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Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills three thousand years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws. It outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun-tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, and other great thinkers. Some laws teach the need for prudence, the virtue of stealth, and many demand the total absence of mercy, but like it or not, all have applications...
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English
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Aternates between two time periods. Back ?then, ? there is Emma, looking for the perfect flat. Her agent suggests One Folgate Street, built by architect Edward Monkford. In present day, Jane, a single thirty-something also ends up on Folgate Street. Both women learn the sinister history of the property.
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English
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"Boys are being trained at one school for geniuses, girls at another. And neither knows the other exists -- until now. ... J is a student at a school deep in a forest far away from the rest of the world. J is one of only twenty-six students, who think of their enigmatic school's founder as their father. His fellow peers are the only family J has ever had. The students are being trained to be prodigies of art, science, and athletics, and their life...
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English
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All great leaders, thinkers, artists, athletes, and visionaries share one indelible quality. Ryan Holiday calls it stillness -- to be steady while the world spins around you. Drawing on a wide range of history's greatest thinkers, from Confucius to Seneca, Marcus Aurelius to Thich Nhat Hanh, John Stuart Mill to Nietzsche, he argues that stillness is not mere inactivity, but the doorway to self-mastery, discipline, and focus. Holiday also examines...
7) Emotional blackmail: when the people in your life use fear, obligation and guilt to manipulate you
Author
Publisher
Quill
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
xviii, 252 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
8) The tutor
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Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
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Description
Master of psychological suspense Peter Abrahams returns with an ingenious tale of an ordinary family that unknowingly invites the agent of their destruction into their own home.
When Scott and Linda Gardner hire Julian Sawyer to tutor their troubled teenage son Brandon, he seems like the answer to a prayer. Capable and brilliant, Julian connects with Brandon in a way neither of his parents can. He also effortlessly helps Linda to salvage...
When Scott and Linda Gardner hire Julian Sawyer to tutor their troubled teenage son Brandon, he seems like the answer to a prayer. Capable and brilliant, Julian connects with Brandon in a way neither of his parents can. He also effortlessly helps Linda to salvage...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Universal Human gives us new tools to grow spiritually and shows us how to transform everyday experiences of hopelessness, emptiness, and pain into fulfillment, meaning, and joy. It points us toward a startling new destination--a species that is beyond culture, religion, nation, ethnic group, and gender, a species whose allegiance is to Life first and all else second--and shows us how to get there."--
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Publisher
Da Capo Lifelong Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Revised edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 315 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Hostile humor, negative undertones, and silent standoffs--nearly everyone has experienced hidden anger at some point, whether at home, with friends, or at work or school. Even if it's done to avoid open conflict and keep the peace, habitually concealing anger becomes insidious. When people don't express their true views and emotions, it undermines harmony and can actually cause physical and psychological harm. Tim Murphy and Loriann Oberlin explain...
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Publisher
Rockridge Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
ix, 156 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Gaslighting is a targeted form of manipulation, deception, and control that makes you doubt your own perceptions, feeling, and memories. Whether you've experienced gaslighting or emotional abuse from someone in your life - or you think you might have - this gives you the tools to recognize the signs of it and begin the process of healing.
17) Upstream color
Publisher
ERBP
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Kris is derailed from her life when she is drugged by a small-time thief. She is unknowingly drawn into the life cycle of a presence that permeates the microscopic world, moving to nematodes, plant life, livestock, and back again. Along the way, she finds another being-a familiar, who is equally consumed by the mysterious presence. The two search urgently for a place of safety within each other as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of their...
20) Bad fruit
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English
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"Bad Fruit is about the difficult, sometimes abusive, relationship between a mother and daughter. As the boundaries of mother love are crossed, universal themes of family, history, and identity help reveal the shattering effects of generational trauma"--
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