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  Carpark Climax

  Aural Confessions

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  "My heart began to beat rapidly as the realisation that I wasn’t alone slammed into me. The thought that someone, or even multiple people, are watching every move you make"Macy is inspired by her friend's confession of masturbating at work and decides to try it themselves in a public place. She finds a carpark to masturbate in and enjoys the sensations of the cold aircon and the heat from outside on her bare skin. The risk of getting caught excites her and she decides to move to the back seat to avoid being seen as she spreads her legs…Do you have a kinky confession? Submit your confession anonymously at AuralConfessions.com and we may just feature yours in our next short story.

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  The United States of English -...

  Rosemarie Ostler

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  The story of how English became American—and how it became Southern, Bostonian, Californian, African American, Chicano, elite, working-class, urban, rural, and everything in between 
   
   
   
  By the time of the Revolution, the English that Americans spoke was recognizably different from the British variety. Americans added dozens of new words to the language, either borrowed from Native Americans (raccoon, persimmon, caucus) or created from repurposed English (backwoods, cane brake, salt lick). Americans had their own pronunciations (bath rhymed with hat, not hot) and their own spelling (honor, not honour), not to mention a host of new expressions that grew out of the American landscape and culture (blaze a trail, back track, pull up stakes). Americans even invented their own slang, like stiff as a ringbolt to mean drunk. American English has continued to grow and change ever since. 
   
   
   
  The United States of English tells the engrossing tale of how the American language evolved over four hundred years, explaining both how and why it changed and which parts of the "mother tongue" it preserved (I guess was heard in the British countryside long before it became a typical Americanism). Plentiful examples of the American vernacular, past and present, bring the language to life and make for an engaging as well as enlightening listen.

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  The Art of War - Niccolò...

  Niccolo Machiavelli

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  Discover Niccolò Machiavelli's "The Art of War", a timeless treatise on military strategy, politics, and the principles of governance. 
   
  In this profound work, Machiavelli examines the relationship between war, power, and the stability of the state, offering insights that remain relevant for leaders and strategists today. 
   
  This audiobook presents a compelling exploration of the balance between military strength and civic virtue, making it an essential listen for those interested in history, politics, and the art of leadership.

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  Little Turtle’s War: The History...

  Charles River Editors

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  The new United States was faced with a fundamental problem: to expand, it had to settle lands to the west of the Appalachian Mountains, ceded to it by the British. However, the mountains were occupied by Native American groups who had no desire to make way for white settlers. The treaty had created a vast frontier for the fledgling nation, and any American settlers pushing west along it were bound to encounter hostile natives. 
  The conflicts that followed consisted mostly of the Native Americans suffering defeat in the face of a better-equipped adversary, interspersed with binding treaties, which, on the side of the federal government, proved not very binding at all. Occasionally, however, there arose a Native American leader of such ability that such defeats were temporarily reversed, and Little Turtle, the war chief of the Miami tribe, was one such man. Under his leadership, a confederation of Miami and other tribes inflicted the worst defeat ever suffered by an American army in the newly independent nation. Almost a quarter of the Army’s total strength was lost in a single battle, but while later Native American leaders such as Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse have become legends, Little Turtle is not as well-remembered. This is particularly odd, given that he actually defeated the American military and helped shape the development of the nascent United States and its military. Before Little Turtle’s War, it was believed that the U.S. did not need a professional army; that ordinary citizens would take up arms in times of threat and serve in militias as they had done in the fight against the British. After this war, the U.S. government was forced to recognize the need for a professional standing army.

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  The Aubade Of Spring’s Zephyr

  Melethril Edhellen

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  In the soul of each person lies a bud waiting to blossom, and "THE AUBADE OF SPRING’S ZEPHYR" is a compendium of lyrical droplets that promise to transform the soul's landscape. With each turn of the page, the reader is invited on a journey through the seasons of the heart, where every stanza nurtures the growth of new perspectives and deeper connections, melting the ice around each person's bud. 
  Crafted with the finesse of a master wordsmith, this collection is a medley of emotions, where the beauty of dawn, the quietude of twilight, and the introspective silence beneath the boughs speak volumes of the unspoken. 
  This journey in verse, much like a song that serenades the soul, carries the fresh whispers of seasons waking anew. It grants nature a tongue to speak in secrets, teaching morals hidden in each view to those who listen closely.

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  The Cultural Politics of Affect...

  Wei Dong

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  Against the background of the media commercialization reform since the 1990s in China and drawing on the case of »X-Change« (2006-2019), Wei Dong investigates the affective meaning-making mechanism in the multimodal text of Chinese reality TV. The focus lies on the ways in which emotions are appropriated and disciplined by regimes of power and identity, and the ways in which affect - in this case primarily kuqing (bitter emotions) communicated by the material and the body - have the potential to challenge or exceed existing relations of power in the mediascape. Wei Dong shows how Chinese reality TV provides a historical and theoretical opportunity for understanding the affective structures of contemporary China in the dynamic process of fracture and integration.

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