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  Secrets of the Universe

  Raphael Terra

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  This audiobook has been recorded using Text to speech (TTS). 
   
  The universe is a vast, beautiful and strange place. We understand very little of it. Over the course of human history hundreds of bizarre phenomena have crossed our paths and most of them are still, to this day, mysteries to us. Everything from God to Bigfoot, from aliens to ghosts, remains relatively unexplained. We have travelled to other planets, invented artificial intelligence and managed to nearly destroy our own planet, and yet we continue to come across the weird and peculiar without any understanding of what it is we he have witnessed. In this audiobook we delve into some of the biggest mysteries and discover that there may be one underlying explanation for them all. One over-arching answer to all the unexplained, and the answer will blow your mind. 
   
  Prepare to go on a journey into the quantum world. Travel through alien worlds and into your own mind. We’re about to unlock the secrets of the universe.

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  It Can’t Rain All the Time - The...

  Alisha Mughal

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  A passionate analysis of the ill-fated 1994 film starring the late Brandon Lee and its long-lasting influence on action movies, cinematic grief, and emotional masculinity
  		 
  Released in 1994, The Crow first drew in audiences thanks to the well-publicized tragedy that loomed over the film: lead actor Brandon Lee had died on set due to a mishandled prop gun. But it soon became clear that The Crow was more than just an accumulation of its tragic parts. The celebrated critic Roger Ebert wrote that Lee’s performance was “more of a screen achievement than any of the films of his father, Bruce Lee.”
  		 
  In It Can’t Rain All the Time, Alisha Mughal argues that The Crow has transcended Brandon Lee’s death by exposing the most challenging human emotions in all their dark, dramatic, and visceral glory, so much so that it has spawned three sequels, a remake, and an intense fandom. Eric, our back-from-the-dead, grieving protagonist, shows us that there is no solution to depression or loss, there is only our own internal, messy work. By the end of the movie, we realize that Eric has presented us with a vast range of emotions and that masculinity doesn’t need to be hard and impenetrable.
  		 
  Through her memories of seeking solace in the film during her own grieving period, Alisha brilliantly shows that, for all its gothic sadness, The Crow is, surprisingly and touchingly, a movie about redemption and hope.
  		 
  About the Pop Classics Series
  		 
  Short books that pack a big punch, Pop Classics offer intelligent, fun, and accessible arguments about why a particular pop phenomenon matters.

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  When the Declaration of...

  Emily Sneff

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  Tracing the moments after its creation, this groundbreaking story follows how news of the Declaration of Independence spread to people throughout the thirteen colonies and the Atlantic world.In 1776, people could hear the Declaration of Independence proclaimed in public squares and could read it in the pages of their local newspapers. Although stories of the Declaration typically recount the work of the Continental Congress, the work of spreading the news involved printers, post riders, ship captains, civic leaders, soldiers, clerks, orators, preachers, diplomats, and translators.When the Declaration of Independence Was News reveals the stories behind how the Declaration was communicated in the New and Old worlds. Tracing the travels of the founding document of the US from Philadelphia to New York, Boston, Charleston, Europe, and beyond, Emily Sneff shows how people both celebrated and critiqued the Declaration. In the weeks after the document was penned, it was printed in newspaper columns, translated into German and French, and shared with Native American allies. The document compelled some people to make public their privately held beliefs about whether they wanted the United States to be independent or to reconcile with King George III. The questions of who experienced the news of independence, when, and how reveal an expansive and complex history of a critical moment in the American Revolution.Published for the 250th anniversary of US independence, When the Declaration of Independence Was News returns to a time before the legacy of these words was known to reconsider what the founding of the US meant to the people who were living through it.

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  Escaping Enemy Mode - How Our...

  Jim Wilder, Ray Woolridge,...

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  Who’s your biggest enemy? Possibly you?Enemy Mode is an immensely damaging brain state that occurs in everyday life. In enemy mode, a person sees and experiences others as adversaries. Living in this mode poisons family and community bonds. It contributes to social stress, business failure, divorce, alienation, domestic violence, crime, racism, and international violence. Social media magnifies the impact of enemy mode toward almost all topics or persons imaginable.Longtime author and neuropsychologist Dr. Jim Wilder explains how the brain develops enemy mode and searches for ways to get the brain to “refriend.” Since a brain in enemy mode cannot tell when someone is trying to help, it rejects or attacks its allies, including refrienders. Wilder puts his years of research to the test in assessing the impossible task put forth by the Christian faith: to love one’s enemies.  After being trained in enemy mode through the military, business, and even friendships, retired Brigadier General Ray Woolridge comes alongside Wilder, bringing the reader on his journey of learning to refriend. He interviews leaders in sports, business, the military, law enforcement, politics, health care, and education, assessing the enemy mode impact on lives and culture.  Can Wilder and Woolridge figure out how enemy mode works and craft a solution? And can they get people and institutions to implement those solutions? This book is for all who desire to be better equipped to face the barrage of daily relational stressors that come at them. It’s for all who long for more harmonious relationships at home, in the workplace, and in their communities.

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  The Manipulation Tricks Real...

  Avielle Brooks

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.  
  Learn the psychological manipulation techniques that predators, scammers, and criminals use to exploit victims, and understand why intelligent, educated people remain vulnerable to these tactics. This protective audiobook examines the specific methods used in fraud, human trafficking, cults, and exploitation that bypass rational defenses through emotional and psychological manipulation. Discover how criminals identify vulnerable targets, build false trust, isolate victims from support systems, and create psychological dependency that prevents escape even when objective observers would see obvious danger. The narrator presents case studies from law enforcement, psychology research, and survivor testimony that reveal manipulation patterns common across different criminal contexts. Learn the warning signs that indicate you or someone you care about may be targeted by manipulative predators who present initially as helpful, romantic, or professional contacts. Understand why victim-blaming responses to manipulation crimes misunderstand the sophisticated psychological techniques that make otherwise capable people unable to protect themselves. This audiobook examines the traits that increase vulnerability to manipulation and practical strategies for recognizing and resisting these techniques before damage occurs. Learn what investigators, therapists, and survivors want you to know about protecting yourself and your loved ones. Essential listening for everyone navigating social and professional situations where manipulative predators identify and exploit targets.

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  History of Prostitution

  William Sanger

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  Common sense asks for a full investigation of all the evils attending prostitution. In the every-day affairs of life, any man who feels the pressure of a particular evil looks at once for its cause. He may be neither a philosopher nor a logician, and may never have heard of or read any of the luminous treatises which professedly simplify science, yet he knows very well that for every effect there must be some adequate cause, and for this he generally searches diligently till he can find and remove it. But here, in the city of New York, is a population who claim to be as intelligent as any on the Western continent, who have been for years suffering from the effects of a vice in purse and person; who have paid and are paying every year large sums of money on account of it; who witness every day some broken constitution or ruined character resulting from it, and who yet have never thought of seeking out the cause! Is it now too late to enlist your sympathies in the undertaking? Hence we conclude that propriety, expediency, public safety, private interest, and common sense demand an investigation like this now submitted to the reader. (from the Introduction)

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