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The Arts and Computational Culture Real and Virtual Worlds

The Arts and Computational Culture: Real and Virtual Worlds by Tula Giannini, Jonathan P. Bowen
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 750 Pages | ISBN : 3031538641 | 421.5 MB
A Paradigm Shift and Defining Moment in the 21st Century: Fuelled by the convergence of computational culture, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, arts and culture are experiencing a revolutionary moment poised to change human life and society on a global scale. There is the promise of the Metaverse, with extended reality (XR) and immersive virtual worlds. For the first time, reality and virtuality are merging with these new developments. The proposed book is among the first to address the context, complexity, and impact of this multi-faceted subject in detail - for up close and personal engagement of the reader, while evoking a landscape view. As digital culture evolves to computational culture, we embark on a digital journey from 2D to 3D, where flat computer screens for the Internet and smart phones are evolving into immersive digital environments. This is while new technologies and AI are increasingly embedded in every aspect of daily life, the arts, and education.

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The Broken Rung When the Career Ladder Breaks for Women-and How They Can Succeed i...

The Broken Rung: When the Career Ladder Breaks for Women-and How They Can Succeed in Spite of It by Kweilin Ellingrud, Lareina Yee, Maria del Mar Martinez
English | March 11th, 2025 | ISBN: 1647827183 | 288 pages | True EPUB | 5.31 MB
The broken rung is more pervasive than the glass ceiling in holding women back from career success. Three McKinsey senior partners offer strategies for overcoming it and fulfilling your potential.

Women around the world do extremely well when it comes to their education. They graduate at higher rates than men and have higher average GPAs. But then a strange thing happens: upon entering the workforce, they immediately lose their advantage. When the first promotions come around, the slide continues. For every 100 men promoted to manager, only 81 women overall and 77 women of color get promoted.
This is what McKinsey senior partners Kweilin Ellingrud, Lareina Yee, and María del Mar Martínez call "the broken rung," and its effects compound throughout women's careers, causing them to fall behind at the start and keeping them from catching up. In this groundbreaking book, the authors reveal the problem's underlying cause: while about half of a person's lifetime earnings come from education and half from work experience, men get more value from their experience than women do. It is also here, in one's work experience, that the solution lies: women need to build their "experience capital" to level the playing field and maximize their earning potential.
The book combines over a decade of research, personal conversations with more than fifty remarkable leaders, and the authors' own rich experiences as leaders at McKinsey. They weave data on the potential pitfalls with inspiring and instructive stories of women who have climbed over the broken rung using strategies that increased their experience capital.
Leaders and companies must do more to address gender inequalities in the workplace. But you don't have to wait. The Broken Rung is your guide, right now, for moving up the career ladder and reaching your full potential at work.

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The Chinese Lifestyle

Alfonso Sanchez-Romera, "The Chinese Lifestyle "
English | ISBN: 1032289554 | 2023 | 196 pages | EPUB | 702 KB
The research presented in this book explores the formation of the middle class in contemporary urban China.

Including case studies on middle-class professionals living in Beijing, this book analyses how social and economic changes to Chinese society create a middle-class lifestyle and new forms of distinction with a particular focus on the social construction of identity. Looking through the lens of individuals' perception of life trajectories and ideological taxonomies generated within the framework of post-Maoist China, the book uncovers the role that the Chinese middle-class play in a state-sponsored discourse and where the distinctions identifying the middle-class lifestyle produce inequality, transfer privilege, and disadvantage in contemporary urban China. It goes on to question hegemonic discourses on class, arguing that a middle-class identity is progressively constructed in urban China not only though consumption practices, but through the experience of non-individualistic activities in both the public and private spheres.
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The CIA Book Club The Best-Kept Secret of the Cold War

The CIA Book Club: The Best-Kept Secret of the Cold War by Charlie English
English | 13 Mar. 2025 | ISBN: 0008495122, 0008495130, 9780008495145 | True EPUB | 384 pages | 8.6 MB
The astonishing story of the ten million books that were smuggled across the Iron Curtain during the Cold War.

