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  Hamilton - The Energetic Founder

  R.B. Bernstein

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  Alexander Hamilton (1755–1804) was a key founding father—a politician, a constitutional thinker, and the nation’s first secretary of the treasury. He led the effort to write the brilliant defense and exposition of the Constitution, The Federalist, and later, as the nation’s first treasury  
  secretary, he pioneered efforts to interpret the Constitution broadly, as a source of executive and judicial power. 
   
  Finding his purpose in the American Revolution and in its sequel, the creation of the United States and its constitutional form of government, he sought to give the nation and its government the power and energy required to preserve the fruits of the Revolution and the nation’s  
  survival in a hostile world. In this concise, elegant, and scholarly overview of his life, thought, career, and legacies, acclaimed biographer R. B. Bernstein shows his life as a record of struggle, war, ambition, and of the practice of law, fierce politics, and good government. 
   
  A war hero, a brilliant lawyer, and a skilled and effective polemicist, Hamilton devoted his life and his career to the cause of American independence, the Union, and an effective general government. A perennial focus of controversy, a skilled and often ruthless political fighter, Hamilton  
  helped to define the emerging partisan politics of the new nation. He was a key player in the quarrels over what its constitution meant and what powers it gave the Union. A brilliant administrator and a shrewd and cogent economic theorist, he created the American government’s role in  
  the nation’s economic system and helped tosecure for the nation an effective and energetic general government. 
   
  Hamilton was also a principal exponent of political combat in defense of personal and political honor. As such, he was a tragic victim of the honor culture he did so much to establish as a component of national politics, dying as the result of a mortal wound he suffered in his 1804 duel with  
  Aaron Burr, his longtime antagonist.

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  A Sound So Very Loud - The...

  Ted Kessler, Hamish MacBain

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  There has never been a definitive, forensically detailed history of Oasis and their music; a book that takes listeners to the heart of the band's work and what lay behind it in the kind of deeply researched, knowledgeable detail that has been afforded The Beatles, perhaps most notably with Ian MacDonald's Revolution In the Head, which examined every Beatles song in chronological detail. The authors' intention is to write the book that satisfies the many millions of fans globally similarly obsessed with Oasis's music, but who currently only have scattered social media pages to turn to add depth to the story. Leading music journalists Hamish MacBain and Ted Kessler deliver the definitive, chronological history of the songs of Oasis that will appeal to fans old and new, in doing so, bringing the wider Oasis story into play in glorious color.The pair have interviewed both Gallaghers dozens of times between 1994 and 2024, and no other journalists can claim more—or more lively—encounters with Liam and Noel. The book will also revisit each interview in the first-person, chronologically throughout, to add unique perspective and texture to the wider story. MacBain and Kessle will also dissect sleeve-art with the designers and photographers, delving into each detail surrounding the band. This is a veritable Oasis treasure trove! 
   
  This audiobook includes an exclusive conversation between the authors not included in the print edition.

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  Nadja

  André Breton

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  In Paris, during the fall of 1926, André Breton met a young woman from the provinces who called herself Nadja because, she said, "in Russian it's the beginning of the word for hope, and because it's only the beginning." Their love affair was brief, intense, and intensely self-conscious. They both talked exuberantly of the book that Breton would make out of their days and nights. And indeed a year later (after Nadja was institutionalized and Breton had moved on to other love affairs) he began to write Nadja—a book of memory and analysis taking its cue in part from Freud's case studies, but also a book of ingeniously intercut images, drawing on Surrealist ideas to portray a soul whose very way of being approaches, in Breton's words, "the extreme limit of the Surrealist aspiration."In this, the first new translation of Nadja in more than sixty years, Mark Polizzotti captures the youthful excitement, the abiding strangeness, and above all the freshness of Breton's prose. He also provides an illuminating introduction about the fate of the real Nadja, whose identity remained jealously guarded until the twenty-first century. A gripping tale of infatuation and a meditation on the surrealism of everyday life, Nadja is still a thing of convulsive beauty, impossible to pin or put down, a precursor to works of Julien Gracq, Julio Cortázar, and W. G. Sebald.

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  Cosmic War Scrolls: Angels...

  Various Gnostic Writers

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  What if the archons of Gnostic myth were actual cosmic oppressors—alien or interdimensional entities enslaving humankind’s divine spark? 
  This collection spotlights Sethian Gnostic treatises like the Secret Book (Apocryphon) of John and Hypostasis of the Archons, reinterpreted through a futuristic lens. Updated for modern readers, these writings describe a false creator (Demiurge) and archons controlling reality. Could they point to advanced cosmic intelligences manipulating human destiny? Discover how Gnostic salvation demands awakening from the cosmic illusion. 
  Included Texts:Secret Book of John & Hypostasis of the Archons – Foundational Sethian cosmogony, detailing archonic oppression.On the Origin of the World – Epic retelling of creation’s primal error.Zostrianos & Allogenes – Astral journey texts guiding the soul beyond archonic realms.Authoritative Discourse & Marsanes – More insights on escaping the clutches of cosmic rulers. 
  What You’ll Discover Inside:Alien Overlord Hypothesis – A new perspective on archons’ controlling agendas.Inner Gnosis as Liberation – Personal enlightenment to transcend cosmic deception.Complex Heavenly Hierarchies – Aeons, eons, and the Pleroma bridging mortal and divine.Subversive Early Christianity – Why these ideas clashed with orthodox teachings. 
  Unveil a radical path that merges ancient Gnostic wisdom with contemporary notions of galactic conspiracies. Dare to question who truly rules our world.

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  The Evil I Have Seen - Memoirs...

  Robert Davidson, PJ Jones

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  “You cannot wash red dirt out of clothing, and you cannot unsee what you have seen.” Retired Detective Lt. Robbo Davidson grapples with ghosts of cases past, one victim or another looming in the blackness over his bed, denying him sleep. At last, Robbo resolves to lend voice to these ghosts conceding, “I think if I do not, the evil I have seen may never let me sleep.” 
  Set in DeSoto Parish between bayous and the Big Woods, 	The Evil I Have Seen was awarded the Gold Medal as Reader’s Favorite True Crime of 2022. 
  Detective Lt. Davidson and criminal justice reporter PJ Jones bring to life six murder cases from his four-decade career in Louisiana law enforcement. Readers call their work “fascinating and spellbinding.”

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  We Rise - Speeches by...

  Michelle Obama, Barbara Jordan,...

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  This rare compilation includes memorable speeches delivered by celebrated African American women from both the past and present. Spanning decades and elucidating the fight for equality, these speeches not only represent important moments of Black history but reveal the struggle from a female perspective. The live recordings in this captivating collection are preceded by a short biography that introduces each speaker. The speeches featured in this compilation:
  
  Mary McLeod Bethune: "What American Democracy Means to Me" (1939) Fannie Lou Hamer at the Democratic National Convention (1964) Shirley Chisholm: "The Black Woman in Contemporary America" (1974) Barbara Jordan: "Who Will Speak for the Common Good?" (1976) Rosa Parks at the Million Man March (1995) Condoleezza Rice at the Republican National Convention (2000) Cynthia McKinney: Green Party Presidential Nomination Speech (2008) Michelle Obama at the Democratic National Convention (2008)

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