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  How to Be Queer - An Ancient...

  Sarah Nooter

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  The idea of sexual fluidity may seem new, but it is at least as old as the ancient Greeks, who wrote about queer experiences with remarkable frankness, wit, and insight. How to Be Queer is an infatuating collection of these writings about desire, love, and lust between men, between women, and between humans and gods, in lucid and lively new translations. 
   
   
   
  How to Be Queer starts with Homer's Iliad and moves through lyric poetry, tragedy, comedy, philosophy, and biography, drawing on a wide range of authors, including Sappho, Plato, Anacreon, Pindar, Theognis, Aristophanes, and Xenophon. It features both beautiful poetry and thought-provoking prose, emotional outpourings and humorous anecdotes. From Homer's story of the relationship between Achilles and Patroclus, one of the most intense between men in world literature, to Sappho's lyrics on the pleasures and pains of loving women, these writings show the many meanings of what the Greeks called eros. 
   
   
   
  Complete with brief introductions to the selections, How to Be Queer reveals what the Greeks knew long ago—that the erotic and queer are a source of life and a cause for celebration.

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  Jurassic Era - A History from...

  Hourly History

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  Thanks to a certain novel and movie franchise, the Jurassic Period has been indelibly cemented in the public imagination as the time of dinosaurs. That was certainly true: the Jurassic Period saw reptiles such as the long-necked Brachiosaurus, the armored Stegosaurus, and the fearsome Allosaurus become the dominant living creatures on planet Earth, a position they maintained for more than 150 million years. However, many of the movie dinosaurs that decorated millions of lunchboxes and backpacks were not from the Jurassic Period at all, but from the following Cretaceous Period. 
  Of course, this age wasn’t just about dinosaurs. The Jurassic Period saw the Earth going through dramatic geological changes that saw continents drift and collide. New plants and trees developed, some of which are still with us today. Even insects grew to enormous size. This period also saw the emergence of something entirely new: birds. In fact, there was only one type of creature that did not thrive and evolve in this period: our own distant relatives, mammals. 
  This book delves into the true story of the Jurassic Period, of how the planet changed, and how a staggering array of new life came to occupy the land, seas, and skies.

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  Edge of Knowledge The: How...

  Henry J. Howes

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  The topic "The Edge of Knowledge: How Philosophy Shapes Science" explores the profound relationship between two fields that, while distinct, have deeply influenced each other throughout history. Philosophy lays the foundational questions about existence, reality, and knowledge, while science provides empirical methods and evidence to explore those questions. Together, they push the boundaries of human understanding, with philosophy offering the framework for inquiry and ethics, and science delivering the tools for discovery and innovation. This interplay drives the evolution of ideas, fostering groundbreaking insights into the mysteries of the universe and the principles guiding human progress.

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  Face to Face - Finding Justice...

  Nick Dawson

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  When his identical twin brother Simon was kicked to death, all Nick Dawson felt for the killers was hatred.
  
  
  Struggling in a world where his mirror image had vanished, he came to realise there was only one way to stop the torture - acceptance. Travelling to the absolute limits of personal darkness, Nick came face to face with his brother's killers.
  
  
  Now a champion of restorative justice, Nick heads behind bars, asking hardened criminals to change, to think of their victims, to make amends.
  
  
  In Face To Face he takes us with him on a journey into this hidden and unpredictable world.

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  Persuasion - 3 Manuscripts - How...

  Leonard Moore

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  How to Analyze People: This book will teach you 21 of the best techniques you can use to secretly analyze people and learn more about them, the same techniques the most successful FBI agents use on a daily basis. You'll also find real-life examples to better understand how successfully apply the techniques you'll learn. 
   
  How to Secretly Manipulate People: Manipulation is a practice whereby you look into someone's natural psychological tendencies and use them to help you get your way. You learn how to understand what people want and need, and what drives them to make decisions. Then, you tailor your pitch or offer to get them to agree with you and give you what you want, while making it look like they were getting what they want! Ultimately, you lead the conversation by making it look like they are. In this book, you are going to learn exactly how to do this. In this manual you'll learn: how to analyze, manipulate and persuade people while staying secret about it all, the three most important steps of manipulation (almost everybody gets these wrong), how to make others do what you want by first encouraging them to say no, practical examples that will step up your manipulation skills, powerful ways to manipulate others with your body language, secret techniques to protect yourself from getting caught, how to overcome people's trust issues and sneak into the subconscious. 
   
  Human Psychology: In this book you'll find 21 of the most important human psychological traits that you should know if you want to use someone's psychology to influence and direct them to act and behave in certain ways. Each of these topics will be explored in depth, allowing you to understand what they are, how they work, why people experience them, and how you can use them to direct people's behaviors. Learn the right principles to get in control!

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  Air Combat 1945 - The Aircraft...

  Donald Nijboer

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  A detailed and fully illustrated look at aerial combat in the closing year of WWII across all theaters of conflict. The final year of World War II witnessed the decline of the piston-engine fighter and the beginning of the jet age. Taking to the skies were tried-and-true fighters, improved versions of old aircraft, and newly developed jets, including prototypes that flew for the first time just before the war ended.   In Air Combat 1945, historian Donald Nijboer examines these dynamic aircraft through hundreds of wartime photographs depicting operations across Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Pacific. This volume covers American Mustangs, Thunderbolts, and Shooting Stars; British Tempests, Spitfires, and Gloster Meteors; German Fw 190s, Bf 109Ks, and Messerschmitt Me 262s; Japanese Ki 100s, Raidens, and Tojos; and many more.

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