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  Long Live - The Definitive Guide...

  Nicole Pomarico

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  Covering the Taylor Swift multiverse from all angles with a uniquely fascinating journey through fandom history, exclusive interviews, and behind-the-scenes detail on her career across all eras—including The Tortured Poets Department—this lush package is the ultimate fan guide for Swifties. From MySpace comments to T-Party invites to Secret Sessions and beyond, Long Live explores the evolution of Taylor as well as the ride that we have been on with her through two decades of personal milestones—hers and ours, both good and bad. Like Taylor's music, it will make you feel seen and take you back to unforgettable times and places in your life. Take a trip through Taylor’s eras from the start of her groundbreaking career, with stops at each album and its iconic songs, the hidden Easter Eggs, and the many relationships that have informed the star’s music. Along the way, you’ll have fun looking back on concert traditions and inside jokes, roll your eyes at the most embarrassing clowning moments, take in a Swiftie style lesson, read exclusive stories of fan encounters and author Nicole Pomarico’s own experiences meeting Taylor Swift and her parents, and so much more. Throughout, you’ll see how the relationship between Taylor and her fans has been so well nurtured that it has become a cultural force building the career of one of the biggest stars of all time. Connecting all the threads of mythology within the Taylor Swiftiverse, this is an essential look at the artist’s career and fandom. The complete package for Swifties!

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  Eating Chilli Crab in the...

  Matthew Schneider-Mayerson

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  In this era of climate crisis, in which our very futures are at stake, sustainability is a global imperative. Yet we tend to associate sustainability, nature, and the environment with distant places, science, and policy. The truth is that everything is environmental, from transportation to taxes, work to love, cities to cuisine. 
   
   
  This book is the first to examine contemporary Singapore from an ecocultural lens, looking at the ways that Singaporean life and culture is deeply entangled with the nonhuman lives that flourish all around us. The authors represent a new generation of cultural critics and environmental thinkers, who will inherit the future we are creating today. From chilli crab to Tiger Beer, Changi Airport to Pulau Semakau, O-levels to orang minyak films, these essays offer fresh perspectives on familiar subjects, prompting us to recognise the incredible urgency of climate change and the need to transform our ways of thinking, acting, learning, living, and governing so as to maintain a stable planet and a decent future.

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  Spid the Spider Plans a Birthday...

  John Eaton

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  It’s almost Bid’s birthday and Spid is worried. He wants it to be Bid’s best birthday ever because she is his most favourite spidling in the whole wide world. But there’s a problem. No matter how hard he thinks, he doesn’t have a single birthday present idea anywhere in his worried head …This audiobook features two songs: 'Birthday Girl' and 'It's My Birthday'. You can also find music videos of the songs at https://spidthespider.com and https://www.youtube.com/spidthespider. Spid is a lowly spider, who wants to better himself, write songs, and marry his girlfriend Bid, though he is prone to hilarious mishaps mostly of his own making. He is hard-working, cool, and a role model for young children. As well as encouraging children to read and love books, Spid's adventures also teach valuable life lessons, including determination and what psychologists call a 'growth mindset' (desire to better oneself and succeed), the importance of friendship, and sustainability. With very creative prose, Spid's adventures are fun for parents, and teachers to read to, and with, their children. They present lots of opportunities to invest dramatic licence thus helping adults and children interact and engage. The humour works at multiple levels from silly and slapstick to more sophisticated wordplay and concepts. Thus, children will discover more and enjoy reading the stories multiple times. For more resources to entertain and help children learn to read, grow and succeed in life, go to https://spidthespider.com/fun-childrens-activities/

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  The Scarlet Plague

  Jack London

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  A world wiped out. A survivor who remembers. A warning that feels eerily close to our own.
  Set in a devastated future, The Scarlet Plague follows an old man guiding his grandsons through the ruins of a once-thriving civilization. As they wander the empty landscape, he recounts the terrifying plague that swept across the globe—how society crumbled overnight, how fear replaced order, and how humanity was forced back to primitive survival.
  
  Praised as "one of the earliest and most chilling visions of global collapse," Jack London's novella blends suspense, stark beauty, and unsettling realism. Its portrait of fragility, resilience, and the lessons forgotten by future generations remains strikingly relevant.
  
  If you enjoy dystopian fiction, survival stories, and classics that echo with modern resonance, this powerful tale will grip your imagination.
  
  Open the book—and walk through a world where one plague changed everything.

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  The Best Job in the World - How...

  Ben Southall

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  Part autobiography, part insight into the power of a unique  marketing campaign, part warts and all of living the dream in a  dream job. Bens story is more holistic than just travel;  its motivational and aspirational. From leaving the UK on an  adventure trip to Africa, Ben has led the dream and shows how  following your passions can lead to life changing opportunities.  No-one else has won the Best Job in the World, and Ben is often  asked what is like participating in the competition, winning and  living the job and what hes been doing since. This book  answers those questions. Key features:    Fantasy to reality: Living on a tropical island is a  common daydream, Bens story shines the light on the highs  and lows of living out the dream.  Inspiration: hope for people who are stuck in a rut.  Look for opportunities and grab them with both hands.  Entertainment/Escape: the book is rich with humorous and  poignant stories about the challenges of being catapulted into a  high profile job in an idyllic location, and what happens after the  best job in the world.  Motivational: understand other cultures better, embrace  the unknown and overcome lifes obstacles and challenge the  expected route through life.  Authenticity: the author is the only holder of the title  Best Job in the World. It is a unique insight into a unique program  and all that that entails.    The global attention generated by the unprecedented marketing  and advertising campaign also provides an insight into how to  successfully engage with a diverse market on an international  level. Management and leadership lessons emerge and are shared by  Ben as he adapts to his new role, as the caretaker of a Great  Barrier Reef Island and subsequently navigates his new career  opportunities.

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  The Library of Ancient Wisdom -...

  Selena Wisnom

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  A tour of an ancient library transports us to Mesopotamia, introducing us to its people, their ideas, and their humanity. The library of Ashurbanipal, Assyria’s last great king, held an astonishing collection at the forefront of knowledge in its day, from ancient traditions in religion and literature to the latest developments in magic and medicine. When the Assyrian empire fell, the library burned to the ground, and its contents, clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform writing, lay buried for thousands of years until a team of Victorian archaeologists discovered the remnants in modern-day Iraq. The clay had baked and hardened; the very fire that consumed the library had helped its texts to survive for millennia. In The Library of Ancient Wisdom, scholar Selena Wisnom, one of only a few hundred experts able to read cuneiform script today, guides us inside this important collection and, through its contents, brings ancient Mesopotamia and its people to life. Introducing us to Ashurbanipal and his family, scribes, astrologers, physicians, and more, Wisnom explores the library’s tablets and the details they divulge about how these ancient people thought about the world. Like us, they had concerns about job security, jealous rivalries, and profound friendships, and questions about the meaning of life. Wisnom ushers us into a world where magic was commonplace, where the gods spoke to you in dreams, and where the secrets of the universe were revealed through puns—taking us to the heart of what it means to be human. Offering a close look at a major historical landmark as well as a readable account of the world’s earliest civilizations, The Library of Ancient Wisdom lays bare the ideas, hopes, fears, and desires that survive on humble clay.

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