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  Indochina Hand - Tales of a CIA...

  Barry Michael Broman

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  Barry Broman joined the CIA in 1971 straight out of the Marine Corps, choosing a career in intelligence largely because he wanted to spend his working life in Southeast Asia. Over the next thirty years, he had the privilege of working with brave men and women who were prepared to put their lives on the line in support of the free world during the Cold War, and he enjoyed the life of adventure he had been seeking since childhood. 
   
   
   
  This book brings together tales from his career as a CIA case officer during the Cold War, giving fascinating insights into handling double agents, working in denied areas, assessing and recruiting Soviet targets, flying with Air America, acting to discredit Soviet agents with Moscow, and what happened when a case officer sets a "scavenger hunt" around Bangkok for fellow spies—and at least one active target. 
   
   
   
  A selection of stories told in engaging style proving that often the truth is more unbelievable than fiction.

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  Dark Psychology - Toxic Minds...

  Wesley Felt

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  This book consists of three titles, which are the following: 
  Dark Psychology: Influencing Others and Avoiding Manipulation and Blackmail 
  Dark Psychology: Detecting Lies, Spotting Manipulators, and Seeing through People 
  Dark Psychology: Dealing with Difficult People, Abuse, Liars, and Manipulators 
  These titles discuss topics such as leadership, deception, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, jealous, emotions, trauma, manipulation, and emotional intelligence.

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  Beyond Survival - Strategies and...

  Leah Lakshmi...

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  Transformative justice seeks to solve the problem of violence at the grassroots level, without relying on punishment, incarceration, or policing. Community-based approaches to preventing crime and repairing its damage have existed for centuries. However, in the putative atmosphere of contemporary criminal justice systems, they are often marginalized and operate under the radar. Beyond Survival puts these strategies front and center as real alternatives to today's failed models of confinement and "correction." 
   
   
   
  In this collection, a diverse group of authors focuses on concrete and practical forms of redress and accountability, assessing existing practices and marking paths forward. They use a variety of forms—from toolkits to personal essays—to delve deeply into the "how to" of transformative justice, providing alternatives to calling the police, ways to support people having mental health crises, stories of community-based murder investigations, and much more. At the same time, they document the history of this radical movement, creating space for long-time organizers to reflect on victories, struggles, mistakes, and transformations.

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  Captive Gods - Religion and the...

  Kwame Anthony Appiah

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  Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah explores how early social scientists developed our modern understandings of society through their theories of religion The foundations of modern social science were built on the study of religion, the acclaimed thinker Kwame Anthony Appiah argues. Delving into the intellectual currents of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, he investigates how formative thinkers—notably Edward Burnett Tylor, Émile Durkheim, Georg Simmel, and Max Weber—grappled with the concepts of society and religion as interdependent categories. Appiah shows how their efforts to define religion, or evade the task, mark the power and limitations of social thought in ways that persist among theorists today. Religion was not an object of study but a framework through which early social scientists established sociology as a discipline. Appiah also examines recent work in both interpretive sociology and evolutionary and cognitive psychology about the mechanisms through which communities form beliefs and values—while underscoring the enduring significance of these earlier debates for contemporary social thought. Throughout, he intertwines storytelling, historical analysis, and philosophical reflection to show how our ideas about society and culture have been, and continue to be, forged in dialogue with religious questions.

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  Find Your Happy Place - The...

  David A. Bossert

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  Imagine discovering your own personal retreat where you can reconnect with yourself and unleash your creativity. It's a place where you can explore your innermost thoughts, set goals that ignite your passion, and find the stillness and clarity you need to make those goals a reality. This is exactly what you'll experience with Find Your Happy Place: The 8-Step Guide to Boosting Your Creativity Through a Personal Retreat. Author David A. Bossert lays out each step― from seclusion to mindfulness, understanding and harnessing your imagination, and expanding your creativity to being in the moment― as a powerful tool that will guide you toward self-discovery and self-improvement. Each step is complete with a worksheet to help guide you on the path to your best life! So don't wait any longer; embark on your own personal retreat today! You'll reap the life-changing benefits that the author has experienced over more than thirty years. It's time to start living your best life― and it all starts with Find Your Happy Place.This Audio Book is narrated by the author, David A. Bossert.

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  Omaha Beach - D-Day June 6 1944

  Joseph Balkoski

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  Includes maps, photos, and firsthand accounts of participants: “There is no better book on this vital chapter in American history.” —Terry Copp, author of Fields of Fire   Combining the personal recollections of soldiers with historical narrative and analysis of the actual invasion as it unfolded, this detailed description of the action at Omaha Beach during the Normandy invasion of World War II comes from “the top living D-Day historian” (USA Today).   “Anyone who wants to know anything about Omaha Beach, where the fighting was heaviest and bloodiest, must begin with this foundational book…The research is unparalleled and comprehensive enough to satisfy even the most skeptical scholar, yet the story is absorbing. The carnage of Omaha Beach comes to life with vivid contemporary descriptions from participants and witnesses, while the whole tale is deftly steered along by Balkoski’s steady narration and his sense of the battle’s larger significance. ‘History can provide at least a little solace that there was some meaning to it all,’ he writes movingly. ‘D-Day was the decisive chapter of a twentieth century Iliad.’ Indeed it was—and Balkoski is its Homer.” —The Wall Street Journal   “Balkoski makes officer and enlisted-men’s first-person testimony the center of this account.” —Publishers Weekly   “Intensely researched and definitive.” —Army magazine   “Balkoski’s depiction of ‘Bloody Omaha’ is the literary accompaniment to the white-knuckle Omaha Beach scene that opens Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan.” —The New York Post   “The best D-Day-related book I have read.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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