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  The Secular Enlightenment

  Margaret Jacob

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  The Secular Enlightenment is a panoramic account of the radical ways that life began to change for ordinary people in the age of Locke, Voltaire, and Rousseau. In this landmark book, familiar Enlightenment figures share places with voices that have remained largely unheard until now, from freethinkers and freemasons to French materialists, anticlerical Catholics, pantheists, pornographers, readers, and travelers. 
   
   
   
  Margaret Jacob reveals how this newly secular outlook was not a wholesale rejection of Christianity but rather a new mental space in which to encounter the world on its own terms. She takes listeners from London and Amsterdam to Berlin, Vienna, Turin, and Naples, drawing on rare archival materials to show how ideas central to the emergence of secular democracy touched all facets of daily life. Human frailties once attributed to sin were now viewed through the lens of the newly conceived social sciences. People entered churches not to pray but to admire the architecture, and spent their Sunday mornings reading a newspaper or even a risqué book. 
   
   
   
  A majestic work of intellectual and cultural history, The Secular Enlightenment demonstrates how secular values and pursuits took hold of eighteenth-century Europe, spilled into the American colonies, and left their lasting imprint on the Western world for generations to come.

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  On This Day: September 15

  Emily Goldstein

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  On This Day: September 15. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Birth of Agatha Christie; Confederate capture of Harper's Ferry during the American Civil War; bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL

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  How Women Run Circles Around Men

  Blaine Williams

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  Women have long been very manipulative toward men. So much so, in fact, that most men consider women to be manipulative by nature. There are a lot of reasons why women are manipulative, but you do not have to tolerate this behavior. As a human being, you have basic rights that manipulation violates. You need to stick up for yourself and refuse to allow people to manipulate you. 
  If someone wants something from you, he or she should just ask like an adult. It is important for you to teach the women in your life to treat you with this respect. Do not allow manipulation. Encourage respect and good treatment instead. 
  It is time to take charge of your life. Stop giving power to others who know how to manipulate you and play games with your head. Take control of your own life. Only do what you want to do for others, and put yourself first. It is time to start taking care of yourself and to cut out people who violate your boundaries. 
  This book teaches you how to spot and react to manipulation that women may try to run on you. It also will teach you how to command respect and defend your basic human rights. Finally, this book will show you how to heal from the emotional harm that manipulative and emotionally abusive women can cause you. You can use this as a guide to improve your life and your relations with the women in your life. 
  Stop letting women run circles around you and read this book.

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  The Incas

  Terence N. D'Altroy

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  The Incas were a small ethic group from the southern Peruvian highlands who created the greatest empire ever seen in the independent Americas--an empire of 10 to 12 million people. Inca history, largely presented to us by the conquering Spanish, reveals a rich culture of stunning achievement. In many ways, Inca life was defined by its unique geographical setting in the Andes, whose climate influenced everything from the crops the Incas grew to the altitudes in which they lived. This course focuses on Inca life at the height of empire, the society's origins, its military, religion, ruling structure, and finally, the Incas' legacy today.

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  The Book of Five Rings

  Miyamoto Musashi

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  The Book of Five Rings is a text on Kenjutsu and the martial arts in general, written by the Japanese swordsman Miyamoto Musashi around 1645. There have been various translations made over the years, and it enjoys an audience considerably broader than only that of martial artists and people across East Asia: For instance, some foreign business leaders find its discussion of conflict and taking the advantage to be relevant to their work in a business context. 
  Musashi establishes a "no-nonsense" theme throughout the text. For instance, he repeatedly remarks that technical flourishes are excessive and contrasts worrying about such things with the principle that all technique is simply a method of cutting down one's opponent. He also continually makes the point that the understandings expressed in the book are important for combat on any scale, whether a one-on-one duel or a massive battle.

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  The Heart Of Yoga Wisdom From...

  Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati

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  The Bhagavata-purana, (Sanskrit: “Ancient Stories of God [Vishnu]”) is the most-celebrated text of a variety of Hindu sacred literature known as the Puranas and the specific text held sacred by the Bhagavata sect. The Purana is made up of some 18,000 stanzas divided into 12 books, but it is Book X, which deals with Krishna’s childhood and his years spent among the cowherds of Vrindavana, that accounts for its immense popularity with Vaishnavas throughout India. The attempts on Krishna’s life made by his wicked uncle Kamsa, the childhood pranks he played on his foster mother Yashoda, his love for the gopis (the wives and daughters of the cowherds), and their passionate abandonment to him are treated with endearing charm and grace, even while transfused with deep religious significance. It is the essence of all yogic literature.

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