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  The Courage Habit - How to...

  Kate Swoboda

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  What kind of life would you live if you didn’t let fear hold you back? Would you have a job you’re passionate about, create a social change movement, start speaking up for yourself, or let yourself fall head over heels in love? Many people believe they could be more, accomplish more, and feel more fulfilled if they could just escape that fearful inner voice that whispers, you can’t do it. So, how can you stop letting that voice control your life, and start living from a place of courage? 
  In The Courage Habit, celebrated life coach Kate Swoboda reveals her powerful program to release old fear patterns and create courageous habits. By clarifying what your most courageous self wants, and understanding the science behind the fear-based habits that have kept you stuck in the past, you can tap into the courage within. If something is keeping you from living all that you want to live—and if you have a sneaking suspicion that that something is you—this groundbreaking guide will help you change your relationship to fear and start making bold moves in every area of your life. 

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  The Psychology of Mass Obedience...

  Owen Blackwood

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.  
  Understand why humans consistently obey authority, conform to groups, and participate in collective actions they would individually reject as wrong. This disturbing audiobook examines the psychological research on obedience from Milgram experiments to Stanford Prison studies, revealing uncomfortable truths about human nature that remain relevant today. Learn why ordinary people become capable of extraordinary cruelty when authority commands or group pressure permits, and why you are not as immune as you believe. The narrator explores the evolutionary origins of obedience tendencies, the social conditions that activate conformity, and the surprisingly small steps that lead from compliance to complicity. Discover how totalitarian regimes exploit obedience psychology and why democratic societies remain vulnerable to authoritarian manipulation through identical mechanisms. Understand the situational factors that predict obedience versus resistance and what distinguishes the rare individuals who maintain independence under pressure. This audiobook challenges comforting beliefs that modern education and awareness protect against mass manipulation while presenting evidence that obedience tendencies remain fully operational. Learn practical strategies for strengthening resistance to illegitimate authority and recognizing when you are being manipulated toward conformity. Essential listening for citizens concerned about authoritarianism, professionals in positions of authority, and anyone seeking honest understanding of how mass compliance with harmful directives actually occurs.

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  Dulce et Decorum Est

  Wilfred Owen

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 different recordings of Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of May 18th, 2008.

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  Battle of Borodino The: The...

  Editors Charles River

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  On July 23, 1812, he launched his army across the border, despite the protestations of many of his Marshals. The Russian Campaign had begun, and it would turn out to be Napoleon’s biggest blunder. Russia’s great strategic depth already had a habit of swallowing armies, a fact many would-be conquerors learned the hard way. Napoleon, exceptional though he was in so many regards, proved that even military genius can do little in the face of the Russian winter and the resilience of its people. 
  From a purely military standpoint, much of the campaign seemed to be going in Napoleon’s favor since he met with little opposition as he pushed forwards into the interior with his customary lightning speed, but gradually this lack of engagements became a hindrance more than a help; Napoleon needed to bring the Russians to battle if he was to defeat them. On September 7, 1812, he must have thought his prayers had finally been answered, as the Russians had decided to stand and fight almost at the very gates of Moscow. Through his looking glass, Napoleon’s well-trained eye observed the weakness of his opponent’s defensive position. French and allied infantry advanced, anticipating that their Russian foes would again break as they had done two months earlier at Smolensk. The cavalry and Imperial Guard stood ready to complete the rout, this time preventing any organized withdrawal, and laying open an unopposed march to seize Moscow.  
  The Battle of Borodino, as it was later called, resulted in a combined casualty toll of over 75,000, a hideously long butcher’s bill that represented the bloodiest single day of the Napoleonic Wars. The Russian army retreated and Napoleon was able to occupy Moscow, hoping this would persuade the tsar to sue for peace. However, even as his advance guard pushed into the city, the retreating Russians put the capital to the torch. The Russian army’s retreat also ensured that it would live to fight another day, if necessary.

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  Skyway - The True Story of Tampa...

  Bill DeYoung

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  On the morning of May 9, 1980, harbor pilot John Lerro was guiding a 600-foot freighter, the Summit Venture, into Tampa Bay. Directly in the ship's path was the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. Suddenly, a violent weather cell reduced visibility to zero at the precise moment when Lerro attempted to direct the 20,000-ton vessel underneath the bridge. Unable to stop or see where he was going, Lerro drove the ship into a support pier. 
   
   
   
  Skyway tells the entire story of this horrific event, from the circumstances that led up to it through the years-long legal proceedings. Bill DeYoung pieces together the harrowing moments of the collision, including the accounts of witnesses and survivors. 
   
   
   
  Among those whose lives were changed forever was Wesley MacIntire, the motorist whose truck ricocheted off the hull of the Summit Venture and sank. The lone survivor, MacIntire, like Lerro, was emotionally scarred and remained haunted by the tragedy for the rest of his life. 
   
   
   
  DeYoung offers a history of the ill-fated bridge, from its construction in 1954, through the addition of a second parallel span in 1971, to its eventual replacement. The result is a detailed portrait of the rise and fall of a Florida landmark.

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  We Uyghurs Have No Say - An...

  Ilham Tohti

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  The words of China's most famous political prisoner 
   
   
   
  In Xinjiang, the large northwest region of China, the government has imprisoned more than a million Uyghurs in reeducation camps. One of the incarcerated—whose sentence, unlike most others, has no end date—is Ilham Tohti, an intellectual and economist, a prolific writer, and formerly the host of a website, Uyghur Online. In 2014, Tohti was arrested; accused of advocating separatism, violence, and the overthrow of the Chinese government; subjected to a two-day trial; and sentenced to life. Nothing has been heard from him since. 
   
   
   
  Here are Tohti's own words, a collection of his plain-spoken calls for justice, scholarly explanations of the history of Xinjiang, and poignant personal reflections. While his courage and outspokenness about the plight of China's Muslim minorities is extraordinary, these essays sound a measured insistence on peace and just treatment for the Uyghurs. 
   
   
   
  Winner of the PEN/Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award and the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought while imprisoned, this book is the only way to hear from a man who has been called "a Uyghur Mandela."

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