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  American Disgust - Racism...

  Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer

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  American Disgust shows how perceptions of disgust and fears of contamination are rooted in the country's history of colonialism and racism. Drawing on colonial, corporate, and medical archives, Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer argues that microbial medicine is closely entwined with changing cultural experiences of digestion, excrement, and disgust that are inextricably tied to the creation of whiteness. 
   
   
   
  Ranging from nineteenth-century colonial encounters with Native people to John Harvey Kellogg's ideas around civilization and bowel movements to mid-twentieth-century diet and parenting advice books, Wolf-Meyer analyzes how embedded racist histories of digestion and disgust permeate contemporary debates around fecal microbial transplants and other bacteriotherapeutic treatments for gastrointestinal disease. 
   
   
   
  At its core, American Disgust wrestles with how changing cultural notions of digestion—what goes into the body and what comes out of it—create and impose racial categories motivated by feelings of disgust rooted in American settler-colonial racism. It shows how disgust is a changing, yet fundamental, aspect of American subjectivity and that engaging with it—personally, politically, and theoretically—opens up possibilities for conceptualizing health at the individual, societal, and planetary levels.

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  Lifeline - An Elegy

  Stephanie Kain

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  What happens when someone you love suddenly cliff-dives into mental illness? And then you discover that there may be no return?
  		 
  This experimental memoir reflects on the author’s intimate and complicated relationship with a woman diagnosed with suicidal depression, and the startling and chaotic new world of locked wards, heavy medications, and electroconvulsive therapy that follows.
  		 
  Interweaving personal essays, fragmented prose, poetry, stream-of-consciousness, and text exchanges, this collage-style book invites the reader into the mysterious world of a treatment-resistant condition and illuminates the urgency and intimacy of caring for someone with an ultimately fatal mental illness. Running through the center of the narrative is the relationship between two people whose fierce love for each other is both the tie that binds and the anchor that drowns.
  		 
  Lifeline is a testament to the importance of hard conversations, humor, and dignity in the face of a courageous battle for sanity; an interrogation of the flaws in the medical system; a debate on when life stops being worth living; and a conversation and reflection on what it means to love someone enough to go on without them.

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  Egyptian Magic - Being Papyri...

  E. A. Wallis Budge

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  Step into the mysterious world of ancient Egypt with Egyptian Magic, E. A. Wallis Budge’s classic exploration of the rituals, beliefs, and supernatural practices that shaped Egyptian life. 
  Drawing on ancient texts and archaeological sources, Budge examines powerful divine names, magical words, amulets, spells, ceremonies, dreams, transformations, and the rites surrounding death and the afterlife. He reveals a culture in which magic and religion were deeply intertwined—and where protection, healing, spiritual power, and immortality could be pursued through sacred knowledge. 
  Rich in historical detail and enduring mystery, Egyptian Magic offers a fascinating introduction to the gods, priests, symbols, and occult traditions of one of history’s most captivating civilizations. This audiobook brings an influential work of early Egyptology to life for listeners interested in ancient history, mythology, religion, and the origins of magical thought.

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  The Therapist - Stories about...

  Kathlyn C. White

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  The Therapist by Kathlyn C. White, Marriage and Family Therapist, is a non-fiction account of the life of a therapist and the many interesting people she has seen over the years. 
  Kathlyn has been a practicing therapist for over thirty years. Kathlyn brings to life the stories of what patients go through who have psychosis, PTSD, depression, anxiety, eating disorders, alcoholism, traumatic brain injuries, violent tendencies, a history of abuse or domestic violence, and other emotional challenges. There are stories about children and adults as mental illness knows no boundaries. She includes stories of what our military persons have gone through during their service in Iraq and Afghanistan. 
  Kathlyn brings insight to the world of the Narcissist and their victims, the world of the Psychopath and their victims, the world of the survivors of these personalities who are so destructive. She also brings to life challenges relating to parenting and offers solutions to parenting challenges. This book also touches on how to make your marriage better. The Therapist will help you to understand other’s struggles and secrets. Reading The Therapist is like taking a step into another’s inner secret world, a world that isn’t often shared with another person. The Therapist takes you where few are allowed.

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  Roman Warfare

  Adrian Goldsworthy

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  From an award-winning historian of ancient Rome, a concise and comprehensive history of the fighting forces that created the Roman Empire.  “Goldsworthy is a superb historian and talented writer.” —Washington Times  In Roman Warfare, celebrated historian Adrian Goldsworthy leads readers through more than a thousand years of Roman military history, tracing both the Roman Empire’s dramatic rise and its eventual fall. Roman warfare was relentless in its pursuit of victory, creating an empire that eventually included much of Europe, the Near East, and North Africa. What distinguished the Roman army from its opponents was the uncompromising and total destruction of its enemies. Yet this ferocity was combined with a genius for absorbing conquered peoples, creating one of the most enduring empires ever known.  Concise yet comprehensive, Roman Warfare is the indispensable history of the most professional fighting force in ancient history, an army that forged an empire and changed the world.

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  Cortisol Crash-Landing - Drop...

  Jack Fang

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  Feeling wired, tired, inflamed, unfocused, soft around the midsection, sleeping badly, and aging faster than you should is rarely “random.” It is usually a cortisol pattern stuck on high. Chronically elevated stress hormones quietly drain muscle, thicken belly fat, scramble blood sugar, blunt memory, flatten mood, and wreck sleep architecture. Most people treat the smoke (symptoms) and ignore the fire (dysregulated stress signaling). 
  Cortisol Crash Landing is for high strung professionals, entrepreneurs, shift scramblers, parents running on caffeine, fitness people who train hard yet feel puffy and unrecovered, and anyone who wakes tired and gets a second wind too late at night. If you cycle through supplements, meditation apps, or extreme workouts and still feel “on edge,” this is your reset. 
  You should buy this book if you want a fast, evidence aligned framework to bring stress hormones back inside a healthy daily curve without exotic retreats, expensive stacks, or quitting your job. Instead of vague advice to “stress less,” you get a concentrated system focused on levers that shift cortisol quickly: physiology signals, attention hygiene, and daily rhythm alignment. 
  No fluff, scare tactics, or miracle promises. Just a clear, time bound intervention designed to: 
  Sharpen morning energy while lowering the night time second wind 
  Calm inflammatory signaling linked to stubborn fat and brain fog 
  Improve sleep depth and recovery drive 
  Restore stress resilience so small triggers stop feeling like emergencies 
  If you want a rapid proof that your body can downshift and you can feel calmer, clearer, leaner, and more in control in days instead of months, start here and put your stress system back on your side.

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