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  Pragmatism

  John R. Shook

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  A concise, accessible overview of pragmatism, the most influential school of American philosophical thought. 
   
   
   
  Pragmatism, America's homegrown philosophy, has been a major intellectual movement for over a century. Unlike its rivals, it reaches well beyond the confines of philosophy into concerns and disciplines as diverse as religion, politics, science, and culture. In this concise, engagingly written overview, John R. Shook describes pragmatism's origins, concepts, and continuing global relevance and appeal. With attention to the movement's original thinkers—Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, John Dewey, and George Herbert Mead—as well as its contemporary proponents, he explains how pragmatism thinks about what is real, what can be known, and what minds are doing. And because of pragmatism's far-reaching impact, Shook shows how its views on reality, truth, knowledge, and cognition coordinate with its approaches to agency, sociality, human nature, and personhood.

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  Defiled by the Bodybuilder (Gay...

  Archer Vale

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  Locking yourself into chastity for a straight man…there’s no greater sign of devotion. 
  My parents have always been ashamed of me…and now I understand why. 
  When I’m around straight men, I feel so weak. An amateur bodybuilder offered to help me get in shape, but his training program is only making me worse. 
  I put on a chastity cage for him. I broke up with my loving boyfriend. My life is transforming. 
  He wants to dip into my trust fund. He wants to take everything from me. 
  And it’s starting to feel so good… 
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  CONTAINS EXPLICIT GAY SEXUAL CONTENT. 
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  Crusading against the Ottomans:...

  Editors Charles River

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  In terms of geopolitics, perhaps the most seminal event of the Middle Ages was the successful Ottoman siege of Constantinople in 1453. The city had been an imperial capital as far back as the 4th century, when Constantine the Great shifted the power center of the Roman Empire there, effectively establishing two almost equally powerful halves of antiquity’s greatest empire. Constantinople would continue to serve as the capital of the Byzantine Empire even after the Western half of the Roman Empire collapsed in the late 5th century. Naturally, the Ottoman Empire would also use Constantinople as the capital of its empire after their conquest effectively ended the Byzantine Empire, and thanks to its strategic location, it has been a trading center for years and remains one today under the Turkish name of Istanbul. 
  Naturally, the Byzantines and Europeans didn’t take the Ottoman incursions laying down, and in the generations before the Ottoman victory at Constantinople, European alliances frequently tried to check Ottoman advances, couching their campaigns in the terms of crusading. One of them came near the end of the 14th century, and it presaged what was to come in the 15th century. 
  The Ottoman campaigns of the 14th century would provide the context for the events that led to the Battle of Nicopolis. One of the last major crusades was launched in 1396 by Pope Boniface IX, and the timing was perfect for the European kingdoms to unite and form a strong threat to the Ottomans. The 100-year war between France and England was in a state of truce, and King Richard II had just married Princess Isabella of France. Thus, both the English and the Franks would be able to send forces to join in a crusade, and so would Hungary, Bulgaria, Venice, Genoa, Croatia, Wallachia, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Knights Hospitaller.

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  I Have Lied and You Call Me a...

  Vusimzi Ishmael Faku

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  What if the lie wasn’t born from deception—but from pressure? 
  In I Have Lied, and You Call Me a Liar, Vusimzi Ishmael Faku confronts an uncomfortable truth many avoid: not every lie is rooted in bad character. Sometimes lies are born from invasive questions, entitled curiosity, unsafe conversations, and the pressure to explain parts of your life that were never public property. 
  This thought-provoking audiobook explores how honesty becomes risky when people demand answers without offering respect, and how silence is too often mistaken for guilt. 
  Through sharp reflection and cultural insight, Faku challenges listeners to rethink boundaries, privacy, judgment, and the social pressure to explain oneself in a world that mistakes access for entitlement. 
  This is not a defence of lying. 
  It is a confrontation with entitlement. 
  If you have ever felt pressured to explain yourself, judged for protecting your privacy, or forced into conversations that crossed personal boundaries, this audiobook will challenge the way you think about truth, silence, and self-respect.

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  Dr Sebi’s Holistic Cancer Detox...

  Samuel Root

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  What if the path to wellness begins not with more intervention—but with less interference?
   
  
   
  When faced with a serious health challenge, the noise becomes deafening. Endless treatments, conflicting advice, fear-driven decisions that leave you feeling powerless in your own healing journey.
   
  
   
  It offers a different perspective—one rooted in the ancient wisdom that your body possesses remarkable intelligence when given the proper environment to thrive.
   
  This isn't about rejecting modern medicine or promising miracles. It's about understanding how cellular health, immune function, and systemic balance work together—and how natural approaches can support your body's innate capacity for renewal.
   
  
   
  Inside this comprehensive guide, you'll discover:
   
  - The foundational principles of alkaline living and cellular wellness
   
  - Herbal traditions used for centuries to support immune strength
   
  - Nutritional strategies that promote detoxification and vitality
   
  - How stress, emotions, and mindset influence physical health
   
  - Simple daily practices that create an environment for healing
   
  - Ways to support your body's natural defense mechanisms
   
  
   
  Whether you're navigating a diagnosis, supporting a loved one, or taking proactive steps toward optimal wellness, this book provides practical wisdom grounded in holistic principles.
   
  Your body's healing potential is greater than you may realize. Sometimes the most powerful medicine is giving it what it needs to do what it does best.
   
  
   
  Begin your journey toward balance and renewed vitality. Grab your copy today.

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  Making Kin: Ecofeminist Essays...

  Esther Vincent, Angelia Poon

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  Making Kin: Ecofeminist Essays from Singapore contemplates and re-centres Singapore women in the overlapping discourses of family, home, ecology and nation. For the first time, this collection of ecofeminist essays focuses on the crafts, minds, bodies and subjectivities of a diverse group of women making kin with the human and non-human world as they navigate their lives. 
   
   
  From ruminations on caregiving, to surreal interspecies encounters, to indigenous ways of knowing, these women writers chart a new path on the map of Singapore’s literary scene, writing urgently about gender, nature, climate change, reciprocity and other critical environmental issues. 
   
   
  In a climate-changed world where vital connections are lost, Making Kin is an essential collection that blurs boundaries between the personal and the political. It is a revolutionary approach towards intersectional environmentalism.

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