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  Spanish Armada and English...

  Editors Charles River

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  On July 12, 1588, the legendary Spanish Armada headed for the English Channel. The Spanish plan was to take this invasion, led by the Duke of Parma, to the coast of southeast England, where they would be unleashed to conquer Elizabethan England for Spain’s King Philip II and Catholic Christendom. The Armada included over 150 ships, 8,000 sailors, and 18,000 soldiers, and it boasted a firepower of 1,500 brass guns and 1,000 iron guns. Just leaving port itself took the entire Armada two days.  
  	As everyone who has been taught history now knows, the Armada was one of the most famous military debacles in history. Regardless of the debate over whether it was simple mathematical miscalculation or plain bad luck, coupled with English fire ships assailing the Spanish ships, the Armada was decisively defeated. The Armada ultimately found its reluctant way home in awful conditions, having permanently lost over a third of the ships, and on the Irish coast, the Armada suffered further losses.  
  	What has since been overlooked is that the undeclared Anglo-Spanish War continued, and it would do so until 1604. The English and their Dutch allies responded to the spectacular and unexpected defeat of the Armada with an attempt of their own to attack Spain with a fleet often called the "Counter Armada" in English. In 1589, once the impact of the previous year upon the Hapsburg naval power became clear, Elizabeth ordered Drake to gather the English fleet to take advantage of the situation. Unlike the Spanish, the English had no illusions of being able to invade their opponent's homelands and overthrow their state; instead, the English had far more modest goals. The English wanted to seek out the remainder of the Spanish fleet and burn it, land troops in Portugal and raise a revolution in that country, and capture the Azores Islands. If possible, they would use a base in the Azores to capture the anticipated treasure fleet from the New World. 

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  Harbor of Heartfelt Verses - none

  Fernando Kfer

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  Welcome to the enchanting “Harbor of Heartfelt Verses,” a collection of 100 poems that invites you to embark on a poetic journey through the vast seas of emotion. Each poem is a vessel, navigating the depths of the heart, guided by the compass of raw feelings and eloquent expressions. “Harbor of Heartfelt Verses” is a poetic harbor where emotions find solace and words become ships of sentiment. Dive into the ebb and flow of love, navigate the storms of longing, and find refuge in the calm waters of introspection. These verses are not just poems; they are vessels that sail through the harbor of human emotions, seeking connection and understanding. The harbor encompasses a myriad of themes, from the gentle lapping of love’s waves to the tempestuous storms of life’s challenges. It echoes with laughter, resonates with the echoes of sorrow, and reflects the kaleidoscope of human experiences. Each poem is a dock where readers can anchor their own emotions and reflections. Join the voyage through “Harbor of Heartfelt Verses,” where words become sailors navigating the vast ocean of human sentiment. This collection promises to be a sanctuary for those seeking a poetic escape, a safe harbor for hearts longing for understanding, and a lighthouse guiding readers through the tumultuous seas of life. In “Harbor of Heartfelt Verses,” discover the beauty of vulnerability, the strength in resilience, and the echoes of shared human experiences. Let these verses be the wind in your sails as you navigate the intricate waters of the heart. Welcome aboard, and may your journey through this poetic harbor be filled with discovery, reflection, and connection. Thank you for embarking on this poetic voyage with “Harbor of Heartfelt Verses.

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  Who Cleans the Park? - Public...

  John Krinsky, Maud Simonet

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  America’s public parks are in a golden age. Hundreds of millions of dollars—both public and private—fund urban jewels like Manhattan’s Central Park. Keeping the polish on landmark parks and in neighborhood playgrounds alike means that the trash must be picked up, benches painted, equipment tested, and leaves raked. Bringing this often-invisible work into view, however, raises profound questions for citizens of cities. In Who Cleans the Park? John Krinsky and Maud Simonet explain that the work of maintaining parks has intersected with broader trends in welfare reform, civic engagement, criminal justice, and the rise of public-private partnerships. Welfare-to-work trainees, volunteers, unionized city workers (sometimes working outside their official job descriptions), staff of nonprofit park “conservancies,” and people sentenced to community service are just a few of the groups who routinely maintain parks. With public services no longer being provided primarily by public workers, Krinsky and Simonet argue, the nature of public work must be reevaluated. Based on four years of fieldwork in New York City, Who Cleans the Park? looks at the transformation of public parks from the ground up. Beginning with studying changes in the workplace, progressing through the public-private partnerships that help maintain the parks, and culminating in an investigation of a park’s contribution to urban real-estate values, the book unearths a new urban order based on nonprofit partnerships and a rhetoric of responsible citizenship, which at the same time promotes unpaid work, reinforces workers’ domination at the workplace, and increases the value of park-side property. Who Cleans the Park? asks difficult questions about who benefits from public work, ultimately forcing us to think anew about the way we govern ourselves, with implications well beyond the five boroughs.

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  Tools by Phil Stutz The - Book...

  FlashBooks, Dean Bokhari

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  The Tools by Phil Stutz | Book Summary 
  Important note: This is not the original audiobook, this is an audiobook summary. 
  AboutThe Tools: Transform Your Problems into Courage, Confidence, and Creativity by Phil Stutz, Barry Michels 
  The Tools is a book based on a set of practices designed by two therapists (Barry Michels and Phil Stutz) to offer a way to combat one of the most common complaints they heard from their patients: “What are the specific changes I need to make to help myself heal—what are the actions I need to take to conquer negative behaviors?”  
   
  With these “tools,” we learn to find courage, turn pain into positive action, create focus, develop discipline, and express ourselves fully. The tools in this book provide us with a set of principles to combat anxiety and cultivate confidence.  
   
  For years, Phil Stutz and Barry Michels only shared these tools with an exclusive patient base. Now, with the help of this book, those very same revolutionary techniques are now accessible to anyone—including you. 
   
  Learn how to: 
   
  –Use "the tools" to transform your problems into proper action to move forward in life 
   
  –Step out of your comfort zone 
   
  –Avoid staying trapped in the past 
   
  –Step over anxiety and unfreeze yourself to do things you once feared 
   
  –Live in the present moment 
   
  –And much more

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  The Great Dictionary English -...

  Benjamin Maximilian Eisenhauer

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  This dictionary contains around 130,000 English terms with their French translations, making it one of the most comprehensive books of its kind. It offers a wide vocabulary from all areas as well as numerous idioms.
  The terms are translated from English to French. If you need translations from French to English, then the companion volume "The Great Dictionary French - English" is recommended.

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  The Woods Without Gods

  Marcus Reed

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  The Woods Without Gods is a poetic and philosophical meditation on the disappearance of the sacred from the modern world. Where once every forest was a temple and every shadow whispered divinity, now there is only silence — the echo of meaning lost to measurement. This book journeys through that silence, tracing how humanity’s hunger for mastery erased mystery, and how, in our pursuit of progress, we forgot how to listen. 
   Neither nostalgic nor cynical, The Woods Without Gods reveals what remains after faith: attention. It argues that awe can survive without theology, that reverence can exist without ritual. Through the lens of ecology, memory, and philosophy, it mourns the world’s disenchantment while celebrating the possibility of rediscovering holiness through perception itself. 
   This is not a lament for lost gods — it’s a call to presence. The sacred is not gone; it has only gone quiet, waiting in the moss, in the fog, in the patience of trees.

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