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  Poetry - The Basics

  Jeffrey Wainwright

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  Now in its fourth edition, Poetry: The Basics remains an engaging exploration of the exciting and diverse world of poetry. Jeffrey Wainwright's accessible introduction demystifies poetic forms and traditions, which can at first seem bewildering. 
   
  Drawing on examples ranging from Chaucer to children's rhymes, Cole Porter to Dylan Thomas, and from around the English-speaking world, it shows how any reader can understand and gain pleasure from poetry. This comprehensive guide explores poetry's relationship to everyday language and introduces major genres and technical aspects. Each chapter proceeds through chronological examples from a wide range of English language poems. They cover all the major genres with informative studies of meter, rhyme, and stanza, showing how these features have developed through traditional to contemporary forms like rap.  
   
  This clear and concise guide offers detailed insight into the nuts and bolts of poetry, as well as exploring its ability to inspire. It is a must-listen for anyone interested in the art of poetry, whether as a reader, writer, or student.

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  Transforming Your Life:...

  Ryan Mitchell

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  A guide on use habit power to bring about long-lasting, positive changes in your life is “Transforming Your Life: Harnessing the Power of Habits: Create Positive Change, Build Routines, and Achieve Success”. This book delves deeply into the science of habit formation and offers helpful tactics to support you in creating routines that are consistent with your long-term objectives and values. This book provides a clear road map for success, regardless of your goals—building connections, advancing your profession, or experiencing personal growth. 
   You may recognize and eliminate bad habits that impede your progress and replace them with positive ones that will help you go forward by learning how habits influence our identity and conduct. By adopting strategies like habit stacking, accountability, and tiny steps at first, you may establish effective routines that result in steady progress. Along the road, you'll learn how to get past obstacles, deal with failure, and modify your routines when your objectives change. 
   “Transforming Your Life” is more than simply a manual for creating better habits; it gives you the tools to match your behaviour to your underlying values and live a successful, fulfilling life. This book offers the knowledge and techniques to transform daily activities into long-lasting, lifetime transformation, regardless of where you are in your path or how you want to improve your existing habits.

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  The Shocking Truth about Modern...

  Zoey Fraisers

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  The nature of warfare has drastically evolved over the centuries, and in the modern age, it has reached unprecedented levels of complexity, technology, and global impact. The battles fought today are not just confined to physical battlegrounds, but stretch across the cyber world, through the air with drones, and into the very fabric of political and social systems. Understanding the shocking truth about modern warfare means acknowledging how it has fundamentally changed and the far-reaching consequences it has on global security, human lives, and the future of warfare itself. 
    
  Unlike the traditional wars of the past, where armies fought on clearly defined battlefields, modern warfare is multifaceted. Conflicts today often involve a mix of conventional military forces, covert operations, cyber-attacks, and the use of advanced technologies like drones and artificial intelligence. The lines between combatants and non-combatants are increasingly blurred, and civilians are often the most affected by the consequences of war. The tools and tactics employed in modern warfare raise important questions about the ethics of conflict, the responsibility of nations, and the role of technology in shaping the future of armed engagement. 
    
  One of the most significant shifts in modern warfare is the central role technology now plays. The advancements in weapons systems, surveillance capabilities, and the rise of autonomous machinery have fundamentally altered how wars are fought. With the introduction of drones and cyber warfare, military strategies are less about physical dominance and more about information control, precision strikes, and disrupting an enemy's infrastructure without direct confrontation. This change has made warfare faster, more efficient, and, in many ways, less personal.

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  Revealing Secrets: How the Fall...

  Gideon Merrick

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  "Revealing Secrets: How the Fall of the Republic Shaped Our Future" 
  Are you eager to advance in your career while deepening your knowledge of the transformative events that have shaped our future? 
  Searching for a comprehensive guide that encapsulates everything needed to navigate these pivotal topics? 
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  Updated to reflect the latest insights and structures, this guide covers profound truths about the pivotal events that have influenced our collective future. 
  Key features of this insightful guide include: 
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  Our guide stands out due to its expansive coverage, which is critical for grasping the complexities of these historical shifts. We're not just skimming the surface; we dive deep into the significant themes with accuracy. 
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  Behavioral Human Psychology - 3...

