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  Foundations

  Karin Speedy

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  In Foundations, Karin Speedy takes us on a whirlwind journey through time and space as she navigates intersecting personal, local, family and global histories, stories that help her reckon with who she is and where she stands in this complicated (post)colonial world. If colonialism, slavery, violence and heartbreak feature heavily in her memoir so too do friendship, love, poetry, books, music, laughter and resistance. Warm, funny, quirky yet also confronting and, at times, shockingly brutal, her childhood and young adult memories bring to life the scenes and sounds of 70s, 80s and 90s New Zealand. At university, Karin's unquenchable thirst for knowledge and social justice see her embark on her first research project, a decolonial study of Louisiana Creole, research that cements her future as an anti-racist, activist scholar. Forever questioning the master narratives, digging deeper and peeling back layers to expose what lies hidden beneath and behind, Karin reminds us that history and trauma are all around us, ingrained in our lives, etched into our landscapes and at the very foundations of our cities and infrastructure. When she begins to examine her own family stories, rooted in colonisation and working-class struggle and embedded in the national histories of Aotearoa and Australia, she uncovers astonishing inter-generational palimpsests and starts to grasp the importance of listening to her ghosts. 
  About the Author 
  Karin Speedy is an interdisciplinary academic whose research weaves together her expertise in history, literature, linguistics and translation. She has published extensively on colonial and decolonial Pacific and Francophone history and literature, as well as on Creole languages, slavery and African and Indian Ocean diasporas in the Pacific. In 2013, she was awarded the John Dunmore Medal for research, recognising her major contribution to knowledge of French language and culture in the Pacific.

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  The Tao of Pooh

  Benjamin Hoff

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  Experience the gentle character of Winnie-the-Pooh through the lens of ancient Taoist principles, and discover how simplicity, humility, and naturalness lead to a happier and more harmonious life. 
    
  First published in 1982, The Tao of Pooh introduces the principles of Taoist philosophy through the humor and familiar world of Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne. 
    
  At the heart of the book is the concept of living in harmony with the Tao—the natural way of things. Pooh, with his unpretentious and sincere outlook, embodies the principle of wu wei, or “effortless action.” He does not strive to be clever or ambitious. Instead, he responds naturally to life as it unfolds. In contrast, characters such as Rabbit, Owl, Eeyore, and Tigger reflect common human tendencies toward overthinking, worry, pessimism, or restless energy. 
    
  Blending storytelling with philosophical insight, Benjamin Hoff presents Taoism as a path of gratitude, simplicity, authenticity, and inner balance. The Tao of Pooh remains a timeless and inviting guide to finding wisdom within the uncomplicated, natural self.

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  Women in Ancient Egypt: The...

  Charles River Editors

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  From the unification of the Two Lands around 3100 B.C. to the death of Cleopatra in 30 B.C., more than three thousand years elapsed, and across that immense span the Egyptians wrote, painted, carved, and buried more about themselves than any other early people. A great deal of what they left behind concerns women. Wives appear beside their husbands on tomb walls. Mothers receive offerings from their sons. Daughters inherit estates. Queens rule. Widows go to court. Goddesses preside over the dead. The Egyptian woman is, by the standards of the ancient world, unusually visible, and the modern reader who looks for her finds a great deal to see. 
  	What that record shows has surprised observers for thousands of years, including some of the ancient writers themselves. When Herodotus traveled in Egypt in the middle of the 5th century B.C., he came from a world in which respectable women stayed indoors, did not transact business, and were represented in law by a male guardian, so what he found along the Nile struck him as a near-total inversion of the natural order. Egyptian women, he reported, went out to the markets and carried on trade while their husbands sat at home and wove, and they carried loads on their shoulders while men carried them on their heads. The reversal was so complete, in his telling, that it became one of the organizing themes of his entire account of Egypt. 
  	Herodotus was not a careful witness in every respect, and some of what he wrote about Egypt was wrong or exaggerated. The reversal of the sexes was as much a literary device as an observation, a way of telling his Greek readers that Egypt was an unusual land at the edge of the world. But the device worked because it rested on something real, because Egyptian women did go to market, did own and trade property, and did appear in their own names in legal documents, without a male guardian standing between them and the law. A Greek woman of the same period could do almost none of this.

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  The Hidden Triggers - How You're...

