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  Taste of my Woman -...

  Giselle Renarde

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  Monique has only been away for one day, and already Jackie misses her like crazy. When her co-worker steps out for lunch, she can't resist picking up the phone. Monique obviously misses her too, because it doesn't take long before they're talking dirty. But will Jackie get caught being naughty in her open-concept business office? 
  For Mature Audiences.

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  History of the Catholic Church...

  Rev. James MacCaffrey

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  This first volume of a two volume set traces the trials and triumphs of the Catholic Church during the period before the reformation up to the 19th century. The origins, causes and developments of the various protestant sects that were the fruit of the reformation are studied in depth, as well as the men, schools of thought and movements within and without the Church that influenced this important time period in Church history. (Summary by Maria Therese)

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  Enquiry Concerning the...

  David Hume

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  In his authobiography, David Hume declared unequivocally that this work, An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751) is ‘of all my writings, historical, philosophical, or literary, incomparably the best.’ In it, Hume takes the discussion away from traditional attitudes where either rational or metaphysical issues govern moral principles. Instead, he introduces the human factor, introducing the sentiments and passions inherent in human psychology.  
  In the opening paragraph of his Enquiry he states the ground clearly: ‘There has been a controversy started of late, much better worth examination, concerning the general foundation of Morals; whether they be derived from Reason, or from Sentiment; whether we attain the knowledge of them by a chain of argument and induction, or by an immediate feeling and finer internal sense; whether, like all sound judgement of truth and falsehood, they should be the same to every rational intelligent being; or whether, like the perception of beauty and deformity, they be founded entirely on the particular fabric and constitution of the human species.’ 
  He challenges the notion that reason can dictate moral principles independently of our desires and sentiments, arguing instead that reason serves as a tool to navigate and articulate our moral sentiments. 
  Central to Hume's thesis is the concept of moral approbation and disapprobation, which he contends stem from our natural inclination to feel pleasure or aversion in response to certain actions or traits. 
  He pursues his theme with characteristic clarity, concentrating on topics including benevolence, justice, utility, qualities useful to ourselves and others. He rejects moral absolutism which presumes the existence of immutable moral laws. Throughout, he emphasizes the importance of empathy and compassion as essential components of ethical behaviour.  
  Hume's "An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals" stands as a testament to his profound insight into the complexities of human nature and morality. 
  This recording also contains two essays which also reflect the independence of his views for his time, On Suicide and On the Immortality of the Soul.

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  The Life of Music in South India

  T. Sankaran

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  This book offers an account of Carnatic music culture drawing on the knowledge of T. Sankaran, a musician raised in an illustrious non-Brahmin devadasi family, and his long affiliation with cultural institutions including All India Radio (AIR) and the Tamil Isai Sangam (Tamil Music Academy). Sankaran examines the cultural and social matrix in which Carnatic music was cultivated and consumed in mid-twentieth century India, including the ways that musicians negotiated caste politics and the double standard for male and female musicians. The memoir provides insight into the way AIR worked as a modern, bureaucratic institution, and how the opening of government music colleges interacted with caste politics and shifted women's participation in public performance. The book is polyvocal, as Sankaran's writing is interwoven with passages from Daniel M. Neuman's book The Life of Music in North India, which inspired Sankaran's project, as well as transcripts from interviews with Sankaran by Matthew Allen. Includes rare archival photos.

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  The People Can Fly - American...

  Joshua Bennett

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  Whiting award-winning poet and Distinguished Chair of Humanities at MIT, Dr. Joshua Bennett creates a masterful synthesis of personal narrative and history that illuminates the promises and perils of being labelled a Black prodigy. If our gifts aren’t earned, but given, then what do they require of us? This question is especially charged, historically, within African American communities. In The People Can Fly, Dr. Joshua Bennett explores the complex position of black prodigies—ranging from the 18th century to the present—living in a society that has, all too often, defined blackness as absence; as lack of intellect, or interior life. He examines the question of what it means, costs, to be deemed exceptional given this state of affairs. Especially when such a distinction is framed as the key to individual success in an unfair world, and cause for separation from the people, and places, one cherishes. In this hybrid work of memoir and cultural history, Dr. Bennett turns to the childhood archives of Malcolm X, Stevie Wonder, Gwendolyn Brooks, James Baldwin, June Jordan and others to explore how an expansive array of cultural institutions—Motown Records, the Michigan School for the Blind, and Frederick Douglass Junior High School, for example—helped shape the lives of leading lights in African American culture. He presents this group as having emerged from spaces that were defined not solely by particular educational strategies, but by a shared sense of transcendent purpose. For the first time, Dr. Bennett also shares the ways that his own academic journey mirrors the ebb and flow of being seen both as promising and as a problem. He bolsters this personal narrative by exploring his family history; how it inspired him to study the works of neurodivergent artists and performers like Thomas Wiggins, Oscar Moore, and Stephen Wiltshire. In threading these narratives together, Bennett lays out an astonishing portrait of a tradition within a tradition: a tale of legends and living savants whose work demands our attention, and defense against erasure. With stunning prose and grace, The People Can Fly is an urgent reflection on what it can mean to not just be gifted, but to give one’s gifts away, in the present day. It is a praise song for generations of black dreamers, who dared to imagine another world and build one too. Where ascension is only the beginning.

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  The Sickness Unto Death

  Søren Kierkegaard

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  Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian, and religious author interested in human psychology. He is regarded as a leading pioneer of existentialism and one of the greatest philosophers of the 19th Century.

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