  Christopher Kingler

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  Have you spent most of your life watching the people around you overtake you and always get the better of you, professionally and personally?Have you ever wondered why politicians, speakers and performers get everything they want?Can you shape how others perceive you? 
  This collection 3 books in 1 includes: 
  1. How to Make People Like You - It only takes a tenth of a second, a little more than a blink of an eye, to give the first impression and a good seven seconds to create a difficult idea of the person in front of us. It is all the fault of our brain; This manual has all the tools you need to turn strangers into friends, whether you're on a sales call, a first date, or a job interview. You can arm yourself to win the battles of life; weapons such as the understanding people's psychological drives. 
  2. How to Make People Do What You Want - Using proven psychological communication strategies like priming and spreading activation, you can then put your subject into a more susceptible mindset that helps open them to your ideas, allowing you to ethically persuade and influence people by controlling their thoughts, feelings, emotions, and even their behavior. 
  3. How to Make People Laugh - Laughter, an involuntary contagious reaction, is a way to connect with others and convey information about social situations. Laughter can relieve feelings of discomfort, anger or sadness and has the power to make you feel close to others. By using the techniques provided in this manual you will be exceptionally entertaining without ever getting taken for a clown or being considered an idiot. 
  Use the most interesting, shocking and counterintuitive discoveries in psychological science to understand people around you.

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  What Is Property? - An Inquiry...

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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  ‘Property is Theft’, a phrase which has passed into common parlance, was the rallying call of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s political treatise What Is Property? Proudhon (1809-1865) was both admired and excoriated. A political theorist of the first order, he was vilified in his native France by the Communists and the Monarchists alike, though admired by Karl Marx as well as many in the nation’s academia and judiciary who valued the clarity of his thought and analytical method.  
   
  He criticised both Right and Left (the very definition of French political thinking), describing them as two sides of the same coin. Their solutions to society’s ills, he said, were like Thesis and Antithesis, based on a common error and both inadequate to the task of healing society. He offered, instead, a third way, which he called his Synthesis. Regarded as the founder of modern Anarchism, his aim was not to engender chaos, as the word anarchy often connotes, but to suggest a workable, political, and economic foundation for society which would promote order and equity for all under the most unfettered conditions of individual liberty.  
   
  Proudhon grew up in poverty, and was home schooled as a child, but received a bursary in his youth sufficient to allow him to attend the City College in his home town (though not sufficient, it seems, to buy him shoes). There, he discovered the library which introduced him to a world, classical and contemporary, previously denied him. Lacking wealth or contacts, he worked variously as a printer, a compositor and proof-reader by day and an essayist by night, learning Latin along the way to assist in his work. In 1830, a friend, a scholar, invited Proudhon to join him in Paris to pursue his philosophical writings full time. When a cholera outbreak forced his return home, Proudhon spent the next few years juggling his two careers. In 1839, he applied for a pension (bursary) at the Academy of Besançon which obliged him to write works on its behalf.  
   
  What Is Property?, published in France in 1840, was his first. It was so controversial that little else followed. However, it established his reputation, and he was eventually able to pursue his philosophical work full time. What Is Property? (First Memoir) attempts to uncover the roots of poverty and associated social ills and examines different attitudes to poverty and wealth from the Greeks to the present day. Proudhon quickly identifies a common thread, property, which he distinguishes from possession, and argues that only a fundamental, though gradual, abandonment of property (as an asset) and all that flows from it, can rescue society from its current conflicts. The memoir seeks to illuminate the underlying causes of war, poverty, slavery, and oppression and points the way to a solution. In effect, it is a practical manual for the survival of mankind. The Second Memoir (1841), included on this recording, is Proudhon’s response to the criticisms of the First Memoir, initially uncomprehending and then self-assured by turns. What Is Property? is Proudhon’s masterwork. It divides opinion, but no one who hears it can come away with their view of their own world unchanged.  
   
  Translation: Benjamin R. Tucker.

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