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  King Arthur - His Life...

  Kelly Mass

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  King Arthur, a legendary figure rooted in medieval history and romance, is often depicted as the British leader who defended Britain against Saxon invaders in the late 5th and early 6th centuries. However, the story of King Arthur is primarily a blend of Welsh and English mythology with elements of literary invention. Most modern historians agree that Arthur is more of a mythical construct than a historical figure. Early sources such as the Annales Cambriae, the Historia Brittonum, and the works of the monk Gildas provide glimpses into Arthur's supposed historical context. Additionally, references to Arthur appear in early poetic works like Y Gododdin, though these allusions remain ambiguous and open to interpretation. 
  Arthur’s significance as a cultural and legendary figure solidified in the corpus of stories known as the "Matter of Britain." Geoffrey of Monmouth’s 12th-century Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain) was instrumental in elevating Arthur to international fame. Geoffrey’s imaginative narrative portrayed Arthur as a heroic warrior who defended Britain from both human and supernatural foes. Earlier Welsh and Breton tales, predating Geoffrey’s work, often described Arthur as a semi-magical figure associated with the Welsh otherworld, Annwn. However, the extent to which Geoffrey relied on earlier sources versus his own creativity remains unclear.

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  The Internet Is Not What You...

  Justin E. H. Smith

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  An original deep history of the internet that tells the story of the centuries-old utopian dreams behind it—and explains why they have died today 
   
  Many think of the internet as an unprecedented and overwhelmingly positive achievement of modern human technology. But is it? In The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is, Justin Smith offers an original deep history of the internet, from  
  the ancient to the modern world—uncovering its surprising origins in nature and centuries-old dreams of radically improving human life by outsourcing thinking to machines and communicating across vast distances. Yet, despite the internet’s  
  continuing potential, Smith argues, the utopian hopes behind it have finally died today, killed by the harsh realities of social media, the global information economy, and the attention-destroying nature of networked technology. 
   
  Ranging over centuries of the history and philosophy of science and technology, Smith shows how the “internet” has been with us much longer than we usually think. He draws fascinating connections between internet user experience,  
  artificial intelligence, the invention of the printing press, communication between trees, and the origins of computing in the machine-driven looms of the silk industry. At the same time, he reveals how the internet’s organic structure and  
  development root it in the natural world in unexpected ways that challenge efforts to draw an easy line between technology and nature. 
   
  Combining the sweep of intellectual history with the incisiveness of philosophy, The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is cuts through our daily digital lives to give a clear-sighted picture of what the internet is, where it came from, and where it might be taking us in the coming decades.

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  A Pedagogy of Kindness

  Catherine J. Denial

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  Academia is not, by and large, a kind place. Individualism and competition are what count. But without kindness at its core, Catherine Denial suggests, higher education fails students and instructors—and its mission—in critical ways. 
   
   
   
  Part manifesto, part teaching memoir, part how-to guide, A Pedagogy of Kindness urges higher education to get aggressive about instituting kindness, which Denial distinguishes from niceness. Having suffered beneath the weight of just "getting along," instructors need to shift every part of what they do to prioritizing care and compassion—for students as well as for themselves. 
   
   
   
  A Pedagogy of Kindness articulates a fresh vision for teaching, one that focuses on ensuring justice, believing people, and believing in people. Offering evidence-based insights and drawing from her own rich experiences as a professor, Denial offers practical tips for reshaping syllabi, assessing student performance, and creating trust and belonging in the classroom. Her suggestions for concrete, scalable actions  outline nothing less than a transformational discipline—one in which, together, we create bright new spaces, rooted in compassion, in which all engaged in teaching and learning might thrive.

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  The Amazing Grandpa Tata

  Dhan Reddy

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  Many children are lucky enough to go fishing. The luckiest ones get to go fishing with their grandpas! Dinesh is one of the luckiest ones. In author Dhan Reddy’s How Grandpa Tata Caught a Ginormous Fish without a Hook, Grandpa is never happy with the size of fish he is given to eat. No matter how large, it’s just not big enough. So one night, he and his grandson, Dinesh, go in search of a really big fish. Unlike most of us, they don’t take a fishing pole and bait. No, Grandpa takes a piglet! So how does one catch a really big fish with a piglet? How Grandpa Tata Caught a Ginormous Fish without a Hook, based on a story the author’s grandfather often told when she was a child, is a funny tale of going out and getting what you want—if you’re willing to go beyond what others do.

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  Leaves of Grass

  Walt Whitman

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  What does it mean to celebrate life in all its fullness?
  
  First published in 1855, Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman is one of the most influential poetry collections ever written. Bold, expansive, and deeply personal, these poems broke with tradition to embrace free verse and a radical vision of the individual, the body, nature, and democracy.
  
  Whitman's poetry sings of everyday people, physical experience, love, work, and the spiritual connection between self and world. His voice—confident, intimate, and inclusive—reshaped American literature and continues to inspire readers across generations.
  
  This eBook presents the classic poems in a clear, accessible format, allowing modern readers to experience the vitality and vision that made Leaves of Grass a literary landmark.
  
  Inside this eBook, you'll explore:
  
  Whitman's groundbreaking free-verse poetry
  
  Celebrations of individuality, nature, and the human body
  
  A poetic vision of democracy and shared humanity
  
  One of the foundational works of American literature
  
  Studied in schools and universities worldwide, Leaves of Grass remains essential reading for anyone interested in poetry, self-expression, and the American literary tradition.
  
  Hear the voice that changed poetry forever. Buy now and experience one of the greatest collections in literary history.

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  Unsettled - Lord Selkirk’s...

  Robert Lower

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  The fascinating story of the Red River Settlement, now Winnipeg, in the years 1813 to 1816, told with archival journals, reports, and letters
  		 
  Unsettled tells the story of two hundred Highlanders who flee the Scottish Clearances in 1813 to establish a settlement on the Red River in what eventually became Winnipeg. They are sponsored by the Earl of Selkirk, a man who has never been west of Montreal. Families who have never left their Highland crofts take an epic journey over ocean, up wild rivers, and through boundless wilderness, surviving disease and brutal winter only to face the determined opposition of fur barons who want no sodbusters threatening their trade and are prepared to stop at nothing to destroy their dream.
  		 
  The “empty” land they’ve been promised is also anything but, already occupied by First Nations bands and the beginnings of that proud nation soon to be called Métis, whom they must befriend or fight.
  		 
  Unsettled takes you inside the experience, relying on journals, reports, and letters to bring these days of soaring hope, crushing despair, and heroic determination to life — to bring their present into ours.

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