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  The Price of Terror - Lessons of...

  Allan Gerson, Jerry Adler

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  President Bill Clinton called it "an attack against America," but after Libyan agents planted a bomb aboard Pan Am Flight 103, killing 259 people in the air and 11 on the ground, America did not strike back. Instead, the grieving relatives of the victims did the unthinkable—as mere civilians-and tried to force Libya to pay for its crime. Lawyers told the families that they could never sue Libya in American courts, and they were right. This would require changing a bedrock principle of international law—a change that every government in the world feared and fought, including the United States itself.Working virtually alone at first, Allan Gerson, a former diplomat and prosecutor of Nazi war criminals, took on the case and spent the next eight years on the families’ quest for justice. In this high-stakes game of international power politics and legal maneuvering, there were friendships, jobs, and reputations lost, but a precious principle—that of accountability under the law—was strengthened and preserved. Now Gerson and his co-author, Newsweek writer Jerry Adler, follow the threads of this extraordinary tale back to that deadly night over Lockerbie, Scotland—and forward into a new era of international justice, when terrorists will learn to fear the righteous retribution of their own victims.

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  Love Yourself Being You: A Way...

  Lana H Allen

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  How you feel matters. And how you feel about yourself matters more than you think. 
  As you’ll learn in this book, Love Yourself Being You: A Way to Live Your Best Life, loving yourself is not about being self-centered or self-absorbed. It’s about intentionally making your physical health and mental wellbeing a priority. 
  Loving yourself means having the courage to be who you are and feel good about it. It means being honest about what’s important to YOU and not needing approval from others. 
  Through this dynamic, self-care guide, you will discover techniques and strategies to help you escape the downward spiral of negative emotions. You’ll learn…How your subconscious mind may be limiting you, and what to do about it.How to break the cycle of anxiety, overwhelm, and depression.How to stop battling frustration with yourself.How to give yourself the forgiveness and love you need right now. 
  The BIG question is: Are you ready to conquer negative self-talk, accept yourself, and love yourself NOW? 
  You are stronger than you think, and more capable than you can imagine. 
  So, stop the worry, fear, and panic today! Grab a copy of this book to find peace through inspirational quotes and scriptures, and learn how to apply real-life techniques to help you become happier, healthier, and confident. 
  With every purchase, you get FREE access to these BONUSES:Just Being Me (I Am Okay Being Me) - a short script to help you embrace your authentic self and experience the joy of being youA Prayer for Love and Healing - receive hope, love, and forgivenessA gift of the mindfulness exercise: Calm and Relaxed. (Taken from the book Mindfulness: From Chaos to Calm) Details to receive your gift are included in the audiobook. 
  Narrated by the author.

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  Language Variation and...

  Dora Renna

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  Society is characterized by a constant flow of multimodal products, which increasingly blur the lines between screen and reality, and audiovisual translation allows overcoming geographical and linguistic frontiers between small realities across the planet. However, research has long struggled to adapt its methodologies to effectively analyze such phenomena, and even more to scale its results through larger corpus analyses. 
  
  Dora Renna proposes a pioneering framework, informed by the latest trends in audiovisual translation and multimodality and fit to achieve the complex task of operatively including multimodality in a rigorous corpus analysis of source and target versions of films characterized by language variation as a key element of character design.
  
  While language is at the core of her analysis, its role in the broader audiovisual context is explored thanks to a solid network of relations that shed light on linguistic and translational choices as well as on their implications. Framework and methodology are explained in detail and thoroughly applied to the case study to show how this perspective contributes to move a step forward in corpus-based audiovisual translation studies. The results obtained are unexpected and urge readers to overcome old attitudes towards audiovisual translation and multimodal corpora.

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  Time Warped - Unlocking the...

  Claudia Hammond

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  An award–winning BBC podcast host “has a steady touch . . . adding user-friendly charm” to “intriguing” research on the psychology of time perception (New York Times). 
   
  Why does life seem to speed up as we get older? Why does the clock in your head move at a different speed from the one on the wall? Why is it almost impossible to go a whole day without checking your watch? Is it possible to retrain our brains and improve our relationship with it? 
   
    
   
  In Time Warped, Claudia Hammond offers insight into how to manage our time more efficiently, how to speed time up and slow it down at will, how to plan for the future with more accuracy, and she teaches how to use the warping of time to our own benefit. 
   
  “An ideal read for those looking for science-based theories of time perception without the scientific jargon. . . . Hammond demonstrates how life’s circumstances can make minutes seem an eternity and decades the blink of an eye.” —Library Journal 
   
  “A well-researched meditation on how we see the future.” —Slate 
   
  “This lively introduction to the psychology of time perception is an intriguing take on the fluidity of reality.” —Publishers Weekly 
   
  “. . . a fascinating foray into the idea that our experience of time is actively created by our own minds and how these sensations of what neuroscientists and psychologists call “mind time” are created.” —Maria Popova, The Marginalian

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  The Prolongation Of Life

  Elie Metchnikoff, P. Chalmers...

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  The Prolongation of Life, the main thesis is carried further, and a number of criticisms and objections are met. The latter, so far as they relate to technical details, I need say nothing of here, as Metchnikoff and his staff at the Pasteur Institute are the most skilled existing technical experts on these matters, but I cannot refrain from a word of comment on the brilliant treatment of the objection to the suggested amelioration of human life that it considered only the individual and neglected the just subordination of the individual to society. In the sixth Part of this volume, Metchnikoff discusses the relation of the individual to the species, society or colony, from the general point of view of comparative biology, and shows that as organisation progresses, the integrity of the individual becomes increasingly important. Were orthobiosis, the normal cycle of life, attained by human beings, there still would be room for specialisation of individuals and for differentiation of the functions of individuals in society, but instead of the specialisation and differentiation making individuals incomplete throughout their whole lives, they would be distributed over the different periods of the life of each individual.
  As these lines are intended to be an introduction, not a commentary, I will now leave the reader to follow the argument in the book itself.

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  Hypnotherapy - The Most...

  Quinn Spencer, Norton Ravin

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  3 Hypnosis books: 
  Book 1 — Hypnosis — When we speak of NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming), we talk about certain rituals and mindsets the brain should compose. When taken into consideration, hypnosis can tremendously add to a person’s will to break free from addiction, take matters into his/her own hands or make the necessary life changes they have been postponing for a long period of time. 
  Book 2 — Self-Hypnosis — With hypnosis being such a mysterious phenomenon, what about self-hypnosis? You’ll read more about these strange ways of controlling the mind, and all the techniques, myths, and lies that go with it. Truths versus Hollywood images are displayed and exposed. And you’ll get a fuller, deeper understanding of what hypnosis is and how you can apply it to yourself. 
  Book 3 — Hypnotherapy — Perhaps you’ve heard of it, or even considered it. Hypnotherapy can be harmless and has a lot of benefits. So many crazy myths evolve around what it is and what it does. But you won’t be left in the dark. In this concise guide, you will find everything you need to know about the powerful effects of hypnotherapy. What if you could solve problems related to stress, weight loss, or pain without expensive medication, false theories about programs and diets, and long, exhausting exercises and plans? What if there was a shortcut that would give you a boost, that would put you on the right track to get from A to B faster than you can imagine?There is such a way. There is an effective method that has been tested and proven over and over again.

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