General Nonfiction

General Nonfiction

Think Out Of The Box

by Som Bathla

 

Think differently, become solution-centric, Use intuitive thinking to solve complex problems quickly and radically transform the way you live.

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein

Thinking out of the box is powerful way to separate average from the exceptional. It’s your secret tool to attract expert insights that will empower you to make difficult decisions with speed and confidence.

Filter information overwhelm, invite creativity breakthroughs & instant understanding to solve complex challenges effortlessly

 

Som Bathla is an avid reader, and researcher of human psychology and behavior.  He has written multiple bestselling books on how to redesign your mind by learning and thinking better and take consistent actions to achieve professional success and greater happiness in life.

Idea is modern world currency for any startup, business or for rewarding professional success.

In Think Out Of The Box, you’ll be embarked on a exciting journey to understand how anyone can think smarter, quicker and more creatively by instilling right beliefs (with easy to implement techniques).

Whether you are a student, employee, professional, or running a business, discover how specifically designing your surrounding environment and practicing just a few creativity routines followed by smartest thinkers of the world can transform the way you think and predict the future.

Learn how to generate exceptional ideas in plenty (and on demand), be known as “idea person”, make smarter decisions to start getting things done in less time
 

  • Understand how offering challenge triggers your mind to look for best ideas.
  • Understand your brain. Find neuroscience of how ‘logical’ left brain and ‘imaginative’ right brain can be used to accomplish more with less efforts.


Design a creative thinking environment, install super-quick habits to boost your creative confidence
 

  • How openness to experiences enhances brain’s neuroplasticity and prompts divergent thinking
  • Become a creative thinker just by strengthening your creativity beliefs with Tick-Tock Exercise.
  • How only a few habits and routines directly release brain’s creativity chemicals like dopamine, BDNF etc. and help you master the art of creative thinking.


Become an idea machine, Gain new perspective and make you mark with innovative thinking
 

  • Find how consulting non-subject experts offers more ideas (counter-intuitive approach) and produce sparks of genius
  • How creative thinkers like Einstein, Tesla, Archimedes used chilling out technique to invite innovative ideas and make insightful observations.
  • Find how a counter-intuitive multi-tasking can release creative juices
  • Learn specific questioning techniques that activate your brain to create a storm of ideas in no time.

This creative thinking handbook offers practical tools to get started instantly and unleash the creative potential within us all.
 

So, don’t let you ideas blocked by your own thinking.
 

Get Out Of Your Own Head, Trust Your Intuition; Take Your First Step To Build Your Idea Treasure by Clicking the Buy Button

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D DAY Through German Eyes - The Hidden Story of June 6th 1944

by Holger Eckhertz


This is the hidden side of D Day which has fascinated readers around the world.

Almost all accounts of D Day are told from the Allied perspective, with the emphasis on how German resistance was overcome on June 6th 1944. But what was it like to be a German soldier in the bunkers and gun emplacements of the Normandy coast, facing the onslaught of the mightiest seaborne invasion in history?
What motivated the German defenders, what were their thought processes - and how did they fight from one strong point to another, among the dunes and fields, on that first cataclysmic day? What were their experiences on facing the tanks, the flamethrowers and the devastating air superiority of the Allies?

This book sheds fascinating light on these questions, bringing together statements made by German survivors after the war, when time had allowed them to reflect on their state of mind, their actions and their choices of June 6th.

We see a perspective of D Day which deserves to be added to the historical record, in which ordinary German troops struggled to make sense of the onslaught that was facing them, and emerged stunned at the weaponry and sheer determination of the Allied soldiers. We see, too, how the Germans fought in the great coastal bunkers, perceived as impregnable fortresses, but in reality often becoming tombs for their crews.

Above all, we now have the unheard human voices of the individual German soldiers - the men who are so often portrayed as a faceless mass.
 

