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  Ivy

  Sally Cook

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  Ivy tells the story  of a brave young woman who was awarded a special war commendation in signals during World War II in the Women's Arny Corp. She disarmed a German officer pointing a pistol in her face, survived strafing by a German bomber as she walked along a farm path as a Land Girl and  lived in a garage with a dirt floor and cold water tap after migrating to Australia, She raised three young children after her husband dropped dead aged 39. Ivy read adult books at 3 years old and spoke fluent French at 7, She was engaged to one of the Great Escapers who was murdered in the snow near Stalag Luft 3. She made Australia her home and despite many setbacks, came to love the country dearly.

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  False Reality

  Phil G

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  From the moment we are born to the day we die, we are under a spell. We are controlled by the magicians who use marketing and propaganda to manipulate our every thought. 
   
  From religious leaders to company executives, from politicians to secret military elites, everything we do, say and even think is scrutinized. 
   
  There have been many books and films that have attempted to reveal the stupidity of the so-called reality we have created. Often the metaphors are ignored or misunderstood. The truth is simple. Mankind has stepped out of a natural state of existence and walked blindfolded into a world of insanity. 
   
  We are force fed information, drugs, poisoned food and told we should feel lucky. We are told that we live in a free world, while everything we do is controlled. 
   
  For thousands of years the system has been built, slowly consuming our true nature. 
   
  Many are happy in their state of delusion. But every now and then a rogue appears who recognizes the truth for what it really is. Do you wish to stay plugged in to the system or are you ready to set yourself free?

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  The Shadow Work Workbook - A...

  Rachel Porter

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  How come you’ve done so much inner work and still feel stuck without much progress?Most probably, you haven’t looked at your.. SHADOW. 
  You haven’t looked at and built the most important relationship in your life (yet): The relationship with yourself. 
  Hello, beautiful being! You want to do Shadow Work but you don't know how or where to start? You came to the right place. 
  How can you know if your shadow is affecting your life? 
  - You're feeling that you have to shift between identities & masks, hold yourself back to "belong" 
  - You attract the same patterns over & over again and don't know why or how to stop it 
  - Anytime you're trying to take action toward your dream you doubt yourself or expect the worst 
  - You have trouble communicating and expressing your emotions to other people 
  - You get easily triggered by other people - their actions (or inaction) or comments 
  - You're feeling invisible, unheard or misunderstood by other people 
  You haven’t looked at and built the most important relationship in your life (yet).. The relationship with yourself 
  Here's a little sneak preview of what you’ll get: 
  - The Seven Steps to Creating Lasting Change 
  - The Power of Thoughts and Beliefs 
  - Identifying Your Subconscious Beliefs 
  - How to Change Your Limited Beliefs 
  - Understanding and Overcoming Trauma 
  - Decoding the Subconscious 
  - Understanding Your Dreams 
  - Getting to Know Your Triggers and Healing Them 
  - The 3-2-1 Method 
  - The Mirror Technique 
  - Meeting Your Inner Adult and Inner Child 
  - Realigning with your Authentic Self 
  - Learning to Structure Your Goals 
  - Finding Your Life Purpose 
  - How to Determine Your Attachment StyleStart your healing journey & free your shadow

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  Change by Design - How Design...

  Anonymous

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  The subject of “design thinking” is the rage at business schools, throughout corporations, and increasingly in the popular press—due in large part to work of IDEO, a leading design firm, and its celebrated CEO, Tim Brown, who uses this book to show how the techniques and strategies of design belong at every level of business. 
   
