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  All My Love - Poems and Prayers

  Caleb J. Paxton

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  A collection of poems and prayers about faith and doubt, a poetic journey of reconstruction.

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  The End of Privacy — Especially...

  Owen Blackwood

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.  
  Confront the death of privacy in the digital age and understand how your personal information has become a commodity traded without your meaningful consent or awareness. This alarming audiobook reveals the extent of surveillance capitalism, government monitoring, and data harvesting that makes genuine privacy effectively impossible for ordinary people today. Learn how smartphones, smart devices, social media platforms, and digital services collect intimate details about your behavior, relationships, health, and psychology around the clock. The narrator exposes the data broker industry that compiles comprehensive profiles on every individual, selling information to anyone willing to pay without notification or permission. Discover how surveillance infrastructure originally built for security became commercial exploitation apparatus with minimal regulatory constraint. Understand why privacy policies you never read actually authorize almost unlimited data collection and sharing while creating illusion of protection. This audiobook examines the psychological effects of surveillance on behavior, thought, and self-expression even when people believe they have nothing to hide. Learn what privacy researchers, former tech employees, and digital rights advocates understand about the true cost of convenience that trades personal information for services. Perfect for anyone using digital technology who wants to understand what they are actually exchanging and what limited options remain for those seeking to preserve any privacy in the surveillance age.

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  Analects

  Confucius

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  "The Analects" by Confucius is more than a book—it's a gateway to timeless wisdom. Imagine a mosaic of conversations, meditations, and insights that span centuries, capturing the essence of human morality, leadership, and personal growth. Each passage feels like a puzzle piece, challenging you to reflect, interpret, and unlock deeper truths about yourself and the world.
  At its heart lies the pursuit of harmony—between individuals, communities, and the cosmos itself. Through Confucius' dialogues with his disciples, you are invited into an ancient yet surprisingly modern classroom where questions of virtue, justice, and respect take center stage.
  Yet, "The Analects" is not an instruction manual but a philosophical dance, where answers are not handed out but discovered. Each chapter tempts you to pause, ponder, and reshape your understanding of life's complexities. It's a text that breathes, waiting for your own experience to illuminate its teachings.
  Whether you seek guidance as a leader, crave insight into human relationships, or simply love the enigmatic beauty of Eastern philosophy, "The Analects" offers a treasure trove of ideas that resonate across cultures and eras. Are you ready to join this timeless dialogue and let Confucius become your guide to a more thoughtful life?

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  Turning Points - The Role of the...

  Ambassador Thomas J. Corcoran,...

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  Details how the US State Department attempted, and failed, to save South Vietnam from North Vietnamese aggression and the powerful domestic political influences that ultimately led to America's defeat. 
   
   
   
  Ten years after the end of the American involvement in the Vietnam War, a career Foreign Service officer, Thomas J. Corcoran, set down in writing his thoughts on the history of US State Department policy during America's involvement with South Vietnam. Like many Americans of his generation, he was perplexed by the failure of America to achieve its goals in South Vietnam. As an ambassador and with over thirty years of diplomatic experience—beginning in 1948 when he was assigned to Hanoi and involving other postings in Southeast Asia—he brought to his analysis a long and rich personal experience with events in Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. 
   
   
   
  The result is a thoughtful, objective, and well-researched study that chronicles the key policy decisions made by the US State Department throughout the entire period from 1945 to 1975; decisions that ultimately led to the first war lost by the United States. In his extensive study, Corcoran does an excellent job of exposing many of the myths and falsehoods found in orthodox histories of US involvement in Vietnam.

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  America’s Most Notorious...

  Editors Charles River

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  From the “Trail of Tears” to Wounded Knee and Little Bighorn, the narrative of American history is incomplete without the inclusion of the Native Americans that lived on the continent before European settlers arrived in the 16th and 17th centuries. Since the first contact between natives and settlers, tribes like the Sioux, Cherokee, and Navajo have both fascinated and perplexed outsiders with their history, language, and culture.  
  	Though they are not as well known as tribes like the Sioux or Cherokee, the Creek are one of the oldest and most important Native American tribes in North America. With roots that tie them to the Ancient Moundbuilders, the Natchez were one of the most established groups in the Southeastern United States, and came to be known as one of the Five Civilized Tribes. It’s also believed that they were among the first natives encountered by Spanish explorer Hernando De Soto’s historic expedition in the mid-16th century.  
  	Like various other indigenous groups, the Natchez quickly found themselves in conflict with European powers, most notably the French, who they engaged in a series of battles with during the early 18th century. The French decimated the tribe and led to the dispersal of their dwindling numbers, but the Natchez continue to occupy popular imaginations because of several unique features that make them stand out from other groups. 
  The ongoing fighting between white settlers, militias, Army units, and Native Americans not only bled into the War of 1812 but was one of the main causes of it. Many Americans chaffed at the fact that along the Northwestern frontier, the British in Canada were supporting Indian resistance to American settlement.  

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  The Dogma of Christ - And Other...

  Erich Fromm

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  "Fromm's developing thought merits the critical attention of all concerned with the human condition and its future." —The Washington Post 
   
   
   
  The essays in this fascinating volume examine present-day psychological and cultural problems with the keen insight and humanistic sympathies characteristic of Erich Fromm's work. 
   
   
   
  The Dogma of Christ provides some of the sharpest critical insights into how the contemporary world of human destructiveness and violence can no longer separate religion, psychology, and politics. The book brilliantly summarizes Fromm's ideas on how culture and society shape our behavior.

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