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  The Whigs and the Know Nothings...

  Editors Charles River

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  It was in the wake of the election of Andrew Jackson that the Whigs emerged as opponents to the Jacksonian Democrats during a period of American history known as the Second Party System (1828-1854). Initially, the conflict was rooted not only in different visions for the United States – the Whigs believed in a strong central bank and federally funded infrastructure projects (known as “internal improvements”) – but also in opposition to one man: Andrew Jackson. When it first formed, the Democratic Party coalesced around Jackson, and his beliefs and actions became Democratic Party dogma, which left the diverse group of people who opposed Jackson to become the Whigs.  
  The problem with this arrangement is that while the Whigs scored some notable successes as an opposition party, they found governing more difficult. The two Whigs elected president, William Henry Harrison and Zachary Taylor, died in office, raising to the presidency their respective vice-presidents, John Tyler and Millard Fillmore. Neither man succeeded in uniting the Whig Party behind him (a gargantuan task, to be sure), and neither was ever elected president in his own right. The increasing rancor over slavery is what finally killed the Whig Party.  
  	In the wake of contemporary debates over immigration, the “Know-Nothings” have been regularly cited as an example of how dangerous nativist attitudes can become and, indeed, have proven to be in America’s history. Several columnists, for instance, have striven to make comparisons between the Know-Nothings of antebellum America and the country’s recent immigration policies, helping in part to generate modern interest in a political party that many Americans have heard of but tend to know little about. The Know-Nothing movement can actually be tied to a number of violent episodes and ethnically charged riots that occurred during the late 1850s.

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  The Yellow Wallpaper

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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  Edited with a new introduction by Aimee McLaughlin
  "The Yellow Wallpaper" by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892, is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature for its illustration of the attitudes towards mental and physical health of women in the 19th century.
  What happens when a woman is pushed too far? Is she able to express her thoughts and feelings, or is she forced towards the expectation of behaving 'normally' again soon?
  A woman travels with her husband to an old colonial mansion after a nervous breakdown triggered by the birth of their child. Confined to the nursery and allowed only to breathe fresh air, eat well and rest in line with a regimented 'cure', she slowly begins to unravel at the seams. Her only distraction is writing in secret – that, and the woman she begins to see trapped inside the yellow wallpaper of the room itself.
  Isolated and breaking apart, she sets herself a task: to free the woman, and to become one with her temporary confinement.
  Charlotte Perkins-Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper' presents a harrowing, disturbing account of mental stress, confinement and female turmoil - within which the only available solace can be found inside four peeling, sickly yellow walls ...
  Our new edition also features the sequence of poems "Woman" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
  "The gothic genre offers Gilman an effective mode of diagnosing contemporary culture whilst in tandem expressing her ensuing fears and anxieties. Gilman within this novella, gothicises the domestic setting, inverting the pillars of domesticity: family, security and understanding, in turn unveiling the dangers lurking behind the familiarity of gender roles within marital relations. The intimate first-person narration of the narrative serves to enhance Gilman's exposure of the oppressive forces of a male-dominated society, as she deplores her protagonist's inferior position in her domestic arrangement. The female narrator is encumbered by masculine superiority, undoubtedly dwelling in the middle of patriarchy. Embedded within her characterisation is the subjugated role bestowed upon Victorian women. Gilman projects derangement onto a familiar literary figure ― the middle−class wife and mother ― placing the source of this madness in the inviolate sphere for dutiful women ― the home."
  from the new introduction to The Yellow Wallpaper by Aimee McLaughlin

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  Your Best Friend - And Other Essays

  M. B. Werapitiya

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  This is an audiobook of Bodhi Leaves No. 90 by M. B. Werapitiya, Your Best Friend: And Other Essays, narrated by Tejendra Patel. The print edition can be found in the Pariyatti Edition of Collected Bodhi Leaves Vol. III. The eBook of Bodhi Leaves No. 90 can be downloaded from the BPS website.
   
