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  Securing Democracy - My Fight...

  Glenn Greenwald

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  In 2019, award-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald writes in this gripping new book, "a series of events commenced that once again placed me at the heart of a sustained and explosive journalistic controversy."New reporting by Greenwald and his team of Brazilian journalists brought to light stunning information about grave corruption, deceit, and wrongdoing by the most powerful political actors in Brazil, his home since 2005.These stories, based on a massive trove of previously undisclosed telephone calls, audio, and text, came to light only months after the January 2019 inauguration of Brazil's far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, an ally of President Trump.The revelations "had an explosive impact on Brazilian politics" (The Guardian) and prompted serious rancor, including direct attacks by President Bolsonaro himself, and ultimately an attempt by the government to criminally prosecute Greenwald for his reporting.Securing Democracy takes listeners on a fascinating ride through Brazilian politics as Greenwald, his husband, the left-wing Congressman David Miranda, and a powerful opposition movement courageously challenge political corruption, homophobia, and tyranny.

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  Moral Politics - How Liberals...

  George Lakoff

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  An updated third edition of the modern classic that applies cognitive science to the world of politics—to explain how our unconscious views shape our votes. 
   
  When Moral Politics was first published, it redefined how Americans think and talk about politics through the lens of cognitive political psychology. Today, George Lakoff’s classic text has become all the more relevant, as liberals and conservatives have come to hold even more vigorously opposed views of the world, with the underlying assumptions of their respective worldviews at the level of basic morality. Even more so than when Lakoff wrote, liberals and conservatives simply have very different, deeply held beliefs about what is right and wrong. 
   
  Lakoff reveals radically different but remarkably consistent conceptions of morality on both the left and right. Moral worldviews, like most deep ways of understanding the world, are unconscious—part of our hard-wired brain circuitry. When confronted with facts that don’t fit our moral worldview, our brains work automatically and unconsciously to ignore or reject these facts, and it takes extraordinary openness and awareness of this phenomenon to pay critical attention to the countless facts we’re presented with each day. For this edition, Lakoff has added a new preface and afterword, extending his observations to various ideological conflicts since the book’s original publication, from the Affordable Care Act to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the 2008 financial crisis, and the effects of global warming. One might have hoped such massive changes and challenges would bring people together, but the reverse has actually happened; the divide between liberals and conservatives has become stronger and more virulent. 
   
  To have any hope of bringing mutual respect to the current social and political divide, we need to clearly understand the problem and make it part of our contemporary public discourse. Moral Politics offers a much-needed wake-up call to both the left and the right. 
   
  “An intelligent take on the way politics is conducted in America.” —Publishers Weekly 
   
  “That conservatives and liberals see the world differently comes as no news to most, but Lakoff’s look into just why that should be so makes for interesting reading.” —Kirkus Reviews

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  Face Forward Thrive Guide

  Michele Howe Clarke

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  Thrive Guide is about turning on a light when life seems darkest. You will learn to thrive along your natural lines of growth to be where you want to be. As you build trust in Y.O.U. (Your Own Uniqueness), enthusiastic faith will bloom as the good you have caused keeps appearing at your door. All you need do is begin to engage your Thrive Drive. Thrive Guide is as easy as ABC. This book will take you by the hand and help you let go of your fear. The content unfolds in a step by step process that leads you to greater harmony. As you progress and learn to access all the good that is inherently within, you will feel better and better. The good will flow as you flip on the switch of your excellence. All you need to do is begin.The Thrive Guide provides a step by step guide that:•Shares simple and proven principles to build positive energy•Provide a path to move towards the life you want and deserve•Design a life you’ll love and more!From the foreword by bestselling author Kristen MoellerAs we all know, not every surprise in life is a pleasant or easy one. And, understandably, most people feel lost, broken or to blame during difficult times. Experience taught Michele that with every challenge there is a hidden gem, a portal of strength that births us into the next brilliant version of ourselves.All you need are the right tools to find your brilliance. The very tools Michele discovered during her transformational journey, which taught her how to face forward, survive and ultimately thrive. Now in the Thrive Guide, Michele shares how you too can reach for relief and end needless suffering. In working with the Thrive Guide, you will build trust in Y.O.U. With Michele as your guide, no matter what you are facing, no matter how hard things appear, no matter what life throws at you, you will find that you too can THRIVE.

