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Are you tired of ineffective debates and not being able to be persuasive? Do you see others who can instantly connect to others and seem to be able to sway opinions their way easily? What if I told you that you could be just as persuasive? You can be. <br><br>Conversational hypnosis is your gateway to becoming a better communicator, with better persuasive power and the ability to influence. Linguistic principles are used to improve the power of your speech, making people pay attention and listen. Not only will they listen, but you will also find that they are agreeable to what you are suggesting. Make the power of suggestion work for you and learn how to get people to do what you want through influence and persuasion. <br><br>This book will walk you through how to establish rapport and then how to get people to do what you want, without realizing you are influencing them in any way

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&quot;Counterpredators&quot; is a modern solution to an ancient problem: Parents face the overwhelming responsibility of training their children to navigate the threat environment and safely molding them into powerful, self-aware, authentic adults. At the same time, many parents do not themselves possess the necessary skill set&ndash;and when their children sense this, they begin to adopt questionable heroes and role models.<br><br>In the natural world, animal parents train their young by repeatedly exposing them to hazard, while demonstrating efficient risk management, yet our society teaches us to do the exact opposite: Shelter and protect our children from whatever might harm them. As a result, many children are profoundly unprepared to deal with real threat. Since both animal and human young are equally vulnerable, it is easy to spot the weak link: The unprepared human parent.<br><br>To solve this problem, parents need to assume a powerful new identity, something unique and elemental that rivets the attention and imagination of their children. They must become counterpredators: individuals who have the skill and the will to engage and overcome human threats. <br><br>&quot;Counterpredators&quot; is the story of how to achieve this transition using cutting edge methodology. Survival Response Conditioning &mdash;the re-activation of dormant, subconscious survival skills combined with high pressure, scenario based experiences&mdash;produces rapid, permanent change and provides the launch pad for an unbreakable bond of love and respect between parents and children.

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Mark Heywood plays a pivotal role in South African public life and the movement for social justice. He has spearheaded momentous victories for poor people, establishing the right to antiretroviral treatment and to textbooks in schools among others. Executive Director of SECTION27 and a key figure in #SaveSouthAfrica, #UniteAgainstCorruption and the Treatment Action Campaign, Heywood has inside experience of tough campaigns and what it takes to mobilise thousands to create change. This book provides frank insights into how power and politics work as it calls on each of us to play our part. Urgent and inspirational, it is also a personal story about love, loss and safeguarding your soul. It is a book of justice and hope.

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From the serious to the lighthearted, this book presents a snapshot of what smart young South Africans think about living in South Africa today. From black tax, whitesplaining and colourism, all the way to hip hop and kinky sex, it is provocative, fearlessly honest and often very funny. Shaka Sisulu tackles being black and privileged, Simphiwe Dana pleads for mother tongue education, Yolisa Qunta shares lessons learnt from taking the taxi, while David Kau, Loyiso Gola and Sivuyile Ngesi provide comic relief. Writing What We Like will spark debates in workplaces, in bars, and around the dinner table – both ekasi and in the suburbs – for some time to come.

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In the murky world of espionage few rules apply. Everything is permitted in the name of state security – even talking to the country's Enemy No. 1. This is exactly what Niël Barnard, then head of the National Intelligence Service (NIS), did in the late 1980s. On instruction of PW Botha, he started top-secret talks with Nelson Mandela in prison. Not even Cabinet was informed. In Secret Revolution Barnard reveals, for the first time, the details of these meetings – the precursor to Mandela's release and the first democratic elections. Barnard's disclosures offer fascinating insights into Mandela the man, his convictions and strategic reasoning. The book also sheds light on the daily lives of spies during NIS's heyday in the 1980s and contains several revelations: From the secret communication channel NIS established with the KGB and the British operatives caught spying on South Africa's nuclear capability to ministers' sexual escapades.