For almost five decades after the Second World War, Europe was divided by the longest and most heavily guarded border on earth. The Iron Curtain, a near-impenetrable barrier of wire and wall, tank traps, minefields, watchtowers and men with dogs, stretched for 4,300 miles from the Arctic to the Black Sea. No physical combat would take place along this frontier: the risk of nuclear annihilation was too high for that. Instead, the conflict would be fought in the psychological sphere. It was a battle for hearts, minds and intellects.
No one understood this more clearly than George Minden, the head of a covert intelligence operation known as the 'CIA books programme', which aimed to win the Cold War with literature.
From its Manhattan headquarters, Minden's global CIA 'book club' would infiltrate millions of banned titles into the Eastern Bloc, written by a vast and eclectic list of authors, including Hannah Arendt and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, George Orwell and Agatha Christie. Volumes were smuggled on trucks and aboard yachts, dropped from balloons, and hidden in the luggage of hundreds of thousands of individual travellers. Once inside Soviet bloc, each book would circulate secretly among dozens of like-minded readers, quietly turning them into dissidents. Latterly, underground print shops began to reproduce the books, too. By the late 1980s, illicit literature in Poland was so pervasive that the system of communist censorship broke down, and the Iron Curtain soon followed.
Charlie English tells this true story of spycraft, smuggling and secret printing operations for the first time, highlighting the work of a handful of extraordinary people who risked their lives to stand up to the intellectual strait-jacket Stalin created. People like Miroslaw Chojecki, an underground Polish Publisher who endured beatings, force-feeding and exile in service of this mission. And Minden, the CIA's mastermind, who didn't waver in his belief that truth, culture, and diversity of thought could help free the 'captive nations' of Eastern Europe. This is a story about the power of the printed word as a means of resistance and liberation. Books, it shows, can set you free.

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The Complete Cosmetic Handbook

The Complete Cosmetic Handbook: Everything You Need to Know About Beauty Treatments for the Face & Body by Olesia Naumchyk
English | January 31, 2025 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0DVPFNNDM | 79 pages | EPUB | 5.68 Mb
Are you ready to enhance your natural beauty and achieve the look you've always dreamed of-without going under the knife?

The Complete Cosmetic Handbook: Everything You Need to Know About Beauty Treatments for the Face & Bodyis your ultimate guide to the world of non-surgical cosmetic procedures. Whether you're looking to rejuvenate your skin, sculpt your body, or smooth away imperfections, this book provides everything you need to know about the most popular, non-invasive treatments available today.
In this comprehensive, easy-to-follow guide, you'll find detailed insights into a wide range of procedures designed to help you look and feel your best. From Botox and dermal fillers to laser resurfacing and body contouring, each chapter is dedicated to a specific procedure, offering you a deep dive into how the treatment works, the results you can expect, the pros and cons, and potential risks-so you can make fully informed decisions about your beauty journey.
Inside this book, you will discover:Expert Insights: Learn about the latest, most effective non-surgical procedures directly from professionals in the beauty industry. Understand the science behind each treatment and how it can help you achieve your aesthetic goals.Step-by-Step Guides: Whether you're considering a facial rejuvenation or a body sculpting treatment, each procedure is thoroughly explained, giving you a clear picture of what happens before, during, and after your treatment.Benefits and Risks: Get an honest, no-nonsense look at the potential benefits of each treatment as well as any possible side effects. This book arms you with the information you need to avoid surprises and make the best choice for your body.Aftercare Tips: Knowing how to properly care for your skin and body after treatment is crucial for maintaining the best results. This book provides valuable aftercare advice to ensure long-lasting beauty and optimal recovery.A Wide Range of Procedures: From skin treatments like microneedling and chemical peels to body contouring options such as liposuction and cryolipolysis, this book covers a full spectrum of procedures designed for every need and every body.A Holistic Approach: This is not just a book about procedures-it's about empowering you to make the best choices for your personal aesthetic goals, helping you to feel confident, rejuvenated, and beautiful, inside and out.Whether you're new to cosmetic procedures or looking to expand your knowledge, The Complete Cosmetic Handbook is the essential resource to guide you through your beauty transformation. With the right treatment, the right information, and the right mindset, you can unlock a new level of confidence and self-love. Explore the world of non-surgical beauty treatments and discover how simple, effective, and rewarding it can be to look your absolute best-without the need for invasive surgery.

