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Free Download Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CXZML19L | 2024 | 12 hours and 40 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 365 MB
Author: Stephanie Baker
Narrator: Jennifer Jill Araya
An in-depth, authoritative, and timely look at the unprecedented economic war the US and its European allies are waging against Russia after Putin’s invasion of Ukraine-written by a veteran journalist with unparalleled access to Western and Russian sources. Undeterred by eight years of timid US sanctions, Vladimir Putin ordered his full-scale assault on Ukraine on February 24, 2022. In the hours that followed across the world, Western leaders weaponized economic tools to counter an unprecedented land grab by a nuclear-armed power. What followed was an undeniably world-changing financial experiment that risked throwing the world into a devastating recession. The end goal was simple: to sap the strength of Putin’s war machine and damage the Russian economy-once the eleventh largest on the planet. Here, Russian expert and veteran journalist Stephanie Baker explains in fascinating detail how this furious shadow-war unfolded: its causes, how it is being executed, and its ability to affect Russia and the course of history.

Free Download Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia by Stephanie Baker
English | September 10, 2024 | ISBN: 1668050587, 1668077426 | True EPUB | 368 pages | 42.5 MB
An in-depth, authoritative, and timely look at the unprecedented economic war the US and its European allies are waging against Russia after Putin’s invasion of Ukraine-written by a veteran journalist with unparalleled access to Western and Russian sources.

Free Download A Life Less Punishing: 13 Ways to Love the Life You’ve Got by Matt Heath
English | November 5, 2024 | ISBN: 1991006470 | 288 pages | MOBI | 0.87 Mb
A Life Less Punishing is Matt’s distilled wisdom on how to live a good life, where he takes several common emotions and unpacks why we feel this way and how we can change it, interspersed with personal anecdotes, plus research taken from philosophy, psychology, and interviews with experts. Each chapter takes a different emotion/reaction/concern – anger, dissatisfaction, fear, loneliness, feeling offended, stress, humiliation, greed, annoyance, boredom, worry, grief, aimlessness – and Matt unpacks why we suffer from them and how to reframe our reactions and turn them on their heads, all in aid of living a happier life. Written with Matt’s trademark humour and hard-won insight, this is the perfect book for anyone who wonders if there is more to the life they are currently leading.

Free Download Chloé Deambrogio, "Judging Insanity, Punishing Difference: A History of Mental Illness in the Criminal Court "
English | ISBN: 1503630323 | 2023 | 300 pages | PDF | 2 MB
In Judging Insanity, Punishing Difference, Chloé Deambrogio explores how developments in the field of forensic psychiatry shaped American courts’ assessments of defendants’ mental health and criminal responsibility over the course of the twentieth century. During this period, new psychiatric notions of the mind and its readability, legal doctrines of insanity and diminished culpability, and cultural stereotypes about race and gender shaped the ways in which legal professionals, mental health experts, and lay witnesses approached mental disability evidence, especially in cases carrying the death penalty. Using Texas as a case study, Deambrogio examines how these medical, legal, and cultural trends shaped psycho-legal debates in state criminal courts, while shedding light on the ways in which experts and lay actors’ interpretations of "pathological" mental states influenced trial verdicts in capital cases. She shows that despite mounting pressures from advocates of the "rehabilitative penology," Texas courts maintained a punitive approach towards defendants allegedly affected by severe mental disabilities, while allowing for moralized views about personalities, habits, and lifestyle to influence psycho-legal assessments, in potentially prejudicial ways.