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  On Writing and Failure - Or the...

  Stephen Marche

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  Writing is, and always will be, an act defined by failure. The best plan is to just get used to it.
  		 
  Failure is a topic discussed in every creative writing department in the world, but this is the book every beginning writer should have on their shelf to prepare them. Less a guide to writing and more a guide to what you need to continue existing as a writer, On Writing and Failure: Or, On the Peculiar Perseverance Required to Endure the Life of a Writer describes the defining role played by rejection in literary endeavors and contemplates failure as the essence of the writer’s life. Along with his own history of rejection, Marche offers stories from the history of writerly failure, from Ovid’s exile and Dostoevsky’s mock execution to James Baldwin's advice just to endure, where living with the struggle and the pointlessness of writing is the point.

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  The Great Refusal - A New Vision...

  Casey Gerald

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  In the tradition of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me, bell hook’s All About Love, and even James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time, comes a groundbreaking blend of personal and political commentary from acclaimed memoirist Casey Gerald, offering an iconoclastic reframe of resistance and rebellion to meet the current moment and remake the world on our terms. In 2019, 400 years after the first Africans were stolen and brought to American shores for enslavement, Casey Gerald made a bold and controversial proclamation on national television: “We’ve been given strategies to make it in this country, to endure this land… but there’s another very important tradition that each person has the right and opportunity and perhaps, at this very urgent moment, the responsibility to reclaim, and that is the strategy of flight, of escape.” His interviewer, Michel Martin, asked, “Where are we going?”The Great Refusal is the answer to Martin’s apt question. In a short yet powerful volume, Gerald maps the path forward, calling on the works of Black luminaries, writers, and activists, as well as his own experience stepping back from the limelight and reassessing our current strategies of resistance and endurance. He implores us to tend to our inner resources and restrengthen our own worlds. Much resistance, he argues, is an inherent dialogue with the oppressor, playing on their battlefield, a defense to their offensive. (He is a former football star, after all.) Now, again, we find ourselves on the shorelines of destruction. The strategies we’ve been taught – assimilation, respectability politics, meritocracy – are stalling out or degrading us further. What would rebellion look like if we stepped out of this cycle and imagined a different world, one on our terms? Marginalized Americans are in a gridlock fight for dignity in a system that is hellbent on never granting it. It’s time we understood our power, our peace, and our needs, and built them on our own instead of begging for scraps. Gerald offer’s a way — one that saved him, just as it once saved his forebears: the great refusal.

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  History of Romania - An Overview...

  Kelly Mass

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  The earliest evidence of human habitation in what is now Romania dates back to prehistoric times, but one of the first recorded mentions comes from the writings of the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. In his work Histories, Book IV, written around 440 BC, Herodotus described the Getae, a Thracian tribe residing in the region that would later become Romania. According to Herodotus, the Getae were defeated by Persian Emperor Darius the Great during his military campaign against the Scythians. This reference marks an important historical mention of the people inhabiting the area. 
  The Dacians, a branch of the Thracian people, are believed to have been closely related to the Getae mentioned by the Greeks. The Dacians inhabited a region known as Dacia, which included present-day Romania, Moldova, parts of northern Bulgaria, and surrounding areas. Their culture, society, and military strength developed significantly, making them a prominent force in southeastern Europe. The Dacians are often regarded as the ancestors of modern Romanians, and their legacy is a crucial element of Romanian national identity.

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  My Vanishing Country - A Memoir

  Anonimo

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  What J. D. Vance did for Appalachia with Hillbilly Elegy, CNN analyst  and one of the youngest state representatives in South Carolina history Bakari Sellers does for the rural South, in this important book that illuminates the lives of America’s forgotten black working-class men and women. 
  Part memoir, part historical and cultural analysis, My Vanishing Country is an eye-opening journey through the South's past, present, and future. 
  Anchored in in Bakari Seller’s hometown of Denmark, South Carolina, Country illuminates the pride and pain that continues to fertilize the soil of one of the poorest states in the nation. He traces his father’s rise to become, friend of Stokely Carmichael and Martin Luther King, a civil rights hero, and member of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) , to explore the plight of the South's dwindling rural, black working class—many of whom can trace their ancestry back for seven generations. 
  In his poetic personal history, we are awakened to the crisis affecting the other “Forgotten Men & Women,” who the media seldom acknowledges. For Sellers, these are his family members, neighbors, and friends. He humanizes the struggles that shape their lives: to gain access to healthcare as rural hospitals disappear; to make ends meet as the factories they have relied on shut down and move overseas; to hold on to precious traditions as their towns erode; to forge a path forward without succumbing to despair.  
  My Vanishing Country is also a love letter to fatherhood—to Sellers' father, his lodestar, whose life lessons have shaped him, and to his newborn twins, who he hopes will embrace the Sellers family name and honor its legacy.

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  The Complete Philosophy...

  Marcus Aurelius, Sun Tzu,...

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  What do Stoics, strategists, and poets have in common? 
   They asked better questions—and lived bolder answers. 
  The Complete Philosophy Collection brings together 15+ of the most influential philosophical texts in human history—newly translated for clarity and narrated to inspire.  
  Spanning thousands of years and many traditions, this audiobook will help you cultivate resilience, sharpen your thinking, and explore the nature of truth, ethics, leadership, and existence. 
  This audiobook includes: 
  - Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 
  - The Art of War by Sun Tzu 
  - Beyond Good and Evil & Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche 
  - Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  - Letters from a Stoic by Seneca 
  - The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi 
  - Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard 
  - The Analects by Confucius 
  - The Republic by Plato 
  - On the Nature of Things by Lucretius 
  - Nicomachean Ethics & Politics by Aristotle 
  - The Enchiridion by Epictetus 
  - As a Man Thinketh by James Allen 
  And many more fundamental philosophical works. 
  Each section is introduced with helpful context, then presented in fresh, modern language—perfect for thoughtful listeners ready to absorb life-changing ideas. 
  This is more than an audiobook. It’s a timeless classroom for the mind and soul.

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  Sleep hypnosis to verbally...

  Stuart Newman

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  If you're looking for a way to express your feelings in an effective and healthy manner, then look no further than this DST sleep hypnosis with Stu Newman.  
  This program is designed to help you explore and verbalize your true emotions, allowing you to gain insight into yourself while also providing relief from stress.  
  With the aid of guided hypnosis techniques, this program can help improve self-awareness as well as reduce anxiety levels by helping individuals better understand their own feelings and reactions.  
  Additionally, it can provide valuable tools for managing difficult situations more effectively without feeling overwhelmed or out of control.  
  So if you’re ready to take charge of expressing how you feel in a positive way that will benefit both yourself and those aroundyou – DST Hypno with Stu Newman is the perfect solution!

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