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  Soccer club geopolitics - 22...

  Kévin Veyssière

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  Why did Franco's Spain refuse to play against the USSR? Which matches have gone beyond the sporting stakes to become a geopolitical war? Which confrontations are impossible between certain countries, like the one between Russia and Ukraine? Or conversely, how can soccer be a tool for emancipation? 
  In a pleasant and clear style, the author tells us 22 unusual stories to understand the world. In a few years, many people will say that they started to be interested in geopolitics through Kévin Veyssière's soccer stories, after having realized that geopolitics is not boring and uninteresting, nor is it reserved for seasoned diplomats and staff officers.

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  Central American Shifts -...

  Anya Solace

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  Central American Shifts explores the dynamic and often volatile economic and political history of the region through the lens of Puerto Rico, El Salvador, and Mexico. This 3-in-1 volume examines the deep impact of colonization, independence, globalization, and internal strife, revealing how each country has faced unique challenges and opportunities in shaping their modern identities. 
  The story of Puerto Rico is one of colonialism, statehood debates, and economic reliance on the U.S., as it struggles to balance autonomy with its political relationship with its larger neighbor. El Salvador's economic and social history highlights the legacies of civil war, neoliberal reforms, and the push for development amid violence and inequality. Mexico's economic history offers a rich narrative of revolution, industrialization, trade agreements, and modern challenges, illustrating how the country has navigated the complex balance of tradition and progress. 
  This book provides a deep dive into the intertwined relationships between politics, markets, and the people of Central America, offering essential context for understanding the region's development, its struggles, and its growth.

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  On Life After Death

  Carl Jung

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  C. G. Jung, (Carl Gustav Jung) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology. Jung proposed and developed the concepts of extraversion and introversion archetypes, as well as the collective unconscious. His work has been influential in psychiatry and in the study of religion, philosophy, archeology, anthropology, literature, and related fields. He was a prolific writer, many of whose works were not published until after his death. 
  The central concept of analytical psychology is individuation—the psychological process of integrating the opposites, including the conscious with the unconscious, while still maintaining their relative autonomy. Jung considered individuation to be the central process of human development. 
  Jung created some of the best known psychological concepts, including the archetype, the collective unconscious, the complex, and synchronicity. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a popular psychometric instrument, has been developed from Jung's theory of psychological types. 
  Though he was a practising clinician and considered himself to be a scientist, much of his life's work was spent exploring tangential areas such as Eastern and Western philosophy, alchemy, astrology, and sociology, as well as literature and the arts. Jung's interest in philosophy and the occult led many to view him as a mystic, although his ambition was to be seen as a man of science. His influence on popular psychology, the psychologization of religion, spirituality, and the New Age movement has been immense.

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  Kargil - From Surprise To Victory

  V.P. Malik

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  In February 1999, Pakistani Army personnel, disguised as jihadi militants, infiltrated into mountainous Kargil and occupied key vantage points. Their intrusion triggered a limited war between the world's newest nuclear states. It was a bitter battle, and one that threw up important lessons for India's defence preparedness, as also its responses to conflicts such as this. This incisive book by General V.P. Malik, former Chief of the Army Staff, analyses the reasoning behind the Pakistani Army's moves and tactics and reviews crucial issues such as the extent of intelligence and surveillance failure on the Indian side and the measures necessary to redress these failings. Away from questions of strategy and tactics, however, Kargil is also a reminder of the unalloyed heroism that was on display during those grim weeks, heroism that become a benchmark for valour.

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  Treating Adult Children of...

  PsyD Lindsay C. Gibson

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  If you treat clients who grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or self-involved parent, you know the lingering feelings of anger, loneliness, betrayal, or abandonment these clients experience. This comprehensive guide goes beyond mechanistic prescriptions to show you how to help clients not only recover but to also restart their own personal growth and self-actualization process. 
   
   
   
  In Treating Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents, psychologist and New York Times bestselling author Lindsay C. Gibson draws on more than thirty years of clinical experience as a psychotherapist and outlines a unique approach to treating a common syndrome that shapes the lives of so many people seeking therapy. Gibson shares her perspectives on the goals of therapy, and what therapists need to know in order to provide the most effective interventions. Using these insights, you can help your clients heal from feelings of loneliness and abandonment, improve confidence, decrease reactivity to emotionally immature behavior, find healthy ways to stop self-sacrificing and meet their own emotional needs, and rediscover their true selves. 
   
   
    
  By helping clients free themselves from the effects of emotionally immature people, you'll help them to create healthy, positive relationships that uplift them and improve their quality of life.

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  Educating for Purposeful Life -...

  S. David Brazer, Michael B. Matsuda

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  Educating for Purposeful Life documents positive change within the Anaheim Union High School District, whose overarching mission is to prepare high school graduates who possess a clear sense of purpose and the capacity to achieve their goals. Superintendent Michael Matsuda and education consultant David Brazer lay out the district's innovative approaches to organizing, leading, teaching, and learning. They demonstrate how education policy, organization theory, and external partnerships work together to scaffold student success, resulting in greater high school graduation rates and four-year college matriculation and persistence rates. 
   
   
    
  This work illuminates the district's Career Preparedness Systems Framework, which integrates affective and cognitive development opportunities, trade and professional development programs, and community engagement efforts. Matsuda and Brazer show how this framework, combined with a strengths-based approach, helps meet the educational needs of all students, including those from traditionally underserved populations. 
   
   
    
  Presenting secondary education as a means to support democracy, address employability gaps, and elevate student voice and purpose, this thought-provoking work provides ample ideas for how other districts might engage in educating for purposeful life.

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