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  Power: How We Take It Hold It...

  Quentin Drummond Anderson

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  POWER: How We Take It, Hold It, Lose It and Learn From It The Human Condition Quartet — Book Four 
  Back to Me gave you the voice. TRIBAL gave you the tribe. Beyond Belief gave you the faith. Now comes the force that governs all three. 
  Power is the fourth and final book in Quentin Drummond Anderson's acclaimed Human Condition Quartet — a landmark work of popular philosophy exploring the deepest patterns of what it means to be human. Having examined how we communicate, how we belong, and how we believe, Anderson turns at last to the hidden force that runs beneath all three. 
  Not the crude power of titles and org charts. Not the theatre of politics or the machinery of office. The real thing — the capacity to shape outcomes, the grammar of human relations that no one teaches and everyone uses, the current that runs through every marriage, every meeting, every revolution, and every act of kindness. 
  Anderson dismantles the comfortable fictions we hold about power: that it belongs to certain kinds of people, that we either have it or we don't, that wanting it is somehow suspect. He examines how power is taken, how it is given, how it corrupts, how it declines, and how it can be exercised with wisdom and purpose. 
  Drawing on Weber, Frankl, and French and Raven alongside military leadership, the economics of patronage, and the disruptions of the digital age, Power is both rigorous intellectual inquiry and profoundly practical guide. 
  "Power, examined honestly, is morally neutral in its nature and morally consequential in its exercise. It can serve or corrupt, build or destroy, liberate or imprison — depending entirely on the quality, the clarity, and the character of the person holding it." 
  The Human Condition Quartet:Back to Me — CommunicationTRIBAL — BelongingBeyond Belief — BeliefPower — The force that shapes all three

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  Nothing Wasted - Struggling Well...

  Kim Patton, Jenn Hesse

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  Difficult seasons catch us off guard and make us feel like life won’t ever make sense again. 
  On our worst days, it’s hard to believe that God will guide us through the mess. Even on our good days, when we feel we have done all the right things, we may wonder: 
  Why am I working this job? 
  Am I making a difference? 
  How do I know the way to go? 
  Why can’t I seem to be content? 
  In Nothing Wasted, we see how we mature in time. Like fog dissipating, we recognize how God is gently leading us through each season of our lives. We may be struggling, but we are moving forward. 
  Our faith is not unseen. 
  Our moments are not wasted. 
  All the pain that comes in these seasons does lead to a full, rich life, growing in relationship with God and with others.

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  Earth in Flames - How an...

  Alan Robock, Owen Brian Toon

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  Sixty-six million years ago an asteroid as large as Mt. Everest hit what is now the Yucatan Peninsula at a speed ten times faster than the fastest rifle bullet. Debris from the impact blew into space, re-entered the atmosphere as a swarm of shooting stars that burned the global forests and grasslands, leaving behind a thin global layer containing rock from the asteroid and from Mexico, and smoke from the fires. This layer marks one of the greatest extinctions in Earth history including not just dinosaurs, but also fish, plankton, ammonites, and plants making up about 75% of the known species. 
   
   
   
  A nuclear war with just a few hundred of the world's 12,000 nuclear weapons targeted on densely populated cities could plunge Earth into the same types of conditions that the dinosaurs experienced. Even a war between India and Pakistan could kill 1 to 3 billion people from starvation due to agricultural failure, while 6 billion people might starve following a war involving Russia, NATO, and the U.S. 
   
   
   
  The book describes how the dinosaurs died, and how their deaths parallel what might happen to people after a nuclear war. The book reflects on the odds of future asteroid impacts, how to stop them, and ends with what the listeners personally and together can do to prevent a nuclear war, so that humans don't end up like the dinosaurs.

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  Battle of Crécy The: The History...

