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  The Book of Tea

  Kakuzo Okakura

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  Immerse yourself in The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura, a seminal exploration of Teaism's profound influence on Japanese culture and beyond. This eloquent 1906 essay intertwines philosophy, aesthetics, and the essence of life, presenting tea not merely as a drink but as a spiritual and cultural journey.  
  This audiobook uncovers how Teaism fosters harmony, celebrates imperfection, and offers a sanctuary from life's complexities. Okakura's insights into Zen and Taoism through the lens of the tea ceremony invite listeners to a deeper appreciation of beauty and simplicity in daily life. 
  The Book of Tea is an essential listen for those intrigued by tea's mystique, Japanese culture, or seeking tranquility in our tumultuous world. Join us on this serene voyage and let the timeless wisdom of Kakuzo Okakura inspire mindfulness and peace in your everyday life. 
  This audiobook was narrated and produced by RAM Studios, where humans and artificial intelligence collaborate to create an excellent listening experience. (The reading is done primarily by AI)

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  Holding Fire - A Reckoning with...

  Bryce Andrews

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  From the award-winning author of Down from the Mountain, a memoir of inheritance, history, and one gun’s role in the violence that shaped the American West—and an impassioned call to forge a new way forward 
  Bryce Andrews was raised to do no harm. The son of a pacifist and conscientious objector, he moved from Seattle to Montana to tend livestock and the land as a cowboy. For a decade, he was happy. Yet, when Andrews inherited his grandfather’s Smith & Wesson revolver, he felt the weight of the violence braided into his chosen life. Other white men who’d come before him had turned firearms like this one against wildlife, wilderness, and the Indigenous peoples who had lived in these landscapes for millennia. This was how the West was “won.” Now, the losses were all around him and a weapon was in his hand. 
  In precise, elegiac prose, Andrews chronicles his journey to forge a new path for himself, and to reshape one handgun into a tool for good work. As waves of gun violence swept the country and wildfires burned across his beloved valley, he began asking questions—of ranchers, his Native neighbors, his family, and a blacksmith who taught him to shape steel—in search of a new way to live with the land and with one another. In laying down his arms, he transformed an inherited weapon, his ranch, and the arc of his life. 
  Holding Fire is a deeply felt memoir of one Western heart’s wild growth, and a personal testament to how things that seem permanent—inheritance, legacies of violence, forged steel—can change. 
  Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

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  Subdivided - City-Building in an...

  Jay Pitter, John Lorinc

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  How do we build cities where we aren't just living within the same urban space, but living together?
    
     
  Greater Toronto is now home to a larger proportion of foreign-born residents than any other major global metropolis. Not surprisingly, city officials rarely miss an opportunity to tout the region’s ethno-cultural neighbourhoods. Yet there’s strong evidence that the GTA is experiencing widening socio-economic disparities that have produced worrisome divisions. We say that ‘diversity is our strength,’ but has a feel-good catchphrase prevented us from confronting the forces that seem to be separating and isolating urban communities?
    
     
  Through compelling storytelling and analysis, Subdivided’s contributors – a wide range of place-makers, academics, activists and journalists – ask how we can expand city-building processes to tackle issues ranging from transit equity and trust-based policingto holistic mental health, dignified affordable housing and inclusive municipal governance. Ultimately, Subdivided aims to provoke the tough but pressing conversations required to build a truly connected and just city.
    
     
  Contents
    
     
  Introduction - Jay Pitter
    
     
  Identity and the City: Thinking Through Diversity – Beyhan Farhadi
    
     
  Doing Immigrant Resettlement Right – Doug Saunders
    
     
  Wasauksing–Vancouver–Toronto: My Path Home – Rebeka Tabobondung
    
     
  How We Welcome: Why Canada’s Refugee Resettlement Program Undermines Place-making – Sarah Beamish and Sofia Ijaz
    
     
  Finding Space for Spirituality – Fatima Syed
    
     
  Navigating the City with an Invisible Illness: The Story of Dorothy – Denise DaCosta
    
     
  Culture and Mental Illness – Karen Pitter
    
     
  Neighbourhood Watch: Racial Profiling and Virtual Gated Communities – Asmaa Malik
    