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10 Habits of Highly Effective People: Precepts for Self-improvement

by A. I. Abana

They set targets ... they achieve them; they run a business ... they succeed; they compete ... they win; put them to work ... they get it done! Those are things that mark effective people. It's not magic and it's not a coincidence, there are certain things such people have going for them, specific things behind the performances that wow people; things that could make the difference between a celebrity and a loser, things that could bring serious order and skyrocket the benefits of efforts in the life of any person who dares to have them.

In this book, you are going to be taken on a journey revealing 10 super habits of highly effective people that can help any man or woman who has them into a success story. Seriously, if you could get a monkey to have these habits it would be more effective than many people. In fact, there are habits listed in this book which if a person does not have, they would be a walking dead and not know it!

This book is not like others you may have seen or heard about, it is guaranteed to show you the secrets of effectiveness in a unique way; these habits are for your benefit and those you care about. Don't let others inundate you with their success stories alone, it's time to let them see and hear about yours. Stop being the spectator, be a star player ... Get this book and let these habits be a part of you.

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Who Let the Old Fart in the Classroom?: Why Globalism, Socialism and Environmentalism Won't Work

by Robert Taft

A book your professor doesn't want you to read.

Why? Because a liberal institution, Orama University, makes the mistake of letting Leonard Whittle, a conservative capitalist, into a series of courses on globalism. The courses literally envelop the globe, from socialism and to environmentalism, the United Nations and to the European Union, the business-government cabal to Saul Alinsky and Herbert Marcuse, the New left of the 1960s to the New Left of today, the marginalization of America to the China-Russia anti-West vision of globalism...and, of course, globalism – that is the Western version of it – itself. Poor Leonard is pitted against faculty and students alike as he tramples on the progressive views of ivory-tower professors and ignites debates on many modern collegiate issues, like micro- aggressions, identity politics, multiple sex categories, George Soros' control of just about everything and much more. The comparison of socialism here and in Venezuela is stark as is the collision course between preserving the environment and socialist goals. If the reader doesn't agree with Leonard's view...all of which are backed by fact...at least he or she will have much food for thought.

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The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World

by A. J. Baime


“[A] well-judged and hugely readable book . . . few are as entertaining.”—Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times

“A. J. Baime is a master. His reporting and storytelling are woven to hypnotic effect. This is history and humanity in lush, vivid color.”—Doug Stanton, author of The Odyssey of Echo Company
 
Heroes are often defined as ordinary characters who get pushed into extraordinary circumstances, and through courage and a dash of luck, cement their place in history. Chosen as FDR’s fourth-term vice president for his well-praised work ethic, good judgment, and lack of enemies, Harry S. Truman was the prototypical ordinary man. That is, until he was shockingly thrust in over his head after FDR’s sudden death. The first four months of Truman’s administration saw the founding of the United Nations, the fall of Berlin, victory at Okinawa, firebombings in Tokyo, the first atomic explosion, the Nazi surrender, the liberation of concentration camps, the mass starvation in Europe, the Potsdam Conference, the controversial decision to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the surrender of imperial Japan, and finally, the end of World War II and the rise of the Cold War. No other president had ever faced so much in such a short period of time. The Accidental President escorts readers into the situation room with Truman during a tumultuous, history-making 120 days, when the stakes were high and the challenges even higher.

 

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The Romanovs: 1613-1918

by Simon Sebag Montefiore

 

The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world’s surface for three centuries. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world’s greatest empire? And how did they lose it all?
 
This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by madness, but all inspired by holy autocracy and imperial ambition. Simon Sebag Montefiore’s gripping chronicle reveals their secret world of unlimited power and ruthless empire-building, overshadowed by palace conspiracy, family rivalries, sexual decadence and wild extravagance, with a global cast of adventurers, courtesans, revolutionaries and poets, from Ivan the Terrible to Tolstoy and Pushkin, to Bismarck, Lincoln, Queen Victoria and Lenin.

