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  Summary & Analysis of The Salt Fix: Why the Experts Got It All Wrong - and How Eating More Might Save Your Life by Dr. James DiNicolantonio : A Guide to the Book , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 48min

  PLEASE NOTE: This is a summary and analysis of the book and not the original book. Medical researcher Dr. James DiNicolantonio presents some astounding findings regarding the long-standing demonization of salt in our diets in his eye-opening book The Salt Fix.What does this ZIP Reads Summary include? Synopsis of the original bookThe myth about salt and high blood pressureWhy our bodies need more salt than we thinkHow the war against salt startedThe true culprit behind heart diseaseHow to change your salt intake to change your lifeEditorial reivewBackground on the authorAbout the Original Book: For the millions of people who suffer from a wide range of medical issues, The Salt Fix may be the breakthrough they need. Along with extensive research proving that low levels of salt in the diet are harmful, there is also factual data showing how addressing this need will positively influence the body and return it to its most optimal functioning. If you are truly concerned about your health and think you are doing all you can to safeguard it, this book will provide you with a completely different look at the guidelines and medical advice that have been misleading people for many years. DISCLAIMER: This book is intended as a companion to, not a replacement for, The Salt Fix. ZIP Reads is wholly responsible for this content and is not associated with the original author in any way.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael London Anglado. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/124964/bk_acx0_124964_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 810min

  From South Park to Kathy Acker, and from Lars Von Trier to Sex and the City, women's sexual organs are demonized. Rees traces the fascinating evolution of this demonization, considering how calling the "c-word" obscene both legitimates and perpetuates the fractured identities of women globally. Rees demonstrates how writers, artists, and filmmakers contend with the dilemma of the vagina's puzzlingly "covert visibility". In our postmodern, porn-obsessed culture, vaginas appear to be everywhere, literally or symbolically but, crucially, they are as silenced as they are objectified. The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History examines the paradox of female genitalia through five fields of artistic expression: literature, film, TV, visual, and performance art. There is a peculiar paradox - unlike any other - regarding female genitalia. Rees focuses on this paradox of what is termed the "covert visibility" of the vagina and on its monstrous manifestations. That is, what happens when the female body refuses to be pathologized, eroticized, or rendered subordinate to the will or intention of another? Common, and often offensive, slang terms for the vagina can be seen as an attempt to divert attention away from the reality of women's lived sexual experiences such that we don't "look" at the vagina itself - slang offers a convenient distraction to something so taboo. The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History is an important contribution to the ongoing debate in understanding the feminine identity. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Polly Lee. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/021170/bk_adbl_021170_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Demonic Bodies and the Dark Ecologies of Early Christian Culture (eBook, PDF)

  Drawing insights from gender studies and the environmental humanities, Demonic Bodies and the Dark Ecologies of Early Christian Culture analyzes how ancient Christians constructed the Christian body through its relations to demonic adversaries. Through case studies of New Testament texts, Gnostic treatises, and early Christian church fathers (e.g., Ignatius of Antioch, Clement of Alexandria, and Tertullian of Carthage), Travis W. Proctor notes that early followers of Jesus construed the demonic body in diverse and sometimes contradictory ways, as both embodied and bodiless, "fattened" and ethereal, heavenly and earthbound. Across this diversity of portrayals, however, demons consistently functioned as personifications of "deviant" bodily practices such as "magical" rituals, immoral sexual acts, gluttony, and pagan religious practices. This demonization served an exclusionary function whereby Christian writers marginalized fringe Christian groups by linking their ritual activities to demonic modes of (dis)embodiment. The tandem construction of demonic and human corporeality demonstrates how Christian authors constructed the bodies that inhabited their cosmos--human, demon, and otherwise--as part of overlapping networks or "ecosystems" of humanity and nonhumanity. Through this approach, Proctor provides not only a more accurate representation of the bodies of ancient Christians, but also new resources for reimagining the enlivened ecosystems that surround and intersect with our modern ideas of "self."

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  Demonic Bodies and the Dark Ecologies of Early Christian Culture (eBook, ePUB)

  Drawing insights from gender studies and the environmental humanities, Demonic Bodies and the Dark Ecologies of Early Christian Culture analyzes how ancient Christians constructed the Christian body through its relations to demonic adversaries. Through case studies of New Testament texts, Gnostic treatises, and early Christian church fathers (e.g., Ignatius of Antioch, Clement of Alexandria, and Tertullian of Carthage), Travis W. Proctor notes that early followers of Jesus construed the demonic body in diverse and sometimes contradictory ways, as both embodied and bodiless, "fattened" and ethereal, heavenly and earthbound. Across this diversity of portrayals, however, demons consistently functioned as personifications of "deviant" bodily practices such as "magical" rituals, immoral sexual acts, gluttony, and pagan religious practices. This demonization served an exclusionary function whereby Christian writers marginalized fringe Christian groups by linking their ritual activities to demonic modes of (dis)embodiment. The tandem construction of demonic and human corporeality demonstrates how Christian authors constructed the bodies that inhabited their cosmos--human, demon, and otherwise--as part of overlapping networks or "ecosystems" of humanity and nonhumanity. Through this approach, Proctor provides not only a more accurate representation of the bodies of ancient Christians, but also new resources for reimagining the enlivened ecosystems that surround and intersect with our modern ideas of "self."

