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  The World According to Proust

  Joshua Landy

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  Marcel Proust (1871-1922) was arguably France's best-known literary writer. He was the author of stories, essays, translations, and a 3,000-page novel, In Search of Lost Time (1913-27). 
   
   
   
  This book is a brief guide to Proust's magnum opus in which Joshua Landy invites the listener to view the novel as a single quest—a quest for purpose, enchantment, identity, connection, and belonging—through the novel's fascinating treatments of memory, society, art, same-sex desire, knowledge, self-understanding, self-fashioning, and the unconscious mind. 
   
   
   
  Landy also shows why the questions Proust raises are important and exciting for all of us: how we can feel at home in the world; how we can find genuine connection with other human beings; how we can find enchantment in a world without God; whether an artist's life can shed light on their work; what we can know about the world, other people, and ourselves; when not knowing is better than knowing; how sexual orientation affects questions of connection and identity; who we are, deep down; what memory tells us about our inner world; why it might be good to think of our life as a story. Finally, Landy suggests why it's worthwhile to read the novel itself—how the long, difficult, but joyous experience of making it through 3,000 pages of prose can be transformative for our minds and souls.

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  Screw Meditation! - How to...

  Sue Belton

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  Sue Belton is an award-winning leadership coach, bestselling author and speaker who specializes in coaching senior corporate leaders worldwide. Her clients are successful, smart, ambitious and high-achieving professionals in demanding leadership roles. Invariably, they are always ‘on’, working 60-80 hour weeks... plus evenings, plus weekends, plus holidays... Their demanding work schedules create a busy brain that they just cannot switch off. 
  Screw Meditation! is an invaluable guide written especially for busy, time-poor professionals who want to switch off a busy brain and have tried everything – specifically meditation and mindfulness – without much success. Screw Meditation! explains why. 
  Sue Belton uncovers the link between working long hours, poor time management, cognitive impairment, biological factors, and emotional Drivers, that all result in poor productivity and performance issues and keep a brain… busy! 
  She explains why the vicious cycle of hard work and busy-ness can keep a smart professional stuck with no time to step back and be more strategic. She also explains how this leads to more debilitating issues such as imposter syndrome, poor health, and burnout. 
  Screw Meditation! gives you six hacks that have been road-tested on leaders worldwide, and gives you the proven tools to manage your time, tasks and team… with a clear strategy for switching off a busy brain. 
  meditation; mindfulness; self talk; time management; productivity; burnout; Imposter Syndrome; cognitive impairment; brain function; emotional drivers; Transactional Analysis; NLP; CBT; stress; adrenal fatigue; cortisol fatigue; perceived ability to cope; executive stress; senior leader burn out

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  Western Hostility to Russia -...

  Terry Boardman

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  What are the origins of the war in Ukraine? Contrary to popular opinion, the conflict is ultimately not between Russia and Ukraine but between Russia and the West. Neither did it begin with Russia's invasion in 2022, nor the Maidan revolution in 2014.
  Providing a wealth of documented evidence, Terry Boardman shows that the roots of the hostility date back to the geopolitics of the nineteenth century, when Britain and Russia engaged in the so-called Great Game of controlling the 'heartland' of central Eurasia. With colonial supremacy at stake, the British ruling elite stoked hatred of the 'Russian bear'.
  In addition to conventional political motivations, the author identifies a little-known, esoteric dimension. Within the leadership of the Anglo-American West are initiated groups who understand that world guidance is destined eventually to move to the Slavic East. With the aim of maintaining control, the West has been seeking, pre-emptively, to suppress Russia's influence.
  Surveying the 'hot' and 'cold' wars of the twentieth century, the collapse of the USSR and the continual enlargement of NATO, Boardman reveals the hidden strategies employed in realizing the above goal, which has culminated in militarization, exploitation and mass death in Eastern Europe.
  Can we become aware of the subliminal, oppressive methods of our ruling elites? If we are to become free, we need at least to understand them. With political, historical and spiritual perspectives, this short book is a worthy primer.

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  Battle of Tsushima The: The...

  Editors Charles River

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  By the end of the 19th century, the Russian Empire seemed to be at the zenith of its power and reach. It was the largest country in the world, stretching from the Black Sea on the eastern edge of Europe to the Bering Straits in the extreme east of Asia. Even by rail, it took over ten days to travel from one side of the country to the other. Its standing army of over 1.3 million men was the largest in the world, and the “Russian Steamroller” was regarded as one of the most potent military forces available to any ruler. 
  	The sudden and unexpected rise of Japanese influence in the region was opposed by Russia, Germany, and France, who threatened war with Japan unless the terms that ended the war were changed. Reluctantly, the Japanese agreed to withdraw from Manchuria, but they never forgot or forgave what they saw as the way in which the unwarranted European influence was used against them.  
  	Japanese suspicions were reinforced when Russia subsequently concluded a treaty of alliance with China and forced the tottering regime to grant a lease of the Liaodong peninsula to Russia. Russian troops occupied Port Arthur and began to build massive fortifications around the city. The port was linked to Russia by a new railroad that connected to the Trans-Siberian Railroad at the Chinese city of Harbin. Russia also insisted on the right to use its troops to defend the new railroad throughout its length in China. Although the terms by which Russia leased the port from China were temporary, it was clear that Port Arthur was intended to become Russia’s new warm-water port on the Pacific.  
  	To most observers, it seemed clear that Japan and Russia were destined to come into conflict in Korea and Manchuria. Both empires were set on expansion, and both saw these areas as important. However, Russia’s vastly larger population, army, and navy seemed to make it inevitable that Japan would lose if the conflict escalated into war.

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  Limitless Mind - "Unlock your...

  Orson Vexley

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  Limitless Mind 
   ⭐⭐ A Simplified Guide for Transforming Failures into Opportunities ⭐⭐ 
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  Our guide stands out due to its extensive coverage, which is crucial for your success. Concepts are thoroughly explored—not just lightly touched upon. 
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  NOT Accountable - Rethinking the...

  Philip K. Howard, Mitch Daniels

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  "Elected leaders come and go, but public unions just say no." Hiding in plain sight is a fatal defect of modern democracy. Public employee unions have a death grip on the operating machinery of government. Schools can't work, bad cops can't be fired, and politicians sell their souls for union support. With this searing five-point indictment, Philip K. Howard argues that union controls have disempowered elected executives and should be unconstitutional. 
   
   
   
  Elected officials answer to public employees. Basic tools of good government have been eliminated. There's no accountability, detailed union entitlements make government largely unmanageable and unaffordable, and public policies are driven by what is good for public employees, not what is good for the public. Public unions keep it that way by brute political force—harnessing the huge cohort of public employees into a political force dedicated to preventing the reform of government. 
   
   
   
  The solution, Howard argues, is not political but constitutional. America's republican form of government requires an executive branch that is empowered to implement public policies, not one shackled to union controls. Public employees have a fiduciary duty to serve the public and should not be allowed to organize politically to harm the public.

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