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The Middle Way How Three Presidents Shaped America’s Role in the World [Audiobook] (2024)


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English | February 16, 2021 | ASIN: B08W5FVYN4 | M4B@64 kbps | 8h 9m | 228 MB
Author: Derek Chollet | Narrator: Christopher Grove
When thinking about America’s role in the world, Dwight Eisenhower, George H. W. Bush, and Barack Obama may not seem to have a lot in common. But they do. While divided by background, generation, and political party, they exemplify a distinct and underappreciated tradition of American leadership: The Middle Way. As the scholar and former senior foreign policy official Derek Chollet shows in this deeply researched book, these three presidents took a centrist – and effective – approach to foreign policy. With so many challenges facing the United States, Chollet makes the case for why the nation must reclaim this brand of leadership, learn from it, and champion it.
This timely book blends history, politics, and biography to reveal how these presidents viewed the world and approached the task of leadership. By providing behind-the-scenes accounts and incisive analysis of the foreign policies of Ike, Bush 41, and Obama, The Middle Way offers a fresh way of thinking about American power. It shows how these three leaders defined a foreign policy archetype too often obscured by partisan blinders and historical amnesia. With vivid storytelling and astute insights, Chollet makes a compelling argument for how we should remember the past, think about the present, and approach the policy challenges of tomorrow.

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Medieval Horizons Why the Middle Ages Matter [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0CZ2HWFG9 | 2024 | 10 hours and 23 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 576 MB
Author: Ian Mortimer
Narrator: Ian Mortimer

The essential introduction to the Middle Ages by the bestselling author. We tend to think of the Middle Ages as a dark, backward, and unchanging time characterized by violence, ignorance, and superstition. By contrast, we believe progress arose from science and technological innovation, and that inventions of recent centuries created the modern world. We couldn’t be more wrong. As Ian Mortimer shows in this fascinating book, people’s horizons-their knowledge, experience, and understanding of the world-expanded dramatically. Life was utterly transformed between 1000 and 1600, marking the transition from a warrior-led society to that of Shakespeare. Medieval Horizons provides the perfect primer to the era as a whole. It outlines the enormous cultural changes that took place-from literacy to living standards, inequality, and even the developing sense of self-thereby correcting misconceptions and presenting the period as a revolutionary age of fundamental importance in the development of the Western world.

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Making the Move to Middle Management


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Released 5/2024
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280×720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Skill Level: Intermediate | Genre: eLearning | Language: English + srt | Duration: 42m | Size: 124 MB
Are you ready to progress to middle management? In this course, learn how to successfully progress in your role from manager to middle manager with award-winning professor of management Daisy Lovelace. As Daisy explains, middle managers are at the center of it all-they’re the glue that holds the organization together. If you’re looking to advance your career to this role, join Daisy as she explains how to assess your readiness for the transition to middle management, navigate the increased complexity and unique challenges of middle management, and how to enhance the productivity of your teams. Plus, learn how to lead to inspire and get results.

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Warfare, Crusade and Conquest in the Middle Ages


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English | ISBN: 0367879476 | 2019 | 374 pages | EPUB | 791 KB
This volume brings together a series of articles by John France, published over a span of more than forty years, covering a number of aspects of the military and crusading history of the Middle Ages, both in Europe and the Near East. An interest in understanding how war worked and why informs a first group of articles, ranging from Carolingian armies to the organisation of war in the 13th century. The focus then turns to the Crusades, the most ambitious conquests of the era, with a set of studies on the First Crusade and others on the manner and conduct of warfare in the territories of the Latin East. The volume also includes a major unpublished analysis, co-authored with Nicholas Morton, of the problems faced by the local Islamic powers in the early Crusading period, reminding us that an army is only as strong as its enemies permit, and suggesting that the crusaders should be seen in this light.

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War on the Middle Class


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English | 2006 | ISBN: 0670037923, 014311252X | EPUB | pages: 276 | 0.3 mb
A prominent CNN host and commentator identifies the ways in which middle-class Americans are being rendered vulnerable by political groups, large corporations, and sensational media practices that are compromising middle-income health care, educational resources, and employment opportunities.

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Tolkien Maker of Middle Earth


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English | 2018 | ISBN: 1851244999, 1851244859, 1851244972 | PDF | pages: 66 | 8.3 mb
The range of J. R. R. Tolkien’s talents is remarkable. Not only was he an accomplished linguist and philologist, as well as a scholar of Anglo-Saxon and medieval literature and Norse folklore, but also a skillful illustrator and storyteller. Drawing on these talents, he created a universe which is for many readers as real as the physical world they inhabit daily.

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