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The Fascism This Time elucidates a psychosocial model of fascism which predicted that Trump’s election would lead to immigrant concentration camps, an assault on democratic institutions, a global increase in authoritarianism, a massive rise in crimes against humanity, and the starvation of Yemen. It is an original and perceptive account tying the fascism this time to the overwhelming challenges with which the world is now faced. 

Would you like to improve the quality of your life? You probably came to the right place then, because "The Blue Zones Project" is not just about weight loss or even general health. It has more to do with length and quality of life. This book looks at the Blue Zone's lifestyle in some detail and is designed to answer some of the most important related questions. The diet eaten in the Blue Zones is generally low in meat, fish, and dairy but high in vegetables. In most of the western world, it would be regarded as "poor", but is there something we're missing?

The Noom app, according to the associated website, is the last diet plan you’ll ever need. It’s not difficult to understand why many users may feel that way, but the app’s claim to fame, that it was the most searched for weight loss app of 2018 and 2019, is a little odd in that it is not, of itself a recommendation. Searching for information about something does not make you a fan, it merely shows you’re interested in knowing more. So, what do you learn if you search out information about Noom? That's what this book will dive into. 

No doubt, you'll find great value from the words of Steve Pavlina in this book. He has penned some of the most impactful information on these subjects and you will surely find this book to be a source of wisdom that will propel you to improvement. How is silence, the absence of communication, a main factor to you engaging in successful communication? How can you overcome your fear of public speaking? How can you better deal with difficult people in your life? Questions like these will be answered along with many others.

Do you want to indulge in chocolate and drink wine while losing weight and actually dieting? The Sirtfood Diet Plan has been described as a fad or craze, and when you look at the associated headlines, it is easy to see why. Described as the “chocolate and wine diet”, there is an immediate appeal in something which sounds so pleasantly self-indulgent, but would you take it seriously as a way to feel healthy or even lose weight?

In Nocturnes, a sublime story cycle, Kazuo Ishiguro explores ideas of love, music and the passing of time. From the piazzas of Italy to the Malvern Hills, a London flat to the "hush-hush floor" of an exclusive Hollywood hotel, the characters we encounter range from young dreamers to cafe musicians to faded stars, all of them at some moment of reckoning. Gentle, intimate, and witty, this quintet is marked by a haunting theme: the struggle to keep alive a sense of life's romance, even as one gets older.

The Dark Ages - a time of great turmoil and the collision of empires! As the Frank kingdom prepares for war, Roland, young heir to the Breton March, has been relegated to guard duty until a foreign emissary entrusts him with vital word of a new threat to the kingdom...Now Roland must embark on a risky journey to save all he loves from swift destruction...For Roland to become the champion his kingdom needs, he must survive war, intrigue and betrayal.

Is weight loss different when supported by a community? That's what we're going to look at with the Shibboleth Lifestyle. Describing Shibboleth as a lifestyle rather than a diet plan, the founder, Travis Martin, says he has personally lost over 100 pounds using this way of eating. Others have lost far more. He describes the Shibboleth lifestyle as "teaching" a way for people to come together and learn from his experience, using that knowledge and the power of prayer to achieve their goals. Exercise is not necessary but will amplify the results.

Thriller-paced action, shocking twist endings, alternative history, engaging characters, visionary science fiction, suspenseful pause-resisters, epic adventures, and barbaric fantasy all wrapped up in one entertaining bundle. 5 Blades' authors are endorsed by an international and New York Times best-selling author, multiple magazines, and thousands of listeners and readers spanning dozens of countries across the world. This is your one stop for top-tier science fiction and fantasy short stories.

Motivational speaker and blogger Steve Pavlina presents his words on improving your personal productivity, finding your true identity, building your ego for your betterment, caring for your mind, oneness, and how you can predict the future in a limited sense and much more. 

This book is a compilation of The Noom Diet, The Blue Zones Diet Plan, The Sirtfood Diet Plan and The Shibboleth Lifestyle. These four diets are very different in and of themselves and will provide you with an in depth look at different approaches to diet, wellness and lifestyle. Does indulging in dark chocolate and wine while losing weight sound like it's right up your alley? Perhaps the Sirtfood Diet will speak to you. Or, are you looking for deeper lifestyle changes to walk hand in hand with your diet? 

Lady Sophia struggles to gather the pieces of her life after the devastating attack on Berwick, Scotland, that tore her world apart. Now head of her family, she does all she can to keep them safe and help the people of her city regain what they lost. The arrival of an English knight raises her distrust, especially when he suspects her of stirring unrest. 

When a high-tech assassin is captured by a lithe little teen and her thugs, Vaya Sage questions his memories and launches the messiest blood bath of his career. But will the reality he unravels be less believable than memories he never questioned?

Half orphaned and struggling to survive, a broken young man risks everything to save his family with a drug that enhances his feeble powers. With mounting obstacles threatening and surrounding him at every turn, Tzun fends off one enemy only to discover his gravest challenge is worse than anything he could have imagined. When confronted with a personal nightmare, will he find a way to turn back or become the very thing he once despised? Listen to find out more.

With an introductory biography of the late Isaac Asimov, this classic work gets better. Red and Slim found the two strange little animals the morning after they heard the thunder sounds. They knew that they could never show their new pets to their parents. Enjoy the listen, leave a review and check out our other retro sci-fi books!

Need some inspiration to get productive? Steve Pavlina is a true visionary, and his vast array of outstanding productivity based articles are the solution to get your gears moving. This book will teach you how to set edgy goals in order to discover deep motivation. Learn how to break free from harmful addictions, love your idiot zone, make sense of infinite possibilities, and so much more in this long compilation of Steve Pavlina's best writing. Stop procrastinating today. Not tomorrow, today. 

When invisibility is insufficient protection from his enemies, Darkmind hides in plain sight - in Ji Anna’s body. Told from Darkmind’s perspective, Vaya Sage finds himself in a lethal game of wits while still disoriented from a black market brain scan. While Darkmind reviews memories from previous bodies, Vaya Sage must determine whether or not to confront Darkmind. If he does, he risks mental enslavement - if he doesn’t, he may destroy everything he’s fought for.

In this book you will learn all about how to make sense of infinite possibilities, love the chaos, find order and clarity despite chaos, stay or go decisions, what to do when objective reality beats you down, shedding personal weaknesses, EQing your life, turning weaknesses into strengths, how to address core weaknesses, how to work from your strengths and train up your weaknesses, how to move a skill to a different part of your brain to improve productivity, how re-framing fear could improve productivity, learning new skills, and the skill of calibration.

Are you still on your journey to become a productivity master? With this book, you'll learn all about why you need to "do it now", be flexible, use single handling, why failure is your friend, triage ruthlessly, identify and recover wasted time, apply the 80-20 rule, and more. Enjoy this book and enhance your productivity today. Not tomorrow, today. 

Ultra-processed food is killing us! It's as plain as that. The fake food epidemic rages on with greater intensity and seriousness than ever before, we are left to wonder about one thing. If we, as a society, have become so dependent on the myriads of artificial, manufactured foods invading our lives, is there any hope for us? Fake food has become such an inextricable part of society today, that even minimally processed foods are not entirely free of fake elements.