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  Dark History of Penn's Woods -...

  Jennifer L. Green

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  Eight chilling stories of crime, disaster and unusual deaths from southeastern Pennsylvania.
  
  A sequel to the first Dark History book, Murder, Madness, and Misadventure in Southeastern Pennsylvania, this book features more true tales of the region's disasters, deaths and tragedies – offering readers a window into a macabre slice of history.
  
  From the “coffin ships” that brought desperate European immigrants to American shores, to an explosion that took the lives of nineteen people, the Greater Philadelphia area has experienced its fair share of tragedy. Learn about the catastrophic fire that took the lives of nine ballerinas, investigate gruesome cases of murder for life insurance, and ponder the possibility that a Pennsylvania businessman appeared in ghostly form on a busy street the day before he died. Finally, one of the most puzzling cold cases in Pennsylvania history is finally solved after more than sixty years using forensic genealogy, while another unidentified little girl still waits for her own justice.
  
  Praise for Darkest History Vol. I
  “..the perfect book to keep you up all night."
  Philadelphia Magazine 
  
  "Throughout the book, [Green] iterates that she is writing about history that has been largely forgotten and ignored due to its dark nature. By bringing these stories to the light again, she has given her readers a great gift...”
  Broad Street Review 
  
  “….a tribute to suburban Philadelphia weirdness, evildoing, and death.”
  Montco Today

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  Revolting Indolence - The...

  Marcos Gonsalez

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  How indolent practices in Latinx LGBTQ culture challenge capitalist imperatives to be productive. 
   
   
   
  Revolting Indolence makes a case for laziness as an aesthetic-political strategy for countering the oppressive logics of cisheteronormative racial capitalism. Focusing on ways in which queer and trans Latinx people demonstrate the unwillingness of their participation in "productivist" ethics and allied respectability politics, Marcos Gonsalez argues that slacking off, lounging, daydreaming, and partying are liberatory practices. 
   
   
   
  Gonsalez explores how queer and trans Latinx artists refute discourses in which work is a moral good. In Paris Is Burning, RuPaul's Drag Race, documentary photography of queer and trans Latinx life in Los Angeles, and other sources, Gonsalez identifies two lazy styles: first, flagrant refusals of work that critique capitalist reason; and second, the invention of alternative aesthetic worlds beyond racial capitalism and violence targeting queer and trans people, whose rejection of the cisgender nuclear family paradigm is rightly seen as threatening the stability of a functioning capitalist system. Reclaiming laziness as a resource for radical imagining, Revolting Indolence asks us to do that which we want most and which capitalist exploitation can least tolerate: to slow down.

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  The Last Word - Reviving the...

  Julia Cooper

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  A lively examination of why the modern eulogy should rest in peace.Finding the right words to reckon with a loved one’s death is no easy task, and the pressure to grieve in a timely fashion only makes the difficulty of saying a meaningful goodbye that much harder. We are continually instructed to contain our grief to a limited period, to promptly ‘get over it’ and return to business as usual – is it any wonder that, when themoment for speaking directly to death arrives, we so often grasp at clichés in order to avoid examining our sorrow?
    
    
    
    In turning a critical eye toward the act of eulogy, Julia Cooper manages to perceptively, even playfully, create a new space for the bleak act of mourning. Examining fictional eulogies inThe Big Lebowski and Love Actually alongside teary speeches at celebrity funerals and reflections on mourning from Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida, The Last Word is a light in the dark. Braiding her delightful, lively cultural analysis with her own personal experiences of loss, Cooper makes a stunning and compelling case for a more compassionateapproach to grief.

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  Counsels and Maxims

  Arthur Schopenhauer

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  "Counsels and Maxims" by Arthur Schopenhauer is a collection of essays and aphorisms that offer profound insights into human nature, wisdom, and the art of living. Schopenhauer explores topics such as self-awareness, the pursuit of happiness, the futility of desire, and the importance of inner strength. His writing provides valuable guidance on how to navigate life's challenges and find meaning in a world filled with contradictions. This work is a timeless resource for those seeking a deeper understanding of human existence and the path to a fulfilling life. Read in English, unabridged.

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  Victimhood Memory and...

  David Goyes, Katja Franko

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  Inhabitants of Medellín, Colombia, suffered from the war-like violence perpetrated by drug cartels and other actors in the 1980s and 1990s. Thousands died, including innocent civilians, judges, and journalists, many more were injured and suffered psychological trauma. Three decades later, however, transnational media companies such as Netflix have transformed the traumatic memories into entertainment while the main perpetrator, Pablo Escobar, became a 
  recognizable brand name. 
   
   
   
  Victimhood, Memory, and Consumerism: Profiting from Pablo documents the story of violence inflicted on Medellín, and critically examines the status of its victims. Drawing on unique empirical material, the book addresses the impact of commercial exploitation of the city's violent past on the victims of mass drug violence and on the present nature of the city. 
   
    
   
  Victimhood, Memory, and Consumerism offers a poignant critique of the role of the global market economy in the unequal distribution of narrative power among those engaged in processes of collective memory construction. A thoroughly compelling listen, this volume will appeal internationally to academics in criminology and victimology, as well as those interested in critical perspectives on Netflix, commercialism, and Colombian history.

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  Byzantine Empire for Kids The: A...

  Captivating History

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  How does the Byzantine Empire, which fell in 1453, still apply to us today? 
  Many of us do not know much about the Byzantine Empire; it lived on in the East after the Roman Empire fell, but its one-thousand-year history is full of innovations that have changed how we create art, write laws, and think about our lives today. The Byzantine Empire was a key factor that started the Italian Renaissance and moved Western Europe out of the Middle Ages. Far from being ancient history, the Byzantine Empire still impacts our lives today. 
  Scholars have studied individual emperors or specific battles during the Byzantine Empire for years. They have discussed people like Emperor Justinian I or events like the Fall of Constantinople or The Great Schism. But the Byzantine Empire was more than a couple of important leaders or their final loss to the Ottomans. This empire survived for many years against great odds, filled with new ideas about religion, art, and how to live life.  
  It's time to look back into history and discover the many parts of the Byzantine Empire. In this new and captivating audiobook, you’ll learn what made the Byzantine Empire so special and how it still influences us today. 
  Here are some of the questions you will uncover by listening to this audiobook:How was Constantinople so well guarded against attackers?Why was the Byzantine Empire concerned about the Crusades?How was Rome related to the Byzantine Empire?Who founded Constantinople?Why was Emperor Justinian I so important?When did Eastern Orthodoxy separate from Roman Catholicism? Why did the Crusaders attack Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade?Who were the Ottomans?Why did the Byzantines maintain Greek and Roman culture? 
  Scroll up and click the “add to cart” button to learn more about the history of the Byzantine Empire!

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