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  Meditations

  Marcus Aurelius

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  The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius are a series of personal writings that were created as a form of self-improvement. The purpose was to help Marcus reflect on his own thoughts and actions, in order to grow and become a better person. The writings are a collection of aphorisms, which are brief and insightful statements about life. They offer advice on how to deal with difficult situations, as well as guidance on how to be a good person. Read in English, unabridged.

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  Laughter in Ancient Rome - on...

  Mary Beard

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  What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? Or was it a carefully regulated culture in which the uncontrollable excess of laughter was a force to fear—a world of wit, irony, and knowing smiles? How did Romans make sense of laughter? What role did it play in the world of the law courts, the imperial palace, or the spectacles of the arena? 
   
   
   
  Laughter in Ancient Rome explores one of the most intriguing, but also trickiest, of historical subjects. Drawing on a wide range of Roman writing—from essays on rhetoric to a surviving Roman joke book—Mary Beard tracks down the giggles, smirks, and guffaws of the ancient Romans themselves. From ancient "monkey business" to the role of a chuckle in a culture of tyranny, she explores Roman humor from the hilarious, to the momentous, to the surprising. But she also reflects on even bigger historical questions. What kind of history of laughter can we possibly tell? Can we ever really "get" the Romans' jokes?

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  Girls Gone Carnal

  Giselle Renarde

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  Furry. Vicious. Wicked.Lesbian shifters, vampires, and witches come in all shapes and sizes. From the humblest mouse to the most ferocious cougar, from maids and their mistresses to urban vamps and the women they lust after, these eight stories of lesbian sensuality are sure to inspire chills, thrills, and delicious shivers: Milady’s Bath ~ a Gothic tale from a Lady’s maid at midnightMrs. Fox and the Cat of Nine Tails ~ a fairy tale cat girl seduces her mistressSneak ~ a mouse shifter saves the day in a backwoods bordelloSparrow Takes Flight ~ a wind witch leaves as often as she comesBlood Lust ~ this vamp leaves a markWild Things ~ a deaf witch meets her match in the rainforestTaken from Behind ~ cougar shifters must be extra carefulBlood Money ~ urban fantasy from a student just vamping for the cash

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  Starved for Light - The Long...

  Christian Warren

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  A wide-ranging history of rickets tracks the disease’s emergence, evolution, and eventual treatment—and exposes the backstory behind contemporary worries about vitamin D deficiency. Rickets, a childhood disorder that causes soft and misshapen bones, transformed from an ancient but infrequent threat to a common scourge during the Industrial Revolution. Factories, mills, and urban growth transformed the landscape. Malnutrition and insufficient exposure to sunlight led to severe cases of rickets across Europe and the United States, affecting children in a variety of settings: dim British cities and American slave labor camps, moneyed households and impoverished ones. By the late 1800s, it was one of the most common pediatric diseases, seemingly an intractable consequence of modern life. Starved for Light offers the first comprehensive history of this disorder. Tracing the efforts to understand, prevent, and treat rickets—first with the traditional remedy of cod liver oil, then with the application of a breakthrough corrective, industrially produced vitamin D supplements—Christian Warren places the disease at the center of a riveting medical history, one alert to the ways society shapes our views on illness. 
   
  
  Sweeping and engaging, Starved for Light illuminates the social conditions underpinning our cures and our choices, helping us to see history’s echoes in contemporary prescriptions.

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  Little Black Shoes

  Derek Grant

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  Little Black Shoes, an impactful short story that gives developing children insight into self awareness, choice, and encourages putting their best foot forward everyday.

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  X Properties (EN) - Berlin...

  Joerg Franzbecker, Naomi Hennig,...

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  Berlin Journals—On the History and Present State of the City #11. X Properties negotiates the power of finance capital over the social and cultural production of the city, its relations and subjects.

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