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  Foolproof - Why Misinformation...

  Sander van der Linden

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  From fake news to conspiracy theories, from inflammatory memes to misleading headlines, misinformation has swiftly become the defining problem of our era. The crisis threatens the integrity of our democracies, our ability to cultivate trusting relationships, even our physical and psychological well-being—yet most attempts to combat it have proven insufficient. 
   
   
   
  With remarkable clarity, Sander van der Linden explains why our brains are so vulnerable to misinformation. Like a virus, misinformation infects our minds, exploiting shortcuts in how we see and process information to alter our beliefs, modify our memories, and replicate at astonishing rates. Once the virus takes hold, it's very hard to cure. 
   
   
   
  But we aren't helpless. As van der Linden shows based on award-winning original research, we can cultivate immunity through the innovative science of "prebunking": inoculating people against false information by preemptively exposing them to a weakened dose, thus empowering them to identify and fend off its manipulative tactics. Deconstructing the characteristic techniques of conspiracies and misinformation, van der Linden gives listeners practical tools to defend themselves and others against nefarious persuasion—whether at scale or around their own dinner table.

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  Joe Tilden's Recipes for Epicures

  Joe Tilden

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  Major Joseph Tilden was in his time one of the most famous Bohemians and epicureans of the Pacific Coast. Ever since his death his many friends have been trying to learn the culinary secrets which made a repast of his devising so delicious. He had given his recipes to but few, and those few his most intimate friends and fellow spirits. One of the most favored of his old companions has given this complete collection of his recipes for publication.San Francisco, May, 1907.(Excerpt from text)

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  The Art of Trust Building -...

  PhD Dennis Reina, PhD Michelle...

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  Master the essential actions that create lasting trust in any relationship, from the world's leading experts in workplace trust.Trust is essential to all relationships, but knowing how to build and maintain it remains elusive. Drawing from three decades of research and consulting, trust experts Dennis and Michelle Reina provide a comprehensive roadmap for creating lasting trust in any relationship.Through actionable frameworks, tools, and stories, listeners will learn essential behaviors that build trust in character, communication, and capability; how to foster an environment of openness where people feel heard and valued; ways to rebuild trust after breaches or betrayals; techniques for strengthening self-trust as the foundation for trusting others; and the role of gratitude in nurturing reciprocal trust. 
   
  With the groundbreaking Reina Individual Trust Scale Assessment and concrete strategies for implementation, this essential guide equips listeners to forge powerful bonds of trust that endure through uncertainty and change.

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  Community Third Edition - The...

  Peter Block

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  With increasing violence, widening ideological divides, and growing economic inequality, a deeper sense of community is desperately needed. Yet typical ways of engaging people civically and organizationally remain unchanged. In Community, Peter Block explores how authentic community can emerge from fragmentation and offers practical steps to foster transformation.This updated third edition draws on decades of implementing Block’s ideas and includes the following:New stories and examples demonstrating community building as a more powerful approach to social problems than traditional policies and programsExpanded resources and a discussion guide designed for classroom and training program useA new closing chapter covering broader implications of the book's ideas for organizational transformationFresh content exploring the creative economy's relationship to belonging and social capital’s role in authentic engagementUpdated examples showing how community principles apply to today’s workplace and virtual world challenges

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  Who killed Napoléon? 10 New...

  Gérard Lucotte, Philippe Bornet

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  “Let the muse of history be silent, and make way for genetics.” Jean Tulard. 
  “Fascinating.” Jean-Noël Fabiani, Professor Emeritus, Chair of the History of Medicine. 
  
  Until recent years, many mysteries and rumors have surrounded Napoleon. Was Napoleon's body taken by the British and placed in Westminster Abbey? Was he poisoned with arsenic? Did he die of hereditary stomach cancer, as the English claimed, or of hepatitis and dysentery rampant on that unhealthy island? Was Napoleon III descended from the Emperor? Did the Emperor's physician remove Napoleon's penis after his death on St. Helena in 1821?
  To answer these and many other questions, Professor Gérard Lucotte spent twelve years working on this subject. He was commissioned by Prince Charles Napoléon (a descendant of the Emperor, through the branch descended from Jérôme Bonaparte, the Emperor's youngest brother) and Count Walewski (a descendant of Napoleon the First’s natural son) to work on Napoléon's DNA. Thanks to his genetics laboratory and electron microscope, he has achieved a gigantic feat that will astound all Napoleon enthusiasts.

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  B H Mangal Maharaj My Spiritual...

  Sripad Jagannatha Das

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  His Divine Grace Tridandi Gosvami Bhakti Hirday Mangalniloy Maharaj was the longtime secretary of the Sri Chaitanya Gaudiya Math of India and so much more. He was born Madan Mohan Chandra on January 31, 1928, in Anandapur (Midnapur), West Bengal. After graduating first from university in 1949 he took up a career as a high school teacher. Madan, inwardly yearned to embrace a genuine spiritual process culminating in meeting his guru, Bhakti Dayita Gosvami Maharaj Of the Sri Chaitanya Gaudiya Math at the Kumba Mela, Hardwar. Entering the monastic order at the age of twenty one Mangal Niloy Brahmachari, as he was known, undertook Devotion Yoga (Bhakti). Several years later, he was accepted into the sanyasi order by Bhakti Promode Puri Gosvami Maharaj. From that day Maharaj traveled the world preaching the gospel of Krishna and Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. 
   
  A longtime friend and confidant of ISKCON founder A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, in 1966 Maharaj were asked by the leader to join him in the States to become president of what the world knows as the Hare Krishna Movement. Unfortunately, Maharaj could not accompany the Swami and had to wait some years before finally reaching America. 
   
  In 1980 while on one of his many preaching tours of North America Maharaja met the struggling young writer, Geoffrey Giuliano in Toronto at the temple of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. Two years later Giuliano was given initiation along with his wife Brenda and the names Jagannatha Dasa and Vrndarani Devi. From 1986 to 2004 Maharaj presided over a large rural ashram, goshalla (cow protection facility), and international media center overseen by his disciples in Lockport, New York. Until his death in Vrndavana, India the fully self-realized master continued to teach the philosophy of God consciousness freely around the globe.

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