Other books that might interest you

• 

  Resisters - How Ordinary Jews...

  Wolf Gruner

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Drawing on twelve years of research in dozens of archives in Austria, Germany, Israel, and the United States, this book tells the story of five Jewish people—a merchant, a homemaker, a real estate broker, and two teenagers—who bravely resisted persecution and defended themselves in Nazi Germany. These stories have not been told until now, and each case is one of many, as Gruner shows by resurfacing similar accounts of Jewish refusal to accept persecution and violence in Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1943, upending the notion of passive Jews, and expanding the concept of resistance. 
   
   
    
  Each individual described here represents a category of resistance: written opposition, oral protest, contesting Nazi propaganda, defiance of anti-Jewish laws and measures, and self-defense against physical attacks. Many of these courageous acts resulted in the resisters being prosecuted and put on trial, and often receiving harsh punishments, while some led to acquittal by courts and others to changes in Nazi policies. Taken together, these accounts reframe our understanding of German Jewish attitudes during the Holocaust, while also providing an astonishing examination of the complex Nazi reactions to the many individual acts of Jewish resistance.

  Show book

• 

  Sit in the Sun - And Other...

  Jon M. Sweeney

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  As a spiritual pilgrim for more than half a century, Jon Sweeney has practiced with teachers of many religious traditions. He's gone looking for wisdom, beauty, and truth wherever it can be found. But recently he's found himself learning closer to home—from the teacher-cats he lives with. 
   
   
   
  What he discovered is that our greatest spiritual teachers are at our feet. Literally. They are the cats we love and treasure. Nearly 60 million cats live in US households today. These feline teachers have much to offer us about living in the present, loving unconditionally, approaching life with a sense of playfulness, and trusting others, all the while being independent spirits. 
   
   
   
  Jon Sweeney, beloved scholar and author of The Pope's Cat and numerous books about Saint Francis, offers a playful, gentle, informed meditation on the many spiritual truths and practices our feline companions provide if we but pause and pay attention.

  Show book

• 

  Public Speaking Secrets to Speak...

  Lysander Greyfield

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Public Speaking Secrets to Speak with Charisma and Impact: A Simplified Guide with Practical Insights 
  Are you eager to advance your career and enhance your knowledge by mastering the art of captivating communication? 
  Looking for a thorough guide that covers everything you need to inspire and engage your audience? 
  Your quest ends here! 
  This audiobook serves as your ultimate companion for deepening your understanding of public speaking, honing your skills, and engaging in practical exercises designed for success.  
  Updated to align with the latest techniques in communication and presentation. 
  Key features of this enlightening guide include: 
  - In-depth insights into the art of captivating communication 
  - Comprehensive explanations of effective public speaking strategies 
  - Proven methods for preparing and delivering impactful presentations 
  Our audiobook stands out with its extensive coverage, essential for your speaking success. Concepts are explored in depth, ensuring you grasp every critical aspect. 
  Please remember that this guide operates independently and is not affiliated with any official public speaking organization. 
  Crafted with clarity and straightforward language, our guide to public speaking ensures smooth transitions between topics. Say goodbye to overly complex jargon and embrace accessible, precise, and technically sound content. 
  So, why wait? Click the BUY NOW button, secure your audiobook, and embark on your journey to mastering public speaking with charisma and impact! 
  Unlock your potential and inspire those around you with the secrets of impactful public speaking!

  Show book

• 

  A Twist of Rotten Silk

  Anonymous

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Old and new, serious and absurd, tricky and electrifying. A book of words, words, words, for actors and directors, playwrights and poets, readers and speakers. For Shakespeareans and Anti-Shakespeareans and Non-Shakespeareans. A sequence of thirty-three mesmerising epilogue-and-prologue-like eleven-line paragraphs or poems or stanzas. A monologue of monologues. A stream of consciousness. 
  “Unclassifiable. Classify under poetry, theatre, Shakespeare.” – Carolyn Lloyd Davies 
  “The poems shake Shakespeare into shimmering new assemblages.” – Emma Smith 
  “Surprising and haunting.” – Stephen Greenblatt 
  In this audiobook edition, the poems are read by folk singer Jackie Oates, who animates them with the skill of a consummate performer.

  Show book

• 

  The Practical Psychic’s Guide -...

  SULI Daniel Johnson

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  This book is written for the advance and the beginning psychics as well as those interested in finding out more. It is written a counterpoint to much of the bad press that the psychic community receives in the larger society.  
  It is a practical guide for the practicing psychic discussing psychic ability and provides skills that will assist in enhancing your connection to the larger world. I am a Taoist Master who spent twelve years in a temple. Through the process of overcoming dyslexia, I learned how the mind works at a fundamental level and how to connect with fundamental aspects of reality. Since I was a child, my entire life and reality have been centered around a connection with the world beyond my five senses and the pragmatic definition of the universe. 
  If you have been a practicing psychic or have experienced the psychic connection, I don’t need to tell you that there is much more going on in the world than what our senses or science tell us. This book explores this while giving practical advice and skills that will help to keep you balanced while enhancing your abilities. I speak to you in practical terms because I live my daily life through Energy. It at once reveals my direction and keeps me from harm while imbuing me with abilities I once never thought possible. 
  In the world today, we are polarized in so many fundamental ways. There are many reasons for this, but at a fundamental level, it is because of the cycle that we are in. My goal in life has always been to study reality. I try to look at things as they really are. We are in a period of extreme transformation right now where the things we once believed were unchangeable are no longer that certain. The ground is giving way, and this makes it a very frightening time. It is also a wonderful magical time where things once believed impossible will become possible.

  Show book

• 

  Hitler's Army - Soldiers Nazis...

  Omer Bartov

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  In Hitler's Army, Omer Bartov focuses on the titanic struggle between Germany and the Soviet Union—where the vast majority of German troops fought—to show how the savagery of war reshaped the army in Hitler's image. Both brutalized and brutalizing, these soldiers needed to see their bitter sacrifices as noble patriotism and to justify their own atrocities by seeing their victims as subhuman. In the unprecedented ferocity and catastrophic losses of the Eastern front, soldiers embraced the idea that the war was a defense of civilization against Jewish/Bolshevik barbarism, a war of racial survival to be waged at all costs. Bartov describes the incredible scale and destruction of the invasion of Russia in horrific detail. Even in the first months—often depicted as a time of easy victories—undermanned and ill-equipped German units were stretched to the breaking point by vast distances and bitter Soviet resistance. Bartov goes on to explore letters, diaries, military reports, and other sources, showing how widespread Hitler's views became among common fighting men—men who grew up, he reminds us, under the Nazi regime. In the end, they truly became Hitler's army. 
   
   
   
  This book sheds new light on how deeply Nazi ideology penetrated the nation. Hitler's Army makes an important correction not merely to the historical record but to how we see the world today.

  Show book