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The Dark Dad War and Trauma ― A Daughter's Tale

The Dark Dad: War and Trauma ― A Daughter's Tale by Mary Kisler
English | March 13, 2025 | ISBN: 1991016565, 9781991016577 | True EPUB | 264 pages | 7.6 MB
Art historian Mary Kisler grew up in the early 1950s with a father who talked little, whose affection she cherished and whose anger she feared. She later came to understand the trauma that lay behind his dark moods: rejection and violence in his childhood and the brutal experience of being a prisoner of war in Italy and then Germany from late 1941 to 1945.

In this affecting memoir, she traces back through her father's life and war record, discovering a man who had suffered but who ultimately found peace of mind among the people he loved most.

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The De Gruyter Handbook of Automated Futures Imaginaries, Interactions and Impact

The De Gruyter Handbook of Automated Futures: Imaginaries, Interactions and Impact by Vaike Fors, Martin Berg, Meike Brodersen
English | September 23, 2024 | ISBN: 3110792249 | 474 pages | MOBI | 5.46 Mb
How does automation affect us, our environment, and our imaginations? What actions should we take in response to automation? Beyond grand narratives and technology-driven visions of the future, what more can automation offer?

With these questions in mind, The De Gruyter Handbook of Automated Futures provides a framework for thinking about and implementing automation differently. It consolidates automated futures as an inter- and transdisciplinary research field, embedding the imaginaries, interactions, and impacts of automation technology within their social, historical, societal, cultural, and political contexts. Promoting a critical yet constructive and engaging agenda, the handbook invites readers to collaborate with rather than resist automation agendas. It does so by pushing the agenda for social science, humanities and design beyond merely assessing and evaluating existing technologies. Instead, the handbook demonstrates how the humanities and social sciences are essential to the design and governance of sustainable sociotechnical systems. Methodologically, the handbook is underpinned by a pedagogical approach to staging co-learning and co-creation of automated futures with, rather than simply for, people. In this way, the handbook encourages readers to explore new and alternative modes of research, fostering a deeper engagement with the evolving landscape of automation.

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The Death and Life of Drama Reflections on Writing and Human Nature

Lance Lee, "The Death and Life of Drama: Reflections on Writing and Human Nature"
English | 2005 | pages: 273 | ISBN: 0292709641 | PDF | 1,3 mb
What makes a film "work," so that audiences come away from the viewing experience refreshed and even transformed in the way they understand themselves and the world around them? In The Death and Life of Drama, veteran screenwriter and screenwriting teacher Lance Lee tackles this question in a series of personal essays that thoroughly analyze drama's role in our society, as well as the elements that structure all drama, from the plays of ancient Athens to today's most popular movies.

Using examples from well-known classical era and recent films, Lee investigates how writers handle dramatic elements such as time, emotion, morality, and character growth to demonstrate why some films work while others do not. He seeks to define precisely what "action" is and how the writer and the viewer understand dramatic reality. He looks at various kinds of time in drama, explores dramatic context from Athens to the present, and examines the concept of comedy. Lee also proposes a novel "five act" structure for drama that takes account of the characters' past and future outside the "beginning, middle, and end" of the story. Deftly balancing philosophical issues and practical concerns, The Death and Life of Drama offers a rich understanding of the principles of successful dramatic writing for screenwriters and indeed everyone who enjoys movies and wants to know why some films have such enduring appeal for so many people.

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The Death of General Sikorski The Polish Leader's Last Flight in 1943 and The Tang...

The Death of General Sikorski: The Polish Leader's Last Flight in 1943 and The Tangled Web of Poland, the Allies, and the Soviets by Peter Zablocki
English | August 7, 2024 | ISBN: 1399039229 | 312 pages | MOBI | 4.63 Mb
"This new book is a thorough investigation I into the death of General Sikorski. It is a complicated story, with many actors and factions involved, but the author effectively clarifies the various factors into a coherent and readable narrative." -WWII History Magazine