To rule Russia was both imperial-sacred mission and poisoned chalice: six of the last twelve tsars were murdered. Peter the Great tortured his own son to death while making Russia an empire, and dominated his court with a dining club notable for compulsory drunkenness, naked dwarfs and fancy dress. Catherine the Great overthrew her own husband (who was murdered soon afterward), enjoyed affairs with a series of young male favorites, conquered Ukraine and fascinated Europe. Paul I was strangled by courtiers backed by his own son, Alexander I, who in turn faced Napoleon’s invasion and the burning of Moscow, then went on to take Paris. Alexander II liberated the serfs, survived five assassination attempts and wrote perhaps the most explicit love letters ever composed by a ruler. The Romanovs climaxes with a fresh, unforgettable portrayal of Nicholas II and Alexandra, the rise and murder of Rasputin, war and revolution—and the harrowing massacre of the entire family.

Dazzlingly entertaining and beautifully written from start to finish, The Romanovs brings these monarchs—male and female, great and flawed, their families and courts—blazingly to life. Drawing on new archival research, Montefiore delivers an enthralling epic of triumph and tragedy, love and murder, encompassing the seminal years 1812, 1914 and 1917, that is both a universal study of power and a portrait of empire that helps define Russia today.

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Self-Publishing Fast Track: 7 Easy Steps to Write Your First Book and Share Your Story

by Jenelle Jack


What if you self-published your first book and eager readers discovered it right away?

What if you've never seen yourself as a writer, but were shown how to write your book faster than you ever expected?

What if you knew exactly how to research your target market and position your book for profit?

Well, it's possible. And Self-Publishing Fast Track gives you the 7 steps to follow to make it happen.

You have the courage to write your book, and you know that self-publishing is one of the best ways to create life-changing opportunities. It enables you to share your story with readers who embrace your message, establish your authorship, enhance your business consulting or other expertise, build your brand collateral, grow an online audience, generate additional income, and more.

Your personal brand and platform can skyrocket just from self-publishing one book. Self-Publishing Fast Track will teach you how to efficiently write, publish, and position your book to reach readers and make an impact.

You don't need to waste more time online, trying to piece together how to self-publish a book.

This streamlined, how-to guide teaches you how to:

  • Improve your writing workflow and get the words onto the page faster.
  • Determine your book's purpose before you start writing.
  • Understand reader expectations to increase your chances of success.
  • Discover how Amazon's algorithms work, and when it recommends books to other readers.
  • Optimize your writing time and write faster.
 
Other important areas that will be covered are how to:
  • Write a book outline to make your writing process easier.
  • Conduct category research and QUICKLY find the bestseller rankings on Amazon.
  • Expertly format your blurb―your 24/7 salesperson―so you can sell more books.

And more.

You'll gain clarity on the self-publishing process, from outlining your manuscript to knowing which platforms to publish your book on.

Maybe your goal is to write a bestseller, create passive income, share a unique story, or build a business and get booked solid with empowered clients. With this self-publishing book guide, you will save time and gain valuable insight that you can implement right away.

In Self-Publishing Fast Track you will be introduced to a thorough, step-by-step system that will help you write with confidence, hit the publish button, and share your story with readers.

Are you ready to tell your story and self-publish your book?

Then scroll back up and hit the BUY button.

 

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Extraordinary Hope

by Elizabeth Ann Wallace


Extraordinary Hope is a 30-day devotional that helps readers become strengthened, uplifted, and full of hope. Without hope, it is impossible to move forward and everything seems difficult or even overwhelming. Elizabeth Ann Wallace reveals that there is always hope no matter what someone is facing and explores a scripture each day concerning hope. She also includes stories about extraordinary people along the way. Extraordinary Hope shares the important message about why hope is a crucial part of our lives. The stories included not only impacted the lives of the people who lived them and those around them, but also shaped history. This devotional deepens faith and leaves readers knowing they have hope, no matter what they’re facing.

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Instant Pot Cookbook for Beginners: Quick and Healthy Recipes for Beginners and Advanced Users

by Katie Banks & Claire Cook

 

Instant pot Cookbook for Beginners and Advanced Users


 Who does not love instant pot recipes? Instant Pot cooking is a pleasure for all cooks and for those enjoying the meals cooked from this favourite kitchen appliance. So where to find the ideal instant pot cookbook for beginners and advanced users? Well… you have it here.

