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  Wolves of K Street The: Book...

  Alexander Pike

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  The Wolves of K Street takes listeners deep into the power corridors of Washington, D.C., where lobbyists, strategists, and influencers shape the policies that impact millions. In this riveting exploration, the author unveils the high-stakes world of K Street, revealing the personalities, strategies, and ethical challenges that define American lobbying.
   
  Each chapter is a masterclass in navigating influence, resilience, and strategic thinking. From the art of persuasion to crisis management and the importance of adaptability, the author provides insights that extend beyond politics, offering listeners practical lessons they can apply in their own careers. Through real-life stories of power brokers who built their success in one of the country’s most competitive arenas, The Wolves of K Street is both a fascinating exposé and an empowering guide.
   
  Ideal for listeners interested in productivity, self-improvement, and influence, this audiobook delivers a wealth of strategies for thriving in challenging environments. Whether you’re climbing the corporate ladder, building a personal brand, or navigating complex professional relationships, The Wolves of K Street provides the tools and inspiration to rise above, make an impact, and achieve success on your terms.

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  Augustine to Chesterton and...

  Michael W. Higgins

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  What would it be like to listen to great figures of our faith discuss their struggles, life lessons, and spiritual insights?  A number of remarkable Christians have bequeathed to us their autobiographies. Now, you can access their words and understand the contexts in which they lived with a master scholar and teacher as your guide.  In this course, you will explore fourteen inspiring writers who have revealed their spiritual yearnings and encounters with the transcendent. As you do so, you will find new intimacy with each writer, fresh perspectives, and horizons for discovery.  Starting with the Confessions of St. Augustine, you will move chronologically through the classics of the Christian tradition and modern spiritual masterpieces. You will explore Ignatius of Loyola and Teresa of Ávila, whose mystical autobiographies laid the foundations for their respective religious orders. Then, you will look at the moving spiritual relationship between Blaise Pascal and his sister Jacqueline, the intellectual vivacity of John Henry Newman, and the “Little Way” of Thérèse of Lisieux.  As you move into the twentieth century, you will encounter lay Catholic philosophers Jacques and Raïssa Maritain, beloved writer G.K. Chesterton, and the anguished genius of Simone Weil. Finally, you will look at two men executed in Nazi Germany: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Alfred Delp, S.J.  Join Dr. Higgins on this literary, spiritual, and altogether unforgettable odyssey today.This course is part of the Learn25 collection and includes a free PDF study guide.

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  Flooding into Bangladesh...

  PBS NewsHour

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  Hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingyas have fled to Bangladesh in the past three weeks after suffering violent attacks by Myanmar troops and Buddhist vigilantes. The sudden influx of Rohingyas is causing tensions with local Bengalis, who fear becoming the minority. Special correspondent Tania Rashid explains the origins of this mass exodus and how the international community is responding.

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - The...

  James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Luigi...

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  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made.  If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. 
   
  In this volume we examine a decade of tumult and upheaval for the continent and its Empires as both countries and social classes tense under insoluble issues.  All at once Europe is engulfed in slaughter and overwhelmed by fighting.  Its authors use their pens both to help enlighten and to provide some scant strands of escape in these most demanding of times.   
   
  1 - The Top 10 - The 1910's - The Europeans - An Introduction 
  2 - The Dead - Part 1 by James Joyce 
  3 - The Dead - Part 2 by James Joyce 
  4 - In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka 
  5 - Sicilian Limes by Luigi Pirandello 
  6 - The Garden of the Holy Virgin by Alexander Kuprin 
  7 - The Horror of the Heights by Arthur Conan Doyle 
  8 - Son by Ivan Bunin 
  9 - The Marseillaise by Leonid Andreyev 
  10 - Dethroned by I N Potapenko 
  11 - The Revolutionist by Mikhail Petrovich Artzybashev 
  12 - The Testament of Magdalen Blair - Part 1 by Aleister Crowley 
  13 - The Testament of Magdalen Blair - Part 2 by Aleister Crowley

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  The Birth of All Things

  Marcus Amaker

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  Marcus Amaker is the first Poet Laureate of Charleston, SC. He's an accomplished musician and spoken word performer. The audio version of The Birth of All Things is an eclectic mix of new, original poems in Marcus' own voice. 
  “Once, in 2001, I heard a poet read a poem that turned to music in the air. Two decades later Marcus Amaker’s gorgeous new book is that moment on repeat, with each turned page. A mixtape of presence, The Birth of All Things is a genuine, lyrical offering to our heart’s expansion. To write in celebration while refusing to ignore grief, is a skill few artists have mastered, but it is mastered here. I am so grateful for the bonfire of light this book has brought into my world.” 
  — Andrea Gibson, world-renowned poet and author of Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry) 
  “A text for living, The Birth of All Things is a joyous collection with the breath of Amaker’s newborn daughter running through. Despite the current chaos of our times, these poems conjure a world filled with magic and music that centers us and keep us brave. A necessary collection: Organic, generous and life-giving.” 
  — Cheryl Boyce-Taylor, author of Arrival (Northwestern University Press), and mother of Phife (A Tribe Called Quest) 
  This personal collection delivers poems about a wide range of topics: Life as a new dad, racism in America, Björk, anxiety, Star Wars, masculinity, pandemics, black music, history, and more. Amaker is an award-winning graphic designer, musician, and performance poet. The Birth of All Things is the sum of all of his talents. The book features Amaker’s handwritten poems, and an original illustration from Florida artist Nick Davis.

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  A Dress for Kathleen

  Heather Richardson

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  'Every family has shadow people, the ones who slipped out of the story too soon, leaving a blank space where they should have been. In my father's family that person was his sister Kathleen.'
  So begins Heather Richardson's astonishing fragmentary celebration of her aunt, Kathleen Hutchinson, whose life was cut tragically short aged just 14. It is the early days of WW2 and Kathleen has just left school to start her first job at a linen mill. But this dark and cold December night she doesn't make it home.
  Originally stitched into the fabric of a dress, Kathleen's life is presented here as a book for the first time. In the process, Heather Richardson also tells the stories of Kathleen's parents and their lives together in rural Northern Ireland in the first half of the 20th Century.
  A Dress For Kathleen is a labour of love from niece to the aunt she never met. Every sentence sparkles. Heather Richardson's masterpiece is a poetic portrait in prose and one of the finest books you will read this year.

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