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  The Death of Critical Thinking...

  Owen Blackwood

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.  
  Examine the systematic decline of critical thinking capacity in modern society and understand how educational, technological, and cultural factors combine to produce populations unable to reason effectively. This alarming audiobook documents the measurable deterioration of logical reasoning, evidence evaluation, and independent analysis that research confirms while institutions ignore or contribute to this decline. Learn how education systems abandoned critical thinking development in favor of standardized testing and ideological conformity that produces credentials without competence. The narrator reveals how media environments reward emotional reaction over rational analysis while algorithmic content selection creates filter bubbles where challenging ideas never penetrate. Discover how political polarization exploits critical thinking deficits, using tribal loyalty to override logical evaluation of claims that would otherwise be rejected immediately. Understand the economic interests served by populations unable to analyze manipulation, evaluate evidence, or think beyond provided frameworks. This audiobook examines what critical thinking actually involves, why it proves difficult to develop, and how modern conditions specifically undermine its cultivation. Learn practical strategies for developing and maintaining critical faculties in environments hostile to independent thought. Essential listening for educators, parents, citizens, and anyone alarmed by deteriorating discourse quality seeking to understand causes beyond individual failure or partisan blame.

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  My Music Man

  Dede Montgomery

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  As Dede Montgomery moves through grief to accept the death of her father, the stories in My Music Man shed light on change, acceptance, and forgiveness amid close personal relationships and Oregon’s natural landscapes.The reader is catapulted into autumn on the Willamette’s riverbank in the 1960s with the author and her brothers, where they discover their father’s own childhood stories and the intimate relationship he shares with the land. Tales about seven generations of family weave between time periods, held together by the constancy of place and colored by memories of picking berries and filberts, traveling through the West Linn locks, and swimming in the river on a hot summer day. Montgomery describes small-town life in a school where everyone knows everybody, and how it felt to be an only girl in what often felt like a never-ending sea of boys. Chapters depict stories about place, seasons, gender, relationships and recovery. This book is to be savored. Yet it's much more than a memoir - it's a multi-generational story, lovingly told, of a family deeply tied to Oregon's history. Additional written information such as photographs, family tree and references may be found on the author's website at https://dedemontgomery.com (My Music Man: Audio Book Supplement).

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  The Crow’s Collection Anthology...

  Books Crossed Crow

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  A Voyage Through the World’s Magical PracticesLandscapes influence our cultural practices as much as the people who create them, and magic is no stranger to this effect. Magic is omnipresent in our world, but many people who practice don’t call it “magic.” Thanks to stigmatization, disavowal, and punishment for magical work, as well as christo-colonialism, many non-Wiccan or Pagan practices have gone unseen in the contemporary occult community. Crossed Crow Books’ first-ever anthology, The Crow’s Collection of World Magic, collects ten essays by writers and practitioners around the world about their magical practices, histories, and communities. This anthology sheds light on lively, underrepresented traditions and embraces the diversity of the magical world. Explore Kenneth Johnson’s initiation into Indigenous Mayan traditions, study Finnish runes with the tietӓjӓ and Aili Marjatta Kerttula, and learn how cabildo communities in Afro-Diasporic Cuba drew Lukumí from Yoruban practice with Oracle Hekataios. Enrich your understanding of the magical world around us through the land, history, and practitioners who have come from all walks of life before us.Authors and topics include:Kenneth Johnson: experiences in indigenous Mayan community, initiation into priesthood, and fire ritual.Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold: An overview of Macumba.Oracle Hekataios: History of and personal experiences with Lukumi.Aili Marjatta Kerttula: Finnish magic with a focus on history, saunas, and house spirits.Rain Al-Alim: Translation of Kitāb al-Aḥjār, a piece of astrology-heavy Islamic writing on using talismans in magical stones.Katerina Sarpione: Balkan magic, with a focus on Bulgarian, including folklore, roles of healer and magician, and ways to apply to contemporary practiceFrankie Castanea: Dual faith practice in Italian-American folk magic and folk CatholicismLaura Davila: An overview of Brujeria Mexicana.Brandon Weston: Spirits, fairies, and the otherworld in Ozark folk magicP. Sufenas Virius Lupus: Medieval Irish texts and using research responsibly.

