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  Summary: Stop Overthinking - 23...

  Brooks Bryant

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  Disclaimer: This is NOT the Official Book, but a Summary Book. This Does NOT Accompany the Official Book! 
  Liberate yourself from the chains of overthinking and embrace a worry-free life with "Stop Overthinking." This insightful guide by renowned author Nick Trenton provides proven techniques to rewire your brain, alter your thought patterns, and break free from your self-induced mental confines. 
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  The United States of English -...

  Rosemarie Ostler

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  The story of how English became American—and how it became Southern, Bostonian, Californian, African American, Chicano, elite, working-class, urban, rural, and everything in between 
   
   
   
  By the time of the Revolution, the English that Americans spoke was recognizably different from the British variety. Americans added dozens of new words to the language, either borrowed from Native Americans (raccoon, persimmon, caucus) or created from repurposed English (backwoods, cane brake, salt lick). Americans had their own pronunciations (bath rhymed with hat, not hot) and their own spelling (honor, not honour), not to mention a host of new expressions that grew out of the American landscape and culture (blaze a trail, back track, pull up stakes). Americans even invented their own slang, like stiff as a ringbolt to mean drunk. American English has continued to grow and change ever since. 
   
   
   
  The United States of English tells the engrossing tale of how the American language evolved over four hundred years, explaining both how and why it changed and which parts of the "mother tongue" it preserved (I guess was heard in the British countryside long before it became a typical Americanism). Plentiful examples of the American vernacular, past and present, bring the language to life and make for an engaging as well as enlightening listen.

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  Fortune and Folly - The Weird...

  Sara A. H. Butler

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  Briarcliff Mansion and the land it occupies are owned by Emory University, which refers to it as its "Briarcliff Campus." Fortune and Folly, in part, illuminates the largely lost story of how the mansion, and the entire surrounding neighborhood, got its name. But in order to understand the mansion, we have to understand the man who built it. 
   
   
   
  Briarcliff Mansion once belonged to a man named Asa Candler, Jr.—also known as Buddie. The second son and namesake of Coca-Cola founder Asa Griggs Candler, Buddie was a wealthy real estate developer of great successes and greater failures. A man of big vision and bigger adventures, and a socialite whose boisterous, unapologetic personality made him both beloved and reviled in the Atlanta community. But after he passed away in 1953, his stories faded from memory, either tangled up with or overshadowed by his father. 
   
   
   
  It's no mystery why Briarcliff garners attention. It's self-consciously grandiose, built to display maximum grandeur to the neighborhood. It towers over the landscape, set far back from the road behind a filled-in, overgrown pool. Its face is stitched together where a music hall was added two years after the main house was completed, and the bricks don't quite match up. This book offers a deep-dive into the life of Asa Candler, Jr. to excavate a piece—and place—of Atlanta history.

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  POWER OF STOICISM THE -...

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  "The Power of Stoicism" is your gateway to discovering and harnessing the transformative principles of Stoic philosophy for a resilient and purposeful life in the contemporary world. This insightful guide delves into the profound teachings of Stoicism, offering practical wisdom and actionable strategies to cultivate inner strength, navigate challenges, and lead a life aligned with virtue.Stoic Principles for Modern Living: Uncover the timeless virtues of Stoicism and their relevance in today's fast-paced world.Mindful Resilience: Learn how Stoicism equips you with the tools to face adversity with a calm and composed mind.Practical Stoic Exercises: Incorporate daily practices to integrate Stoic wisdom into your routine.Embracing Change: Discover how Stoicism empowers you to adapt to change and find opportunity in challenges.Cultivating Emotional Well-Being: Explore Stoic techniques for managing emotions and fostering mental resilience.Balancing Inner Harmony: Implement Stoic principles to achieve a harmonious and purposeful life.Living Virtuously: Embrace the Stoic path to lead a life of virtue, integrity, and fulfillment. 
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  Spare the Rod - Punishment and...

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  Spare the Rod traces the history of discipline in schools and its ever-increasing integration with prison and policing, ultimately arguing for an approach to discipline that aligns with the moral community that schools could and should be. 
   
  In Spare the Rod, historian Campbell F. Scribner and philosopher Bryan R. Warnick investigate the history and philosophy of America’s punishment and discipline practices in schools. To delve into this controversial subject, they first ask questions of meaning. How have concepts of discipline and punishment in schools changed over time? What purposes are they supposed to serve? And what can they tell us about our assumptions about education? They then explore the justifications. Are public school educators ever justified in punishing or disciplining students? Are discipline and punishment necessary for students’ moral education, or do they fundamentally have no place in education at all? If some form of punishment is justified in schools, what ethical guidelines should be followed?  
   
  The authors argue that as schools have grown increasingly bureaucratic over the last century, formalizing disciplinary systems and shifting from physical punishments to forms of spatial or structural punishment such as in-school suspension, school discipline has not only come to resemble the operation of prisons or policing, but has grown increasingly integrated with those institutions. These changes and structures are responsible for the school-to-prison pipeline. They show that these shifts disregard the unique status of schools as spaces of moral growth and community oversight and are incompatible with the developmental environment of education. What we need, they argue, is an approach to discipline and punishment that fits with the sort of moral community that schools could and should be. 

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