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  Ethics for Beginners - Big Ideas...

  Peter Kreeft

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  Socrates once said that a good person does not worry much about the little things, like whether he lives or dies, but only about the one big thing: whether he is a good person or a bad one.       In Ethics for Beginners, celebrated philosopher Peter Kreeft reclaims the importance of ethical study in answering life’s big questions: What is the meaning of life? How should I live? How should I treat other people? Unlike many modern texts on the subject, this one asserts that ethics is real, that good and evil are knowable, and that we can learn to act well and so become better and happier people.       Surveying the “big ideas” of the thirty-two most important ethical philosophers, Ethics for Beginners is an apprenticeship to the greatest minds in history. With expert analysis and reflection from Kreeft, it offers a challenging and unforgettable treatment that is suitable for classroom and individual use alike.

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  Summary of Shomari Wills’s Black...

  Falcon Press

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  Buy now to get the main key ideas from Shomari Wills’s Black Fortunes 
    
  Journalist Shomari Wills’s great-great-uncle, John Mott Drew, was a millionaire. His father had been a slave, and his story made Shomari realize that African Americans’ early achievements are often little known. At the time, it was revolutionary for an African American to become rich. In Black Fortunes (2018), Shomari tells the success stories of America’s first black millionaires, including Mary Ellen Pleasant, Robert Reed Church, O.W. Gurley, Hannah Elias, Annie Turnbo Malone, and Madam C.J. Walker. They were often attacked and demonized for their race and achievements, but this did not stop them from securing their legacy. They built towns, cultures, and helped change the course of history for black people. 
   

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  Balancing Planet - How Climate...

  Ylia Callan

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
  Balancing Planet: How Climate Shapes Life and Life Shapes Climate is an immersive audiobook that brings the history and science of Earth’s climate to your ears. Explore the dramatic transformations of our planet, from its fiery origins to ice ages, human civilisation and the challenges of modern climate change. 
  This audiobook offers: A journey through deep time, showing how climate has influenced life and human development. Insight into the Industrial Revolution, fossil fuel use, and the Anthropocene. A clear explanation of current climate science, extreme weather, and global warming trends. Practical solutions for a regenerative future, including clean energy, carbon capture, reforestation, and sustainable agriculture. Reflections on ethics, mythology and human stewardship of the planet. 
  Whether you’re commuting, exercising, or relaxing, Balancing Planet turns complex science into a captivating story, leaving listeners informed, inspired and empowered to engage with the climate challenges of our time.

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  When Panic Attacks: Book Summary...

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  This is a concise summary and analysis of When Panic Attacks, by David D. Burns. It is not the original book and is not affiliated with or endorsed by David D. Burns. Ideal for those seeking a quick and insightful overview.
   
  "When Panic Attacks" is a groundbreaking book that offers a fresh and powerful approach to overcoming anxiety, fear, and panic attacks. The authors present scientifically proven techniques that challenge traditional methods of dealing with anxiety disorders. Through cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and innovative exercises, this book guides readers to identify and transform the thoughts and beliefs that fuel their fears. The authors emphasize that anyone can overcome anxiety without medication by learning to change their thinking patterns. The book is filled with real-life examples, practical exercises, and a compassionate tone, making it accessible to anyone struggling with anxiety.

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  The Rainbow Age of Television -...

  Shayna Maci Warner

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  With the last decade's television boom across a multitude of platforms, American audiences are being treated to a cascade of shows that some have trumpeted as a second Golden Age. But something completely new is stirring, too—the Rainbow Age. For the first time in the history of American television, we have shows in which LGBTQIA+ characters have evolved from being an anomaly to being an almost given and celebrated presence on the small screen. But what more can queer TV do? Is each new queer character really breaking ground? And has the curse of the fictional dead lesbian finally been defeated? 
   
   
   
  The Rainbow Age of Television tackles these questions and more as author Shayna Maci Warner tracks the history and evolution of LGBTQIA+ icons across the televised ages and into the future—from the first televised queer kiss (we think) to the shows that are making household names and heroes of queer characters. Warner uses original interviews with queer TV icons along with detailed history to investigate the constraints under which queer people have been allowed to exist on American television. The Rainbow Age of Television explores why queer people are so invested in—and conflicted by—the kinds of storytelling that TV has to offer. Above all, it's a celebration of the LGBTQIA+ shows, their characters, and their creators that define this new age in television.

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  In Praise of Listening - A...

  Christian McEwen

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  In her latest book, In Praise of Listening, Christian McEwen reflects on listening (silence, music, nature, prayer) in a series of thoughtful chapters, each one focused on a different theme. When an athlete speaks of "listening to his body," or a gardener describes herself as "listening to the land," when writers and artists explain that they are "listening" to their work-in-progress, they are using the word as she chooses to use it here—as an extended metaphor for openness and receptivity, rippling out from the self-centered human to the farthest reaches of the non-human world. 
   
   
   
  In Praise of Listening is a kind of sister or first cousin to McEwen's earlier, timely, and very popular, World Enough & Time, with the same emphasis on creativity and slowing down. As McEwen says: Most of us think of listening in fairly literal fashion: human beings listening (or not listening) to one another; the pleasure of attending to a familiar piece of music. But listening can have a far broader and more capacious meaning, moving out beyond the small apparatus of the ears to the hands or belly or enveloping spirit/mind.

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