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  Earthopolis - A Biography of Our...

  Carl H. Nightingale

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  This is a biography of Earthopolis, the only Urban Planet we know of. It is a history of how cities gave humans immense power over Earth, for good and for ill. Carl Nightingale takes readers on a sweeping six-continent, six-millennium tour of the world’s cities, culminating in the last 250 years, when we vastly accelerated our planetary realms of action, habitat, and impact, courting dangerous new consequences and opening prospects for new hope. In Earthopolis we peek into our cities’ homes, neighborhoods, streets, shops, eating houses, squares, marketplaces, religious sites, schools, universities, offices, monuments, docklands, and airports to discover connections between small spaces and the largest things we have built. The book exposes the Urban Planet’s deep inequalities of power, wealth, access to knowledge, class, race, gender, sexuality, religion, and nation. It asks us to draw on the most just and democratic moments of Earthopolis’s past to rescue its future.

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  American Revolution

  Introbooks Team

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  Thirteen colonies which are now a part of United States of America were initially colonies of Great Britain. People were discontented with the British rule and rebels evoked among the colonies. People were getting exhausted of the horrendous taxes that were imposed on them. In 1746, the Revenue Act made it obligatory for the King to tax the thirteen colonies whether they liked it or not which eventually led to a war. The local practices, social and religious customs of the Americans were swerving ominously from the English ways and added to the budding causes of conflicts. Mercantilism and Navigation Acts were policies favoured by the British in order to control trade in British interest; however these were loosely enforced allowing colonies to grow spontaneously with negligible intrusion from the British. 
  The Treaty of Paris officially documented the new nation in 1783 with many questions still unanswered. United Stated splashed through a post war depression only to confront administrative problems under the Articles of Confederation. 
  The new leaders of the country were people who were visible on the Revolution fields or council halls and the country’s first three Presidents were George Washington, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. The more radical leaders of the Revolution were unhappy with the turn towards obscurantism once the war was over, but democracy and liberty had now been secured as the utmost ideals of the free nation. 
  The Revolution had an inordinate impact on liberal beliefs all over Europe. The scuffles and achievements of the young democracy were much in the thoughts of those who brought about the French Revolution, and most definitely later helped to stimulate revolutionists in Spain's American colonies.

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  Improve Your Thoughts - A...

  Michael Shiva

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  Have you ever wondered how to improve your thought processes? Do you ever wish you were a better learner, had sharper reasoning skills, or could think outside the box? Fortunately, you can tremendously improve your thought processes with a few simple techniques and tips. Tune into this engaging talk to learn how to become the best thinker you can be so that you can innovate quicker, analyze more deeply, and make better, efficient decisions. 
  If so, this audiobook is for you. You will learn what makes a thought process efficient and see how to improve your thought process. This audiobook will also provide suggestions on improving your thought processes using cognitive techniques, such as mental search engines and mind maps. It is written for those who are interested in learning about how the brain functions and how to improve thought processes. 
  In addition, this audiobook will show you how to change your mindset to maximize the time you spend thinking about the topic of your choice. With a more productive mindset, finding the information you need becomes much easier, making decisions grounded in reality instead of fantasy. Better yet, you will not waste time overthinking or procrastinating because you will have a better sense of what needs to be done when it needs to be done, and how it should be done. 
  This audiobook is intended to be used as both a reference resource and a motivation tool. If you find that this book motivates you to alter your thought processes, then you can use this book as a reference. If, on the other hand, this book provides you with the skills and knowledge to alter your thought processes, then you can use this book as a reference. 
  This audiobook is essential in improving your thinking capacity since it can help you learn how to become a more efficient thinker. Moreover, it helps to enhance thought processes because it shows the reader how to develop their thinking skills.

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  Infinite Clarity - Emotional...

  Calissa Earle

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  Some forms of grief do not begin with endings. 
  Sometimes they begin when the heart slowly realizes that love and peace have not been living in the same place. 
  Infinite Clarity: Emotional Guidance for Letting Go, Loving Wisely, and Choosing Peace is a gentle and reflective audiobook for those navigating emotional uncertainty, mixed signals, grief, and the quiet work of learning how to release what no longer feels emotionally safe. 
  Through honest insight, spiritual reflection, and compassionate guidance, this audiobook explores the tension between memory and truth, hope and reality, tenderness and wisdom. 
  It is written for anyone who has loved deeply, waited long, explained carefully, and eventually found themselves asking difficult questions about peace, patterns, and emotional clarity. 
  This is not a book about bitterness. 
  It is a book about remaining soft while becoming honest. 
  Because healing often begins not when every feeling disappears, but when truth finally becomes gentle enough to stay.

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  Otto Kretschmer - The Life of...

  Lawrence Paterson

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  Otto Kretschmer was only in combat from September 1939 until March 1941 but was Germany's highest-scoring U-boat commander, sinking forty-seven ships. This definitive work details his personal story and the political backdrop from his earliest days. 
   
   
   
  After completing his officer training and time on the training ship Niobe, he served aboard the light cruiser Emden. In December 1934, he was transferred to the light cruiser Köln, then in January 1936 made the move to the fledgling U-boat service. During the Spanish Civil War, Kretschmer was involved in several patrols as part of the international non-intervention force. 
   
   
   
  He demonstrated a cool approach to combat: his mantra "one torpedo for one ship" proved that the best way for his boat to succeed against a convoy was to remain surfaced as much as possible, penetrating the convoy and using the boat's high speed and small silhouette to avoid retaliation. 
   
   
   
  His nickname "Silent Otto" referred to his ability to remain undetected and his reluctance to provide the regular radio reports required by Dönitz. Alongside his military skill was a character that remained rooted in the traditions of the Prussian military.

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  Frost Nixon - Behind the Scenes...

  David Frost

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  Following the resounding success of the eponymous West End and Broadway hit play, Frost/Nixon tells the extraordinary story of how Sir David Frost pursued and landed the biggest fish of his career—and how the series drew larger audiences than any news interview ever had in the United States, before being shown all over the world. 
  This is Frost's absorbing story of his pursuit of Richard Nixon, and is no less revealing of his own toughness and pertinacity than of the ex-President's elusiveness. Frost's encounters with such figures as Swifty Lazar, Ron Ziegler, potential sponsors, and Nixon as negotiator are nothing short of hilarious, and his insight into the taping of the programs themselves is fascinating.  
  Frost/Nixon provides the authoritative account of the only public trial that Nixon would ever have, and a revelation of the man's character as it appeared in the stress of eleven grueling sessions before the cameras. Including historical perspective and transcripts of the edited interviews, this is the story of Sir David Frost's quest to produce one of the most dramatic pieces of television ever broadcast, described by commentators at the time as “a catharsis” for the American people.

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