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  Rethinking Rescue - Dog Lady and...

  Carol Mithers

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  In Los Angeles's most underserved communities, Lori Weise is known as the Dog Lady, the woman who's spent decades caring for people in poverty and the animals that love them. Long before anyone else, Weise grasped that animal and human suffering are inextricably connected and created a new rescue narrative, an enduring safety net empowering pet owners and providing resources to reduce the number of pets coming into shelters. 
   
   
   
  Rethinking Rescue: Dog Lady and the Story of America's Forgotten People and Pets unites the causes of animal welfare and social justice, moving between Weise's story and that of the US rescue movement: from the dog's twentieth-century transition from property to family to the rise of the no kill campaign to stop shelter euthanasia and the contradictions that hampered those efforts. Through captivating storytelling and investigative reporting, Carol Mithers examines the consequences of bias within this overwhelmingly white movement, where an overemphasis on placing animals in affluent homes often disregards pet owners in poverty. Weise's innovative and ultimately triumphant efforts revealed a better way. 
   
   
   
  Rethinking Rescue boldly confronts two of the biggest challenges of our time—poverty and homelessness—in asking the very humane question, Who deserves the love of a pet?

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  Evolution to Purpose - Choosing...

  Bryan Hong

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  Many never find happiness at work. Will you? 
  Why are so many people unhappy at work, if they choose the work they do? After teaching as a professor at the New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business, The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and Ivey Business School in Canada, Bryan Hong shares his observations based on hundreds of conversations with his students before and after graduation. 
  Although many don't realize it, unhappiness at work is a consequence of the way we've designed our society, especially our education system. Rather than prepare us for genuine success and happiness in life, most of us are never told what we need to know to answer even our most basic life questions. In this book, Dr. Hong shares what everyone who wants to be happier at work-and in life-should know. The first step begins with the most important lesson so many of us never learn in school: We must evolve to our true purpose. 
  In this book, the author explores:How our society works to shape us in ways that will never lead to happiness at workWhat it truly means to have a strong sense of purpose at work, and why we all need it for a life beyond survival and pleasureHow we can evolve to purpose in a world where so many work without it 
  What if there was much more to your life than what you've been told?

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  Wait Five Minutes - Weatherlore...

  Shelley Ingram, Willow G. Mullins

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  The weather governs our lives. It fills gaps in conversations, determines our dress, and influences our architecture. No matter how much our lives may have moved indoors, no matter how much we may rely on technology, we still monitor the weather. Wait Five Minutes: Weatherlore in the Twenty-First Century draws from folkloric, literary, and scientific theory to offer up new ways of thinking about this most ancient of phenomena. 
   
   
   
  Weatherlore is a concept that describes the folk beliefs and traditions about the weather that are passed down casually among groups of people. From detailing personal experiences at picnics and suburban lawns to critically analyzing storm stories, novels, and flood legends, contributors offer engaging multidisciplinary perspectives on weatherlore. 
   
   
   
  As we move further into the twenty-first century, an increasing awareness of climate change and its impacts on daily life calls for a folkloristic reckoning with the weather and a rising need to examine vernacular understandings of weather and climate. Weatherlore helps us understand and shape global political conversations about climate change and biopolitics at the same time that it influences individual, group, and regional lives and identities. We use weather, and thus its folklore, to make meaning of ourselves, our groups, and, quite literally, our world.

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  The Art of War - A New Translation

  Sun Tzu, Filibooks

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  The Art of War dates to the fifth century B.C and is arguably the most famous military treatise ever written. 
  Throughout its history, The Art of War has been highly influential. Figures as diverse as Japanese daimyō Takeda Shingen, Chinese communist Mao Tse-Tung, and Finnish field marshal Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim have cited the book as inspirational. 
  During the Vietnam War the book served as an inspiration and guide for the Vietcong, which brought the book to the attention of the American military. 
  The focus of this reworking is to preserve the original intent of Sun Tzu as closely as possible.

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  Shadowcraft: The Secret History...

  Dr. Nick Coman, I. A.I.

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  This is not a conspiracy course. It's an engineering course — applied to organizations that were designed never to be visible.
   
  Shadowcraft tells one story across 24 lectures: how shadow power actually works. Not shadowy masterminds in smoky rooms. The real thing — shell company registrations, fake end-user certificates, sequential passport numbers that blew an assassination unit's cover, and an auditor who signed off on books he knew were fraudulent because the alternative was worse.
   
  The story begins with two origin points: a royal charter that turned a mining company into a sovereign government, and a fruit company that partnered with the CIA to overthrow a democracy. From there, two threads evolve across seven decades — one tracing how corporate sovereignty became military capitalism (from colonial Africa through apartheid South Africa's nuclear procurement network to Wagner Group), the other tracing how intelligence collaboration became permanent shadow infrastructure (from Cold War stay-behind armies through Vatican Bank to a Russian troll farm and a GRU assassination unit still operating today).
   
  The threads converge at four nodes: a bank that served every side of every conflict, a commodities trader who personally bridged both worlds, a Panamanian law firm that hid them all, and a catering magnate who fused mercenary warfare with computational propaganda into one business.
   
  Every lecture follows the money, maps the personnel pipeline, identifies the deniability layer, and finds the moment the machinery became exposed. You'll meet the paperwork — charters, leaked memos, passport applications, banking records — because the paperwork isn't background decoration. The paperwork is the operation.
   
  24 lectures. 24+ hours. One story.  One Unteachable Course. By the end, you won't have a theory of conspiracy. You'll have a toolkit for reading power.

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  Gregory Peck: A short biography...

  5 Minutes, 5 Minute Biographies,...

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  Gregory Peck, screen legend: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best!

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