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  Blind Obedience and Denial - The...

  Andrew Sangster

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  "...offers a unique and valuable insight into the psychology of human beings who violate the laws of war. Anyone interested in war crimes generally and the IMT in particular should read this interesting book." — Journal of Military HistoryA revealing yet accessible examination of the Nuremberg trial, and most crucially all 23 men who stood accused, not just the most infamous—Speer, Hess, and Göring. This account sets the scene by explaining the procedures, the legal context, and the moments of hypocrisy in the Allies’ prosecution—ignoring the fact that the Katyn massacre was a Soviet crime and overlooking carpet bombing.  Author Andrew Sangster discusses how the word “Holocaust” was not used until long after the trial, probably due to Russian objection as they had lost many more people, and because the Allies generally were not innocent of anti-Semitism themselves, especially Russia and Vichy France. However, the defendants to a person immediately recognized that this was the singular issue which placed them on the steps of the gallows, and their various defenses on this charge are therefore crucial to understanding the trial. Sangster also explores how the prisoners related to one another in their approach to defending themselves on the charge of genocide and extermination camps, especially in facing the bully-boy Göring.  This new study utilizes not only the trial manuscripts, but the pre-trial interrogations, the views of the psychiatrists and psychologists, and the often-overheard conversations between prisoners—who did not know their guards spoke German—to give the fullest exploration of the defendants, their state of mind, and their attitudes towards the Third Reich, Hitler and each other as they faced judgement by the victors of the war.

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  Picking Presidents - How to Make...

  Gautam Mukunda

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  Celebrated leadership expert and political scientist Gautam Mukunda provides a comprehensive, objective, and non-partisan method for answering the most important question in the world: is someone up to the job of president of the United States? 
   
   
    
  In Picking Presidents, Gautam Mukunda sets his sights on presidential candidates, proposing a tested method to assess whether they will succeed or fail if they win the White House. Combining political science, psychology, organizational behavior, and economics, Picking Presidents will enable every American to cast an informed vote. 
   
   
    
  In his 2012 book Indispensable, which all but predicted the Trump presidency, Mukunda explained how both the very best and very worst leaders are "unfiltered"—outsiders who take power without the understanding or support of traditional elites. Picking Presidents provides deep analysis of filtered and unfiltered presidents alike, from failed haberdasher and skillful president Harry Truman, to the exceptionally well-qualified—and ultimately reviled—James Buchanan; from Andrew Johnson, who set civil rights back by a century, to Theodore Roosevelt, who evaded party opposition to transform American society. Picking Presidents lays out a clear framework that anyone can use to judge a candidate and answer the all-important question: are they up to the job?

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  Dear New York - Voices From The...

  Brandon Stanton

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  A dramatic reading of stories and quotations from Brandon Stanton’s photography book Dear New York, the inspiration for the groundbreaking Grand Central Station installation.While the book pairs photographs with firsthand accounts from their subjects, this audio companion features different New Yorkers, both actors and nonactors, reading these same stories aloud. These readings are accompanied by field recordings of New York City’s streets, parks, and sidewalks, collected from all over the five boroughs in the summer of 2025.Dear New York is a love letter to the streets, stories, and souls that define the heart of the city and its people."The beating heart of New York City is a fine stage set for this audiobook of living theater." — Kirkus"In audiobook format, this book brings the sounds of streets and subways, along with a myriad of voices, straight to listeners through portraits that give this place–aptly named the city that never sleeps–its soul." — Library Journal (Starred Review)Creator of the global sensation Humans of New York and author of four #1 New York Times bestsellers, Brandon Stanton has shown us a unique side of our communities, our neighbors, and ourselves. Now, he takes us further and deeper than he’s ever gone before.Embracing all five boroughs, Dear New York is filled with contradictions, yet brimming with life. It is an unprecedented portrait of the world’s greatest city, and a personal tribute to the people who provide its soul.This audiobook is narrated by:Andre BellidoBrittany BradfordSirena BrettMark CarrolChristopher F. CostaEmily DyerDylan Reilly FitzpatrickEliza FossKhaya FraitesNeil HellegersJohnny HellerCary HiteAlyssa KeyneNathan LangJamilah Lewis-HortonEric LockleyTim LounibosMax MeyersRobb MoreiraGeorge NewbernChloe NosanGuy OldfieldAngel PeanJo Anna PerrinJennifer PickensJohn PirhallaImani Jade PowersJoshua QuinnShannon RaffertyAndre SantanaVerna ShambleeCanyon SillimanRebecca SolerVictoria VillarealSteve WagnerEmma Paige WestEunice WongLandon WoodsonMia WurgaftJon YagedA Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press

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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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  Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: The Boom in...

  Mike Ripley, Lee Child

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  WINNER OF THE HRF KEATING AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION CRIME BOOK 2018 
  An entertaining history of British thrillers from Casino Royale to The Eagle Has Landed, in which award-winning crime writer Mike Ripley reveals that, though Britain may have lost an empire, her thrillers helped save the world. With a foreword by Lee Child. 
  When Ian Fleming dismissed his books in a 1956 letter to Raymond Chandler as ‘straight pillow fantasies of the bang-bang, kiss-kiss variety’ he was being typically immodest. In three short years, his James Bond novels were already spearheading a boom in thriller fiction that would dominate the bestseller lists, not just in Britain, but internationally. 
  The decade following World War II had seen Britain lose an Empire, demoted in terms of global power and status and economically crippled by debt; yet its fictional spies, secret agents, soldiers, sailors and even (occasionally) journalists were now saving the world on a regular basis. 
  From Ian Fleming and Alistair MacLean in the 1950s through Desmond Bagley, Dick Francis, Len Deighton and John Le Carré in the 1960s, to Frederick Forsyth and Jack Higgins in the 1970s. 
  Many have been labelled ‘boys’ books’ written by men who probably never grew up but, as award-winning writer and critic Mike Ripley recounts, the thrillers of this period provided the reader with thrills, adventure and escapism, usually in exotic settings, or as today’s leading thriller writer Lee Child puts it in his Foreword: ‘the thrill of immersion in a fast and gaudy world.’ 
  In Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, Ripley examines the rise of the thriller from the austere 1950s through the boom time of the Swinging Sixties and early 1970s, examining some 150 British authors (plus a few notable South Africans). Drawing upon conversations with many of the authors mentioned in the book, he shows how British writers, working very much in the shadow of World War II, came to dominate the field of adventure thrillers and the two types of spy story – spy fantasy (as epitomised by Ian Fleming’s James Bond) and the more realistic spy fiction created by Deighton, Le Carré and Ted Allbeury, plus the many variations (and imitators) in between. 
  Ripley's autobiography-like approach to the subject brings a personal touch to the literary criticism. His analysis of the top figures in the genre, from Fleming to Le Carré, provides a comprehensive reference for anyone interested in detective and mystery literature. 
  For fans of Richard Coles (Bringing in the Sheaves), and Donna Leon (Backstage).

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  The Homestead Act of 1862

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  This program is read by an AI-based synthesized voice.

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