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  Any Person is the Only Self -...

  Elisa Gabbert

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  Contagiously curious essays on reading, art, and the life of the mind, from the acclaimed author of The Unreality of Memory. 
   
  Who are we when we read? When we journal? Are we more ourselves alone or with friends? Right now or in memory? How does time transform us and the art we love? 
   
  In sixteen dazzling, expansive essays, the acclaimed essayist and poet Elisa Gabbert explores a life lived alongside books of all kinds: dog-eared and destroyed, cherished and discarded, classic and clichėd, familiar and profoundly new. She turns her witty, searching mind to the writers she admires, from Plath to Proust, and the themes that bind them―chance, freedom, envy, ambition, nostalgia, and happiness. She takes us to the strange edges of art and culture, from hair metal to surf movies to party fiction. Any Person Is the Only Self is a love letter to literature and to life, inviting us to think alongside one of our most thrilling and versatile critics.

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  Change Everything - How We Can...

  Natalie Bennett

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  A practical and hopeful guide for anyone who wants a route map to a fairer, greener future.
  
  'Every so often, a book comes along that articulates exactly what our country needs. This is one. Essential reading' Zack Polanski 
  
  
  We are living in a social, political, economic and environmental emergency. The status quo is profoundly unstable; change is inevitable. Now is the time to get together to build a far healthier and more balanced world.
  
  The decades-old political orthodoxy - that greed is good, inequality doesn't matter and we can keep treating the planet as a mine and a dumping ground - has been a recipe for disaster. Our world needs a new vision, the Green vision. From Universal Basic Income to fee education, from less stuff but more life, to genuine democratic opportunities for all, Natalie Bennett brings together a holistic, hopeful and practical vision for the future.
  
  The foundations of Change Everything are conversations with many thousands of people. We need to engage millions to bring together the imagination, talents and energy of all in order to build and repair our societies. Then a positive future is within our reach.
  
  
  'A full-throated battle-song... We are ready for another world, we are ready to change everything and this wonderful book shows us exactly how we are going to do that' Caroline Lucas
  
  'Every so often, a book comes along that articulates exactly what our country needs. This is one. Essential reading' Zack Polanski
  
  'If charm and enthusiasm were enough to win over more reluctant citizens to a programme of radical change, Natalie Bennett would be a strong contender for the challenge. Change Everything is essentially a manifesto - delivered with great gusto - of what a green perspective would look like across a wide array of subjects' Ros Coward, The Ecologist
  
  'The real joy of this book is to be found in the breadth of Baroness Bennett's reading and experiences. It's a well-grounded text, a hallmark of a committed radical' Liam Byrne, Politics Home

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  The Life of Cimon

  Plutarch, Bernadotte Perrin

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  The Life of Cimon is just one of many notable biographies in Plutarch’s informative Parallel Lives series. Cimon, an Athenian Statesman, was the son of the general who won Greece’s battle of Marathon. Battling and defeating the Persian Empire on water, Cimon was crucial in the construction of the Athenian Maritime Empire. However, like so many others in the series, Cimon was eventually ostracized from the empire when his political views took a radical turn.  

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  The Best Guide About Pit Bulls -...

  Alex Diaz

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  "One of the best Guide to Pit Bulls 
  This comprehensive guide answers every question you may have including: 
  I would like to get a Pit bull is it right for me? 
  How can I train my Pit bull? 
  If I make a Mistake what should I do to Fix it? 
  Picking a Pit Bull 
  Preparing your House for your Pit Bull 
  Taking Your Pit Bull Home 
  Puppy Parenting 
  Housetraining 
  Socializing with People and Animals 
  Pit Bulls and Your Other Pets 
  Workout 
  Training your Pit Bull 
  Dealing With Unwanted Behaviors 
  Basic Commands 
  Advanced Commands 
  Traveling with Pit Bulls 
  Grooming your Pit Bull 
  Nutrition and Healthcare"

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  General Jan Smuts and his First...

  David Brock Katz

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  A new assessment of Jan Smuts’s military leadership through examination of his World War I campaigning, demonstrating that he was a gifted general, conversant with the craft of maneuver warfare, and a command style steeped in the experiences of his time as a Boer general.World War I ushered in a renewed scramble for Africa. At its helm, Jan Smuts grabbed the opportunity to realize his ambition of a Greater South Africa. He set his sights upon the vast German colonies of South-West Africa and East Africa – the demise of which would end the Kaiser’s grandiose schemes for Mittelafrika. As part of his strategy to shift South Africa’s borders inexorably northward, Smuts even cast an eye toward Portuguese and Belgian African possessions.  Smuts, his abilities as a general much denigrated by both his contemporary and then later modern historians, was no armchair soldier. This cabinet minister and statesman donned a uniform and led his men into battle. He learned his soldiery craft under General Koos De la Rey's tutelage, and another soldier-statesman, General Louis Botha during the South African War 1899–1902. He emerged from that war, immersed in the Boer maneuver doctrine he devastatingly waged in the guerrilla phase of that conflict. His daring and epic invasion of the Cape at the head of his commando remains legendary. The first phase of the German South West African campaign and the Afrikaner Rebellion in 1914 placed his abilities as a sound strategic thinker and a bold operational planner on display. Champing at the bit, he finally had the opportunity to command the Southern Forces in the second phase of the German South West African campaign.  Placed in command of the Allied forces in East Africa in 1916, he led a mixed bag of South Africans and Imperial troops against the legendary Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and his Shutztruppe. Using his penchant for Boer maneuver warfare together with mounted infantry led and manned by Boer Republican veterans, he proceeded to free the vast German territory from Lettow-Vorbeck’s grip. Often leading from the front, his operational concepts were an enigma to the British under his command, remaining so to modern-day historians. Although unable to bring the elusive and wily Lettow-Vorbeck to a final decisive battle, Smuts conquered most of the territory by the end of his tenure in February 1917.  General Jan Smuts and His First World War in Africa makes use of multiple archival sources and the official accounts of all the participants to provide a long-overdue reassessment of Smuts’s generalship and his role in furthering the strategic aims of South Africa and the British Empire in Africa during World War I.

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  History of Ancient Mexico: An...

  Billy Wellman

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  Chocolate, bouncy rubber balls, and the “Three Sisters” agricultural system—the people of ancient Mexico invented them all 3,600 years ago.  
  They also built the world’s largest pyramid by volume and the sixth most-populated city without the wheel and without pack animals. Ancient Mexico introduced the first city, calendar, writing system, and aqueduct to North America.  
  This audiobook unwraps the interrelated histories of ancient Mexico’s key civilizations. Learn about their mythology, warfare, art, architecture, and religion. How did they develop writing? What happened when the Spaniards showed up? This audiobook will keep you listening as it unwraps the stories of ancient Mexico’s colorful and fascinating history.  
  A glimpse at the questions this overview answers includes:Who built North America’s first city and invented chocolate and rubber balls?Which culture developed Mexico’s first logo-syllabic writing by 500 BCE?Who ruled an empire of six million people and worshiped a hummingbird god?What was the Valley of Mexico’s first city-state, which was later buried under volcanic lava?How did Aztec soldiers reach the rank of Jaguar warriors?What tactics did Cortés use to defeat the Aztecs?What did Mexico’s ancient people believe about creation, heaven, and the underworld?How has ancient Mexico impacted modern Mexico and the world? 
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