The plane crash at the height of the Second World War which claimed the life of the Polish Prime Minister, General Władysław Sikorski, ranks among the most enduring mysteries of the conflict. It was a death that shifted European alliances and loyalties, brought Stalin into the Anglo-American camp, and sealed Poland's fate for the remainder of the twentieth century.
Poland and the Soviet Union's historically precarious relationship had taken an even darker turn in September 1939 when the Third Reich's Adolf Hitler and the Soviet Union's Josef Stalin divided the nation and forced its government to relocate first to France and then to Britain in 1940.
Sikorski's Polish government-in-exile established a military, political, and personal relationship with Winston Churchill's government, only to see it fractured by the United States' entrance into the war and the Western Allies' courtship of Stalin following Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union.
The Allies overall support of Stalin's denials following the 1943 discovery of 20,000 bodies of Polish officers murdered and buried by the Soviets in Katyn Forest only made matters worse. Sikorski's open protests against describing the Soviet dictator as a benevolent 'Uncle Joe' made him publicly and privately 'difficult' to the new Anglo-American-Soviet coalition.
As per reports of the British and Polish intelligence services, seemingly not doing enough to stand up to the Soviets had also strained Sikorski's relationship with different Polish government factions.
Leaving from a layover stop at Gibraltar on 4 July 1943, having visited Polish Army units in Iran, Sikorski's RAF Liberator, AL523, crashed into the sea just sixteen seconds into its flight. Whilst Stalin privately blamed Churchill, the Germans were more public in accusing the British. Others pointed to the Soviets or even the Poles.
A British Court of Inquiry convened in 1943 presented an inconclusive report on the crash's cause or foul play and locked up most of its files until 2043. Lacking a respected leader, Poland fell out of favour with the Allies, who allowed Stalin to redraw the Polish borders and establish a pro-communist puppet state in Poland until 1990.
Not only exploring what happened on that fateful day in 1943, but also the events leading up to it and those that followed, The Death of General Sikorski is more of a political thriller than a conspiracy book, telling an often complex, and enthralling story of a tragedy within a tragedy - that of a man and his nation.

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THE DEFINITIVE GLOSSARY OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE - PART 1

THE DEFINITIVE GLOSSARY OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE - PART 1 by MARCUS PINTO
English | October 14, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0DK2QJ9KL | 118 pages | EPUB | 1.18 Mb
At the heart of innovation in Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the mastery of the concepts and terms that define this dynamic field. "The Definitive Glossary of Artificial Intelligence - Part 1", part of the "Artificial Intelligence: The Power of Data" collection, was created to uncomplicate these concepts and make them accessible to professionals, students and enthusiasts.

More than a technical dictionary, the book offers clear definitions and practical examples, helping readers understand how these terms apply in the real world.
Intuitively arranged, it is an essential tool for anyone who wants to master AI vocabulary and apply it confidently in their activities.
Most important items covered in the book:
- The importance of data as the foundation of AI exploring how information is processed and transformed into knowledge.
- Fundamentals of algorithms and supervised learning, neural networks and deep learning.
- Core terms such as "big data", "machine learning", "automation" and their application in sectors such as healthcare, finance and governance.
- Practical examples of how these concepts are used in autonomous vehicles, chatbots, and recommendation systems.
- Reflections on the ethics of AI and how data should be handled to preserve privacy and promote accountability.
Results that the reader will obtain from the book:
- Clear and detailed understanding of key AI terms, from the most technical to those widely used in everyday life.
- Ability to apply complex concepts in discussions and practical implementations at work.
- Greater security when making strategic decisions involving AI and data, whether in team management or in the implementation of technologies.
- Tools to understand the ethical challenges of AI and how to navigate data privacy and governance issues.
- Depth of knowledge to improve technical skills, becoming a more informed professional and prepared for the demands of the future.
Who can benefit from this book:
- Tech professionals: Developers, software engineers, and data scientists who need to broaden their technical vocabulary and deepen their knowledge of AI.
- Managers and business leaders: who want to understand the core concepts of AI to make strategic decisions and implement innovative solutions in their companies.
- Students and scholars: who need a reliable source to further their studies and gain a solid understanding of essential AI terms.
- Public policy and governance professionals: who want to understand AI in matters of regulation, ethics, and privacy, to apply these technologies responsibly.
- Enthusiasts and curious: who want to explore and become familiar with the language of AI by expanding their knowledge of the impact of this technology on society.
By purchasing the glossary collection, you not only expand your technical vocabulary, but also position yourself as a more capable and action-ready professional in the AI market.
About the author
Prof. Marcão, with extensive experience in information technology and marketing, works as a business consultant, career mentor and content producer. Author of more than 100 books, he uses innovative methodologies for efficient projects, contributing to information architecture.

