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  Hidden Healers - The Unexpected...

  Stephanie Covington

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  A gripping and deeply-felt examination of incarcerated women's lives 
   
   
   
  With unflinching clarity, Hidden Healers cuts through the myths about incarcerated women to expose the all-too-real brutalities they face within a criminal legal system never designed for them. Backed by three decades' experience providing therapeutic programs inside prisons across the United States, trauma specialist Dr. Stephanie Covington has used her unique access to amplify the voices of the women themselves. Their stories illuminate realities most never see: that most women who get caught up in the criminal justice system have themselves been victims of harm, that the degradations of today's prisons and jails only magnify their trauma— and that incarcerated women regularly risk punishment to tend to one another's well-being in unexpected acts of kindness. Grounded in research and rich with personal narrative, Hidden Healers is a poignant and riveting look inside women's prisons and jails—and what we can do to help.

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  Belisarius & Antonina - Love and...

  David Alan Parnell

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  Belisarius and Antonina were titans in the Roman world some 1,500 years ago. Belisarius was the most well-known general of his age, victor over the Persians, conqueror of the Vandals and the Goths, and as if this were not enough, wealthy beyond imagination. She made a name for herself by traveling with Belisarius on his military campaigns, deposing a pope, and scheming to disgrace important Roman officials. This unadulterated power and wealth did not mean that Belisarius and Antonina were universally successful in all that they undertook. These failures knock them from their lofty perch, humanize them, and make them even more relatable and intriguing to us today. 
   
   
   
  Belisarius & Antonina is the first modern portrait of this unique partnership. They were not merely husband and wife but also partners in power. This is a paradigm which might seem strange to us, as we reflexively imagine that marriages in the ancient world were staunchly traditional, relegating wives to the domestic sphere only. Their private and public lives blended as they traveled together, sometimes bringing their children, and worked side-by-side. Theirs was without a doubt the most important nonroyal marriage of the late Roman world, and one of the very few from all of antiquity that speaks directly to contemporary listeners.

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  Game of Mind Manipulation

  Instafo Instafo, Edwin Piers

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  Win and Beat Manipulators at Their Own GamesA game can be defined as “an activity that has rules for winning and losing.” Contrarily, another definition of it is “to use those rules of an activity to get what you want, in a way that is dishonest.” Whether you want to admit it, you are already playing a game called “life,” and in it there are those who live by the latter definition - willing to cheat the game via manipulation.What is manipulation? It’s the controlling of an individual through misleading means to get something that these manipulators want, whether money, power, relationship, or sex.Many people are victims of others’ manipulative behaviors without realizing it, including you. Think about those people from your life ranging from families and friends to acquaintances and strangers you’ve met on the street. Were there times when you had a gut-wrenching feeling that something was wrong, and it turned out to be they were manipulating you? How did it make you feel? Confused? Angry? Miserable?Nobody likes being taken advantage of, but unfortunately it’s a part of human nature to want to assert control over others as survival of the fittest. Being ignorant to that will only continue to make you a victim.But now you can do something about it by beating manipulators at their own mind games with “Game of Mind Manipulation.” By taking a page out of their playbook, you’ll be guided on the following:* Patterns for predicting manipulator’s next move* Subtle manipulations going on behind the scene* Tactics to stop manipulator dead right in the track* In-depth look into the most pervasive mind games* Expert solutions for specific manipulative behaviors* And much more!Who said the game of life was going to be easy? While it may not always be ideal, it certainly can be won once you know all the right strategies to maneuver. Either you play it to win it, or get played by it to lose it. The choice is yours. Make your first move now, and checkmate!

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  Edward Vernon-Harcourt - The...

  Tony Vernon-Harcourt

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  Edward Vernon-Harcourt (1757–1847) was Archbishop of York from 1807 until his death at the age of 90.
  
   
  As a younger son of a wealthy land-owning family, Archbishop Harcourt depended on good family and political connections to make progress in the Church. He had to combine his responsibility for one of the largest dioceses in the Church of England with his duties in parliament and at court and with providing for his family of 16 children. More supportive of reform of both parliament and the church than most of his fellow bishops, Harcourt took steps to improve the training of ordinands in his diocese, encouraged the building of over 100 new churches to cope with population growth in the industrial towns of the West Riding and made some progress in tackling pluralism and non-residence. He was not afraid to stand up for a cause he believed to be right.
  
   
  In this biography, Tony Vernon-Harcourt examines the professional and family life of one of the last aristocratic bishops in the Church of England.

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  How To Write Lots and Get Sh*t...

  Talia Beckett

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  Need to get lots done? Struggling to fit it all in? We all do. Written by a mum with two tiny humans and the challenge to write and release twenty books in one year. While also podcasting weekly, running a writer’s group and a host of other things. This book is jam packed with techniques, tips and suggestions on ways to work out what you want to do most, work out how to do it, and then get it done. For those times when there doesn’t seem to be enough time. For those moments when everything seems to matter, but none of it fits. And for finally making those dreams a reality, one step after another. If you need to boost your productivity and get your sh*t done, grab this book now and delve in. You’ll be changing your life goal by goal in no time.

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  Ayn Rand - Objectivism and the...

  Hector Davidson

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  Ayn Rand's philosophy, known as Objectivism, centers around a few key principles: 
    
  Metaphysics: Rand asserts the primacy of existence. She argues that reality exists independent of our perceptions or beliefs, and that it is knowable through reason. 
    
  Epistemology: She champions reason as the only means of acquiring knowledge. According to Rand, reason is the faculty that identifies and integrates the material provided by our senses. 
    
  Ethics: Rand's ethical theory is based on rational self-interest or egoism. She argues that individuals should act in their own best interest, and that this is both moral and practical. The virtue of selfishness, as she terms it, means pursuing one’s own happiness as the highest moral aim. 
    
  Politics: Rand advocates for laissez-faire capitalism as the ideal political system. She believes that the government’s sole role should be to protect individual rights through the police, military, and judiciary, but not to interfere in the economy or individual choices. 
    
  Aesthetics: In her view, art is a reflection of an artist's values and vision of life. She supports Romantic Realism, where art is a representation of life as it could be and should be, celebrating human potential and achievement.

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