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The fascinating, behind-the-scenes story of Franklin Roosevelt's attempt to pack the Supreme Court has special resonance today as we debate the limits of presidential authority.

Customer service done right is one of today's most powerful competitive advantages. In Can Your Customer Service Do This?, customer service turnaround wizard and renowned customer service training expert Micah Solomon shares everything he knows, and everything you need to know, about how to create a truly Five-Star customer service experience and use it to build sustainable bottom-line success.

Twelve Years a Slave is the autobiographical account of Solomon Northup, an African American who was born free in New York in the early 1800s. In 1841, Solomon Northup was captured and forced into slavery for a period of twelve years. Northup's account is detailed in its account of life on a cotton and sugar plantation and the daily routine of slave life during the first part of the 19th century.

December 1941. War has erupted in the Pacific, spelling danger for Gina Capelli Thorpe, an American expat living in Manila. When the Japanese invade and her husband goes missing, Gina flees with her daughter to the Zambales Mountains to avoid capture - or worse. Desperate for money, medicine, and guns, the resistance recruits Gina to join their underground army and smuggles her back to Manila.

Born into “the blessings of liberty in a free State,” Solomon Northup was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the Bayou Boeuf region of Louisiana’s Red River Valley. Twelve Years a Slave is the chronicle of his captivity at the mercy of sadistic plantation owner Edwin Epps, who tested Northup’s tenacity and self-control under the most brutal conditions. Until fate brought a Canadian abolitionist to Epps’s farm, Northup thought he would never draw another free breath.

Inside this harrowing collection, you’ll uncover three thought-provoking and classic novels about slavery, civil rights, and the plight of African Americans before the abolition of slavery. With timeless narratives and poignant, dramatic prose, these books have stood the test of time to provide unique and moving accounts of life as a slave.

This podcast is a place for our lodge members to share articles, insights, and Masonic education. We are Solomon's Staircase Masonic Lodge #357, Free and Accepted Masons from Buena Park, California Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sslodge357/support

Here, Daniel J. Siegel and Marion F. Solomon have gathered leading writers to discuss such topics as: attention, resilience, and mindfulness; neuroplasticity - how the brain changes its function and structure in response to experience; "loving awareness" as the foundation for mindful living; how mindfulness training can help build empathy and compassion in clinicians; self-compassion; addictions; using breath practice to cultivate well-being; and much more.

In this revised and updated edition of Leading Successful Change, Shea and Solomon share success stories from a host of companies including Twitter, Viacom, and the Conference of State Bank Supervisors, offering a tested method for leading successful change, which they have developed over a combined fifty years of helping organizations do just that.

Being Reasonable is the weekly conversation show that focuses on how we have arrived on our deeply-held views and our desire to know what is true. The conversational technique used in this podcast is known as ‘Street Epistemology’ and all episodes are ‘evergreen’.

Spiritual Podcast tailored to guide and educate Christians on their walk of Faith through shared experiences, testimonies and scriptures.For inquiries and questions, reach out viaEmail: Simiyuonyango2@gmai.comPhone:+254791302992

An audiobook in the Tamil language. Life is a song. Say goodbye to fatigue and tension and waltz through life, fresh as a daisy, no matter how hard the going. Listen to this audiobook containing Sibi Solomon's formula for constant energy. Reap its benefits. Get fresh!

E se la storia d’amore più romantica di sempre fosse tutta una menzogna? La prima volta che Romeo la vede, se ne innamora all’istante. Lei, che si chiama Rosalina Capuleti e che, destinata al convento, deve conoscere l’amore, combattere la sorte decisa da altri. Ma quando lui le chiede di mentire, rubare, tradire, nel cuore della passione si insinua il dubbio: e se Romeo Montecchi non fosse chi dice di essere? Qualcuno ha cercato di aprirle gli occhi ma lei, prima, era incapace di vedere. Intanto Romeo, dimenticate in un istante le promesse fatte, ha già posato lo sguardo su un’altra Capuleti.

Escape the rat race! Want to travel the country? Are you in debt and struggling to pay the mortgage or rent every month? Or maybe you want to minimize, declutter, simplify and organize your life. Do you desire to step off the grid? Minimalistic Living: How to Live in a Van and Get off the Grid will help you find the answers you're looking for! This book helps you understand the benefits of living with less. This book will take you by the hand and teach you the baby steps you need to follow to start your minimalist journey.

A Jewish podcast experience like no other. David Solomon’s “enlightening and engaging” talks on the Hebrew Bible, Jewish History, Kabbalah, and Jewish Philosophy and Thought will leave you immersed in information and inspired to learn more. Collected Talks of David Solomon is a podcast of lectures by internationally renowned educator, writer, translator, and scholar David Solomon. With the skill of a seasoned story-teller, David delivers dynamic and entertaining lectures filled with volumes of fascinating, well-researched content. These lectures, recorded before live audiences around the...

Hosted by David Solomon Bassiouni, The Global List features unexpected journeys with leaders, thinkers and innovators worldwide. From Business to Climate Change to Geopolitics, we aim to provide timely insights into the key issues and topics shaping the world -- by connecting with and learning from leading experts and voices. Each episode features a new destination/country.

Do you need a hands-on crash course in Linux programming? Look no further! You have found your audiobook! Everything you need is within the covers of Linux for Beginners: The Ultimate Crash Course! Linux programming is an advanced skill, but building on your foundations, you will learn more from Linux for Beginners: The Ultimate Crash Course in one day than you can anywhere else. Whether you are a self-taught programmer or you are working your way through school for a degree in information technology, leaning Linux and learning it well is essential.

Drawing on decades of experience, the authors offer a fresh, enlivening approach to the nonprofit enterprise that, too often, is undervalued and thought of as the province of the burnt-out and the overwhelmed. Along with its many candid insights and memorable anecdotes, The Art of Giving also offers instruction on how to create a business plan for giving that works for you.

In his doctoral research, author Yoram Solomon showed that the factors affecting creativity and productivity the most could be summed up with one word - culture. He published his findings in his book Un-Kill Creativity: How Corporate America Can Out-Innovate Startups. However, he also found that employees play a major role in creating the right culture and should not put the burden solely on management.

In the midst of a bloody war between witches and witch-hunters, all Isla Byrne wants is to survive, and she has a plan to do it. Avoid conscription. Pickpocket to stay afloat. Keep her best friend, Minnie, safe. But all of that is thrown out the window when the unthinkable happens: Minnie enlists. Isla is left with little choice: She needs to save Minnie before she’s shipped off to the war front, or resign herself to losing her best friend to the war that took her father. But even if she can come up with a plan to get them both out alive, Minnie will be hard to convince.