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  Money Greed and God: Book...

  Miles Thatcher

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  This content is an independent and unofficial summary created for informational and educational purposes only. It is not affiliated with, authorized, approved, licensed, or endorsed by the original author or publisher. All rights to the original work belong to its respective copyright holders. This summary is not intended to substitute the original book, but to offer a concise overview and interpretation of its main ideas.
   
  Money, Greed, and God challenges the common misconceptions about capitalism and its role in society, arguing that free markets are not only practical but also moral. Through a thought-provoking exploration of history, economics, and faith, this book demonstrates how capitalism aligns with ethical principles and human flourishing. It dismantles myths about wealth, greed, and inequality, providing readers with a robust framework to understand why markets, when guided by virtue, can lead to justice and prosperity for all.

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  The Home Front - Final Blows and...

  David Bilton

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  In the 4th volume of the series The Home Front, the author looks at the main events that happened at home in Britain and in other countries, Allied or enemy as well as the neutral nations during 1917. The text provides an overview of the year and sets out to show the effects of war on the civilian population, how it impacted on their daily lives and how they coped with it. Each book is international in scope and draws parallels between the warring nations in their experiences. As in the previous books the focus is on images in order to best understand how they represented themselves and how their world was portrayed to them and with little censorship - bomb damage was freely shown even though it was obvious that the Germans would get hold of the images. With the text are over 200 photographs and illustrations that are divided into discrete sections of the civilian experience of the war. Readers will be familiar with but a few of the illustrations as most have not been used since they were taken in 1917.For those on the Home Front, 1917 was a year when Total War started to become an actuality. The U-boat campaign meant that food did not get through resulting in shortages. As a result, more land was worked and people started an allotment. With army's demands for men and material seemingly never ending, there were even fewer men about. The majority of those still working were involved in some form of war work and during the year they were joined by thousands more women keen to do their bit. Women replaced men in many traditional male roles. It was a new world. 1917 was a year of belt-tightening, increasing hard work and strain. It would once again, not be over by Christmas, no matter how much they wished.

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  The Dark Science Of...

  Madison Taylor

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  Do you want to know how to gain control over people? Do you want to learn how to become the master of your own life? Do you want to be able to avenge yourself when you are wronged, without going to jail? Then you should learn about the art of psychological warfare. 
  This book is your ultimate guide to using psychological warfare at home. Psychological warfare has been employed by governments in war since the beginning of time. Ancient documents like Sun Tzu’s The Art of War are examples of the timelessness of psychological military strategies. But psychological warfare is not just for the military. This book shows you how you can adapt the military art of psychological warfare to win your own personal battles. 
  Psychological warfare can help you win in love, business, money, and even self-improvement. It enables you to become indestructible. You can take down your enemies without having to use any physical force. You will emerge the victor in all areas of your life if you are able to defeat the people that rise up against you. 
  This book will also show you the flip side: how to defend yourself against psychological warfare. You are not the only person with access to psychological warfare methods. It is possible that you are a victim. But you do not have to tolerate this warfare. Overthrow the people that think they can manipulate and hurt you. 
  Begin your journey into the dark science of psychological warfare today. You will become a stronger person by the time you set this book down. You will certainly never be the same.

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  Surviving Hiroshima - A Young...

  Anthony Drago, Douglas Wellman

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  On August 6, 1945, 22-year-old Kaleria Pachikoff was doing pre-breakfast chores when a blinding flash lit the sky over Hiroshima, Japan. A moment later, everything went black as the house collapsed on her and her family. Their world, and everyone else's, changed as the first atomic bomb was detonated over a city. From Russian nobility, the Palchikoff's barely escaped death at the hands of Bolshevik revolutionaries until her father, a White Russian officer, hijacked a ship to take them to safety in Hiroshima. Safety was short lived. Her father, a talented musician, established a new life for the family, but the outbreak of World War II created a cloud of suspicion that led to his imprisonment and years of deprivation for his family.After the bombing, trapped in the center of previously unimagined devastation, Kaleria summoned her strength to come to the aid of bomb victims, treating the never-before seen effects of radiation.Fluent in English, Kaleria was soon recruited to work with Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s occupation forces in a number of secretarial positions until the family found a new life in the United States.Heavily based on quotes from Kaleria's memoirs written immediately after World War II, and transcripts of United States Army Air Force interviews with her, her story is an emotional, and sometime chilling, story of courage and survival in the face of one of history’s greatest catastrophes.

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  The Autobiography of an...

  James Weldon Johnson

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  In the years after the Civil War, there was an unfortunate amount of importance placed on racial identity. The focus on the races of one’s parents remained a mainstay of culture due to systemic prejudice and racism, and was a way of continuing to enact violence against Black people. For many mixed-race people, it felt safer to try and shift into white society. 
   
  It is in this environment that The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is written. In this novel, the narrator describes his life as a Black child and young adult, working his way through the various social classes. He becomes a musician and travels the world as a free Black man for much of his life, but eventually makes the decision to live as a white man after witnessing a horrific lynching. The rest of his life is spent keeping a piece of himself hidden from everyone in an attempt at safety. 
   
  The story in this novel is fictional, but it comprises a lot of Black experiences from the time period, and offers the perspective of a mixed-race man living in a society that demanded people obscure their true heritage.

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  Punching the Clock - Adapting to...

  Joe Ungemah

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  In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, trends already underway towards the Future of Work and the gig economy rapidly and unexpectedly accelerated. Physical isolation, travel restrictions, and social distancing challenged organizations to rethink how work gets done and by whom, with ramifications that will stretch beyond the pandemic. 
   
   
   
  Punching the Clock explores how well workers are likely to both navigate and adapt to this new Future of Work, using the best of psychological science as a guide. Although the nature of work might have changed, the drives and needs of workers have not. Psychologists working across disciplines have amassed a deep understanding of these psychological forces, and when brought to bear on the changing workplace landscape, this knowledge can inform our ability to adapt and thrive. By drawing together cognitive, social, and organizational psychology with empirical research of the workplace, Ungemah examines the extent to which the Future of Work and the gig economy can be realized without breaking down the social fabric that holds the workplace together.

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