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  Little Red Barns - Hiding the...

  Will Potter

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  Behind the little red barns dotting the landscape and decorating so many of the products we consume is a dangerous threat. This groundbreaking investigation exposes the powerful forces at work to hide the harms of industrial agriculture, its outsize role in the climate crisis, and its links to the global rise of fascism. 
  Little Red Barns is the record of a harrowing journey that took investigative journalist Will Potter from factory farms to international climate summits, from Congressional hearings to neo-Nazi fascist groups. As Potter uncovers the frightening truth about animal agriculture’s role in accelerating climate collapse, he shows how the authoritarian measures being taken to maintain control over this key aspect of the global food supply chain are directly linked to the proliferation and empowerment of far-right militias. Confronting a maelstrom of disturbing information, he asks searching questions about a journalist’s role in the 21st century and the impact of bearing witness in a world in which we are bombarded with “news,” both real and faked.

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  Diagnosis Human - How Unlocking...

  Amy Begel, David V. Keith

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  Diagnosis Human offers a compelling alternative to the biomedical model of mental health as it's been promoted over the last thirty years—a model which says that mental distress is a problem of chemical imbalance, or brain chemistry. Biological psychiatry focuses on quantifying the "illness" by an almost exclusive focus on symptoms. In this model, symptoms are never good. They are always seen as a sign that something is wrong with that person, a sign of pathology that must be changed. People now have a name for what they "have" and receive a prescription for it. 
   
   
   
  What may appear as intractable individual problems, however, often aren't individual problems at all. This book reveals how many of these distressing emotional states are created by nearly invisible, intimate patterns in our relationships. Diagnosis Human invites listeners into the therapist's office to be part of family therapy sessions, where they can experience practically first-hand what these intimate relationship patterns look and feel like. The authors present cases of adults dealing with depression, couples who come to therapy reeling from the betrayal of an affair, families with kids diagnosed with ADHD, teenagers with anxiety, or young children with temper tantrums. Each therapy session invites listeners to sit in as observers as the case unfolds, sometimes in dramatic fashion.

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  The Hundred Years’ War - History...

  Kelly Mass

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  The Hundred Years' War was a series of prolonged and intense conflicts between the kingdoms of England and France, spanning from 1337 to 1453. At its core, the war was rooted in a bitter dispute over the French throne, which was claimed by both the English royal House of Plantagenet and the French House of Valois. This disagreement over succession became more than a dynastic struggle; it evolved into a broader geopolitical and cultural clash, drawing in various powers from across Western Europe. The war became a defining event in medieval history, fundamentally shaping the course of European politics, society, and warfare. 
  The conflict was not a single, continuous battle but a series of engagements, truces, and temporary pauses in fighting, lasting a staggering 116 years. Over five generations, English and French rulers alternated between direct conflict and negotiated ceasefires, each side hoping to gain an upper hand in the long-running struggle. The war is commonly divided into three main phases: the Edwardian War (1337–1360), the Caroline War (1369–1389), and the Lancastrian War (1415–1453). These stages were marked by shifts in momentum and power, with the English initially achieving significant victories but eventually losing their dominance in the final stages of the war. 
  One of the most significant outcomes of the Hundred Years' War was its profound impact on European warfare. Both England and France introduced new military strategies and technologies, including the use of professional standing armies and the widespread deployment of artillery. These advancements marked a dramatic shift away from the feudal levies and knightly combat that had previously defined medieval warfare. The use of the longbow by English archers, for example, proved particularly effective in the decisive Battle of Crécy in 1346, and the war’s artillery, such as cannons and siege weapons, changed the way battles were fought.

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  Plutarch: The Life and Legacy of...

