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Modern political life is a confusing and disorientating terrain of competing ideologies. Jason Blakely offers readers a lively, fresh and insightful guide through the labyrinth of conflicting and competing ideas in order to better understand why ideology in the modern era can be so divisive.
Lost in Ideology sets out from the conviction that the current disorientation engulfing the world's liberal democracies is in no small part ideological in...
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Gone volume 4
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Time has passed, and Mats awakens in a new body, confused and disorientated. Where is Ankita, and what happened to the Tantallon?
Requires Gone Volume One for the whole story.
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Sinners volume 1
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Today is not a good day for Hope. Waking in a strange bed, with a not so strange body lying lifeless in the corridor, she panics. Disorientated and confused about the previous night's events, Hope runs, but only so far as the black limousine waiting for him.
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This commentary concerns writings which emerged from three successive stages in Judah's decline and captivity - the century of fear engendered by the Assyrian menace (addressed in Nahum), the shock and disorientation that followed the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem (Obadiah), and the necessary dilemma of adapting yet maintaining their uniqueness in an alien setting (Esther). All three books reflect the efforts to maintain faith despoite continued...
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Hexes volume 1
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Hex: a magic spell; a curse.
Sometimes, things don’t work out. Sometimes, you wonder what exactly it is you’ve done to wind up in the trouble you’re in. Sometimes, it feels like you’re cursed.
Taking place in the same universe (The Hexiverse) there diverse stories will unnerve and disorientate you. They are tales that happen to the everyday people, your neighbours or your family, perhaps even your best friend, and you’d never know it was...
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Get the Summary of Rebecca Solnit's A Field Guide to Getting Lost in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "A Field Guide to Getting Lost" by Rebecca Solnit is a reflective exploration of the theme of getting lost, both literally and metaphorically. Solnit weaves personal anecdotes, historical accounts, and cultural observations into a tapestry that examines the value of uncertainty, the art of embracing the unknown,...
8) Finding Home
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How does the world look to someone who has never lived in it? Complicated to say the least. After Artemis left the Forest to start a life with Jamie, she finds herself surrounded by things she has never seen or experienced before. Disorientated by this new way of life, Artemis finds herself questioning her decision. With only Jamie and her family at her side, will Artemis be able to find her place in this new world? Or will things come crumbling down...
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Alice Quentin novels volume 5
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"Alice is a vividly realized protagonist whose complex and harrowing history rivals the central crime storyline." -New York Times bestselling author Sophie Hannah
Clare Riordan and her son, Mikey, are abducted from Clapham Common early one morning. Hours later, the boy is found wandering disorientated. Soon after, a container of Clare's blood is left on a doorstep in the heart of London.
Psychologist Alice Quentin is brought in to help the traumatized...
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To do honor to a strange and mad god, any book about him must be strange and mad too. This book is a Dionysian tale, part fact, part fiction. Its purpose is to disorient, to disrupt, to open the mind to radical new possibilities. Do you want to be visited by strangeness and madness, to have your mind expanded as never before? Then let the insanity begin. Welcome to the Extraordinary World, the sacred space, the space where the most solemn and ineffable...
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How do you go on after you've lost everything? Over several terrifying summers, deadly wildfires raged across Colorado. Lives were lost, and the flames destroyed thousands of homes. When the smoke cleared and only rubble remained, survivors were left trying to find a way forward against devastating loss. The aftermath of that destruction would span many years, and its effects are still felt today. In Phoenix Rising, twenty women share their stories...
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From one of Britain's leading writers comes a biting satire about a country founded on Nihilism and a government gone mad Nihilon is a country where honesty is outlawed, drunk driving is mandatory, and nihilism reigns supreme. Five researchers are sent into the midst of this chaos to compile a new guidebook about the peculiar, unexplored land and its all-powerful leader, President Nil. Adam, Benjamin, Jaquiline, Edgar, and Richard attempt to gather...
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In a world still reeling from a global pandemic, divisiveness, systemic hatred, violence, war, disorientation, uncertainty, change and so much unsettling us, there is evidence that we are all suffering from trauma and sustained stress. Looking to the plant world as metaphor for the relationship with God "Spirit Prayers:Growing Faith Through Adversity" offers reflections on Scripture passages from the common lectionary. The growth theme takes us to...
14) The Last Post
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Following WWI, an English aristocrat struggles to find peace as he attempts to rebuild his life in this conclusion to the Parade's End Tetralogy.
The Great War is over. The ancestral home of Christopher Tietjens has been sold to an American. Christopher and Valentine Wannop now share a cottage with his brother and sister-in-law. A mathematician before the war, Christopher now earns a living selling antique furniture. It seems his world will...
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In Transatlantic Aliens, Will Norman reorients our understanding of midcentury American culture by thinking dialectically about the interfusion of aesthetic and intellectual practices across both the cultural hierarchy and the Atlantic.
Norman relays this critical narrative through a series of interlinked case studies of key figures, including C. L. R. James, Theodor Adorno, George Grosz, Raymond Chandler, Simone de Beauvoir, Vladimir Nabokov, and...
16) Monster: Poems
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The debut poetry collection from one of feminism's most passionate voices, with a new preface by the author Well before Robin Morgan was known as a feminist leader, literary magazines published her as a serious poet, and in 1979 she received a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in poetry. Monster, her first collection, originally published in 1972, contains work that will astonish, disorient, and move readers in powerful...
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Decaying values. Sexually transmitted diseases.Fatherless homes. Rampant drug use.These aren't just problems for today's inner cities.It's the plight of all America.Much has been said about Bill Cosby's incendiary remarks about urban black culture and its "dirty laundry." But in this provocative book, Star Parker, one of today's most controversial commentators, goes even further, proving that urban plight simply reveals a decay that is gnawing its...
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In the far reaches of space, where the boundaries of knowledge intertwine with human imagination, an exceptional journey awaits in "Destrom-1: The Intergalactic Odyssey."A team of brilliant minds, led by scientists Deniz, Faruk, Haluk, Hakan, and Khan, embark on an ambitious project to explore Saturn's moon Enceladus. Their goal: to send a unique being, Destrom-1, a revolutionary humanoid robot, on a mission to gather evidence and sow the seeds of...
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Epilepsy is a neurological disorder characterized by recurrent, unprovoked seizures. The symptoms of epilepsy can vary widely from person to person, and the type and intensity of seizures can also differ. Here are some general symptoms associated with epilepsy:Seizures: The hallmark symptom of epilepsy is the occurrence of seizures. Seizures can manifest in different ways, and there are several types, including:Generalized seizures: Affecting the...
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You know the you that you dream about being; the better version of who you are, the one your Maker intended? Why doesn't that just happen? How do we become the person we were made to be?
Busy-ness, distraction and lack of direction keep us from growth. If we don't slow down and get some focus, we'll stay as we are. We'll miss out on who we were supposed to be. Our souls need nurturing to grow. My heart is small, but it is grow-able, "re-markable"!...
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