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  Screw Meditation! - How to...

  Sue Belton

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  Sue Belton is an award-winning leadership coach, bestselling author and speaker who specializes in coaching senior corporate leaders worldwide. Her clients are successful, smart, ambitious and high-achieving professionals in demanding leadership roles. Invariably, they are always ‘on’, working 60-80 hour weeks... plus evenings, plus weekends, plus holidays... Their demanding work schedules create a busy brain that they just cannot switch off. 
  Screw Meditation! is an invaluable guide written especially for busy, time-poor professionals who want to switch off a busy brain and have tried everything – specifically meditation and mindfulness – without much success. Screw Meditation! explains why. 
  Sue Belton uncovers the link between working long hours, poor time management, cognitive impairment, biological factors, and emotional Drivers, that all result in poor productivity and performance issues and keep a brain… busy! 
  She explains why the vicious cycle of hard work and busy-ness can keep a smart professional stuck with no time to step back and be more strategic. She also explains how this leads to more debilitating issues such as imposter syndrome, poor health, and burnout. 
  Screw Meditation! gives you six hacks that have been road-tested on leaders worldwide, and gives you the proven tools to manage your time, tasks and team… with a clear strategy for switching off a busy brain. 
  meditation; mindfulness; self talk; time management; productivity; burnout; Imposter Syndrome; cognitive impairment; brain function; emotional drivers; Transactional Analysis; NLP; CBT; stress; adrenal fatigue; cortisol fatigue; perceived ability to cope; executive stress; senior leader burn out

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  Our A1 - My Journey Your...

  Felicity Hill

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  AI isn't just changing how we work - it's changing who holds power. 
  When I fell in love with AI, I thought I'd found the perfect writing partner. Like millions of others, I'd jumped in without really understanding what I was getting into - using it daily, depending on it, but unable to explain what it actually was. 
  As a community engagement and development specialist, I'd spent my career helping people navigate systems designed to disempower them. So, when I started recognising familiar patterns in how AI was being rolled out, I knew I had to dig deeper. 
  Then scary headlines started appearing. AI trying to blackmail researchers. Systems going rogue. Suddenly everyone was saying "get on board or get left behind" - but no one was explaining what we were actually boarding. 
  Our AI My Journey, Your Invitation, Our Future follows my journey from AI enthusiast to informed skeptic, connecting the dots between microplastics, mining, and machine learning. It's a wakeup call disguised as a love story - and a guide for anyone who wants to feel less overwhelmed by it all and make more informed choices.

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  Battle of Edgehill The: The...

  Editors Charles River

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  The outcome of the English Civil War was no doubt unthinkable to many across Europe before it actually happened, and the Battle of Edgehill represented the first sign that things might not go according to the typical plan. The tiny hamlet of Edgehill sits atop an escarpment in the parish of Ratley and Upton in Warwickshire, England, an unremarkable location in and of itself, like many others in Warwickshire. It attracts a few tourists, some of whom are on the lookout for ghosts. Some claim to hear cries of pain and terror, the clash of swords, cannon fire, and the lament of lost souls. The first report of such phenomena was made shortly before Christmas 1642 when a number of Edgehill inhabitants claimed to have seen two ghostly armies fighting in the sky. So strong and widespread did these claims become that King Charles I sent a commission to investigate. The commissioners supposedly witnessed the apparitions and were able to identify some of the combatants as participants in the Battle of Edgehill, which occurred three months earlier on October 23, 1642. This included Sir Edmund Verney, who lost a hand in the battle and was observed missing an appendage. The apparitions supposedly ended when villagers buried the corpses of soldiers who still lay on the battlefield, but people still claim to hear signs of the celestial battle 370 years later. 
  The enormous upheaval in English society in 1642 may very well have engendered such tales. For the simple villagers, it seemed as if heaven and earth had been rent asunder. After all, the whole concept of divinely ordained kings was that God had created the system and placed a king over England, making the monarch, Charles I of the House of Stuart, God’s viceregent. But that year, the unthinkable happened when the king and Parliament broke with each other, raising their standards of war. The divinely appointed order was broken, and the result was bloodshed, terror, and chaos.

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  Pitmatic - Stories and the Talk...

