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  Look What Sports Did to This...

  Chuck Spinner

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  As Baby Boomers (born between 1946 and 1965) reach their golden years, they reminisce about a unique time in sports history. Born just after World War II, this generation experienced the first wave of live televised sports, transforming how fans engaged with their favorite athletes and teams. No longer reliant on radio broadcasts or newspapers, they witnessed iconic sports moments in real-time, forever shaping their love for the game. In A Lifetime of Sports: A Baby Boomer’s Memoirs, author Chuck Spinner offers a heartfelt and humorous look at the unforgettable sports memories that defined his life—and the lives of countless others. Narrated by the talented Kyle Goodknight, this audiobook brings the exhilarating highs, personal encounters, and heartwarming stories to life, making listeners feel as if they're reliving those incredible moments. Published by Audiobook Publishing Services, this autobiography isn't just about sports—it's a time capsule of personal and historical milestones that shaped a generation. With chapters brimming with nostalgia, sports fans and Baby Boomers alike will enjoy tales such as: How the author’s uncle became a pro wrestler to pay his way through law school. A 40-year reunion with a boyhood sports idol. Riding in a pace car with his grandsons. Playing international basketball in Senegal. Beating a future Supreme Court justice in a basketball game! Meeting the only ambidextrous pitcher in Major League Baseball history. The most comfortable pole vault landing pit ever! The day Larry Bird ruined a local TV sports broadcast. Running with Olympic gold medalist Bob Richards. The author’s wife nearly meeting Michael Jordan. And many more engaging stories! Through Spinner's captivating storytelling and Goodknight's engaging narration, A Lifetime of Sports captures the magic of sports and the power of shared experiences.

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  On Giving Up

  Adam Phillips

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  From acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, a meditation on what we must give up to feel more alive. 
   
   
   
  To give up or not to give up? 
   
   
   
  The question can feel inescapable but the answer is never simple. 
   
   
   
  Giving up our supposed vices is one thing; giving up on life itself is quite another. One form of self-sacrifice feels positive, something to admire and aspire to, while the other is profoundly unsettling, if not actively undesirable. 
   
   
   
  There are always, it turns out, both good and bad sacrifices, but it is not always clear beforehand which is which. We give something up because we believe we can no longer go on as we are. In this sense, giving up is a critical moment―an attempt to make a different future. 
   
   
   
  In On Giving Up, the acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips illuminates both the gaps and the connections between the many ways of giving up and helps us to address the central question: What must we give up in order to feel more alive?

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  Wyndham Lewis and British Art...

  Thomas Keller

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  This study connects the idiosyncratic modernism of Wyndham Lewis, co-founder of the Vorticist art movement, with works of several artists from the British art rock tradition, among them Bryan Ferry, David Bowie, art-punk pioneers Wire and electronic pop musician John Foxx. By taking a transdisciplinary and intermedial approach to texts from two fields normally studied in isolation and staking out the elements of a shared modernist ethos, the book presents a new perspective on both fields relevant to scholars of literature, popular culture, and the visual arts alike. While the book rests on sound research from the fields of literary criticism, art history, and pop theory, the structure and writing of the book is fundamentally designed to be accessible and comprehensible to non-scholarly readers.

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  Anglo-Saxons - History of the...

  Kelly Mass

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  In the Early Middle Ages, the Anglo-Saxons were a cultural group that resided in England. They traced their roots back to the arrival of incomers to Britain in the fifth century, who originated from the North Sea coastlands of continental Europe. The ethnogenesis of the Anglo-Saxons, on the other hand, happened in Britain, and the identity wasn't just imported. The contact between getting in groups of people from some Germanic tribe, both amongst themselves and with native British populations, led to the facility of an Anglo-Saxon identity. A lot of the native tribes ultimately incorporated and embraced Anglo-Saxon society and language. The Anglo-Saxons established the idea of England and the Kingdom of England, and while the modern English language owes practically 26% of its vocabulary to them, this includes the great bulk of words used in daily discussion. 
  The Anglo-Saxon period in history describes the period in Britain from roughly 450 and 1066, starting with their preliminary settlement and ending with the Norman Conquest. 
  Let’s have a look at how this time period has influenced European history, and what else was so significant about the Anglo-Saxon civilization.

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  How to Make Money - An Ancient...

  PLINY

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  Ancient Romans liked money. But how did they make a living and sometimes even become rich? The Roman economy was dominated by agriculture, but it was surprisingly modern in many ways: the Romans had companies with CEOs, shareholders, and detailed contracts regulated by meticulous laws; systems of banking and taxation; and a wide range of occupations, from merchant and doctor to architect and teacher. The Romans also enjoyed a relatively open society, where some could start from the bottom, work, invest, and grow rich. How to Make Money gathers a wide variety of ancient writings that show how Romans thought about, made, invested, spent, lost, and gave away money. 
   
   
   
  The Roman elite idealized farming and service to the state but treated many other occupations with suspicion or contempt, from money lending to wage labor. But whatever their attitudes, pecunia made the Roman world go round. In the Satyricon, Trimalchio brags about his wealth. Seneca accumulated a fortune—but taught that money can't buy happiness. Eumachia inherited a brick factory from her father, married well, and turned to philanthropy after she was widowed. How to Make Money also takes up some of the most troubling aspects of the Roman economy, slavery and prostitution, which the elite deemed unrespectable but often profited from.

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  The Therapist - Stories about...

  Kathlyn C. White

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  The Therapist by Kathlyn C. White, Marriage and Family Therapist, is a non-fiction account of the life of a therapist and the many interesting people she has seen over the years. 
  Kathlyn has been a practicing therapist for over thirty years. Kathlyn brings to life the stories of what patients go through who have psychosis, PTSD, depression, anxiety, eating disorders, alcoholism, traumatic brain injuries, violent tendencies, a history of abuse or domestic violence, and other emotional challenges. There are stories about children and adults as mental illness knows no boundaries. She includes stories of what our military persons have gone through during their service in Iraq and Afghanistan. 
  Kathlyn brings insight to the world of the Narcissist and their victims, the world of the Psychopath and their victims, the world of the survivors of these personalities who are so destructive. She also brings to life challenges relating to parenting and offers solutions to parenting challenges. This book also touches on how to make your marriage better. The Therapist will help you to understand other’s struggles and secrets. Reading The Therapist is like taking a step into another’s inner secret world, a world that isn’t often shared with another person. The Therapist takes you where few are allowed.

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