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WHEN GODS TURN VENGEFUL, ONLY THE BRAVE CAN DEFY FATE AND FIND THEIR WAY HOME Discover Stephen Fry's epic re-telling of the Odyssey for the 21st century After the fall of Troy, wily Odysseus, King of Ithaca, sails for home and his steadfast queen Penelope. However, the angry gods curse him to...

In this powerful and wide-ranging collection of essays, Rebecca Solnit turns her attention to the war at home. This is a war, she says, "[W]ith so many casualties that we should call it by its true name, this war with so many dead by police, by violent ex-husbands and partners and lovers, by people pursuing power and profit at the point of a gun or just shooting first and figuring out who they hit later."  

Irish bars abroad, Irish voices within. Each episode, we sit down with a ‘local’ to talk life overseas, identity, and staying connected to your roots.

For readers of adrienne maree brown, Staci K. Haines, and Robin Wall Kimmerer A body-based healing model that interrogates what we’ve been wrongly taught about hierarchies of nature and the body—and pushes back against the white supremacy, colonialism, patriarchy, and capitalism embedded in...

Welcome to The Work of Byron Katie® official podcast. Invite your mind to stillness, pay attention as you relate what you hear to your own life, and experience the thrill of waking up to reality—not as some exalted state of mind, but as the elementary, doable, down-to-earth experience of understanding the cause of all suffering and how to end it. Hello. This is Byron Katie, and I welcome you to the "At Home with Byron Katie" podcast. Each week you'll find me here with a different guest. I love the life experience each one brings to the table, and I hope you will too. Is there a problem in ...

If you're among the millions of adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), you need the latest facts about the disorder and its treatment. You need practical strategies to help develop your strengths and achieve your goals, whether on the job, in family relationships, or in personal pursuits. From renowned ADHD researcher/clinician Russell A. Barkley, this is the book for you. 

Das Gartenradio beschäftigt sich mit allen Aspekten des Gartens. Von einzelnen Pflanzen, über berühmte internationale Gärten bis hin zur Faszination Kleingarten finden hier alle Pflanzenfreunde ihr Zuhause. Jeden Sonntag läuft das Gartenradio ab 16 Uhr im Wortstream von detektor.fm.

From David Graeber, the bestselling author of The Dawn of Everything and Debt—“a master of opening up thought and stimulating debate” (Slate)—a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs…and their consequences. Does your job make a meaningful contribution to...

No single invention epitomizes the Victorian era more than the black cast-iron range. Aware that the 21st-century has reduced it to a quaint relic, Ruth Goodman was determined to prove that the hot coal stove provided so much more than morning tea: It might even have kick-started the Industrial Revolution. Wielding the wit and passion seen in How to Be a Victorian, Goodman traces the tectonic shift from wood to coal in the mid-16th century - from sooty trials and errors during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I to the totally smog-clouded reign of Queen Victoria. 

The Minimalists are Emmy-nominated Netflix stars and New York Times–bestselling authors Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus. Alongside cohost T.K. Coleman, they help millions of people live meaningful lives with less.

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If These Walls Could Cook is a podcast about remarkable places, the food connected to them, and the wonderfully strange people and stories you find when you start poking around.Hosted by Stephen Found, founder of GATHER, each episode starts at a table with a story and follows the food wherever it leads. Along the way, Stephen talks with farmers, cooks, craftspeople, historians, tradesmen, owners, and local characters to uncover what people grew, cooked, ate, drank, built, preserved, and occasionally got completely wrong.Some stories are historic. Some are unexpected. Some are funny. Most are a...

In Swantjes Wohnzimmer ist immer ein Platz frei. Dieser Podcast fühlt sich an wie ein langer Kaffee mit einer guten Freundin. Wir reden über alles, was das Leben mit sich bringt – schöne Momente, schwierige Zeiten, Social Media, Zuhause, Beziehungen, Kinderwunsch, Kreativität und die kleinen Gedanken, die sonst oft unausgesprochen bleiben. Mach es dir so richtig gemütlich- besorg dir ein paar Snacks und lass uns schnacken! Willkommen im Wohnzimmer.

Les sirènes tentatrices, l'infâme cyclope, Circé et ses pourceaux, et bien sûr Ulysse, mari aimant et roi éclairé, qui parvient après mille détours à rentrer chez lui auprès de sa fidèle épouse pour récupérer sa terre et n'en plus bouger… L'entreprise de l'auteur est directe, généreuse et efficace : raconter L'Odyssée aux adultes, en suivant l'ordre des chants, dans une succession de brefs chapitres qui nous content au plus près du texte les aventures des héros et des héroïnes, des déesses et des dieux, mais creusent aussi le sens profond que les contemporains leur donnaient et les leçons que

Dive into the timeless tales of gods and heroes in this bestselling A-to-Z encyclopedia detailing classic myths and legends—perfect for curious readers and academics alike. Edith Hamilton's mythology succeeds like no other book in bringing to life for the modern reader the Greek, Roman and...

From the author of Proust and the Squid, a lively, ambitious, and deeply informative epistolary book that considers the future of the reading brain and our capacity for critical thinking, empathy, and reflection as we become increasingly dependent on digital technologies. A decade ago, Maryanne...

Home Battery Backup is a home battery podcast for solar owners and outage-anxious homeowners deciding backup loads vs time-of-use arbitrage vs solar pairing. We own critical-load panels, sizing math, TOU vs resilience tradeoffs, inverter pairing questions, and brand-agnostic decision frameworks. Practical home energy storage—not influencer brand worship. Search Home Battery Backup on Spotify and Apple Podcasts for weekly home battery and backup power episodes. Audio for this show is produced with AI assistance. Episodes are researched, scripted, and reviewed for accuracy before ...

Ein desillusionierter Drogenermittler beginnt als Streetworker ein neues Leben. Henry Taylor möchte endlich etwas tun, um unmittelbar zu helfen. In seiner Heimatstadt Lewiston eröffnet der Ex-Cop das Second Home, Jugendzentrum und Anlaufstelle für die Vergessenen der Gesellschaft. Er engagiert sich tatkräftig und emotional, sein Idealismus kollidiert jedoch bald mit der Realität, mit Vorurteilen, Gewalt und bürokratischen Hürden. Auch in seinem Privatleben stehen die Zeichen auf Veränderung.

Self-defense expert Tim Larkin presents an important book examining how to think about violence in order to defend ourselves and those we love. In a civilized society, violence is rarely the answer. But when it is, it's the only answer. The sound of breaking glass downstairs in the middle of the...

In At Home, Bill Bryson applies the same irrepressible curiosity, irresistible wit, stylish prose and masterful storytelling that made A Short History of Nearly Everything one of the most lauded books of the last decade, and delivers one of the most entertaining and illuminating books ever written about the history of the way we live. Bill Bryson was struck one day by the thought that we devote a lot more time to studying the battles and wars of history than to considering what history really consists of: centuries of people quietly going about their daily business – eating, sleeping and merely endeavouring to get more comfortable.