Tag: Learned

No Right to Remain Silent What We’ve Learned from the Tragedy at Virginia Tech


Free Download Lucinda Roy, "No Right to Remain Silent: What We’ve Learned from the Tragedy at Virginia Tech"
English | 2010 | pages: 336 | ISBN: 0307587703, 0307409635 | EPUB | 2,2 mb
The world watched in horror in April 2007 when Virginia Tech student Seung-Hui Cho went on a killing rampage that resulted in the deaths of thirty-two students and faculty members before he ended his own life.

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Listening to Killers Lessons Learned from My Twenty Years as a Psychological Expert Witness in Murder Cases


Free Download Listening to Killers: Lessons Learned from My Twenty Years as a Psychological Expert Witness in Murder Cases By James Garbarino
2015 | 312 Pages | ISBN: 0520282868 | PDF | 4 MB
Listening to Killers offers an inside look at twenty years’ worth of murder files from Dr. James Garbarino, a leading expert psychological witness who listens to killers so that he can testify in court. The author offers detailed accounts of how killers travel a path that leads from childhood innocence to lethal violence in adolescence or adulthood. He places the emotional and moral damage of each individual killer within a larger scientific framework of social, psychological, anthropological, and biological research on human development. By linking individual cases to broad social and cultural issues and illustrating the social toxicity and unresolved trauma that drive some people to kill, Dr. Garbarino highlights the humanity we share with killers and the role of understanding and empathy in breaking the cycle of violence.

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Convictions how I learned what matters most


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English | 2014 | ISBN: 0062269984, 0062269976 | EPUB | pages: 256 | 0.7 mb
On the occasion of his seventieth birthday, the renowned scholar Marcus J. Borg shares how he formed his bedrock religious beliefs, contending that Christians in America are at their best when they focus on hope and transformation and so shows how we can return to what really matters most. The result is a manifesto for all progressive Christians who seek the best path for following Jesus today.

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Command How the Allies Learned to Win the Second World War [Audiobook]


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English | 13 October 2022 | ASIN: B09V6HP2YR (UK) | M4B@64 kbps | 8h 20m | 237 MB
Author and Narrator: Al Murray
A unique analysis of the greatest commanders who helped the allies win the Second World War, written by one of the UK’s best loved comedians and commentators. He also loves history.

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Catching Up to FTX Lessons Learned in My Crusade Against Corruption, Fraud, and Bad Hair [Audiobook]


Free Download Ben Armstrong (Author, Narrator), "Catching Up to FTX: Lessons Learned in My Crusade Against Corruption, Fraud, and Bad Hair"
English | ASIN: B0CT63ZPCJ | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~04:58:00 | 141 MB
In Catching Up to FTX: Lessons Learned In My Crusade Against Corruption, Fraud, and Bad Hair, celebrated YouTuber and podcaster Ben Armstrong delivers the extraordinary and compelling story of the rise and fall of FTX and its well-known founder Sam Bankman-Fried. Tracking the history of crypto exchanges from the original Mt. Gox to FTX and Binance, the author describes the history of fraud that has characterized much of the industry.
Armstrong outlines the history of Alameda Research, FTX, and Sam Bankman-Fried, including a first-hand account of what he saw in the Bahamas when the indicted crypto titan was extradited from his home to face dozens of criminal and regulatory charges in the United States. He also discusses:

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Learned Excellence Mental Disciplines for Leading and Winning from the World’s Top Performers [Audiobook]


Free Download Eric Potterat, Alan Eagle, Pete Simonelli (Narrator), "Learned Excellence: Mental Disciplines for Leading and Winning from the World’s Top Performers"
English | ASIN: B0C4VFN8T3 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~06:30:00 | 177 MB
Learn how to perform at your very best, from the psychologist who has advised elite military operators, Olympic medalists, big wave surfers, neurosurgeons, cliff divers, first responders, Cirque du Soleil acrobats, professional athletes and coaches, Fortune 500 business executives, and CIA analysts.
Learned Excellence is a comprehensive and practical guide to the mental disciplines of high performance, from the expert who developed the US Navy SEALs mental toughness curriculum and has worked with thousands of top athletes, elite military personnel, business executives, and first responders.
These stars perform across a wide variety of fields, but they all have something in common: when they are at work they know how to think clearly, stay focused, and shrug off setbacks under very high levels of stress. They may have superb physical and intellectual traits, but it is the stuff going on above the neck and between the ears that makes them excellent. The difference between settling and achieving, between good and great, between contentment and fulfillment, is based entirely on their mental approach.

