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  Speed Reading: Accelerate Your...

  David Cooper

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  The thorough manual "Speed Reading: Accelerate Your Learning and Comprehension: Techniques and Strategies to Read Faster and Retain More" was created to increase your reading speed while maintaining a high degree of understanding and retention. The capacity to swiftly comprehend vast amounts of material is essential in the fast-paced information world we live in today. This book is your road map to mastering it, offering helpful techniques and perceptive approaches to change the way you read. 
  The first sections of the book cover the principles of rapid reading, dispel popular misconceptions, and describe the science underlying reading comprehension. It offers methods for escaping restrictive behaviors like regression and subvocalization, which can greatly impede your reading speed. You will teach your eyes and mind to scan and process text more quickly through a series of activities. 
  The goal of "speed reading" is to read more intelligently rather than just quicker. From light reading like emails and articles to complex academic papers and technical documents, the book provides specialized solutions for each sort of reading material. This guarantees that you may use speed reading strategies in a variety of situations, making them useful and customizable to your requirements. 
  The book also offers methods for monitoring your development and overcoming typical roadblocks, giving you a comprehensive strategy for becoming an expert speed reader. "Speed Reading: Accelerate Your Learning and Comprehension" is an indispensable tool that will help you realize your full potential and transform your reading abilities, regardless of whether you're a professional trying to stay ahead in your field, a student hoping to thrive academically, or a lifelong learner enthusiastic about personal development.

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  The Starting Gate

  Paul Mullin

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  In thirteen chapters Paul Mullin mixes up a potent cocktail of working, drinking, family and Zen.It all starts—where else?—at the Starting Gate: a shit-kicker country bar in Northern Maryland where the author first started working at the age of thirteen, and where his boss once shot a man dead for trying to rob the local drug store. Other jobs follow, like when he works as the only white kid on an all black labor crew at the National Archives, or the years he spends as a high-rise window cleaner in Manhattan. An essential primer for anyone interested in Zen and/or cocktails, or for anyone who enjoys a good story as if told from the next barstool over.

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  Human Rights - A Universal Fight...

  Marcus Klein

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  This is a bundle of 5 books, which are the following: 
  · Children's Rights: Children represent the future of our societies, yet they remain among the most vulnerable and marginalized populations worldwide. The protection of children's rights has become one of the most critical global issues in the 21st century, demanding urgent attention and action. 
  · Human Trafficking: Human trafficking is one of the gravest human rights abuses of our time, affecting millions of individuals across the globe. It is a hidden yet pervasive crime that exploits people for labor, sex, and other forms of servitude. 
  · Organ Harvesting: Organ harvesting represents one of the most pressing and disturbing ethical challenges of our time. This practice involves the removal of organs from individuals, often without consent, for transplantation or sale on the black market. While organ transplantation has revolutionized modern medicine, saving countless lives, the dark underbelly of the industry reveals a stark contrast—one where human rights are systematically violated, and vulnerable populations are exploited. 
  · Sexism: Sexism, a deeply entrenched social issue, has been pervasive throughout human history, shaping the experiences of individuals and communities across the globe. At its core, sexism refers to the belief that one gender is superior to another, typically manifesting in the unequal treatment and opportunities given to individuals based on their gender. 
  · Racism: Racism has been a persistent and destructive force throughout human history, shaping societies, cultures, and institutions in ways that continue to reverberate today. It manifests in myriad forms—through prejudice, discrimination, systemic inequities, and violence—targeting individuals and groups based on their race or ethnicity.

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  Why I Became an X Troop Commando...

  Helen Fry

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  A fascinating and moving biography of Colin Anson, the German refugee who became an elite British commando 
   
   
   
  Born in Germany in 1922, Colin Anson's (Claus Ascher) childhood was marked by the trials of Nazism. His father was arrested by the Gestapo in 1937 and transported to Dachau, where he died shortly after. Colin, aged just seventeen, escaped to Britain in the Kindertransport. As soon as he was old enough, Colin volunteered in the Pioneer Corps. Then, in 1942, he was recruited for the elite commando unit X-Troop. 
   
   
   
  Colin took part in the invasions of Sicily and Italy in 1943, where he sustained a near-fatal injury. But just months later, he returned to duty. He fought in the Yugoslav islands, became the first Allied soldier to liberate Corfu, and was stationed in postwar Frankfurt. 
   
   
   
  In this unique biography, Helen Fry traces the remarkable story of Colin's life. Drawing on extensive interviews, Fry recounts his actions in X-Troop and beyond in his own words—and sheds new light on the experience of refugees in the British forces.

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  Up From Slavery

  Booker T. Washington

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  "Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. WashingtonBorn into slavery, Booker Washington suddenly gained his freedom, after the American Civil War. This is a first hand account from a slave around the events of the emancipation proclamation.The book covers the inspiring story of a young man as he works to rise up from being enslaved as a child, overcoming massive obstacles to obtain an education, to eventually become an advisor to the president.A truly inspiring and informative story."

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  «Thought and Meditation»

  Oris Oris

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  Thoughts, unlike objects, do not belong to you: they come from somewhere else all the time, stay and interact with your Consciousness for a while, and then imperceptibly disappear to somewhere. Your thinking is the process of continuously synthesizing in your reality newer and newer Forms from the already known to you mental and sensual experience. Therefore for you the thinking process represents the beginning and the end of absolutely all of your desires - from getting some material benefits to achieving higher (according to your concepts) spiritual goals.By mastering the art of mental transformations, you will have an absolutely real means of consciously controlling the material conditions of your earthly existence. By improving in this direction, your mentality can reach the point where it becomes possible to control the powerful factors of the natural elements of Nature, influencing not only the weather, but also such destructive phenomena as tornadoes, tornadoes, earthquakes, tsunamis with the power of your Mind

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