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  How to Read Faster: 7 Easy Steps...

  Troye Bates

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  Why read 200 words per minute when you can double that speed with a little practice and the proper techniques? 
    
  This guide covers everything you need to know about reading comprehension and speed reading. Through painstaking research, we have developed a 7-step strategy to help people double their reading speed! 
    
  YOU WILL LEARN: 
  • The fundamentals of speed reading. 
  • Factors that affect reading comprehension. 
  • Causes of reading difficulties in children and adults. 
  • Solutions which you can employ to combat reading difficulties. 
  • Benefits you can enjoy by learning to read fast. 
  • Main techniques to improve speed reading. 
  • Tips & tricks to improve your reading speed & comprehension. 
    
  You will find a lot of practical wisdom in this guide to help you overcome the problem of slow reading and poor comprehension. 
    
  As a result, you will be able to reverse any wrong reading techniques you may have developed earlier in life and become more skilled at reading fast the right way!

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  Self-Promote and Succeed - The...

  Julie Broad

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  Every nonfiction author dreams of being a bestselling author. This dream hinges on a well-positioned book and a savvy understanding of marketing. Many authors feel like they have tried everything in the world of self-publishing—launching mass press releases, designing attractive bookmarks, and attempting to run ads on Amazon. Yet the numbers crawl, the dream stalls, and the frustration mounts. 
  Julie Broad, author of Self-Publish and Succeed and Founder of Book Launchers, brings her high-energy approach and hold-nothing-back attitude with this compelling follow-up guide to Self-Publish & Succeed. Julie champions indie authors to book marketing success, showing you the secret goes beyond the narrow focus on book sales. She presents a map to use your book to become an industry thought leader, bolster your personal brand and leverage your book as a tool for business growth. 
  You’ll discover how to: 
  ·     Architect a layered marketing strategy, optimizing every aspect of your book production and marketing, for success. 
  ·     Position your author brand to appeal directly to your target audience. 
  ·     Choose your book launch strategy from four proven methods. 
  ·     Enhance your book’s visibility with the right pricing and keywords on platforms like Kindle Direct Publishing. 
  ·     Leverage speaking engagements to personally connect with readers and boost book sales. 
  It’s time to take your authorship to the next level. Navigate the intricacies of self-publishing and book marketing using the same methods clients pay her tens of thousands of dollars for. Get Self-Promote and Succeed and let this writer’s guide to promoting, marketing, and selling your nonfiction book be the reason your journey heads toward success.

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  Pestilence and Trade - The Dark...

  Harris Ropes

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  This volume explores how devastating plagues, ambitious trade networks, and long-standing wars defined a darker, yet transformative, side of the Middle Ages. 
  Start with The Black Death, the infamous pandemic that swept across Europe and Asia in the 14th century, killing millions and leaving entire cities and economies in ruin. The plague reshaped societies, led to labor shortages, and sparked deep religious and cultural shifts that altered the trajectory of history. 
  Next, explore The Hanseatic League, a powerful commercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds and market towns in Northwestern and Central Europe. While it brought prosperity and trade connections, it also exposed cities to disease, piracy, and political tensions, showing the complex balance between wealth and vulnerability. 
  Finally, uncover The Byzantine-Sassanian Wars, a series of intense military conflicts between the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) and Persian (Sassanian) empires. These prolonged wars exhausted both empires, disrupted trade routes, and made the region vulnerable to later invasions and upheaval, particularly the rise of Islam. 
  Together, these three stories illuminate how interconnected the medieval world was—how disease could travel along trade routes, how commerce brought both wealth and danger, and how war weakened even the mightiest of empires.

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  Historic Triangle of Virginia...

  Editors Charles River

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  Jamestown is fondly remembered today for being the first permanent English settlement in the colonies, but it was not fondly remembered by those who lived and died there. The English quickly learned it would be difficult to establish a permanent settlement because of the poor weather, the swampy terrain, the hostile natives living nearby, and the general inexperience and ineptitude of the English settlers. During their first winter, everyone nearly starved, and more than half of the settlers died. By the end of the winter of 1609-1610, known as the “starving time”, barely 10% of the settlers were still alive. Nevertheless, Jamestown is remembered today because the settlement did survive through the hardships and go on to serve as the capital of the English colony for much of the 17th century. At the same time, one of the biggest reasons for its survival and fame today can be attributed to the local Native Americans, particularly Pocahontas, who has added both a human and romanticized, mythological element to Jamestown.  
  	Along with Jamestown and Yorktown, Colonial Williamsburg is known today as part of the Historic Triangle of Virginia, but all three of these old Virginian sites are known for vastly different reasons. While Yorktown was the scene of the final climactic battle of the American Revolution and Jamestown is remembered for being the first English settlement to survive in Virginia, Colonial Williamsburg is now best known as a bridge to the past.  
   Williamsburg got its start as a fortified site, which was vitally necessary for English settlers to heavily outnumbered by nearby Native Americans, many of which were at times hostile. Known originally as Middle Plantation, the site served as the capital of the colony for much of the 18th century, and it bore witness to seminal events in the history of Revolutionary era America.

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  Self Reliance - Adapted for the...

  James Harris, Ralph Waldo Emerson

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  SELF RELIANCE is an essay written in 1841 by Ralph Waldo Emerson. 
  ★ It contains the most thorough statement of one of Emerson's recurrent themes: the need for each individual to avoid conformity and false consistency, and follow his own instincts and ideas. 
  ★ This essay is an analysis into the nature of the aboriginal self on which a universal reliance may be grounded. 
  ★ Emerson emphasises the importance of individualism and its effect on an individual's satisfaction in life. He stresses that anyone is capable of achieving happiness, simply if they change their mindset. 
  ★ Emerson focuses on seemingly insignificant details explaining how life is "learning and forgetting and learning again". 
  ★ This book has been carefully adapted in to Modern English to allow for easy reading. ✓ 
  ENJOY ♥

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  Pearl Harbor - The Attack That...

  Sage Winters

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  The path to the attack on Pearl Harbor was paved by years of escalating tension between Japan, the United States, and other global powers. By the 1930s, Japan had increasingly pursued aggressive territorial expansion in Asia. The country sought to secure resources to fuel its growing industrial machine, leading to its invasion of China and the creation of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. This expansionist ideology put Japan on a collision course with Western powers, particularly the United States, who had significant economic interests in the Pacific region. 
    
  As Japan moved to solidify its dominance in Asia, the United States responded with growing concern and diplomatic opposition. American policymakers viewed Japan’s actions as a direct threat to regional stability and their own economic interests, especially in China and the Philippines. By the late 1930s, the United States had placed significant economic sanctions on Japan, including an oil embargo that severely limited Japan’s access to vital resources. The embargo further strained relations between the two nations, as Japan’s need for oil and raw materials became critical to its war machine. 
    
  In response, Japan’s leadership became more determined to secure access to Southeast Asia’s oil reserves. The Japanese government began to focus on expanding its influence over the Dutch East Indies, British Malaya, and other territories rich in natural resources. Japan’s growing militarism and its desire for expansion were met with an increasingly isolationist stance from the United States. The U.S. saw Japan’s actions as imperialistic, but its leaders were hesitant to directly intervene, largely due to the isolationist sentiments that permeated American politics following World War I.

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