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  Argentine Perspectives on the...

  Nicholas van der Bijl

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  A new assessment of the Falklands War from the Argentine perspective.
  
  In 1982, the United Kingdom and Argentina fought a war over an historical disagreement over the colonial “ownership” or rights over the Falkland Islands. Within months of the Argentinian defeat, General Edgardo Calvi, then the Argentine Head of the Army Joint Chief of Staff, was instructed to undertake a wide-ranging and formal inquiry to investigate the performance of the Argentine Army during the Falklands. Calvi concluded that while the Army had the motivation, it lacked the organization, equipment, training, and ability to oppose an army capable of operating in a variety of environments. The war exposed political, military, and public weaknesses in a period of considerable internal unrest during the seven years of the Dirty War. Several senior officers who fought in the Falklands were imprisoned for offenses committed during the Dirty War. Secrecy and political disagreements isolated the Service chiefs of staff from the logistic and operational planning. This book tells the story of the Falklands War from the Argentine Army perspective.

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  Wars of Classical Greece The:...

  Charles River Editors

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  The ancient Greeks have long been considered the forefathers of modern Western Civilization, but the Golden Age of Athens and the spread of Greek influence across much of the known world only occurred due to one of the most crucial battles of antiquity: the Battle of Marathon. In 491 B.C., following a successful invasion of Thrace over the Hellespont, the Persian emperor Darius sent envoys to the main Greek city-states, including Sparta and Athens, demanding tokens of earth and water as symbols of submission, but Darius didn’t exactly get the reply he sought. 
  	The Peloponnesian War, as the great historian Thucydides wrote in the introduction to his eponymous book, which has become one of the greatest historical treatises of antiquity, was an event of such calamitous magnitude that Greece had never witnessed its like in all of recorded history. Not the Trojan War, not the Dorian Invasion, not even the recent Persian invasions – which had devastated mainland Greece and seen Athens herself evacuated and put to the flame, the buildings on her Acropolis razed into dust – could compare to the scale of the devastation that engulfed all of Greece for almost three decades, causing the deaths of tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands.  
  	Entire populations were displaced, whole cities destroyed, and mountainous sums of money spent, all in order for Greece’s two most famous city-states to establish who had dominion over Greece. Sparta, whose invincible armies had recently led the Greeks to victory against Xerxes’s hordes at Plataea was at the head of the Peloponnesian League. Their opponents were led by proud Athens, possessor of a fleet that virtually dominated the entire Mediterranean and decimated the Persian navy at Salamis and Mycale, at the head of the Delian League. Sparta was insular and old-fashioned, while Athens was dynamic and democratic, but both were bent on imperialistic expansion.

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  Epinomis - The Sequel to Laws –...

  Plato, Tim Zengerink

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  What if studying the stars could lead to the divine? 
  In Epinomis, Plato or his student unveils a breathtaking conclusion to his philosophical journey. Here, the cosmos becomes the classroom, and astronomy is the curriculum of the soul. This sequel to Laws invites the listener to consider the stars as more than distant objects—they are keys to understanding virtue, order, and the mind of God. 
  What you'll discover inside: 
  •	A Theological Expansion of Laws – Explore how Plato connects divine reason to legal and moral order 
  •	The Stars as Guides to Wisdom – Learn why celestial study is the highest form of education 
  •	A Dialogue on Divine Nature – Thought-provoking discussion on soul, fate, and spiritual truth 
  •	A Clear Modern Translation – Accessible for new readers, faithful to the gravity of Plato’s thought 
  Embark on a final celestial journey with one of antiquity’s greatest thinkers.

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  Navigating the Age of Chaos - A...

  Jamais Cascio, Bob Johansen,...

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  The world we once described as volatile and uncertain has shifted into something far more chaotic: BANI, or brittle, anxious, nonlinear, and incomprehensible. In Navigating the Age of Chaos, Jamais Cascio, the originator of the visionary BANI framework, unpacks the tools and perspectives needed to navigate our increasingly turbulent era.Joined by coauthors Bob Johansen and Angela F. Williams, Cascio provides real-world examples, practical strategies, and rich insights to help leaders, organizations, and individuals not just survive but thrive in the chaos. This book will help listeners recognize, adapt to, and excel in a world changing with unprecedented speed and intensity.Breaking down the BANI framework, listeners will discover how to tackle each aspect of a BANI world:Brittle—Recognize fragility in systems and strategies to build resilience.Anxious—Address widespread anxiety with empathy and attentiveness.Nonlinear—Navigate unpredictable scenarios with adaptive, improvisational thinking.Incomprehensible—Find clarity in overwhelming complexity through webs of connection.Positive BANI—Reframe chaos into actionable opportunities for growth.

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  The Language of Emotions

  Sidney Morris

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  The Language of Emotions: Learn the Secrets of How to Understand and Manage Your Emotions and Discover Why Emotional Intelligence is Your Key to SuccessYou’ve probably heard this old saying: if you don’t love yourself, why should you expect others to do what you can’t do for yourself. There’s a lot of truth to that. Let’s put it this way, if you are conflicted or confused about your emotions, there's a high chance you are not sending the right signals to people around you. They want to help, and they care and love you, but they can’t quite seem to reach you. I know it hurts but the truth is, it’s all your fault. People with low emotional intelligence suffer from a disconnect between what they feel and how the other people perceive them.This audiobook will teach you about emotional intelligence and how understanding and mastering can make significant positive changes in your life.Topics that will be covered are the following:- Can you really improve your emotional intelligence?- Why emotional intelligence is as crucial as IQ for personal success- How important is honesty in dealing with your emotions?- Effectively cope with toxic emotions with this one simple change- Are your emotional coping skills preventing you from being a happy person?- Are your emotional coping skills preventing you from achieving career success?- How much importance should you place on others' reading of your emotions?- What you think your feeling may not be accurate- Lack of emotional clarity might be holding you back for more fulfilling relationships- And many more!Emotional intelligence is crucial to life's success. It’s high time that you make your emotions work for you instead of against you. To learn more, scroll up and click “add to cart” now!

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  Heretics

  G. K. Chesterton

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  G. K. Chesterton was an English writer, journalist, philosopher, poet and lay theologian. He delighted in standing conventional wisdom on its head in order to expose what he considered to be the lack of substance in the "vague modern." In Heretics , he touches on a range of topics, including social Darwinism, eugenics, nihilism and atheism, while enumerating the flaws he finds in the work of his intellectual contemporaries such as Rudyard Kipling , Friedrich Nietzsche , George Bernard Shaw , and H. G. Wells . G. K. Chesterton (died 1936) was a major literary figure of the early 20th century. Their work has endured across generations and continues to be read and studied worldwide. The nonfiction literature of previous centuries offers invaluable windows into the minds and preoccupations of earlier ages. Heretics combines the personal and the universal in ways that continue to resonate with contemporary readers seeking to understand both history and human nature.

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