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  Right This Way - A History of...

  Robert Viagas

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  When you sit down at a play, movie, or concert—or even in front of the TV or scrolling on your phone—you are taking part in one of the oldest and most mysterious forms of human behavior. Being part of an audience is an age-old experience that we all crave, one that has evolved from amphitheaters to screens. Right This Way is a pop history of audiences through the ages. Playbill editor Robert Viagas unfolds the unique aspects of what he calls “audiencing” with stories from the age of the Greeks to the world of Zoom. He walks through the different types of audiences and the history of their responses, what science has to say about how our brains respond to what they see and the reactions of the people around them, and why, during COVID-19, people risked a deadly virus to be part of a crowd. Right This Way explores what the audience experience brings us and how it may evolve in the 21st century.

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  332nd Fighter Group The: The...

  Charles River Editors

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  The United States has no shortage of famous military units, from the Civil War’s Iron Brigade to the 101st Airborne, but one would be hard pressed to find one that had to go through as many hardships off the field as the Tuskegee Airmen, a group of African American pilots who overcame Jim Crow at home and official segregation in the military to serve their country in the final years of World War II. In fact, it required a concerted effort by groups such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the extreme circumstances brought about by World War II that the military eventually decided to establish the “Tuskegee Experiment.” 
  The Black crews trained at Tuskegee before being sent overseas, and even then, they faced discrimination from those who didn’t trust them to do more than escort bombers flown by white pilots. However, as the men proved their worth in the heat of battle, some of the squadrons’ red markings helped them earn the nickname “Red Tails,” and their track record was so good that eventually the white pilots of American bombers wanted to fly with them. As Tuskegee airman Roscoe Brown eloquently put it, “They have a saying that excellence is the antidote to prejudice; so, once you show you can do it, some of the barriers will come down.” 
  In time, the Tuskegee Airmen would be romanticized and mythologized to the extent that it was claimed that some escort squadrons didn’t lose a bomber to the enemy, which led Tuskegee airman Grant Williams to note in jest, “Back then, nobody realized the significance of what we were doing. Now, they seem to think we could walk on water." However, even though the suggestion that the escorts lost no bombers on their missions was inaccurate, there is no question that the Tuskegee Airmen’s record was elite and some of the fighter pilots were among the best to serve.

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  Bitter Fruit - The Story of the...

  Stephen Schlesinger, Stephen Kinzer

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  Bitter Fruit is a comprehensive and insightful account of the CIA operation to overthrow the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954. First published in 1982, this book has become a classic, a textbook case of the relationship between the United States and the Third World. The authors make extensive use of U.S. government documents and interviews with former CIA and other officials. It is a warning of what happens when the United States abuses its power. 
   
  This audiobook is expertly read by Bill Andrew Quinn, with audio engineering by Mike Thal. It was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont. 
   
  Copyright (C) 1982, 1983 by Stephen Schlesinger and Stephen Kinzer (P) (2025) Echo Point Books & Media, LLC

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  The Sun Also Rises

  Ernest Hemingway

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  The debut novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author that is both a tragic love story and a searing group portrait of hapless American expatriates drinking, dancing, and chasing their dreams in postwar Europe. 
  “An absorbingly beautiful and tenderly absurd, heart-breaking narrative ... It is a truly gripping story.” —The New York Times 
  Ernest Hemingway, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954, exerted a lasting influence on fiction in English through his economical prose style that conceals more than it reveals. His first novel, published in 1926, is narrated by world-weary journalist Jake Barnes, who is burdened by a wound acquired in World War I and by his utterly hopeless love for the flamboyantly decadent Lady Brett Ashley. The Sun Also Rises tracks the Lost Generation of the 1920s from the nightclubs of Paris to the bullfighting arenas of Spain

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  Complete Freedom From Thought -...

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

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  Complete freedom from thought - 9 September 1972 
  • Learning is instant perception and action. What place has thought in learning? 
  • To learn about freedom must thought be completely silent? Does insight into 
  freedom take time? 
  • Can thinking, however rational, bring about a psychological revolution in us? 
  • Is thought always conditioned? Is freedom the non-existence of thought? 
  • My very being is related to thought. If you want to see something new, what do 
  you do? 
  • To have insight, let go of the old and listen. 
  • Learning is not memorizing. 
  • Q: Is feeling another way of thinking? 
  • Q: Isn’t the need to love and be loved essential? 
  • Needing love is love of self.

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  FINDING YOU - Mental Wellness...

  Shannon J. Curtis

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  This audio book, Finding You was written to reflect the ideal state of an individual. It present elements, tools and methodologies of the ideal healthy individual so that you can assess where you are, to support you to make the necessary steps towards improvement. 
  The aim is to enable you to have a clearer picture in your mind of what health looks like, due to variations in perspective and circumstances. This allows you to visualise what health looks like for you and see yourself in the ideals presented. 
  This audio book is practical so you may want to grab a book and pen to hand. The chapters are precise and concise to hold your attention. It's educational and offers a unique way of thinking. 
  Finding You is suitable for the person who is keen to understand himself due to confusion, resentment and lack of purpose. 
  Although written in layman terms, there is much here for the life coach, mentor, teacher, general doctor, psychologist, and nurse due to the enlightenment on what is mental health and how the mind stores data. 
  "This will probably be one of the best reading experience you will have on the subject of mental wellness, mental health or total health". 
  Get ready for your transformation as you unfold your mind in every chapter you read 🏆 
  Warning! Once you read Finding You - mental wellness explored, it would be hard to remain where you were. 
  Let's break the cycle!

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