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  Black Country Music - Listening...

  Francesca Royster

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  Black Country Music tells the story of how Black musicians have changed the country music landscape and brought light to Black creativity and innovation. 
  After a century of racist whitewashing, country music is finally reckoning with its relationship to Black people. In this timely work—the first book on Black country music by a Black writer—Francesca Royster uncovers the Black performers and fans, including herself, who are exploring the pleasures and possibilities of the genre. 
   
  Informed by queer theory and Black feminist scholarship, Royster’s book elucidates the roots of the current moment found in records like Tina Turner’s first solo album, Tina Turns the Country On! She reckons with Black “bros” Charley Pride and Darius Rucker, then chases ghosts into the future with Valerie June. Indeed, it is the imagination of Royster and her artists that make this music so exciting for a genre that has long been obsessed with the past. The futures conjured by June and others can be melancholy, and are not free of racism, but by centering Black folk Royster begins to understand what her daughter hears in the banjo music of Our Native Daughters and the trap beat of Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road.” A Black person claiming country music may still feel a bit like a queer person coming out, but, collectively, Black artists and fans are changing what country music looks and sounds like—and who gets to love it.

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  Traitor's Odyssey - The Untold...

  Brendan McNally

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  'A delicious, gossipy and thoroughly engaging romp ... heartily recommended.' Tim Tate, author of Hitler's British Traitors and The Spy Who Was Left Out in the Cold
  'A captivating page-turner ...' Helen Fry, author of Women in Intelligence
  
  
  Ambassador's daughter, Nazi love interest, Soviet spy, FBI most wanted.
  
  Accompanying her parents to Berlin in the 1930s, Martha Dodd knew almost nothing about Adolf Hitler or the Nazis. Yet almost overnight, she stepped into the spotlight, and found herself at the over-heated centre of Hitler's 'New Germany', befriending and dating several high-ranking Nazis, including the head of the Gestapo.
  
  An affair with a dashing Russian diplomat saw her recruited as a spy, and so began a long and tumultuous career in both Berlin and America, including attempts to infiltrate First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt's inner circle and playing a key role in Henry Wallace's disastrous 1948 presidential campaign.
  
  Betrayed by a Hollywood-hustler-turned-double-agent, Martha spent years under deep FBI surveillance - escaping twice - and went to ground in Cold War Prague, sad, lonely, rich and bored, living out her final decades in a Communist Sunset Boulevard.
  
  Largely forgotten, Martha Dodd began to emerge as an iconic historical figure in the early 2000s. While her scandalous behaviour and pro-Soviet leanings were never much in dispute, the actual matter of her guilt remained unresolved. Now, using recently released KGB archived information and FBI files, author and journalist Brendan McNally sets the record straight in Traitor's Odyssey, telling the full epic tale of Martha Dodd's life for the first time, casting her in a new and bright light.

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  Psychology 2e - (OpenStax Audio...

  Rose M. Spielman, William J....

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.  
  The OpenStax Psychology 2e audio textbook is produced by Audileo, an official OpenStax Technology Partner. The audiobook recording has been created from the October 2024 web version of Psychology 2e by OpenStax. 
  Psychology 2e is designed to meet scope and sequence requirements for the single-semester introduction to psychology course. The book offers a comprehensive treatment of core concepts, grounded in both classic studies and current and emerging research. Psychology incorporates discussions that reflect the diversity within the discipline, as well as the diversity of cultures and communities across the globe. 
  The second edition contains detailed updates to address comments and suggestions from users. Significant improvements and additions were made in the areas of research currency, diversity, and representation, and the relevance and recency of the examples. Many concepts were expanded or clarified, particularly through the judicious addition of detail and further explanation where necessary. Finally, the authors addressed the replication issues in the psychology discipline, both in the research chapter and where appropriate throughout the book. 
  The audio version of Psychology 2e by OpenStax was produced by https://audileo.com. You can access the textbook as a PDF for free at openstax.org. This is an open educational resource (OER) textbook for university and college students. Textbook content produced by OpenStax is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, copyright Rice University. Minor editorial changes were made to ensure a better listening experience. Go to https://audileo.com/openstax-psychology-2e-audiobook/ for the latest updates.

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  Why Diets Don't Work for You

  Elena Cross

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.  
  Understand the science explaining why caloric restriction diets fail long-term for the vast majority of people and why the weight loss industry profits from this predictable failure. This liberating audiobook presents research documenting how dieting triggers biological responses ensuring weight regain while creating psychological patterns that worsen eating behaviors. Learn why willpower cannot overcome metabolic adaptation, hormonal changes, and neurological restructuring that dieting initiates as your body defends against perceived starvation. The narrator reveals how diet industry marketing creates false expectations, blames individuals for biological inevitabilities, and profits from repeat customers guaranteed by their products fundamental ineffectiveness. Discover the psychological damage caused by repeated diet failure including disordered eating, body shame, and metabolic harm that makes subsequent weight management even more difficult. Understand set point theory, metabolic adaptation research, and why lasting weight loss may require completely different approaches than caloric restriction. This audiobook examines what actually influences body composition, why health and weight are not as connected as assumed, and how the pursuit of thinness often damages health it supposedly serves. Learn alternative frameworks for health and wellbeing that do not depend on fighting biological imperatives destined to win. Perfect for anyone exhausted by diet cycling, recovering from eating disorders, or seeking evidence-based understanding of weight, health, and the industry that profits from your struggles.

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  Self Reliance - Adapted for the...

  James Harris, Ralph Waldo Emerson

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  SELF RELIANCE is an essay written in 1841 by Ralph Waldo Emerson. 
  ★ It contains the most thorough statement of one of Emerson's recurrent themes: the need for each individual to avoid conformity and false consistency, and follow his own instincts and ideas. 
  ★ This essay is an analysis into the nature of the aboriginal self on which a universal reliance may be grounded. 
  ★ Emerson emphasises the importance of individualism and its effect on an individual's satisfaction in life. He stresses that anyone is capable of achieving happiness, simply if they change their mindset. 
  ★ Emerson focuses on seemingly insignificant details explaining how life is "learning and forgetting and learning again". 
  ★ This book has been carefully adapted in to Modern English to allow for easy reading. ✓ 
  ENJOY ♥

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  The Dokkōdō - The Way of Walking...

  Miyamoto Musashi

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  A testament to the way of solitude and simplicity, the 21 precepts of the Dokkōdō, also known as The Way of Walking Alone, is one of Musashi's principal legacies. Inspired by his life of combat and the bushido code, Miyamoto Musashi wrote the Dokkōdō in Japan in 1645, to pass on his wisdom and philosophy of life before he died. In the short text, the master duelist shares 21 precepts for healthy living. They are influenced by principles akin to Stoicism. Even today, these universal lessons can be useful for leading an honest and happy life. 
  Among the main themes he addresses in the Dokkōdō, Miyamoto Musashi stresses the importance of simplicity, discipline and detachment. He suggests forgetting material desires and distractions and concentrating on the essential. He advocates not only material simplicity, but also mental, spiritual simplicity; purity of thought. In his vision, mental clarity enables deeper self-mastery.

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