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  Why Do Governments Fail? - A...

  George Westlings, Richardson...

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  The book: “Why Do Governments Fail?” Its subtitle is “A Thorough Investigation Of How Absolute Power/Power Retention, Economic Prosperity, Poverty, General Insecurity, Corruption, Elected Candidates' Quality, Electorates' Positive Voting Behavior, Electoral System, & Party Ethics Influence Governments' Success/Failure. (Using Real Case Studies) Revised Version” measured various incidences leading to government failures or successes. An ugly trend among unpatriotic politicians to maintain their selfish grip on power against the majority wishes of the citizenry continues to contribute to government failures in most African countries, such as Cameroon, Zimbabwe, Libya, etc., while the respect for tenure of political offices in most Western nations continues to strengthen democratic precedents and benefits.  
  Economic prosperity is a yardstick upholding the democratic health of most advanced nations, such as the United States, with centuries of democratic practice, compared to economically challenged nations where some undemocratic forces capitalize on their countries’ staggering economic conditions to seize power through illegitimate means, such as the military coups that occurred in Niger, Burkina Faso, and Mali. 
  The people, because of the unbearable poverty level in their countries, decide to rally support for these military juntas, forgetting the ugly events that took place in Libya. They never once consider the fact that Gaddafi also started as a people’s hero before allowing himself to be blinded by absolute power. The people rejoicing and singing praises to these military juntas today have never thought of the fact that their celebrated military rulers might become their worst Gaddafi of tomorrow. For instance, these juntas are gradually metamorphosing into Gaddafi’s tactics by elongating their tenure in office and postponing their countries’ election timetables indefinitely.

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  Overcoming Stress & Anxiety -...

  Deepak Bhosle

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  Stress and anxiety can be incredibly difficult to manage. Luckily, Overcoming Stress & Anxiety: Four Guided Meditations to Manage your Stress is a great resource for anyone looking to find relief from these issues. Written by an experienced meditation coach, this book provides readers with four simple guided meditations that are specifically designed to help them overcome stress and anxiety. Each of the meditations focuses on different techniques and activities that can help people manage their mental health in an effective and healthy way. 
  how does mindfulness and meditation help manage anxiety? 
  Mindfulness and meditation are two practices that can help manage stress and anxiety. In the book Overcoming Stress & Anxiety: Four Guided Meditations to Manage your Stress, readers will learn how to take an active role in managing their mental health by applying the principles of mindfulness and meditation. With four guided meditations, readers will gain a deeper understanding of how they can use mindfulness and meditation techniques to help manage stress and anxiety.  
  The book starts with specific meditative processes that are designed to help reduce levels of stress and anxiety. The author explains different ways people can practice mindfulness in everyday life such as using gratitude and self-reflection. There are four guided meditations that take the listener through the various different types of deep breath work that will be a useful tool for people with stress and anxiety, on a daily basis.

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  Russia's World Order - How...

  Paul Robinson

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  The first Cold War was a struggle between capitalism and communism; most Western politicians and policymakers imagine the new one to be a struggle between democracy and autocracy. Russia's World Order explains that in Russian eyes, the conflict is about something very different: it is a fight between two incompatible visions of where history is leading. 
   
   
   
  Russia's World Order describes the civilizational theory that has come to dominate Russian official discourse, and that has come to dominate Russian official discourse and that is being used to justify its clashes with the West. Whereas the West promotes a vision of history that drives all nations toward convergence on a single model, Russia's political leaders increasingly portray the world as consisting of numerous distinct civilizations, each diverging toward its own destination. The Russian state portrays itself as defending the right of all civilizations to chart their own independent path and is having some success in using this logic to win allies. 
   
   
   
  Paul Robinson recounts how ideas of inevitable convergence once dominated Russian thought as well but were gradually pushed out by civilizational theories. He outlines where these theories came from, what they propose, and how they became popular. Russia's World Order thereby reveals the true nature of today's New Cold War.

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  Toxic Bedlam & Misadventure

  Vinson Chard

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.  
  More tales from Vinson Chard about his time working in Industry. He continues with accounts about working for another toxic waste company in 'Special Operations.' 
  There are stories of a dismembered body, one of his colleagues being arrested as a terrorist in suburbia, exploding eyeballs, a sadistic stripper, a haunted hotel in Hertfordshire and working for Porton Down. 
  He also works for a small cosmetics company run by an eccentric owner who dresses outlandishly and generates problems with his, 'off the wall, ' product requirements. 
  All these true stories unfold in Vinson's inimitable humorous style.

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  Bicycle Race - Transportation...

  Adonia E. Lugo PhD

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  Bicycle/Race paints an unforgettable picture of Los Angeles—and the United States—from the perspective of two wheels. This is a book of borderlands and intersections, a cautionary tale about the dangers of putting infrastructure before culture, and a coming-of-age story about power and identity. The colonial history of southern California is interwoven through Adonia Lugo's story of growing up Chicana in Orange County, becoming a bicycle anthropologist, and co-founding Los Angeles's hallmark open streets cycling event, CicLAvia, along the way. When she takes on racism in the world of national bicycle advocacy in Washington, DC, she finds her voice and heads back to LA to organize the movement for environmental justice in active transportation. 
  In the tradition of City of Quartz, this book will forever change the way you see Los Angeles, race and class in the United States, and the streets and people around you wherever you live.

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  How States Think - The...

  John J. Mearsheimer, Sebastian...

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  A groundbreaking examination of a central question in international relations: Do states act rationally? 
   
  To understand world politics, you need to understand how states think. Are states rational? Much of international relations theory assumes that they are. But many scholars believe that political leaders rarely act rationally. The issue is crucial for both the study and practice of international politics, for only if states are rational can scholars and policymakers understand and predict their behavior. 
   
  John J. Mearsheimer and Sebastian Rosato argue that rational decisions in international politics rest on credible theories about how the world works and emerge from deliberative decision‑making processes. Using these criteria, they conclude that most states are rational most of the time, even if they are not always successful. Mearsheimer and Rosato make the case for their position, examining whether past and present world leaders, including George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin, have acted rationally in the context of momentous historical events, including both world wars, the Cold War, and the post–Cold War era.  
   
  By examining this fundamental concept in a novel and comprehensive manner, Mearsheimer and Rosato show how leaders think, and how to make policy for dealing with other states.

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