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The Prince is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. Machiavelli wrote The Prince in 1513, after he was forced to leave Florence as a political exile. Dedicated to Lorenzo de’ Medici, the work is Machiavelli’s advice to the ruler of Florence on how to stay in power.

Twenty Million Tons Under the Sea is the amazing account of American U-Boat hunter Daniel V. Gallery during World War 2. His "hunter-killer" force boarded and captured a German submarine.

The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind is a seminal work on crowd psychology by Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931), a French social psychologist. He observes that a crowd forms when an influential idea unites a number of individuals and prompts them to act towards a common goal. In a crowd, the conscious personality of the individual is submerged and dominated by the collective mind. Furthermore, every sentiment becomes contagious to a degree that individuals readily sacrifice their personal interest to the collective.

This collection features some of the most prominent works written by Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), the founding father of psychoanalysis.

The Theory of Psychoanalysis comprises Carl Jung’s 1912 lectures at Fordham University, that outlined the future of his work in psychoanalysis, and represented a decisive break from the theories of his friend and colleague, Sigmund Freud. In these lectures, he develops his own theories of psychology based on his practical experience. He first looks at infantile sexuality, the conception of libido, and the etiological significance of the infantile sexuality. In chapters five to seven, he discusses the unconscious and its contents in detail, including the dream.

In this 1912 work, Jung seeks to find symbolic meaning and purpose behind a given set of symptoms within the larger context of the psyche. It examines the fantasies of a patient whose vivid and poetic mental images enabled Jung to redefine libido as psychic energy which arises from the unconscious to manifest itself consciously in symbolic form. The work marks a theoretical divergence between Jung and Freud on the nature of the libido.

Jung contends that the personal unconscious consists of more or less superficial layers, but that it rests upon a deeper layer, which does not derive from personal experience; it is not a personal acquisition but an inborn quality. He calls the deeper layer the collective unconscious and explains that it is universal; it contains images and modes of behavior that are more or less similar everywhere, in all individuals. Jung describes the collective unconscious as a common psychic substrate of a suprapersonal nature which is present in every human being.

In the essay, "Some General Remarks on Psychoanalysis", Carl Jung states that the practice of psychoanalysis are for those who have a special liking for this profession because of their innate and trained psychological faculties. He emphasizes that the treatment must remain confined to the hands of responsible scientific people. Jung points out that the work of the Zurich School has demonstrated the possibility of applying psychoanalysis to the domain of the mental diseases.

"The Mueller Report" is the official report documenting the findings and conclusions of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian efforts to interfere in the US presidential election of 2016, allegations of conspiracy between Donald Trump's presidential campaign and Russia, and allegations of obstruction of justice. It was submitted to Attorney General William Barr on March 22, 2019, and a redacted version was publicly released by the Department of Justice on April 18, 2019.

In the essay "On the Significance of Number-Dreams", Carl Jung explains why numbers are not just artifacts of the conscious mind but hold a deeper significance. Through the study of the "number" dreams of his patients, he discovered that the smaller natural numbers are symbols in the same sense that the people and events of our dreams are symbols of behavioral situations and personified collective character traits. Number is tied to synchronicity and has an archetypal foundation, defined by Jung as an "archetype of order".

"On Some Crucial Points in Psychoanalysis" comprises the correspondence between Carl Jung and Dr. R. Loÿ which was first published in English in 1916, in the volume, Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology. These letters touch on range of topics encompassing - among others - dreams as a means of reconstructing the moral equipoise, the scientific conscience of the analyst, why Jung gave up the use of hypnotism, and the importance of understanding that behind the neurosis lies a moral conflict.

In The Content of the Psychoses (1908), Jung presents case studies as proof that the purely anatomical approach to psychoses leads only indirectly to an understanding of psychic disturbances. He believes that many psychoses, and particularly schizophrenia, were psychogenic, resulting from an abaissement du niveau mental - a reduced state of concentration and attention, accompanied by a loosening of inhibitions and relaxation of restraints, in which unexpected contents may emerge from the collective unconscious.