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  The Audacious Butterfly Thief -...

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  In the years after World War II, a remarkable crime unfolded across continents—one that stunned scientists, baffled investigators, and exposed the vulnerability of institutions built on trust.
   
  Thousands of rare butterfly specimens vanished from Australia’s leading natural history museums. The thefts were precise and selective, with no forced entry or alarms triggered. The missing items were irreplaceable reference specimens used to identify and classify species—valuable not for money, but for knowledge.
   
  As the scale of the losses became clear, authorities faced an unsettling truth: this was no ordinary crime. The thief had insider knowledge, understanding exactly what to take and how to move undetected through trusted institutions.
   
  The investigation drew in New Scotland Yard and leading entomologists, eventually focusing on an unlikely suspect—a refined British gentleman whose life defied simple explanation. Soldier, athlete, artist, collector, and amateur scientist, he navigated academic circles while secretly building one of the most controversial private collections ever uncovered.
   
  But who was he really? A criminal driven by greed, or an obsessive collector convinced he was preserving what others neglected? Where does passion end and fraud begin?
   
  Drawing on archival records, investigative files, and scientific correspondence, The Audacious Butterfly Thief reconstructs a true story of obsession, deception, and one of the most sophisticated museum thefts in history. It explores how the crime was carried out, why it remained hidden for so long, and what its consequences meant for science worldwide.
   
  Both a gripping investigation and a reflection on ethics and trust, this book reveals how a crime without violence left lasting gaps in the historical record—and forced museums to rethink how knowledge is protected.

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  This Is What Inequality Looks Like

  Teo You Yenn

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  What is poverty? What is inequality? How are they connected? How are they reproduced? How might they be overcome? Why should we try?The way we frame our questions shapes the way we see solutions. This book does what appears to be a no-brainer task, but one that is missing and important: it asks readers to pose questions in different ways, to shift the vantage point from which they view 'common sense,' and in so doing, to see themselves as part of problems and potential solutions. This is a book about how seeing poverty entails confronting inequality. It is about how acknowledging poverty and inequality leads to uncomfortable revelations about our society and ourselves. And it is about how once we see, we cannot, must not, unsee.This New Edition of This Is What Inequality Looks Like by Teo You Yenn features a new Afterword by the author, and a Foreword by Kwok Kian Woon, Professor of Sociology at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.© 2018 by Teo You Yenn. Published in paper format in Singapore by Ethos Books, recorded by Storyside 2019.

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  24 Explicit Gay Erotic Sex...

  Ricky Hard

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  This sizzling hot 24 book gay bundle has everything you could want to get you going including coming out, bisexual, BDSM, spanking, bikers, doctors, firemen, cowboys and much more! 
  This story is a work of fiction and contains sex scenes and is suitable for adults only. All characters are fictional and are 18 years or older.

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  The Classic Collection of Soren...

  Søren Kierkegaard

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  Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher.He wrote critical texts on organized religion, Christianity, morality, ethics, psychology, and the philosophy of religion, displaying a fondness for metaphor, irony, and parables. Much of his philosophical work deals with the issues of how one lives as a "single individual", giving priority to concrete human reality over abstract thinking and highlighting the importance of personal choice and commitment.He was against literary critics who defined idealist intellectuals and philosophers of his time, and thought that Swedenborg, Hegel, Fichte, Schelling, Schlegel, and Hans Christian Andersen were all "understood" far too quickly by "scholars".Contents:Fear and TremblingPhilosophical FragmentsSickness Unto Death

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  The DBT Workbook to Stop Walking...

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  Evidence-based dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills for surviving and thriving when a family member has BPD. 
   
   
   
  If you have a family member who struggles with borderline personality disorder (BPD), you're probably familiar with the concept of walking on eggshells. Your loved one may experience intense emotions that are difficult to predict, leaving you feeling stressed, drained, and on edge. So, how can you support your loved one while also taking care of and protecting yourself? 
   
   
   
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  Searching for Harry Chapin's...

  Pat Fenton

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  In "Searching for Harry Chapin’s America: Remember When the Music," journalist Pat Fenton describes his road trips to the towns and people that inspired Harry Chapin’s most renowned songs. While Fenton’s account includes exclusive interviews with Chapin’s family and associates, and an excerpt from Chapin’s unpublished writings, the audio adaptation includes actual cuts from Chapin's best-known songs. Composer and multi-instrumentalist David Amram, who narrates Fenton's chronicle, performs his own brief interludes of "incidental music," where he was inspired to do so.Harry Chapin (1942-1981) was a legendary top-charting American songwriter in the 1970s and ’80s. During his lifetime, Chapin was nominated twice for a Grammy Award: in 1972 for Best New Artist, and in 1974 for Best Pop Male Vocal Performance. In 2011, thirty years after his untimely death, Chapin’s Number One-charting song, “Cat’s In the Cradle,” was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. "Searching for Harry Chapin’s America" was published on July 16, 2021, and is a fortieth-year commemoration of this musical icon’s tragic death in a car crash on July 16, 1981.  The audio adaptation follows a year later, in July, 2022, and extends the tribute to Chapin's legacy of songs and philanthropy."Like 'Don Quixote,' or 'On the Road,' Pat Fenton’s classic book takes you on an unforgettable series of journeys and makes you feel that you are now welcome to be with the people and places that Harry Chapin memorialized in his timeless songs."—David Amram, composer/multi-instrumentalist/author “A portrait of an age as well as an artist. Chapin was an American original who combined Walt Whitman’s lyric realism with Woody Guthrie’s passionate truth-telling. Fenton’s blend of sympathy, honesty, and insight gives us the man in full. Fenton’s talents as a master storyteller have never been on better display.” 	 —Peter Quinn, novelist/political historian

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