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  The First Fleets - Colonial...

  Benjamin C. Schaffer

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  In The First Fleets, Benjamin C. Schaffer reveals how, contrary to widespread beliefs, the American colonies had a long tradition of independent naval defense decades before the Revolution. He demonstrates that Anglo-American governments established and maintained significant provincial naval forces and that the history of provincial navies illuminates broader aspects of colonial history and the colonies' ultimate break with the British Crown. Based on meticulous research, Schaffer recounts the sea-borne threats that American colonies faced from the French, Spanish, pirates, and others. He reviews colonial governance and the relationships between colonial governments and Great Britain. Highlighting Britain's scant naval power in North America, Schaffer demonstrates how the vulnerable coastal colonies undertook their own self-defense. 
   
   
   
  Schaffer's study offers many fascinating episodes from colonial history. Establishing a navy was controversial in pacifist-minded, Quaker-dominated Pennsylvania. South Carolina deployed its scout-boat navy to pursue enslaved Africans who fled colonial capture. The first paper money issued in North America was an initiative to pay for a naval expedition against French Quebec. These and other episodes show the intimate connection between these little-known provincial navies and the major sociopolitical developments of their day.

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  Word Nerds Unite! - The...

  Webb Garrison

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  Why are spectacularly successful movies called blockbusters? Why does "putting your best foot forward" mean you hope to make a good impression? Why is rowdy and prankish behavior called horseplay and what does it have to do with the rarity of horses? Word Nerds Unite! shares 200 fascinating word meanings for fans of Wordle, Scrabble, and other word games. 
  You've probably used words or phrases like these without giving them a second thought. But you'll be surprised and interested to discover the fascinating and sometimes curious origins to these fun sayings! 
  In Word Nerds Unite! you'll find:200 quirky, interesting words, phrases, and colloquial termsBackstory for these colorful sayings still used todayHow some of our favorite expressions have evolved through the years 
  You'll discover such fascinating word and phrase origins for:handwriting on the wallplay for keepsraining cats and dogsbreak the icebull's eyeand many more! 
    
  Word Nerds Unite! is perfect for word lovers, Wordle enthusiasts, homeschoolers, and anyone curious about the illuminating history of 200 words that pepper our everyday dialogue and how they gained contemporary use. Organized by subject, each chapter begins with a quote, an introductory paragraph, and a list of what you'll discover!

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  Problem Solving for Every...

  Thinknetic

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  What if every problem you face, from a five-digit inbox to a decision that keeps you up at night, had a method waiting to crack it?
   
  You dread the moment you realize you have made the wrong call. As the person everyone turns to, you are drowning in notifications, staring at another mess, quietly wondering, "what do I even do now?"
   
  No one ever taught you a reliable way to think a problem through, so you improvise, second-guess, and carry the stress home with you.
   
  This audiobook builds that missing skill, turning sharp critical thinking into a repeatable process you can apply to almost anything.
   
  In this audiobook, you'll discover:
  
  The human response to pressure: why your brain reacts to a new problem the way it does, and how to steady it before you act
  Your cognitive style: how the way you naturally think shapes the problems you attract and the ones you solve with ease
  Lessons from history's great solvers: what Einstein, Genghis Khan, and home-security inventor Marie Van Brittan Brown did differently
  A clear five-step strategy: a framework you can lean on whether the stakes are a spreadsheet or a life decision
  Where problem-solving meets decision-making: how to stop confusing the two and choose with confidence
  The skills that separate strong solvers: the abilities you can build deliberately rather than hope you were born with
  Essentialism: how to cut the noise and put your energy only where it truly counts
  
   
  This is not armchair theory. It draws on more than forty years of real work as an engineer, legal researcher, financial advisor, and university professor, distilled into something you can use today.
   
  You do not need a genius IQ or a free weekend to begin, just a willingness to think differently. Face your next challenge knowing exactly where to start.

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  The Emotional Brain - The System...