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  Savarkar: Echoes of a Forgotton Past, Vol. 1: Part 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 513min

  As the intellectual fountainhead of the ideology of Hindutva, which is in political ascendancy in India today, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar is undoubtedly one of the most contentious political thinkers and leaders of the 20th century.Accounts of his eventful and stormy life have oscillated from eulogizing hagiographies to disparaging demonization. The truth, as always, lies somewhere in between and has unfortunately never been brought to light. Savarkar and his ideology stood as one of the strongest and most virulent opponents of Gandhi, his pacifist philosophy and the Indian National Congress.An alleged atheist and a staunch rationalist who opposed orthodox Hindu beliefs, encouraged inter-caste marriage and dining, and dismissed cow worship as mere superstition, Savarkar was, arguably, the most vocal political voice for the Hindu community through the entire course of India's freedom struggle. From the heady days of revolution and generating international support for the cause of India's freedom as a law student in London, Savarkar found himself arrested, unfairly tried for sedition, transported and incarcerated at the Cellular Jail, in the Andamans, for over a decade, where he underwent unimaginable torture.From being an optimistic advocate of Hindu-Muslim unity in his treatise on the 1857 War of Independence, what was it that transformed him in the Cellular Jail to a proponent of "Hindutva", which viewed Muslims with suspicion?Drawing from a vast range of original archival documents across India and abroad, this biography in two parts - the first focusing on the years leading up to his incarceration and eventual release from the Kalapani - puts Savarkar, his life and philosophy in a new perspective and looks at the man with all his achievements and failings. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Pratik Sharma. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/007675/bk_rand_007675_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  God Against the Gods: Storytelling, Imagination, and Apologetics in the Bible , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 309min

  How God Captures the ImaginationBrian Godawa, Hollywood screenwriter and best-selling novelist, explores the nature of imagination in the Bible and how it relates to apologetics and evangelism.   He explains how God subverts pagan religions by appropriating their imagery and creativity and redeeming them within a Biblical worldview.   Improve your imagination in glorifying God and defending the faith.   You will discover what C.S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Francis Schaeffer understood about Christian apologetics and Biblical evangelism.    Here are the chapters and what you will learn:   Demonizing the Pagan Gods - God verbally attacked his opponents, pagans, and their gods, by using sarcasm, mockery and name-calling. Demonization is not wrong if they really are demonic.   Old Testament Storytelling Apologetics - Israel shared creative images with their pagan neighbors: The sea dragon of chaos, and the storm god. The Bible invests them with new meaning.   Biblical Creation and Storytelling - Creation stories in the ancient Near East and the Bible both express a primeval battle to create order out of chaos. But how do they differ?   The Universe in Ancient Imagination - A comparison and contrast of the Biblical picture of the universe with the ancient pagan one. What’s the difference?   New Testament Storytelling Apologetics - Paul’s sermon to the pagans on Mars Hill was subversive storytelling: Retelling society’s narrative through a Gospel lens.   Imagination in Prophecy and Apocalypse - How God uses symbolism to both obscure and reveal meaning in prophecy.   An Apologetic of Biblical Horror - Learn how God uses the genre of horror in the Bible as a powerful moral tool to communicate spiritual, social and moral truth.     ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brian Godawa. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/063502/bk_acx0_063502_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Confederaphobia: An American Epidemic , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 104min

  For 150 years Confederate monuments and other memorials dotted the American landscape. Few people objected. After all, a third of the American people are descended from Confederate soldiers and Congress has officially and legally declared Confederates to be "American veterans". That time has passed. There is an epidemic of hate and fear sweeping the land; a wave of hostility and intolerance that shows no sign of slowing or stopping; its fury is directed at Southern symbols - flags, monuments, and other displays - in fact everything Southern now appears to be a target. Paul C. Graham has courageously examined this case of mass hysteria; a condition he has aptly dubbed "Confederaphobia". "It's one thing," writes Graham, "to acknowledge that the meaning of symbols is one of perspective. It's quite another thing to have the meaning dictated by ideologues who are not participants in the cultural tradition.... Southern symbols mean to the Southerner exactly what they say that they do...speak for those people for whom Southern identity is a living reality." Southern people are growing weary of the ongoing demonization; of being bullied and harassed; and have begun to realize that Confederaphobia is not a matter of monuments, but a campaign to expunge their identity. If you are a self-identified Southerner, you are a potential target! It's not too late to inoculate yourself from the dangerous effects of this disease, but this is only possible if you recognize the problem. The problem is not Confederate flags, monuments, markers, belt-buckles, stickers, do-dads, knick-knacks, what-nots, or Dukes of Hazzard re-runs - the problem is Confederaphobia! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Izard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/105370/bk_acx0_105370_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Creating Russophobia: From the Great Religious Schism to Anti-Putin Hysteria , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 682min