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  Smarter Than You Think - How...

  Clive Thompson

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  How technology boosts our cognitive abilities-making us smarter, more productive, and more creative than ever before 
   
  It's undeniable: technology is changing the way we think. But is it for the better? Amid a chorus of doomsayers, Clive Thompson votes yes. The Internet age has produced a radical new style of human intelligence, worthy of both celebration and investigation. We learn more and retain information longer, write and think with global audiences in mind, and even gain an ESP-like awareness of the world around us. Modern technology is making us smarter and better connected, both as individuals and as a society. 
   
  In Smarter Than You Think, Thompson documents how every technological innovation-from the printing press to the telegraph-has provoked the very same anxieties that plague us today. We panic that life will never be the same, that our attentions are eroding, that culture is being trivialized. But as in the past, we adapt, learning to use the new and retaining what's good of the old. 
   
  Thompson introduces us to a cast of extraordinary characters who augment their minds in inventive ways. There's the seventy-six-year-old millionaire who digitally records his every waking moment, giving him instant recall of the events and ideas of his life going back decades. There are the courageous Chinese students who mounted an online movement that shut down a $1.6 billion toxic copper plant. There are experts and there are amateurs, including a global set of gamers who took a puzzle that had baffled HIV scientists for a decade and solved it collaboratively-in only one month. 
   
  But Smarter Than You Think isn't just about pioneers, nor is it simply concerned with the world we inhabit today. It's about our future. How are computers improving our memory? How will our social "sixth sense" change the way we learn? Which tools are boosting our intelligence-and which ones are hindering our progress? Smarter Than You Think embraces and interrogates this transformation, offering a provocative vision of our shifting cognitive landscape.

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  Zen O'Clock - Time to Be

  Scott Shaw

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  A new way to look at clocks and calendars—and learn to live more peacefully in the present.   Imagine being able to step beyond the controlling hands of clocks, calendars, and schedules to discover the mystical process that will give you an entirely new perspective of time. Inside this book are insightful aphorisms that will help you live more peacefully in the present.   With each page, Scott Shaw, an expert in meditative consciousness, helps you throw away phrases like “wasted time” and “time constraints”—and understand the difference between what time is and what we perceive it to be.   Imagine, right now, time in your hands!

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  Bomber Boys - Dramatic and True...

  Mel Rolfe

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  “Expertly researched . . . 20 different narratives in which these heroes venture out night after night on sorties throughout World War II Europe.” —Plane and Pilot  Three weeks after Stirling air gunner Doug Fry was reported missing over Germany his mother was still clinging to the vain hope that he was alive. Then a neighbor said she had seen him in the cinema just down the road. The airman and his crew had been filmed for a Bomber Command documentary shortly before they took off from Mildenhall to attack Remscheid. Three hours later four of the crew were killed, but it was another two months after she had also seen the poignant film that widowed mother of eight Winnie Fry knew her nineteen-year-old son, though wounded, was still alive. Lancaster pilot Victor Wood’s aircraft arrived too early over Gelsenkirchen when the target was shrouded in darkness and the Main Force was miles behind. His 12 Squadron bomber was suddenly struck with terrifying force by flak and turned upside-down. An engine was on fire, the unconscious mid-upper gunner, slumped in his turret, was being sprayed with petrol and their bomb-load had been struck by shrapnel. Could Vic Wood get his crew back to base safely? These are just two of twenty dramatic Bomber Command stories in Bomber Boys. Night after night, the young men, some just out of school, went off on sorties, having pushed to the back of their minds the unpalatable awareness that they might never see another dawn. If death did not find them on the first few terrifying sorties they grew up very quickly in order to fight another day.

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