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  Heretic of the Heart

  Sera Beak

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  Beak assures us that the soul is constantly communicating to us through metaphor, dreams, and synchronicities. It is through patterns in our lives that our soul is dropping hints of itself everywhere.

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  Sports and Play - from...

  Ring W. Lardner

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  What does America call play? Mostly watching someone else do it. 
   
  In this sharp and irreverent essay from *Civilization in the United States*, celebrated humorist and sportswriter Ring W. Lardner turns his attention to America’s passionate—and often contradictory—relationship with athletics. 
   
  With baseball stadiums, football fields, boxing arenas, and racetracks packed with spectators, Americans proudly consider themselves a nation devoted to sport. Yet Lardner notices an inconvenient truth: while thousands cheer from the grandstands, comparatively few take part in the games themselves. 
   
  Moving briskly through baseball, football, boxing, horse racing, golf, tennis, and other popular pastimes, Lardner questions whether watching athletes perform provides the physical and mental benefits fans claim. He examines the expense, discomfort, danger, and absurdity surrounding competitive sports while exposing the national habit of transforming players into heroes. 
   
  Beneath the jokes lies a pointed cultural criticism. Why are the grandstands full while the playgrounds remain empty? Why do Americans admire physical achievement more eagerly than they pursue it themselves? And when does recreation become another form of passive consumption? 
   
  First published in 1922, *Sport and Play* is a concise, lively satire of spectator culture, hero worship, leisure, and the American obsession with organized athletics. 
   
  Narrated by John Riddle.

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  DBT Skills for Highly Sensitive...

  LCSW Emma Lauer

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  Have you been told that you are "too sensitive?" Do your emotions often feel intense or overwhelming? If so, you may be a highly sensitive person (HSP). HSPs are often empathic, intuitive, and passionate; but they can also struggle with strong emotions. This book will help you understand and balance your emotions, and reframe your emotional sensitivity as a strength—not a weakness. 
   
   
   
  Using skills from dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), this evidence-based guide will show you how to increase emotional resilience and learn to appreciate your sensitivity for the superpower it is! With this book, you'll learn to understand and regulate your emotions, "read" your body's physical responses to difficult emotions, and discover effective ways to self-soothe when the outside world feels overwhelming. You'll also find strategies to help you deal with difficult or challenging interactions with others. 
   
   
   
  Emotional sensitivity is a gift; but it's important to learn how to manage your emotions, so they don't get in the way of relationships and reaching your goals. With this book as your guide, you'll find the balance you need to be your very best.

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  The Integrated Wolf - Identity...

  Jyee Byrne

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  Most people are not broken. They are armoured. 
  They learned early to suppress, control, over-function, and perform — not because they were weak, but because it worked. It kept them safe. It kept them accepted. But somewhere along the way, the armour became the identity. 
  The Integrated Wolf is the journey back. 
  Written by Jyee Byrne, founder of Wolfpack Support Services and creator of The Wolfpack Way framework, this book moves through five essential stages of integration — from recognising the armour you built to survive, to regulating your nervous system, repairing your relationships, leading with presence, and leaving a legacy that does not require perfection. 
  This is not therapy. It is not a clinical manual. It is lived experience translated into structure — grounded in trauma-informed education, nervous-system literacy, and more than a decade of frontline psychosocial work. 
  Inside you will find:How to identify the masks you built to survive and what drives themWhy triggers are not the problem — and what isHow to build regulation as a daily practice, not a crisis responseWhat co-regulation really means in relationships and leadershipHow one regulated nervous system can shift an entire room, family, or organisation 
  This book is for the men rebuilding presence. The women relearning trust. The leaders done performing strength and ready to embody it. 
  Part of The Wolfpack Way collection. wpss.com.au

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  Germany Between the World Wars:...

  Editors Charles River

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  The Weimar Republic has become a byword for a failed, tragic, political experiment. The official period of its existence, 1919-1933, marked the inter-war years in Germany and their related uncertainty, chaos and the state’s ultimate collapse. Historians have found the roots of Nazism embedded in the Weimar years and that in the final analysis, Weimar politicians voluntarily handed over power to the man who wrought destruction on an epic scale, Adolf Hitler. Yet the Weimar era encapsulated a number of trends and fissures within German society, as well as the international community. The Weimar Republic was a prisoner of events and in the long run had little power to shape them. Historians are fond of interpreting the past as a tension between human agency, that is to say decision-making, and structural developments that evade individual choices. Both these interpretations are crucial when examining the tumultuous years of Germany’s Weimar Republic. 
  The early 1930s were a tumultuous period for German politics, even in comparison to the ongoing transition to the modern era that caused various forms of chaos throughout the rest of the world. In the United States, reliance on the outdated gold standard and an absurdly parsimonious monetary policy helped bring about the Great Depression. Meanwhile, the Empire of Japan began its ultimately fatal adventurism with the invasion of Manchuria, alienating the rest of the world with the atrocities it committed.  
  It was in Germany, however, that the strongest seeds of future tragedy were sown. The struggling Weimar Republic had become a breeding ground for extremist politics, including two opposed and powerful authoritarian entities: the right-wing National Socialists and the left-wing KPD Communist Party. As the 1930s dawned, these two totalitarian groups held one another in a temporary stalemate, enabling the fragile ghost of democracy to continue a largely illusory survival for a few more years.

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  Governing a Continent

  Santiago Machain

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
  Governing a Continent takes readers inside the real machinery of large-scale rule—where institutions outlast leaders, where roads and courts shape daily routines, and where culture, science, and trade knit diverse peoples into a common future. Through vivid analysis and human-centered storytelling, the book reveals how stable governance is built not only by grand strategy but by dependable services, fair laws, resilient budgets, and inclusive rituals. 
  Spanning provincial administration, taxation, logistics, military pluralism, legal pluralism, court ceremony, work and markets, art and identity, and the governance of knowledge and time, this volume shows how empires and federations maintain continuity through crisis and change. It explains how legitimacy is earned every day—at border posts and bus stops, in clinics and classrooms, through the choices of judges, engineers, quartermasters, and archivists.

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