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  Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What...

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Classic...

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  In Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is, Friedrich Nietzsche looks back on his life, ideas, and major works with remarkable confidence, irony, and self-awareness. Part autobiography and part philosophical reflection, the book explores the development of his thought, his relationship to morality and religion, and the experiences that shaped his intellectual identity.Bold, personal, and provocative, Ecce Homo offers a unique insight into Nietzsche's understanding of himself and his philosophy. Through reflections on his books, his values, and his place within European culture, he presents a final statement of many of the themes that defined his work: individuality, self-overcoming, criticism of conventional morality, and the creation of new values.

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  Franklyn: A Path of Twisting...

  Richard Cliff

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  Franklyn was born into a gritty north of England town. His expected path through life would have him live out his years in the manner of that town's baseline existence. But it wasn't to be.Perhaps he was pre-selected to break rank so that bigger dreams could be fulfilled. Whatever the prime force may have been, he was to know a different life.Perhaps, too, the corridors of our own reality are flimsier than we believe! On the other side of the wall may lie another path.  As Franklyn himself discovers, a perceived reality can be as real as reality itself.

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  Roman Astronomy and Astrology:...

  Charles River Editors

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  The development of Roman astronomy evolved over the centuries, embracing the ideas of many cultures as the Romans conquered much of the known world, soaking up knowledge from Asia, Europe, and Africa. Each civilization brought distinct traditions and scientific understanding, and Rome was a bridge, preserving and spreading the concepts and technologies of its conquered lands, including astronomy. For example, After Cyrus the Great conquered Babylon in 539 BCE, he appointed Chaldean astronomers to his Persian court and safeguarded the detailed Babylonian star charts. The skill of predicting eclipses using these historical charts and mathematics passed from the Persians to the Greeks, and finally to the Romans.  
  Roman astronomy had practical purposes, like timekeeping, and Roman ships used the stars for navigation. The Romans oriented monuments, temples, tombs, and cities with specific constellations, and like most ancient people, the Romans believed in astrology. They thought the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars influenced human lives and earthly events, and most Romans viewed astrology as a natural extension of astronomy. They gave the names of their deities to the planets and stars, and they thought the stars, moon, and planets had mystical power and represented the deities. Thus, they studied the movements of the stars and planets to discern their personal fortunes and the will of their gods. The five planets that can be seen with the naked eye still have the names of Roman gods: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, and modern astronomers use Roman records of solar storms, comets, and eclipses, along with consulting ancient Roman data to analyze Earth’s climate history, orbital mechanics, and long-term patterns for the 11-year solar cycle. 

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  How to Care About Animals - An...

  Porphyry

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  An entertaining and enlightening anthology of classical Greek and Roman writings on animals—and our vital relationships with them 
   
   
   
  How to Care about Animals is a fascinating menagerie of passages from classical literature about animals and the lives we share with them. Drawing on ancient writers from Aesop to Ovid, classicist and farmer M. D. Usher has gathered a healthy litter of selections that reveal some of the ways Greeks and Romans thought about everything from lions, bears, and wolves to birds, octopuses, and snails—and that might inspire us to rethink our own relationships with our fellow creatures. Presented in lively new translations, these pieces are filled with surprises—anticipating but also offering new perspectives on many of our current feelings and ideas about animals. 
   
   
   
  Here, Porphyry makes a compelling argument for vegetarianism and asserts that the just treatment of animals makes us better people; Pliny the Elder praises the virtuosity of songbirds and the virtuousness of elephants; Plutarch has one of Circe's pigs from the Odyssey make a serio-comic case for the dignity of the beasts of the field; Aristotle puts the study of animals on par with anthropology; we hear timeless Aesopian fables, including "The Hen That Laid the Golden Egg" and "The Fox and the Grapes"; and there is much, much more.

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  Students of the Book

  John E. Brennan, via 'Musa'

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What happens when the road home becomes a trap — and the only weapons you have left are your wits, your faith, and the names of the people you love? 
  Students of the Book is the true account of Musa, a young Afghan student whose journey to visit family is shattered at a Taliban checkpoint south of Kabul. In an instant, he and his companions — including his teenage cousin — are swept into a nightmare that will test the limits of human endurance, loyalty, and belief. 
  Told in Musa's own voice, this is not a story about geopolitics. It is something far more rare: an intimate, ground-level account of what the Afghan conflict feels like to the civilians caught inside it. We witness the closeness of captor and captive — the mundane cruelties, the bizarre mercies, the dark humor that flickers inside a canvas tent where tomorrow is never guaranteed. We meet a groom who carries his fiancée's Qur'an like a talisman, a boy too young for any of this, and strangers who become brothers through shared suffering. 
  This is a book about courage — but not the kind found in action films. It is the courage of silence under interrogation, of reciting scripture aloud for two days because you have made a pact with God and with each other. The courage of a truck driver who gives sanctuary to a battered child he's never met, and of a man who refuses to leave his fellow captives even when the door to freedom swings open before him. 
  Propulsive, harrowing, and deeply human, Students of the Book carries readers through mountain passes where beauty and violence share the same breath, and into rooms where faith is both a weapon against the innocent and the last unbreakable thing they possess. 
  You will not put this book down. And the names — Musa, Zaki, Abdulla, Jan, Nasir — will stay with you, not as characters, but as people whose testimony demands something of us: to listen, to remember, and to understand what ordinary people endure when zeal turns to war, and war takes hold of us all.

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  Nathaniel Hawthorne: A short...

  5 Minutes, 5 Minute Biographies,...

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  Nathaniel Hawthorne, American writer of the 19th century: 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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