In Clarie Cook´s instant pot recipe cookbook you will find recipes from all kind of cuisines, abilities and tastes. This instant pot cookbook will become your go to recipe book. Your instant pot bible.

Planning your meals over the week will be a piece of cake with the widest range of choices in the market.

 

The best Instant Pot Recipe Book for your Dieting Needs

Also, if you are concerned about what you eat and when and your diet, this instant pot cookbook will indicate you in detail the nutritional information for every recipe listed and detailed.

So from now on not only you will be able to enjoy delicious recipes and to show off as an experience cook (no matter your cooking expertise with the instant pot) but also you will be able to eat guilt-free thanks to the caloric and nutritional information included.

The Best Instant Pot Cookbook Recipes in the Market

• Honey, Mustard & Lemon Instant Pot Recipe
• Instant Pot Teriyaki Rice with Chicken
• Smoky Butternut Squash Casserole for the Instant Pot
• Tarragon Chicken Rice Gumbo Instant Pot Recipe
• Instant Pot Lamb Shorba Recipe
• Turmeric lamb Curry
• Mussels Instant Pot Normandy
• Taco Queso Dip
• Chocolate Lava Cake
• Strawberry Instant Pot Cheesecake

And many, many more recipes to fill your days with the delicious aroma coming from the pot in your kitchen. Start enjoying the best kitchen tool in the market from today and stop worrying about the results. They will be great.

Guaranteed!

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Influencer Fast Track: From Zero to Influencer in the next 6 Months!

by Gundi Gabrielle

 

"Reading Gundi's book gives you the 'Kick in the Pants' motivation of a Tony Robbins event". - Frank Kelso, Author

YOU = INFLUENCER!! - Have a passion project you want to share with world? - Something amazing you always wanted to do, but don't know how to reach an audience? Marketing feels like wondering in a strange, foreign land and you feel totally overwhelmed?


Then let this little book walk you through SassyZenGirl's proven 7-STEP FORMULA to go from ZERO (followers) to INFLUENCER STATUS in just a few months!


"Gundi is a phenomenal marketer and writer!" - Dave Chesson of Kindlepreneur

 

Sound crazy?

 

Well, it isn't actually IF you know how to leverage the many (mostly free) resources available to anyone using the internet today!

It's not about pumping thousands of dollars into ads or wearing yourself out on social media without getting much traction.

There are a number of simple strategies that can have a tremendous effect on growing your online presence and visibility that make even a 6-month time frame perfectly doable.

"Influencer" does not mean becoming world famous and making millions overnight. That would indeed be unlikely and fall under a classic get-rich-quick scheme, which this book is not!

Quite the opposite! The strategies and hacks described in INFLUENCER FAST TRACK show you - in 7 simple steps - how to leverage the formidable marketing power of the internet, as well as major platforms, institutions, peers and influencers to grow quickly - while creating win-wins for everyone involved!

No longer do you need to fight or worry about "competitors", but rather see others as opportunities to collaborate, leveraging each other's audiences and helping everyone grow.

In the same vein, treat your customers and followers with respect and care. 

"The best Marketing Method ever: CARE!" - Gary Vaynerchuk

Enjoy helping and providing awesome value. Find out how you can really help people, what they actually need. Build relationships and a brand that people love to identify with, instead of being salesy, sleazy and annoying.

The "Goosebump" Factor!

THAT is what this book will teach you. Growing a brand and following that makes a difference in the world, helps people - and - makes you good money, too, while growing your business! - Something you can be proud of and can't wait to get up to in the morning (aka STEP 1 "The Goosebump Factor").

