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  The New Leviathans - Thoughts...

  John Gray

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  Ever since its publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan has unsettled and challenged how we understand the world. Condemned and vilified by each new generation, his cold political vision continues to see through any number of human political and ethical vanities. 
   
   
   
  In his wonderfully stimulating book The New Leviathans, John Gray allows us to understand the world of the 2020s with all its contradictions, moral horrors, and disappointments. The collapse of the USSR ushered in an era of near apoplectic triumphalism in the West: a genuine belief that a rational, liberal, well-managed future now awaited humankind and that tyranny, nationalism, and unreason lay in the past. Since then, so many terrible events have occurred and so many poisonous ideas have flourished, and yet our liberal certainties treat them as aberrations that will somehow dissolve. Hobbes would not be so confident. 
   
   
   
  Filled with fascinating and challenging observations, The New Leviathans is a powerful meditation on historical and current folly. As a species we always seem to be struggling to face the reality of base and delusive human instincts. Might a more self-aware, realistic, and disabused ethics help us?

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  Major Trade-Offs - The...

  Corey Moss-Pech

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  An eye-opening look at the relationship between students’ majors and their entry-level jobs.Humanities majors are used to answering the question, “So, what are you going to do with that degree?” The common misconception is that students in humanities programs don’t learn any useful skills for the real world. In Major Trade-Offs, Corey Moss-Pech argues that not only do humanities majors learn real-world skills, but they actually use them when they graduate. Despite this discrepancy, graduates with so-called practical degrees like business and engineering are much more likely to find employment, and they earn higher salaries. Why do we belittle a liberal arts education despite the valuable skills that students acquire during their studies?
  
  Major Trade-Offs addresses this question by following students from different majors as they enter the workforce. Moss-Pech conducted nearly 200 interviews with roughly ninety students from four majors at a large Midwestern university: engineering, business, English, and communications. He follows these students through their senior years, chronicling their internships and the support their universities provide in helping them pursue their career paths. Graduates from practical majors entered the labor market successfully, typically through structured internship programs. However, many ended up in entry-level jobs that were largely clerical and didn’t necessarily require a degree to perform. Liberal arts majors rarely accessed structured internships and were largely left to carve out their own paths, but used their degree skills once they secured a job. This challenges the popular myths about the “marketability” of these different majors and offers a new vision for the future of higher education.
   
  
  Major Trade-Offs calls on colleges and universities to advocate for liberal arts majors, leveling the playing field for students as they plan for entry-level work.

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  And Finally - Matters of Life...

  Henry Marsh

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  This program is read by the author."As a mature observer of the human condition, Marsh has audible serenity that makes listeners curious about how his story ends." - AudioFile MagazineFrom the bestselling neurosurgeon and author of Do No Harm, comes Henry Marsh's And Finally, an unflinching and deeply personal exploration of death, life and neuroscience.As a retired brain surgeon, Henry Marsh thought he understood illness, but he was unprepared for the impact of his diagnosis of advanced cancer. And Finally explores what happens when someone who has spent a lifetime on the frontline of life and death finds himself contemplating what might be his own death sentence.As he navigates the bewildering transition from doctor to patient, he is haunted by past failures and projects yet to be completed, and frustrated by the inconveniences of illness and old age. But he is also more entranced than ever by the mysteries of science and the brain, the beauty of the natural world and his love for his family. Elegiac, candid, luminous and poignant, And Finally is ultimately not so much an audiobook about death, but an audiobook about life and what matters in the end. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.

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  Green Cards for Enlistment - The...

  Robert Enochs

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  Green Cards for Enlistment: The Secret Strategy for America's Military Problem unveils an uncharted path to sustaining the military might of the United States with possible citizenship 2024 for illegals while daringly steering the dialogue on immigration and citizenship into fresh terrain. 
  With an acute investigatory lens, this political book is unlike other political books: it delves into the depths of America's military recruitment crisis. It explains how illegal immigrants might be offered citizenship for joining the military. 
  This American politics book dissects the historical tapestry that has shaped the present military recruitment problem. The narrative escalates as it explores the thundering waves of the Texas border crisis, unraveling the complexities driving illegal immigration and the policies struggling to contain it. 
  What if the solutions to two of America’s most pressing crises are more interconnected than ever imagined? "Green Cards for Enlistment" crafts a compelling argument, juxtaposing international practices against the backdrop of global strife and the nuanced legalities wielding the future of national defense and the possible political demographics it might entail in a concise way for everyone to understand. 
  This political chess game of offering US Citizenship for military service will reconfigure conservative votes and transform American conservatism in unimaginable ways.

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  How to Flirt: The Right Way -...

  Dean Mack

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  Improve Your Social Skills and Success in Flirting by Following These 7 Easy Steps! 
  Do you feel uncomfortably awkward when left alone with a person of the opposite sex? Do you fail to send a message to the other person that you find them attractive and genuinely interesting, or fail to show your interesting side and get them to know you as well? 
  If your answer to any of these questions was yes, then "How to Flirt: The Right Way, The Only 7 Steps You Need to Master Flirting, Attraction, Seduction and Dating Today" is definitely the guide you're looking for! 
  The book gives you clear guidelines, tips and tricks, and, most importantly, real-life examples on how to behave and deal with certain situations, all with the goal of giving you the knowledge that you can immediately implement in order to effectively flirt. 
  Here's What You'll Learn:The mindset that you need to have before even trying to flirtHow to make use of physical and eye contact, but not overdo itHow to communicate, compliment and be funnyWhat is the mindset that you need to evoke in the person you're flirting withHow to put all these aspects into action and practical use 
  No matter, your age, sex or demographics, this book will be the perfect guide to fully understanding how to communicate, flirt and date better than ever before.Once you get the hang of it, you'll be sharing the knowledge you gained form this book with others, just don't forget that it wasn't always that easy! 
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  Pearl and Bessie - A baby...

  Julia Bishop, Andy Bull

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  On the rubbish dump, a baby cried.  
  The cry was weak, and fading. The wild dogs had picked up the cries, and the scent, and were circling, closing in. 
  Bessie walked towards the sound and found a day-old baby girl. She had been abandoned because of her sex. It happened often here, in south west China. 
  If Bessie did nothing, the baby would be torn to pieces. So she picked her up, carried her to safety, and later adopted her. Yet, in saving her life, did Bessie condemn the baby she named Pearl to a life of fear and persecution? 
  This is Pearl’s story, and that of Bessie, plus Alf – Bessie’s then fiancé, later husband – and John, a second Han Chinese child the couple adopted. 
  Bessie and Alf were Methodists missionaries in Yunnan province, China, in the first half of the twentieth century. They lived through momentous times, including the Japanese occupation, the Second World War, the civil war, the Communist takeover and the Cultural Revolution. 
  This book follows their personal stories against the backdrop of a turbulent century.

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