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  California Gold Rush - A History...

  Hourly History

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  Many of us dream of finding instant wealth. Just imagine if you were able to go to a place where you could simply gather from the ground gold worth many thousands of dollars. Now imagine that at a time when the average wage for an unskilled worker was barely ten dollars per month. 
  That was the reality in California from 1848 to 1855. In the early days, people were able to find large quantities of gold using little more than picks, shovels, and metal pans. Fortunes were made not just by the gold-seekers themselves but also by those who sold them goods and services. When news of these discoveries reached the rest of America and the wider world in late 1848, a vast influx of hopeful prospectors descended on California, sparking a gold rush. 
  In 1849, an average of over 1,000 people were arriving in San Francisco every week. With so many people looking for increasingly scarce gold, only a few of these “forty-niners” actually found wealth, and many instead experienced crushing work, disappointment, crime, disease, and death. For the Native Americans who lived in the areas that the prospectors sought to exploit, this influx of white settlers inevitably brought not wealth but death and destitution. 
  The story of the California Gold Rush is a story of success, failure, boldness, avarice, and the birth of a new American dream.

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  Active Listening - How to listen...

  Lilly De Sisto

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  Finally available is a guide to know everything, really everything, about really listening to others! 
   
  You've finally found the listen you've been looking for: minute after minute, you'll be able to embark on a path that will guide you, step by step, to the knowledge of how to effectively communicate with other people! 
   
  In this pause-resisting listen, you will get to know and understand the following topics: 
  - Types of listening 
  - The characteristics necessary for empathic listening skills 
  - How to improve these characteristics 
  - How to listen to your clients 
  - How to listen to your employees 
  - How to listen to your children 
  - How to listen to your partner 
   
  Buy the manual now! 
   
  What are you waiting for? 
  Don't you want to finally stop pretending to listen to people, not understanding what they really want to tell you, and coming off as cocky? 
  Get a copy of the book and learn everything you need to know about actively listening even if you are denied to do it!

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  What Your Psychologist Will Tell...

  Matt Scar

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  Have you ever felt a persistent, nagging sense that something is wrong, even when your life looks perfectly fine on the outside? You're not alone. We live in a culture that tells us to 'tough it out,' leaving many of us feeling lost, ashamed, or simply confused about our own minds. This book is your personal, pre-therapy guide, designed to demystify the world of psychology and give you the clarity you've been searching for before you even step into a therapist's office.
  Think of this as the friendly, jargon-free conversation you wish you could have to understand what's really going on inside your head. We'll explore the most common challenges that bring people to therapy, breaking down complex topics into clear, relatable chapters. You'll learn why anxiety isn't your enemy, how to recognize the sneaky ways chronic stress impacts your body, and why your own mind sometimes sets 'thinking traps' for you. This guide provides the foundational knowledge to better understand your mental health and emotional world. From tackling the relentless inner critic and rebuilding your self-esteem to navigating identity crises and understanding the patterns in your relationships, this book covers the essential concepts a psychologist would discuss with you. It's not about diagnosing, but about empowering.
  By the end, you'll have a new vocabulary to describe your feelings and a solid framework for making sense of your experiences, helping you feel more prepared and less intimidated by the idea of seeking therapy. If you're considering therapy, curious about psychology, or simply want to build a better relationship with your own mind, this is your starting point. It's a compassionate, insightful, and practical first step on the path to mental wellness, giving you the confidence to understand yourself and decide what comes next. Take a deep breath—you're about to make sense of it all.

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  Owning Your Skills - A Quick...

  Kyrabe Stories

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  Are you ready to switch jobs but don’t know where to start? Or do you feel like you don’t have the right skills to make a career change? Then this guidebook is meant for you! 
  We tend to come up with many excuses to remain where we are when deep down we would love nothing more than a fresh start in a career that doesn’t have us groaning in despair while preparing for the next shift. This book is filled with tips and stories to help guide you through many of the job search, application, and interview hurdles. 
  What’s included in this quick guidebook:Activities for identifying your transferable skillsGuidance on how to recognize stepping-stone opportunitiesWays to calculate how much your skills are worthSimple tricks to improving your job searchInformation on how the applicant tracking system (ATS) worksSuggestions for optimizing your resume and cover letterTips to help you mentally prepare for sharing your skills with the interviewer 
  This guidebook offers step-by-step assistance for navigating the job search process and overcoming the challenges posed by the current uncertain times. Despite fierce competition, the book equips you with the tools to stand out to hiring managers and recruiters and increase your chances of securing your desired job. 
  Get ready to leverage your skills and achieve your career goals with this comprehensive resource. Begin listening today!

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  Trafficking Data - How China is...

  Aynne Kokas

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  From TikTok and Fortnite to Grindr and Facebook, Aynne Kokas delivers an urgent look into the technology firms that gather our data, and how the Chinese government is capitalizing on this data flow for political gain. 
   
   
   
  In Trafficking Data, Aynne Kokas looks at how technology firms in the two largest economies in the world, the United States and China, have exploited government policy (and the lack thereof) to gather information on citizens, putting US national security at risk. Kokas argues that US government leadership failures, Silicon Valley's disruption fetish, and Wall Street's addiction to growth have fueled China's technological goldrush. In turn, American complacency yields an unprecedented opportunity for Chinese firms to gather data in the United States and quietly send it back to China, and by extension, to the Chinese government. Drawing on years of fieldwork in the US and China and a large trove of corporate and policy documents, Trafficking Data explains how China is fast becoming the global leader in internet governance and policy, and thus of the data that defines our public and private lives.

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  The Integrated Wolf - Identity...

  Jyee Byrne

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  Most people are not broken. They are armoured. 
  They learned early to suppress, control, over-function, and perform — not because they were weak, but because it worked. It kept them safe. It kept them accepted. But somewhere along the way, the armour became the identity. 
  The Integrated Wolf is the journey back. 
  Written by Jyee Byrne, founder of Wolfpack Support Services and creator of The Wolfpack Way framework, this book moves through five essential stages of integration — from recognising the armour you built to survive, to regulating your nervous system, repairing your relationships, leading with presence, and leaving a legacy that does not require perfection. 
  This is not therapy. It is not a clinical manual. It is lived experience translated into structure — grounded in trauma-informed education, nervous-system literacy, and more than a decade of frontline psychosocial work. 
  Inside you will find:How to identify the masks you built to survive and what drives themWhy triggers are not the problem — and what isHow to build regulation as a daily practice, not a crisis responseWhat co-regulation really means in relationships and leadershipHow one regulated nervous system can shift an entire room, family, or organisation 
  This book is for the men rebuilding presence. The women relearning trust. The leaders done performing strength and ready to embody it. 
  Part of The Wolfpack Way collection. wpss.com.au

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