  Charles River Editors

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  A well-dressed, middle-aged man stood in the street of a small Greek town, watching workmen measure tiles and haul loads of stone and mortar, and he called out corrections as they went. Passersby found the sight worth a laugh because the individual doing it was a man of international reputation, a philosopher whose lectures had drawn crowds in Rome, and a friend of Roman consuls, yet he was standing in the road to oversee the mundane business of a country building project. When people asked why he was there, he answered, in effect, that he was not doing it for himself but for Chaeronea. The town was his, and no task done on its behalf was beneath him. 
  	The man was Plutarch, and the scene, which he wrote about himself, captures the paradox of his whole life. He wrote the ancient world’s most influential biographies of Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Pericles, Cato, and dozens of other men who had conquered the world and shaken empires, and he wrote them so well that they established the very pattern of what a life story could be. As it turned out, the author of those grand biographies spent almost all of his own life in a small town in the hills of central Greece, a town he loved and refused to leave, busying himself with its temples and its tile-measuring and its minor magistracies. The contrast was not an accident but the key to the man. Plutarch believed that greatness of soul had nothing to do with the size of the stage, and that a person could take the measure of Caesar without ever wishing to be Caesar. 
  	Thankfully, far more is known about Plutarch’s life than most ancient writers. Where so many of them left no trace of themselves, Plutarch is everywhere in his own enormous body of work. He tells readers about his grandfather and brothers, about his teacher and friends, about his wife and children, about the dinners he hosted and the arguments he enjoyed, and the tragedies he suffered.

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  Overcoming Procrastination &...

  Sebastian Mills

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  TRANSFORM PROCRASTINATION INTO PRODUCTIVITY, PURSUE YOUR GOALS, AND NEVER LOOK BACK WITH THIS COMPREHENSIVE 2-AUDIOBOOKS-IN-1 BUNDLE! 
  Are you tired of battling procrastination, poor time management, and wavering focus? 
  Do you struggle with self-defeating behaviors, lack of motivation, and bad habits that hold you back? 
  Are you ready to break free from these cycles and unleash your true potential? 
  If you’re ready to become more productive, achieve your goals, and live up to your full potential, then "Overcoming Procrastination & Stop Self-Sabotage: Overcome Your Laziness, Bad Habits and Self-Defeating Behavior, Increase Your Productivity, Manage Your Time and Achieve Your Goals to Get Things Done” is for you! 
  This powerful audiobook guides you through understanding procrastination, identifying triggers, developing self-awareness, time management techniques, building willpower, developing a positive mindset, building better habits, and sustaining productivity. 
  It also delves into the realm of self-sabotage with chapters on understanding self-sabotage, identifying self-defeating behavior, cultivating self-awareness, nurturing motivation, breaking bad habits, overcoming limiting beliefs, building resilience, goal setting, and embracing your true potential. 
  With this audiobook, you will: Gain insights into the root causes of procrastinationIdentify your personal triggersCultivate self-awarenessLearn effective time management techniquesBuild willpower and develop a positive mindsetAcquire practical tools 
  And so much more!  
  Start your journey towards productivity, self-mastery, and goal achievement by grabbing this audiobook today!

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  Gambling in the Greco-Roman...

  Charles River Editors

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  A cup rattles, three small cubes of bone or ivory spill across a wooden board, and for one held breath the whole room leans in. A soldier's monthly pay, a merchant's profit, and occasionally a man's own freedom was riding on which faces land upward. That scene played out countless times a day throughout the ancient world, in army camps on the frozen Rhine, in the back rooms of Pompeian wine shops, in the tiled gaming chambers of senatorial villas, and in the palace itself, where more than one emperor kept a set close at hand. 
  	Dice were everywhere in antiquity, and that ubiquity is exactly what makes them worthy of historical interest thousands of years later. Kings and slaves cast the same bones, a game that cost a laborer a copper coin could cost a nobleman an estate, and both men prayed to the same gods for a lucky throw. Few objects cut so cleanly across the social lines the ancient world drew between people, and few pastimes left such a broad trail through the sources, from the letters of emperors and the verses of poets to the sermons of moralists, the statutes of lawmakers, and the painted walls of taverns where the players are depicted arguing over a bad roll. 
  	There is a paradox at the heart of the story. Romans threw dice constantly, and yet for most of Rome’s history, the law forbade it. Gambling with dice was formally banned outside the winter festival of the Saturnalia, yet the ban was ignored so completely that the emperors who signed such laws were themselves famous for breaking them. Of course, the story of dice and games of chance began long before Rome, in the knucklebones of a sheep and the tall tales the Greeks told about who first thought to throw them.

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