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The Dynamic Transformation of China's Economic Development Under the New Normal

The Dynamic Transformation of China's Economic Development Under the New Normal by Wen Xiao, Jiadong Pan, Hao Chen
English | June 25, 2024 | ISBN: 9819709555 | 194 pages | MOBI | 3.94 Mb
This book aims to reveal the dynamic mechanism of China's economic system innovation. It measures the efficiency of China's economic growth under the New Normal with the tools of DEA, SFA, and PCA. The book analyzes the contribution of capital, labor, and productivity to China's economic growth by Solow residual value method and the power source of China's economic development under the New Normal. In this book, it adopts the vertical integration of logical thinking, combined with the horizontal diversification of topics, to show a brand-new research method.

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The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms Repairing Law

Senthorun Sunil Raj, "The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms: Repairing Law"
English | ISBN: 1399535536 | 2025 | 256 pages | PDF | 1262 KB
Emotions are central to the pursuit, organisation, and contestation of LGBT rights in law. The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms: Repairing Law analyses emotions that shape conflicts of rights that emerge between different minoritised groups across law reforms directed at better supporting LGBT people.

This book examines law reform debates about religious exceptions to anti-discrimination laws, legal recognition of trans people, bans on "conversion therapy," and sex and LGBT education in schools from jurisdictions like the United Kingdom, Australia, and the United States. Drawing from socio-legal theories, this book develops the concept of "emotional grammar" to show how emotions structure law reform pursuits (by threading Hansard, legislation, case law, law reform consultations, statutory guidance) and explains why addressing this emotional grammar is important for scholars, lawyers, judges, legislators, and activists seeking to navigate conflicts over LGBT rights and reforms that aim to repair the inequalities faced by LGBT people.
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The English Reformation in the Spanish Imagination Rewriting Nero, Jezebel, and th...

Deborah R. Forteza, "The English Reformation in the Spanish Imagination: Rewriting Nero, Jezebel, and the Dragon "
English | ISBN: 1487563507 | 2022 | 248 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The English Reformation in the Spanish Imagination examines early modern Spanish literary works that represent English Catholics and figures from the English Reformation, including Henry and Elizabeth Tudor, Anne Boleyn, Catherine of Aragon, Sir Francis Drake, and Mary Stuart. Deborah R. Forteza compares these texts to assess how rhetorical and genre distinctions open and constrain the Spanish representations and how these exchanges inform Anglo-Spanish perceptions and relations.

The book focuses on the literary representation of characters as classical and biblical monsters and saints and considers how these images were transformed and deployed in lesser-known poems, plays, and novels in order to capture the Spanish imagination. Through these sources, Forteza reveals the complex fraternal and antagonistic links between England and Spain, including Black Legend and Counter-Reformation exchanges.
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The Epistemology of Conversation First Essays

Waldomiro J. Silva-Filho, "The Epistemology of Conversation: First Essays "
English | ISBN: 3031740688 | 2024 | 283 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This edited volume presents an innovative perspective on conversation and is the first book to deal with the epistemic aspects of conversation or dialogue. "Conversation" has been a recurring subject in various fields of philosophy, such as moral philosophy, pragmatics, and the philosophy of language. This text assumes conversation as a joint agency and explores when participants assume common purposes, commit to contributing relevant statements, and face the challenges of confronting interlocutors. It investigates whether the norm of conversation can be reduced to the interaction between speaker and audience, where the speaker must speak the truth and the audience must understand this intention. This volume explores the epistemology of testimony and addresses the motivations for starting a conversation, which can include legitimate disagreements, as well as curiosities about the interlocutor's beliefs and shared doubts. This text contributes to understanding epistemic dynamics in contemporary liberal democracies, such as polarization, disintegration of epistemic communities, silencing, and epistemic injustices. It appeals to students and researchers.