  Bill Griffiths

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  Pitmaticbrings together a wonderful regional pit language – its words, jokes and stories that are fast disappearing from our culture. This book helps attest to the remarkable vitality of the region's dialect and the inventiveness and humour of its speakers.
  The last major mine in the North East region closed in 2005 and with it went a way of life. Through dialect words, humour, stories and songs Pitmatic will help you to understand the everyday lives and work of miners. Miners who provided fuel, helped sustain an economy, consolidated communities and created a unique and rich regional culture. This book is a joyous celebration of the history of the North East bringing together the words spoken by miners and their families and how they related to the wider languages of the world.
  
  The late Bill Griffiths (1948–2007)was an extraordinary writer and poet: radical, experimental and scholarly, but also had a great sense of humour. He was a wonderful champion of the North East, its people and heritage.
  Born in Middlesex, he read history before graduating in 1969. Bill ran his own independent press and published political pamphlets and essays on the arts and poetry. After gaining a PhD in Old English he fled London and settled in Seaham where he embraced the northern way of life.
  'He was also a scholar of Old English and dialect who know how to make his work accessible. Private and uncompetitive, he was at least these things: poet, archivist, scholar, translator, prison-rights campaigner, pianist, historian, curator, performer, editor, short-story writer, essayist, teacher, book-maker and lyricist… The Saturday before he died, Bill discharged himself from hospital to host the Dialect Day at the Morden Tower in Newcastle upon Tyne. He died as he lived: cataloguing, awarding Best Dialect prizes, opera on his radio, the poetry paramount.' Obituary, The Independent, 20 September 2007.

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  Scotland's Democracy Trail

  Donald Smith

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  The trail follows the emergence of democratic thought and action in Scotland from the 16th century onwards, linking pivotal events to locations along the way. It is a story of ups and downs, triumphs and tragedies, borne along by a stubborn, persistent advance.
  
  
  The evolution of democracy in Scotland is a fascinating story. Join Stuart McHardy and Donald Smith as they tell this story via a guided tour of the landmarks and monuments of Edinburgh, leading you from Edinburgh Castle to the Scottish Parliament, and through over 500 years of political development.
  
  
  
  From the antics of the Edinburgh Mob and the cruelties of Henry Dundas, to the more recent Vigil for a Scottish Parliament and the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence, this book will show you the democratic and historic significance of the places, people and ideas on the route.
  
  
  
  A comprehensive timeline, detailed map and photographs throughout make it easy to follow the route and discover the story of Scottish democracy. Scotland's Democracy Trail brings the key political events in Scotland's history to life, demonstrating just how relevant they remain today.

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  Kublai Khan: The Life and Legacy...

  Editors Charles River

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  Aside from Genghis, the most famous of the Mongolian rulers was Genghis’s grandson, Kublai Khan, who was raised as Mongolian in the traditional way, but also exposed to Chinese culture. Kublai’s father Tolui made sure all of his sons could ride and hunt, but he was apparently also concerned that they understood the characteristics and possibilities of the more settled regions under Mongolian rule. Thus, while Kublai and his brothers were still boys, his grandfather Genghis arranged a great Mongolian hunt. This traditional event involved many thousands of riders starting in a great circle and gradually moving into the center, driving the game in front of them. It was a hunt, but it was also a traditional kind of practice military exercise. Kublai killed a couple of small animals, and Genghis is reported to have been pleased with his grandsons.  
  	As Great Khan, Kublai Khan ruled the Mongolian Empire from his capital in modern-day Beijing, with a court that included Mongolians, Arabs, and Persians from throughout his empire. While Genghis may have been a warrior, Kublai was a man of culture, intellect and curiosity, and his court was a luxurious one rich in art, music, and goods. Under his reign, trade along the Silk Road was both easier and more efficient than ever before. Toll gates were removed, and traders could move freely from place to place. It was said that even women could travel safely with goods without fear of harm.  
  	Kublai was clearly an influential ruler, but what helped his legacy endure was that he hosted the famous Italian traveler Marco Polo, who stayed in China for years and described what he saw in detail. When Marco Polo’s travelogue was published back in Europe, it immediately became one of the most famous works on the continent, and while modern historians still debate which parts were factual and fictional, there can be no question that Kublai Khan was a monumental leader in Asia. 

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