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  Abraham Lincoln: From Cabin to...

  Jamie Glick

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  This biography traces Abraham Lincoln’s improbable journey from a rugged Kentucky log cabin to the presidency during America's darkest hour.The Man Behind the Legend 
  Before becoming the "Great Emancipator," Lincoln was a frontier child and self-taught lawyer. This narrative explores the formative years that forged his character:The Wilderness & New Salem: Discover how manual labor, early loss, and life as a river-town store clerk transformed a rail-splitter into a resilient politician.The Path to Power: Witness his political rise through the Illinois legislature and his national emergence during the legendary Lincoln-Douglas debates.A Nation at War 
  As the 16th President, Lincoln led a house divided. This book examines his wartime leadership:Commander-in-Chief: His growth into a master strategist who managed a "team of rivals" and partnered with General Ulysses S. Grant.The Moral Pivot: The journey toward the Emancipation Proclamation, shifting the conflict from a war for union to a crusade for freedom.The Final Act: A vision for national healing cut short at Ford’s Theatre.Themes of Transformation 
  More than a list of dates, this is a study in resilience and empathy. It paints a portrait of a man who remained profoundly human—balancing sharp humor with deep personal melancholy—while saving a republic.

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  The Invention of Scarcity -...

  Deborah Valenze

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  With the publication of Essay on the Principle of Population and its projection of food shortages in the face of ballooning populations, British theorist Thomas Robert Malthus secured a leading role in modern political and economic thought. In this startling new interpretation, Deborah Valenze reveals how canonical readings of Malthus fail to acknowledge his narrow understanding of what constitutes food production. 
   
   
   
  Valenze returns to the eighteenth-century contexts that generated his arguments, showing how Malthus mobilized a redemptive narrative of British historical development and dismissed the ways that people adapted to the challenges of subsistence needs. She uses history, anthropology, and food studies to redirect our attention to the margins of Malthus's essay, where activities such as hunting and gathering were rendered extraneous. She demonstrates how Malthus's omissions and his subsequent canonization provided a rationale for colonial imposition of British agricultural models, regardless of environmental diversity. 
   
   
   
  By broadening our conception of human livelihoods, Valenze suggests pathways to resistance against the hegemony of Malthusian political economy. She invites us to imagine a world where monoculture is in retreat and the margins are recentered as spaces of experimentation, nimbleness, and human flourishing.

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  Listen to New HSK (HSK 30):...

  Letitia Wu

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  Ready to move beyond the basics and use Mandarin with more confidence in everyday life? 
  Listen to New HSK (HSK 3.0): Level 3, Volume 1 is a structured Mandarin Chinese audio training program designed to help you build stronger vocabulary, improve listening comprehension, and grow your speaking confidence — fully aligned with the official New HSK 3.0 Level 3 syllabus. 
  This audiobook introduces the first 150 essential HSK Level 3 words with practical example sentences in clear, natural Mandarin. 
  For every word, you’ll hear: 
  • The Chinese word 
  • Its English meaning 
  • One carefully selected example sentence 
  • Spoken slowly twice (once for understanding, once for repetition) 
  • Delivered again at natural speed to train real-life listening 
  • Followed by a clear English translation 
  This focused structure helps you: 
  • Master essential HSK 3 vocabulary step by step 
  • Improve listening accuracy with repeated exposure 
  • Build speaking confidence through guided repetition 
  • Understand how words work in practical, everyday sentences 
  • Strengthen your ability to follow natural-speed Mandarin 
  There are no long grammar explanations and no unnecessary distractions. Just effective Mandarin vocabulary and sentence training that helps you hear more, understand more, and say more. 
  Ideal for: 
  • HSK Level 3 learners beginning the next stage of study 
  • Self-learners who want structured and practical audio practice 
  • Busy learners who prefer to study while commuting, walking, or relaxing 
  • Anyone ready to move from basic Mandarin toward more confident real-life use 
  Written and narrated by experienced Chinese teacher Letitia Wu. 
  Press play. Master essential HSK 3 words. Build your Mandarin step by step.

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  Beyond the Red Zone: How a Super...

  BJ Daniels

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  From the euphoria of the gridiron, to the depths of stress, isolation and depression - and back again. 
   
  For as long as he can remember, BJ Daniels ate, slept and breathed football. He became a star quarterback at the University of South Florida and went on to play professionally in the NFL, winning the Super Bowl with the Seattle Seahawks in 2013. 
   
  In many ways, it seemed like BJ was living every athlete's dream. However, he also saw first-hand the lows that accompany being a football player at the highest level. The mental health struggles both he and his teammates faced – often in silence – have inspired a new passion and purpose in him: to share his story, from setbacks to success, and encourage others to face their wellbeing head-on. 
   
  Here, with raw vulnerability, through his own lived experience, BJ explores the importance of resilience, mindset, dedication, passion and perseverance – all of which can help you to rise above your circumstances. 
   
  This audiobook embodies BJ’s mission to "Leave No One Behind", and shows us that, beyond all our obstacles, there’s a life worth living.

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  The Talking Thrush and Other...

  William Crooke, W. H. D. Rouse

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  Indian village tales - the talking thrush, the jackal who outwits everyone, the tiger who is fooled twice - taken down in the districts by a man who spent his career in the Indian civil service and collected as he went. This edition binds 43 plates of Indian painting with the tales, among them works by Nainsukh, Govardhan and Raja Deen Dayal, alongside 17 illustrations restored and coloured for this volume.

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  The Buddha's Teachings As...

  Mark Siderits

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  Mark Siderits's The Buddha’s Teachings As Philosophy explores three different systems of thought that arose from core claims of the Buddha. By detailing and critically examining key arguments made by the Buddha and developed by later Buddhist philosophers, Siderits investigates the Buddha's teachings as philosophy: a set of claims—in this case, claims about the nature of the world and our place in it—supported by rational argumentation and, here, developed with a variety of systematic results. The Buddha’s Teachings As Philosophy will be especially useful to students of philosophy, religious studies, and comparative religion—to anyone, in fact, encountering Buddhist philosophy for the first time. Among the issues discussed by Siderits are those regarded as particularly challenging in the 21st century, such as karma and rebirth and the nature of nirvana. 
   
  PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

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