In Hitler's Army, Omer Bartov focuses on the titanic struggle between Germany and the Soviet Union—where the vast majority of German troops fought—to show how the savagery of war reshaped the army in Hitler's image. Both brutalized and brutalizing, these soldiers needed to see their bitter sacrifices as noble patriotism and to justify their own atrocities by seeing their victims as subhuman. In the unprecedented ferocity and catastrophic losses of the Eastern front, soldiers embra...

In a world where anyone can start a business but few can scale one, the difference between failure and breakthrough success comes down to execution.Epic Execution isn't another collection of business platitudes telling you what to do. It's something far more powerful: the framework to figure it out yourself.After mentoring thousands of founders at elite accelerators, advising and working with venture capital firms on their portfolios, and personall...

A new Magnificat Way of the Cross Companion Each station includes: • A beautiful work of art • A verse of a hymn set to the tune of Stabat Mater • Scripture to begin your reflection • An original meditation to help you ponder each station • A prayer to deepen your response to each station

This book encompasses all you need to know to have a great understanding about how to rewire and rework your brain.Neuroscience, the brain's science study, underpins this book's content. It is a magnificent discipline that has dramatically advanced our knowledge of how we have been working over the past 20 years. There is still a lengthy path ahead of it where there will be found many more insights. As incredible as it is, revealing truths is just one of many fields of research. Le...

For over 130 years the British & Irish Lions have stood out as a symbol of the ethics, values and romance at the heart of rugby union. To represent the Lions is the pinnacle for every international player in Britain and Ireland, and the dream of tens of thousands of avid fans who fol-low them. A Lions tour, undertaken every four years to the southern hemisphere, is more than a series of rugby matches played out on foreign fields; it is an epic crusade where the chosen few face a succession...

People are looking around today, more than ever, and finding many reasons to get angry on the other side, there are so many people who are doing everything they can to make sure they also remain cool, calm and collected. Economic issues, school violence, partisan politics, the pressures of a culture that is increasingly rapidly, even urban drift. If you speak about this with other individuals, you're likely to come up with a consensus that anger issues get worse. Furthermore, the amount of...

Often, when we were children, we are taught not to think about something to say, but simply to accept whatever we are told. In school and in the family, adults are educating us not to do this and not to do that, they are giving us instructions about "good manners" and things like that, but in most cases they haven't taught us in detail how to build good and long-lasting relationships with our counterparts. Growing up, we get used to rebelling, threatening others, or we started shutting our...

Improve your Social skills & Charisma with Brain Training, Anger Management, Emotional Intelligence, NLPThis definitive guide Includes: Stop Procrastinate, Mind Control, Manipulation, Body LanguageDid you ever thought that you need a turn in your life? Procrastinating, anger, low focus, are a part of your everyday life? If you need a change, just keep reading!Social skills are the skills we use to communicate and interact with each other, both verba...

This volume is dedicated to the field identification of pigeons and doves, and it incorporates much recent information on the family.Pigeons and doves are a large family of birds occurring throughout the world. Many species are specialist frugivores, while others feed on seeds. Most are arboral and the tropical species in particular are often brightly coloured.The family includes gregarious migratory species, as well as shy, ground-dwelling forms such as th...

The gripping story of the sensational, real-life case in which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle found himself playing detective - based on Julian Barnes's Booker Prize-nominated novel.In 1903, Birmingham solicitor George Edalji was found guilty of a terrible crime and sentenced to seven years' imprisonment. Desperate to prove his innocence, he recruited Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, to help solve his mysterious case and win him a pardon.As absorbing as any Sherl...

During a 24- year playing career he was a member of the Hawick RFC team which won the last ever unofficial Championship and thereafter eight official Scottish Championships. He was capped 52 times for Scotland (a record at that time), scoring a hatful of tries (several of which appear on 'Best of ...' videos and are still shown regularly on television), penalties and drop-goals. He played for the British Lions in the first Test against South Africa in 1980 and is widely considered to have ...

The novella "The Metamorphosis," written by Franz Kafka and originally published in 1915, is considered one of his most renowned works, along with "The Trial" and "The Castle." It begins with the protagonist, a traveling salesman named Gregor Samsa, awakening to discover he has been transformed into a giant insect-like creature.