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  The Philosophy and Ethics of...

  Colten White

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  While many falconry books briefly touch on the ethics of the sport, “The Philosophy & Ethics of Falconry” is entirely dedicated to addressing the chief ethical and philosophical questions at the heart of falconry. Readers, whether they are aspiring, new, or experienced falconers (or simply someone intrigued by this unique method of hunting) will be introduced to several philosophical traditions and what wisdom they have to offer for falconry. This book also responds to critics of falconry and offers a robust ethical defense of the sport from an internationally recognized teacher of philosophy and debate. Regardless of the reader’s experience with falconry or style of hawking, everyone will walk away from this book with a richer understanding of what makes the sport worth pursuing and how it fits into an examined, ethical, and worthwhile life.

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  Cuckooland: Where the Rich Own...

  Tom Burgis

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  'Stand by for fireworks as it hits the shelves' SUNDAY TIMES 
  'If Orwell were with us today, he'd be writing books like this' PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE 
  'Breath-taking and jaw-dropping' PETER FRANKOPAN 
  'A true-life thriller' ANNE APPLEBAUM 
  From the bestselling author of Kleptopia comes a true story about Cuckooland – a world where the rich can buy everything – including the truth. 
  Everywhere, the powerful are making a renewed claim to the greatest prize of all: to own the truth. The power to choose what you want reality to be and impose that reality on the world. 
  For three years, Tom Burgis followed a lead that took him deeper and deeper into Cuckooland – the place where the rich own the truth. The trail snaked from the Kremlin to Kathmandu, Stockholm to the Steppe, from a blood-soaked town square in Uzbekistan to a royal retreat in Scotland. Burgis hunted down oligarchs, developed secret sources and traced vast sums of money flowing between multinational corporations, ex-Soviet dictators and the west’s ruling elites. And he found one man who wanted the power to bend reality to his will. 
  This book tells an astonishing story: a tale of secrets and lies that reveals how fragile that truth can be. Whether it’s in Kazakh torture chambers or the UK’s High Court, the lords of Cuckooland are seizing control of the truth. They decree what stories may be told about war and money and power, what we are permitted to know – and more importantly, what we are not. 
  From the bestselling author of Kleptopia, Cuckooland is a deeply reported work of non-fiction that reads like a thriller. It is a story of how globalisation and technological revolution have combined to imperil the foundation of free societies: that the truth belongs to the many, not the few. 
  Cuckooland by Tom Burgis, the Sunday Times bestselling author, is a non-fiction exploration of corruption and misconduct in the 21st century. The book delves into the world of white-collar crime in modern Russia, providing a unique perspective on the intersection of business, economics, and political history. 
  For fans of Oliver Bullough (The Last Man in Russia), Tim Marshall (Divided), Bill Browder (Orden de embargo. Una historia real de blanqueo de dinero, asesinatos y...), Chris Blackhurst (The World's Biggest Cash Machine), and Eliot Higgins (We Are Bellingcat). 
  HarperCollins 2024

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  A Rare Recording of W F Hooley...

  W. F. Hooley

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  Abraham Lincoln's carefully crafted gettysburg address was originally meant to be secondary to other presentations that day, following on as it did from a two hour speech by the orator Edward Everett. Although Lincoln's speech was only just over two minutes long, it came to be regarded as one of the greatest speeches in American history. 
   
  "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

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  Experiment F - Are you a Good...

  Hooman

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  EXPERIMENT F is the first in a series of thought experiments aimed at the discovery of the answers to the most basic of human questions. 
  These questions might be common to all of us but inherently we are all different. By removing our differences of faith, religion, education, knowledge and biases, we are left with nothing but ourselves and the questions. 
  Can they still be answered? 
  This first thought Experiment F attempts to provide you with the pathway to find out if you are a good human being. 
  More details at hoomanexperiment.com

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  Ecclesiastes - The World English...

  Various Authors

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  Ecclesiastes is one of the Ketuvim ("Writings") of the Hebrew Bible and one of the "Wisdom" books of the Christian Old Testament. The title commonly used in English is a Latin transliteration of the Greek translation of the Hebrew word קֹהֶלֶת (Kohelet, Koheleth, Qoheleth or Qohelet). An unnamed author introduces "The words of Kohelet, son of David, king in Jerusalem" (1:1) and does not use his own voice again until the final verses (12:9-14), where he gives his own thoughts and summarises the statements of Kohelet; the main body of the text is ascribed to Kohelet himself.

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  Dobri a zli hrdinovia EN SK -...

  Robert Hodosi

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   Audiobook - Good and Bad Heroes, EN, SK - is a bilingual book read in Slovak and English. It contains 2000 sentences which are in Slovak and translated one by one into English. It serves for developing vocabulary in both languages in the field of personal psychology. Readers will encounter the basic 120 profiles of psychological heroes. In an age when gossip is seen as telling our friends the news, it is essential to raise the narrative of what we or our friends are like to a psychological level. And that's what this audiobook, Good and Bad Heroes, EN, SK, in Slovak and English, allows us to do. The only question we are left with here is whether you have chosen the right path in life and are a good hero who has a developed personality, or a bad hero who has an undeveloped personality, or one that is merely adapted to the people in your environment. And that's what we're going to find out in this audiobook. Well, which of these heroes prevails with you or your friends? 
    Audiokniha - Dobrí a zlí hrdinovia, EN, SK - je dvojjazyčná knižka čítaná v slovenčine a angličtine. Obsahuje 2000 viet, ktoré sú v slovenčine a preložené jedna po druhej do angličtiny. Slúži pre rozvinutie slovnej zásoby v oboch jazykoch v oblasti personálnej psychológie. Čitatelia sa v nej stretnú so základnými 120 profilmi psychologických hrdinov. V dobe, keď sa klebety považujú za rozprávanie o novinkách našich priateľov, je nevyhnutné povýšiť rozprávanie o tom, akí sme my alebo naši priatelia, na psychologickú úroveň. A práve to nám v slovenčine a angličtine umožní táto audioknižka Dobrí a zlí hrdinovia, EN, SK. Otázkou nám tu len zostáva, či ste si vybrali tú správnu cestu životom a ste dobrý hrdina, ktorý má rozvinutú osobnosť, alebo zlý hrdina, ktorý má nerozvinutú osobnosť alebo iba prispôsobenú ľuďom zo svojho okolia. A o tom sa dozvieme práve v tejto audioknihe. Nuž, ktorý z týchto hrdinov u Vás či Vašich priateľov prevláda?

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