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  White Nights - A Poignant Tale...

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Tim Zengerink

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  What if one summer night could change your heart forever? 
  Set in the pale glow of St. Petersburg’s “white nights,” this touching short novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky explores the tender connection between a lonely dreamer and a heartbroken young woman.  
  White Nights captures the raw honesty of two souls who share their inner worlds, only to find that love, like twilight, doesn’t always last. 
  What you'll discover inside: 
  - A Poignant Story of Longing and Connection – A shy man’s fleeting romance with a woman still bound to another 
  - An Emotional Exploration of Urban Solitude – Intimate reflections on being invisible in a bustling world 
  - One of Dostoevsky’s Most Romantic Works – A short novel that shows his rarely seen sentimental side 
  - A Clear, Contemporary Translation – Faithfully adapted for the modern listener while retaining the original beauty 
  Whether you're a lover of literary romance or seeking a moving meditation on love and loneliness, White Nights is a gentle masterpiece that will linger in your heart long after the final line. 
  Start listening and let the dream begin.

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  Planta Sapiens - The New Science...

  Paco Calvo, Natalie Lawrence

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  An astonishing window into the inner world of plants, and the cutting-edge science in plant intelligence. 
   
   
   
  Decades of research document plants' impressive abilities: they communicate with one another, manipulate other species, and move in sophisticated ways. Lesser known, however, is the new evidence that plants may actually be sentient. Although plants may not have brains, their microscopic commerce exposes a system not unlike the neuronal networks running through our own bodies. They can learn and remember, possessing an intelligence that allows them to behave in adaptive, flexible, anticipatory, and goal-directed ways. 
   
   
   
  A leading figure in the philosophy of plant signaling and behavior, Paco Calvo offers an entirely new perspective on plant biology. In Planta Sapiens, he shows for the first time how we can use tools developed in animal cognition studies in a quest to deeply understand plant intelligence. He illuminates how plants inspire technological advancements: from robotics and AI to tackling the ecological crisis. Most importantly, he demonstrates that plants are neither objects nor resources; they are agents in themselves, and for themselves.

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  The US Congress - A Very Short...

  Donald A. Ritchie

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  Donald A. Ritchie, a congressional historian for forty years, takes listeners on a fascinating, behind-the-scenes tour of Capitol Hill, pointing out the key players, explaining their behavior, and translating parliamentary language into plain English. He also explores the essential necessity of compromise to accomplish anything significant in the legislative arena. However, recent events show that political polarization has hardened and produced gridlock. The 2020 election also produced a more diverse membership in terms of gender, ethnicity, religion, and ideology, with primary elections resulting in the defeat of moderate candidates, making bipartisan compromise harder to achieve. 
   
   
   
  Among the most significant events, the Senate ignored President Obama's last nomination to the Supreme Court and then adopted a "nuclear option" to streamline future Supreme Court confirmations. The House also twice impeached President Trump, processes that starkly expose the differences between the majority-rule requirements of the House and the super-majority requirements of the Senate. This new edition explains how the parties have changed in light of the unprecedented politics of the past four years, culminating in the mob attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, and how this development has affected both the House and the Senate.

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  Bought & Sold - Scotland Jamaica...

  Kate Phillips

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  This book traces the story of how and why thousands of Scots made money from buying and selling humans… a story we need to own. We need to admit that many Scots were enthusiastic participants in slavery.
  Union with England gave Scotland access to both trade and settlement in Jamaica, Britain's richest colony and its major slave trading hub. Tens of thousands from Scotland lived and worked there. The abolition campaign and slave revolts threatened Scottish plantation owners, merchants, traders, bankers and insurance brokers who made their fortunes from slave-farmed sugar in Jamaica and fought hard to preserve the system of slavery. Archives and parliamentary papers in both countries reveal these transatlantic Scots in their own words and allow us to access the lives of their captives. 
  Scotland and Jamaica were closely entwined for over one hundred years. Bought & Sold traces this shared story from its early beginnings in the 1700s to the abolition of slavery in the British Empire and reflects on the meaning of those years for both nations today.

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  Unwritten Argument The: Jo &...

  Niina Niskanen

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  The Little Women Podcast – Jo & Friedrich’s Argument & Louisa May Alcott’s Real-Life Inspiration 
  In this episode, we explore the dramatic argument between Jo and Friedrich in the film adaptations of Little Women—a scene that never happens in the book. Instead, Friedrich is the one who encourages Jo to find her own voice as a writer. We also dive into Louisa May Alcott’s real-life experiences with the Weekly Volcano and her struggles with magazine editors, mirroring Jo’s journey in the novel. 
  Join us as we uncover the fascinating connections between Alcott’s life and her beloved characters! While the movies add tension, the novel portrays Friedrich as Jo’s guiding force, helping her discover her true literary voice. 
  We also explore Louisa May Alcott’s real-life struggles with writing sensationalist fiction, her frustrations with the Weekly Volcano, and her own battles with editorial demands. How did Alcott’s personal experiences shape Jo’s journey? Tune in to find out!

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  Identity and Violence - The...

  Amartya Sen

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  "One of the few world intellectuals on whom we may rely to make sense out of our existential confusion." —Nadine Gordimer 
   
   
   
  In this sweeping philosophical work, Amartya Sen proposes that the murderous violence that has riven our society is driven as much by confusion as by inescapable hatred. Challenging the reductionist division of people by race, religion, and class, Sen presents an inspiring vision of a world that can be made to move toward peace as firmly as it has spiraled in recent years toward brutality and war.

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