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  One Last Song - Conversations on...

  Mike Ayers, Jim James

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  An ironically upbeat book that asks some of today's most inimitable musicians which song they would choose to be the last one they ever hear 
   
   
    
  If you could choose the last song you'd hear before you died, what would it be and why? Your favorite song of all time? Perhaps the one you danced to at your wedding? The song from that time you got super stoned and just let the chords speak to you? It's a hard question that Mike Ayers has thought about for years. 
   
   
    
  In One Last Song, Ayers invites thirty musicians to consider what song they would each want to accompany them to those pearly white gates. Weaving together their explanations with evocative illustrations and poignant interludes—what your song to die to says about you, what songs famous people have died to, and more. The book offers insight into the minds of famous artists and provides an entry point for considering how integral music is to our own personal narratives.

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  Why Is Nobody Buying My Book? -...

  Kay Jay

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  Why Is Nobody Buying My Book? 
  Are you an author pouring your heart into your craft, only to be met with silence? You’ve written, edited, and published, but where are the readers? If you’ve ever asked yourself, “Why isn’t my book selling?” you’re not alone—and this book holds the answers. 
  Why Is Nobody Buying My Book? It isn’t just a guide; it’s a roadmap for indie authors navigating the competitive and often overwhelming self-publishing world. Whether you’re struggling with pricing, marketing, or connecting emotionally with readers, this book equips you with the tools and strategies to stand out and succeed. 
  This book isn’t just a collection of strategies—it’s also my story. When I wrote my first book, Diary of Cliches, I believed I had something meaningful to share. What I didn’t anticipate was the crushing reality of low sales and self-doubt. I spent sleepless nights questioning my pricing, rewriting my book description, and wondering if my voice was ever meant to be heard. 
  And then it hit me. Writing isn’t just about the story you tell—it’s about how that story connects with your audience. Through trial error, and countless lessons, I discovered what truly resonates with readers. These lessons not only changed the trajectory of my books but transformed how I viewed my journey as an author. 
  Why Does Nobody Buy My Book? Takes you behind the scenes of that journey while giving you actionable insights, practical tools, and creative strategies to navigate the challenges of self-publishing. From shifting your mindset about money to crafting emotionally resonant stories, this book will help you not only sell books but create a lasting impact.

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  The Gambling Century -...

  John Eglin

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  Gambling captures as nothing else the drama of the "long eighteenth century" between the age of religious wars and the age of revolutions. The society that was confronted with games of chance pursued as commercial ventures also came to grips with unprecedented social mobility, floated by new wealth from new sources created fortunes from trade in sugar, cotton, ivory, silk, tea, or enslaved human beings. Likewise, play for money was prominent in the public imagination as money itself, deployed through an ever expanding and ever more sophisticated range of mechanisms, increasingly invaded public awareness, as when prospective spouses in period fiction were rated in terms of annual income as if they were municipal bonds. Similarly, the archetypal figure of the gambler captured the imagination of the public in fiction, media, and politics. At the same time, new interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—encouraged and bankrolled by those in power—fostered a new and unprecedented appreciation for mathematical probability and its applications, opening the possibility that games of chance might be pursued as a profitable commercial venture. The Gambling Century focuses like no previous work on those who enabled, facilitated, and profited from gambling, as well as on efforts to regulate or outlaw it.

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  How to Get Over a Breakup - An...

  Ovid

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  Breakups are the worst. On one scale devised by psychiatrists, only a spouse's death was ranked as more stressful than a marital split. Is there any treatment for a breakup? The ancient Roman poet Ovid thought so. Having become famous for teaching the art of seduction in The Art of Love, he then wrote Remedies for Love (Remedia Amoris), which presents thirty-eight frank and witty strategies for coping with unrequited love, falling out of love, ending a relationship, and healing a broken heart. How to Get Over a Breakup presents an unabashedly modern prose translation of Ovid's lighthearted and provocative work, complete with a lively introduction. 
   
   
   
  Ovid's advice—which he illustrates with ingenious interpretations of classical mythology—ranges from the practical, psychologically astute, and profound to the ironic, deliberately offensive, and bizarre. Some advice is conventional—such as staying busy, not spending time alone, and avoiding places associated with an ex. Some is off-color, such as having sex until you're sick of it. And some is simply and delightfully weird—such as becoming a lawyer and not eating arugula. 
   
   
   
  Whether his advice is good or bad, entertaining or outrageous, How to Get Over a Breakup reveals an Ovid who sounds startlingly modern.

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  Time Cops - and Other Tales from...

  Andrew J Heller

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  Have you ever wondered if the police employ time machines in their investigations? Do you know why you should never rent a car from Chompy? Have you heard about the pancakes and syrup defense to robbery? The answers to these questions and more can be found in Time Cops and Other Tales from the Criminal Justice Factory, the memoirs of the author’s 30-year career in criminal law. You will find the stories humorous, sad, provocative, or surprising, but they are all entertaining. So come inside the courtroom, take a seat at the counsel table, see the lawyers, judges, cops, and defendants in their natural habitat, Philadelphia’s Criminal Justice Factory, and let your expert guide, Andrew J. Heller, counsel for the defense explain how the legal system works...and how it doesn't.

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  Rain of Ruin - Tokyo Hiroshima...

  Richard Overy

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  A leading historian of World War II sheds new light on the purposes and impact of the U.S. incendiary and atomic bombing of Japan’s cities in 1945. 
    
  With the development of the B-29 “Superfortress” in summer 1944, strategic bombing, a central component of the Allied war effort against Germany, arrived in the Pacific theater. In 1945 Japan experienced the three most deadly bombing attacks of the war. The firebombing of Tokyo in March burned the city’s most densely populated sector, killed some 85,000 residents, and left more than one million homeless. The attack was part of a months-long campaign of incendiary bombing that destroyed almost two-thirds of Japan’s cities. The two atomic blasts in August killed hundreds of thousands in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, most of them civilians. The bombing brought a destabilizing devastation that, combined with a declaration of war by the Soviet Union, induced Japan, as they put it, to terminate the war. 
    
  Many at the time and since have credited American air power, and especially the two atomic bombs, with Japan’s surrender. But Richard Overy tells a different, more dimensional story. Drawing on his expertise on the war and its bombing campaigns, he delivers a precise recounting of these aerial attacks, and a balanced, informed assessment of how and why they occurred. Overy is astute on the Allied decision-making, and, notably, integrates the Japanese leadership as well. He ably navigates the dramatic endgame of the war, which featured factional infighting within the Japanese cabinet, a scramble by American officials to formulate an acceptable version of “unconditional surrender,” and the crucial role played by the emperor, Hirohito. The atomic bombing emerges as impactful but not decisive in this rich, multilayered history.

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