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  Leland Stanford: A short...

  5 Minutes, 5 Minute Biographies,...

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  Leland Stanford, railroad king: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best!

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  Categories

  Aristotle

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  "Categories" is a philosophical work written by Aristotle, which is widely considered to be one of the most influential works in the history of Western philosophy. The work explores the nature of reality and how it can be classified into different categories. Aristotle begins by examining the concept of substance, which he defines as the fundamental nature of a thing. He then goes on to consider other categories such as quality, quantity, relation, place, time, position, state, and action. These categories help to organize our understanding of the world and provide a framework for understanding the various phenomena that we encounter. Read in English, unabridged.

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  Communist Manifesto

  Karl Marx, Frederick Engels

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  First published in 1848, The Communist Manifesto is one of the most influential political and philosophical texts in modern history. Written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, it presents a materialist analysis of society, examining class struggle, capitalism, and the historical forces shaping economic and social relations. 
  The manifesto outlines the theory of communism, critiques bourgeois society, and argues for the revolutionary role of the working class. Though brief, the work has had a lasting global impact on political movements, economic thought, and ideological debate. 
  This text remains essential reading for those interested in political philosophy, economics, history, and social theory.

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  The Unbearable Frenchness of...

  Sophia Anne Blackwell

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  The Unbearable Frenchness of Being: Albert Camus's Expensive Depression for Beginners 
  Finally, a philosophy book that admits what we're all thinking: Camus was basically a very attractive man who turned "nothing matters" into a career. 
  Ever wondered why your college roommate won't shut up about The Stranger? Curious about why French intellectuals spent the 1950s chain-smoking and arguing about whether you should kill yourself? Want to sound smart at dinner parties without actually reading 800 pages of dense existential philosophy? 
  Welcome to the only Camus guide you'll ever need and the only one honest enough to admit that "imagine Sisyphus happy" is either profound wisdom or the philosophical equivalent of "good vibes only." 
  Inside, you'll discover: 
  Why Meursault shooting someone because the sun was too bright is apparently literature 
  How Camus wrote 300 pages about plague and somehow made mass death boring 
  The most pretentious friendship breakup in philosophy history (Camus vs. Sartre: now with 100% more formal French pronouns) 
  Why the Mediterranean is the answer to existential dread (spoiler: it's not, but the beaches are nice) 
  How to be an absurd hero in four easy steps (Step 3: Feel superior to everyone who hasn't read Camus) 
  The philosophical question of whether you should kill yourself (fun guy at parties!) 
  Perfect for: 
  Philosophy students who need to understand Camus but can't stay awake through the actual texts 
  Former philosophy students still traumatized by Being and Nothingness 
  Anyone who's ever pretended to have read The Stranger in its entirety 
  People who enjoy their existential crises with a side of sarcasm 
  Listeners who think "nothing matters" but still want to feel intellectually superior about it 
  This isn't your professor's philosophy textbook.

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  Finding Your Self at the...

  Alice Haddon, Ruth Field

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  You can’t seem to get over the breakup. You feel stuck in cycles of rumination and pain. This revelatory guide provides brand-new therapeutic tools to revolutionize the way we overcome loss, as well as seek and welcome love, within and outside of ourselves. 
  ""For the heartbroken, a solid first step toward healing.” —Publishers Weekly 
  Alice Haddon, psychologist with over twenty-five years of clinical experience, and Ruth Field, bestselling self-help author, show us how we can dissect heartbreaks, mine them for strength and live our most empowered life. 
  In these warm, welcoming pages, you will meet women of different cultural backgrounds and ages who successfully picked themselves back up to become more confident than ever through the work that Alice and Ruth are doing at the Heartbreak Hotel--a therapy retreat providing intensive care to the heartbroken. 
  Bursting with compassion, humor, sass, and courage, this book will take you into the actual exercises conducted at the retreat. It will teach you how to:face your deepest hurt without shame or judgmentask for help and lean on the collectivebe kind and forgiving to yourselfturn your heartbreak into an abundance of love and pride. 
  Providing you with a clear pathway to recovery, Alice and Ruth draw on their wealth of professional and personal experience to help you Finding Your Self at The Heartbreak Hotel.

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  Putting Social Anxiety in Your...

  Nancy K. Rarick

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  Do you struggle to have important or tough conversations with people? 
  Why is it so difficult to do the simplest things, like communicating how you feel to your spouse or asking for a raise when you know you deserve one? Each time you need to have a serious conversation with your spouse or friends, it feels like a pit has opened in your stomach, as if you are burdened with the hardest task in the world. But life doesn’t have to feel that way. 
  Marriage and family therapist Nancy Rarick has been helping people just like you feel confident (and even proud) to be able to tell people exactly what they think and feel — without the anxiety that normally comes along with it. 
  In Putting Social Anxiety in Your Rearview Mirror, you will learn how to: 
  Feel comfortable communicating how you feel to your spouse, friends, and family 
  Determine why you feel anxiety in certain situations, and how to treat it 
  Ask for what you want with as much effectivity as possible 
  Experience more joy and get more meaning out of your life 
  Become more assertive by raising your self-esteem 
  With warmth, insight, and humor, Nancy will show you how to eliminate social anxiety once and for all and have the life you’ve always dreamed about. With courage and knowledge, life truly becomes much easier. Say goodbye to social anxiety today!

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