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In die duister wêreld van spioene geld die gewone reëls nie. Alles is geoorloof in die naam van landsveiligheid – selfs om met die staat se Vyand No. 1 te praat. Dit is presies wat Niël Barnard in die laat 1980's as hoof van die Nasionale Intelligensiediens (NI) gedoen het. In opdrag van PW Botha het hy hoogs geheime gesprekke met Nelson Mandela begin voer. Nie eens die kabinet het geweet nie. In Geheime Revolusie lig Barnard vir die eerste keer die sluier oor dié tronkgesprekke – wat uiteindelik tot Mandela se vrylating en die eerste demokratiese verkiesing sou lei. Dit bied 'n fassinerende blik op Mandela die mens en op sy politieke oortuigings. Die boek werp ook lig op die alledaagse lewe van spioene en die suksesse van NI in die 1980's. Barnard maak etlike onthullings: Van die gesprekskanaal wat NI met die Russiese KGB geskep het en die Britse spioene wat op ons kernwapenvermoë gespioeneer het (en vasgetrek is) tot ministers se eskapades in die buiteland.

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Croatian Radical Separatism and Diaspora Terrorism During the Cold War examines one of the most active but least remembered groups of terrorists of the Cold War: radical anti-Yugoslav Croatian separatists. Operating in countries as widely dispersed as Sweden, Australia, Argentina, West Germany, and the United States, Croatian extremists were responsible for scores of bombings, numerous attempted and successful assassinations, two guerilla incursions into socialist Yugoslavia, and two airplane hijackings during the height of the Cold War. In Australia alone, Croatian separatists carried out no less than sixty-five significant acts of violence in one ten-year period. Diaspora Croats developed one of the most far-reaching terrorist networks of the Cold War and, in total, committed on average one act of terror every five weeks worldwide between 1962 and 1980. Tokić focuses on the social and political factors that radicalized certain segments of the Croatian diaspora population during the Cold War and the conditions that led them to embrace terrorism as an acceptable form of political expression. At its core, this book is concerned with the discourses and practices of radicalization—the ways in which both individuals and groups who engage in terrorism construct a particular image of the world to justify their actions. Drawing on exhaustive evidence from seventeen archives in ten countries on three continents—including diplomatic communiqués, political pamphlets and manifestos, manuals on bomb-making, transcripts of police interrogations of terror suspects, and personal letters among terrorists—Tokić tells the comprehensive story of one of the Cold War’s most compelling global political movements.

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This volume includes some of the most important historical documents in American history. In this edition are included the following: The Declaration of Independence of The United States of America (1776), The Constitution of the United States of America (1787), The Bill of Rights and Other Amendments to the Constitution (1791-1992), The Albany Plan (1754), The Declaration of Rights (1765 – In Response to the Stamp Act), Declaration of Rights and Grievances (1774), Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776), The Articles of Confederation (1778), Report of the Annapolis Conference (1786), Speech of Benjamin Franklin (1787 – At the Constitutional Congress), The Letter of Transmittal (1787 – Of the Constitution), Washington's Letter to Congress (1787 – Regarding the Constitution), Madison Introduces the Bill of Rights (1789), Jefferson's Wall of Separation Letter (1802), The National Anthem – The Star Spangled Banner (1814), Declaration of Sentiments (1848), Fugitive Slave Act (1850), Confederate Constitution (1861), Gettysburg Address (1863), Emancipation Proclamation (1863), and The Pledge of Allegiance (1892)

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In «On Liberty,» John Stuart Mill begins by writing, «The subject of this essay is not the so-called 'liberty of the will', so unfortunately opposed to the misnamed doctrine of philosophical necessity; but civil, or social liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual.» It is this concept that is at the heart of this work. John Stuart Mill eloquently ponders the question of where the line should be drawn between the freedom of individuals and the authority of the state. As he puts it, «The struggle between liberty and authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar…»

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Nationally known community organizer and activist Harry C. Boyte incites readers to join today&#39;s &quot;citizen movement,&quot; offering practical tools for how we can change the face of America by focusing on issues close to home.<br /><br />Targeting useful techniques for individuals to raise public consciousness and effectively motivate community-based groups, Boyte grounds his arguments in the country&#39;s tradition of &quot;populism,&quot; demonstrating how mobilized citizens can be far more powerful than our frequently paralyzed politicians. He offers practical tips on identifying potential citizen leaders and working through cultural differences without sacrificing identities.<br /><br />Each point is illustrated by inspiring real-life examples of Minnesotans who have prompted change: An immigrant community that created a cultural wellness center. An organization of multiracial, multifaith congregations that is tackling tough social problems. A cluster of suburban neighborhoods that came together to take back Sundays from overzealous youth-sports organizations. For readers doubting their ability to make a significant difference in our world, this how-to book will show the way.

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