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In the end, it's not what happens to us that matters most - it's what we choose to do with it. We all face suffering - sadness, loss, despair, fear, anxiety, failure. But we also have a choice; to give in and give up in the face of trauma or difficulties or to live every moment as a gift. Celebrated therapist and Holocaust survivor Dr Edith Eger provides a hands-on guide that gently encourages us to change the imprisoning thoughts and destructive behaviours that may be holding us back. 

In 1962, Stephanie 'Steve' Shirley created a software company when the concept of software barely existed. Freelance Programmers employed women to work on complex projects such as Concorde's black box recorder from the comfort of their own homes. Shirley empowered a generation of women in technology, giving them unheard of freedom to choose their own hours and manage their own workloads. The business thrived, and Shirley gradually transferred ownership to her staff, creating 70 millionaires in the process.

The rags-to-riches story of one of America's wealthiest and least-known financial giants, self-made billionaire Kirk Kerkorian - the daring aviator, movie mogul, risk taker, and business tycoon who transformed Las Vegas and Hollywood to become one of the leading financiers in American business. Kerkorian combined the courage of a World War II pilot, the fortitude of a scrappy boxer, the cunning of an inscrutable poker player, and an unmatched genius for making deals.

Follow the building and collapse of the infamous Nazi regime. Everyone with even a tenuous grasp on world history knows the term “Nazi". The connotation surrounding that word is one of chilling terror at the unspeakable evil that was committed by this political party’s rule in Germany. With this audiobook, you will witness the Nazis’ rise to power under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, as well as their ultimate downfall and destruction.  

You Are Worth It is a memoir about the War in Afghanistan and Kyle’s heroics, yes, but it also is a manual for living. Organized around the credos that have guided Kyle’s life (from “Don’t Hide Your Scars” to “Call Your Mom”), the book encourages us to become our best selves in the time we've been given on earth.

The era of the coronavirus has tested America, and our leaders and institutions have conspicuously failed. That failure shouldn’t be surprising: Beneath social-media frenzy and reality-television politics, our era’s deep truths are elite incompetence, cultural exhaustion, and the flight from reality into fantasy. The Decadent Society explains what happens when a powerful society ceases advancing - how the combination of wealth and technological proficiency with economic stagnation, political stalemate, and demographic decline creates a unique civilizational crisis.

There is no doubt that the atrocities committed in WW II are hard to stomach. Most people think of the guards at the worst concentration camps as the epitome of the regime of Hitler, the blonde-haired, blue-eyed, man. There were female guards, though, who made some of those men look like choirboys. 

There is little doubt that the men who orchestrated the Holocaust were sick individuals with a passion for death and destruction. They believed that not all men, or even most, were created equal and that the death of millions was an acceptable cost. Hear about the commandant of Auschwitz who tells in his own words about how he attempted to streamline his extermination process. While efficiency would normally be rewarded, in this case it was tragic. We listen to these stories to remember the hate in order to never repeat those mistakes again. 

Learn the details of a true hell on Earth: Auschwitz. The Holocaust was a tragic time in world history, and one name that is most closely associated with this era is that of Auschwitz: one of several concentration camps where unspeakable and inhumane acts were committed. In this companion volume to The Holocaust: An Introduction, you will go through a detailed account of the camp, its methods of killing and cruelty, and more.

This book will explore the accounts of Auschwitz. It will give you an unbiased view of what the camps were all about and the secrets behind them. Join us as we examine the road and journey into and through Auschwitz, Nazi Germany's "final solution to the Jewish question". 

Intelligence and Surprise Attack examines why surprise attacks often succeed even though, in most cases, warnings are available beforehand. Erik J. Dahl challenges the conventional wisdom about intelligence failure, which holds that attacks succeed because important warnings get lost amid noise or because intelligence officials lack the imagination and collaboration to connect the dots of available information.

Escape from terror - True stories of the Holocaust. For many a trip to the dreaded death camps created by the Nazi’s in World War II was a death sentence. Many wouldn’t live for long after disembarking their train. Others were sentenced to hard labor that would eventually claim them or drive them to take drastic measures and attempt to escape. Most would be brought back dead or soon to be dead. There are some stories that stand out from the rest. Men who dared to defy one of the most brutal forces in history, the Nazi regime.

Encore tells the stories of encore career pioneers who are not content, or affluent enough, to spend their next 30 years on a golf course. These men and women are moving beyond midlife careers yet refusing to phase out or fade away. As they search for a calling in the second half of life and focus on what matters most, these individuals stand to transform the nature of work in America.

One of the questions that often gets asked about the concentration camps of World War II is how the Nazi’s were able to gain the compliance of all citizens in order to segregate and murder over 6,000,000 Jewish people. The number is staggering. That number represents nearly two thirds of the Jewish population in Europe. With anti-Semitic feelings growing in Europe again, this is a valid question. The answer is fear. Citizens feared that they would meet the same fate. That their loved ones would be punished. So many turned a blind eye, or worse helped.

When it comes to tragic, life-changing events in our world’s history, one would be hard-pressed to find a modern period more brutal and cruel than the Holocaust. This time in which the slaughter of millions of lives took place is one of the most discussed and analyzed topics of modern history, and this book compiles many interesting and crucial facts from beginning to end. Get your copy today to learn more.