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  Imperial Chinese Foundations -...

  Rolf Hedger

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  The story of China's imperial unification represents one of history's most consequential political transformations. "Imperial Chinese Foundations: Uniting the Land" explores the three dynasties that forged China's imperial system—a political structure that would endure for over two millennia. 
  The brief but revolutionary Qin Dynasty (221-206 BCE) ended centuries of warring states by conquering all rivals under the leadership of the First Emperor, Qin Shi Huang. Through military might, standardized writing, currency, measurements, and a unified legal code, the Qin created China's first centralized bureaucratic empire—though their harsh Legalist policies triggered rebellion after the emperor's death. 
  The Western Han Dynasty (206 BCE-9 CE) consolidated imperial rule through a more pragmatic blend of Confucian ideology and centralized governance. Under Emperor Wu's dynamic leadership, the Han expanded Chinese territory, opened the Silk Road, established the civil service examination system, and created cultural and political institutions that would define Chinese civilization for millennia. 
  As power shifted to the Eastern Han (25-220 CE), the dynasty initially flourished before facing mounting challenges from natural disasters, court intrigues, and the Yellow Turban Rebellion. Yet even as political cohesion weakened, this period saw remarkable innovations—including paper, the seismograph, and advances in mathematics and medicine—while Buddhism began its profound influence on Chinese civilization. 
  Through examining these three foundational dynasties, we witness the birth and evolution of the imperial Chinese state that would serve as a template for governance across East Asia and continue to influence Chinese identity into the modern era.

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  In the Shadow of Diagnosis -...

  Regina Kunzel

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  A look at the history of psychiatry’s foundational impact on the lives of queer and gender-variant people. 
    
  In the mid-twentieth century, American psychiatrists proclaimed homosexuality a mental disorder, one that was treatable and amenable to cure. Drawing on a collection of previously unexamined case files from St. Elizabeths Hospital, In the Shadow of Diagnosis explores the encounter between psychiatry and queer and gender-variant people in the mid- to late-twentieth-century United States. It examines psychiatrists’ investments in understanding homosexuality as a dire psychiatric condition, a judgment that garnered them tremendous power and authority at a time that historians have characterized as psychiatry’s “golden age.” That stigmatizing diagnosis made a deep and lasting impact, too, on queer people, shaping gay life and politics in indelible ways. In the Shadow of Diagnosis helps us understand the adhesive and ongoing connection between queerness and sickness.

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  Feeding the Nine Billion -...

  P Agrawal

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
  Feeding the Nine Billion: Strategies for Global Food Security is a clear, practical, and hopeful roadmap for ensuring that every person can access nutritious food in a warming, crowded, and rapidly changing world. Written in simple, bookish language and grounded in real-world experience, it moves from the scale of a single farm to global markets and institutions, showing how the pieces fit together to create resilient, fair, and nourishing food systems. It opens with the central challenge—feeding a projected nine billion people—by unpacking what food security truly means: not only producing enough calories, but guaranteeing equitable access and balanced diets that support health, dignity, and opportunity. 
  The book surveys the current landscape of hunger and malnutrition, explaining why people go hungry even when the world grows enough food. It explores how conflict, climate shocks, poverty, weak infrastructure, and inequality disrupt access to meals, and it highlights the quiet crisis of hidden hunger—micronutrient deficiencies that limit learning, productivity, and well-being. With this foundation, the narrative turns to solutions that work on the ground: sustainable agriculture practices that build living soils, conserve water, reduce waste, and weave biodiversity into the heart of farming; and innovations in crop science, breeding, and biotechnology that add resilience to heat, drought, pests, and disease while improving taste, nutrition, and storage life.

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  Ancient Rome for Kids: An...

  Billy Wellman

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  Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in ancient Rome?  
  Do you know why the Romans were considered the most powerful nation in the world for many centuries? How did they live? What was life like in early Rome? In this audiobook, you’ll discover how they lived, what they ate, and how they entertained themselves.  
  Discover the story of how Rome began and why the Roman Empire fell. Learn about some of the greatest soldiers who led the Roman armies into battle and the kinds of weapons they used. Learn about famous emperors and whether they were loved or hated—and why.  
  This audiobook also contains fun facts and activities at the end of every chapter. Here are just a few of the fascinating things that you’ll discover when reading this book:How did a pair of twins believed to be raised by wolves create one of the mightiest nations ever known?Discover some of the things the Romans invented, like the toilet!Learn about some buildings that the ancient Romans built that are still visible today and attract tourists from all over the world.How ancient Rome treated their citizens.Entertaining the crowds: why did gladiators fight in the Roman Colosseum? What did the ancient Romans eat? How did they live?What led to the fall of the greatest empire on earth at the time? 
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  The Laws of Connection - The...

  David Robson

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  This groundbreaking study reveals how social connections are far more important than we thought, showing us the steps we can take to build better relationships and improve our lives. 
   
   
   
  Social connection is as essential for our health and happiness as a balanced diet and regular exercise. It reduces our risk of stroke, heart disease, and Alzheimer's. It enhances our creativity and adds years to our life span. Yet many of us struggle to form strong and meaningful bonds—and the problem lies not with our personalities but with a series of cognitive biases that stop us from fulfilling our social potential. 
   
   
   
  In The Laws of Connection, award-winning science writer David Robson describes the psychological barriers that lead us to keep others at a distance and offers evidence-based strategies to overcome them. 
   
   
   
  Drawing on philosophy, neuroscience, and cutting-edge psychology, Robson introduces listeners to new concepts such as the liking gap, the novelty penalty, the fast-friendship procedure, the beautiful mess effect, and the Japanese art of amae. Whether we are shy or confident, introvert or extrovert, we can all build deeper relationships. The Laws of Connection shows us how.

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  On the Genealogy of Morality

  Friedrich Nietzsche

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  What if everything you believed about good and evil was born not from truth… but from resentment? 
  Enter the piercing world of Friedrich Nietzsche, where morality is not sacred—but suspect. In On the Genealogy of Morality, one of philosophy’s most provocative voices unearths the hidden origins of our most cherished values, exposing how power, guilt, and fear shaped the very fabric of human conscience. 
  Nietzsche, the father of existentialism and herald of the Übermensch, dismantles the illusions of traditional morality with fearless intensity. In this daring trilogy of essays, he asks: What drives our moral judgments? Who benefits from them? And what lies beneath our modern sense of “justice”? 
  You’ll be drawn into his ruthless critique of Christian morality, a biting exploration of guilt and punishment, and a haunting dissection of ascetic ideals—each part revealing deeper currents of psychological and cultural manipulation. Nietzsche does not give answers; he cracks open the foundations. 
  More than a century later, his ideas continue to echo through philosophy, literature, and modern thought, challenging generations to confront uncomfortable truths. This audiobook invites you to walk the razor’s edge of moral certainty, where Nietzsche’s insights remain disturbingly relevant in an age of social dogmas and ideological fervor. 
  Narrated with crisp, articulate AI-voicing, this edition offers exceptional clarity—ideal for absorbing the complex rhythms of Nietzsche’s prose. Let his questions haunt you, provoke you, and perhaps even liberate you. 
  Dare to listen. Dare to question. Add On the Genealogy of Morality to your collection now—and begin the descent into the shadows of your own beliefs.

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