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  Love Sexuality and Matriarchy -...

  Erich Fromm

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  "[A] fascinating collection of essays" on the complicated relations between men and women from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Art of Loving (The New York Times Book Review). 
   
   
    
  The renowned social psychologist delves deep into the fraught relationship between genders, drawing upon the influential insights of Bachofen, Freud, Marx, and Briffault. Not primarily interested in the existence of anatomical and biological differences between the sexes, Fromm instead analyzes how these differences have been made use of throughout human history. Drawing from Bachofen's Mother Right, Fromm expounds on how matriarchal and patriarchal social structures determine relations between the sexes in essential ways, and how they are shaped by the dominant orientation of the social character at any given time. He posits that the most important question concerning gender relations is which characterological orientation determines human relationships: love or hate, love of life or fascination with force. Thus, it will not be gender conflict that will determine humanity's future but whether we opt for love of life or love of death.

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  Sparta: An Enthralling Overview...

  Enthralling History

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  Almost everyone has heard of the famous three hundred Spartan soldiers who stood against the Persians at Thermopylae. But did you know that Sparta was home to two kings? Or that their women had more freedom than the women of Athens?  
  The beautiful history of classical Sparta has been in the spotlight for some time now. Sometimes, it feels as if the details about this city-state are as vast as the Aegean! Before now, what has stood between you and an incredible, informative journey into Spartan antiquity were several boring pages of ambiguity. 
  If you’ve found this audiobook, then you have found everything you need to know about ancient Sparta! You will find yourself quickly pulled into vivid descriptions of the stories of Sparta. 
  In this audiobook, you will discover: 
  • The origin and foundations of ancient Sparta; 
  • The role of mythical divinity in the emergence of Sparta; 
  • Wars and conquests that helped shape Sparta’s foreign relations; 
  • The lives and times of the great kings and heroes of Sparta; 
  • The unique socio-political structure of classical and post-classical Sparta; 
  • The famous agoge and Sparta’s prestigious military; 
  • A typical day as a citizen or non-citizen living in ancient Sparta; 
  • And much, much more!

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  Negotiation: A Very Short...

  Carrie Menkel-Meadow

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  Everyone negotiates. Whenever any person, company, or country needs someone else to accomplish something, they must negotiate. Negotiation is essential for peace and international relations, but also for economically efficient trades and bargains in business, and for problem solving skills in workplaces, families, and interpersonal interactions.This Very Short Introduction provides a comprehensive and accessible review of both conceptual and behavioral approaches to the human process of negotiation. Carrie Menkel-Meadow draws on research in constituent fields of human psychology, diplomacy, law, business, anthropology, game theory, decision making, international relations, sociology, public policy, and economics, suggesting models for creative problem solving to often intractable problems. Considering that most people are tense and frightened of what they perceive to be scarce resource confrontations with opponents and competitors, Menkel-Meadow offers different ways to plan for and approach others to solve human problems and seek solutions that satisfy both parties. Alongside this, Menkel-Meadow summarizes recent research on the variations of human behavior, providing vivid examples from history and current affairs to solve some of the most difficult problems.

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  Gratitude Now - Affirmations For...

  Cindy Boyce

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  Enjoy a life filled with peace and joy through the transformative power of gratitude. This audiobook is a collection of soothing and uplifting affirmations to guide you through a meditation experience designed to align your thoughts with appreciation, abundance, joy and serenity. Attract abundance, love and success with gratitude energy and create a deep sense of inner peace. Your path to joy begins with appreciation, start your gratitude journey for inner peace today.

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  Peter the Great

  Kelly Mass

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  From May the 7th, in 1682 till his death in 1725, Peter the Great or Pyotr Alekséyevich governed the Tsardom of Russia and ultimately the Russian Empire, collectively ruling before 1696 with his older half-brother, Ivan V.He got ports on the Azov and Baltic Seas through a series of triumphant disputes, creating the structure for the Imperial Russian Navy, ending undisputed Swedish control in the Baltic, and launching the Tsardom's development into a much larger empire that would end up being a major European force. He was the leader of a cultural revolution that saw some standard and middle ages social and political structures changed with modern-day, clinical, Westernized, and Enlightenment-based systems. Peter's reforms had a long-lasting effect on Russia, and tons of the Russian federal government's organizations can be traced back to his reign. In 1721, he changed the former title of Tsar with the title of Emperor, and he created and broadened the city of Saint Petersburg, which stayed Russia's capital till 1917.Peter the Great has had a significance influence on the structure of Russia, the history, and the future in the succeeding decades after him. Let’s see what else he did while he was alive.

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  Cheek by Jowl - Talks & Essays...

  Ursula K. Le Guin

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  Winner of a 2009 Locus Award 
    
  "The monstrous homogenization of our world has now almost destroyed the map, any map, by making every place on it exactly like every other place, and leaving no blanks. … As in the Mandelbrot fractal set, the enormously large and the infinitesimally small are exactly the same, and the same leads always to the same again; there is no other; there is no escape, because there is nowhere else. 
    
  In reinventing the world of intense, unreproducible, local knowledge, seemingly by a denial or evasion of current reality, fantasists are perhaps trying to assert and explore a larger reality than we now allow ourselves. They are trying to restore the sense—to regain the knowledge—that there is somewhere else, anywhere else, where other people may live another kind of life. 
    
  The literature of imagination, even when tragic, is reassuring, not necessarily in the sense of offering nostalgic comfort, but because it offers a world large enough to contain alternatives and therefore offers hope."—from Cheek by Jowl 
    
  In these essays, Le Guin argues passionately that the homogenization of our world makes the work of fantasy essential for helping us break through what she calls "the reality trap." Le Guin writes not only of the pleasures of her own childhood reading, but also about what fantasy means for all of us living in the global twenty-first century.  
    
  "This compact collection will stoke readers' affection and appreciation for fantasy by highlighting important but overlooked qualities in many familiar tales (such as the duplicity at work in Lewis Carroll) that prove its lasting value as literature."—Publishers Weekly

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