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The Evolution of Consciousness The Origins of the Way We Think

The Evolution of Consciousness: The Origins of the Way We Think
by Robert Ornstein and Ted Dewan
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1949358976 | 394 Pages | ePUB | 7.8 MB

A provocative look at how the human mind evolved, and what this means for our future. What is the mind? How is it that, like the proverbial fish that knows so little about the surrounding water, we know so little about something that controls every aspect of our individual and collective lives? Passionate, entertaining and provocative, The Evolution of Consciousness presents a fundamental challenge to our assumptions about the mind and how it works. Robert Ornstein tackles the mind's central mysteries, such as how, over the course of our evolution, human brain size grew so quickly; why we dream; and how memory works. Crediting the discoveries of Charles Darwin (whom Ornstein considers the central scientist of modern psychology), The Evolution of Consciousness shows how the mind evolved to help us survive - to avoid danger, procure food and perpetuate the species - rather than to "reason why." Through a panoramic history of the evolution of the brain and mind, Ornstein shows that the mind is adaptive rather than rational and that, as a result, it consists of a "squadron of simpletons" - a miscellaneous collection of unconscious mind-shifts that are geared to surviving in a world long-since gone. Even what we call our "self" is just another of these simpletons, with its own limited role and insight. Ornstein shows that remaining unaware of these mind-shifts leaves us vulnerable to misjudgment and indoctrination, both individually and culturally. But with wit and wisdom, he points out that within all of us is the potential to go beyond these simpletons and develop an innate perceptive capacity, one that's been called "higher consciousness" - a new level of understanding reality, and a new altruism, in which everyone can take part. Ornstein maintains that to solve the collective problems of the modern world, we urgently need to develop this innate faculty, which he holds is humanity's next step.

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The Exorcist Files True Stories About the Reality of Evil and How to Defeat It

The Exorcist Files: True Stories About the Reality of Evil and How to Defeat It by Father Carlos Martins
English | November 19, 2024 | ISBN: 1546007652 | 288 pages | PDF | 2.53 Mb
In this pioneering book for believers, nonbelievers, and anyone curious about the supernatural, renowned exorcist Father Carlos Martins shares his real-life experienceswith demonic activity and explores how we can remain safe against its power.

In his blockbuster podcast, The Exorcist Files, Fr. Martins uncovers the disturbing reality of the forces of evil in our world, guiding listeners through many of his most graphic encounters with demonic entities. In this groundbreaking book, he dives deeper into the nature of evil to expose its dangers and to help us understand how to remain free from its influence and control.
The Exorcist Filesintroduces us to the 2,000-year-old Catholic ministry of exorcism. As one of the most sought-after experts on the supernatural in the world, Father Carlos shares how evil looks for any opening in our lives - from witchcraft and pagan practices to pornography and even emotional trauma - with the purpose of causing us pain and destruction. He challenges conventional thinking and offers a sobering look at the spiritual dangers lurking in those modern practices that often disguise themselves as harmless. Calling us to vigilance and spiritual fortitude, he emphasizes the importance of religious literacy and practice as guides in a world where the line between the divine and the demonic is increasingly blurred.
Through compelling storytelling coupled with science, theology, and detailed analysis, this book invites us to:Uncover the reality and tactics of demonic forces that seek to disrupt our lives.Learn practical steps to recognize and guard against spiritual attacks.Gain valuable insights into the cosmic struggle between good and evil.Experience the transformative power of faith and the ultimate victory of Jesus Christ.For believers and the spiritually curious, this eye-opening book invites us to explore, question, and deepen our understanding of the hidden threats lurking in our midst so that we can stay protected and walk confidently in faith.

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The Frog in the Throat

The Frog in the Throat by Markus Werner, translated by Michael Hofmann
English | March 4, 2025 | ISBN: 1681379120, 9781681379135 | True EPUB | 144 pages | 0.8 MB
In a small town in Switzerland, Franz-ex-clergyman, ex-husband, current counselor of locals at loose ends- is being haunted by his recently deceased father, Klement. In life, Franz was caught cheating on his wife and defrocked, after which Klement never spoke to him again. In death, Klement visits his son in the form of a frog in the throat, choking him, yes, but also giving voice to an old dairy farmer devoted to the old ways, forever railing against his son and the whole modern mess he represents.