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  "To understand ourselves, we must live with ourselves and know all about ourselves. The mind for that matter is flickering, fickle, difficult to guard and control and flutters like a fish taken out of its watery abode and thrown upon the land. Somebody causes you hurt and although the aggressor has disappeared from sight, the hurt grows within you and every so often keeps surfacing with an overpowering intensity to give you a warp. Then again, you see something that has captured your attention and your mind has instantly photographed it from every conceivable angle with a see-through lens, developed it in your mental dark-room, brought out the prints and enlargements with the skill of an expert cameraman and processor rolled into one. Similarly, all the sense faculties and the mind are of high sensitivity and respond to anything and everything exciting. If the degree of excitement is not sufficiently satisfying, you step it up with the use of drugs, intoxicants and poisons. This activity goes on unabated and makes of you a human derelict. A wise person living in his mind protects himself holding himself dear. Such a person whose senses are subdued, whose pride is destroyed and is free from corruptions, is calm of mind, speech and action and rightly knows, and is perfectly peaceful and equipoised."

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  Blue-Coated Terror - Jim Crow...

  Jeffrey S. Adler

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  A searing chronicle of how racist violence became an ingrained facet of policing in the United States 
   
  Contrary to competing popular beliefs, police violence against African Americans has neither remained unchanged since the era of slavery nor is it a recent phenomenon disconnected from the past. In Bluecoated Terror, Jeffrey S. Adler draws on rich archival accounts to show how racialized police brutality is part of a larger system of state oppression with roots in the early twentieth-century South, particularly New Orleans. 
   
  Wide racial differentials in the use of lethal force and beatings during arrest and interrogation emerged in the 1930s and 1940s. Adler explains how race control and crime control blended and blurred during this era, when police officers and criminal justice officials began to justify systemic violence against Black people as a crucial—and legal—tool for maintaining law and order. Bluecoated Terrorexplores both the rise of these trends and their chilling persistence, providing critical context for recent horrific police abuses as the ghost of Jim Crow continues to haunt the nation. 
   
  “Jeffrey S. Adler’s analysis of New Orleans applies to the entire country and provides key insights as to how we arrived at our present crisis.”—Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

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  Daddy’s Naughty Baby - An ABDL...

  Tina Moore

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  Lola returned home expecting to reclaim the Daddy she left behind. She never expected another man to understand the woman she had become. 
  At twenty-eight, Lola Price is returning to the small town she escaped years ago. Her Hollywood dreams may have changed, but she has not come home empty-handed. She has connections, ambitious plans, and no intention of settling into a quiet life. 
  Then she reunites with Jake. 
  Jake was the first man to recognize Lola’s adult little side, and slipping back into his care feels almost effortless. He still knows how to offer the rules, discipline, diapers, and affection his naughty baby girl craves. But their familiar dynamic cannot erase the secrets Lola brought home with her. 
  When her criminal ties attract the attention of Clive, a powerful and commanding police officer, Lola discovers another kind of Daddy. Clive sees her recklessness, her ambition, and the vulnerable little beneath her defiance. Most importantly, he does not expect her to become someone else before he can want her. 
  Caught between old love, dangerous loyalties, and an unexpected new connection, Lola must decide whether she belongs with the Daddy who remembers who she was or the one who accepts everything she has become. 
  Daddy’s Naughty Baby is a DDLG and ABDL romance for listeners who enjoy adult littles, multiple Daddy Doms, second-chance relationships, small-town secrets, criminal intrigue, protective dominance, spanking, diapering, punishment, and intense power-exchange dynamics. 
  Adult Content Notice: This audiobook is intended for adults aged 18 and over and contains explicit sexual content, BDSM, DDLG, ABDL, and adult age-play themes. All characters participating in sexual, BDSM, or age-play situations are adults, and all “Daddy,” “baby girl,” and age-play terminology refers exclusively to adult role-play. No minors are involved in any sexual, BDSM, or age-play content.

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  The Regulated Woman - Safety...

  Jyee Byrne

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  She held it together for everyone else. She was the steady one. The prepared one. The one who kept it all running. And somewhere along the way, she stopped being sure who she was outside of that role. 
  The Regulated Woman is not a guide. It is not a program. It is not asking you to change anything. 
  It is a book of recognition, written for women who have adapted quietly, carried more than they were given language for, and lived in a state of readiness so long that it became their identity. 
  Across 45 chapters, this book names the patterns that form when a woman's nervous system learns to prioritise others before herself, and what it looks like when that begins, quietly and without force, to change. 
  This is not about fixing. It is about being seen. 
  Written by Jyee Byrne, founder of Wolfpack Support Services and creator of The Wolfpack Way framework. Part of The Wolfpack Way series.

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