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  The Epic - A Very Short...

  Anthony Welch

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  The epic is an ancient and universal form of artistic expression. Storytellers around the globe have long told of heroes who are touched by greatness and gain lasting fame. 
   
   
   
  In this Very Short Introduction, Anthony Welch places the Western epic canon alongside traditional heroic poetry from Asia, Africa, and the Near East. Tracing shared themes and practices that unite the world's epic literature, Welch examines the roles that epic poets serve in society and how epic storytelling differs from other narrative forms. Ranging widely from Gilgamesh to Derek Walcotts Omeros, the author acquaints listeners with some of the world's greatest literary works and asks why the epic holds such power over our imaginations.

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  Do and Grow Rich - Why Napoleon...

  Hank Clark

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  Most success books tell you to visualize harder. This one shows you why thinking is only step one - and doing is what prints the checks. What you’ll hear inside The “Bias Equation” that keeps you day-dreaming on the couch while action-takers lap you.  
   
  Direction-and-Deadline rules that turn vague desire into a target the size of a billboard. “Test-and-Tweak” loops used by Airbnb, Dropbox, and solo creators to turn half-baked ideas into cash within forty-eight hours. Fast, reversible decision frameworks borrowed from Jeff Bezos - so you can make thirty smart bets a month instead of one perfect plan a year.  
   
  The 14-Day Execution Loop: lead versus lag KPIs, Weekly Wealth Delta scorecards, and screenshot receipts that expose self-delusion. Ten Doer’s Code rules that keep momentum rolling when motivation is asleep.  
   
  No mystic vibes, no chanting, no 5 A.M. pep rallies - just relentless action architecture that lets ordinary people outrun smarter dreamers. Read, act, repeat.  
   
  Then watch how fast “rich” stops being a noun and starts becoming a verb.

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  Secrets of the 17th Century...

  Katherine Knight

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  What was medicine like in the time of Shakespeare and Oliver Cromwell? How did Charles I cure a headache, or Samuel Pepys get rid of kidney stones? Katherine Knight opens up the delights of the Stuart medicine cabinet in this fascinating romp through seventeenth-century medicine and cosmetics. Documenting the all-important use of household substances and do-it-yourself remedies, this book looks at the emergence of modern medicine from everyday cures such as herbs, oils and foods.
  Offering solutions for all sorts of nasty afflictions, from digestive disturbances to sexually transmitted diseases, it also describes how our seventeenth-century counterparts enjoyed the benefits of soap, moisturiser and toothpaste. With insights into the lives of those who lived in this remarkable period, Secrets of the 17th Century Medicine Cabinet is more than a medical history - it is an intimate investigation into the private lives of the spirited Stuarts.

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  Mind Your Buckets! - How to...

  CHt Jenny Battig

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  We all have different capacities to handle what life throws at us. Yet in a world that constantly demands more, we often judge ourselves, and others, when things don't go as planned. 
  Mind Your Buckets! introduces a simple, life-changing metaphor: we each carry a unique set of "emotional buckets" that hold our capacity for stress, joy, anger, connection, and more. Your buckets are not the same size as anyone else's, and that's okay. 
  This compassionate guide, from author Jenny Battig, offers a clear path to self-acceptance by helping you map your own emotional architecture. You'll discover why some days a minor setback feels overwhelming, while others you can conquer the world. 
  This book is a practical toolbox for daily emotional maintenance. You will learn how to: 
  - Prevent emotional overflow from stress and difficult experiences. 
  - Keep your Good Stuff buckets full and avoid running dry of positive emotions. 
  - Identify and remove subconscious "rocks" that are silently limiting your capacity. 
  - Reduce judgment toward yourself and foster radical empathy for others. 
  Stop striving to fit into a one-size-fits-all emotional mold. It's time to understand your limits, manage your capacity, and enjoy feeling more balanced and in the flow for a fulfilling life! 
  Supplemental PDF included with lists of sample emotional buckets.

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  Gestapo Hunter - The Remarkable...

  Sean Feast

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  Gestapo Hunter explores the charmed life and exceptional career of Ted Sismore, widely considered one of the RAF's very best wartime navigators and leaders. A quiet, unassuming man who was nicknamed "Daisy" on account of his youthful complexion, Ted was one of only a handful of aircrew to complete a tour of operations in Blenheims in the summer of 1941. He flew in the daylight attack on Berlin, timed to coincide with an address being given by Hermann Göring, for which he received the first of several awards for gallantry and which was widely publicized. Identified by Basil Embry, the mercurial AOC of 2 Group, as something of a kindred spirit, Ted joined the Group's HQ staff, planning Operation Jericho, the famous attack on the prison at Amiens on February 18, 1944, and taking part on October 31 later that year in another "spectacular" to bomb the Gestapo HQ at Aarhus in Denmark. Raids on the SS and Gestapo became something of a specialty, Ted leading further pinpoint bombing attacks on "Shell House" in Copenhagen (Operation Carthage) and the Gestapo HQ at Odense. After the war, Ted teamed up with Mick Martin, the famous Dambuster, to break the flying record from London to Cape Town, in 1947, a journey of almost 7,000 miles. He later qualified as a pilot, flying Meteors, Javelins, and Canberras, retiring as an air commodore. He died in 2012.

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  Education Imagination and Myth...

  James Hillman

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  James Hillman is the father of Archetypal Psychology. This rare program focuses on Education, Imagination and Myth with James Hillman. Here is a transcribed excerpt: 
   
  "And it's very important for the teacher to allow these things to occur, to feel them, to experience them even to record them so that she or he feels comfortable with the strangeness of the imaginative world with the gods and the demons and the animals and the jungles and the territories that are the source of one's imaginative life. 
  Unless the teachers comfortable with that he or she will censor and repress or suppress the imaginative life of the pupil. It seems to me that everyone can be re-tread. ▪ We can all get a retread and you unlearn. 
  I mean, one of the basic things of learning is unlearning what you've learned, not just negative capability, but negative learning learning against what you've learned. 
  You have to learn the stuff and then you see through it and you unlearn it."

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