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  Starting Your PhD: What you need...

  Dr Helen Kara

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  This concise e-book answers all the key questions people ask when they're considering, or beginning, doctoral study. Presented in an accessible question-and-answer format, and packed with facts, it is easy to read and to find your way around. Whether you've recently started your doctoral study, you're still wondering whether doctoral study is for you, or you are supporting someone else through the process, this fully updated second edition will help. It is full of useful information and guidance for the early stages of this exciting new adventure.

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  Food - Media - Senses -...

  Jens Ruchatz, Christina Bartz,...

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  Food is more than just nutrition. Its preparation, presentation and consumption is a multifold communicative practice which includes the meal's design and its whole field of experience. How is food represented in cookbooks, product packaging or in paintings? How is dining semantically charged? How is the sensuality of eating treated in different cultural contexts? In order to acknowledge the material and media-related aspects of eating as a cultural praxis, experts from media studies, art history, literary studies, philosophy, experimental psychology, anthropology, food studies, cultural studies and design studies share their specific approaches.

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  Ancient Iraq: A Captivating...

  Captivating History

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  The first transportation wheel, the first writing, the first law codes, and the first empires—the innovative ancient Iraqis transformed our world! 
  The “Cradle of Civilization” brought us the sixty-second minute, the sixty-minute hour, and the twelve-hour day and night. Their brilliant sages predicted solar and lunar eclipses and developed quadratic equations. 
  Ancient Iraq was undeniably a powerhouse of creativity and stunning achievements. Come explore how the Akkadian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Persian, and Greek empires surged to the top, only to crash and burn. This engaging audiobook will guide you through an incredible journey from the earliest civilizations to the fall of the Sassanian Empire in 651 CE. 
  This audiobook will unpack the following questions and more!What was the world’s oldest city?How similar was Hammurabi’s Law Code to the Law of Moses?How many times was the god Marduk stolen from Babylon?What massive coalition crushed Assyria once and for all?How do today’s historians and astronomers use the ancient Chaldean eclipse records?What three Iranian dynasties ruled Iraq, beginning with Cyrus the Great?What were Alexander the Great’s plans for Babylon?How did the Antonine Plague interrupt Rome’s invasion of Iraq?What Sassanid emperor called on China for help against the Muslim Arabs? 
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  A Reading of the Inaugural...

  President John Adams

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  John Adams (October 30, 1735 - July 4, 1826), born in Braintree, Massachusetts, was an American Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Before his presidency, he was a leader of the American Revolution that achieved independence from Great Britain. During the latter part of the Revolutionary War and in the early years of the new nation, he served the U.S. government as a senior diplomat in Europe. Adams was the first person to hold the office of vice president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. The following is a reading of President Adams' inaugural address delivered on March 04, 1797.

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  45 Nordic Living Rules for ADHD...

  Matthew Bernard

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. You probably picked up this book because your life feels like it runs at the wrong volume. Every space you enter is a little too loud, a little too bright, or a little too demanding, and the world seems to expect a level of continuous performance that your nervous system was never designed to deliver. This book is a manual for designing your life the way Nordic cultures design their homes, with the nervous system as the first consideration and everything else as a distant second. The Nordic traditions of hygge, lagom, and friluftsliv are not decorative lifestyle trends. They are survival technologies refined over generations. 
   
  The Nordic countries built an entire culture around the management of scarcity. Their scarcest resource has never been money or time but tolerance for a hostile environment. When the sun disappears for months, when the cold makes errands dangerous, and when the landscape offers little comfort, survival requires the home become a sanctuary rather than a showroom. Once you see those traditions through this lens, they stop feeling like self-care and start feeling like infrastructure. What you need is not more discipline but a different kind of design, one that protects your energy instead of extracting it. 
   
  Inside, you'll discover: 
  • Why the nervous system must come first in every decision 
  • How to design for your hardest day, not your best day 
  • The bright morning light rule that sets your daily rhythm 
  • How to protect quiet and use sound as a boundary tool 
  • The 5-senses reset that interrupts sensory overload 
  • How to build the daily walk and time outdoors into your routine 
  • The digital boundaries that protect your attention and sleep 
   
  This book is written for adults with ADHD or autism, for those who suspect they are neurodivergent, and for anyone whose sensory system runs hot.

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  A Plea For Captain John Brown

  Henry David Thoreau

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  One of the most powerful defenses of conscience, courage, and moral conviction ever written. 
   
  In A Plea for Captain John Brown, Henry David Thoreau delivers a passionate and uncompromising response to one of the most controversial events in American history. Written after John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, this remarkable speech challenges listeners to consider the relationship between justice, law, morality, and individual action. 
   
  With eloquence and conviction, Thoreau argues that moral courage often requires standing against popular opinion and unjust institutions. More than a historical document, this work remains a powerful reflection on civil disobedience, freedom, human rights, and the responsibilities of conscience. 
   
  Thoughtfully narrated by Gid Newell, this audiobook brings renewed life to one of the most influential political and philosophical addresses of the nineteenth century.

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