The same can be said of this novel, in which these two voices clash, harmonize, and ultimately offer up all the mutual recognition and incomprehension that is family life. A miniature tragicomic masterpiece, Markus Werner's second novel is as bursting with life as a Dickens novel: not only Franz's high-strung shenanigans and the father's settled life among the cattle, but the lives of his sister and brother and the land all around.
As in all of Werner's work, the world looks grim ("I sit around, I drink, I brood, I pat myself down for flaws and find many and each evening I say: Starting tomorrow I'm going to get a grip on myself") but never less than comic-a view captured marvelously in Michael Hofmann's vivid translation.

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The Generalship of General Henri E. Navarre During the Battle of Dien Bien Phu

Bruce H. Hupe, "The Generalship of General Henri E. Navarre During the Battle of Dien Bien Phu"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1514218038 | EPUB | pages: 134 | 0.9 mb
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was the climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War between French Union forces and committed Viet Minh revolutionaries. The battle occurred between March and May 1954 and ended in a disastrous French defeat that would influence negotiations over the future of Indochina. History has the defeat of the French forces at the battle of Dien Bien Phu due largely to the failure in the application of professional military skills by the Commander-in-Chief, General Henri E. Navarre. In this work, the author, a U.S. Army officer analyzes the actions of General Navarre, to determine if the judgment of history is supported.

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The Gentlemen and the Roughs Violence, Honor, and Manhood in the Union Army

Lorien Foote, "The Gentlemen and the Roughs: Violence, Honor, and Manhood in the Union Army"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1479897841 | EPUB | pages: 252 | 0.6 mb
Finalist for the 2011 Gilder

Lehrman Lincoln Prize
"A seminal work. . . . One of
the best examples of new, sophisticated scholarship on the social history of
Civil War soldiers."
-The Journal of Southern History
"Will undoubtedly, and properly, be
read as the latest word on the role of manhood in the internal dynamics of the
Union army."
-Journal of the Civil War Era
During the Civil War, the Union
army appeared cohesive enough to withstand four years of grueling war against
the Confederates and to claim victory in 1865. But fractiousness bubbled below
the surface of the North's presumably united front. Internal fissures were rife
within the Union army: class divisions, regional antagonisms, ideological
differences, and conflicting personalities all distracted the army from
quelling the Southern rebellion.
In this highly original
contribution to Civil War and gender history, Lorien Foote reveals that these internal
battles were fought against the backdrop of manhood. Clashing ideals of
manliness produced myriad conflicts, as when educated, refined, and wealthy
officers ("gentlemen") found themselves commanding a hard-drinking group of
fighters ("roughs")-a dynamic that often resulted in violence and even death. Based
on extensive research into heretofore ignored primary sources, The Gentlemen and the Roughs uncovers
holes in our understanding of the men who fought the Civil War and the society
that produced them.

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The Gist of Bid Whist The Culturally-Rich Card Game from Black America

The Gist of Bid Whist: The Culturally-Rich Card Game from Black America by Lamont Jones
English | February 27th, 2024 | ISBN: 9798987407639 | 256 pages | True EPUB | 4.69 MB
The world's greatest card game awaits you.

Combining the strategic engagement of Bridge and the risk-taking swagger of Poker, Bid Whist has captivated luminaries like Justice Thurgood Marshall, Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson-and inspired a passionate following in Black American communities for generations.
Accessible to players of all ages and backgrounds, the fast-paced game sparks camaraderie and rewards teamwork worthy of the best jazz ensembles and basketball teams.
The Gist of Bid Whist equips you with a firm grasp of the game's fundamentals and a deep understanding of Bid Whist strategy. It also enhances the "card sense" that will enable you to thrive at any of your favorite trump card games, including Spades, Hearts, Euchre, Oh Hell, Bridge-or, of course, Bid Whist.
The Gist of Bid Whist explores the fascinating role of the Pullman porters, who crisscrossed the nation, sharing the latest jazz and blues records, insights that helped fuel the Great Migration, and the card game that was integral to life as a porter, Bid Whist. Poetically, Bid Whist would prove to be vital to the porters' ultimate heroic impact on America.
Lamont Jones is a boxing lawyer and card game enthusiast devoted to helping Bid Whist reclaim its cultural prominence. The Gist of Bid Whist is part celebration, part workshop, part cultural history-with a generous dash of humor, sports anecdotes and tips contributed by a vibrant cast of engaging personalities.
Let's play Bid Whist!

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