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  Oceans of Grain - How American...

  Scott Reynolds Nelson

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  An "incredibly timely" global history journeys from the Ukrainian steppe to the American prairie to show how grain built and toppled the world's largest empires (Financial Times). To understand the rise and fall of empires, we must follow the paths traveled by grain—along rivers, between ports, and across seas. In Oceans of Grain, historian Scott Reynolds Nelson reveals how the struggle to dominate these routes transformed the balance of world power. Early in the nineteenth century, imperial Russia fed much of Europe through the booming port of Odessa, on the Black Sea in Ukraine. But following the US Civil War, tons of American wheat began to flood across the Atlantic, and food prices plummeted. This cheap foreign grain spurred the rise of Germany and Italy, the decline of the Habsburgs and the Ottomans, and the European scramble for empire. It was a crucial factor in the outbreak of the First World War and the Russian Revolution. A powerful new interpretation, Oceans of Grain shows that amid the great powers’ rivalries, there was no greater power than control of grain.“American cotton changed the world in the first half of the nineteenth century, American wheat in its second half. Scott Reynolds Nelson’s globe-spanning exploration of the powers of a humble grain to topple empires, enable industrialization, build cities, and redirect trade flows is the kind of commodity history one wishes for: attentive to politics, connected as well as comparative in perspective, and with a knack for telling details. After reading this fast-paced book, the wars, revolutions, and empires of the nineteenth century will never seem the same.”―Sven Beckert, author of Empire of Cotton

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  Improve Communication in Your...

  Amanda Bourn

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  Do you feel like your spouse doesn't truly hear you anymore? 
  Are you tired of conversations that quickly spiral into arguments? 
  Does it seem like you're both speaking different languages when trying to resolve conflicts? 
  Have you noticed the emotional distance growing between you and your partner? 
  Do you miss the deep connection and intimacy you once shared? 
  Do simple disagreements often escalate into hurtful exchanges? 
  Are you longing for the closeness you felt early in your relationship? 
  I understand how frustrating and lonely this can feel. Marriage shouldn't be this hard. 
  Here's what you'll discover inside: 
  •	The hidden communication patterns silently destroying your connection and how to replace them with bridges to deeper intimacy 
  •	Powerful techniques to stop defensiveness before it derails your conversations 
  •	The surprising truth about why your spouse misinterprets your words (and what to do about it) 
  •	A proven 4-step method for discussing sensitive topics without triggering arguments 
  •	How to recognize and express your emotional needs in ways your partner can truly hear 
  •	Simple daily practices that rebuild trust and strengthen your emotional bond 
  •	The art of healing conversations that repair past hurts instead of reopening old wounds 
  •	Practical intimacy exercises that reconnect you physically and emotionally 
  •	The sensate focus approach that has transformed thousands of disconnected marriagesYour marriage deserves more than just survival. Don't let another day of disconnection pass. Take the first step toward the marriage you've always dreamed of.

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  Brown Noise for ADHD (Focus...

  Brown Noise Laboratory

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  Brown noise could be described as the intense sound of a jet engine, a wind tunnel, or the sound waves make during a storm. While this type of sound might not seem like it could be relaxing, many people with ADHD find that brown noise helps them turn off their brain, relax or focus.ADHD stands for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. A person with ADHD has differences in brain development and brain activity that affect attention, the ability to sit still, and self-control.Teens and adults with ADHD actually need more "noise" to reach optimal cognitive functioning than people who don't have ADHD. This may seem counterintuitive, considering that individuals with ADHD struggle to focus and relax. But because brown noise plays lower frequencies at a higher sound level, the brain registers the sound as similar to its resting state.Many individuals with ADHD find that brown noise in particular is helpful for tapping into that sense of calm and focus they so desperately need. Some have described brown noise as a weighted blanket for their brain. This could mean that brown noise soothes the person with ADHD by calming the nervous system and restoring brain wave functioning to a neutral baseline.Brown noise is a sound that is played louder at a lower frequency. This supports rest, calmness, and relaxation because it's similar to the resting state of the brain. Parents of babies are often advised to make brown noise playlists for their children to help them fall asleep because this frequency is similar to the sounds they hear in their mother's womb.WHAT YOU GET:Our 12 hours brown noise audiobook!1. Dreamy Brown Noise (75 min.)2. Soft Ventilation For Deep Sleep (60 min.)3. Smoothed Brown Noise for Stress Relief, Relaxation & Sleeping (60 min.)4. Deep Dive - Brown Noise Underwater Ambiance (45 min.)5. Cosmic Brown Noise (60 min.)6. Awesome Fan Sound For Deep Sleep (60 min.)7. Warm Brown Noise (60 min.)8. Brown Noise - Ambient Sound Blocker (70 min.)9. Ultra Soft Brown Noise With Piano Whispers (80 min.)10. Best Brown Noise For Studying (30 min.)11. Propeller Plane In Flight - "Natural" Brown Noise (35 min.)12. UnderWater Meditation - Deep Sea Brown Noise (60 min.)13. Bloodstream - Pulsating Brown Noise (70 min.)Listening to "Brown Noise" instantly ensures considerable inner peace and can also have a very helpful effect on tinnitus. Can't wait for your audiobook to arrive? Download it now!