  Why do the USA, UK and Europe so hate Russia? How it is that Western antipathy, once thought due to anti-Communism, could be so easily revived over a crisis in distant Ukraine, against a Russia no longer communist? Why does the West accuse Russia of empire-building, when 15 states once part of the defunct Warsaw Pact are now part of NATO, and NATO troops now flank the Russian border? What is the source of the Trump-Russia probe?These are only some of the questions Creating Russophobia investigates. Mettan begins by showing the strength of the prejudice against Russia through the Western response to a series of events: the Uberlingen mid-air collision, the Beslan hostage- taking, the Ossetia War, the Sochi Olympics and the crisis in Ukraine. He then delves into the historical, religious, ideological, and geopolitical roots of the detestation of Russia in various European nations over 13 centuries since Charlemagne competed with Byzantium for the title of heir to the Roman Empire.Contemporary Russophobia is manufactured through the construction of an anti-Russian discourse in the media and the diplomatic world, and the fabrication and demonization of “The Bad Guy”, now personified by Vladimir Putin. Both feature in the meta-narrative, the mythical framework of the ferocious Russian bear ruled with a rod of iron by a vicious president. A synthetic listening of all these elements is presented in the light of recent events and in particular of the Ukrainian crisis and the recent American elections, showing how all the resources of the West’s soft power have been mobilized to impose the tale of bad Russia dreaming of global conquest. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Shane Griffin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/148370/bk_acx0_148370_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1189min

  Instant New York Times best-seller. A New York Times notable book of 2018. One of The Economist's books of the year."My new favorite book of all time." (Bill Gates)If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: People are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science. Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In this elegant assessment of the human condition in the third millennium, cognitive scientist and public intellectual Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases. Instead, follow the data: In seventy-five jaw-dropping graphs, Pinker shows that life, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness are on the rise, not just in the West, but worldwide. This progress is not the result of some cosmic force. It is a gift of the Enlightenment: the conviction that reason and science can enhance human flourishing. Far from being a naïve hope, the Enlightenment, we now know, has worked. But more than ever, it needs a vigorous defense. The Enlightenment project swims against currents of human nature--tribalism, authoritarianism, demonization, magical thinking--which demagogues are all too willing to exploit. Many commentators, committed to political, religious, or romantic ideologies, fight a rearguard action against it. The result is a corrosive fatalism and a willingness to wreck the precious institutions of liberal democracy and global cooperation. With intellectual depth and literary flair, Enlightenment Now makes the case for reason, science, and humanism: the ideals we need to confront our problems and continue our progress. Includes a Bonus PDF with charts and graphs.  PLEASE NOTE: ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Arthur Morey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/003314/bk_peng_003314_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Pick Your Poison...No More: Stop Your Alcoholism, Drug Abuse and Other Addictions You May Have , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 56min

  Addiction is a serious problem. There are many people who battle with it every day. Some never recover, but sadly, most never receive the help needed because they don’t admit that they have a problem in the first place. Since you are here, you’ve managed to overcome that first step in recognizing that you do, in fact, have an addiction problem but more importantly have a willingness and desire to change your old ways. Now you just need to start taking the necessary actions to beat it yourself. What about going to rehab or attending support group? Those are fine options and shouldn’t be discounted; however, if you are embarrassed or ashamed to deal with your addictions openly to others or simply want to overcome them in the comfort and safety of your own home - now you can fight back privately and personally with this self-help guide, Pick Your Poison...No More.What types of antidotes will you receive?An anti-addiction action plan to revamp life without addictionA demonization visualization to resist constant tempting urgesA two-sided scale method to sustain the long-term progressionA rediscovery process to find and establish healthy alternativesA series of exercises to eliminate the old addictive dependencies...and more available for your poisons.Please note, this is not anything like a 12-step program but a quick alternative guide approach of practical hands-on techniques that can work in conjunction with the 12-step program or if you don’t have the time nor the desire to go through all those traditional 12 steps for a much faster-expedited process towards getting clean. Are you ready to set your course towards the road to recovery? Are you ready to give up on your poison? Then proceed now with abandoning your poison today. Forget and forgo your poison. Say goodbye to it forever. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Instafo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/144723/bk_acx0_144723_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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