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  History of Greece to the Death...

  John Bagnell Bury

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  J.B. Bury wrote his “History of Greece” before World War I, but it is such a good overview of classical Greek history that the third edition was still being used as a college textbook in the late 1960's. In the newer editions, a co-author rewrote the material dealing with the early centuries where there have been new archeological developments, but the later chapters and Bury’s framework were retained essentially unchanged. Bury writes in a lucid, easily understood style that entertains as it educates. The book covers artistic and literary development, as well as politics and war, and its field of view includes western Asia Minor, the Agean archipelago, and “Greater Greece” (Sicily and Southern Italy). (Summary by Karen Merline) 
  LibriVox Recording of A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander Vol I

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  Getting Russia Right - 1st Edition

  Thomas Graham

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  As US-Russian relations scrape the depths of cold-war antagonism, the promise of partnership that beguiled American administrations during the first post-Soviet decades increasingly appears to have been false from the start. Why did American leaders persist in pursuing it? Was there another path that would have produced more constructive relations or better prepared Washington to face the challenge Russia poses today? 
   
   
   
  With a practitioner's eye honed during decades of work on Russian affairs, Thomas Graham deftly traces the evolution of opposing ideas of national purpose that created an inherent tension in relations. Getting Russia Right identifies the blind spots that prevented Washington from seeing Russia as it really is and crafting a policy to advance American interests without provoking an aggressive Russian response. Distilling the Putin factor to reveal the contours of the Russia challenge facing the United States whenever he departs the scene, Graham lays out a compelling way to deal with it so that the United States can continue to advance its interests in a rapidly changing world.

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  Nordic Lifestyle - Embrace Slow...

  Susanna Heiskanen

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  Ever wondered why people in the Nordic countries are said to be the happiest in the world? Nordic Lifestyle has been praised as the antidote to modern day busy-ness. 
  Understand how the Nordics have managed to keep it all together even through hardship and freezing temperatures.  
  Inside Nordic Lifestyle, you will learn: 
  ·       What makes the Nordics Nordic 
  ·       Who are the Nordic people and what makes them special 
  ·       What the Nordics have given the world 
  ·       How you too can live like the Nordics 
  If you liked the Little Book of Hygge, you will love Nordic Lifestyle: Embrace slow living, cultivate happiness and know when to take off your shoes. 
  Discover how you can have Nordicness in your life and embrace the slower life you crave. 
  Cosy up with a candle, warm cup of something and this book. And dream about moving North... 
  WHAT THE READERS SAY 
  “Well put together, easy to read, lots of great nuggets of info, different from what's out there.” 
  T.M 
  “For the last six years I’ve been studying why some people are happier than others and my research took me to the Nordic countries. Your book explains this perfectly and even if one isn’t able to move there, you have suggested ways to live more like the Nordics… You’ve written a lovely book that I will treasure!’ 
  Karen Joy Roth Craig 
  “I enjoyed it so very much….. It was so interesting and educational.”

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  The Scheme - How the Right Wing...

  Jennifer Mueller, Senator...

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  Following his book Captured on corporate capture of regulatory and government agencies, and his years of experience as a prosecutor, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse here turns his attention to the right-wing scheme to capture the courts, and how it influenced the Trump administration's appointment of over 230 "business-friendly" judges, including the last three justices of the United States Supreme Court. 
   
   
   
  Whitehouse traces the motive to control the court system back to Lewis Powell's notorious memo, which gave a road map for corporate influence to target the judiciary, and chronicles a hidden-money campaign using an armada of front groups and helped by the infamous Citizens United Supreme Court decision. The scheme utilized the Federalist Society as an appointments turnstile, spent secret millions to support the nominees, orchestrated an "amicus brief" signaling apparatus, and propped up front-group litigants to "fast-lane" strategic test cases to the friendly justices. 
   
   
   
  Whitehouse finds the same small handful of right-wing billionaires and corporations running operations that he likens to "covert ops," ultimately enticing the Senate to break rules, norms, and precedents to confirm wildly inappropriate nominees who would advance the anti-government agenda of a small number of corporate oligarchs.

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  Leaving Darkness Behind -...

  PhD Dr. Elizabeth M. Altmaier

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  This book helps survivors find the road to recovery and learn healthy practices that will lead to thriving, not just surviving. 
   
   
   
  Survivors of childhood sexual abuse can begin a recovery journey informed by accurate understandings, not myths, and empowered by processes that help them thrive. Written for men and women by an author who is herself a survivor, this guide tells the truth about what complex trauma means for your physical and mental health. Listeners will learn how to build key recovery processes into their lives, including grieving, meaning-making, forging healthy connections with others, and finding hope. This guidance is scientifically-based, in findings from positive psychology. 
   
   
    
  With self-assessments, journaling prompts, and suggested action steps to help you leave your darkness behind, this book is your essential interactive guide through the recovery journey.

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  Working for God

  Andrew Murray

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  Andrew Murray wrote “Working for God”, a book of daily meditations for a month, as a sequel to “Waiting on God”.  The object of the book is, in Murray’s own words, to remind all Christian workers of the greatness and the glory of the work in which God gives a share.  It is the work of bringing people back to God – but it must be done in God’s way and in God’s power.  It is spiritual work, to be done by spiritual people.  In this book we find valuable insights into the calling that all Christians have, to work for the Lord in some capacity or other.  We also find how God’s grace is sufficient, and that He can and will enable us to have fruitful lives; we really can trust God to show us how we can work effectively in His kingdom, perhaps in ways and with resources that we have not yet imagined! - Summary by Christopher Smith

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