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  The Security Side of Gulf...

  Eleonora Ardemagni

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  The GCC states are adapting defence strategies to the challenges raised by their "Visions", their post-hydrocarbon national plans. Far from being just economic programmes, the Visions are broad national transformation platforms displaying also a security dimension, and with many security implications. New cities and industrial poles, infrastructures, mega events and tourism raise unprecedented security risks, at which the GCC states are answering through a combination of economic-oriented foreign policy, multipolar international alliances, and ambitions towards "defense autonomisation". What are the Visions' security dimensions and implications, and how does the post-oil path affect and reshape foreign policies?
  This Report analyses how GCC states are adapting deterrence and defence tools to the connectivity age, navigating a troubled neighbourhood of both conventional and asymmetric threats. In a central but more vulnerable Gulf, how may the EU and NATO accommodate transformations in GCC states' defense policies, postures, and means, to support their own security?

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  LOVE UPON KNIVES - A Novel of...

  ANNA GOGOLEVA

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  St. Petersburg, 1795. The glittering capital of Catherine the Great—a city of palatial wealth and abject poverty, where a single misstep can cost a life and a single glance can change a destiny.
   
  Katya is nineteen years old, a floor-washer in the Winter Palace. Orphaned, illiterate, with nothing but her mother's river-pearl necklace and hands raw from lye, she expects nothing from life but more of the same: endless floors, endless servitude, endless invisibility.
   
  Until the night a fortune-teller comes to the servants' hall.
   
  The cards speak of a tower struck by lightning, a moon shrouded in deceit, and two lovers destined to walk on knives. Katya laughs—until she looks up and sees him standing in the doorway.
   
  Baron Karl von Kleist is the Prussian envoy to the Russian court: brilliant, cultured, married to a woman he does not love. He has spent twenty years building a career, a reputation, a life of cold calculation. He has never once looked at a servant as anything but furniture.
   
  But when his eyes meet Katya's across a candlelit room, something cracks inside him. Something he cannot name. Something he cannot control.
   
  What begins as a stolen glance becomes a secret meeting in a moonlit garden. A kiss on a callused hand becomes a duel in a snow-covered forest. A forbidden love becomes a desperate flight across borders—and a choice that will cost them everything.
   
  But in a world where nobles scheme and empresses watch, where Counts hunger for revenge and the Secret Chancellery hunts for spies, can a German baron and a Russian peasant build a life together? Can love survive the weight of empire?
   
  Based on the timeless themes of passion, sacrifice, and the eternal power of the human heart, Love Upon Knives is a sweeping historical romance that asks the oldest question of all:
   
  How far would you go for the one you love?

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  Handsome Lake: The Life and...

  Editors Charles River

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  The name "Iroquois", like many Native American tribal names, is not a name the people knew themselves by, but a word applied to them by their enemies the Huron, who called them “Iroquo” (rattlesnake) as an insult. The French later added the suffix “ois.” Moreover, the Iroquois are not even a single tribe but a confederation of several different tribal nations that include the Seneca, Oneida, Onondaga, Mohawk, Cayuga and the Tuscarora, who didn’t become part of the union until the early 1700’s. The name Haudenosaunee (pronounced “ho-den-oh-SHO-nee”) is the name the people use for themselves, which translates as “the People of the Longhouse.” They are also commonly known as the Six Nations. 
  	Despite their own cultural differences, the nations that comprised the Iroquois Confederacy established their political dominance across much of America’s East Coast and Midwest through conquest, and it is that aspect which has perhaps best endured among Americans in terms of the Iroquois’ legacy. European settlers who came into contact with the Mohawks in the Northeast certainly learned to respect their combat skills, to the point that there were literally bounties on the Mohawks’ heads, with scalps fetching money for colonists who succeeded in slaying them and carrying away the “battle prize”. 
  	Handsome Lake (1735-1815) lived through the confederacy’s most turbulent time. His long life started when the Iroquois were powerful and widely feared and respected by all the tribal peoples in the region, and also by the French and the British. He lived through wars, some victories and some defeats, as well as the disunity and the collapse of traditional ways. Handsome Lake experienced his visions late in his life, at a time when the Six Nations, and his own life, were at their nadir.

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  You're Doing A Great Job - The...

  Jenna Zaffino

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  The Movement Teacher’s Guide to Fearless Teaching is a comprehensive guide for movement teachers to confidently express their authority and expertise through their work - without the pressures of imposter syndrome. 
  With actionable advice and practical tools, You’re Doing A Great Job offers step-by-step guidance on how to build trust in your work, provide effective coaching, create meaningful boundaries and be fulfilled by your teaching. You will learn valuable strategies for dealing with criticism, uncovering your unique value as a teacher, and developing a purposeful direction for your career. 
  Download Your Worksheets at jennazaffino.com/youre-doing-a-great-job-audio-worksheets

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  The Art of Not Caring

  Vera Mindwell

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. "What if the stress and overwhelm in your life aren’t caused by what you face—but by caring too much about things that don’t deserve your energy? In this liberating audiobook, Vera Mindwell challenges the belief that constant concern, emotional investment, and striving make us better or happier. Instead, she reveals how modern culture trains us to overthink, overextend, and overidentify with expectations that drain our wellbeing every day. 
  Drawing on psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy, Mindwell explains why the brain clings to worries, approval, and imagined threats—and how this automatic caring becomes a mental habit we mistake for responsibility. She offers a compelling alternative: the skill of selective concern, the art of choosing what actually matters while releasing everything that never truly did. 
  Through practical strategies and evidence-based insights, you’ll learn how emotionally grounded people set boundaries without guilt, detach from unhelpful narratives, and stay centered even when life gets loud. Mindwell dismantles the myth that caring more makes you more compassionate, showing instead how intentional detachment leads to healthier relationships, clearer priorities, and genuine inner peace. 
  If you’re tired of carrying the weight of everyone’s expectations, this audiobook invites you to let go—and finally breathe again."

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  Comedy on Stage and Screen - An...

  Wieland Schwanebeck

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  This book introduces readers to the genre of comedy, both on the stage and on the screen. It chronicles the history of comedy, starting with Ancient Greece, before summarising key chapters in Anglophone literary history, such as Shakespearean comedy, Restoration comedy, and Theatre of the Absurd. The book features an overview of key comic techniques (including slapstick, puns, and wit), as well as concise summaries of major theoretical debates (including the superiority theory and the Freudian account of laughter). The book works with many examples from the history of Anglophone comedy, including Oscar Wilde, Monty Python, and classic sitcoms. It addresses current research into cringe humour and the controversial topic of diversity in the field of comedy, and it connects classical tropes of comedy (like the fool or the marriage plot) to present-day examples. The book thus serves as an up-to-date study guide for everyone interested in comedy and its various subgenres.

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