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  Oceans of Grain - How American...

  Scott Reynolds Nelson

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  An "incredibly timely" global history journeys from the Ukrainian steppe to the American prairie to show how grain built and toppled the world's largest empires (Financial Times). To understand the rise and fall of empires, we must follow the paths traveled by grain—along rivers, between ports, and across seas. In Oceans of Grain, historian Scott Reynolds Nelson reveals how the struggle to dominate these routes transformed the balance of world power. Early in the nineteenth century, imperial Russia fed much of Europe through the booming port of Odessa, on the Black Sea in Ukraine. But following the US Civil War, tons of American wheat began to flood across the Atlantic, and food prices plummeted. This cheap foreign grain spurred the rise of Germany and Italy, the decline of the Habsburgs and the Ottomans, and the European scramble for empire. It was a crucial factor in the outbreak of the First World War and the Russian Revolution. A powerful new interpretation, Oceans of Grain shows that amid the great powers’ rivalries, there was no greater power than control of grain.“American cotton changed the world in the first half of the nineteenth century, American wheat in its second half. Scott Reynolds Nelson’s globe-spanning exploration of the powers of a humble grain to topple empires, enable industrialization, build cities, and redirect trade flows is the kind of commodity history one wishes for: attentive to politics, connected as well as comparative in perspective, and with a knack for telling details. After reading this fast-paced book, the wars, revolutions, and empires of the nineteenth century will never seem the same.”―Sven Beckert, author of Empire of Cotton

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  All Over the Land Nothing Else...

  Cabeza de Vaca

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  Cabeza de Vaca left Spain to explore the New World on a 1527 expedition. He was second in command of nearly 600 men, but only he and three others survived the treacherous weather, exotic diseases, and attacking indigenous people. Cabeza de Vaca survived eight straight years of wandering through the America’s southwest by becoming a medicine man to the natives. In the events of this memoir, he recounts how he helped resuscitate a man, and suddenly “all over the land nothing else was spoken of.”  

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  How to Make Your Ideas...

  Orin Ashcombe

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  How to Make Your Ideas Irresistibly Memorable in an Instant: A Simplified Guide with Explanations 
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  The Marauder and His Daughter -...

  Linda Cunningham

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  AFTER DISCOVERING HER FATHER'S WAR DIARY, a young girl begins the lifelong journey of understanding how his brutal and miraculous war experience shaped their family and faith while bringing new insight to one of the most ambitious and secretive war missions of World War II. MERRILL'S MARAUDERS became the 172nd recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal since George Washington. The text of the diary is included. 
  She understood that her father had been to war and that he did not speak of it, but it was not until adulthood that she came to understand the way his war experiences and PTSD both created and shaped their family. If he had not joined, he would never have met her mother: if he had not volunteered for the "hazardous and dangerous" secret mission that would make him a Marauder, would he have fulfilled his duty to his country? And yet, his time in the Burmese jungle left him with a tiger he took home - one that reared its head rarely but impacted his family and Linda each time. 
  Because of his miraculous survival, Larry Stephenson worked actively in his community upon his return, serving as the Director of Civil Defense for Calcasieu Parish. After watching the destruction wracked by Hurricane Audrey from her family's picture window, Linda witnessed her father and others step up and serve those whose lives had been ended and upended in its wake. Her family's faith and dedication to others shaped Linda's experience and upbringing, and she hopes to bring some of the wisdom and insight her parents and their love brought to her, to others. 
  Her writing career has been dedicated to exploring, with the help of research, interviews, and the insight of experience, the ways love, faith, and trauma build and challenge individuals, relationships, and communities.

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  The Cure for Mental Illness -...

  David William Jones

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  Nothing beats lived experience. 
  After more than 10 years of writing, David William Jones unveils the first part of his long anticipated series: THE CURE FOR MENTAL ILLNESS, beginning with THE SOLUTION TO SUICIDE. In this part of the series, he shares from his profound lived experience; a unique and deeply thought provoking perspective on suicide prevention. From years of dealing with an incompetent mental health system, to jumping out of an aeroplane, followed by years of inner work towards enlightenment, David shines a light on what is wrong with the mainstream mental health systems and their approaches. 
  With a profound insight into transformation, David shares his lived experience, knowledge and wisdom for how to both prevent and overcome suicidal thoughts, emotions and behaviours.

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  How to Analyze People The...

  Ben Harper

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  What is the one most important skill that you would like to pick up to succeed personally and professionally in today’s world? Considering a majority of our personal, professional and social life is determined by interacting and developing relationships or connections with other people. Analyzing people, indeed, is the most premium success skill toacquire.  
  How do you determine if a potential employee will be a good fit for your organization? How do you gauge if the hot new date you fancy will also be an encouraging and supportive long-term partner? How do you negotiate winsome deals with strangers you know little about? How do you network at social or business gatherings to form mutually beneficial associations? How do you build a killer rapport with existing clients such that they only want to work with you? The key to all this lays in analyzing people and understanding their personality, behavior, thoughts,and feelings.  
  What is it that drives these people? What does their body language subconsciously reflect about their thoughts and feelings? What is their fundamental personality? When you learn to read people and understand their basic personality and thought patterns, you mold your communication pattern to suit it, thus making the interaction more effective.  
  When you can read or predict someone’s behavior, you are in a position to model your own behavior or actions to develop a solid rapport with the person, thus leading to more rewarding relationships/associations. I am not training you to be an FBI agent (well, you may get even better than the sleuths). 

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