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  Light Work - Jack the Ripper and...

  Howard Jackson

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
  ‘THE BEST WE CAN DO IS WONDER AND ENJOY BEING PUZZLED’ 
  Books on Jack the Ripper can be hard work. Authors have felt obliged to pack information around a chronological account of the murders. Participants in the events appear and reappear leaving a reader confused. Often an unconvincing suspect is identified. 
  Light Work is different and serious, but sometimes sardonic. The story or legend of Jack the Ripper is separated into self-contained topics. The range within Light Work is wide and contains some surprises – London smog, music hall entertainers, Irish revolutionaries, female political radicals, a Texan serial killer, modern Jack the Ripper tours, and even a surreal visit to a lake filled with corpses. 
  ‘Light Work’ offers a fresh, independent and common sense perspective on the events in Whitechapel in 1888.

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  Out of This World

  Neville Goddard

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  Out of This World by Neville Goddard explores the transformative power of imagination and consciousness. Goddard posits that imagination is the true creative force, capable of manifesting desires into reality. He delves into concepts of parallel realities and emphasizes unwavering faith in one's imagined outcomes. Through practical techniques like visualization and affirmations, Goddard provides readers with tools to navigate and create their desired realities. This insightful book challenges conventional notions of reality, encouraging readers to transcend limitations and harness their inner creative power for personal transformation.

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  The Owl and the Nightingale - A...

  Simon Armitage

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  Simon Armitage narrates a complete verse translation of this spirited and humorous medieval English poem
  The Owl and the Nightingale, one of the earliest literary works in Middle English, is a lively, anonymous comic poem about two birds who embark on a war of words in a wood, with a nearby poet reporting their argument in rhyming couplets, line by line and blow by blow. In this engaging and energetic verse translation, Simon Armitage captures the verve and humor of this dramatic tale with all the cut and thrust of the original.
  
  In an agile iambic tetrameter that skillfully amplifies the prosody and rhythm of the original, Armitage's translation moves entertainingly from the eloquent and philosophical to the ribald and ridiculous. Sounding at times like antagonists in a Twitter feud, the owl and the nightingale quarrel about a host of subjects that still resonate today—including love, marriage, identity, cultural background, class distinctions, and the right to be heard. Adding to the playful, raucous mood of the barb-trading birds is Armitage, who at one point inserts himself into the poem as a "magistrate . . . to adjudicate"—one who is "skilled with words & worldly wise / & frowns on every form of vice."
  
  Featuring the Middle English text on facing pages and an introduction by Armitage, this volume will delight readers of all ages.

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  Pythagoras of Samos: The Life of...

  Charles River Editors

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  Ionia was one of the most important Greek settlements in Anatolia, and it was the home of Thales (626–548 BCE), an enterprising Greek philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer who is best known for predicting the 585 BCE solar eclipse, which brought an immediate halt to the fighting between the Lydians and Medes in modern-day Turkey. Anaximander of Miletus (610–546 BCE), an Ionian philosopher and student of Thales, pioneered a rational, non-mythological approach to astronomy by proposing a mechanical model of the cosmos. He introduced the Apeiron (the Limitless) as the fundamental, eternal source of all matter, from which all worlds are created and to which they return.  
  Pythagoras studied cosmology, geometry, and astronomy under Thales and his successor Anaximander, and by building on the legacies of their brilliant minds, Pythagoras refined and expanded upon their foundational concepts. However, he also went in a different direction, focusing on mysticism and numbers more than material principles. Known for his profound influence on Plato, Pythagoras defined himself as a lover of wisdom and a seeker of knowledge. As a key figure in the evolution of Western intellectual thought, his ideas have endured for millennia, impacting fields ranging from mathematics to philosophy. Alongside other influential Greek thinkers, Pythagoras helped shift focus toward self-examination, deeply influencing how we understand purpose and the universe.  
  Pythagoras’s most lasting legacy was in the field of mathematics, but mathematics was not merely a tool for measurement to him - it was the underlying language of the universe. One of his most famous statements, “Panta arithmos” (“All is Number”), is indicative of his belief that numbers were the essence, structure, and governing principle of the universe. He thought ratios and proportions of integers could explain all reality, including musical harmony, physical objects, and abstract concepts like justice.

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  My Animal Kingdom

  Rebecca Brown

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  Rebecca Brown adopted a baby squirrel, and it changed her life. This warm, funny, poignant memoir explores the mystery of aliveness, the nature of time, and human relationships with the creatures who share our world. Organized by animals the author has encountered, from a bear in the Cascade Mountains to monkeys in Japan, My Animal Kingdom draws a vivid portrait of life in a changing world, teeming with cats, dogs, otters, monsters, a goose, a turtle, and some chickens with a secret.

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  Tank Warfare on the Eastern...

  Robert A. Forczyk

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  The author of Case White offers an extensive history of German and Soviet armored warfare toward the end of World War II. 
   
   
   
  By 1943, after the catastrophic German defeat at Stalingrad, the Wehmacht's panzer armies gradually lost the initiative on the Eastern Front. The tide of the war had turned. Their combined arms technique, which had swept Soviet forces before it during 1941 and 1942, had lost its edge. Thereafter the war on the Eastern Front was dominated by tank-led offensives and, as Robert Forczyk shows, the Red Army's mechanized forces gained the upper hand, delivering a sequence of powerful blows that shattered one German defensive line after another. 
   
   
   
  His incisive study offers fresh insight into how the two most powerful mechanized armies of the Second World War developed their tank tactics and weaponry during this period of growing Soviet dominance. He uses German, Russian, and English sources to provide the first comprehensive overview and analysis of armored warfare from the German and Soviet perspectives. 
   
   
   
  This major study of the greatest tank war in history is compelling listening.

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