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  Umar ibn al-Khattab - The...

  Brilliant Bio

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  Discover the extraordinary life of Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second caliph of Islam whose leadership transformed the early Muslim world. From his dramatic conversion to Islam to his decade of revolutionary rule, this definitive biography explores how Umar expanded the Islamic empire, established groundbreaking administrative systems, and lived with legendary justice and humility. Uncover the fascinating journey of a man who rose from fierce opponent of Islam to become one of its greatest champions and most influential figures in Islamic history. Perfect for history enthusiasts, religious scholars, and anyone seeking inspiration from one of history's most remarkable leaders.

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  Why Men Want What They Want -...

  Jonathan Vale

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. 
   
  Every time a man looks at a woman and feels something he can't explain, a program older than language just ran — and finished — before a single conscious thought arrived. 
   
  This book decodes it, trait by trait: the waist, the lips, the skin, the eyes, the voice — each one an unfakeable biological report on health and fertility, read by a man's brain in half a second, without his permission. Then it exposes the industry built entirely on faking every single one of those reports, from a nineteenth-century corset to a phone filter. 
   
  No hedging. No apologizing for biology. Just the real evolutionary machinery behind why men want what they want — and what happens when that machinery meets a world that finally learned how to lie to it.

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  Addiction Inc -...

  Emily Dufton

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  How the war on drugs created the gold standard treatment for addiction—until America’s opioid crisis got privatized for profit, to the detriment of patients. 
   
  Despite epidemic levels of overdoses in the United States, by 2020, only twenty percent of Americans suffering from opioid use disorder (OUD) received medication-assisted treatment (MAT), the gold standard of addiction treatment, which uses methadone, buprenorphine, or naltrexone to reduce illicit drug use and curb the symptoms of withdrawal. While MAT is the most effective treatment available for OUD, it’s also the most controversial, the most expensive, and the most difficult to access. And yet, the medications at the center of this treatment—and the private industries that distribute them—generate roughly sixteen billion dollars each year, on par with national sales of coffee and pet food. 
   
  Historian Emily Dufton explains how this promising avenue of treatment emerged during President Richard Nixon’s war on drugs in 1971 as a radical experiment in public health, when hundreds of federally-funded treatment clinics opened nationwide. She then explores how these nationalized clinics gave way to an immensely profitable private industry that offers poor care at high costs to an insufficient number of people. Drawing on original research and over 100 interviews with policymakers, medical experts, pharmaceutical lobbyists, and patients and their families, she tells a gripping story of squandered potential and missed opportunities, as MAT transformed from a revolutionary political project launched from the White House itself into a commercial success—and a public health disaster. 
   
  Urgent, eye-opening, and deeply human, Addiction, Inc. reveals how, over the past fifty years, the United States built an addiction treatment system that made recovery harder instead of easier, and what it will take to change its course.

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  Psychology for beginners: The...

  Claudia Sonnenbeck

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  Psychology is a subject with wide and partially unexplored horizons. The psychological well-being of an individual is in fact dependent on every single influence. Starting in the womb, continuing with education, hobbies, views, knowledge, feelings and learned values. These influences provide namely for positive development or also for negative development. These opposites of the positive and negative development describe thereby roughly seen finally the psychology. This tries to explain behaviors of an individual and offers the possibility to overcome fears, for example.To ensure a good introduction to the subject, it is important to mention that one groups the generic term of psychology into many detailed aspects and subtopics. In this context, new findings regularly contribute to the development and progress of psychology. For example, new methods and new therapies are developed through advanced brain research and behavioral observations by compiling statistics.

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  A Short Philosophy of Napping

  Sébastien Spitzer

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  A wisdom-filled collection of life lessons that reminds us to slow down the maddening tempo of our livesA nap is a precious thing. It’s a moment suspended in time between morning and evening, where we close our eyes and let go of the thoughts running through our heads. In this place, there is no such thing as pressure, anxiety, or grind—there is only rest. And yet, in our modern world that prizes productivity and capital above all else, idleness has become a vice to be resisted.In A Short Philosophy of Napping, Sébastien Spitzer invites us to reconsider the humble nap, arguing that napping is a lifestyle that respects our natural rhythms and nurtures the best of what we have to offer. If Newton hadn’t taken a nap in the shade of an apple tree, would he have discovered the law of gravity? Drawing on philosophy, history, literature, and nature, this book is a charming reminder of the power and wisdom to be found in the simple act of doing nothing. 

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  Robert E Lee’s Greatest Victories

  Editors Charles River

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  After Lee succeeded the wounded Johnston, he pushed McClellan’s Army of the Potomac away from Richmond and back up the Peninsula in late June, only to then swing his army north to face a second Union army, John Pope’s Army of Virginia. Needing to strike out before the Army of the Potomac successfully sailed back to Washington and linked up with Pope’s army, Lee daringly split his army to threaten Pope’s supply lines, forcing Pope to fall back to Manassas to protect his flank and maintain his lines of communication. At the same time, it left half of Lee’s army (under Stonewall Jackson) potentially exposed against the larger Union army until the other wing (under James Longstreet) linked back up. Thus, in late August 1862, the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of Virginia found themselves fighting over nearly the exact same land the South and North fought over in the First Battle of Bull Run 13 months earlier.  
  Of all the Civil War battles fought, and of all the victories achieved by Robert E. Lee at the command of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, the Battle of Chancellorsville is considered the most tactically complex and ultimately the most brilliant Confederate victory of the war. In early May 1863, the Army of the Potomac was at the height of its power as it bore down on Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia near Fredericksburg, where the Confederates had defeated them the previous December. The Union behemoth had spent most of the winter season being reorganized and drilled by “Fighting Joe” Hooker, an aggressive commander who had fought hard at places like Antietam. With an army nearing 130,000 men, Hooker’s Army of the Potomac was twice the size of the Army of Northern Virginia. Lee’s heavily outnumbered army went on to win the most stunning victory of the war, but it cost them nearly 25% of their men and Stonewall Jackson.

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