SassyZenGirl herself, aka 10-time #1 Bestselling Author and Entrepreneur Gundi Gabrielle, will show you in typical SassyFUN fashion how to get from A to Z:

  • The Goosebump Factor
  • The Mucho Bling Asset
  • The Chill Factor
  • How to (non) pitch your Stuff
  • Subscribers on Autopilot
  • Passive Income Bonanza

and finally how to:

  • get yourself booked as a TV Guest Presenter, Keynote or TEDx Speaker
  • get featured in major publications and podcasts
  • attract your absolute Dream Clients on Autopilot

if you are ready to share something AWEsome with the world...

SCROLL UP and hit that BUY BUTTON and we'll see you on the inside..:)

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RESTORE TRUST

by Werner Neff


Economic Solutions to Current Social and Political Issues in the U.S.

Poverty is a structural problem created by economic thinking errors and institutional poverty traps, revealed and discussed in detail in this book. Neff argues that America is a welfare state.

The working poor are a social problem created by politics. The low minimum wage does not support a most basic lifestyle and as a result, food stamps, free medical services and other social programs become necessary to cover the gap. Half of the Federal budget supports the poor and the elderly across the country. Americans, mostly the middle class, subsidize this insufficient minimum wage with their taxes and unknowingly and indirectly support the bottom line of companies that underpay their employees. Economic thinking errors are the source of our entitlement society.

Democratic principles are distorted. The current political system allows the wealthy and large corporations to covertly influence legislation and bend economic laws in their favor.

Too many Americans are blinded by dreams of success and vote against their real interests and values. This is the American voting paradox, institutionally supported by gerrymandering and voting restrictions that favor the libertarian ideology.

RESTORE TRUST is an invitation to take a fresh look at the current socio-economic reality. Neff discusses economic solutions to dysfunctional politics and offers a conclusive call to action to help Americans restore trust and defend their needs and core values. He offers opportunities to create a shift to strengthen our democracy.

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Invest Your Time: Work less, Achieve more, Master your life

by Matt Sandrini

 

Make every day a success (and stop being constantly behind).

Imagine waking up excited and full of energy, ready to win today. Ahead of you, a day full of business results and personal time. No more feeling stressed out and constantly putting off what matters: you have a system that works for you to help you create more with your 24 hours.

High-performance & business coach Matt Sandrini shares his secret principles used to take top entrepreneurs from dangerously overwhelmed to extremely productive.
Based on years of experience coaching multi-millionaire and billionaire founders, the latest research in behaviour psychology, and his personal experience building remote businesses, Matt Sandrini lays out the step-by-step to taking back control of your week and obtaining uncompromising results.
 

In this book, you will learn…

  • The formula used by millionaires to calculate the value of your day
     
  • The danger of the hustle: why short days are the key to results
     
  • How to successfully delegate (and focus on your strengths)
     
  • Why the myth of work/life balance is hurting your performance
     
  • How to let go of opportunities that don’t take you anywhere
     
  • A step-by-step process to take control of your week, today
     
  • How to master new skills and become a leader in your space
     
  • How to say no to distractions (without feeling guilty)
     
  • The secret used by top entrepreneurs to read 2+ books a month
     
  • BONUS: a free workbook & short course to help you take action

Buy this book NOW and stop feeling constantly behind: get the results you deserve in business AND life.

Stop procrastination and pick up your copy today by clicking the BUY NOW button at the top of this page!

 

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In Search of Truth

by Jacob Kashiwagi

 

Conquer your fears, reach your goals, and take control of your life!

Are you stressed about your future? Are you facing a difficult decision or major obstacle?

Whether you’re trying to make it through school, searching for your dream job, or you feel like you’ve reached a dead-end, it all boils down to one question:

What is truth?

In Search of Truth is a simple and mind-altering book about finding reliable solutions to your toughest problems. This is not a self-help book about motivation or positive thinking, it is a tried and true method to recognizing accurate information. Truth is knowing how to overcome personal and professional limitations to get the results you need.

Dr. Jacob Kashiwagi has spent the last 20 years working with business executives and large organizations all over the world. This logic in this book is based on over 2,000 successful projects and 2,500 life-changing experiences of high school and college students.

