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  21 Lessons From History For The...

  Naqib Safi

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In 21 Lessons from History for the 21st-Century Leaders, Naqib Safi draws on frontline leadership across more than eighteen countries — in public health, emergency response, and fragile states — to distil twenty-one durable lessons for anyone who must lead themselves and others through uncertainty. 
   
  Blending timeless principle with modern science, each chapter opens with a documented story from history and closes with tools you can use the next morning. The journey moves through five stages: leading yourself, leading others, leading the larger system, leading under external pressure, and building a legacy that outlasts you. Along the way you'll rethink emotional intelligence, influence and soft power, negotiation, team-building, decision-making under pressure, change that actually sticks, and crisis leadership in the first seventy-two hours. 
   
  This is leadership grounded in evidence rather than slogans — warm, practical, and honest about how hard the work really is. Whether you lead a team, an organization, or only yourself, these twenty-one lessons will change how you think about the responsibility of leading.

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  Evolution to Purpose - Choosing...

  Bryan Hong

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  Many never find happiness at work. Will you? 
  Why are so many people unhappy at work, if they choose the work they do? After teaching as a professor at the New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business, The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and Ivey Business School in Canada, Bryan Hong shares his observations based on hundreds of conversations with his students before and after graduation. 
  Although many don't realize it, unhappiness at work is a consequence of the way we've designed our society, especially our education system. Rather than prepare us for genuine success and happiness in life, most of us are never told what we need to know to answer even our most basic life questions. In this book, Dr. Hong shares what everyone who wants to be happier at work-and in life-should know. The first step begins with the most important lesson so many of us never learn in school: We must evolve to our true purpose. 
  In this book, the author explores:How our society works to shape us in ways that will never lead to happiness at workWhat it truly means to have a strong sense of purpose at work, and why we all need it for a life beyond survival and pleasureHow we can evolve to purpose in a world where so many work without it 
  What if there was much more to your life than what you've been told?

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  Westover - Giving Girls a Place...

  Laurie Lisle

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  Westover, a girls' high school in Middlebury, Connecticut, has evolved from a finishing school for the Protestant elite, including F. Scott Fitzgerald's first love, to a meritocracy for pupils of many religions and races from all around the world. The fascinating account of the ups and downs of this female community is the subject of Laurie Lisle's well-researched and beautifully illustrated book. It tells an important story about female education during decades of dramatic social change in America. 
  This school for girls was founded in 1909 by emancipated New Women. The author describes the innovations of the idealistic minister's daughter who founded the school, her intellectual successor who turned it into a college preparatory school in the 1930s, the quiet headmaster who struggled to keep it open during the turbulent 1970s, and the prize-winning mathematics teacher, wife, and mother who then lead the school into a new era.

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  Beyond Ethnic Loneliness - The...

  Prasanta Verma

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  "So what are you? Go back where you belong!" 
   
   
   
  Majority white American culture has historically marginalized people of color, who at times feel invisible and alienated and at other times are traumatized by oppression and public discrimination. This reality leads to a particular kind of aloneness: ethnic and racial loneliness. 
   
   
   
  An Indian American immigrant who grew up in white Southern culture, Prasanta Verma names and sheds light on the realities of ethnic loneliness. She unpacks the exhausting effects of cultural isolation, the dynamics of marginalization, and the weight of being other. In the midst of disconnection and erasure, she points to the longing to belong, the need to share our stories, and the hope of finding safe friendships and community. Our places of exile can become places where we find belonging—to ourselves, to others, and to God.

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  Wild West’s Most Influential...

  Editors Charles River

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  Space may be the final frontier, but no frontier has ever captured the American imagination like the “Wild West”, which still evokes images of dusty cowboys, outlaws, gunfights, gamblers, and barroom brawls over 100 years after the West was settled. A constant fixture in American pop culture, the 19th century American West continues to be vividly and colorful portrayed not just as a place but as a state of mind. 
  	Almost absent in the perceptions of modern America is the comprehension of African Americans participating so prolifically in the building of the nation. Print fiction idealizing the cowboy life to Eastern readers would not depict what had ignited the war for which so many had an utter revulsion. The black man of the post-war years did not inspire the white spirit so essential for reveling in the old system. The 20th century’s television and cinematic offerings operated on the same drive, and the existence of black cattle workers was all but blotted out. Indeed, many of the modern age are barely aware that an African-American ever “stepped foot on the West bank of the Mississippi River.” No one saw the black cowboy on screen or in print, the two information industries that shaped our perception of America’s westward expansion. Therefore, a collective assumption that they must never have existed at all was nationally internalized. 
  	However, as UCLA professors Philip Durham and Everett L. Jones, authors of The Negro Cowboys, reminded readers, about 25% of cowboys working in the West were African-American. They further noted that former slaves emigrating from the South entered virtually every viable profession in the plains, mountain ranges, and on to the Pacific. Their contribution ranged from the military to mining, exploration, farming, and in the construction of the West’s first towns.

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  This American Planet

  Joe King

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  In This American Planet, Joe King transports readers to a dystopian world where the boundary between humans and insects fades into a chaotic blur. The story follows Greg, an ancient cockroach wizard burdened by his knowledge of forgotten magic, and Curtis, a streetwise housefly drug runner caught in a web of political intrigue. As their fates intertwine, they must navigate a crumbling society dominated by ruthless factions and corrupt overlords, each seeking power at any cost.

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