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  Storm from the East - The...

  Milton Viorst

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  In this enlightening work,The New Yorker’s longtime Middle East correspondent, Milton Viorst contends that today’s Arab-American conflict is the latest round in a 1,400-year clash between Islam and Christianity. As Islamic power weakened, Ottoman Turks eventually swallowed up the entire Arab world by 1600. When the Ottoman Empire collapsed after WWI, the controversial Sykes-Picot Treaty gave the French control of Syria and Lebanon and let the British rule Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, and Palestine. Angry and frustrated at not receiving their promised self-rule, disgruntled Arabs waged an almost constant guerrilla warfare against their European overlords. Suggesting that the United States is repeating the mistakes of the past, Viorst is critical of the George W. Bush administration’s Iraq policy. Paul Hecht’s excellent narration of this concise Modern Library Chronicles volume clarifies the frustrations and concerns of the Arab people and effectively highlights Viorst’s solutions to today’s Middle Eastern conflicts.  “This is an illuminating—and deeply disturbing—account of the ages-old conflict between Christian and Muslim civilizations … It is remarkable how Milton Viorst has managed to reduce a struggle so complex to such lucid prose.”—Daniel Schorr, NPR Radio

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  The Big Ride At The Musical Fair...

  Julie Kirchhubel

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  The Big Ride At The Musical FairIt’s Fair time for the animals today, and they are all ready in their seats and really looking forward to the Big Ride starting. But the Ride can’t begin just yet. What – or who – are they waiting for?

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  Dark Psychology - Learn How to...

  Leonard Farrell

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  Do you struggle with feeling emotionally manipulated or controlled by others?Are you tired of falling victim to narcissistic personalities in your life?Do you want to gain the power to analyze people and defend yourself from dark psychology techniques?If you've ever felt powerless against manipulators, or if you're simply interested in the study of the human mind and behavior, “Dark Psychology” is the ultimate guide for you!Whether you want to enhance your people skills or defend yourself against manipulative abusers, this audiobook will help you unlock the secrets of the human mind and protect you from opportunists!Here’s what’s in store for you:Learn how to analyze people and defend yourself against manipulation: Understand the ins and outs of body language, the art of persuasion, and the psychology of narcissism, so you can analyze people with ease and defend yourself against emotional manipulation.Discover the secrets of NLP and mind control techniques: Learn how to use NLP and mind control techniques to your advantage, so you can effortlessly influence others and achieve your personal and professional goals.Protect yourself against subliminal persuasion and dark triad personalities: Gain insight into the tactics of the narcissists and psychopaths in your daily life, so you can anticipate their every move before they start causing trouble.Enhance your communication skills and improve your relationships: Use dark psychology for a good cause! Gain deeper knowledge into human psychology so you can tailor your communication skills and improve your relationships with friends, family, and colleagues.And so much more!Get this audiobook today, and start taking control of your own fate!

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  Brave PAs - The ultimate guide...

  Angela Garry

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  The common image of the secretary or personal assistant is that of a quiet "Miss Jones" type - not usually expected to have the courage (or the right) to speak out on something they are passionate about. However, PAs have a vital role to play in an education environment - a role that requires real bravery. Written by the former PA to the principal of an innovative new academy in the UK, who now delivers training courses for secretaries and PAs in schools globally, this book offers tips, hints, anecdotes, time-saving advice, knowledge and expertise for PAs, secretaries and administrators to follow throughout the year. Each individual bravery-themed section is packed with advice and insights to assist with your continuing professional development, enable you to perform at your best and cope with the inevitable challenging situations you face, one week at a time. PAs, secretaries and administrators in schools, colleges and universities, this book is for you. Make this a brave year!

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  The China Price - The True Cost...

  Alexandra Harney

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  To write The China Price, Alexandra Harney has penetrated further and deeper into China's enormous ecosystem of export-oriented industry than any outsider before her to uncover the truth about how China is able to offer such amazingly low prices to the rest of the world. What she has discovered is a brutal, Hobbesian world in which intense pricing pressure from Western companies combines with ubiquitous corruption and a lack of transparency to exact an unseen and unconscionable toll in human misery and environmental damage. The recent scandals about Chinese-made toys, tires, and toothpaste drive home a central tenet of this book: What happens in Chinese factories affects all of us, everywhere.In a country with almost no transparency, where graft is institutionalized and workers have little recourse to the rule of law, incentives to lie about business practices vastly outweigh incentives to tell the truth. Harney reveals that despite a decade of monitoring factories, outsiders all too often have no idea of the conditions under which goods from China are made. She exposes the widespread practice of using a dummy or model factory as a company's false window out to the world, concealing a vast number of illegal factories operating completely off the books. Some Western companies are better than others about sniffing out such deception, but too many are perfectly happy to embrace plausible deniability as long as the prices remain so low. And in the Gold Rush atmosphere that has infected the country, in which everyone is clamoring to get rich and corruption is rampant, it's almost impossible for the Chinese government's own underfunded regulatory mechanisms to do much good at all.Perhaps the most important revelation in The China Price is how fast change is coming, one way or another. A generation of Chinese flocked from the rural interior of the country to its coastline, where the factory jobs are in the largest mass migration in human history; but that migration has slowed dramatically, in no small part because of widespread disenchantment with the way of life the factories offer. As pollution in China's industrial cities worsens and their infrastructure buckles, and as grassroots activism for more legal recourse grows, pressures are mounting on the system that will not dissipate without profound change. Managing the violence of that change is the greatest challenge China faces in the near future, and managing its impact on the world economy is the challenge that faces us all.

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  To Die or Not to Die - Ten...

  Judy Cook

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  How everyday people can start taking charge of their own health and getting the care they need—despite the obstacles in their way.   The increasingly outrageous costs of medical care, and the complexity of the system, is a burden and a problem for both patients and their doctors. But while debates continue to rage over everything from Big Pharma to Medicare to the Affordable Care Act, you need to stay healthy right now.   This guide shows how we can help improve our situation—without waiting for all those big problems to resolve themselves. With a background in pathology and psychiatry, Judy Cook explains ten techniques and principles that are simple and easy to understand, so that you can conserve time, energy and money while also making your health a priority and getting the best possible care.  

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