In this book, you learn how to:

  • Quickly sift through false information
  • Simplify decisions using logical methods
  • Deal with difficult people and roadblocks
  • Fill your life with drive, purpose, and direction
  • Become a more effective leader by improving your relationships

In Search of Truth will bring an end to overthinking, self-doubt, stress, and worry.

 

Truth drive progress, truth yields results, and truth shapes reality.

 

The truth to your success is hiding in plain sight, are you ready to open your eyes?

 

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The Fifth Risk

by Michael Lewis


New York Times Bestseller

What are the consequences if the people given control over our government have no idea how it works?

"The election happened," remembers Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, then deputy secretary of the Department of Energy. "And then there was radio silence." Across all departments, similar stories were playing out: Trump appointees were few and far between; those that did show up were shockingly uninformed about the functions of their new workplace. Some even threw away the briefing books that had been prepared for them.

 

Michael Lewis’s brilliant narrative takes us into the engine rooms of a government under attack by its own leaders. In Agriculture the funding of vital programs like food stamps and school lunches is being slashed. The Commerce Department may not have enough staff to conduct the 2020 Census properly. Over at Energy, where international nuclear risk is managed, it’s not clear there will be enough inspectors to track and locate black market uranium before terrorists do.

 

Willful ignorance plays a role in these looming disasters. If your ambition is to maximize short-term gains without regard to the long-term cost, you are better off not knowing those costs. If you want to preserve your personal immunity to the hard problems, it’s better never to really understand those problems. There is upside to ignorance, and downside to knowledge. Knowledge makes life messier. It makes it a bit more difficult for a person who wishes to shrink the world to a worldview.

 

If there are dangerous fools in this book, there are also heroes, unsung, of course. They are the linchpins of the system—those public servants whose knowledge, dedication, and proactivity keep the machinery running. Michael Lewis finds them, and he asks them what keeps them up at night.

 

 

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The Coddling of the American Mind

by Greg Lukianoff


Something is going wrong on many college campuses in the last few years. Rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide are rising. Speakers are shouted down. Students and professors say they are walking on eggshells and afraid to speak honestly. How did this happen?
 
First Amendment expert Greg Lukianoff and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt show how the new problems on campus have their origins in three terrible ideas that have become increasingly woven into American childhood and education: what doesn’t kill you makes you weaker; always trust your feelings; and life is a battle between good people and evil people. These three Great Untruths are incompatible with basic psychological principles, as well as ancient wisdom from many cultures. They interfere with healthy development. Anyone who embraces these untruths—and the resulting culture of safetyism—is less likely to become an autonomous adult able to navigate the bumpy road of life.
 
Lukianoff and Haidt investigate the many social trends that have intersected to produce these untruths. They situate the conflicts on campus in the context of America’s rapidly rising political polarization, including a rise in hate crimes and off-campus provocation. They explore changes in childhood including the rise of fearful parenting, the decline of unsupervised play, and the new world of social media that has engulfed teenagers in the last decade.
 
This is a book for anyone who is confused by what is happening on college campuses today, or has children, or is concerned about the growing inability of Americans to live, work, and cooperate across party lines.

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Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City

by Sam Anderson


A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2018 BY NPRCHICAGO TRIBUNE, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLETHE ECONOMIST AND DEADSPIN

Award-winning journalist Sam Anderson’s long-awaited debut is a brilliant, kaleidoscopic narrative of Oklahoma City--a great American story of civics, basketball, and destiny.


Oklahoma City was born from chaos. It was founded in a bizarre but momentous "Land Run" in 1889, when thousands of people lined up along the borders of Oklahoma Territory and rushed in at noon to stake their claims. Since then, it has been a city torn between the wild energy that drives its outsized ambitions, and the forces of order that seek sustainable progress. Nowhere was this dynamic better realized than in the drama of the Oklahoma City Thunder basketball team’s 2012-13 season, when the Thunder’s brilliant general manager, Sam Presti, ignited a firestorm by trading future superstar James Harden just days before the first game. Presti’s all-in gamble on “the Process”—the patient, methodical management style that dictated the trade as the team’s best hope for long-term greatness—kicked off a pivotal year in the city’s history, one that would include pitched battles over urban planning, a series of cataclysmic tornadoes, and the frenzied hope that an NBA championship might finally deliver the glory of which the city had always dreamed.