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  The Saboteur - The Aristocrat...

  Paul Kix

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  In the tradition of Agent Zigzag comes this breathtaking biography, as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the very best spy thrillers, which illuminates an unsung hero of the French Resistance during World War II—Robert de La Rochefoucald, an aristocrat turned anti-Nazi saboteur—and his daring exploits as a résistant trained by Britain’s Special Operations Executive. 
  A scion of one of the most storied families in France, Robert de La Rochefoucald was raised in magnificent chateaux and educated in Europe's finest schools. When the Nazis invaded and imprisoned his father, La Rochefoucald escaped to England and learned the dark arts of anarchy and combat—cracking safes and planting bombs and killing with his bare hands—from the officers of Special Operations Executive, the collection of British spies, beloved by Winston Churchill, who altered the war in Europe with tactics that earned it notoriety as the “Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.” With his newfound skills, La Rochefoucauld returned to France and organized Resistance cells, blew up fortified compounds and munitions factories, interfered with Germans’ war-time missions, and executed Nazi officers. Caught by the Germans, La Rochefoucald withstood months of torture without cracking, and escaped his own death, not once but twice. 
  The Saboteur recounts La Rochefoucauld’s enthralling adventures, from jumping from a moving truck on his way to his execution to stealing Nazi limos to dressing up in a nun’s habit—one of his many disguises and impersonations. Whatever the mission, whatever the dire circumstance, La Rochefoucauld acquitted himself nobly, with the straight-back aplomb of a man of aristocratic breeding: James Bond before Ian Fleming conjured him. 
  More than just a fast-paced, true thriller, The Saboteur is also a deep dive into an endlessly fascinating historical moment, telling the untold story of a network of commandos that battled evil, bravely worked to change the course of history, and inspired the creation of America’s own Central Intelligence Agency.

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  Your Kid Belongs Here - An...

  Katie Rose Guest Pryal

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  Your Kid Belongs Here is a heartfelt, practical guide to parenting children in a world not designed for them—or their parents. Combining personal stories, research, and helpful strategies, Katie Rose Guest Pryal shares her journey as a neurodivergent mother raising neurodivergent children and offers a powerful narrative of advocacy, empathy, and resilience. 
   
   
   
  With a focus on building trust, fostering self-advocacy, and embracing neurodiversity, this guide: 
   
   
   
  ● Offers strategies for supporting emotional regulation and managing children's meltdowns, anxiety, and other emotional challenges. 
   
   
   
  ● Guides parents on navigating schools and advocating for their child's rights in educational settings. 
   
   
   
  ● Encourages parents to support and engage with their children's special interests and passions as a pathway to growth and confidence. 
   
   
   
  ● Highlights the importance of parents' self-care and well-being, with practical tips for managing stress and maintaining resilience. 
   
   
   
  An empowering, empathetic resource for parents, educators, and advocates, this guide invites listeners to reimagine how inclusive and supportive parenting can contribute to a more compassionate world.

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  How We Can Win - Race History...

  Kimberly Jones

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  A breakdown of the economic and social injustices facing Black people and other marginalized citizens inspired by political activist Kimberly Jones' viral video, “How Can We Win.”“So if I played four hundred rounds of Monopoly with you and I had to play and give you every dime that I made, and then for fifty years, every time that I played, if you didn't like what I did, you got to burn it like they did in Tulsa and like they did in Rosewood, how can you win? How can you win?"When Kimberly Jones declared these words amid the protests spurred by the murder of George Floyd, she gave a history lesson that in just over six minutes captured the economic struggles of Black people in America. Within days the video had been viewed by millions of people around the world, riveted by Jones’s damning—and stunningly succinct—analysis of the enduring disparities Black Americans face.In How We Can Win, Jones delves into the impacts of systemic racism and reveals how her formative years in Chicago gave birth to a lifelong devotion to justice. Here, in a vital expansion of her declaration, she calls for Reconstruction 2.0, a multilayered plan to reclaim economic and social restitutions—those restitutions promised with emancipation but blocked, again and again, for more than 150 years. And, most of all, Jones delivers strategies for how we can effect change as citizens and allies while nurturing ourselves—the most valuable asset we have—in the fight against a system that is still rigged.A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company

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