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  Sell That Book

  M.L. Humphrey

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  So you wrote a book. Congratulations.Now, if you're like a lot of us, you want to sell that book. You're ready to try to become a professional author.This book is meant to help you navigate that next stage of your writing career regardless of whether you want to find a publisher or self-publish. It will give you a high-level discussion of what you need to start thinking about now regardless of the path you choose.

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  The Unfortunate Beginning of...

  Emily Natsu

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  "The Unfortunate Beginning of Happiness" is an unconventional guide that challenges readers to confront the paradoxes of happiness. This book dives into the messy, often uncomfortable truths about joy, offering a refreshing perspective on the pursuit of contentment. With a blend of sardonic wit and profound insights, it explores why the quest for happiness can sometimes lead us astray. 
  Through a series of thought-provoking exercises and counter-intuitive concepts, this guide addresses the pitfalls of conventional happiness advice. It provides tools to help readers navigate the complexities of human emotions, embracing both the light and dark aspects of the human experience. "The Unfortunate Beginning of Happiness" combines psychological research with a healthy dose of skepticism, making the journey of self-discovery both enlightening and entertainingly uncomfortable. 
  This guide aims to transform your perspective on happiness, encouraging an approach to well-being that acknowledges life's inherent contradictions and finds happiness in the journey, not just the destination. It challenges societal norms about happiness, explores the value of negative emotions, and offers a more nuanced understanding of what it means to live a fulfilling life. Be warned, dear reader, for once you start "The Unfortunate Beginning of Happiness", your view of happiness may never be the same. Prepare to have your preconceptions challenged and your comfort zone delightfully disturbed.

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  The Shortest History of the...

  Riley Black

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  Despite their cultural influence, the grand narrative of the dinosaur story is rarely told. Most of us have heard of Stegosaurus and Tyrannosaurus, but these two dinosaurs lived more than eighty million years apart—a greater span of time than the entire post-T. rex history of the planet. Furthermore, we often know even less about the environments these animals lived in. 
   
   
   
  The Shortest History of the Dinosaurs tells the full story, a 230-million-year epic of small beginnings, spectacular golden periods, and eventual global domination—before an unthinkable asteroid event brought everything to a screeching halt. We learn that, for millions of years in the Triassic, dinosaurs were dog-sized—but slowly developing evolutionary traits like feathers and warm-bloodedness. In the Jurassic Period, these traits—and others like laying eggs and growing specialized air sacs—led to an era of rapid growth in dinosaur population and physical size. As Pangea continued to break apart, during the Cretaceous Period, dinosaurs traversed the globe, adapting to air and water—before a six-mile-wide asteroid hit Central America. 
   
   
   
  Using fossil discoveries and fresh understandings of genetics and evolution, author Riley Black reveals the startling relationships dinosaurs shared with each other, the land they lived on, other animal species, and the earth.

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  How to Tell a Story - An Ancient...

  Aristotle

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  An inviting and accessible new translation of Aristotle's complete Poetics—the first and best introduction to the art of writing and understanding stories 
   
   
   
  Aristotle's Poetics is the most important book ever written for writers and readers of stories—whether novels, short fiction, plays, screenplays, or nonfiction. Aristotle was the first to identify the keys to plot, character, audience perception, tragic pleasure, and dozens of other critical points of good storytelling. Despite being written more than 2,000 years ago, the Poetics remains essential reading for anyone who wants to learn how to write a captivating story—or understand how such stories work and achieve their psychological effects. Yet for all its influence, the Poetics is too little read because it comes down to us in a form that is often difficult to follow, and even the best translations are geared more to specialists than to general readers who simply want to grasp Aristotle's profound and practical insights. In How to Tell a Story, Philip Freeman presents the most accessible translation of the Poetics yet produced, making this indispensable book more engaging and useful than ever before.

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  Nicolaus Copernicus: A short...

  5 Minutes, 5 Minute Biographies,...

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  Nicolaus Copernicus, universal scholar and astronomer: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best!

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  W E B DuBois on Sociology and...

  W. E. B. DuBois

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  Historian, journalist, educator, and civil rights advocate W. E. B. Du Bois was perhaps most accomplished as a sociologist of race relations and of the black community in the United States. This volume collects his most important sociological writings from 1898 to 1910. The eighteen selections include five on Du Bois's conception of sociology and sociological research, especially as a tool in the struggle for racial justice; excerpts from studies of black communities in the South and the North, including The Philadelphia Negro; writings on black culture and social life, with a selection from The Negro American Family; and later works on race relations in the United States and elsewhere after World War II. This section includes a powerful fiftieth-anniversary reassessment of his classic 1901 article in the Atlantic in which he predicted that "the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line." The editors provide an annotated bibliography, a lengthy overview of Du Bois's life and work, and detailed introductions to the selections. "The most significant contribution of this book is its inclusive look at Du Bois as both academic and activist. . . . Individuals interested in the study of social issues and political sociology would benefit from reading and discussing this book."—Paul Kriese, Sociology: Reviews of New Books "Green and Driver, informing this volume with a 48-page essay that summarizes Du Bois' career and places him in the context of the profession, have intelligently organized his writings. . . . A welcome contribution that should have wide use."—Elliott Rudwick, Contemporary Sociology

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