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  Sweet and Deadly - How Coca-Cola...

  Murray Carpenter

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  If we knew that Coca-Cola was among the deadliest products in our diet, would we continue drinking it in such great quantities? The Coca-Cola Company has gone to extraordinary lengths to make sure we don't find out, as this damning exposé makes patently clear. Marshaling the findings of extensive research and deep investigative reporting, Murray Carpenter describes in Sweet and Deadly the damage Coke does to America's health—and the remarkable campaign of disinformation conducted by the company to keep consumers in the dark. 
   
   
   
  Sugar-sweetened beverages are the single item in the American diet that most contributes to the epidemic of chronic disease—in particular, obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease—and Coca-Cola is America's favorite sugar-sweetened beverage, by far. Carpenter details how the Coca-Cola corporation's sophisticated shadow network has masterfully spread disinformation for decades to hide the health risks of its product from consumers—risks disproportionately borne by Black, brown, and low-income communities. Working from a playbook of obfuscation and pseudoscience that has worked well for other harmful products, from tobacco and trans fats to opioids, Coca-Cola has managed to maintain an aura of goodness and happiness. This eye-opening book finally and fully reveals the truth behind that aura.

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  Spycraft Lessons The: How to Win...

  P.J. Agness

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
  The Spycraft Lessons: How to Win Allies and Influence People is a one-hour crash course in real-world influence, taught through the lens of human intelligence tradecraft. Drawing on principles used inside the intelligence community, P.J. Agness, founder of Archangel Protective Intelligence and best-selling author of The Spycraft Library, shows you how trust works like a currency, why people actually say yes, and how subtle tools like reciprocity, mirroring, and social proof can quietly shift social dynamics in your favor. You’ll learn how to build genuine rapport without sucking up, how to stop trying to impress people and let them impress you, and how to spot when those same techniques are being used to manipulate you at work, in relationships, or out at the bar. This audiobook won’t turn you into a cartoon “master manipulator.” It will give you a calm, practical spy’s-eye view of influence you can use every day to create more allies, fewer pointless enemies, and a social life that runs a lot smoother.

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  After Redlining - The Urban...

  Rebecca K. Marchiel

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  Focusing on Chicago’s West Side, After Redlining illuminates how urban activists were able to change banks’ behavior to support investment in communities that they had once abandoned. 
   
  American banks, to their eternal discredit, long played a key role in disenfranchising nonwhite urbanites and, through redlining, blighting the very city neighborhoods that needed the most investment. Banks long showed little compunction in aiding and abetting blockbusting, discrimination, and outright theft from nonwhites. They denied funds to entire neighborhoods or actively exploited them, to the benefit of suburban whites—an economic white flight to sharpen the pain caused by the demographic one. 
   
  And yet, the dynamic between banks and urban communities was not static, and positive urban development, supported by banks, became possible. In After Redlining, Rebecca K. Marchiel illuminates how, exactly, urban activists were able to change some banks’ behavior to support investment in communities that they had once abandoned. The leading activists arose in an area hit hard by banks’ discriminatory actions and politics: Chicago’s West Side. A multiracial coalition of low- and moderate-income city residents, this Saul Alinsky–inspired group championed urban reinvestment. And amazingly, it worked: their efforts inspired national action, culminating in the federal Home Mortgage Disclosure Act and the Community Reinvestment Act. 
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  While the battle for urban equity goes on, After Redlining provides a blueprint of hope.

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  Laws - Plato’s Final Political...

  Plato, Tim Zengerink

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  What if the perfect legal system could elevate human nature? 
  In Laws, Plato envisions a practical yet ideal political order where justice is not merely enforced, but cultivated. Through a long and profound conversation between three elderly thinkers, this final dialogue presents a rich and detailed legal framework that aims to harmonize civic discipline, personal virtue, and divine guidance. 
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  •	Plato’s Vision of the Lawgiver – The guiding force behind ethical governance 
  •	Education as the State’s Soul – Music, exercise, and moral instruction as tools of civic harmony 
  •	Freedom and Discipline – How structure and liberty coexist in the ideal polity 
  •	Religion and Reason – The divine underpinnings of law and justice 
  •	Plato’s Final Philosophical Testament – A grounded, practical vision of real-world political ethics 
  Accessible, enlightening, and deeply philosophical, this audiobook edition brings Plato’s final masterpiece to life for a new generation of listeners seeking timeless wisdom on the art of governance.

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  Living Together - Inventing...

  David Schmitz

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  Is moral philosophy more foundational than political theory? It is often assumed to be. David Schmidtz argues that the reverse is true: the question of how to live in a community is more fundamental than questions about how to live. This book questions whether we are getting to the foundations of human morality when we ignore contingent features of communities in which political animals live. 
   
   
   
  Schmidtz contends that theorizing about how to live together should take its cue from contemporary moral philosophy's attempts to go beyond formal theory, and ask which principles have a history of demonstrably being organizing principles of actual thriving communities at their best. Ideals emerging from such research should be a distillation of social scientific insight from observable histories of successful community building. What emerges from ongoing testing in the crucible of life experience will be path-dependent in detail even if not in general outline, partly because any way of life is a response to challenges that are themselves contingent, path dependent, and in flux. 
   
   
   
  Building on this view, Schmidtz argues that justice evolved as a device for grounding peace in the mutual recognition that everyone has their own life to live, and everyone has the right and the responsibility to decide for themselves what to want.

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  Big Book of Virginia Ghost Stories

  L. B Taylor

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  “Packs big entertainment, from famous ghosts and weird hauntings to bizarre but riveting true stories that will give you quite a chill.” —Rosemary Ellen Guiley, author of The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits   Hauntings lurk and spirits linger in the Old Dominion State . . .    Reader, beware! Turn these pages and enter the world of the paranormal, where ghosts and ghouls alike creep just out of sight. Author L. B. Taylor shines a light in the dark corners of Virginia and scares those spirits out of hiding in this thrilling collection. From poltergeists that make trouble at Blue Ridge Pottery, to a phantom light on Holston Mountain, to specters haunting the battlefield of Cedar Creek, there’s no shortage of bone-chilling tales to keep you up at night. Around the campfire or tucked away on a dark and stormy night, this big book of ghost stories is a hauntingly good read.

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