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  Nana Said Don't Drink That

  Aroara

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  Another lesson learned from Nana in Nana Said "That drink is for Grown folks". Discussions about alcohol and drinking. The Nana Said series focuses on lessons intended for kids, but thought provoking for parents.

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  The Problem of Democracy -...

  Shadi Hamid

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  What happens when democracy produces "bad" outcomes? Is democracy good because of its outcomes or despite them? This "democratic dilemma" is one of the most persistent, vexing problems for America abroad, particularly in the Middle East—we want democracy in theory but not necessarily in practice. 
   
   
   
  When Islamist parties rise to power through free elections, the United States has too often been ambivalent or opposed, preferring instead pliable dictators. With this legacy of democratic disrespect in mind, and drawing on new interviews with top American officials, Shadi Hamid explores universal questions of morality, power, and hypocrisy. Why has the United States failed so completely to live up to its own stated ideals in the Arab world? And is it possible for it to change? 
   
   
   
  In The Problem of Democracy, Hamid offers an ambitious reimagining of this ongoing debate and argues for "democratic minimalism" as a path to resolving democratic dilemmas in the Middle East and beyond. In the seemingly eternal tension between democracy and liberalism, recognized by the ancient Greeks and the American founders alike, it may be time to prioritize one over the other, rather than acting as if the two are intertwined when increasingly they are not.

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  Mental Health Through...

  Abraham Low M.D.

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  Mental Health Through Will-Training is one of the main resources for the explanation and application of the cognitive behavioral self-help techniques developed by Abraham Low, MD. The book not only lays out the framework for developing better living skills, it is also essential for taking part in Recovery International meetings, as it fully describes such self-help tools is our best friend, temper is our worst enemy.Have the courage to make a mistake. People do things that annoy us, not necessarily to annoy us. Tempers are frequently uncontrolled, but not uncontrollable. Every act of self-control leads to a sense of self-respect.Temper is an intellectual blindness to the other side of the story.

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  Learn Spanish Phrases For...

  Authentic Language Books

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  If you are looking into learning Spanish in a fast, simple way without entering a classroom then you have chosen the perfect book. Learn Spanish Phrases for Beginners is a comprehensive and simple program for learning Spanish with fast, simple, and interactive lessons. Learn Spanish Phrases With Step By Step Spanish Conversations Quick And Easy In Your Car Lesson By Lesson to have native-level fluency in no time. 
  With this book you will learn Spanish phrases for beginners through lessons that will help you develop your vocabulary and teach you how to communicate and hold short conversations. You will also learn basic interactions in different, useful topics for travel. 
  The following book on conversational Spanish will give you the necessary tools for learning a new language in simple and quick lessons. It’s time to begin the adventure of learning Spanish, through simple and quick lessons you can listen to in your car.Inside You Will FindHow to greet people, ask how they are, and answer questions about yourself.How to answer questions and hold short conversations with native-like fluency in no timeThe language of numbers, how to tell time, ask for prices, and set a schedule through didactive dialogues. Learn quick Spanish, understand vocabulary and interactions, and learn correct pronunciation with this simple lessons.Get this book NOW and embrace these simple, yet effective language lessons that will have you speaking Spanish like a native in no time!

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  The Spirit of Hope

  Byung-Chul Han

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  A spectre is haunting fear. We are constantly confronted with apocalyptic pandemics, world war, the climate catastrophe. Images of the end of the world and the end of human civilization are conjured up with ever greater urgency. Anxiously, we face a bleak future. Preoccupied with crisis management, life becomes a matter of survival. 
   
  But it is precisely at such moments of fear and despair that hope arises like a phoenix from the ashes. Only hope can give us back a life that is more than mere survival. Fear isolates people and closes them off from one another; hope, by contrast, unites people and forms communities. It opens up a meaningful horizon that re-invigorates and inspires life. It nurtures fantasy and enables us to think about what is yet to come. It makes action possible because it infuses our world with purpose and meaning. Hope is the spring that liberates us from our collective despair and gives us a future. 
   
  In this short essay on hope, Byung-Chul Han gives us the perfect antidote to the climate of fear that pervades our world. 
   
  This audiobook is expertly read by Peter Noble, with audio engineering by Sam Platt. It was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.

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  A Kind of Madness - Stories

  Uche Okonkwo

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  A searing, unflinching collection of stories set in Nigeria that explores themes of community expectations, familial strife, and the struggle for survival. 
   
   
   
  A teenage girl from a poor family is dazzled by her rich, vivacious friend, but as the friend's behavior grows unstable and dangerous, she must decide whether to cover for her or risk telling the truth to get her the help she needs. A young woman and her mother bask in the envy of their neighbors when the woman receives an offer of marriage from the family of a doctor living in Belgium—though when the offer fails to materialize, that envy threatens to turn vicious, pitting them both against their community. And a lonely daughter finds herself wandering a village in eastern Nigeria in an ill-fated quest, struggling to come to terms with her mother's mental illness. 
   
   
   
  In ten vivid, evocative stories set in contemporary Nigeria, Uche Okonkwo's A Kind of Madness unravels the tensions between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, best friends, siblings, and more, marking the arrival of an extraordinary new talent in fiction and inviting us all to consider the question: why is it that the people and places we hold closest are so often the ones that drive us to madness?

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