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  Tom Nairn: Old Nations Auld...

  Tom Nairn

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  Tom Nairn has been the most forceful and original mind to confront, de-mask and anatomise the British state. The perception that Great Britain was a multinational state and not a united nation had never quite been lost over the centuries, but it was Nairn who almost single-handedly hammered this truth into the skull of British intellectuals and campaigners until it became – as it is today – practically uncontested by the political class.
  
  NEAL ASCHERSON, London Review of Books
  
  
  For the last fifty years Tom Nairn has been one of Britain's most consistently provocative and influential voices. No other writer has left so deep an impression on mainstream debates about Scotland, Britain and nationalism. No other writer has so thoroughly interrogated the United Kingdom's post-war crisis and decline.
  
  
  Old Nations, Auld Enemies, New Times brings together, for the first time, the full span of Nairn's work, from his ground-breaking analysis of the British state in the 1960s and '70s to his more recent examinations of globalisation, the English question and Scotland's independence referendum.
  
  
  
  Nairn stands alongside the great Scottish intellectual and literary figures of recent decades. Old Nations is the definitive Nairn collection – and an indispensable guide for anyone looking to understand the current moment in Scottish and British politics.
  
  
  For originality of mind, Tom Nairn is without equal among his contemporaries. In fifty years, there has never been a time in my memory in which that he was saying went with the flow of opinion, on the left or at large ... All of this in a style of extraordinary vigour and beauty – and not least humour: writing as democratic as his own unswerving politics. One thinks: if only there were more like him. But that would be a contradiction in terms.
  
  PERRY ANDERSON, New Left Review
  
  Tom Nairn is well known both as a major contributor to debates about Scottish nationalism and the re-configuring of the current UK, and as a supremely thoughtful and witty writer. This collection of his writings illustrates the evolution of his ideas and will be invaluable. Whether one agrees with Nairn or not, his arguments always make one think afresh.
  
  LINDA COLLEY, Professor of History, Princeton University

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  The Edible City

  Alana Wilcox, Christina Palassio

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  If a city is its people, and its people are what they eat, then shouldn’t food play a larger role in our dialogue about how and where we live? The food of a metropolis is essential to its character. Native plants, proximity to farmland, the locations of supermarkets, immigration, the role chefs can and should play in society – how a city nourishes itself makes a statement about the kind of city it is.
     
  With a cornucopia of essays on comestibles, The Edible City considers how one city eats. It includes dishes on peaches and poverty, on processing plants and public gardens, on rats and bees and bad restaurant service, on schnitzel and school lunches. There are incisive studies of food-security policy, of feeding the needy and of waste, and a happy tale about a hardy fig tree.
     
  Together they form a saucy picture of how Toronto – and, by extension, every city – sustains itself, from growing basilon balconies to four-star restaurants. Dig into The Edible City and get the whole story, from field to fork.
     
  'The common theme here is connecting people through food. In the final essay, Wayne Roberts of the Toronto Food Policy Council suggests that this connection is really about empowerment, and empowering readers is exactly what The Edible City is sure to do.'
     
  – Quill and Quire
     
  'Part historical recollection, part rallying cry and part love letter to all things gustatory in our fair city, this compilation has an angle for every taste.'
     
  – Taste T.O.

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  The web of sexual sin - The...

  Francesca Santana

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  When her parents died in a car accident, Jasmin’s life changed. She was moved to live with her parents’ uncle and wife that was her mom’s sister her little sister was taken to live with other relatives that didn’t feed her well. Jazmin’s nightmare began when her aunt made sexual moves towards her. She was forced to accept them in order to keep her lifestyle and to rescue her little sister from the abuse she was enduring. Will she be able to help her little sister? How long can Jazmin keep this going on? Will she fight to get vengeance? Time only knows.

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