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  Living in Medieval England - The...

  Kathryn Warner

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  1326 was one of the most dramatic years in English history. The queen of England, Isabella of France, invaded the country with an army of mercenaries to destroy her husband's powerful and detested lover, Hugh Despenser the Younger, and brought down her husband, King Edward II, in the process. 
   
   
    
  It was also a year, however, when the majority of English people carried on living their normal, ordinary lives: Eleyne Glaswreghte ran her own successful glass-making business in London; Jack Cressing the master carpenter repaired the beams in a tower of Kenilworth Castle; Alis Coleman sold her best ale at a penny and a half for a gallon in Byfleet; and Will Muleward made the king "laugh greatly" when he spent time with him at a wedding in Marlborough. England sweltered in one of the hottest, driest summers of the Middle Ages; a whale washed ashore at Walton-on-the-Naze; and the unfortunate John Toly died when he relieved himself out of the window of his London house at midnight, and lost his balance. 
   
   
   
  Living in Medieval England: The Turbulent Year of 1326 tells the true and fascinating stories of the men and women alive in England in this most eventful year, narrated chronologically with a chapter devoted to each month.

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  Self-Reliance and Other Essays

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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  Trust Thyself. Every Heart Vibrates to That Iron String.
  
  In an age of overwhelming social pressure and inherited traditions, Ralph Waldo Emerson issued a revolutionary manifesto for the soul. Self-Reliance and Other Essays represents the heartbeat of American Transcendentalism, challenging every reader to look inward for truth rather than toward the dictates of the crowd. This collection gathers the foundational thoughts of a man who believed that to be great is to be misunderstood.
  
  
  
  Within these pages, you will explore the pillars of Emersonian thought:
  
  The Doctrine of Individualism: A powerful defense of personal intuition over social imitation, urging you to "insist on yourself; never imitate."
  
  The Living Universe: Emerson's profound meditations on Nature, viewing the physical world not just as a resource, but as a gateway to spiritual enlightenment and a mirror for the human mind.
  
  The Over-Soul and Universal Unity: An exploration of the shared spiritual force that connects all living beings, suggesting that every individual contains a spark of the divine.
  
  The Rejection of Consistency: A bold call to live in the "now," discarding the "hobgoblin of little minds"—foolish consistency—in favor of authentic, present-moment growth.
  
  Emerson's prose is a masterclass in aphoristic brilliance—sentences that spark like lightning and remain etched in the mind. His work is the cornerstone of American philosophy and an essential roadmap for anyone seeking personal autonomy, creative inspiration, and a deeper spiritual connection to the world.
  
  Stop searching outside yourself. Buy "Self-Reliance and Other Essays" today and awaken your true genius.

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  Mumbai - A Million Islands

  Sidharth Bhatia

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  Since the East India Company merged seven islands into Bombay (now Mumbai), change has been constant-but now it is used as a weapon for displacement, disguised as development. Slums are erased overnight to make way for luxury towers priced in tens of crores. The working class is pushed to the margins-literally-and into distant housing projects with no infrastructure, transport or sanitation. Entire communities are uprooted while a new Mumbai is built for the privileged few, behind closed gates, inside glass walls. 
  Sidharth Bhatia's Mumbai: A Million Islands is a piercing look at a city in the throes of relentless transformation. What is vanishing is not just space, but memory, history and the very fabric of a living city. Mumbai's famed spirit of survival is being tested like never before. Where the original seven islands had symbolized a synergy, today they're multiplying as fractures-social, spatial and economic-splitting the city into a million islands, each more isolated than the other.

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  Deepika Jindal

  Sindhy Kashyap

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  Mother, wife, and now entrepreneur: Meet Deepika Jindal of the Jindal Steel Family

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  Anger Management for Parents -...

  Erika Miller

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  All I ever seem to do is shout at my kids. Why can’t I get this right? 
  Does your relationship with your children seem like a chain of shouting matches with some dead silences in between? Does the sight of somebody else’s calm, well-behaved son or daughter make you feel really envious? You really don’t want your life to be the way it is… 
  This book was written to help parents like you. 
  I’ve put together a lot of practical advice and psychological insights so you can begin changing the way you relate to your child or children. You may be feeling trapped, and a little hopeless, but I assure you that it is possible to calm yourself, get your child to hear and understand you, and to start building better family relationships. Yes, you can! 
  This is a comprehensive guide that will teach you to understand what went wrong, and how to fix it! 
  You will understand where your outbursts of anger came from, in yourself; 
  You will learn how to handle your feelings; 
  I will give you many practical tips to help you to handle your kids better! 
  What this book can do for the “Angry Parent”: 
  - I can show you how to use strategies to manage kids without shouting, or pleading… 
  - You can handle your own stress better, without taking it out on them… 
  - It can stop you from doing and saying stuff that makes you feel like an ogre afterwards… 
  - It gives you words to say, and tells you what not to say… 
  This book covers these and many more valuable topics: 
  - 10 Signs That Show You Have Anger-Management Problems 
  - The 7 Negative Effects of Being an Angry Parent 
  - Why You MUST Manage Your Anger IMMEDIATELY 
  - The 20 Most Effective Methods to Stop Your Anger 
  - How to Get Your Child to Listen Without Yelling 
  - Questions and Answers

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  Secret Control of the Masses

  Phil G

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  We are living in a world of deception. We are constantly deluded and manipulated to do as we are told. It is often a very subtle system of control, but sometimes it is so obvious that nobody would even believe it. Ancient secret societies have grown over generations and their descendants now hold power in the biggest businesses, governments, organizations and religions on the planet. Using fear and enticement, they feed from us. Whether it is a global pandemic or a celebrity scandal, the hand of the hidden elite is in control. This is the revelation of the hidden brotherhood.

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