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When the night is longest, the light begins to return. A lamp in the window, evergreen branches by the door, something warm to share at the table. Yule brings the turning of the Wheel into the heart of the home, inviting you to celebrate the winter solstice through returning light, folklore...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Why do we decorate evergreen trees, exchange gifts, light candles, and gather around a fire each Christmas? How much of the festival comes from Christian worship—and how much from older winter traditions? In Christmas in Ritual and Tradition...

Delving into the complexities of Africa's past, present, and future, this book uncovers the underlying tensions and paradoxes that have shaped the continent's trajectory. With candid narrative and thought-provoking insights, it reveals the resilience and resourcefulness of African nations amidst...

A man stands before three caskets and chooses the one that wins his bride by what looks like pure discernment. The contest was rigged before he entered the room, and the rigging is the whole art. Four centuries later it is still running, and now it runs inside your own head.In The Source Code of...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What happens when the system meant to protect you turns against you? In The Offense: A Life-Changing Decision, Tawana Beecham shares a deeply personal story of a workplace battle that tested her strength, resilience, and determination to speak the truth...

Are African Americans truly the original Native Americans, or is there a much deeper historical and Biblical reality that is being overlooked? In Part 1 of this in-depth study, Dante Fortson examines the popular claim that Black people are indigenous to the Americas. We cut through the hype and...

Getting older is weird.One minute, you’re living your life without thinking much about your age. The next, someone is offering you the senior discount, your knees have opinions, your grown children no longer need your advice, and the woman in the mirror looks suspiciously older than the one in...

Why is it that the more money governments spend on education, the less children seem to know? And why, year after year, are standards of literacy and numeracy plummeting? In Mindless, Bella d'Abrera shows that the education systems in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States are no...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Power does not necessarily mean progress. A civilization may become richer, more comfortable, and more technologically sophisticated while growing more fragile. What should an intelligent species do once it begins to shape its own evolutionary future?...

8:46 is Lux Thunberg's first-person recollection of what played out after George Floyd's murder, in her own words.It begins on May 25, 2020, with a text, a 10 p.m. curfew at a treatment house, and a decision to go to the Fourth Police Precinct in Minneapolis in the rain. From there it moves...

In the last minutes of Robert Eggers's The Witch, a girl walks into a barn to meet the Devil in the shape of a black goat. That image is five thousand years old.When a community cannot face the truth about itself, it manufactures an outside and puts its fear there. It wants a face for that fear...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. There are Cultural Keys that are not readily available to other cultures. So, it also is with the First Nations/American Native Culture. Even among those, there are sacred parts of the culture of a tribal entity that are not shared outside of the tribe...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A festival sold with supermodels served a cheese sandwich. A YouTuber fed a homeless man toothpaste and went to court. A model announced her own death, then turned up alive the next day. In Anything for the Views, Kyleigh Sullivan, author of Raised on...

A sweeping history of the British village, both rural and urban, which makes a compelling case for why we need to protect our local communities, from bestselling author Simon Jenkins We are a nation of villages, from the rural, picturesque hamlets of Castle Combe and Clovelly, to the tight-knit...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In June 2020, Dubai police raided the apartment of an Instagram star with 2.5 million followers. His Rolls-Royces and Gucci bags had been paid for with fraud. A feed looks like proof. But luxury, follower counts and smiling recommendations can all be...

Praise for Erika Lust: 'The queen of ethical porn' - The Times 'Lust has blazed a trail' - Dazed 'We're so into it' - Cosmopolitan In Lust: Porn, Pleasure, Power, Erika Lust tells the story of how a shy 'good girl' came to create one of the most talked-about studios in the world. She takes us...

The first complete history of the world’s most notorious secret society – and its bizarre and dangerous afterlife that we’re still reckoning with today. On 1 May 1776 a radical young professor named Adam Weishaupt founded a secret society with the aim of infiltrating and overturning the...

This huge volume was published in 1903.CONTENTS PART I OBSERVATIONS AND APPRECIATIONS FIRST IMPRESSION (1885) I. Journey from Vienna to Warsaw The Frontier- Custom-house Inspection II. Warsaw Physiognomy of the City Condition of the Language and of the Theatre Russianisa- tion Banishments III...

'Womanhood is the book you didn't know you needed on your bedside table. Tahmina Begum writes for anyone who seeks hope and self-discovery while tethered to a patriarchal norm that too often prevents them from being the main character of their own story.' - Hafsa Lodi 'Womanhood is a beautiful...

This historical novel takes place in Kent in 1657, and focuses on a local nobleman who stops at nothing to gain wealth, and his ward who is a victim of his crimes. The puritan influence and social cultural mores of the time provide interesting parts of the setting...