Boom Town announces the arrival of an exciting literary voice. Sam Anderson, former book critic for New York magazine and now a staff writer at the New York Times magazine, unfolds an idiosyncratic mix of American history, sports reporting, urban studies, gonzo memoir, and much more to tell the strange but compelling story of an American city whose unique mix of geography and history make it a fascinating microcosm of the democratic experiment. Filled with characters ranging from NBA superstars Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook; to Flaming Lips oddball frontman Wayne Coyne; to legendary Great Plains meteorologist Gary England; to Stanley Draper, Oklahoma City's would-be Robert Moses; to civil rights activist Clara Luper; to the citizens and public servants who survived the notorious 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building, Boom Town offers a remarkable look at the urban tapestry woven from control and chaos, sports and civics.

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American Dialogue: The Founders and Us

by Joseph J. Ellis


The award-winning author of Founding Brothers and The Quartet now gives us a deeply insightful examination of the relevance of the views of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and John Adams to some of the most divisive issues in America today.

The story of history is a ceaseless conversation between past and present, and in American Dialogue Joseph J. Ellis focuses the conversation on the often-asked question "What would the Founding Fathers think?" He examines four of our most seminal historical figures through the prism of particular topics, using the perspective of the present to shed light on their views and, in turn, to make clear how their now centuries-old ideas illuminate the disturbing impasse of today's political conflicts. He discusses Jefferson and the issue of racism, Adams and the specter of economic inequality, Washington and American imperialism, Madison and the doctrine of original intent. Through these juxtapositions--and in his hallmark dramatic and compelling narrative voice--Ellis illuminates the obstacles and pitfalls paralyzing contemporary discussions of these fundamentally important issues.

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The Badass Girl's Guide: Uncommon Strategies to Outwit Predators

by CJ Scarlet


The Badass Girl's Guide: Uncommon Strategies to Outwit Predators is the one book criminal predators don't want you to read! Filled with critical information about how to empower yourself to keep from becoming a crime statistic, this definitive, comprehensive guide contains facts and strategies not found in other personal security books.

This remarkable, edgy book reveals how predators select and groom their victims, and teaches women and girls how to "fail" the predator interview to avoid being targeted in the first place. It also provides clear instructions about how to use your personal bodily "weapons" to defend yourself in a confrontation, offering everything you need to know to stay safe, fight if you must, and navigate the criminal justice system if the worst happens.

This book leaves women and girls feeling more inspired, motivated, powerful, and confident about their ability to take care of themselves.

If you read just one book on personal safety and self-defense in your lifetime, The Badass Girl's Guide: Uncommon Strategies to Outwit Predators is the one for you!

The News is Alarming, But You Have More Power Than You Think!

If you watch the evening news, it can seem as if the world is being overrun by violence. And if you’re a woman or girl, you likely have already been victimized in some way or are vulnerable to criminal predators—at home, in the workplace and even in public areas.

Women and girls are generally raised to be nice to everyone. They’re taught to avoid being rude at all cost. To smile through awkward situations. To giggle when they feel uncomfortable rather than risk embarrassing someone who is just “playing” with them. To expect men to be their rescuers if they’re in danger.

How many times in your life have you ignored the blaring sirens from your intuition when someone was violating your boundaries? Or worried as the creepy guy from your dorm followed you to class? Or suffered through regular sexual harassment at work?

It’s a strange paradox—we spend so much of our lives being hyper-vigilant about potential danger, but become utterly helpless when we’re confronted with uncomfortable and even dangerous situations. We smile when someone pays us an inappropriate compliment at work. We roll our eyes when a man makes a crude joke or gesture. We stiffen but don’t necessarily move when someone brushes up against us.

