Social Control

The conduct of warfare is constantly shaped by new forces that create complexities in the battlespace for military operations. As the nature of how and where wars are fought changes, new challenges to the application of the extant body of international law that regulates armed conflicts arise. This inaugural volume of the Lieber Studies series seeks to address several issues in the confluence of law and armed conflict, with the primary goal of providing the listener with both academic and practitioner perspectives.

This New York Times bestseller shares the rich history of the White House grounds, revealing how the story of the garden is also the story of America. The 18-acres surrounding the White House have been an unwitting witness to history—kings and queens have dined there, bills and treaties have...

"Dark Psychology and Gaslighting Manipulation" is more than a book; it's a tool for building a more transparent, informed, and resilient self. It's about empowering you to recognize the signs of manipulation, understand the psychological underpinnings, and, most importantly, develop defenses that protect your mental well-being.

America’s ever-expanding waistline—we see it, we hear about it, and we worry about it, but can anything be done about it? We know all the usual suspects: red meat, dairy, white flour, refined sugar, high-fructose corn syrup, a lack of exercise, too much television—the list goes on and on. It seems simple, right? Not really. There’s a lot more going on below the surface when it comes to what America is eating for dinner—and breakfast and lunch and in between.

Women everywhere are waking up to the risks associated with birth control. The print edition of this book garnered global attention for exposing how the health of millions of women has been sacrificed In the Name of the Pill. This new, expanded audio edition continues the conversation into these impossibly diverse consequences and reveals how such a dangerous drug ever made it do market. This expanded audiobook also contains new chapters that delve into the risks of long-acting forms of birth control such as injections and IUDs.

Manipulation is a powerful tool, and it's only becoming more prevalent in our modern world. That's why it's important to learn how to protect yourself from manipulation and understand the techniques that manipulators use. With this audiobook, you'll learn how to analyze people, read their body language, and use NLP and hypnosis to get inside their minds. You'll also learn how to protect yourself from emotional influence and mind control! Once you've learned these skills, you'll be able to spot manipulation attempts from a mile away—and avoid them with ease.

Den brutalen Überfall Russlands auf die Ukraine konnte die NATO trotz ihrer Bemühungen nicht verhindern: Die Folgen des Krieges werden Europa und die Welt noch jahrelang erschüttern. Nicht nur Russland, sondern auch sein enger Partner China stellt den Westen in Zukunft vor enorme strategische Herausforderungen – und die NATO darf ihre Fehler nicht wiederholen. Die Strategieexpertin Dr. Stefanie Babst gewährt Einblicke in das Innere des transatlantischen Bündnisses.

If you are overwhelmed by intense and fluctuating emotions, have difficulty with relationships, and constantly struggle with troubling thoughts and behaviors, then this audiobook is for you! These symptoms can be especially difficult to treat, though there are ways to gain control over your emotions and live a happier, healthier life. All you have to do is take the first step. Then, take another and another. Manage Personality Disorder shows you the exact right steps to take to overcome those fears and worries, once and for all!

¿Cansado de ser manipulado y de sentirse impotente? Esta guía le ayudará a reconocer y contrarrestar tácticas de manipulación psicológica. Diseñada para profesionales y entusiastas, ofrece conocimientos profundos sobre los mecanismos ocultos de la mente humana y ejemplos prácticos para aplicar de inmediato.

Cómo la policía nos pone en peligro y por qué necesitamos encontrar una alternativa. En los últimos años se ha producido una explosión de protesta contra la brutalidad y la represión policial, sobre todo en Ferguson, Misuri, donde estallaron quejas de larga data en violentas manifestaciones tras el asesinato policial de Michael Brown. Entre activistas, periodistas y políticos, la conversación sobre cómo responder y mejorar la policía se ha centrado en la rendición de cuentas, la diversidad, la capacitación y las relaciones comunitarias.

Finance plays a key role in the prosperity of the modern world—but it also brings grave dangers. We seek to manage those threats with a vast array of sophisticated mathematical tools and techniques of financial risk management. Too often, though, we fail to address the greatest risk—the peril posed by our own behavior. Jon Danielsson argues that critical risk is generated from within, through the interactions of individuals and perpetuated by their beliefs, objectives, abilities, and prejudices.

Blankenship identifies three factors that determine the severity of this burden-sharing dilemma and how it is managed: the latent military power of allies, the shared external threat environment, and the level of a patron's resource constraints. Through case studies of US alliances formed during the Cold War, he shows that a patron can mitigate the dilemma by combining assurances of protection with threats of abandonment and by exercising discretion in its burden-sharing pressure.

In 2008, Democrats won a sweeping victory, seizing the White House and the majority in both houses of Congress. We knew this meant liberals would be in charge of the federal government—but what many Americans didn’t anticipate was that they would use this supposed “mandate” as an excuse to try and run every single part of our lives.

A timely primer on the conflict between the United States and Iran by scholars of Middle Eastern politics who advocate diplomacy and de-escalation.

Do you think that your social skills need some improvements? Would you like to beat the narcissist and have a better body language? Then you have to listen to this audiobook! If your social skills are not so good, you can use a professional guide to improve them!

On a tranquil summer night in July 2012, a trio of elderly peace activists infiltrated the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Nicknamed the "Fort Knox of Uranium", Y-12 was reputedly one of the most secure nuclear weapons facilities in the world, a bastion of warhead parts that harbored hundreds of metric tons of highly enriched uranium - enough to power thousands of nuclear bombs. The activists - a house painter, a Vietnam war veteran, and an 82-year-old Catholic nun - penetrated the complex's exterior with alarming ease.

Imagine a world where a boy's dreams dictate the behavior of warriors in battle; where a young couple's only release from forbidden love is death; where religious extremism, blind hatred, and endemic corruption combine to form a lethal ideology. This is the world of Terrorists in Love. A gifted listener and storyteller, Ken Ballen takes us where no one has dared to go - deep into the secret heart of Islamic fundamentalism.

In this book, you will see what people are doing every day, consciously or unconsciously, and how to recognize it faster. The human being is a mysterious object. You cannot know their correct intentions toward you completely, but this will help to teach you a few techniques to read their minds through their body language and actions.

¡Nunca vuelvas a recibir un "no" como respuesta con este audiolibro que te mostrará cómo influir en cada situación a tu favor! El poder de comprender lo que realmente está sucediendo en la mente de una persona puede parecer algo inalcanzable, dejándote impotente e inseguro para manejarte con éxito en las dinámicas sociales. ¡Ya no más! Imagina poseer la habilidad de descifrar el lenguaje corporal sin esfuerzo, revelando el verdadero significado detrás de cada gesto, expresión y postura.

Do you have full control over your emotions? I don’t think so. Maybe a lot but nobody is perfect at it. Moreover, what emotions are justified? Which ones are okay to express? And how? We will talk about empathy, paranoia, the essence of the conscience, and how to be happier and more fulfilled in life. We will also define jealousy and cover various aspects about this controversial topic. As far as I’m concerned, since jealousy is in everyone, a lot of people could benefit from this audiobook.