  Dr Henry Montrevia

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  Every day, you are being steered. Not through force or obvious manipulation, but through carefully calibrated triggers embedded in the fabric of ordinary life — in a stranger's generosity, a crowd's approval, an expert's confident tone, a dwindling stock counter, or a social media feed that seems to know you better than you know yourself. Most of the time, you never notice. That is precisely the point.
  In The Hidden Triggers: How You're Steered Without Knowing, Dr. Henry Montrevia draws on decades of landmark research in behavioral psychology, social science, and economics to expose the invisible architecture of persuasion. From Solomon Asch's conformity experiments and Stanley Milgram's obedience studies to Robert Cialdini's fieldwork in the influence industry and Daniel Kahneman's Nobel Prize-winning work on cognitive shortcuts, Montrevia maps the full terrain of how human minds are moved without their owners realizing it.
  At the heart of the book is a powerful and unsettling insight: the most effective persuasion does not feel like persuasion at all. Reciprocity makes manufactured obligation feel like personal morality. Commitment quietly reshapes your identity through a chain of small yeses. Social proof turns a curated crowd into apparent consensus. Authority signals compliance before conscious reasoning can begin. Scarcity converts mild interest into urgent desire. And digital algorithms now combine all these levers simultaneously, adapting them in real time across billions of interactions, turning the information environment itself into a precision instrument of influence.
  Chapter by chapter, Montrevia dissects each mechanism with clarity and depth — explaining not only how these forces work, but why they work on everyone, including people who consider themselves especially rational or skeptical. This is not a book about weak-minded victims. It is a book about normal human cognition operating exactly as it evolved to, in environments that have been engineered to exploit it.
  But The Hidden Triggers is more than an anatomy of manipulation. It is also a practical guide to building genuine autonomy. Montrevia outlines evidence-based defenses — from cognitive inoculation and deliberate friction to calibrated humility and ethical self-awareness — that can widen the crucial gap between trigger and response. He also addresses the ethics of influence head-on, drawing a clear and nuanced line between persuasion that serves people's genuine interests and manipulation that extracts compliance at their expense.
  For fans of Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow and Charles Duhigg's The Power of Habit, The Hidden Triggers offers the next essential step: understanding not just how your mind works, but who else is working it — and what you can do about it. Whether you are a professional, a consumer, a voter, a parent, or simply a person trying to make decisions that are truly your own, this book will change the way you see every request, every offer, every message, and every yes.

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  Empower Your Finances: Break...

  Roarke Hemingwell

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  ⭐⭐ Empower Your Finances ⭐⭐ 
  Break Free From Patriarchal Limits and Love Your Life 
  Looking to enhance your financial knowledge and break free from patriarchal constraints to live a life you love? 
  This audiobook is your ultimate guide to understanding and mastering the principles of financial empowerment. 
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  This audiobook serves as your definitive companion for deepening your understanding, applying your skills, and engaging in hands-on exercises. With this, you're geared for success. 
  Updated for the latest financial strategies and methodologies. 
  Key features of this enriched guide: 
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  Our guide distinguishes itself through comprehensive coverage, which is essential for your financial success. Concepts aren't merely skimmed; they are delved into with precision. 
  Please note that this audiobook is not affiliated with any official financial entity and is purely an independent resource for your benefit. 
  Designed with a clear structure and easy-to-understand language, our guide ensures smooth transitions between topics. Say goodbye to dense jargon and welcome clear, precise, and technically accurate content. 
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  Allegory of Faith and Atlantis An

  Avi gdor

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. "Then they began to move. That is to say, they weren't exactly moving, but against the black backdrop, stars, galaxies, and nebulae began to emerge with a sharpness and intensity of color and light that gradually increased. They felt they were traveling through space because the background was changing gradually, and distant objects were drawing closer. They bypassed others, leaving them behind. Alongside the sublime feeling of floating, which they gradually grew used to and came to love, there was a slight yet certain sense that their feet were on the floor of the room and that everything happening was a highly advanced form of virtual reality. Gradually, the four let go of their worries and doubts and lost themselves in the wonder of the experience. They sank into the magnificent reality, and soon could no longer discern the contours of the room. In their eyes they were truly floating in space, as if it was a tangible fact." 
   
  Let us posit a scenario in which a highly advanced extraterrestrial civilization – one that embodies a flawless sociopolitical utopia – offers Earth's inhabitants the opportunity to join its world and embrace its high ideals and alternative way of life. Our world, with all its mysteries and secrets, is intimately known to them, for they have monitored our progress since the end of the last Ice Age. How would humanity respond to such an offer? And what disastrous shift in our world would finally compel them to break their silence and reveal themselves, after 13,000 years of unwavering observation? 
   
  “This book is dedicated to the young in years and the young at heart—those who possess the power to repair what authoritative men, wise only in their own conceit, have corrupted throughout the generations.”

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