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  Philosophy Who Needs It: Book...

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  This is a concise summary and analysis of Philosophy, Who Needs It, by Ayn Rand.
   
  It is not the original book and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Ayn Rand.
  Ideal those seeking a quick and insightful overview.
   
  This thought-provoking book challenges readers to consider the essential role of philosophy in everyday life. Through a collection of compelling essays, the book explores how philosophical ideas influence politics, education, art, and individual decision-making. The text argues that embracing reason and clarity in thinking is crucial for personal and societal progress. It is both a guide for those unfamiliar with philosophy and a powerful reminder for those already engaged in the discipline.

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  The Meaning of Life

  Raphael Terra

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  This audiobook has been recorded using Text to speech (TTS). 
   
  In science fiction from the last century, we should now all be living in some kind of grand utopia. Beautiful spaceships should be carrying us around the universe. We should be jumping through worm holes and meeting new alien species. The times of war and unrest on earth should be things of the past. 
   
  Alas history has not gone that way. Instead, nothing seems to have changed in the grand scheme. Nations still invade other nations. Religion still holds sway over billions. Millions of people still starve while others gather in a harvest of riches the majority can only dream of. We kill and devour more and more innocent animals every day, while science is gradually uncovering the truth about the sentience and intelligence of them. We invent and test new drugs on each other on a vast scale. Like locusts we are chomping our way through the riches of the earth without a care in the world. Somebody somewhere in the future will figure it all out and save us. Won’t they? 
   
  Millions of years of evolution have brought us to this place. A situation where we are aware of ourselves, what we are doing and why we do it. And yet we carry on regardless. We are no closer to understanding the one question that has confused us ever since we became conscious. The meaning of life.

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  A Space for Us - A Guide for...

  Michelle Cassandra Johnson

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  The first comprehensive guide for leading BIPOC affinity groups for challenging white supremacy, healing racial trauma, and taking collective action 
   
   
   
  Meeting in racial affinity groups is a common practice in anti-racist, social justice, diversity, and similar educational endeavors. These groups provide a structured space in which participants can explore how racism personally impacts them, process specific experiences of racism, receive validation and support from their peers, heal, and strategize next steps for challenging racism, white supremacy, and internalized racial oppression. 
   
   
   
  In A Space for Us, Michelle Cassandra Johnson brings her over twenty years of experience leading dismantling-racism work to provide the first affinity-group guide made for BIPOC communities. This essential guide will: provide an understanding of the racial hierarchy and how it has impacted Black people, Indigenous people, and People of Color differently; define and share common manifestations of internalized racial oppression; define anti-Blackness and provide skills to interrupt and address it; share rituals, practices, and sample agendas for affinity groups; provide rituals and tools for healing in BIPOC affinity groups; and provide information about how to come back together as BIPOC and white people to strategize and take collective action.

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  aka bpNichol - A Preliminary...

  Frank Davey

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  Reflecting on the career of a prominent poet, this biography focuses on Canadian wordsmith Barrie Nichol — more commonly known by his pen name, bpNichol — who was a practicing lay psychoanalyst and vice president of one the largest and long-lasting North American communes for more than a decade. Recognizing his international influence as both a visual and sound poet, Nichol's literary achievements are reviewed, including The Martyrology, a renowned, seven-volume poem, four novels, two musical comedies, six children's books, hundreds of hand-drawn visual poems, and even 10 episodes of Jim Henson's hit television series Fraggle Rock. Penned by one of Nichol's numerous literary collaborators, this account reveals the close connections among the writer's various activities, particularly how the autobiographical inquiries and Freudian dream theory linked with the young poet's biographical self-awareness. The book demonstrates how the Subject's main psychoanalytic client was his own writing, following Nichol as he explored its slips, accidental puns, and unintended meanings and implications for the communal future of the human species, both in high literature and comical prime time television.

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  Steps to Master Your Emotions -...

  Michael Shiva

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  Do you often feel that your emotions are out of control? Are there certain emotions (such as anger, fear and sadness) that you have a difficult time dealing with? Do you make choices based on how you're feeling now and later regret it? This audiobook will help you to recognize your emotions and how they are influencing your daily life so that you can respond in productive ways. 
  The goal of this audiobook is to teach you how to use your emotions rather than letting them use you. When properly understood and channeled, your emotions can be an important source of information for making good decisions. Once you understand your emotions, you will be better able to choose between the important things in life. This audiobook is a practical guide that will teach you how to identify and overcome your emotions. 
  This book will teach you the steps to understand and master your emotions. With this knowledge, next time when a difficult situation arises, you will be able to figure out the cause of your emotions with just one question. Then take the appropriate action to calm them down. 
  This audiobook covers:What are Emotions?How Emotions Affect UsWhat rules do your emotions followFactors affecting emotions and your moodHow to deal with negative emotions 
  And much more. 
  The audiobook is an easy-to-read guide, with detailed examples and explanations. It is suitable for everyone, no matter what age. If you are just beginning to learn about emotions, this book is an excellent choice for you. If you have also been struggling with your emotions for a long time, then this book is for you as well. It will help you to understand and master the entire range of your emotions, from mild to severe.

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  The Individualization of War -...

  Dapo Akande, David Rodin,...

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  The rights and responsibilities of the individual are at the center of today's armed conflicts in a way that they have never been before. This process of "individualization," which challenges the primacy of the sovereign state, is driven by normative developments related to human rights that have elevated human-centric conceptions of security and created a new class of international crimes, as well as by technological and strategic developments that can both empower individuals as military actors and enable either the targeting or protection of particular individuals. 
   
   
   
  The Individualization of War examines the status of individuals in contemporary armed conflict in three main capacities: as subject to violence but deserving of protection; as liable to harm because of their responsibility for attacks on others; and as agents who can be held accountable for the perpetration of crimes. This book presents a novel conceptualization of the phenomenon of individualization, including how it is both practiced and contested. It then convenes a set of leading thinkers from the fields of moral philosophy, international law, and international relations to further our understanding of not only how individualization is manifest in armed conflict—in theory and in practice—but also how it generates tensions and challenges for today's scholars and practitioners.

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