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  Scotland's Future Culture -...

  Stuart McHardy

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  The culture of all nations is rooted in past experience, individual and communal. In Scotland's Future History McHardy looked at the misrepresentation of so much of Scotland's political and social history. In this new volume he takes a wider look at aspects of Scotland's culture that have been at the heart of how we have developed into who we are in today's world. Topics include literature, religion, history and story, the Radical 1790s, the remarkable Douglas Young and an introduction to Geomythography, a new way of melding prehistory and history to present a new and refreshing way seeing our past.
  Understanding our past is vital to the process of building a new Scotland in the years ahead. As Scotland moves towards reclaiming her status among the nations of the world it is important that we understand just how culturally distinctive we are. Being Scottish is no better than having any other nationality, but is is certainly no worse, and as this work hopefully shows, it is something worth celebrating.

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  Dark Psychology - How Social...

  Amanda Grapes

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  In this book, you will learn more about the culture we live in today. Are we being brainwashed by the media? How is social media affecting us? 
  And with those two questions in mind, does this mean there are more narcissists today than ever before? 
  Not only are we going to dive into these specific topics, but we will also talk about real cults. Cults have existed for a long time. Some even see the relationship between cults and actual religions. But why are cults so dark and scary? How do cult leaders make people believe in something that is not true, or make them do things they would have never done before they were brainwashed? 
  Let’s take a look.

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  History of the Ottoman Empire

  IntroBooks Team

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  The Ottoman Empire had begun as one of the small states in the Turkish region. It had emerged in the regions of the Asia Minor during the time of the breakdown of the empire and the rule of the Seljuk Turks. It was at the same time that the Ottoman Turks had begun to take in from the other states. It was during the reign of the Muhammad II (1451 – 1481), they had ended all the rule of all the remaining Turkish dynasties. The earliest phase of the expansion of the Ottoman Empire had begun during the rule of the Osman I. Orkhan, Murad I and Beyazid I – all of these at the expense of the Byzantine Empire along with Serbia and Bulgaria. 
  The Ottoman Empire witnessed several moments of historical importance. It experienced both the rise as well as the fall of the same as the centuries passed by. The World War II had represented quite a unique and exceptional event during which the experience of suffering in the war had become quite common. The entire devastation of the cities along with the slaughtering of the civilians had simply abolished the distinction between the rear as well as the front line. The World War became more familiar and was accepted as the natural part of the social as well as that of the political life. The history of the Ottoman Empire demonstrates the common experiences of the Central, Western as well as the Southeast Europe and puts them in perspective of the brutality shown by the Balkans. 

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  Read People Like a Book:...

  Andy Gardner

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  Two manuscripts in one audiobook:How to Read People Like a Book: Uncover Hidden Body Language Cues and Unlock People’s Psychology so You Can Predict Human BehaviorActive Listening: How to Listen in a Distracted World to Build Trust, Improve Conversations and Deepen Relationships 
  In the first part of this audiobook, you will:Learn the most effective observation techniques and how they can influence your interactions with othersFind out the different facial expressions and how to decode themUnderstand how someone’s posture and gestures can give away their emotionsLearn to identify when someone is being untruthfulDiscover how different tones of voice can convey different meaningsUnderstand the role of the cultural context in interpreting non-verbal cues 
  In the second part of this audiobook, you will:Find out how to adapt your communication in order to meet the other person's needsUnderstand why empathy and trust are important and how to develop themDiscover 5 ways to build trust on social mediaFind out what your listening personality isLearn how to ask questions depending on the situationLearn how to deal with conflict… because there is always conflict!Understand how to deepen your connections in all areas of your lifeAnd much, much more! 
  So, click the “add to cart” button now and enhance learning to Read People Like a Book!

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  Bird Dream - Adventures at the...

  Matt Higgins

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  Human flight is one of the last great challenges on Earth. Not like how the Wright brothers flew, but how we fly in our dreams. This is the goal of the Wingsuit Landing Project: to soar through the sky at speeds up to one hundred miles per hour and to land without the aid of a parachute. This project is the creation of thirty-seven-year-old Jeb Corliss, Jr., a Southern Californian who seeks to emulate a mode of flight more like a flying squirrel than bird or plane.Journalist Matt Higgins gained intimate access to Corliss, who, after years of BASE jumping and skydiving, set out to be the first person to be dropped 2,400 feet and land solely with the aid of a wingsuit. But somewhere in the UK, forty-two-year-old Gary Connery was plotting to beat Corliss at his own game. Along with an international group of wingsuit devotees, Corliss and Connery race to leap into the unknown as the world's foremost wingsuit pilots. This race will nearly cost one of the competitors his life.A riveting, adrenaline-fueled narrative about a group of unforgettable characters who risk everything to achieve man's age-old dream of flying, Bird Dream takes listeners to the cutting edge of this new frontier—as well as the strange science and fearless history that have led us to this remarkable point in the human experience.

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  Selections from Parerga and...

  Arthur Schopenhauer

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  Volume 2 of Parerga and Paralipomena has a very different character from Volume 1.  
   
  There are, in total, 31 Essays, 24 of which are presented here. The range of topics is very varied, opening with 'On Philosophy and Its Method' and including 'On Pantheism', 'On Ethics', 'On Jurisprudence', 'On Men of Learning', 'On Thinking for Oneself', 'On Religion' and 'The Vanity of Existence'.  
   
  Quite a few open windows on to the personality of Schopenhauer himself - for example, he praises dogs as companions, argues that animals should be chloroformed before slaughter: animal welfare was very much in his sights. He inveighs against useless indulgence in luxury: 'the most effective way of alleviating human misery would be to diminish luxury, or even abolish it altogether.'  
   
  A thinker at home with his thoughts, he remarks with a touch of resigned humour: 'The pen is to thought what the stick is to walking, but one walks most easily without a stick, and thinks most perfectly when no pen is at hand. It is only when a man begins to get old that he likes to make use of a stick and his pen.' 
   
  His writings range widely over the international intellectual and cultural spectrum. There are numerous references to Eastern thought - especially Buddhism and Brahmanism as translations into European languages from Pali and Sanskrit gathered force during Schopenhauer's active life. He clearly found himself comfortable in this body of thought, often comparing it favourably with the Western Judaic-Christian heritage. As always he makes liberal use of quotations and footnotes and these have been translated and incorporated into the main text for this recording.  
   
  For Leighton Pugh, who has now recorded the main body of Schopenhauer's work for Ukemi Audiobooks, spending many days in the studio with this hugely influential figure has been like 'training at altitude.' He remarked that the time spent with the varied and accessible essays in Parerga and Paralipomena Volume 2 proved to be among the most enjoyable.   
   
  Translations by T Bailey Saunders, Ernest Belfort Bax, Walter Jekyll and Charles Joséfé.

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