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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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  The Civil Rights Act - America...

  Nova Ashford

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  The history of civil rights in America is deeply intertwined with the nation’s founding principles, yet it is also defined by contradictions that stem from its treatment of African Americans. Slavery, which was institutionalized from the country’s early days, placed millions of African people in bondage and marked the beginning of a long struggle for racial equality. Enslaved individuals were considered property rather than people, denied basic human rights, and subjected to a life of forced labor and brutality. This practice was vital to the economic growth of the southern states, where plantations relied on enslaved labor to produce cash crops like cotton, tobacco, and sugar. The dehumanizing nature of slavery created an enduring racial hierarchy that persisted even after its formal abolition. 
  The end of the Civil War in 1865, with the passage of the 13th Amendment, theoretically liberated enslaved people. However, the promise of freedom was not immediately realized, as the southern states passed a series of laws known as Black Codes. These laws sought to maintain white dominance by severely limiting the rights and freedoms of African Americans. The Black Codes restricted mobility, employment opportunities, and legal protections, pushing many freedmen and women back into forced labor through sharecropping arrangements that mirrored slavery in many ways. Despite these setbacks, African Americans began to organize, laying the groundwork for future civil rights movements.

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  Starting a World War: The...

  Editors Charles River

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  By the 20th century, warfare was nothing new to the European powers, especially when it came to fighting each other. Conflicts had been a mainstay on the European continent for over two millennia. Even after the Napoleonic wars had enveloped Europe in large scale war for nearly 20 years in the 19th century, the Europeans’ imperialism continued unabated. It would take the devastation of World War I to shock Europe and jolt the world’s superpowers out of their imperialistic tendencies.  
  	With Europe anticipating a potential war, all that was missing was a conflagration. That would start in 1908, when Austria-Hungary annexed Bosnia-Herzegovina in the Balkan Peninsula, drawing it into dispute with Russia. Moreover, this upset neighboring Serbia, which was an independent nation. From 1912-1913, a conflict was fought in the Balkans between the Balkan League and the Ottoman Empire, resulting in the weakening of the Ottoman Turks. After the First Balkan War, a second was fought months later between members of the Balkan League itself. The final straw came June 28, 1914, when a Serbian assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, in Sarajevo, Bosnia.   
  The Munich Agreement is widely reviled today and is held up as the epitome of appeasement, but historians still debate its effects on the Second World War, as well as Neville Chamberlain's character and motivations. Some believe the attempted appeasement of Nazi Germany hastened, or even caused, the mayhem occupying the next seven years. Others believe that the pact merely failed to alter war's inevitable arrival in either direction.  
  Of course, as most people now know, the invasion of Poland was merely the preface to the Nazi blitzkrieg of most of Western Europe, which would include Denmark, Belgium, and France by the summer of 1940

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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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  Prisoners of War - Survival and...

  Sage Winters

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  Throughout history, the experiences of prisoners of war (POWs) have captured the complexities of human endurance, resilience, and the moral challenges of conflict. In the midst of war, being taken captive often represents a turning point—one where survival becomes an individual’s primary focus, yet the determination to resist the enemy may persist despite overwhelming odds. This book explores the world of POWs, examining the strategies they employed to endure, resist, and sometimes escape the harsh conditions imposed by their captors.  
    
  Prisoners of war are not merely bystanders in conflicts; they are active participants in a different kind of battle. The battlefield shifts from the open fields of combat to the confines of prison camps, where physical deprivation, psychological manipulation, and moral dilemmas take center stage. Despite these hardships, many POWs found ways to preserve their dignity and humanity. They organized covert resistance movements, forged powerful bonds with their fellow captives, and made daring escape attempts, each story a testament to the indomitable human spirit.  
    
  International laws, such as the Geneva Conventions, were designed to protect the rights and well-being of POWs. However, history reveals that these laws were often ignored or inadequately enforced, leaving countless captives to endure severe mistreatment. The book delves into these legal frameworks while highlighting the real-life stories of those who lived through captivity, offering a vivid account of their experiences. 

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