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  The Life Worth Living -...

  Joel Michael Reynolds

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  More than 2,000 years ago, Aristotle said: "let there be a law that no deformed child shall live." This idea is alive and well today. During the past century, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. argued that the United States can forcibly sterilize intellectually disabled women and philosopher Peter Singer argued for the right of parents to euthanize certain cognitively disabled infants. The Life Worth Living explores how and why such arguments persist by investigating the exclusion of and discrimination against disabled people across the history of Western moral philosophy. 
   
   
   
  Joel Michael Reynolds argues that this history demonstrates a fundamental mischaracterization of the meaning of disability, thanks to the conflation of lived experiences of disability with those of pain and suffering. Building on decades of activism and scholarship in the field, Reynolds shows how longstanding views of disability are misguided and unjust, and he lays out a vision of what an anti-ableist moral future requires. 
   
   
   
  The Life Worth Living is the first sustained examination of disability through the lens of the history of moral philosophy and phenomenology, and it demonstrates how lived experiences of disability demand a far richer account of human flourishing, embodiment, community, and politics in philosophical inquiry and beyond.

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  Set Good Boundaries - Where You...

  Zera Young

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  Setting healthy boundaries can be a real challenge, especially if you find yourself in codependent dynamics. If you often prioritize others' needs over your own, Set Good Boundaries is your go-to manual. It equips you with essential skills to define boundaries within your current relationships and kick-start new connections on the right foot. 
  Master the art of confidently and assertively communicating your needs. This book caters to anyone aiming to improve relationships, break free from people-pleasing tendencies, and find lasting inner peace. Whether you're dealing with an overbearing parent, a pushy friend, or someone displaying narcissistic traits, this book equips you to understand and address the core reasons behind boundary challenges.In this book you'll explore: 
  ✅Deconstruct the lie of selfishness 
  ✅How to handle a toxic relationship or a person who invalidates your emotions (for example, gaslighting, manipulation, or narcissism) 
  ✅ Proven tips for saying “no” and making it stick 
  ✅Step-by-step strategies that train you to assert yourself with confidence 
  ✅How to break away from people-pleasing habits and prioritize your needs - without fracturing healthy relationships 
  ✅And so much more! 
  Even if you're always prioritizing others, steering clear of conflicts, or feeling unsure about where to begin, this book is your solution. It offers a comprehensive insight into the boundaries necessary for your well-being.Get ready to step into a life of genuine connections and sustained happiness.

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  Dispersals - On Plants Borders...

  Jessica J. Lee

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  A prize-winning memoirist and nature writer turns to the lives of plants entangled in our human world to explore belonging, displacement, identity, and the truths of our shared future 
   
   
   
  A seed slips beyond a garden wall. A tree is planted on a precarious border. A shrub is stolen from its culture and its land. What happens when these plants leave their original homes and put down roots elsewhere? 
   
   
   
  In fourteen essays, Dispersals explores the entanglements of the plant and human worlds: from species considered invasive, like giant hogweed; to those vilified but intimate, like soy; and those like kelp, on which our futures depend. Each of the plants considered in this collection are somehow perceived as being "out of place"—weeds, samples collected through imperial science, crops introduced and transformed by our hand. Combining memoir, history, and scientific research in poetic prose, Jessica J. Lee meditates on the question of how both plants and people come to belong, why both cross borders, and how our futures are more entwined than we might imagine.

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  Adventures of Sherlock Holmes...

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. When wealthy banker Alexander Holder stumbles breathlessly into 221B Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are confronted with a case that threatens national disgrace and destroys a family’s peace. 
  Holder has accepted an invaluable national treasure—the Beryl Coronet—as security against a large loan to one of England’s most prominent nobles. He brings the jewelled coronet home to safeguard it overnight, convinced his household is trustworthy. By dawn, disaster strikes: he discovers his own son Arthur clutching the damaged coronet, three priceless beryls torn away and vanished. 
   
  Convinced of Arthur’s guilt, the banker moves quickly to involve the police. Yet Arthur stubbornly refuses to explain himself, accepting arrest without protest. To Holder’s despair, his niece Mary also appears devastated by the crime. All evidence seems to point squarely to the young man, and public scandal looms if the missing gems cannot be recovered. 
   
  Sherlock Holmes refuses to accept the obvious conclusion. He investigates every shadowed corner of Holder’s Streatham home, studies footprints left in the winter snow, and digs into the tangled relationships within the banker’s family. As Holmes peels back layers of secrets, forbidden love, betrayal and dangerous associates, he uncovers a far more twisted conspiracy than anyone suspected. 
   
  This classic Arthur Conan Doyle mystery explores loyalty, chivalry, wrongful suspicion, and the devastating power of infatuation. Can Holmes recover the stolen beryls, clear an unjustly accused young man, and prevent a sensational national scandal? 
   
  Immerse yourself in this timeless Sherlock Holmes tale, narrated with immersive period character voice acting, faithful to the original Watson-penned text.

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  Christmas Truce - A History from...

  Hourly History

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  When World War I began in August 1914, the British confidently predicted that it would be "over by Christmas." In Berlin, Kaiser Wilhelm II told his soldiers that they would be "home before the leaves fall." But by late December, it was clear not only that the war was far from over, but also that this would be a more destructive and deadly conflict than any that had come before. 
  On the Western Front, British troops faced the Germans across two opposing lines of trenches. Almost two million troops had been killed or wounded, and men on both sides became resigned to living in muddy trenches under almost unimaginable circumstances made even more desperate by the bitter cold of winter. Notions of war as an adventure—or even as a brief escape from the mundane reality of day-to-day life—were replaced by the reality of almost unendurable horror with no end in sight. 
  Then, on Christmas Eve 1914, British troops saw strange lights appearing in the German positions opposite. Bracing for an attack, they instead heard an unfamiliar sound drifting across No-Man's Land. German troops were singing a Christmas carol, "Stille nacht, heilige nacht" (“Silent Night”), and the lights in the German trenches were improvised Christmas decorations. Thus began one of the strangest stories from World War I: the Christmas Truce of 1914.

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  Lincoln in the Black Hawk War

  Alfred Augustus Jackson

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  A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken Realms 
  Lincoln in the Black Hawk War by Alfred Augustus Jackson. Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Volume XIV edited and annotated by Reuben Gold Thwaites.  
  Narrated by Joseph TablerNote - This book is ‘read as written'. It was published in 1898. It is in the public domain. 
  Dusty Tomes Audio Books are public domain writings retrieved from the ravages of time; Available as never before, as audio books, for your edification, pleasure, and consideration.

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