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  10-Minute Summary: SAPIENS: A...

  Yuval Noah Harari

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  “Sapiens” is a broad and thought-provoking analysis of human history, from its origins to its possible future. Harari argues that humanity has been shaped by a series of key revolutions: the Cognitive Revolution, the Agricultural Revolution, the Scientific Revolution, and the Industrial Revolution. Through these transformations, humans have managed to develop complex civilizations, overcome biological barriers, and alter the course of nature—though at a significant cost to other species and to themselves.  
   Harari explains that the success of scientific knowledge was due to its alliance with capitalism and imperialism. The exploration of the world was financed by states and merchants seeking wealth and new territories. The European conquest of America, for example, was driven not only by military technology but also by the desire to gain new sources of income and expand markets.  
   The greatest challenge we face is not technological but philosophical: What do we want to become? Will we continue to pursue growth without considering its human and ecological costs? Or will we find ways to redefine the meaning of success and happiness? Harari leaves us with one certainty: the future is unwritten, but its course will depend on our ability to question the stories we tell ourselves.  
   The book invites reflection on the role of humans in history and the kind of future we want to build.  

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  Milo's Story - Thrown Away Children

  Louise Allen

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  The eleventh instalment in the popular Thrown Away Children series. 
   
  Michelle and Andy are thrilled to be fast-tracked into fostering and are quickly paired with 7-year-old Milo – whom they hope will complete their family, making a ‘pigeon pair’ with their older daughter, Grace. 
   
  But Milo tears through their home like a raging tornado, destroying a beautiful interior – and their lives. 
   
  Their dream of a new homelife costs Michelle her job, thousands of pounds in damages to their home and car, and leaves them with a traumatised daughter in need of professional support. 
   
  What are the secrets of his violent and destructive behaviours? Experienced foster carer Louise Allen steps in. Can she uncover the little boy’s disturbing past and help him?

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  In the Lion’s Den - Married to a...

  Marianne Guillemin

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  Married just a few months, Marianne gradually discovers that her husband is self-centered and domineering. Attractive and charming in public, he belittles her in private, imposes his habits and favors his own career over that of his wife. Psychological violence is compounded by physical violence.
  Marianne learns to decipher the moods of this perverse man, and implements strategies to avoid conflict and protect her three children. Not daring to talk about it, and because she thinks her children need their father, she lives ten years in the lion's den. 
  Years after her divorce, she still dreads returning home. Time is what she needs to rebuild her life. 
  Now, she offers a thoughtful account of the mechanisms of narcissistic perversity and withdrawal, and urges women to stop keeping silent.

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  Conquering Your State of Anxiety...

  Kirsten Pagacz

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  Conquer Your State of Anxiety with Inspirational insight“Her description of her escalating illness is irreverent, brutally honest, and compelling, her successes are inspiring.”  —BooklistReceive practical and insightful anxiety relief and comfort from someone with first hand experience struggling with a specific type of OCD.Discover what anxiety looks like. Kirstin Pagacz tells the riveting story of how she discovered her disorder. By high school, she was anorexic and a substance abuser —common "shadow syndromes" of OCD. By adulthood she was holding onto jobs and friends through sheer grit. Help came in the form of a miraculously well-timed public service announcement on NPR about OCD —at last, her illness had an identity.Learn what anxiety feels like. "It's like the meanest, wildest monkey running around my head, constantly looking for ways to bite me." That was how Kirsten Pagacz described her OCD to her therapist. After learning how to conquer her specific type of OCD, Pagacz wants to share her insight with you in hopes that you banish those intrusive thoughts, conquer your anxiety, and live a better life.Inside you'll gain insight into:The benefits of meditation and yoga  Cognitive behavioral therapyMedication and exposure therapyIf you learned from guides like Anxious for Nothing, The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook, or The Anxiety and Worry Workbook, then you’ll want to read Conquering Your State of Anxiety.

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  Robert E Lee’s Greatest Victories

  Editors Charles River

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  After Lee succeeded the wounded Johnston, he pushed McClellan’s Army of the Potomac away from Richmond and back up the Peninsula in late June, only to then swing his army north to face a second Union army, John Pope’s Army of Virginia. Needing to strike out before the Army of the Potomac successfully sailed back to Washington and linked up with Pope’s army, Lee daringly split his army to threaten Pope’s supply lines, forcing Pope to fall back to Manassas to protect his flank and maintain his lines of communication. At the same time, it left half of Lee’s army (under Stonewall Jackson) potentially exposed against the larger Union army until the other wing (under James Longstreet) linked back up. Thus, in late August 1862, the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of Virginia found themselves fighting over nearly the exact same land the South and North fought over in the First Battle of Bull Run 13 months earlier.  
  Of all the Civil War battles fought, and of all the victories achieved by Robert E. Lee at the command of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, the Battle of Chancellorsville is considered the most tactically complex and ultimately the most brilliant Confederate victory of the war. In early May 1863, the Army of the Potomac was at the height of its power as it bore down on Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia near Fredericksburg, where the Confederates had defeated them the previous December. The Union behemoth had spent most of the winter season being reorganized and drilled by “Fighting Joe” Hooker, an aggressive commander who had fought hard at places like Antietam. With an army nearing 130,000 men, Hooker’s Army of the Potomac was twice the size of the Army of Northern Virginia. Lee’s heavily outnumbered army went on to win the most stunning victory of the war, but it cost them nearly 25% of their men and Stonewall Jackson.

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  How to Improve Your Working Memory

  Gregory Albert

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  How to Improve Your Working Memory: Discover Useful and Proven Tricks to Improve Your Memory and Fight Memory LossMemory is far and away the most remarkable of all your mental functions. Were your mind unable to store up an enormous part of all the information fed to it by your senses, each new moment of existence would bring with it the necessity of “starting from scratch” in everything you think and do. Everything you do is made easier for you by your memory ... each activity is simpler because in the past you’ve had experiences which told your mind and body what to expect and how to act in certainsituations.But it’s common that as we grow older, our memory becomes a little bit rusty. Many factors can be the reason but it doesn’t mean that it is a situation that you just simply accept and move on. There are many ways you can improve your memory and this audiobook will show you how. Topics that will be covered are the following:- Memory Facets- All In The Mind- Memorize Or Minimize- Memory Tricks- Association- When Forgetting Occurs- And many more!Make your memory your hobby, watch it work, teach it new tricks, carry it around with you and show it off, and pretty soon it’ll be taking fine care of itself! To learn more, scroll up and click “add to cart” now!

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