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  The Prince - A guide to...

  Niccolò Machiavelli

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  🔥 The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli 
  The ultimate guide to understanding power. 
   With detailed chapter-by-chapter insights. 
  The world is not built for the weak. 
   Behind every great conquest, every successful career, every life that leaves a mark… lies an uncomfortable truth: 
   Power is not given. It’s taken. It’s defended. It’s built, day after day. 
  The Prince is not just a book of history. 
   It’s a ruthless, timeless manual—a roadmap for anyone who wants to understand the unwritten rules of leadership, control, and survival in a competitive world. 
   This edition, enhanced with chapter-by-chapter explanations, won’t just let you hear Machiavelli’s words—you’ll truly understand them. 
   You’ll learn how to think like a leader. How to make tough decisions. How to avoid being crushed by circumstances—and how to master them. 
   And how to build a power that lasts, even when the world around you falls apart. 
  This is not an audiobook for those looking for easy answers. 
   It’s for those who are ready to take control of their own destiny.

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  Ludwig Wittgenstein - Language...

  Hector Davidson

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  Ludwig Wittgenstein, one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century, profoundly shaped modern thought, particularly in the realms of language, logic, and the philosophy of mind. His philosophy spans two distinct periods, marked by an evolution in his views on the relationship between language, meaning, and reality. Wittgenstein’s work challenges the way we think about and use language, positing that philosophical problems often arise from misunderstandings of language and its limitations. 
  Wittgenstein’s early philosophy, as presented in his landmark work Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, was grounded in the belief that language could mirror the structure of reality. According to his "picture theory of meaning," words and sentences are pictures that represent facts in the world. He argued that the limits of language are also the limits of the world, and anything that could not be meaningfully expressed through language was simply beyond the scope of philosophy. This view led him to conclude that many traditional philosophical problems were nonsensical, arising from a misuse of language. 
  However, Wittgenstein underwent a significant philosophical transformation after his work on the Tractatus, largely due to his dissatisfaction with the results of his early approach. By the time of his later work, particularly in Philosophical Investigations, Wittgenstein had rejected the picture theory of meaning and developed the concept of "language games." He argued that meaning is not inherent in words themselves but is derived from their use in various social contexts. Language, for Wittgenstein, is a tool embedded in human practices and activities. He claimed that understanding language requires understanding the ways it functions in specific contexts, challenging the idea of a fixed, underlying structure of meaning.

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  Mahatma Gandhi - The Most Famous...

  Kelly Mass

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  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian attorney, anti-colonial patriot, and political ethicist who used nonviolent resistance to lead the triumphant struggle for India's independence from British rule, motivating civil liberties and liberty movements around the globe. The epithet Mahtm (which means "great-souled" or "age-old" in Sanskrit) was at first appointed to him in South Africa in the year 1914 and is now used all across the world. 
  Gandhi was born into a Hindu family in seaside Gujarat and studied law at the Inner Temple in London. 
  In the year 1893, he came to South Africa to represent an Indian business owner in a case after 2 years in India, where he was not able to establish a rewarding law practice. 
  He spent the next 21 years of his life in South Africa. Gandhi raised his family here and was the first to use nonviolent resistance in a civil liberties struggle. 
  He went back to India in the year 1915, at the age of 45. He started setting in motion peasants, farmers, and city workers to fight oppression and high land taxes. Gandhi led statewide projects to reduce poverty, promote women's rights, build spiritual and ethnic amity, get rid of untouchability, and, above all, accomplish swaraj, or self-rule, after presuming management of the Indian National Congress in the year 1921. 
  Gandhi has meant much for the peace, the independence, and the culture of India, as well as his acts of non-violent resistance that have influenced the world. Let’s take a look at what else he did.

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  Philosophy of Ethics and Society...

  Hector Davidson

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  This book consists of the following titles and topics: 
  - Adam Smith  
  - Ayn Rand  
  - Baruch Spinoza  
  - Bertrand Russell  
  - Camus  
  - Critical Theory  
  - Cynicism  
  - Epicurus  
  - Feminist Philosophy  
  - Humanism  
  - Liberalism  
  - Mary Wollstonecraft  
  - Montesquieu  
  - Moral Philosophy  
  - Naturalism  
  - Niccolo Machiavelli  
  - Parmenides  
  - Peter Singer  
  - Political Philosophy  
  - Simone Weil  
  - Socrates  
  - Transcendentalism  
  - Utilitarianism 

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  Ending Human Trafficking - A...

  Shayne Moore, Sandra Morgan,...

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  Author Sandra Morgan awarded Wilberforce Award
  Human trafficking is one of the most pressing social justice issues of our time, and in recent years there has been renewed interest among Christians, as many have been stirred up to take their part in the ongoing battle.
  This is a wonderful thing—and yet misinformed and misguided efforts can do more harm than good. Ending Human Trafficking is a handbook designed to educate churches and parachurch organizations for truly effective work.
  In collaboration with The Global Center for Women and Justice at Vanguard University, Ending Human Trafficking is an accessible and compelling resource for Christian leaders, written by seasoned leaders in the struggle against modern slavery. Grounded in a theological response to the issue and filled with stories, up-to-date data, and practical tools and tips, it promises to be an invaluable resource for years to come.

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  Ending the World Wars: The...

  Charles River Editors

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  For much of 1917, things went the Germans’ way. With the Bolshevik Revolution underway, the Germans were able to move soldiers to the Western front as the Russians quit the war. Moreover, the Allied powers had failed badly in its Nivelle Offensive in May 1917 and suffered a defeat in November against at the Battle of Caporetto in Slovenia. Unbelievably, the French and British had not bothered to coordinate their commands until after those defeats: they finally formed a Supreme Council to coordinate their armies’ movements and strategies. However, the Allied Powers began a counteroffensive known as the Hundred Days Offensive in August 1918 that was highly successful in pushing the Germans backward. In September, Bulgaria reached a separate armistice with the Allied powers, ceding control of the Balkans and cutting off German supplies. The defeated Ottoman Empire surrendered in late October. As the fortunes of the Central Powers waned, several lands in Austria-Hungary’s empire began declaring independence. Finally, in November, Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm II was forced into exile, and the Germans reached an armistice with the Allied powers at 11:00 a.m. on November 11, 1918. World War I had finally ended. 
  	After the successful amphibious invasion on D-Day in June 1944, the Allies began racing east toward Germany and liberating France along the way. The Allies had landed along a 50 mile stretch of French coast, and despite suffering 8,000 casualties on D-Day, over 100,000 still began the march across the western portion of the continent. By the end of August 1944, the German Army in France was shattered, with 200,000 killed or wounded and a further 200,000 captured. However, Adolf Hitler reacted to the news of invasion with glee, figuring it would give the Germans a chance to destroy the Allied armies that had water to their backs.

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