  Gregory Bicaj

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  Why do intelligent people make foolish decisions? Why does a calm conversation suddenly explode into conflict? Why do we eat, spend, react, and regret — and then do it all again? The answer lies not in weakness of character, but in the way the human brain was built.
  In The Emotional Brain: The System That Decides for You, neuroscientist and clinical psychologist Gregory Bicaj draws on two decades of laboratory research and clinical practice to reveal the hidden architecture of human behavior. At the center of his account is a simple but transformative idea: every modern human runs three systems simultaneously — an ancient survival brain, an emotional brain shaped by attachment and connection, and a late-evolving reasoning brain. Most suffering, most regret, and most self-sabotage occur when the wrong system is in charge at the wrong moment.
  Bicaj takes readers on a journey through the latest neuroscience and psychology, translating landmark research into vivid, usable insights. He draws on Antonio Damasio's discovery that emotion is essential to rational decision-making, Joseph LeDoux's work on the fear system and the amygdala's lightning-fast threat detection, Daniel Kahneman's two-system model of the mind, Jonathan Haidt's rider-and-elephant metaphor, John Gottman's data on what makes relationships thrive or fail, and research from the Harvard Study of Adult Development — one of the longest studies of human life ever conducted — showing that the quality of our close relationships matters more than wealth, status, or intelligence.
  Along the way, readers learn why anger, anxiety, and sadness are not enemies to silence but signals to decode, how delayed gratification depends on trust more than willpower, what flow, hope, and optimism share as motivational systems, why empathy can both connect us and mislead us, how trauma reorganizes the brain and body — and how healing becomes possible, what the best research says about raising emotionally resilient children, why psychological safety is the true engine of high-performing teams, and how the digital age is quietly eroding the attention that emotional life requires.
  Through compelling case studies — including Viktor Frankl in Auschwitz, Nelson Mandela in prison, and Admiral James Stockdale under torture — Bicaj shows what emotional mastery actually looks like under unbearable pressure: not the suppression of feeling, but a practiced ability to feel fully, observe honestly, and choose wisely.
  The Emotional Brain is not a self-help manual promising quick fixes. It is a serious, evidence-based, deeply humane guide to understanding the system that shapes every decision, relationship, and moment of your life — and a practical invitation to begin the lifelong work of emotional development. For readers of Jonathan Haidt, Gabor Maté, and Daniel Goleman, this book offers a rare integration of laboratory neuroscience and clinical wisdom, written by a scientist who has spent his career on both sides of that divide.

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  How the Clinic Made Gender - The...

  Sandra Eder

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  An eye-opening exploration of the medical origins of gender in modern US history.  
   
  Today, a world without “gender” is hard to imagine. Gender is at the center of contentious political and social debates, shapes policy decisions, and informs our everyday lives. Its formulation, however, is lesser known: Gender was first used in clinical practice. This book tells the story of the invention of gender in American medicine, detailing how it was shaped by mid-twentieth-century American notions of culture, personality, and social engineering.  
   
  Sandra Eder shows how the concept of gender transformed from a pragmatic tool in the sex assignment of children with intersex traits in the 1950s to an essential category in clinics for transgender individuals in the 1960s. Following gender outside the clinic, she reconstructs the variable ways feminists integrated gender into their theories and practices in the 1970s. The process by which ideas about gender became medicalized, enforced, and popularized was messy, and the route by which gender came to be understood and applied through the treatment of patients with intersex traits was fraught and contested. In historicizing the emergence of the sex/gender binary, Eder reveals the role of medical practice in developing a transformative idea and the interdependence between practice and wider social norms that inform the attitudes of physicians and researchers. She shows that ideas like gender can take on a life of their own and may be used to question the normative perceptions they were based on. Illuminating and deeply researched, the book closes a notable gap in the history of gender and will inspire current debates on the relationship between social norms and medical practice. 

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  Byzantium and Constantinople:...

  Editors Charles River

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  Due to the importance of the Roman Empire and the offshoot Byzantine Empire, it’s often forgotten that Constantinople wasn’t chosen at random; in fact, the city already existed, and it lent its name to the empire that was subsequently centered there. Byzantium, known originally as Byzantion, was an ancient Greek city centuries before it became known as Constantinople, and the etymology of Byzantion/Byzantium is still unknown. It has been suggested that Byzantion is of Thracian origin and may be derived from the Thracian personal name Byzas, which means “he-goat.” Ancient Greek legend refers to King Byzas as the leader of the Megaran colonists and the founder of the city, but the earliest name for a city on the site is “Lygos,” which likely corresponds to an earlier Thracian settlement described by Pliny the Elder in his seminal work, Natural History: “On leaving the Dardanelles we come to the Bay of Casthenes, ...and the promontory of the Golden Horn, on which is the town of Byzantium, a free state, formerly called Lygos; it is 711 miles from Durazzo.” 
  Pliny went on to explain that Lygos was a Thracian settlement founded between the 13th and 11th centuries BCE. The site, however, was probably abandoned well before Megara founded Byzantion around 657 BCE across from Chalcedon on the Asiatic side of the Bosphorus. The city was briefly renamed Augusta Antonina in the early 3rd century CE by the Emperor Septimius Severus, who razed the city to the ground in 196 CE for supporting a rival contender in the civil war and had it rebuilt in honor of his son and successor, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, known as Caracalla. This new name appears to have been quickly forgotten and abandoned, with the city reverting to Byzantium after the assassination of Caracalla in 217 CE, and that’s how it would be known when Constantine fatefully moved the seat of power there over a century later.

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