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  Business Etiquette

  Nella Braddy Henney

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  "Business Etiquette" by Nella Braddy Henney is a comprehensive guide to navigating professional interactions with grace and respect. Covering various aspects of business conduct, the book provides practical advice on communication, attire, meetings, and more. Henney's insights help readers cultivate positive relationships, build strong impressions, and enhance their professional image. With real-world examples and timeless principles, the book serves as an invaluable resource for anyone seeking to excel in the business world while maintaining courtesy and professionalism. Read in English, unabridged.

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  A Small Place

  Jamaica Kincaid

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  A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua—by the author of Annie John 
   
   
   
  "If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird International Airport. Vere Cornwall (V. C.) Bird is the Prime Minister of Antigua. You may be the sort of tourist who would wonder why a Prime Minister would want an airport named after him—why not a school, why not a hospital, why not some great public monument. You are a tourist and you have not yet seen . . ." 
   
   
   
  So begins Jamaica Kincaid's expansive essay, which shows us what we have not yet seen of the ten-by-twelve-mile island in the British West Indies where she grew up. 
   
   
   
  Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright by turns, in a Swiftian mode, A Small Place cannot help but amplify our vision of one small place and all that it signifies.

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  The Collapse of Global...

  Philip Pilkington

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  In the 1990s, a vision emerged of a frictionless world of globalization in which the West would become ever richer on the basis of a tech-based service economy, all underpinned by a rules-based liberal international order. It became the basis for the mainstream politics of center-left and right. 
   
  Philip Pilkington argues that this vision was always delusional and is now dying. It is based on a doctrinaire and unrealistic form of liberalism and has given rise to hollowed-out financialized economies and disintegrating societies that can barely even reproduce their population or meet their energy needs. The US and UK find themselves ill-equipped to compete with China and other non-liberal states within an emerging post-liberal order in which what really matters is industrial capacity, realpolitik, and military strength. Only by abandoning our liberal delusions and advancing our own brand of hard-headed post-liberalism can the West survive. 
   
  No clearsighted observer of contemporary geopolitics can afford to miss this bracing diagnosis of the West's malaise and bold agenda for renewal.

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  Shrinking Elephants - Untangling...

  Genevieve Hawkins

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  Conflict is an opportunity. Use it wisely and you will unlock value in you, your team and your organisation. Conflict exists in every organisation. Sometimes very obviously. Sometimes quietly. Very few love it. If you are frustrated with yourself for not stepping in; with others, for not playing ball; with the politics that get in the way of getting results; with the clearly dysfunctional teams; then this book is for you. A companion to Mentally at Work, but also a stand-alone book, it takes the science of our brains and the reality of the workplace and gives you practical tools to more effectively navigate the elephant in the room, to decrease conflict. In reading this book you will:Learn how to identify the elephants that are blocking effective problem solving.Start to understand the underlying unconscious reactions and blind spots, that are at the heart of growing elephants.Build confidence in elephant shrinking, that helps you learn about yourself, build trust-based relationships, and stop wasted energy in your organisation.Know how to look after your mental health and that of others, through louder conflict issues, coming out the better for it.Scale elephant shrinking in your team.We live in a complicated world that needs more elephant shrinkers. Start learning to become one today! This book is targeted at people in leadership roles. It helps them to better understand how they influence workplace culture and how they can create psychological safety at work through how they lead. It helps leaders to become caring scientists, using intentional actions to influence the brain chemicals in the people they work with to untangle conflict and, in doing so, unlock value in themselves, their team and their organisation.

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  Radical Antiquity - Free Love...

  Christopher B. Zeichmann

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  When you think of Ancient Greece and Rome, what do you see? The Acropolis and the Colosseum? Perhaps the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle and the rule of the Caesars? Or the birth of democracy and the vast reach of an empire? This well-trodden history of great thinkers, military leaders, and early state formation in the classical world still enthralls us, but it tells only half the story . . . 
   
  How democratic was Athenian democracy? How much power did states wield beyond their city walls? And who looked upon the systems of domination that prevailed and sought to create something different? 
  Radical Antiquity takes you on a unique journey in search of anarchy, statelessness, and social experimentation in the Graeco-Roman world. Sweeping across the Mediterranean from the time of the first Olympic Games in 776 BCE until the emergence of Islam in 610 CE, Christopher B. Zeichmann introduces the listener to communities of escaped enslaved people, pirates, and religious sects—all of whom sought a more egalitarian way of life that avoided the coercion, hierarchy, and exploitation of the state. This history from below brings the experiences of ordinary and marginal people out of obscurity and radically expands our understanding of social and political life in the classical world.

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  Letters from Wales - Memories...

  Sam Adams

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  'Letters from Wales stands alone as an invaluable guide to Welsh writing.' – Sam Young, Wales Arts Review
  'In these columns, as impressive for their depth as they are for their intellectual breadth, Adams analyses the work of acclaimed Welsh writers ... with scholarly panache' – Joshua Rees, Buzz Magazine
  'illuminating and entertaining' – Jon Gower, Nation.Cymru
  Since 1996, Sam Adams's 'Letter from Wales' column has been appearing in PN Review, one of the most highly-regarded UK poetry magazines, offering insight and appreciation of Welsh writing, culture and history. This landmark volume collects these letters – a quarter century of work – and offers one of the most unique, independent and passionate critical voices on the writing and cultural output of Wales during this period.
  Here you will find erudite appreciations of the work of a wide range of recent and contemporary Welsh writers from Gillian Clarke to Roland Mathias, RS Thomas to Rhian Edwards. Alongside this, Adams offers us lyric essays to Welsh history, and clear-eyed examinations of the institutions of Welsh culture. Collected for the first time in this volume, the 'letters' are among the most significant and sustained attempts during this period to present Welsh writing to an audience throughout the UK and beyond.

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