerful metaphor of zebras in a world made for horses, he makes it clear why so many smart, sensitive people end up exhausted—even when it looks like they’re “doing everything right.” 
   
  This book explains why adaptation wears you out, why masking isn’t weakness, why giftedness often comes with chaos, self-doubt, and overwhelm, why you were never broken—you were simply built differently. 
   
  No pathologizing. 
   
  No pressure to self-optimize. 
   
  No empty promises. 
   
  A ZEBRA AMONG HORSES is NOT a typical self-help guide. 
   
  It’s a book of recognition. 
   
  A book that quietly says: Maybe nothing is wrong with you. 
   
  If you’re ready to stop trying to be a horse—and start becoming a good zebra, you’re in the right place. 
   
  Welcome to your herd!

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  Transatlantic Slave Trade - A...

  Hourly History

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  The empires of the ancient Sumerians, Akkadians, Greeks, Romans, and Chinese were underpinned by slavery, where one person could be owned by another, and their obedience and labor were forced by the threat of violence or even death. Some of these people were prisoners captured during wars, some were sold into slavery to pay debts, while others were born into slavery. In many ancient empires, slaves accounted for anything from one-third to half of the total population. All were regarded as property, few were entitled to even the most basic human rights, and most lived lives of abject poverty and suffering. 
  By the sixteenth century, slavery had become less important as a part of the international economy, but the discovery of the Americas changed that fundamentally. New lands were conquered, first by Spain and Portugal and then by other European nations. Vast new areas were available for cultivation, but that required a large workforce. A new trade began in slaves purchased in Africa and shipped to the Caribbean, North, Central, and South America. 
  The transatlantic slave trade would see a staggering total of around 12 million people forcibly transported from Africa to the Americas, often in the most appalling conditions. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a new movement arose that questioned the moral and ethical basis of this trade. This is the story of the origin, rise, and eventual collapse of the transatlantic slave trade.

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  Unease: Life in Singapore Families

  Teo You Yenn

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  In Singapore, a loudly ‘pro-family’ society, why is work-life balance so elusive? And why are parents so uneasy? What accounts for this gap between the lived reality and ideal narrative of Singapore families? 
   
  Sociologist and bestselling author Teo You Yenn turns her eyes to the contours and rhythms of life inside families, exploring how ‘kiasu’ parents are made and investigating the ways in which inequality marks life in contemporary Singapore. Drawing from in-depth interviews with parents from all walks of life, Unease examines how social structures, individual strategies and common practices come to produce Singaporean ‘cultures’ of doing family. 
   
  An incisive exposé of how the logics of hierarchy, competition and unequal worth infect ordinary people’s lives, Unease asks what these cost parents, children and the values we hold as a society. And what possibilities are there for living differently?

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  Reckoning

  V

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  The work of a lifetime from the Tony Award–winning, bestselling author of The Vagina Monologues—political, personal, profound, and more than forty years in the making. 
   
   
   
  The newest book from V (formerly Eve Ensler), Reckoning invites you to travel the journey of a writer's and activist's life and process over forty years, representing both the core of ideas that have become global movements and the methods through which V survived abuse and self-hatred. Seamlessly moving from the internal to the external, the personal to the political, Reckoning is a moving and inspiring work of prose, poetry, dreams, letters, and essays drawn from V's lifelong journals that takes listeners from Berlin to Oklahoma to the Congo, from climate disaster, homelessness, and activism to family. 
   
   
   
  Unflinching, intimate, introspective, courageous, Reckoning explores ways to create an unstoppable force for change, to love and survive love, to hold people and states accountable, to reckon with demons and honor the dead, to reclaim the body, and to see oneself as connected to a greater purpose. It reimagines what seems fixed and intractable, providing a path to understand one's unique experience as deeply rooted in the world, to break through one's own boundaries, and to write oneself into freedom.

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  A Hiker's History of the...

  Mills Kelly

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  Every history of the Appalachian Trail tells the story from the top down, focusing on who proposed the trail, who built it, who maintain it, and on a few of the most famous hikers. A Hiker's History of Appalachian Trail tells the trail's history from the ground up, or more accurately, from the boots up.
  Several million hikers each year set foot on the trail for a few hours, a few days, or perhaps a few weeks. The trail was created for them, yet their role in its history is largely ignored. Working with trail shelter logbooks, hiker accounts submitted to trail clubs, newspaper and magazine stories about the experiences of casual hikers, Mills Kelly reveals what it was like to hike the trail from the late 1920s until the 2020s.
  What did those hikers eat? What kind of gear did they carry? Why did they go hiking in the first place? What was their relationship to the natural world they found along the trail? What was it like to hike as a woman, as a person of color, as someone with a disability? And how did all those things change over the 100 years of the trail's history?

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