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  Brazilian Mythology: Enthralling...

  Billy Wellman

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  Brazilian Mythology: A Journey Through Legends and Mystical Creatures 
  Step into the magical world of Brazilian mythology, where ancient tales come alive. This audiobook takes you on a fascinating adventure into the myths and legends shaped by the many people who have called Brazil home. From enchanted jungles to mysterious sea creatures, these stories continue to influence Brazil’s vibrant culture today. 
  What You’ll Discover:How Brazil’s landscapes shaped its myths: Learn how the vast Amazon, rugged mountains, and endless coastline gave birth to different legends across the country.Creation stories from indigenous tribes: Uncover the ancient tales of how the world began.Amazon rainforest creatures: Meet mystical beings like Iara, a river spirit who lures men with her beauty.A blend of cultures: See how indigenous, African, and European traditions came together to create Brazil’s unique mythology and powerful deities.Mythical sea creatures: Discover Brazil’s coastline myths, including tales of creatures like the Boto Cor-de-Rosa, the pink dolphin who turns into a handsome man.Monsters that prowl the forests: Learn about the Brazilian werewolf and how it differs from the European version.Famous Brazilian folklore characters: Get to know beloved figures like Saci-Pererê, the one-legged trickster with a mischievous smile. 
  You can finally explore Brazil’s mythical beings, heroic figures, and sacred traditions in an easy-to-read, engaging way. This audiobook is perfect for anyone curious about the deep connection between mythology, culture, and history in Brazil. 
  So, what are you waiting for? Scroll up and click the “add to cart” button to embark on a mythical journey today!

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  The Greatest Invention - A...

  Silvia Ferrara

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  The L where a tabletop meets the legs, the T between double doors, the D of an armchair's oval backrest—all around us is an alphabet in things. But how did these shapes make it onto the page, never mind form complex structures such as this sentence? In The Greatest Invention, Silvia Ferrara takes a profound look at how—and how many times—human beings have managed to produce the miracle of written language, traveling back and forth in time and all across the globe to Mesopotamia, Crete, China, Egypt, Central America, Easter Island, and beyond. 
   
   
   
  With Ferrara as our guide, we examine the enigmas of undeciphered scripts, including famous cases like the Phaistos Disk and the Voynich Manuscript; we touch the knotted, colored strings of the Inca quipu; we study the turtle shells and ox scapulae that bear the earliest Chinese inscriptions; we watch in awe as Sequoyah single-handedly invents a script for the Cherokee language; and we venture to the cutting edge of decipherment, in which high-powered laser scanners bring tears to an engineer's eye. 
   
   
   
  A code-cracking tour around the globe, The Greatest Invention chronicles a previously uncharted journey, one filled with past flashes of brilliance, present-day scientific research, and a faint, fleeting glimpse of writing's future.

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  Sandinistas and the Shining Path...

  Charles River Editors

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  For much of the 20th century, Latin American governments in large part lived under a system of military junta governments. The mixture of indigenous peoples, foreign settlers and European colonial superpowers produced cultural and social imbalances into which military forces intervened as a stabilizing influence. The proactive personalities of military heads and the rigid structures of such a hierarchy guaranteed the “strong man” commanding officer an abiding presence in the form of executive dictator. Such leaders often bore the more collaborative title of “President,” but the reality was, in most cases, identical. Likewise, the gap between rich and poor was often vast, and a disappearance of the middle class fed a frequent urge for revolution, reenergizing the military’s intent to stop it. With no stabilizing center, the ideologies most prevalent in such conflicts alternated between a federal model of industrial and social nationalization and an equally conservative structure under privatized ownership and autocratic rule drawn from the head of a junta government.  
  	Whichever belief system was in play for the major industrial nations of Central and South America, a constant bombardment of foreign influence pushed the people of states such as Nicaragua, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, and others toward overthrow, in one direction or the other. To the left came Stalinist influences from the Soviet Union and Castro’s Cuba, while the German World War II model and an anti-communist mindset from the United States worked behind the scenes to upset any movement toward extreme liberalism. The tacit acceptance of these right-wing dictators across South America was part of an overarching effort known as Operation Condor, consisting mostly of CIA operations that are as infamous and controversial as ever, with a lasting legacy that affects current events such as reactions to the ongoing unrest in Venezuela. 

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  Little Women Podcast: Social...

  Niina Niskanen, Emily Lau

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  In the chapter “Calls,” Amy and Jo decide to make some social calls, a common custom among well-bred young ladies of their time. Amy, who enjoys proper manners and society, convinces Jo to accompany her, even though Jo finds such formalities dull and pretentious. Throughout the afternoon, Amy’s social grace and tact contrast sharply with Jo’s blunt honesty and impatience with convention. Amy enjoys the ritual of polite society, while Jo realizes that she prefers sincerity and simplicity to artificial manners. Join Emily and Niina when they dissect chapter Calls, and talk about various things, such as Amy's fondness towards the aristocracy, Jo's difficulties in taking compliments and also the last part of the chapter, where we get the explanation why Jo did not get to go to Europe with Aunt March.

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  Forgiving Humanity - How the...

  Peter Russell

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  Why has the most innovative of species become so dangerous? The answer, suggests Peter Russell, lies in humanity’s accelerating pace of development. He shows how innovation breeds further innovation—a positive feedback loop leading to exponential rates of change. But our minds cannot grasp the full implications of exponential growth. We think more in terms of linear change, leading to a blind spot on the future.  
  However fast the pace of change may be today, it will be even faster in the years to come, bringing ever more rapid scientific and technological advances. But ever-accelerating change also creates stress on the systems involved. The faster the change, the greater the stress, and the more likely systemic breakdown. We are heading into a future with technology beyond our dreams, but in a world that is breaking at the seams. 
  Russell argues there is no blame for this. Spiraling rates of development, with all their consequences, positive and negative, are the inevitable fate of any intelligent, technologically-empowered species.  
  How do we live with such unsettling conclusions? How can we prepare for a world that is becoming increasingly unpredictable? What does it mean for the future of humanity? 
  Peter Russell, the widely acclaimed author of The Global Brain and other pioneering works, earned an honors degree in theoretical physics and psychology —as well as a masters degree in computer science —at the University of Cambridge. He subsequently went to India where he explored meditation and Eastern philosophy, and was one of the first people to introduce personal development programs to corporations in the 1970s. His other books include The TM Technique, The Upanishads, Waking Up in Time, From Science to God, and Letting Go of Nothing.

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  Her First Fist - First Time BDSM

  Rainbow Press

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  Lily has been denying herself for far too long. 
    
  Not only is she starved for some physical attention… but she’s now ready to admit to herself that she wants that attention to come from another woman. But how can she take that first step? A dared kiss over a game of spin the bottle doesn’t hold a candle to what Lily wants a woman to do to her. 
    
  She wants to give up all control. To give herself over to a domme who can tie her up and seize the power to do all the things to Lily’s body that she’s been fantasizing of. Lily is going to learn the pleasure of her skin turning red. How a woman knows another woman’s body in a way no man could understand. 
    
  When her domme turns her fingers into a fist, will Lily learn how pleasurable taking an entire hand into herself can be, or will she not be able to fit all of her Mistress inside?

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