     
  Accessing Education: An Immigrant’s Story – Nicholas Davis
    
     
  Policing and Trust in the Hyper-Diverse City – Nana Yanful
    
     
  Three Questions about Carding – Idil Burale
    
     
  An Overburdened Promise: Arts Funding for Social Development – Ian Kamau, Paul Nguyen and Ryan Paterson, with John Lorinc
    
     
  Designing Dignified Social Housing – Jay Pitter
    
     
  Walking Through Loss: A Critical Visit to an Old Neighbourhood – Photography by Taha Muharuma
    
     
  Reconsidering Revitalization: The Case of Regent Park – Jay Pitter in conversation with Sandra Costain
    
     
  Model Citizens – Andrea Gunraj
    
     
  A Tale of Two – or Three – Cities: Gentrification and Community Consultations – Mariana Valverde
    
     
  Mobility in the Divided City – Eric Mann
    
     
  Toward MoreComplete Communities: Business Out of the Box – Alina Chatterjee
    
     
  Going Beyond Representation: The Diversity Deficit in Local Government – John Lorinc
    
     
  Brampton, a.k.a. Browntown – Noreen Ahmed-Ullah
    
     
  Life in the City In-Between – Shawn Micallef
    
     
  Conclusion – J. David Hulchanski

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  Lost Lake Erie

  Jennifer Boresz Engelking

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  Serene one moment and destructive the next, Lake Erie's moods mirror its tumultuous role in history . 
   
  As the site of Cleveland's Great Lakes Exposition, the lake offered visitors a respite from the Great Depression, and Hotel Victory, once considered the world's largest summer resort, drew thousands to Put-In-Bay. Daring postal workers dangerously crossed the ice-covered surface on hybrid "boats" and by foot. Canal Street, at the Buffalo Wharf, was once called "the Wickedest Street in America." The Erie is one of thousands of ships that lie in a solemn graveyard below the surface. And rum runners turned the lake into a watery highway for illegal booze during Prohibition. 
   
  Author Jennifer Boresz Engelking reveals entertaining, heartbreaking, and nostalgic stories of the lost sites, businesses, and industries of Lake Erie.

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  Common Sense

  Thomas Paine

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  Thomas Paine was born in Great Britain; he came to America at the age of 37 for the first time. He is rightly considered to be the Anglo-American writer, philosopher, publicist, as well as "American godfather" for supporting separatist spirits and inspiring Americans to fight for their independence (at that very moment, the break between America and England was imminent). He described his thoughts in a wonderful tract Common Sense, that according to G. Washington, revolutionized the minds. Later, Thomas Paine's arguments were reflected in The Independence Declaration, written by Jefferson.

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  The Fright Before Christmas -...

  Jeff Belanger

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  Bronze Winner for Popular Culture, Foreword INDIEsStep into the dark roots of Christmas past where the Krampus punishes the bad boys and girls.Christmas time is truly the darkest and creepiest time of the year filled with devilish creatures lurking in the shadows waiting to get us. Best known is the Krampus who has been the subject of films and songs. There was a time in the late 1800s when people sent Krampus cards, not holiday greetings. There are other violent and dangerous monsters from all over northern climes who have been hunting naughty children for centuries. From shapeshifters to mountain trolls, to elves, to heavy-handed cohorts of Saint Nicholas, the Christmas holiday has been filled with ghosts and monsters ready to dole out punishment to those who need it.The Fright Before Christmas will delve into the folklore of Krampus and his friends with the elf-like Tomten and the goblinesque Karakoncolas. The Belsnickel is ready to hit us with his switch of sticks and Gryla may drag you back to her mountain lair. And watch out for the Yule Cat ready to pounce! These are just a few of the yuletide beasties coming for us in The Fright Before Christmas in the hope they can save us from ourselves.The folklore roots of Christmas under its many other guises (Yule, the Winter Solstice, Saturnalia) is examined in a different, darker light. The Winter Solstice is a time to be afraid. It’s the shortest day of the year. The longest night. In some parts of the world, the sun doesn’t rise at all. It’s dark, and we have to wonder if the sun will ever come back at all. Christmas has always been creepy and with The Fright Before Christmas you'll see the other side. This is a book for everyone who loves a little darkness around the holidays.Be good or the Krampus will get you!

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