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  Essays: First Series Art

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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  What is art? A mere imitation of life or something far greater—an act of creation that reveals the soul of the universe? Ralph Waldo Emerson, the philosopher-poet of American transcendentalism, elevates art beyond the canvas, beyond words, beyond form itself. In this essay, he explores the divine spark within creativity, arguing that true art is not bound by technique or tradition but flows from the spirit of the artist, a force both mysterious and essential.
  Emerson's vision is not for the passive observer but for those who seek to understand art as a living energy, a reflection of the highest truths. He sees the poet, the painter, the sculptor not as mere craftsmen but as visionaries, shaping the world with the raw power of imagination. Art, in its purest form, is not just a product—it is a revelation.
  For artists, dreamers, and seekers of meaning, Art is an invitation to look beyond the surface, to see beauty not as decoration but as a force that shapes existence itself. Read Emerson and rediscover art as you have never seen it before—alive, infinite, and transcendent.

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  Let's Go Exploring: Calvin and...

  Michael Hingston

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  A fascinating investigation of a beloved comic strip The internet is home to impassioned debates on just about everything, but there’s one thing that’s universally beloved: Bill Watterson’s comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. Until its retirement in 1995 after a ten-year run, the strip won numerous awards and drew tens of millions of readers from all around the world.  
   
  The story of a boy and his best friend ― a stuffed tiger ― was a pitch-perfect distillation of the joys and horrors of childhood, and a celebration of imagination in its purest form. In Let’s Go Exploring, Michael Hingston mines the strip and traces the story of Calvin’s reclusive creator to demonstrate how imagination ― its possibilities, its opportunities, and ultimately its limitations ― helped make Calvin and Hobbes North America’s last great comic strip.

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  The Great American Medical Show...

  Bernard M. Patten

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  What happens when a seasoned physician pulls back the curtain on America's health care system? 
  Dr. Bernard M. Patten has lived medicine from every angle: patient, doctor, advocate, and critic. With wit, candor, and unflinching honesty, he takes readers on an eye-opening journey through decades of encounters that reveal both the brilliance and the failures of modern medicine. 
  From the golden age of doctor-patient trust to today's labyrinth of insurance denials, inflated costs, over-testing, and medical quackery, Patten exposes a system where profits too often come before patients. Along the way, he shares vivid stories about hospitals, doctors, insurance companies, and the people caught in between. 
  This book is a call for clarity, skepticism, and empowerment. Readers will come away better prepared to navigate the complexities of American healthcare, armed with knowledge, perspective, and a critical eye. If you want to understand what went wrong with the most expensive health care system in the world, The Great American Medical Show will inform, provoke, and inspire. 

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  The Avid Amorous Adventures of...

  Tordín Lyn

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  Tordín Lyn, born Thanksgiving Day 1946 perfectly timed to become a hippie in California when the 1960's exploded on the scene. Sex, drugs, rock and roll, what else could a young man have wished for? Free love, psychedelic drugs, and the Beatles, what an amazing time! If you lived through that era with Tordín or just want to find out what it was all about, come join Tordín Lyn on his Avid Amorous Adventures through the years 1950 to 1980, a Hippie’s Trip. Hear about his Summer of Love afternoon adventure, sex in the mountains, a psychedelic peyote trip in the Idaho Primitive Area, and life in a swinging singles complex in the Sin Fernando Valley. Experience partying with swingers at Contempo Casuals, sexual adventures around the world, and DRUGS! Yes, Tordín used but did not abuse. Learn how women, drugs, and rock and roll influenced his life. How the art of manliness guided him through his life and a few fights along the way. If you follow Tordín to the end of his story, you’ll discover how he met the mythical Leanan Sídhe, a beautiful woman of the Aes Sídhe, the people of the barrow, the fairy folk of Ireland. Listen as Tordín reflects on his adventures in the final chapter: Refraction of Tordín’s Life Through a Gravitation Lens.

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  Franklin Delano Roosevelt: His...

  Liam Dale

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  The early years of World War II saw Nazi Germany dominate Europe, but by the end of 1941, as Adolf Hitler continued to build his Empire, events in the Pacific took on their own momentum as Imperial Japan and America became locked in battle after the bombing of the US Naval Fleet at Pearl Harbor. 
   
  As the smoke and flames rose from Pearl, America and its President, Franklin D Roosevelt, could no longer remain on the sidelines of the war that had been waging in Europe for over two years, and on December 7th, 1941, the hostilities were transformed into a global conflict. This would mark the beginning of a new chapter in the Second World War where the Americans joined the fight for what Roosevelt had laid out as the Four Freedoms. 
   
  The first was Freedom of Speech, the second, Freedom of Religion and Expression, the third Freedom from Want, and last but by no means least, the fourth was Freedom from Fear. The story of how the nation, which so treasured its neutrality and had gone to such great lengths to avoid fighting on foreign soil, joined the war, will follow in the footsteps of Roosevelt, the man responsible for the American Dream.

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  MS and Me

  Dorothy M. Mitchell

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  Living with multiple sclerosis was never going to be easy. The phrase 'I rule it, it doesn't rule me' was to become Lydia's benchmark. She clung fiercely to these words. They would booster her strength in the years ahead when at times, fear of the pain and its affects, especially the horrendous agony of an MS attack, would almost break her.

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