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  Rembrandt: A short biography - 5...

  5 Minutes, 5 Minute Biographies,...

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  Rembrandt, painting genius: Life and works in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best!

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  Gather - Black Food Nourishment...

  Ashanté M. Reese

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  A vibrant new vision of food justice that celebrates Black food and recognizes the power of gathering to create sustainable, systemic change. 
   
  How can we create a world where everyone has enough? We can start by focusing less on lack and more on abundance. 
   
  In Gather, anthropologist Ashanté M. Reese argues for a new vision of food justice that centers the resilience of Black communities and argues that community nourishment deserves as much consideration as individual health. Highlighting four spaces of gathering―gardens, family reunions, repasts, and protests ―Reese offers rich, on–the–ground studies of the places and people who make up the food justice movement. From Black church networks and community farms to student protests, these studies illuminate ways we can challenge structures of power and nourish ourselves, body and soul. In a world of social isolation and unequal food systems, Gather offers a compelling argument for the beauty and political power of togetherness.

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  How to Be Alone

  Olivia Werner

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  [How to Be Alone] is a mesmerizing exploration of solitude that unravels the intricate tapestry of human aloneness with raw honesty and lyrical precision. Through crystalline prose that cuts straight to the marrow of modern isolation, this groundbreaking work illuminates the distinction between loneliness and solitude, revealing how the art of being alone is not merely an absence of others, but a presence unto itself. With unflinching insight into the way silence speaks in its own language and time moves at its own pace when we're truly by ourselves, the book transforms our understanding of solitary moments from something to be feared into something to be embraced. Like an intimate conversation held in the quiet hours of dawn, it guides readers through the subtle geography of solo existence, offering both practical wisdom and philosophical depth that resonates with startling clarity in our hyperconnected age.

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  Forgotten Landscapes - How...

  Stanley A. Rice

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  North America was not empty nor were its inhabitants savages when Europeans arrived in 1492. Quite the opposite, North America was thickly populated by indigenous people who lived in clean cities, had a thriving economy, and transformed the landscape into bountiful productivity. Forgotten Landscapes reveals the incredible extent to which Native Americans manipulated and shaped their surrounding environs through agricultural practices and urban engineering, resulting in one of the most prosperous civilizations of their time.Well before European contact, North American cities and villages were bound together by an intricate trade network. Today, Spiro Mound in rural Oklahoma is a few piles of dirt, not on the road to anywhere. But at the time of the Mississippian civilization, about a thousand years ago, it was one of the largest cities in the world. With the controlled use of fire, Native Americans had transformed thick forests into open woodlands and expanded the ranges of prairies. Through organized hunting, Natives controlled the populations of prey animals such as passenger pigeons, and when Native populations grew large enough, they developed agriculture including irrigated crops, and even orchards. In this fascinating and overdue book, author Stanley A. Rice shows his audience the Pre-Columbian landscape of America that has been largely forgotten.

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  The Writings of the Apostolic...

  Various Early Christian Writers,...

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  What if the Church’s first generation after the apostles had left behind spiritual blueprints for us today? 
  The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers delivers a compelling collection of texts from Christianity’s earliest leaders—modernized for today’s listener.  
  These voices bridge the gap between Scripture and the Church’s rise, preserving firsthand wisdom, doctrine, and devotion from those who knew the apostles or followed them directly. 
  What you’ll discover inside: 
  •	1 & 2 Clement – Deep calls for humility, forgiveness, and church unity 
  •	Seven Epistles of Ignatius – Fierce, intimate letters defending Jesus’s divinity and the authority of the bishop 
  •	The Didache – Practical instructions on baptism, fasting, prayer, and Eucharist from one of the oldest Christian handbooks 
  •	Epistle of Barnabas – Early theological exploration of Old Testament symbolism and Christian identity 
  •	Polycarp’s Letters & Martyrdom Account – Stories of devotion, courage, and sacrifice from a disciple of John 
  •	The Shepherd of Hermas – Visionary allegories on repentance, angels, and end-time preparation 
  Whether you’re seeking the lost voices of the early Church or inspiration for your spiritual life, this audiobook opens a portal to ancient truth. 
  Let the voices of the Apostolic Fathers guide you back to the faith’s first foundation.

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  Only Three Votes - The Battle...

  Gwynoro Jones, Alun Gibbard

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  "These were events which prefigured and did much to shape the political battles of the last half century, the devolution half century in Wales. They shaped the non-nationalist, but distinctive Welsh social democratic preferences of the last sixty years. For anyone interested in the formative moments of today's Wales, this is both essential and highly entertaining reading." – Mark Drakeford, First Minister of Wales 2018-2024
  It was a period of Welsh politics that has become etched in the collective memory. The rise of a Welsh independence movement and the first Plaid Cymru Member of Parliament. The Labour Party searching for a way forward in a political climate that was riven with dissension and eventual rancour. It was a fight for social democracy against the centralised power of the British state.
  The first battlefield was Carmarthen and the protagonists were Gwynfor Evans, the leader of Plaid Cymru and the young Labour hopeful Gwynoro Jones. Their rivalry lasted throughout the Seventies. They fought three elections and on one occasion the result was decided by just three votes.
  This book tells the story of a political rivalry which was also very personal. It was a local confrontation that drew on national battlelines. It was about Carmarthen and Wales. Both men had their vision of the Wales they wanted to fight for. These pages unfold the story from Gwynoro Jones' perspective for the first time, in an attempt to redress the imbalance of Gwynfor Evans' story dominating the narrative for so long.
  Drawing on an extensive archive, collected at the time, Gwynoro shows how the two fought their politics in the newspapers of the day and through speeches on constituency public platforms, where they argue about the Welsh language and devolution, Europe and agriculture. But they only ever actually met once. Gwynoro also reflects on how he views those turbulent years today.
  Through their wranglings, a picture is also painted of Welsh politics in the decade that led up to the referendum on devolution in 1979, as Plaid and Labour searched for a way forward. And ultimately, a generation later, to the creation of a parliament for Wales.

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