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  Home Is the Road - Wandering the...

  Diane Glancy

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  From the award-winning Native American literary writer Diane Glancy comes a book about travel, belonging, and home. Travel is not merely a means to bring us from one location to another. "My sense of place is in the moving," Glancy writes. For her the road is home—its own satisfying destination. But the road also makes demands on us: asking us to be willing to explore the incomprehensible parts of the landscapes we inhabit and pass through—as well as to, ultimately, let them blur as they go by. This, Glancy says, is home. 
   
   
   
  Glancy teases out the lessons of the road that are never easy to define, grappling with her own: childhood's puzzle pieces of her Cherokee heritage and a fraught but still compelling vision of Christianity. As she clocks an inordinate amount of driving, as she experiments with literary forms, she looks to what the land has held for centuries, before the roads were ever there. 
   
   
   
  This, ultimately, is a book about land, tradition, religion, questions, and the puzzle pieces none of us can put together quite right. It's a book about peripheral vision, conflicting narratives, and a longing for travel.

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  Sustainability and Eco-friendly...

  Rebecca Andrews

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  Your indispensable guide to navigating the route toward a more eco-conscious and sustainable way of life is "Sustainability and Eco-friendly Practices: Embracing Green Living for a Better Future: Practical Tips for a Sustainable Lifestyle." With environmental issues becoming more pressing by the day, this book provides many useful tips, perceptive approaches, and motivational tales to assist you in implementing meaningful changes in your day-to-day activities. 
  Explore the fundamentals of sustainability and discover how our daily decisions impact the environment. Every chapter offers comprehensive advice on important subjects like cutting waste, encouraging recycling, implementing renewable energy sources, and using sustainable transportation. Find out how small changes to your lifestyle, garden, and house may positively impact the environment. 
  Examine sustainable food habits, such as growing vegetables, minimizing food waste, and selecting organic and locally produced foods. Discover the value of conserving water and how to use practical water-saving methods indoors and outdoors. This book supports policy changes, community initiatives, and individual acts that contribute to a greener future. 
  "Sustainability and Eco-friendly Practices" is a call to action for everybody who wants to impact the environment positively, not just a guidebook. Regardless of your experience level or desire to learn more, this book offers the motivation and resources to adopt a green lifestyle and build a brighter future for future generations.

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  10 Amazing Inventions

  Jack Goldstein

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  What are the ten contenders for the best invention of all time? Which single technological development has led to the human race taking a bigger leap that any other?  
  Is it NASA’s Curiosity Rover, the end result of more than 60 years of space exploration, the summation of so many different technological strands? Or is it the internet as Redditors would no doubt suggest? Could it be the clock, counting down the days until our technological singularity? 
  Courtesy of the writings of global tech gurus Jack Goldstein and Jimmy Russell, narrator Stephen Harris proposes ten potential candidates for the title of mankind’s greatest invention - some serious, some not so… but all certainly contenders. 
  Do you agree with the choices made? Why not leave your comments in a review.

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  The Atheist’s Guide to Christmas

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  Read by Simon Le Bon, Derren Brown, Charlie Brooker, Richard Dawkins, Ben Goldacre, Mitch Benn and more! 
  In this download there are 38 atheist celebrities, comedians, scientists and writers give their funny and serious tips for enjoying the Christmas season. 
  When the Atheist Bus Campaign was first launched, over £150,000, was raised in four days - enough to place the advert 'There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life' on 800 UK buses in January 2009. Now dozens of atheist writers, comedians and scientists are joining together to raise money for a very different cause. 
  The Atheist's Guide to Christmas is a funny, thoughtful handbook all about enjoying Christmas, from 42 of the world's most entertaining atheists. It features everything from an atheist Christmas miracle to a guide to the best Christmas pop hits, and contributors include Richard Dawkins, Charlie Brooker, Derren Brown, Ben Goldacre, Jenny Colgan, David Baddiel, Simon Singh, AC Grayling, Brian Cox and Richard Herring. 
  The Atheist's Guide to Christmas, a bestselling book, is a humorous and thought-provoking read. The author, the Sunday Times bestselling author, offers a unique perspective on the holiday season, making it a must-read for anyone seeking a different take on Christmas. 
  For fans of Alan Bennett (A Life Like Other People's), Clive James (Reliable Essays), and Little Histories (A Little History of Archaeology).

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  A Miscellany Of Men - The third...

  G K Chesterton

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  "before I finally desert the illusions of rationalism for the actualities of romance, I should very much like to write one last roaring, raging book telling all the rationalists not to be so utterly irrational... Do not talk such bosh. I implore you, I supplicate you not to talk such bosh. Utterly and absolutely abolish all such bosh—and we may yet begin to discuss these public questions properly." -GKC"the Chesterton wit and charm and gentle satire [and] hard-hitting controversy. And you will also find a distinct thread that ties it all together. [...] first published in 1912, the essays ... often refer to current events and personalities from the early 20th century: coal strikes and railway strikes, game laws, women’s suffrage, and British Imperialism. ... in every case the larger point being made is very clear and is not tied to a time and place – unless it is our time and place. Chesterton’s mere observations of an event, whether in a headline or outside his window could be expounded upon into huge timely treatises. It is because truth has ramifications. And because it is true.The old controversies are still relevant. But each question points to a larger question. How do we assure the dignity and basic rights of the laborer? For whom does he labor: himself or some remote rich man? Does voting make any difference when our choices are so limited, when the choices themselves are not our choices but someone else’s? What is the nature of real democracy?" - Dale Ahlquist"These old articles of mine because they cover a very controversial period, in which I was in nearly all the controversies, whether I was visible there or no. And I wish to gather up into this last article a valedictory violence about all such things; and then pass to where, beyond these voices, there is peace--or in other words, to the writing of Penny Dreadfuls; a noble and much-needed work." -GKC

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  Saunterings In And About London

  Max Schlesinger

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  A witty 1853 travelogue by a cultured German for his countrymen. “…for I did not write for an English public, nor did I ever pretend to popularity in England. The “SAUNTERINGS” were intended for the profit and amusement of my German countrymen; and I must say I was not a little pleased and surprised with the very flattering reception which my book experienced at the hands of the English critics. Their favourable opinion, which they so emphatically and—I am selfish enough to go the whole length of the word—so ably expressed, has probably caused the production of the book in an English dress.” ( Book Preface and david wales)

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