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  Lobbying for Change - Find Your...

  Alberto Alemanno

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  'We need effective citizen-lobbyists – not just likers, followers or even marchers – more than ever. I have no hesitation in lobbying you to read this book.'
  
  Bill Emmott, former editor in chief, the Economist
  
  
  Many democratic societies are experiencing a crisis of faith. Citizens are making clear their frustration with their supposedly representative governments, which instead seem driven by the interests of big business, powerful individuals and wealthy lobby groups.
  What can we do about it? How do we fix democracy and get our voices heard?
  
  
  The answer, argues Alberto Alemanno, is to become change-makers – citizen lobbyists. By using our skills and talents and mobilizing others, we can bring about social and political change. Whoever you are, you've got power, and this book will show you how to unleash it.
  
  From successfully challenging Facebook's use of private data to abolishing EU mobile phone roaming charges, Alberto highlights the stories of those who have lobbied for change, and shows how you can follow in their footsteps, whether you want to influence immigration policy, put pressure on big business or protect your local community. 

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  Practise the Great Habit of...

  Andrew Richardson

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  This breakthrough programme is for all who wish to acquire practice tools that will minimise stress and enhance their ability to think and act clearly.Are you stressed too much of the time and on edge? Relaxation can be practiced so you find it easier to achieve, like playing the piano or learning tennis. This Relax kit gives you tools to help you do this. And so you must try them all out and see which works for you when. You can keep using them whenever you wish and as part of a regular wellbeing self help programme.There are seven audios in this Conscious Relaxation programme:R1 Introduction (7 mins)R1 sets the scene and explains why relaxation practice is so beneficial.R2 Three Techniques (10 mins)R2 teaches three simple relaxation techniques for you to practice so they are there for you, when you need to be calmer in real life situations.R3 Priming (8 mins)R3 is short but will extend your capacity to achieve a more relaxed state in your day to day lives.R4 Anchoring (9 mins)R4 teaches a method that connects calm feelings to the physical.R5 Progressive Muscle Relaxation (12 mins)R5 is slightly longer body scan practice – a classic of its type (12 mins)R6 Breathing Meditation (16 mins)R6 is designed to enhance your capacity to breathe in a relaxing way whenever you need to.R7 Anxiety Control (21 mins)R7 focuses on anxious feelings and how to use them and control them in the right kind of way.Email access to Andrew RichardsonI want to hear how you have got on with Conscious Relaxation and be available for you with advice, mentoring and if needed personalised one on one help – so you can truly recover and find the optimism and energy that is your birthright.

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  Healing the Heart of Democracy -...

  Parker J. Palmer

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  In his newest book, Parker J. Palmer builds on his own extensive  experience as a an inner life explorer and social change activist  to examine the personal and social infrastructure of American  politics. What he did for educators in The Courage to Teach  he does here for citizens by looking at the dynamics of our inner  lives for clues to reclaiming our civic well-being. In Healing  the Heart of Democracy, he points the way to a politics rooted  in the commonwealth of compassion and creativity still found among  We the People.    Democracy, writes Palmer, is a  non-stop experiment in the strengths and weaknesses of our  political institutions, local communities, and the human  heartand its outcome can never be taken for granted. The  experiment is endless, unless we blow up the lab, and the  explosives to do the job are found within us. But so also is the  hearts alchemy that can turn suffering into compassion,  conflict into community, and tension into energy for creativity  amid democracys demands.   Healing the Heart of Democracy names the  habits of the heart we need to revitalize our  politics and shows how they can be formed in the everyday venues of  our lives. Palmer proposes practical and hopeful methods to hold  the tensions of our differences in a manner that can help us  restore a government of the people, by the people, for the  people.

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  All the Shah's Men - An American...

  Stephen Kinzer

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  Half a century ago, the United States overthrew the democratically elected prime minister of Iran,  Mohammad Mossadegh, whose "crime" was nationalizing the country's oil industry.  In a cloak-and-dagger story of spies, saboteurs, and secret agents, Kinzer reveals the involvement of Eisenhower, Churchill, Kermit Roosevelt, and the CIA in Operation Ajax,  which restored Mohammad Reza Shah to power. Reza imposed a tyranny that ultimately sparked the Islamic Revolution of 1979, which, in turn, inspired fundamentalists throughout the Muslim world, including the Taliban and terrorists who thrived under its protection."It is not far-fetched," Kinzer asserts, "to draw a line from Operation Ajax through the Shah's repressive regime and the Islamic Revolution to the fireballs that engulfed the World Trade Center in New York."

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  How this Farming Project Helps...

  PBS NewsHour

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  In the 15 years since the U.S. went into Afghanistan, $1.5 billion has been spent to develop women’s rights in the country. But even with significant improvements, there remain many hardships, including domestic violence and the lack of educational opportunity. Special correspondent Jennifer Glasse visits a farming project that aims to provide women with the power to make their own decisions.

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  Max Hastings On War

  Max Hastings

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  From Max Hastings comes a collection of talks and lectures exploring the wars of the 20th century with the verve, insight and originality that has made him a number one bestselling historian. 
  What is war like to live through, for civilian victims, especially women, as well as soldiers, sailors and fliers? Hastings has been a life-long student of warfare, a ‘chronicler of conflict’, working first as a foreign correspondent on battlefields, then as a prolific prize-winning historian of the 20th century’s greatest struggles. He has now been studying warfare for over fifty years, published thirty books, and given hundreds of talks and lectures. Here are thirteen of the best. 
  Addressing questions of truth versus myth and revisiting many last-generation narratives, Hastings leads us through the most important conflicts in recent times. Listen as he explores D-Day, the Dambusters raid, Churchill’s character and achievement as war leader, Vietnam, and – in his most recent book, published in 2022, the Cuban missile crisis – 13 days when we came closest to annihilation and which stands as a mirror to the grave threats the world faces today. 
  Max Hastings, the Sunday Times bestselling author, delves into the modern history of warfare, shedding light on the political relations that have shaped the world. His international acclaim is a testament to his top-notch storytelling and deep understanding of geopolitics. 
  For fans of Antony Beevor (Russia), James Holland (The Savage Storm), Ben Macintyre (Colditz), Peter Caddick-Adams (Monte Cassino), and Jonathan Trigg (Death on the Don). 
  HarperCollins 2022

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