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Reassessing the Peloponnesian War

Edited by Samuel Gartland, Robin Osborne ...

Modern accounts of the great war between the Athenians and the Spartans in the late fifth century BC have simply reanalysed the gripping analysis of military and political events given by Thucydides. But a great deal of other evidence survives from this best-known of all periods of Athenian history. This book exploits that evidence and our rich knowledge of ancient Greek society to reveal the ... Read more

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Modern accounts of the great war between the Athenians and the Spartans in the late fifth century BC have simply reanalysed the gripping analysis of military and political events given by Thucydides. But a great deal of other evidence survives from this best-known of all periods of Athenian history. This book exploits that evidence and our rich knowledge of ancient Greek society to reveal the
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Boosting Your Emotional Intelligence and Social Skills: Discover How High Performing Leaders Use EQ To Close Sales Deals and Boost Relationships in Life with the 2.0 Practical Guide

by Robin Samuel Dean ...

Boost Your Emotional Intelligence and Become an Impactful LeaderEmotions are deeply rooted within our lives. They govern our instinct and actions to the point that it is imperative to understand other people's emotions and how to properly react.In our society we hear a lot of about IQ. The general norm is that a person with a high IQ is bound for success. But is that necessarily true? Some are ... Read more

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Boost Your Emotional Intelligence and Become an Impactful LeaderEmotions are deeply rooted within our lives. They govern our instinct and actions to the point that it is imperative to understand other people's emotions and how to properly react.In our society we hear a lot of about IQ. The general norm is that a person with a high IQ is bound for success. But is that necessarily true? Some are
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Psychological, Educational, and Sociological Perspectives on Success and Well-Being in Career Development

Edited by Anita C. Keller, Robin Samuel, Manfred Max Bergman, Norbert K. Semmer ...

Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
This collection covers how success and well-being relate to each other in early career development in the domains of employment and education. It gives a conceptual overview of success and well-being as established in the psychological research tradition, complemented by educational and sociological approaches. The volume presents articles on success and well-being in applied contexts, such as ... Read more

$89.09 USD

This collection covers how success and well-being relate to each other in early career development in the domains of employment and education. It gives a conceptual overview of success and well-being as established in the psychological research tradition, complemented by educational and sociological approaches. The volume presents articles on success and well-being in applied contexts, such as
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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland & Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson

by James Boswell, Samuel Johnson ...

Narrated by Robin Laing, Ben Allen ...

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23 hours 25 min

'All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own, and if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.'A beloved travelogue, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides offers a compelling recollection of a trip made by two great companions: Samuel Johnson and James Boswell.Initially ... Read more

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'All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own, and if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.'A beloved travelogue, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides offers a compelling recollection of a trip made by two great companions: Samuel Johnson and James Boswell.Initially
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Blood, Sweat & Chrome

The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road

by Kyle Buchanan ...

Narrated by Fred Berman, Aspen Vincent, Dan Bittner, Derek Perkins, Eva Kaminsky, Fiona Hardingham, Gary Furlong, George Newbern, Ione Butler, Jason Culp, Jeff Gurner, Katherine Littrell, Leon Nixon, Lisa Flanagan, Malk Williams, Michael Crouch, Polly Lee, Ralph Lister, Robin Miles, Samuel Roukin ...

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10 hours 17 min

A full-speed-ahead oral history of the nearly two-decade making of the cultural phenomenon Mad Max: Fury Road—with more than 130 new interviews with key members of the cast and crew, including Charlize Theron, Tom Hardy, and director George Miller, from the pop culture reporter for The New York Times, Kyle Buchanan.It won six Oscars and has been hailed as the greatest action film ever, but it is a ... Read more

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A full-speed-ahead oral history of the nearly two-decade making of the cultural phenomenon Mad Max: Fury Road—with more than 130 new interviews with key members of the cast and crew, including Charlize Theron, Tom Hardy, and director George Miller, from the pop culture reporter for The New York Times, Kyle Buchanan.It won six Oscars and has been hailed as the greatest action film ever, but it is a
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His Eye Is on the Sparrow

An Autobiography

by Ethel Waters, Charles Samuels, Charles Samuels, Donald Bogle ...

Narrated by Robin Miles, Grover Gardner ...

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12 hours 44 min

Ethel Waters’s His Eye Is on the Sparrow stands as perhaps the greatest autobiography of a Black female performer, capturing both the horror and the joy of the African American woman’s experience through the often bitter yet always forgiving voice of an indomitable spirit. This edition is supplemented with a new historical preface. ... Read more

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Ethel Waters’s His Eye Is on the Sparrow stands as perhaps the greatest autobiography of a Black female performer, capturing both the horror and the joy of the African American woman’s experience through the often bitter yet always forgiving voice of an indomitable spirit. This edition is supplemented with a new historical preface.
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Radiant

The Life and Line of Keith Haring

by Brad Gooch ...

Narrated by Graham Halstead ...

