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  Fifty Secrets of Singapore Success

  Tommy Koh

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  Singapore has evolved from a developing country to a developed one, in only a few short decades. Its gross domestic product per capita has soared from just US$517 (S$697) in 1965, to US$64,582 (S$87,128) in 2018.
  
  Impressed, visiting university students from Mexico and the United States, in early 2019, asked the city state's Ambassador-at-Large Tommy Koh for its secret of success.
  
  His reply: there was not a single secret but many, which he would consider curating a new book on.
  
  The result: Fifty Secrets of Singapore's Success.
  
  The collection of 50 essays, written by leaders and experts in their fields, sheds
  light on how the small state has scored significant success in not only economics but also eight other areas.
  
  Among other things, Singapore is one of the world's least corrupt countries, has one of the highest home ownership rates worldwide — of more than 90 per cent — and has world-class schools, healthcare and environments.
  
  Singapore has also been a good global citizen. It has played a significant role in the development of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). At the United Nations (UN), Singapore has played a leadership role in the negotiations of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, the UN Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation (also known as the Singapore Convention on Mediation) and the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development.

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  Erotic Seasons - Tuning into the...

  Kimberly Ann Johnson

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  Are you at a threshold where what used to feel good or what used to make sense doesn’t anymore?Do you desire a deeper, more embodied relationship with your sexuality?Kimberly Ann Johnson has rallied support for women transitioning to motherhood in The Fourth Trimester. Now she brings eroticism to the center of our power for every life stage. “Every woman I’ve worked with has told me that they know their sexuality holds treasures for them, keys to their soul path, but they just can’t seem to find those keys to reliably unlock the treasure chest,” writes Kimberly Ann Johnson, sexological bodyworker and Somatic Experiencing practitioner. Erotic Seasons helps women find the keys to that chest. Women experience so many crossroads at the different stages in our lives―these might include beginning a relationship, navigating fertility, becoming a mother or not, entering in perimenopause or menopause, leaving a marriage or opening a marriage. At these thresholds, our desires can become mysterious. Of course they do when our bodies and pleasure pathways change. Most of us don’t have the language or experience to communicate about these changes, so we are left feeling confused, shut down, or broken. But we can have courage together to learn and voice our true desires. Erotic Seasons guides women toward a revolutionary reckoning with sexuality. Grounded in understanding the female body in our monthly, seasonal, and lifetime rhythms, the book guides readers to locate themselves in their own anatomy and nervous system patterns. Kimberly reframes the archetypes of the female lifespan―maiden, mother, virgin, crone―for women today and shares powerful stories of women across generations, helping readers orient to the realities and mysteries of each life stage. With this knowledge, women can experience eroticism that lights up their whole life and unlocks possibilities for us all.“Kimberly Ann Johnson writes like a wise woman sitting across from you at the fire—honest, grounded, and full of hard-won, studied and trustable wisdom.”—Alexandra Roxo, author of F*ck Like a Goddess and Dare to Feel

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  The Dachau Nazi Trial - The...

  Davis Truman

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  During the postwar years, the United States initiated a comprehensive trial program in Germany to address Nazi crimes. This program included three main sets of trials: the International Military Trial at Nuremberg, the Nuremberg Military Tribunals, and trials conducted at the Dachau concentration camp. The Dachau trials focused on prosecuting individuals involved in atrocities at several camps liberated by American forces, such as Dachau, Mauthausen, Buchenwald, Flossenbürg, and Dora-Mittelbau. 
  These trials were a critical effort by the United States to punish Nazi crimes within the concentration camps. Over 1,000 defendants were tried at Dachau for violating the laws of war, as defined by international and American military norms. The legal process faced challenges due to the unprecedented nature of the crimes. A notable innovation in the Dachau trials was the use of a criminal conspiracy charge, which accused defendants of participating in the standard criminal design of the concentration camp system as a criminal organization. 
  However, after 1947 and 1948, issues arose due to inadequate planning for the trials' aftermath, particularly regarding the appellate process for convicted individuals. This became more pressing amid escalating tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union. Two scandals drew public attention, leading to official investigations by the U.S. Congress into the Dachau tribunal program. 
  While the reviews were critical of the Army's handling of clemency, they largely praised the trials themselves. Despite this, over time, the Dachau trials faded from public memory.

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  Myths and Legends of China - The...

  E. T. C. Werner

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  The Chinese pantheon set out in order - the gods of thunder, of the walls and ditches, of literature and the hearth - with the stories that go with them. Werner spent decades in the Chinese consular service and worked from Chinese sources rather than from other Europeans. This edition adds a gallery of 27 plates of Chinese painting and decorated porcelain, with works after Chen Hongshou and images of Laozi and Ci Fei, alongside 32 illustrations restored and coloured for this volume.

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  Lincoln vs Davis - The Rival...

  John Vance

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  On a spring morning in 1861, two men from the same border-state soil — one raised in a log cabin, the other on a cotton plantation — took command of a nation tearing itself apart. Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis had almost nothing in common except the size of the burden now on their shoulders. 
  Lincoln vs Davis tells the Civil War as it was actually fought: not as one story, but as two. Chapter by chapter, this parallel history moves between the White House and the Confederate capitol, tracing how a self-taught rail-splitter and a West Point-trained statesman each tried to hold a country together — one by force of union, the other by force of secession — and how their choices in Washington and Richmond decided the fate of a continent. 
  This is the war told from both head offices at once: the strategy, the politics, the family losses, and the single irreversible spring in 1865 when one man's fight ended in triumph and the other's in flight.

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  Longzhong Plan The: Finding Your...

  Andrew Lin

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The Longzhong Plan: Finding Your Position Among Market Giants 
   
  You have worked for twenty years. You have talent, a reputation, people who believe in you. Yet you still have nothing of your own, while the best positions in your market are locked up by giants too strong to fight and too established to shake. Sound familiar? 
   
  Eighteen hundred years ago, a man named Liu Bei faced exactly this. The answer that changed his life did not come from working harder. It came from a single conversation with a twenty-seven-year-old the world had never heard of: Zhuge Liang. That conversation is remembered as the most famous piece of strategy in Chinese history, the Longzhong Plan. 
   
  This is not a history lecture. It is a masterclass in strategic positioning, told as a story and translated into the decisions you face today. 
   
  You will learn why the smartest move against a dominant rival is not to fight but to avoid. Why your second-strongest competitor is a partner waiting to be made, not an enemy. Why the richest opportunities are not empty territory, but valuable markets the current players are running into the ground. 
   
  Then comes the part most strategy stories leave out. The Longzhong Plan was near perfect on paper, and it still fell apart. You will discover the most overlooked risk in any brilliant strategy: the trap of a plan that only works if everything goes right. It will change how you pressure-test your own decisions. 
   
  Ancient story. Modern strategy. Real insight you can use the moment the episode ends. 
   
  If you are a founder, a professional, or anyone trying to win from behind against bigger, richer, more entrenched rivals, this is the playbook the underdogs of history already knew. 
   
  Press play, and learn to find your position among giants.

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