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  Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea -...

  Emily Wilson

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  "An enthralling and profoundly relevant book." ―Salman Rushdie 
  "I adored reading these joyful, illuminating, and engrossing journeys through ancient literature." ―Madeline Miller 
  From the most celebrated translator of our time comes a visionary exploration of how translation reshapes and enriches our understanding of the ancient world. 
  Drawing on twenty years of scholarship and translation experience, Emily Wilson―renowned translator of Homer's Odyssey and Iliad―explores the difficult choices that translators must make, the pleasures of finding new solutions to old problems, and the inevitable frustrations of never fully capturing what is in the original work. Across chapters that range from the politics of Helen of Troy to the obscenities of Aristophanes, from Roman imitation of Greek models to contemporary debates over "foreignizing" and "domesticizing" translation styles, Wilson examines how modern norms of gender, sexuality, violence, humor, and power complicate our readings of ancient works, and how translation always risks denaturing what is unique and strange about the ancient world. Brilliant, erudite, and yet accessible to listeners with no classics background, Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea is at once an introduction to the wonders of Greek and Roman literature, a manifesto for the value of translation in a rapidly changing world, and an invitation to encounter ancient cultures anew.

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  Witch Power - Hexing the...

  Emma Quilty

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  When most people hear the word "witch," they immediately think of crones conspiring over a cauldron, a force of dark and vindictive power. But to hundreds of thousands across the world, being a witch is a living, everyday reality, much more varied than the fairytale image. 
   
  Witch Power follows Emma Quilty—herself a witch and an anthropologist—on an immersive journey into contemporary witchcraft, from Witchcamp retreats to "red tent" menstrual events, Voodoo priestesses running ghost tours from their vans to TikTokers casting hexes on a viral scale. 
   
  Attentive to the history of witchcraft, she reveals the role power plays in how the figure of the witch has changed over time to suit the ever-present need to control and demonize women. Because to be a witch is to live in defiance of society's expectations and rules. 
   
  But while the witch is always castigated as a threat, Quilty finds that the witch is never alone: the witch is a survivor and a symbol of resistance. Ultimately, Witch Power is a provocation and an invitation to listeners to experience with the author what it means to embrace witchiness and what witchy feminism could bring to your life.

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  Emotional Strength Workbook for...

  Manjul Tewari

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  📣📣📣 ATTENTION: TEENS, PARENTS, EDUCATORS & YOUTH GUIDES 
  • Is a teen in your life feeling emotionally drained, constantly stressed, or lost in the whirlwind of expectations? 
  • Are you searching for real-world strategies to help teens stay grounded, resilient, and confident in today’s fast-moving world? 
  • Let’s transform stress into self-awareness and adversity into inner strength! 
  💡 From Manjul Tewari, best-selling author of the Mindset Mastery Series, comes a practical, story-driven guide designed to help teens conquer life’s emotional challenges with clarity and courage. 
  ★ Emotional Strength Workbook for Teens offers relatable narratives and proven mental wellness techniques—crafted to help teenagers build self-confidence, emotional awareness, and a balanced mindset. 
  🔍 Inside this empowering workbook, you'll discover: 
  👪 Support for Parents & Caregivers: 
  🌟 Deep insights into the emotional roadblocks teens face—from anxiety and peer pressure to burnout and low self-worth 
  🌟 Effective communication approaches to build connection, trust, and emotional safety 
  🌟 Ways to encourage healthy coping habits and mental clarity at home 
  🌟 Guidance on fostering independence while remaining emotionally available

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  The story of Shampoo India's...

  Amit Schandillia

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  More than two hundred years ago, a Muslim boy from Bihar lost his father, enlisted with the East India Company and set off on a voyage that took him to remote corners of India. By the late 1700s, he arrived in England and floated two business ventures — an Indian restaurant and a bathhouse. This is the story of the man who rose from the boonies of colonial India and introduced the world to one of its most ubiquitous pieces of toiletry, the shampoo.

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  True Stories of Ghost Ships That...

  Keisha Dunbar

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  Drift into deep sleep with this gentle anthology of maritime mysteries and nautical lore crafted for ultimate relaxation.
   
  Designed for listeners seeking a quiet wind-down routine or relief from insomnia, these narratives function as a narrative lullaby to settle the busy mind. Leave the stress of the day on the shore and allow the rhythmic storytelling to guide you toward a serene state of rest. The atmosphere is purely calming, stripping away the shock of the supernatural to focus on the hypnotic drift of abandoned vessels.
   
  Experience the hush of the ocean as you navigate past hulls lost to time. The narrative pace moves like a slow current, prioritizing sensory texture and atmosphere over sharp plot twists. It creates a safe harbor for your imagination, allowing intrusive thoughts to float away like sea mist.
   
  What you will discover on this voyage: 
  
   Soothing descriptions of moonlit waters, creaking decks, and distant horizons. 
  Low-stakes historical curiosities designed to encourage drowsiness. 
  A continuous audio journey moving from dusk into the quiet of the night.
  
   
  Let the faint shimmer of lantern light and the slow passage of time carry you softly into dreams. There are no sudden endings or startling revelations here, only the endless, comforting patience of the sea waiting to hold you in deep rest.

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  Slavery and the Law: The History...

  Editors Charles River

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  Ultimately, while the institution of slavery existed, the principle of protecting individual property rights prevailed, alongside a necessary acknowledgment that slaves were property first and sentient human beings second. It also required a great deal of careful drafting and verbal contortions to construct the Constitution for the young republic that supported those principles of freedom and equality while at the same time facilitating the perpetuation of the “peculiar institution.” 
  	It was not until 1865, with the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment, the instrument that abolished slavery, that any overt mention of slavery found its way into the Constitution. Before that, direct reference was always carefully avoided, although, at the same time, unmistakably alluded to. The document is filled with provisions specific to slavery, protecting and codifying it on a federal level, without anywhere making direct or overt mention of it. By 1788, when the Constitution of the United States was formally adopted, slavery had been a fact of life in the colonies for 169 years, since the first recorded arrival of black Africans in Virginia in 1619. At that time, around the institution, had evolved a system of laws that were derived in the main from English common law. The irony here is that the regime of English common law was at its root hostile to the principle of human bondage, had no tradition of slavery to call upon, and was desirous on the whole to avoid making any overt judgment or pronouncement on the matter. It, therefore, fell to colonial lawmakers to resolve that essential contradiction between treating Africans as either people or property or both. This tension remained in play throughout the era of slavery in English-speaking America until the matter was finally resolved by the outcome of the American Civil War.

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