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In a digital era, reclaim your urgency.
How frequently have you responded to the phone today?
We've formed an unshakable attachment with our digital devices during the past 20 years. Every day, we spend hours in front of screens switching between articles, applications, and websites.
There is a price for this. Our ability to focus has decreased, and we experience greater levels of stress. In fact, it might feel like our attention is completely...
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Malcolm X is likely the most well-known figure from the American civil rights movement of the 1960s, aside from Martin Luther King Jr. But unlike King's famous "I have a dream" speech and tragic death, Malcolm X's words and writings, as well as his personal narrative, are not well known by many people.We learn about the man in this book from a unique point of view, including his background, how he joined the Nation of Islam, and his trips to the Middle...
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Witness the drama of World War I, which shaped the modern Middle East.
Imagine what happens when you double the adage that "one man can change the course of history" by four.
Imperial powers partitioned the Middle East into the nations we know today during and after World War I, and the region became the scene of several ongoing battles. In the midst of this chaotic period, the activities of four men - T. E. Lawrence, Curt Prüfer, Aaron Aaronsohn...
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The driving force of this book is the author's lifelong fascination with human nature. Forty years in the law brought him into contact with a broader cross-section of society than most people would normally experience, or even wish to, and it is their strengths and weaknesses, values and doubts that shaped these poems.
The majority of these poems were written well into the author's retirement. As we know, the ageing process involves a shift in values,...
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Down below, like some gigantic monster from Earth's dark past, a moving van waited in the mist. Judging the distance as best he could, Joe leaped into space . . .
Get Joe Hawkins! Vicious former skinhead Joe Hawkins has done a runner from prison. On the lam, he cuts a swathe through England's heartland, sex and violence very much on his mind. Newly equipped with a shooter, Joe pals up with armed robbers, evading the coppers by a whisker. But Joe's...
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It is April 1, 2009. London is the setting. The precise site is Buckingham Palace.It's a significant day for Michelle and Barack Obama. Barack was sworn in as the nation's president back in January. He and Michelle are currently present at the G20 summit's reception and are seen as newbies on the international scene. Michelle, who was raised on the South Side of Chicago, is shown here mingling and enjoying canapés with Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela...
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There are people who have played a significant role in revolutionizing their fields of expertise throughout history. In addition to Ted Turner's contribution to the development of contemporary media, Henry Ford and Albert Einstein both transformed the industrial world.
The American legend Benjamin Franklin is one of the comparatively few people who have approached and revolutionized so many various subjects and fields of study.
Franklin had a long...
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Immerse yourself in the 300,000-year journey of humanity.
There is a decent possibility that you are a human if you are reading this.
We are fairly unique as humans. The top of the food chain is where we are. Humans have been venturing into space for years. Also, we are the species that developed the wheel, agriculture, the internet, and, of course, frozen pizza.
We haven't even been around that long, and we already pretty much rule the earth.
Why...
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Great Britain, 1978. Winter. And this winter has been devastating. Roads are blocked, trees are uprooted, and the nation is being torn apart by hurricane-force winds. A large portion of the nation is left in the dark.The political environment isn't a lot calmer. The government attempts to place limits on salary increases since inflation is rampant. The response from the unions is a wave of strikes. Refuse collectors go out on strike. Streets are littered...
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Is Hitchcock a superficial, though brilliant, entertainer or a moralist? Do his films celebrate the ideal of romantic love or subvert it? In a new interpretation of the director's work, Richard Allen argues that Hitchcock orchestrates the narrative and stylistic idioms of popular cinema to at once celebrate and subvert the ideal of romance and to forge a distinctive worldview-the amoral outlook of the romantic ironist or aesthete. He describes in...
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Any time in human history can be found with plenty of unrest and turbulence. But for sheer magnitude of change, very few periods can match the twentieth century.African Americans, whose status in the United States drastically changed in the second half of the 20th century, were among those who witnessed that transition personally. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s name is the one that is most readily associated with these changes. What was the backstory...
12) Golf's Life Lessons: 55 Inspirational Tales about Jack Nicklaus, Ben Hogan, Bobby Jones, and Others
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Both life and golf can offer frustrations and also important lessons on topics ranging from "grinding it out" to versatility, sportsmanship, honesty, and of course confidence. In the words of Grantland Rice, "Like life, golf can be humbling. However, little good comes from brooding about mistakes we've made. The next shot, in golf or life, is the big one."
In Golf's Life Lessons, Richard Allen details 55 life lessons that we can learn from time...
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Intervallic tunings are an unusual and fascinating alternative to conventional guitar tunings. Recommended for twelve-string guitar players, this volume examines the history of intervallic tunings, as well as how to use them on the twelve-string guitar. Twelve-string guitars are an ideal instrument for intervallic tunings. Briefly stated, intervallic tuning systems tune the string courses to non-standard intervals other than octave or unison. To date,...
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Start off strong in your new managerial job.
You've now been given a management position. Congratulations! Now for the challenging part. Some of your coworkers might feel that they ought to have received the promotion instead of you. Or perhaps your predecessor was such a great boss that you feel under pressure to live up to his or her high standards.
You'll soon come to the realization that your strengths as a team player might not translate into...
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Star names, the zodiac, constellations; folklore, and literature associated with heavens. The basic book of its field. Fascinating reading solidly based on years of thorough research into astronomical writings and observations of the ancient Chinese, Arabic, Euphrates, Hellenic, and Roman civilizations.
16) More Lies
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More Lies is a highly referential comedy thriller about a writer being held hostage in their own apartment and forced to type to hide the manoeuvres of a femme fatale, holding a pearl handled gun, and her brother, a small-time thug with big time ambitions. This wild tale about assassination, lost gold, betrayal, passion and identity theft engages the reader in the many layers of the author's witty but deceptive journey. Through a series of lies, backflips...
17) At the Cross
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The cross of Christ represents the spiritual, physical, and metaphoric reasons for our existence. Old Testament scripture foreshadows Christ and his sacrifice at the cross. New Testament scripture reiterates that Old Testament vision as we are led to the singularly most significant event in the history of mankind. At the Cross is a line-by-line examination of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John as these apostles describe events from the Garden...
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This book of Korean history is an unofficial and exceptionally honest biography of South Korea's deposed chief executive, Syngman Rhee. Rhee's career spanned the decades between the late-nineteenth-century period of China's suzerainty in Korea and the revolt of April 1960 and reached a peak of popularity following his country's liberation at the end of World War II. Yet, twelve years later he was thrown out of office by revolution. During his lifetime,...
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W. E. B. Du Bois was the foremost black intellectual of his time. The Souls of Black Folk, his most influential work, is a collection of fourteen beautifully written essays, by turns lyrical, historical, and autobiographical. Here, Du Bois records the cruelties of racism, celebrates the strength and pride of black America, and explores the paradoxical "double-consciousness" of African American life. When it was first published in 1903, The Souls of...