  Editors Charles River

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  Although it ended over 550 years ago, the Hundred Years’ War still looms large in the historical consciousness of England and France, even if the name of the famous war is a misnomer. The war was more of a series of separate conflicts between the English and French monarchies, interspersed with periods of peace, and its reputation remains an odd one, in part because its origins were based on royal claims that dated back centuries. Furthermore, the English and French remained adversaries for nearly 400 years after it ended. 
  That said, the war was transformative in many respects, and the impact it had on the geopolitical situation of Europe cannot be overstated. While some might think of the war as being a continuation of the feudal tradition of knights and peasants, the Hundred Years’ War revolutionized European warfare, and it truly helped to usher in the concept of nationalism on the continent. In England, it is remembered as a period of grandeur and success, even though the English lost the war and huge swathes of territory with it, while the French remember it as a strategic victory that ensured the continued independence of France and the denial of English hegemony. The legacy of the war has lived on ever since, helping determine how England became politically severed from the continent, how the knightly chivalric tradition slid into irrelevance, and how battlefield dominance can still leave a nation a loser in war. 
  Indeed, nothing characterized that dominance quite like the campaign that culminated with the Battle of Crécy, where the English used their diverse forces to maximum effect to defeat the French, a victory that allowed the English to eventually take and hold Calais. For about two centuries, Calais would remain the last foothold England retained on the continent, and the famous Tudor King Henry VIII conducted one of the last campaigns of his life in an effort to maintain it. 

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  Band of Sisters - American Women...

  Kirsten Holmstedt

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  Twelve American women serving in the military share their gripping personal stories of combat in Iraq. In Iraq, the front lines are everywhere—and everywhere in Iraq, no matter what their job descriptions say, women in the U.S. military are fighting. More than 155,000 of them have deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan since 2003—four times the number of women sent to Desert Storm in 1991. More than 430 have been wounded and over seventy killed—almost twice the number of American women killed in action in Korea, Vietnam, and Desert Storm combined.  But should women be in combat? Do they have what it takes to be warriors? Compelling questions once, but now empty because, more than ever, American women are in combat, and they are warriors. The real question is: What are their experiences of war? We haven’t heard their stories—until now. Band of Sisters presents a dozen groundbreaking and often heart-wrenching stories of American women in combat in Iraq, such as the U.S.’s first female pilot to be shot down and survive, the military’s first black female pilot in combat, a young turret gunner defending convoys, and a nurse struggling to save lives, including her own.  As one female service member said, “We love our country as much as any man, and we have made the same sacrifices as our brothers in arms.” Band of Sisters reveals those sacrifices for the first time. Praise for Band of SistersWinner of the 2007 American Authors Association Golden Quill AwardWinner of the 2007 Military Writers Society of America Founder's Award“An insightful, intimate portrait of America’s fighting women in Iraq. This is must reading.” —Charles Jones, author of Red, White, or Yellow?: The Media and the Military at War in Iraq “Lyrical, visceral, and potent. Kirsten Holmstedt sets a peerless standard as a raconteur with powerful stories of the valor of today’s women in combat.” —David J. Danelo, author of Blood Stripes and The Border“This overdue account . . . reads a swiftly as a thriller, but the thrills here come from the real sacrifices and valor of America’s fighting women.” —Ralph Peters, author of Never Quit the Fight and Wars of Blood and Faith“Inspirational and revealing.” —Paul Riechkhoff, executive director, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, and author of Chasing Ghosts

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  Hidden Love

  Eskay Kabba

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  Connor thought he had life all figured out, until he met Jamel. 
  A military veteran from a good Irish Catholic family; blonde-haired, blue-eyed Connor has had the same beautiful girlfriend since high school. But Connor has a secret. He lives a second life as a closeted gay man, jumping from one sexual partner to another. To avoid judgment from his family, Connor's best friend Afia plays along with the elaborate ruse of their romantic relationship. But now, Connor's safety net is falling for someone else. 
  In steps Jamel, an African American man with an irresistibly hard body and gentle soul. He just so happens to be Afia's new love interest's brother and captures Connor's attention from the moment their eyes meet. As their erotic affair sizzles, Connor fears what his father and brother may do if they discover he has feelings for another man. With a newfound reason to change the course of his entire life, will Connor find the strength he needs to finally come out? If he does, will Jamel wait while Connor decides if he's ready for something as real as their love? 
  This m/m steamy romance is driven by incredible sexual chemistry in a world where relationships are not always easy. Keep up with Connor and Jamel through the entire Hidden Love series as they navigate the complexities of attraction, personal identity, and overcoming intolerance in the name of deep passion. Content Warning: Racism, homophobia, and incidents of violence.

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