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  Portraits as Animal - Poems

  Victoriano Cárdenas

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  Portraits as Animal is a gallery of self-becoming in a "sunbaked house as tiny as a heart." With a toothy lyricism at turns sly and forthright, Cárdenas's hunger to belong carries us from a stove "bleeding a hundred kinds of caldo" to his "determined mitochondrial ancestors''-a journey framed by generational struggles with addiction, a queerphobic church, and the always-transforming land. 
  In conversation with Taos's rich artistic tradition and the brutal, binding legacy of colonization, Cárdenas writes through his transition, acknowledging that "to become a man means a lifetime of needles like the man who raised me." Here is pain and violence, but here, too, is the assurance that we are "built for this metamorphosis" and can follow our past incarnations "over scorched earth neon with new grass" to a future of our own making.

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  Scars on the Land - An...

  David Silkenat

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  Scars on the Land is the first comprehensive history of American slavery to examine how the environment fundamentally formed enslaved people's lives and how slavery remade the Southern landscape. Over two centuries, from the establishment of slavery in the Chesapeake to the Civil War, one simple calculation had profound consequences: rather than measuring productivity based on outputs per acre, Southern planters sought to maximize how much labor they could extract from their enslaved workforce. They saw the landscape as disposable, relocating to more fertile prospects once they had leached the soils and cut down the forests. On the leading edge of the frontier, slavery laid waste to fragile ecosystems, draining swamps, clearing forests to plant crops and fuel steamships, and introducing devastating invasive species. On its trailing edge, slavery left eroded hillsides, rivers clogged with sterile soil, and the extinction of native species. While environmental destruction fueled slavery's expansion, no environment could long survive intensive slave labor. The scars manifested themselves in different ways, but the land too fell victim to the slave owner's lash.

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  Mahatma Gandhi: A short...

  5 Minutes, 5 Minute Biographies,...

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  Mahatma Gandhi, father of modern India: Life and works in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best!

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  The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

  Kahlil Gibran

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  The Prophet is a book of 26 prose poetry fables written in English by the Lebanese-American poet and writer Kahlil Gibran. It is Gibran's best-known work. The prophet Al Mustafa has lived in the city of Orphalese for 12 years and is about to board a ship that will carry him home. He is stopped by a group of people, with whom he discusses topics such as life and the human condition. The book is divided into chapters dealing with love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, houses, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and death.Although published in 1923, the book contains universal wisdom that still rings true to this day and makes an excellent audiobook.

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  Stop Procrastinating - Learn How...

  Nills Scot

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  Are you someone who is always playing catch up when it comes to getting things done? 
  Are you in the midst of unfinished projects at home or at work? 
  Would you like to be able cut through the delays and be more self-disciplined? 
  Procrastination is one of the worst traits to have when you have a deadline to meet or an important project that requires a lot of discipline to see it through. Unfortunately, there are millions of people who always seem to find something else that has to be done, and a reason to put off even vitally important tasks. 
  If you want to cut out the distractions and get more done then this book, Stop Procrastinating: Learn How to Cure your Laziness and Get Things Done with Self-Discipline, is perfect for you, with advice on:The reasons we procrastinateThe consequences and effectsHow to be more aware of the signsFocus and motivationHow to increase productivitySolutions to procrastinationAnd more… 
  If procrastination is damaging your business, career or even your personal life, then you need to act now to control it and this book has the answers you’ve been looking for. 
  Get a copy of Stop Procrastinating today and find ways to increase your self-discipline now! 
  And if you enjoy reading this book, please leave a review so that others can benefit from it too!

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  Your Child is Not Broken -...

  Heidi Mavir

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  This audiobook is passionately and evocatively read by the author, Heidi Mavir.An updated edition of the Sunday Times bestseller.Your Child Is Not Broken is THE book for parents who need permission to do things differently.An unapologetic, deeply moving manual for parents of neurodivergent children from Heidi Mavir, a late-identified, neurodivergent adult and parent to an autistic/ADHD teenager.This updated edition includes information on Pathological Demand Avoidance, Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria, an interview with Heidi's son Theo and more.Follow Heidi's irreverent and brutally honest story of her fight to be seen, heard and supported, while swimming against a tide of parent blame, ableist stereotypes and the weight of other people’s opinions.Your Child Is Not Broken is a call to arms for parents and carers of autistic, ADHD, or otherwise neurodivergent children. It is the book that no one has dared to write but every parent needs to read. Heidi’s hilarious anecdotes and heartbreaking storytelling offer validation, comfort, reassurance and wisdom to parents who need it the most.

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