During one sweltering week in July 1948, the Democratic Party gathered in Philadelphia for its national convention. The most pressing and controversial issue facing the delegates was not whom to nominate for president—the incumbent, Harry Truman, was the presumptive candidate—but whether the Democrats would finally embrace the cause of civil rights and embed it in their official platform.On the convention's final day, Hubert Humphrey, the relatively obscure mayor of the midsized ci...

The utopian city has fallen! Terrania, which was supposed to be a new starting point for all of humanity, ends up in the Chinese army’s clutches after a nuclear explosion. Desperate to avoid arrest, Perry Rhodan and Reginald Bull make a daring escape in a makeshift aircraft. All is not as it seems in Terrania, however. With the help of telepath John Marshall and his companions, General Bai Jun is getting ready to execute a plan that puts him starkly at odds with his government masters....

Stop Stressing And Start Being Your Best Self — Master Mindfulness For Teens In No Time At All.It's difficult to be a teenager! Whether it's school, friends, or dating, teen years are full of tough changes— mentally and physically. If you're like a lot of teens, you may have difficulty dealing with stress in an effective way. You're not alone, and there are things you can do to stay calm, no matter how hard your life is. All you need to do is stop, breathe, and be ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.This book is your ultimate guide in mastering thought organization using the idea mapping. More than the technical help you may get, there is a practical side to it as well.Learn how to use visual aids and become friends with them so you can easily remember the flow of your thoughts. Using keywords can also become handy in these times for they will save a lot of spaces from what’s currently running in your head....

'Damn, all my cheating secrets revealed. In book form' Stephen FryWhich philosopher had the maddest hairstyle? Which novelist drank 50 cups of black coffee every day? What on earth did Simone de Beauvoir see in Jean-Paul Sartre?How to Sound Cultured offers a wry and yet profoundly useful look inside the mirrored palaces of high culture. Covering such inscrutable characters as Heidegger, Montaigne, Kahlo and Lévi-Strauss (apparently not just a designer of jean...

In this remarkable book of meditations, a renowned Benedictine presents a modern spiritual odyssey, a way in which the Christian pilgrimage on earth is to be lived in order that we find ourselves "on our feet" as we enter eternity. Vigorous and inspiring, a collections of meditations on spiritual life written expressly for the modern reader.-Print ed."Thus it looks in the last analysis as if the soul which serves God in spirit and in truth enjoys a very unusual kind of peace: not th...

Stalin is quoted as saying 'One man's death is a tragedy, a thousand deaths is a statistic'. This is the story of a man who was determined to be neither.Kazimierz Tomasz 'Tomek' Hubert was 17 when the Germans invaded Poland in September 1939. Despite his young age, he was quickly deported to the Vorkuta Gulag in the Arctic Circle, for the crime of being the son of a military governor. Here he would survive torture, starvation and even the threat of cannibalism, bef...

Teen Adulthood is a book specifically designed to examine the transition from teen to adulthood. It focuses on adolescent development, and notes several changes the teenage body undergoes as it transits to the stage of adolescence. As the book examines the major developmental changes that occur in adolescence, it also looks into the emerging adult's cognitive mindset, their behavior towards their parents as their desire for independence and freedom ignites.In this ...

Teen OCD: How to Beat OCD, Control and Defeat Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in Children and Teens offer significant help and strategies to controlling OCD not just for children and teens only, but for everyone out there suffering from OCD and its related disorders. It is a must-have book. In this book, you will learn:The nature of the problem (OCD), what is and not an obsessional disorderOCD related disordersOCD in...

Canada’s greatest modern-day explorer sets out into the arctic wilderness to solve a mystery more than 100 years old.In November 1910, explorer Hubert Darrell vanished in the uncharted wilds of the Northwest Territories. A prospector who had been swept up in the Klondike Gold Rush, Darrell later made his name as an expert guide, trapper, and restless wanderer who ventured where few others dared. At a time when travel by dogsled in the North was the norm, Darrell be...

A translation of a classic 11th-century Persian text on behaviour and conduct in government, written between 1086 and 1091 by Nizam al-Mulk, who for over 30 years was Chief Minister of two successive rulers of the Seljuk, who had created an Empire which stretched from India to Egypt.

A medical mystery/fantasy/love story that delves deeply into the nature of consciousness while raising many of the ethical and existential issues facing scientists todayA contemporary Frankenstein that defies expectations, this is a thrilling novel, couched in luminous, captivating prose about a journalist, Cédric Allyn-Weberson, who suffers a horrific accident, paralyzing him from the neck down. An ideal candidate for a body transplant, Cédric survives th...