Unabridged

18 hours 34 min

SOON TO BE A TV SERIES WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY ANDREW HAIGHNew York Times Book Critics Favorite Book of the Year · Washington Post Notable Book of the Year“It’s all here: the grade school Walt Disney and Dr. Seuss; the adolescent acid trips; the fondness for Post-it notes and flying saucers; the long tails of Dubuffet and Burroughs; the encounters with Madonna, Warhol, and one game-changer of a ... Read more

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SOON TO BE A TV SERIES WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY ANDREW HAIGHNew York Times Book Critics Favorite Book of the Year · Washington Post Notable Book of the Year“It’s all here: the grade school Walt Disney and Dr. Seuss; the adolescent acid trips; the fondness for Post-it notes and flying saucers; the long tails of Dubuffet and Burroughs; the encounters with Madonna, Warhol, and one game-changer of a
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Paved Paradise

How Parking Explains the World

by Henry Grabar ...

Narrated by Rob Shapiro ...

Unabridged

10 hours 53 min

**Shortlisted for the Zócalo Book PrizeNamed one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker and The New Republic“Consistently entertaining and often downright funny.”—The New Yorker“Wry and revelatory.” —The New York Times"A romp, packed with tales of anger, violence, theft, lust, greed, political chicanery and transportation policy gone wrong . . . highly entertaining."—The Los Angeles ... Read more

$20.00 USD

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**Shortlisted for the Zócalo Book PrizeNamed one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker and The New Republic“Consistently entertaining and often downright funny.”—The New Yorker“Wry and revelatory.” —The New York Times"A romp, packed with tales of anger, violence, theft, lust, greed, political chicanery and transportation policy gone wrong . . . highly entertaining."—The Los Angeles
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Atlas Obscura, 2nd Edition

An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders

by Joshua Foer, Ella Morton, Dylan Thuras, Atlas Obscura ...

Narrated by Dylan Thuras ...

Unabridged

16 hours 22 min

Discover wonder.“A wanderlust-whetting cabinet of curiosities on paper.”— New York TimesInspiring equal parts wonder and wanderlust, Atlas Obscura is a phenomenon of a travel book that shot to the top of bestseller lists when it was first published and changed the way we think about the world, expanding our sense of how strange and marvelous it really is.This second edition takes readers to even ... Read more

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Discover wonder.“A wanderlust-whetting cabinet of curiosities on paper.”— New York TimesInspiring equal parts wonder and wanderlust, Atlas Obscura is a phenomenon of a travel book that shot to the top of bestseller lists when it was first published and changed the way we think about the world, expanding our sense of how strange and marvelous it really is.This second edition takes readers to even
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The Shadow System

Mass Incarceration and the American Family

by Sylvia A. Harvey ...

Narrated by Janina Edwards ...

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8 hours 43 min

From an award-winning journalist, a searing exposé of the effects of the mass incarceration crisis on families -- including the 2.7 million American children who have a parent locked up.In The Shadow System, award-winning journalist Sylvia A. Harvey follows the fears, challenges, and small victories of three families struggling to live within the confines of a brutal system. In Florida, a young ... Read more

$24.99 USD

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From an award-winning journalist, a searing exposé of the effects of the mass incarceration crisis on families -- including the 2.7 million American children who have a parent locked up.In The Shadow System, award-winning journalist Sylvia A. Harvey follows the fears, challenges, and small victories of three families struggling to live within the confines of a brutal system. In Florida, a young
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Thucydides: An Introduction for the Common Reader

by Perez Zagorin ...

"An engrossing intellectual appreciation of the most important and most difficult historian in the western cultural tradition." —Tom Palaima, Times Higher Education SupplementWhy does Thucydides continue to matter today? Perez Zagorin answers this question by examining Thucydides' landmark History of the Peloponnesian War, one of the great classics of Western civilization. This history, Zagorin ... Read more

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"An engrossing intellectual appreciation of the most important and most difficult historian in the western cultural tradition." —Tom Palaima, Times Higher Education SupplementWhy does Thucydides continue to matter today? Perez Zagorin answers this question by examining Thucydides' landmark History of the Peloponnesian War, one of the great classics of Western civilization. This history, Zagorin
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The Spartan Regime

Its Character, Origins and Grand Strategy

by Paul Anthony Rahe ...

Series series Yale Library of Military History
"[A] monumental history . . . explaining . . . how Sparta's early strategic role in the Greek world was inseparable from the uniqueness of its origins and values." (David Hanson, The Hoover Institution, author of The Other Greeks)For centuries, ancient Sparta has been glorified in song, fiction, and popular art. Yet the true nature of a civilization described as a combination of democracy and ... Read more

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"[A] monumental history . . . explaining . . . how Sparta's early strategic role in the Greek world was inseparable from the uniqueness of its origins and values." (David Hanson, The Hoover Institution, author of The Other Greeks)For centuries, ancient Sparta has been glorified in song, fiction, and popular art. Yet the true nature of a civilization described as a combination of democracy and
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