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  The Battle of the River Plate -...

  Gordon Landsborough

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  A riveting and revelatory history of the first naval battle of the Second World War, when British and German forces clashed off the coast of South America.   At dawn on December 13, 1939, smoke was seen on the horizon in the River Plate, an estuary near the shorelines of Argentina and Uruguay. Ordered to investigate, Britain’s HMS Exeter reported a chilling discovery by lamp signal: I think it is a pocket battleship.   It was. The Deutschland-class heavy cruiser AdmiralGraf Spee, marauder of the South Atlantic, was responsible for sinking several merchant ships without resistance. Now, it had sailed into a trap. British light cruisers HMS Ajax and Achilles joined the Exeter in engaging a German warship which—so Adolph Hitler had boasted—could out-maneuver any vessel powerful enough to damage her, and out-gun any ship able to keep up with her.   So began The Battle of the River Plate. Gordon Landsborough’s true account of this historic conflict details the fateful decisions made by Royal Navy Commodore Henry Harwood and Admiral Graf Spee’s Captain Hans Langsdorff that resulted in a British victory. It was a naval encounter in the finest Horatio Nelson tradition—and true to that tradition—the men with the finest armament of all, courage, emerged triumphant, bringing pride and inspiration into the hearts of a nation unwillingly at war once again.  Features an Appendix containing the official dispatch detailing the Battle of the River Plate.  

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  Anthropology For Beginners

  Micah J. Fleck

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  Anyone living today could form the impression that humanity is essentially fractured and fragmented; that we’re split up along ethnic, geographic, cultural, national, and ideological lines. This is the societal reality. But in Anthropology For Beginners, Micah J. Fleck asks us to take a big step backward and look at the full picture, as if we were aliens who stumbled upon planet Earth and glimpsed its inhabitants. We would see a myriad of languages, practices, religious rites, food palettes, clothing styles, and leisure activities—all of which belong to the same curious species: Homo sapiens. Where did it come from? How did it develop so many different ways of being? And most importantly, what do its members have in common?Anthropology is the field that sets out to answer these questions. Micah J. Fleck provides a history not only of humankind, but of anthropology itself—giving anyone with an interest in the subject a solid background of its key figures and developments.

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  The First Family - Terror...

  Mike Dash

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  Before the Five Families who so notoriously dominated U.S. organized crime for a bloody half-century, there was the one-fingered, surpassingly cunning Giuseppe Morello and his murderous coterie of brothers. Born into a life of poverty in rural Sicily, Morello became an American nightmare, pioneering the bizarre initiation rituals, imaginative protection rackets, influential underworld reigns, and Mafia wars later popularized by countless books, television shows, and movies.In The First Family, Mike Dash tells the little known story of the Morello family. He follows the birth of the Mafia in America from the 1890s to the 1920s, from the wharves of New Orleans-where Morello himself disembarked in the United States-to the streets of Little Italy. Using previously untapped secret service archives, prison records, and interviews with surviving family members, Dash brings to life the remarkable villains and unusual heroes of the Mafia's early years, from the colorful members of the Morello family to Joseph Petrosino, an Italian cop with a thick Naples accent, and William Flynn, a dogged U.S. Secret Service agent, who banded together to bring down Morello.More than just a pulse-quickening Mafia narrative, The First Family is the first authoritative account of a particularly crucial period in American history, in which the modern American underworld was born.

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  Emotional Intelligence - 21...

  Eric Skinner

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  In this emotional intelligence handbook, you’ll learn everything about recognizing your emotions, developing strategies for managing these emotions more efficiently as well as regulating the emotions of others to create more balanced and less conflict causing situations. Here’s a sneak peek of what you can expect from this book:Proven strategies for increasing self-awareness;Established techniques for boosting your emotional intelligence;Powerful tips for managing or regulating your emotions;Secret tips for increasing your (social) emotional intelligence;Verbal and non-verbal clues for decoding other people’s emotions; andSolid tips for managing other’s emotions and feelings to build more fulfilling and rewarding interpersonal relationships. 
  Make it a point to master the art of taking greater control of your and other people’s emotions for leading a more rewarding and fulfilling life.

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  Mean Dads for a Better America -...

  Tom Shillue

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  As a comedian and conservative thinker, whip-smart funny Tom Shillue grounds his ideas about our current culture and political climate in stories from his childhood — a portrait of growing up in 1970s America. Growing up as one of five kids in a devout Irish Catholic family in a small town outside of Boston, Tom sincerely believes that the rough-and-tumble, rules-dominated world in which he came of age was a better America—a time and place that made him into the well-adjusted, happy, successful man he is today. In Mean Dads for a Better America, Tom reminisces about his childhood, his family, and the traditional values he cherishes. He takes us back to a time when neighbors disciplined each other’s children without fear of being sued, when kids made it to the family table for dinner, when parents’ rules were gospel, when the occasional fistfight was considered a fair way to solve a problem, and when children were free to roam, make mistakes, and experience the first tastes of independence. Tom debates, debunks, and entertains with his hilarious approach to issues of the day, tackling the issues that confound many Americans, like our hypersensitive culture and overzealous parenting. As Tom celebrates the stability of family life and the sanity of days gone by, he encourages us to hold on to our sense of humor and look back at our own lives, as we work towards creating a better future for ourselves and our kids, all while making us laugh.

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  Social Housing in the Middle...

  Mohammad Gharipour, Kivanc Kilinc

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  Essays on architecture in Kuwait, Iran, Israel, and other nations in the region, and how it can and must address the needs of local residents. As oil-rich countries in the Middle East are increasingly associated with soaring skyscrapers and modern architecture, attention is being diverted away from the pervasive struggles of social housing in those same urban settings. Social Housing in the Middle East traces the history of social housing—both gleaming postmodern projects and bare-bones urban housing structures—in an effort to provide a wider understanding of marginalized spaces and their impact on identities, communities, and class. While architects may have envisioned utopian or futuristic experiments, these buildings were often constructed with the knowledge and skill sets of local workers, and the housing was in turn adapted to suit the modern needs of residents. This tension between local needs and national aspirations are linked to issues of global importance, including security, migration, and refugee resettlement. The essays collected here consider how culture, faith, and politics influenced the solutions offered by social housing; they provide an insightful look at how social housing has evolved since the nineteenth century and how it will need to adapt to suit the twenty-first.“Essential reading . . . for architectural and social historians, planners, and policy makers.” —CAA Reviews

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