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  New Year 2025: A Global...

  Alexander Nemirov

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  This book takes you on an exciting journey around the world to explore the mysteries, traditions, and customs of New Year celebrations. Each country adds its own unique touch to this global holiday, blending ancient rituals, family values, and modern trends. From the lively beaches of Brazil to the dazzling fireworks of Times Square, from the peaceful serenity of Chinese temples to the Southern Cross in Australia, we'll take you everywhere.
  You'll discover how people across the globe say goodbye to the past, welcome the future, and express their hopes for what's to come. Through food, vibrant traditions, music, and dance, we'll show you how New Year becomes a time of unity, joy, and inspiration for millions. This book is more than just a collection of stories—it's an invitation to realize that, despite our cultural differences, we all share the universal desire for a fresh start, a clean slate, and a pursuit of happiness.

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  Beyond Piggly Wiggly - Inventing...

  Lisa C. Tolbert

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  Patented in 1917, Piggly Wiggly was by far the most influential self-service store of the early twentieth century. Before 1940 it was the only self-service chain with a national distribution network, but it was neither the first nor the only version. Beyond Piggly Wiggly reveals the importance of Piggly Wiggly in the invention of self-service and goes beyond the history of a single firm to explore the role of small business entrepreneurs who invented the first self-service stores in a grassroots social process. 
   
   
   
  During the 1920s and 1930s a minority of enterprising grocers experimented with a wide variety of (sometimes wacky) design ideas for automating shopping. They created specialized stores designed as enclosed retail systems that went far beyond open display techniques to construct unique physical and psychological advantages for automating salesmanship. Beyond Piggly Wiggly offers the first perspective on the national scale of experimentation and connects the southern Jim Crow origins of self-service to the national history of this mass retailing method. Empirical analysis of store arrangements demonstrates how small stores that have previously been overlooked or undervalued as quaint anomalies were integral to the creation of supermarkets. Ultimately, self-service was more than a business decision; it was a fundamentally new social practice.

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  Women and Kink - Relationships...

  Jennifer Rehor, Julia Schiffman

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  Based on original research from nearly 1,600 women from the kink community, this book takes you on a journey into the motivations, meanings, and benefits of kink, in these women's own words. 
   
   
   
  Women and Kink presents a diverse range of personal and intimate stories about life, love, relationships, kink, sex, self-discovery, growth, resilience, community, and more. The book offers insight into the breadth of the kink community, with chapters discussing different aspects of kink and forms of engagement, both individually and within relationships. Filled throughout with personal vignettes and examples, the authors provide commentary, reflection questions, and thought-provoking considerations to listeners who are looking to explore a new area of their life. 
   
   
   
  By exploring personal stories of love, alternative sexualities, and reasons for participating in the "unconventional," the book supports and empowers each reader to build a relationship and life that best suits their needs. It is also an illuminating resource for sex therapists, counselors, and other mental health professionals interested in developing a kink-affirmative practice.

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  Collected Articles of Frederick...

  Frederic Douglass

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  Frederick Douglass's 'Collected Articles' compiles powerful writings from the iconic abolitionist and statesman. From poignant narratives on slavery to impassioned calls for justice, Douglass's eloquent prose captures the essence of his tireless advocacy for freedom, equality, and human rights. This anthology stands as a testament to Douglass's indomitable spirit and enduring impact on the fight against oppression, making it a timeless repository of wisdom and activism. Read in English, unabridged.

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  The Unbearable Frenchness of...

  Sophia Anne Blackwell

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  The Unbearable Frenchness of Being: Albert Camus's Expensive Depression for Beginners 
  Finally, a philosophy book that admits what we're all thinking: Camus was basically a very attractive man who turned "nothing matters" into a career. 
  Ever wondered why your college roommate won't shut up about The Stranger? Curious about why French intellectuals spent the 1950s chain-smoking and arguing about whether you should kill yourself? Want to sound smart at dinner parties without actually reading 800 pages of dense existential philosophy? 
  Welcome to the only Camus guide you'll ever need and the only one honest enough to admit that "imagine Sisyphus happy" is either profound wisdom or the philosophical equivalent of "good vibes only." 
  Inside, you'll discover: 
  Why Meursault shooting someone because the sun was too bright is apparently literature 
  How Camus wrote 300 pages about plague and somehow made mass death boring 
  The most pretentious friendship breakup in philosophy history (Camus vs. Sartre: now with 100% more formal French pronouns) 
  Why the Mediterranean is the answer to existential dread (spoiler: it's not, but the beaches are nice) 
  How to be an absurd hero in four easy steps (Step 3: Feel superior to everyone who hasn't read Camus) 
  The philosophical question of whether you should kill yourself (fun guy at parties!) 
  Perfect for: 
  Philosophy students who need to understand Camus but can't stay awake through the actual texts 
  Former philosophy students still traumatized by Being and Nothingness 
  Anyone who's ever pretended to have read The Stranger in its entirety 
  People who enjoy their existential crises with a side of sarcasm 
  Listeners who think "nothing matters" but still want to feel intellectually superior about it 
  This isn't your professor's philosophy textbook.

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  Save the Planet

  Raphael Terra

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  This audiobook has been recorded using Text to speech (TTS). 
   
  Ever since the end of the Black Death in 1350 the human population has been growing continuously at an alarming rate and there is no sign of it stopping anytime soon. 
   
  The biggest increase has been in most recent times. From the 1950's onward and due largely to medical advancement and the increase in agricultural productivity, the rate of increase has been significant. This in itself should tell us something. That this is a modern problem created recently and we have no precedent, no history to work upon. We don't know exactly what is going to happen. We don't know if a super virus will come along again as it did in 1918 and kill millions of people. We don't know if we will eat ourselves into mass extinction. We don't know if the destruction of natural species such as bees will seal our fate. We don't know if an asteroid will wipe us out or even artificial intelligence. We do know that overpopulation, no matter which way you look at it, is not good. We do know that we are running out of fossil fuels, food supplies, methods of producing more and more power and space. 
   
  What does the future hold for a planet that is swarming in two-legged locusts hell bent on devouring every possible resource the Earth has to offer?

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