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  Intermediate Mexican Spanish:...

  Lingo Publishing

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  Intermediate Mexican Spanish: Journey Beyond the Basics  
  Embark on an exhilarating journey to fluency with "Intermediate Mexican Spanish: The Ultimate Guide to Building Fluency and Cultural Insight for Everyday Conversations." This audiobook isn't just a course; it's your passport to the rich tapestry of Mexican culture, a bridge to connect you deeply with the Spanish-speaking world. 
  Whether you're planning to navigate the bustling streets of Mexico City, dive into the literary genius of Octavio Paz, or simply aim to enrich your linguistic skills, this guide is your next step. It builds on the foundations laid by beginners, offering a more nuanced understanding of the Mexican language and its myriad of expressions. 
  Inside, discover chapters that mimic the flow of life itself, from the simplicity of "Lunes: Personalities" to the reflective depth of "Domingo: Present and Future Wishes." Each day of the week brings a new theme, a new adventure in language, immersing you in scenarios that range from describing personalities with vivid adjectives to navigating the future tense with ease and confidence. 
  Dive deeper into the nuances of Mexican Spanish with:A rich palette of vocabulary that colors your conversations with authenticity.Grammar that unlocks the structures and mechanics of more sophisticated communication.Cultural insights that do more than teach you to speak; they teach you to understand and to be understood.Engaging exercises that test your knowledge and refine your skills, ensuring that every lesson leaves its mark. 
  Are you ready to turn the page? Click "Add to Cart" and take your place among the fluent speakers of one of the world's most beautiful languages. Your adventure awaits!

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  Facing War: Rethinking Europe's...

  Serena Giusti, Giovanni Grevi

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  Russia's attack on Ukraine has sent shockwaves across Europe and the world. While the current war is a geopolitical turning point, it remains unclear whether it will trigger a quantum leap forward for European defence policies and for the role of the European Union as a security provider. This Report investigates whether we can expect a further convergence of European strategic cultures, and on collaboration among Europeans to generate the required military capabilities and integrate their forces. Most importantly, it finds that the timely implementation of the EU's Strategic Compass will be a decisive test to establish whether Europeans are rising to the challenge of taking more responsibility for their security and defence.

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  My First Thirty Years - A Memoir

  Gertrude Beasley, Marie Bennett,...

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  Shortly after its 1925 publication, Gertrude Beasley's ferociously eloquent feminist memoir was banned and she herself disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Though British Nobel Prize winner Bertrand Russell called My First Thirty Years "truthful, which is illegal" and Larry McMurtry pronounced it the finest Texas book of its era, Beasley's words have been all but inaccessible for almost a century—until now. 
   
  Beasley penned one of the most brutally honest coming-of-age historical memoirs, one which strips away romantic notions about frontier women's lives at the turn of the twentieth century. With characteristic ferocity, Beasley rejected a life of dependence, persisting in her studies and becoming first a teacher, then a principal, then a college instructor, and finally a foreign correspondent. 
   
  Along the way, Beasley becomes a strident activist for women's rights, socialism, and sex education. She is undaunted by authority figures but secretly ashamed of her origins and yearns to be loved. My First Thirty Years is profoundly human and shockingly candid, a rallying cry that cost its author her career and her freedom. 
   
  Her story deserves to be heard. 
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  BDSM Theories and Observations -...

  Jörg Rehberg

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  Have you ever wondered why you are into BDSM? Why there tend to be more people of the submissive persuasion than those of the dominant persuasion?
  ''BDSM Theories and Observations'' proposes reasoned answers and explanations to these questions and more, taking an inner look at those who are kinky without assuming it's who you are as a person. Whether you identify as submissive or dominant, this book will provide valuable insights and perhaps even alleviate some anxiety about sexuality.
  - Uncover what may be the reason behind your s&m preferences and understand yourself on a deeper level.
  - Gain a better understanding of why there tend to be more people of the submissive persuasion.
  - A look at the nuances between maledom and femdom dynamics, how they can differ from each other, and why.
  - A perspective on how the role of submissive and dominant can be actively chosen preferences.
  This is not an erotic book or a "how-to be kinky", but for those interested in BDSM as a sexual taste seeking potential avenues to learn more about themselves. Don't miss out on this eye-opening book that may change the way you think about BDSM.

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  Gardening Can Be Murder - How...

  Marta McDowell

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  This fun, engrossing book takes a look at the surprising influence that gardens and gardening have had on mystery novels and their authors. With their deadly plants, razor-sharp shears, shady corners, and ready-made burial sites, gardens make an ideal scene for the perfect murder. But the outsize influence that gardens and gardening have had on the mystery genre has been underappreciated. Now, Marta McDowell, a writer and gardener with a near-encyclopedic knowledge of the genre, illuminates the many ways in which our greatest mystery writers, from Edgar Allen Poe to authors on today’s bestseller lists, have found inspiration in the sinister side of gardens. From the cozy to the hardboiled, the literary to the pulp, and the classic to the contemporary, Gardening Can Be Murder is the first book to explore the mystery genre’s many surprising horticultural connections. Meet plant-obsessed detectives and spooky groundskeeper suspects, witness toxic teas served in foul play, and tour the gardens—both real and imagined—that have been the settings for fiction’s ghastliest misdeeds. A New York Times bestselling author herself, McDowell also introduces us to some of today’s top writers who consider gardening integral to their craft, assuring that horticultural themes will remain a staple of the genre for countless twisting plots to come.    “This book is dangerous. A veritable cornucopia of crime fiction and gardening lore, it faces the reader with multiple temptations—books to seek out, plants to obtain, garden tours to book.” —Vicki Lane, author of the Elizabeth Goodweather Appalachian Mysteries

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  Theatre of the Unimpressed - In...

  Jordan Tannahill

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  How dull plays are killing theatre and what we can do about it.
     
  Had I become disenchanted with the form I had once fallen so madly in love with as a pubescent, pimple-faced suburban homo with braces? Maybe theatre was like an all-consuming high school infatuation that now, ten years later, I saw as the closeted balding guy with a beer gut he’d become. There were of course those rare moments of transcendencethat kept me coming back. But why did they come so few and far between?
     
  A lot of plays are dull. And one dull play, it seems, can turn us off theatre for good. Playwright and theatre director Jordan Tannahill takes in the spectrum of English-language drama – from the flashiest of Broadway spectacles to productions mounted in scrappy storefront theatres – to consider where lifeless plays come from and why they persist. Having travelled the globe talking to theatre artists, critics, passionate patrons and the theatrically disillusioned, Tannahill addresses what he considers the culture of ‘risk aversion’ paralyzing the form.
    
     
  Theatre of the Unimpressed is Tannahill’s wry and revelatory personal reckoning with the discipline he’s dedicated his life to, and a roadmap for a vital twenty-first-century theatre – one that apprehends the value of ‘liveness’ in our mediated age and the necessity for artistic risk and its attendant failures. In considering dramaturgy, programming and alternative models for producing, Tannahill aims to turn theatre from an obligation to a destination.
     
  ‘[Tannahill is] the poster child of a new generation of (theatre? film? dance?) artists for whom "interdisciplinary" is not a buzzword, but a way of life.’ —J. Kelly Nestruck, Globe and Mail
     
  ‘Jordan is one of the most talented and exciting playwrights in the country, and he will be a force to be reckoned with for years to come.’ —Nicolas Billon, Governor General's Award–winning playwright (Fault Lines)

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