Making “Nice” is Hurting You

Why? Why do we “make nice” when we’re treated with disrespect? Our instincts are correct, but we override them because our early training was so strong. Part of the reason is fear—that the situation will escalate if we object, that we’ll embarrass the other person or ourselves, or that the person we confront won’t like/love/employ us anymore. We’re also often clueless about how to respond. Then there’s the pervasive, personally-held belief that we can’t take care of ourselves, so we demure rather than react.

We feel helpless, which leads to a sense of hopelessness and powerlessness. Denial is also a huge factor; we deny what’s happening to us in favor of making excuses for the perpetrator: “He was just kidding.” “I’m just being overly sensitive.” “He didn’t mean it.” Or the ever popular, “Boys will be boys.” This unfortunate perspective lets predators off the hook when they behave badly.

It’s Time to Take Your Power Back!

If you’re tired of feeling afraid, of loathing and blaming yourself, of feeling too vulnerable, then take YOUR power back right now. Yes, right this very second! Recognize that you’re a powerful being and claim it!

It’s time for you to get indignant! It’s time to be as aggressive or rude as necessary to keep yourself safe and secure. It’s time to stop waiting for someone else to rescue you. Summon your inner badass and rescue yourself!

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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

by Steve Brusatte

 

A sweeping and groundbreaking history of the age of dinosaurs, from one of our finest young scientists

The dinosaurs. 66 million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome and spectacular creatures vanished. Today their extraordinary true story remains one of our planet’s great mysteries.

In this stunning narrative spanning more than 200 million years, Steve Brusatte, a young American paleontologist who has emerged as one of the foremost stars of the field—discovering ten new species and leading groundbreaking scientific studies and fieldwork—masterfully tells the complete, surprising, and new history of the dinosaurs, drawing on cutting-edge science to dramatically bring to life their lost world and illuminate their enigmatic origins, spectacular flourishing, astonishing diversity, cataclysmic extinction, and startling living legacy. Captivating and revelatory, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs is a book for the ages.

Brusatte traces the evolution of dinosaurs from their inauspicious start as small shadow dwellers—themselves the beneficiaries of a mass extinction caused by volcanic eruptions at the beginning of the Triassic period—into the dominant array of species every wide-eyed child memorizes today, T. rex, Triceratops, Brontosaurus, and more. This gifted scientist and writer re-creates the dinosaurs’ peak during the Jurassic and Cretaceous, when thousands of species thrived, and winged and feathered dinosaurs, the prehistoric ancestors of modern birds, emerged. The story continues to the end of the Cretaceous period, when a giant asteroid or comet struck the planet and nearly every dinosaur species (but not all) died out, in the most extraordinary extinction event in earth’s history, one full of lessons for today as we confront a “sixth extinction.”

Brusatte also recalls compelling stories from his globe-trotting expeditions during one of the most exciting eras in dinosaur research—which he calls “a new golden age of discovery”—and offers thrilling accounts of some of the remarkable findings he and his colleagues have made, including primitive human-sized tyrannosaurs; monstrous carnivores even larger than T. rex; and paradigm-shifting feathered raptors from China.

An electrifying scientific history that unearths the dinosaurs’ epic saga, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs will be a definitive and treasured account for decades to come.

 

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Email Marketing Mastery

by Tom Corson-Knowles

 

Learn the Systems, Tools and Strategies I Used to Build an Email List of Over 10,000 Subscribers


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About the Author

Tom Corson-Knowles is a blogger, speaker, marketing consultant, and the international best-selling author of more than 20 books including Destroy Your Distractions, Facebook for Business Owners, and The Kindle Publishing Bible. Tom has founded several successful businesses including TCK Publishing, an independent book publishing company that specializes in digital publishing and online marketing.

Tom has taught thousands of employees, entrepreneurs and freelancers like you how to create the lifestyle of their dreams.

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