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Lessons Learned from the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election


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English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031445481 | 288 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 8 MB
In this book, leading and emerging election scholars document the steps that state and local election officials took to augment their elections during the COVID-19 pandemic and the effects of these changes. Written for academics, practitioners, and election laypeople, this book details what went right, what went wrong, and what we can learn from the 2020 US presidential election. The 2020 election cycle was unique in American history. Held during the COVID-19 pandemic, efforts were made at the federal, state, and local levels to ensure voters could safely access elections. These changes included providing greater access to mail/absentee voting, installing ballot drop boxes, outfitting polling places with protective equipment, and much more. Many of these changes were politicized, with Republicans and Democrats viewing these changes differently.

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A Purposeful Life What I’ve Learned About Breaking Barriers and Inspiring Change [Audiobook]


Free Download A Purposeful Life: What I’ve Learned About Breaking Barriers and Inspiring Change by Dawn Butler (Author/Narrator)
24/08/2023 | English | ASIN: B0C546T4R4 | 6 hrs 25 mins | M4B & MP3 @126 kbps
351 to 354 MB | Unabridged | Retail
Dawn Butler is the trailblazing Labour MP for Brent Central, best known for speaking truth to power. In 2021, she was famously ejected from the House of Commons and threatened with police for calling Boris Johnson a liar. Her tireless campaigning to eradicate injustice, from the Met Police to the NHS, has changed lives, but until now, she’s never talked openly about what has inspired and motivated her to persevere in the face of oppression.
Drawing from lessons from her own life, Dawn shows how traditional routes to success and power are outdated and reveals that it’s easier than we think to disrupt a broken system. She shares the values, people, places and beliefs that have helped her forge her own authentic path to power, including celebrating the strength of diverse communities, looking at an issue from all angles, and embracing intersectionality to drive real change. As the third Black woman ever to be elected as an MP, Dawn is a true pioneer, and now she wants to give others the courage and conviction to dream big and improve the world around them.

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Johann Sebastian Bach The Learned Musician


Free Download Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician by Christoph Wolff
English | September 17, 2001 | ISBN: 0393322564 | True EPUB | 599 pages | 1.7 MB
Finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Biography, this landmark book was revised in 2013 to include new knowledge discovered after its initial publication.

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The Dragons and the Snakes How the Rest Learned to Fight the West [Audiobook]


Free Download David Kilcullen, Christopher Douyard (Narrator), "The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West"
English | ASIN: B0CKTX4BPB | 2023 | M4B@64 kbps | ~10:25:00 | 304 MB
Just a few years ago, people spoke of the US as a hyperpower-a titan stalking the world stage with more relative power than any empire in history. Yet as early as 1993, CIA director James Woolsey pointed out that although Western powers had "slain a large dragon" by defeating the Soviet Union in the Cold War, they now faced a "variety of poisonous snakes."
In The Dragons and the Snakes, the eminent soldier-scholar David Kilcullen asks how, and what, opponents of the West have learned during the last quarter-century of conflict. Applying a combination of evolutionary theory and detailed field observation, he explains what happened to the "snakes"-non-state threats including terrorists and guerrillas-and the "dragons"-state-based competitors such as Russia and China. He explores how enemies learn under conditions of conflict, and examines how Western dominance over a very particular form of warfare since the Cold War has created a fitness landscape that forces adversaries to adapt in ways that present serious new challenges to America and its allies. Within the world’s contemporary conflict zones, Kilcullen argues, state and non-state threats have increasingly come to resemble each other, with states adopting non-state techniques and non-state actors now able to access levels of precision and lethal weapon systems once only available to governments.

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