Knowledge = Power

The Economist - 2020-03-21

This book contains the handouts accompanying the audio / video series “Overcoming Social Anxiety: Step by Step.” Each  handout is a cognitive strategy that will reduce social anxiety in  conjunction with the therapy series itself.  It helps you to develop a  full arsenal of skills for quieting negative thoughts, changing negative  thinking habits, and learning to feel less anxious.  You are in control  of this happening. With this book of handouts, you’ll learn how to: • Challenge automatic negative thoughts and beliefs • Develop rational, helpful thoughts and belief systems • Calm yourself down in social situations • Accept yourself for who you are • Feel empowered and in control of your life Our  hope is that this new series will be used by millions of people with  social anxiety disorder, as they begin learning the cognitive strategies  that will help them get better.  The brain’s “neuroplasticity” is  amazing, and you can learn to think, believe, and feel rationally,  instead of letting anxiety cripple your life.

The Gulag Archipelago Volume III

The Gulag Archipelago Volume II

The Gulag Archipelago Volume 1

Six Gentlemen, One Goal: the Destruction of Hitler’s War Machine In  the spring of 1939, a top-secret organization was founded in London:  its purpose was to plot the destruction of Hitler’s war machine, through  spectacular acts of sabotage. The guerrilla campaign that  followed was every bit as extraordinary as the six men who directed it.  One of them, Cecil Clarke, was a maverick engineer who had spent the  1930s inventing futuristic caravans. Now, his talents were put to more  devious use: he built the dirty bomb used to assassinate Hitler’s  favorite, Reinhard Heydrich. Another, William Fairbairn, was a portly  pensioner with an unusual passion: he was the world’s leading expert in  silent killing, hired to train the guerrillas being parachuted behind  enemy lines. Led by dapper Scotsman Colin Gubbins, these men---along  with three others---formed a secret inner circle that, aided by a group  of formidable ladies, single-handedly changed the course of the Second  World War: a cohort hand-picked by Winston Churchill, whom he called his  Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. Giles Milton's Churchill’s Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is a gripping and vivid narrative of adventure and derring-do that is  also, perhaps, the last great untold story of the Second World War.

"Roberts's populist approach makes  for a rollicking good read and never comes at the expense of accuracy.  His mastery of the huge variety of subjects is truly impressive and his  ability to marshal these subjects into a single compelling narrative  stunning." —The Daily Telegraph Hailed by The Economist as “Britain’s finest military historian” for bestsellers such as Masters and Commanders and Waterloo,  Andrew Roberts offers a magisterial new history of World War II and the  Axis strategy that led the Germans and Japanese to their eventual defeat.  Perfect for reader shopping to gain new insight into WWII’s pivotal  battles and campaigns, from Dunkirk to D-Day, The Storm of War is  a powerful, penetrating, and compulsively readable examination of the  causes, currents, and consequences of the Second World War.

For 18 years, Bruce Bueno de  Mesquita and Alastair Smith have been revolutionizing the study of  politics by turning conventional wisdom on its head. They start from a  single assertion: Leaders do whatever keeps them in power. They don't  care about the "national interest" - or even their subjects - unless  they have to. This clever and accessible book shows that the difference between  tyrants and democrats is just a convenient fiction. Governments do not  differ in kind but only in the number of essential supporters, or backs  that need scratching. The size of this group determines almost  everything about politics: what leaders can get away with, and the  quality of life or misery under them. The picture the authors paint is  not pretty. But it just may be the truth, which is a good starting point  for anyone seeking to improve human governance.

A paradigm-shifting book from an acclaimed Harvard Medical School scientist and one of Time’s most influential people. It’s  a seemingly undeniable truth that aging is inevitable. But what if  everything we’ve been taught to believe about aging is wrong? What if we  could choose our lifespan? In this groundbreaking book, Dr.  David Sinclair, leading world authority on genetics and longevity,  reveals a bold new theory for why we age. As he writes: “Aging is a  disease, and that disease is treatable.” This eye-opening and  provocative work takes us to the frontlines of research that is pushing  the boundaries on our perceived scientific limitations, revealing  incredible breakthroughs—many from Dr. David Sinclair’s own lab at  Harvard—that demonstrate how we can slow down, or even reverse, aging.  The key is activating newly discovered vitality genes, the descendants  of an ancient genetic survival circuit that is both the cause of aging  and the key to reversing it. Recent experiments in genetic reprogramming  suggest that in the near future we may not just be able to feel younger, but actually become younger. Through  a page-turning narrative, Dr. Sinclair invites you into the process of  scientific discovery and reveals the emerging technologies and simple  lifestyle changes—such as intermittent fasting, cold exposure,  exercising with the right intensity, and eating less meat—that have been  shown to help us live younger and healthier for longer. At once a  roadmap for taking charge of our own health destiny and a bold new  vision for the future of humankind, Lifespan will forever change the way we think about why we age and what we can do about it.

This Pulitzer Prize-winning  history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the  Japanese empire, from the invasion of Manchuria and China to the atomic  bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Told from the Japanese perspective, The Rising Sun is, in the author's words, "a factual saga of people caught up in the  flood of the most overwhelming war of mankind, told as it happened -  muddled, ennobling, disgraceful, frustrating, full of paradox." In weaving together the historical facts and human drama leading up  to and culminating in the war in the Pacific, Toland crafts a riveting  and unbiased narrative history.