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  Birth Control - The Insidious...

  Allison Yarrow

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  Modern medicine should make pregnancy and childbirth safer for all. But in Birth Control, award-winning journalist Allison Yarrow reveals how women are controlled, traumatized, injured, and even killed because of the traditionalist practices of medical professionals and hospitals. 
   
   
   
  Ever since doctors stole control of birth from midwives in the nineteenth century, women have been steamrolled by a male-dominated medical establishment that has everyone convinced that birthing bodies are inherently flawed and that every pregnancy is a crisis that it alone can "solve." Misogyny and racism, not scientific evidence and support, shape the overwhelming majority of America's four million annual births. 
   
   
   
  Drawing on extensive reporting, expert interviews, an original survey of 1,300 mothers, and her own personal experiences, Yarrow documents how modern maternal health care is insidiously, purposefully designed to take power from women to the detriment of their physical and mental health—not just during labor, but for years after. She then shows a better way, exploring solutions both cutting-edge and ancient to—finally—return power and control to birthing people.

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  Universal Travel Company

  Hal Phillips

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.  The conspiracy reveals a world where the lines between human and artificial intelligence Aare increasingly blurred, and where international espionage has evolved to incorporate advanced technology alongside traditional tradecraft. It highlights the ongoing power struggle between major world powers over technological supremacy, particularly in the AI development. It operates through a series of carefully orchestrated test, challenges, and seemingly random encounters that are actually meticulously planned interventions. The conspiracy's scope demonstrates how vulnerable individuals can become unwitting pawns in larger geopolitical games as they become key players in this power struggle as AI gains more control!!

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  General Introduction to...

  Sigmund Freud

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  These twenty-eight lectures to laymen are elementary and almost conversational. Freud sets forth with a frankness almost startling the difficulties and limitations of psychoanalysis, and also describes its main methods and results as only a master and originator of a new school of thought can do. A text like this is the most opportune and will naturally more or less supersede all other introductions to the general subject of psychoanalysis. It presents the author in a new light, as an effective and successful popularizer, and is certain to be welcomed not only by the large and growing number of students of psychoanalysis in this country but by the yet larger number of those who wish to begin its study here and elsewhere. (From the Preface)

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  Apology

  Plato

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  Apology by Plato stands as one of the most profound and influential works in Western philosophy. In this timeless dialogue, Plato recounts the trial of Socrates, who stands before the Athenian jury accused of impiety and corrupting the youth. Rather than pleading for mercy, Socrates delivers a powerful defense of his life, values, and pursuit of truth. 
  Through sharp reasoning, humility, and unwavering moral conviction, Socrates explains why questioning accepted beliefs is essential for a just and meaningful life. He challenges his accusers, dismantles the charges against him, and exposes the fear and ignorance at the heart of public opinion. Socrates’ reflections on wisdom—knowing that one knows nothing—remain among the most quoted ideas in philosophy. 
  Narrated with clarity and depth by Gary Middleton, this audiobook captures the dignity, courage, and philosophical brilliance of Socrates’ final stand. More than a historical document, Apology is a timeless meditation on integrity, justice, and the search for truth—still as relevant today as it was in Ancient Athens.

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  A Very Short History of Gaza

  Ilan Pappe

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  A vital history of Gaza from Antiquity to the present—defying Israel's attempts to erase its heritage 
   
  Today Gaza lies in ruins after a genocide perpetrated before our eyes. Over 80% of its buildings have been destroyed, and its people have suffered the worst horrors imaginable. For over twenty years it has been an open-air prison. But once Gaza was an integral part of the Arab and Eastern Mediterranean world, where merchants traded their goods, and intellectual and religious life flourished, across all three Abrahamic faiths. Empires as diverse as the Persians, Romans, Mamluks, and Ottomans vied to control it—and its silks, fruits, and wines were renowned. Ilan Pappe tells the story of Gaza from Roman rule to the present, revealing the indomitable spirit of Gaza's people and the possibility for a more just future in a free Palestine.

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  What a Bloody Awful Country -...

  Kevin Meagher

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  "Highly readable" – Irish News
  "A gripping appraisal of Northern Ireland's turbulent first century. Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how we have got to where we are today." – Suzanne Breen, Belfast Telegraph
  "A timely and lucid analysis of the Troubles that asks hard questions of successive British governments. The good news for the current government is that it also offers some answers." – Rory Carroll, The Guardian
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  "For God's sake, bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country!" Home Secretary Reginald Maudling, returning from his first visit to Northern Ireland in 1970
  As a long and bloody guerrilla war staggered to a close on the island of Ireland, Britain beat a retreat from all but a small portion of the country – and thus, in 1921, Northern Ireland was born.
  That partition, says Kevin Meagher, has been an unmitigated disaster for Nationalists and Unionists alike. Following the fraught history of British rule in Ireland, a better future was there for the taking but was lost amid political paralysis, while the resulting fifty years of devolution succeeded only in creating a brooding sectarian stalemate that exploded into the Troubles.
  In a stark but reasoned critique, Meagher traces the landmark events in Northern Ireland's century of existence, exploring the missed signals, the turning points, the principled decisions that should have been taken, as well as the raw realpolitik of how Northern Ireland has been governed over the past 100 years.
  Thoughtful and sometimes provocative, What a Bloody Awful Country reflects on how both Loyalists and Republicans might have played their cards differently and, ultimately, how the actions of successive British governments have amounted to a masterclass in failed statecraft.

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