  The myth of innovation is that brilliant ideas leap fully formed from the minds of geniuses. The reality is that most innovations come from a process of rigorous examination through which great ideas are identified and developed before being realized as new offerings and capabilities.  
  Change by Design explains design thinking, the collaborative process by which the designer’s sensibilities and methods are employed to match people’s needs, not only with what is technically feasible, but what is viable to the bottom line. Design thinking converts need into demand. It’s a human-centered approach to problem solving that helps people and organizations become more innovative and more creative.  
  Introduced a decade ago, the concept of design thinking remains popular at business schools, throughout corporations, and increasingly in the popular press—due in large part to work of IDEO, the undisputed world leading strategy, innovation, and design firm headed by Tim Brown. As he makes clear in this visionary guide—now updated with addition material, including new case studies, and a new introduction—design thinking is not just applicable to so-called creative industries or people who work in the design field. It’s a methodology that has been used by organizations such as Kaiser Permanente, to increase the quality of patient care by re-examining the ways that their nurses manage shift change, or Kraft, to rethink supply chain management.  
  Change by Design is not a book by designers for designers; it is a book for creative leaders seeking to infuse design thinking into every level of an organization, product, or service to drive new alternatives for business and society.

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  Facing the Future - Four Essays...

  Bhikkhu Bodhi

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  This is a Pariyatti audiobook of four essays from the book Facing the Future: Four Essays on the Social Relevance of Buddhism by Bhikkhu Bodhi, narrated by Shelina Hetherington.
  
  A Buddhist Social Ethic for the New Century
  A Buddhist Approach to Economic and Social Development
  The Changing Face of Buddhism
  Sangha at the Crossroads
  
   
  Excerpt:If we use the Buddha’s teachings as a lens to examine the corporate economic system and its offshoot, the consumerist culture, we will see that it is ultimately detrimental to the well-being of both its masters and servants alike. Drawing upon the tools of Buddhist analysis, let us briefly sketch the inner dynamics of this system. We see in the first instance that such a social order is founded upon ignorance or delusion (avijjā, moha), namely, the supposition that material wealth and consumption are the criteria of the good life. According to the Buddhist texts, when ignorance infiltrates our cognitive systems it issues in a series of “distortions” (vipallāsa) which infect our perception (saññā), thinking (citta), and views (diṭṭhi). The Buddha mentions four such distortions: the notions that the impermanent is permanent, that the painful (or suffering) is pleasant, that the insubstantial is a self, and that the unbeautiful is beautiful. At the most basic level we perceive things by way of these distortions; when these distorted perceptions are taken up for reflection, we start thinking in terms of them; and finally, under the combined influence of distorted perception and thought, we adopt views—that is, beliefs, doctrines, and ideologies—that affirm the mistaken notions of permanence, pleasure, selfhood, and beauty.

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  Race for Nuclear Weapons during...

  Editors Charles River

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  Before the Second World War, military conflicts were fought under orthodox conditions, usually termed “conventional warfare,” but several innovations had significantly changed combat, leading inextricably to the race for a nuclear weapon in the 1930s and 1940s. Conflicts had been fought by armies on horseback with guns of varying sophistication since the 16th century, but mechanized warfare and machine guns changed this calculus and set the stage for future combat by the end of World War I. Other sinister changes entered the fray during this conflict, such as chemical weapons like chlorine and mustard gas. The total warfare brought about by World War I and ensuing wars like the Spanish Civil War made the quest for the most powerful weapons somewhat necessary. 
  The Manhattan Project would ultimately yield the “Little Boy” and “Fat Man” bombs that released more than 100 Terajoules of energy at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but as it turned out, the Axis were not far behind with their own nuclear weapons program. When the Nazis’ quest for a nuclear weapon began in earnest in 1939, no one really had a handle on how important nuclear weapons would prove to war and geopolitics. The attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, along with the Cold War-era tests and their accompanying mushroom clouds, would demonstrate the true power and terror of nuclear weapons, but in the late 1930s these bombs were only vaguely being thought through, particularly after the successful first experiment to split the atom by a German scientist. The nuclear age itself was in its infancy, barely 35 years old, but within a few short years the advent of nuclear war loomed over the world and the prospect of the enemy winning the nuclear race kept Allied leaders awake at night.

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