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  The Book of Memory - How We...

  Mark Rowlands

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  A brilliant journey through the nature of memory, helping us understand how what is lost—and what is remembered—shapes who we are.In this revelatory and intimate exploration of the way memory works, Mark Rowlands, author of The Philosopher and the Wolf, reveals how memories aren’t fixed. They soften and consolidate—and are distorted—each time we revisit them, even those memories most deeply ingrained. The way we call on memory is closer to a "negotiation with the past."From episodic memories like "shining islands in dark waters" and forgotten "Rilkean" memories that underpin our personalities and essential style to the memories we might hold that have been authored by others close to us, The Book of Memory draws on philosophical argument, a range of writers and thinkers, the latest neurological research, and psychology experiments to chart how memories are made, lost and remembered, with important consequences for how we understand ourselves.

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  ADHD Beyond the Prescription -...

  Matthew Bernard

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. If you picked up this book, you probably already know that medication is not the whole answer. Maybe you are taking a stimulant and wondering why you still cannot start the project on your desk. Maybe you tried medication and found it helped with focus but did nothing for the emotional meltdowns that seem to come out of nowhere. This book is about everything your prescription does not handle, the habits that resist formation, the priorities that keep shifting, and the emotions that arrive like a tidal wave without warning. 
   
  ADHD is a complex neurological condition that affects far more than attention. It affects how you initiate action, how you regulate your internal state, how you perceive time, how you respond to rejection, and how you build the structures that make daily life possible. Medication addresses some of these systems, but it does not teach you how to use the improved focus once you have it, and it does not repair years of eroded self-trust. Understanding these limitations is liberating because it shows you where the real work needs to happen. 
   
  Inside, you'll discover: 
  • How to navigate the medication ceiling and build on your prescription foundation 
  • Practical strategies for emotional dysregulation and rejection sensitivity 
  • How to close the knowing-doing gap that keeps you stuck 
  • Energy-based productivity systems designed for ADHD brains 
  • Environment design principles that make desired behaviors easy and undesired ones hard 
  • How to break the shame spiral and build sustainable self-compassion 
  • Relationship strategies that address invisible labor and communication challenges 
   
  You are not broken. You have a brain that works differently, and different wiring requires a different operating manual. This book is that manual. Begin where you are, use what works for you, and leave the rest for later.

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  Battle Scars - Twenty Years...

  Chip Reid

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  The most eye-opening, and terrifying, story in Chip Reid's career as a journalist was the six weeks he spent with 3d Battalion, 5th Marines, during the invasion of Iraq in 2003, as a correspondent for NBC News. Traveling shoulder-to-shoulder with the young Marines, he had unparalleled access, witnessing them in combat, and interviewing as many as he could persuade his bosses to put on air, allowing them to tell their war stories in their own words. 
   
   
   
  It took only twenty-two days for the Marines of 3/5 to fight their way to Baghdad, but the effects on those who fought have lasted a lifetime. They lost a number of their own in battle, and others suffered life-threatening injuries. Many have had to find their own way through survivor's guilt and the nightmare of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, with all its attendant miseries. 
   
   
   
  Twenty years on, Chip sat down with the Marines of 3/5 once more. They told Chip inspiring stories of heroism in battle, of camaraderie and comrades lost, of patriotism and belief in mission, of recovery and success in both military and civilian life, and of the new appreciation for life that results from Post-Traumatic Growth. Visceral and searingly honest, this book is a tribute to the Marines for their service, and for the many sacrifices they made then, and that many still make today. 
   
   
   
  This enhanced audiobook edition includes nearly two hours of raw and uncut interviews with Marines of 3/5 recorded in preparation for writing this book.

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  Bosworth Field and Flodden...

  Editors Charles River

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  Today, roses are a sign of love and luxury, but for over 30 years, they provided the symbols for two houses at war for control of England. Thousands of people died and many more were injured fighting beneath the white rose of York and the red rose of Lancaster, and the noble families ruling England tore each other apart in a struggle that was as bitter as it was bloody.  
  As a result, few battles in English history are as famous as Bosworth Field. Fought on August 22, 1485, it was the one which decided the outcome of that long and messy conflict. English king Richard III, who had only recently taken the throne, had superior numbers at the battle, but an army fighting under future king Henry VII proved to have the better fighters. When forces near the field under Lord Stanley sided with Henry during the battle, they surrounded and killed Richard. The last York King went down fighting, but as news of the king's death spread, his army turned and ran, and with that, Henry Tudor was now King Henry VII.  
  At the time of Flodden, England and Wales were ruled by the Tudor dynasty, founded by Henry VII in 1485. Henry had ended the seemingly endless war between the Yorkist and Lancaster factions of the House of Plantagenet when he defeated King Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field on August 2, 1485, but his own claim to the throne of England was shaky and easily subject to challenge. His mother was Margaret Beaufort, a descendant of John of Gaunt, third son of King Edward III, and his father, Edmund Tutor, was the son of the Dowager Queen of England, Catherine of Valois. At the time, there were numerous other candidates with stronger claims to the throne, so to strengthen his hold he married Elizabeth of York, daughter of King Edward IV. Even so, Henry was constantly looking over his shoulder to guard against the surviving Plantagenets, and he suppressed rebellions and discovered conspiracies over most of his 12 years in power. 

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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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  Sacagawea - A Life from...

  Hourly History

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  Sacagawea is widely known as the Native American woman who helped guide Lewis and Clark across the western frontiers of North America in the early 1800s. It was an extraordinary journey that took a small band of explorers thousands of miles into uncharted territory, across treacherous mountain passes, vast plains, and all the way to the shores of the Pacific Ocean. This was indeed a remarkable and historic period for both Sacagawea and the rapidly growing nation of the United States. 
  But as incredible as all of that undoubtedly was, there was more to Sacagawea's life than her epic adventure with Lewis and Clark. She was a Shoshone girl who grew up learning to survive off the land, was kidnapped at the age of twelve by a hostile tribe, and was subsequently passed from one hand to another before fate placed her in the path of two explorers who needed her more than they ever fully acknowledged. She helped keep the expedition alive through some of its darkest moments, all while carrying an infant on her back, without pay and without any formal recognition. 
  This book not only regales the reader with that epic journey but also documents everything that led up to it and everything that came after. Because the story of Sacagawea did not begin with Lewis and Clark, and it did not end with them either.

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