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  Over the Edge of the World -...

  Anônimo

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  A majestic tale of discovery thatchanged many long-held views about the world 
   In 1519 Magellan and his fleet of five ships set sail from Seville, Spain, to discover a water route to the fabled Spice Islands in Indonesia, where the most sought-after commodities -- cloves, pepper, and nutmeg -- flourished. Three years later, a handful of survivors returned with an abundance of spices from their intended destination, but with just one ship carrying eighteen emaciated men. During their remarkable voyage around the world the crew endured starvation, disease, mutiny, and torture. Many men died, including Magellan, who was violently killed in a fierce battle. 
  This is the first full account in nearly half a century of this voyage into history: a tour of the world emerging from the Middle Ages into the Renaissance; a startling anthropological account of tribes, languages, and customs unknown to Europeans; and a chronicle of a desperate grab for commercial and political power.

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  Special Delivery

  Arnold Miles

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  As a gay man living alone, Tom's monotonous day takes an unexpected turn when straight delivery driver Matt arrives at his door. Matt is grappling with the meaning of life, while Tom finds himself grappling with the meaning of Matt. "Special Delivery," a debut novel by Arnold Miles, explores the challenges and joys of exploring friendship, intimacy, and sexuality.

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  Life Is Short - An Appropriately...

  Dean Rickles

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  Why life's shortness—more than anything else—is what makes it meaningful 
   
   
   
  Death might seem to render pointless all our attempts to create a meaningful life. Doesn't meaning require transcending death through an afterlife or in some other way? On the contrary, Dean Rickles argues, life without death would be like playing tennis without a net. Only constraints—and death is the ultimate constraint—make our actions meaningful. In Life Is Short, Rickles explains why the finiteness and shortness of life is the essence of its meaning—and how this insight is the key to making the most of the time we do have. 
   
   
   
  Life Is Short explores how death limits our options and forces us to make choices that forge a life and give the world meaning. But people often live in a state of indecision, in a misguided attempt to keep their options open. This provisional way of living—always looking elsewhere, to the future, to other people, to other ways of being, and never committing to what one has or, alternatively, putting in the time and energy to achieve what one wants—is a big mistake, and Life Is Short tells listeners how to avoid this trap. By reminding us how extraordinary it is that we have any time to live at all, Life Is Short challenges us to rethink what gives life meaning and how to make the most of it.

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  Soap Magic Part 1 - Lesbian...

  Kathrin Pissinger

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  Magic. Mayhem. Soap. 
  What would you do if you were a lonely lesbian with a crush on her boss who just happened upon a magical piece of soap that might make all your dreams come true? Would you end up in a threesome, sandwiched between her and your co-worker, getting served on both ends at the same time? Well, what if you really, really, really like your butt to be played with as well? Well, fine, but don't blame me for enjoying myself. Sheesh, everyone's a critic. 
  Anyway, this first part of Soap Magic contains awkward masturbation, less awkward lesbian flirting and enthusiastic lesbian sex with three very eager participants, one of which just happens to like anal a lot. Also contains soap magic.

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  Artful Truths - The Philosophy...

  Helena de Bres

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  Offers a philosophical perspective on the nature and value of writing a memoir. 
    
  Artful Truths offers a concise guide to the fundamental philosophical questions that arise when writing a literary work about your own life. Bringing a philosopher’s perspective to a general audience, Helena de Bres addresses what a memoir is, how the genre relates to fiction, memoirists’ responsibilities to their readers and subjects, and the question of why to write a memoir at all. Along the way, she delves into a wide range of philosophical issues, including the nature of the self, the limits of knowledge, the idea of truth, the obligations of friendship, the relationship between morality and art, and the question of what makes a life meaningful. 
    
  Written in a clear and conversational style, it offers a resource for those who write, teach, and study memoirs, as well as those who love to read them. With a combination of literary and philosophical knowledge, de Bres takes the many challenges directed at memoirists seriously, while ultimately standing in defense of a genre that, for all its perplexities—and maybe partly because of them—continually proves to be both beloved and valuable. 

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  Sydney 1970 - Small Group...

  J. Krishnamurti

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  1.Sydney 1970 - Small Group Discussion 1 - What does it mean to look at something as a whole? 
  Confidence. 
  Dependency. 
  Conclusions. 
  Conflict. 
  Conformity. 
  Becoming. 
  Measurement. 
  Awareness. 
   
  2.Sydney 1970 - Small Group Discussion 2 - Comparison and conformity 
  The space between the observer and the observed. 
  Action according to knowledge becomes inaction. 
  Looking at something as a whole. 
  Is there an action without the past? 
  Seeing the danger of something. 
  Nationalism. 
  A total action out of emptiness.

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