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  After the Broken Spears - The...

  Camilla Townsend, Josh Anthony

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  Following Hernando Cortés's conquest of Tenochtitlan in 1521, the Aztec empire became the center of the largest European colony in the Americas. It has long been assumed that Indigenous people's personal experiences of this cataclysmic era are inaccessible. Spanish records do not reflect how Nahuas and other Indigenous peoples spoke privately about the great changes, and accounts written in Indigenous languages mostly date from the latter half of the sixteenth century.Through close readings of Nahuatl sources, the contributors to After the Broken Spears illustrate that records of Indigenous experiences of the early colonial period are both more abundant than first appear and more richly detailed than ever imagined. Nahuatl songs, annals, tall tales, and legal documents offer a comprehensive vision of how Mexico's Indigenous people lived through the years after the conquest and negotiated the creation of their new world. Often originally circulated as oral accounts, these stories were later copied into Nahuatl script by those determined to preserve their people's history. Interspersed between the main chapters are commentaries written by contemporary Indigenous Mexican scholars, highlighting how historical themes relate to the present day. Just as their ancestors did five hundred years ago, these writers negotiate the ramifications of the Spanish conquest for their communities. After the Broken Spears offers fresh perspectives on a critical transition period in Mesoamerican, Mexican, and colonial history.

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  Taking Control of Anxiety -...

  Bret A. Moore

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  Anxiety is the most common mental disorder in the United States, with an estimated 40 million adult sufferers. The anti-anxiety drug Xanax is the nation's most-prescribed drug. But drugging anxious Americans is not a solution to the problem of anxiety. Taking Control of Anxiety shows that there are many other proven ways to treat anxiety. This is a self-help book in the best sense of the term, conversational in tone, supportive, and filled with simple tips and suggestions that can help people reduce their own anxieties.

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  Reading life backward: late...

  Christopher Graham PhD CCHT

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  Reading Life Backward: Late Recognition on the Autism Spectrum 
  By Christopher Graham, PhD, CCHT 
  What happens when a life finally makes sense—but nothing about the present changes? 
  Reading Life Backward explores the experience of late-recognized autism through a series of reflective essays that examine patterns often hidden behind competence and adaptation. Rather than presenting a clinical guide or diagnostic manual, the book reveals the internal architecture of a life lived without context—where masking, internal systems, and constant effort made functioning possible while quietly accumulating cost.  
  RLB LATE RECOGNITION BN ENGLISH 
  Written from within a specific autistic profile historically described as Asperger’s, this work focuses on adults whose lives appeared intact from the outside while operating under continuous, invisible strain. High verbal ability, intense pattern recognition, and deep internal reasoning often concealed the reality of navigating environments that were never designed for their nervous system.  
  RLB LATE RECOGNITION BN ENGLISH 
  Each essay isolates a pattern—masking, burnout, misattunement, identity reconstruction, and the rebuilding of life after recognition—rendering these experiences legible without reducing them to deficit or disorder. 
  This audiobook does not offer quick fixes or motivational prescriptions. Instead, it provides orientation: a way to understand how the past forms a coherent structure once the right lens appears. 
  For listeners who have always sensed their lives required unusual effort but lacked language for why, Reading Life Backward offers something rare—clarity. 
  This is not a story of recovery. 
  It is a record of recognition.

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  A Place Like Mississippi - A...

  W. Ralph Eubanks

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  “This is the book all of us Mississippi writers, dead and alive, need to read. It is indeed a strange but glorious sensation to see your literary and geographic lineage so beautifully and rigorously explored and valued as it's still being created.” —Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy: An American Memoir The South has produced some of America’s most celebrated authors, and no state more so than Mississippi. Names as diverse as Faulkner, Welty, and Ward have created a literary legacy spanning decades and stretching across lines of class, gender, and race. One thing binds together these wide- ranging perspectives—the land itself. In A Place Like Mississippi, W. Ralph Eubanks explores those ties and the ways in which the Magnolia State has fostered such a bounty of expression. The stories haven’t always been easy to tell; even beautiful landscapes can’t obscure a complicated history. The state’s African American writers have long recounted the fight for equality, forming a lineage of powerful Black voices that continue to speak with urgency in our tumultuous times. Yet underlying those truths is also a deep affection for Mississippi’s places. With the love of a native son, Eubanks pays tribute to the inspiration that can come from the lay of the land, proving that a journey through one state’s literary terrain can help us better understand America as a whole.

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  The Invention of Tomorrow - A...

  Thomas Suddendorf, Jonathan...

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  A spellbinding exploration of the human capacity to imagine the future  
   
  Our ability to think about the future is one of the most powerful tools at our disposal. In The Invention of Tomorrow, cognitive scientists Thomas Suddendorf, Jonathan Redshaw, and Adam Bulley argue that its emergence transformed humans from unremarkable primates to creatures that hold the destiny of the planet in their hands.  
   
  Drawing on their own cutting-edge research, the authors break down the science of foresight, showing us where it comes from, how it works, and how it made our world. Journeying through biology, psychology, history, and culture, they show that thinking ahead is at the heart of human nature—even if we often get it terribly wrong. Incisive and expansive, The Invention of Tomorrow offers a fresh perspective on the human tale that shows how our species clawed its way to control the future.

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  Wipe the Hummus - A tourist's...

  Yuval Kali

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
  Discover the rich mosaic of Israel through intimate cultural insights, exploring the tight-knit fabric of a nation carved by history and modern vibrancy. In this vivid narrative, witness how familial ties, military camaraderie, and a melting pot of traditions shape the unyielding Israeli spirit. From bustling markets to the sacred calm of Shabbat, Israel's essence is captured in its people's frankness, resilience, and warmth. A tribute to a land of contrasts, where ancient echoes meet contemporary zeal, inviting readers to experience the profound soul of Israel.

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