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PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. When Facades Crack is a blistering examination of how tyranny thrives not despite but through liberalism. It's an account of how the language of freedom becomes a shield for power, how justice gets bent into legal obedience, and how democracies betray their ideals-not with fanfare but with silence, subtlety, and plausible deniability. At its core, When Facades Crack argues that tyranny lives in our policies, politics, institutions, and daily moral evasions. It is sustained not by monsters but by ordinary people who excuse small compromises, prize comfort over courage, and mistake performance for principle. But this is no manifesto of despair. It is not to condemn liberalism, but to rescue it from its distortions, opportunists, and the comforting lies we tell ourselves. To be liberal, properly understood, is to resist tyranny in all its forms-especially the ones that hide behind our own beliefs. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. No One Cares That You're Right is an examination of influence as it actually operates, not as it is taught, hoped for, or morally defended. The book rejects the comforting belief that correctness, merit, or clarity naturally prevail. Instead, it maps the mechanics through which outcomes are decided in institutions, negotiations, workplaces, and public life; mechanisms rooted in perception, timing, structure, and restraint rather than logic alone.The work is organized around ten operational disciplines, progressing from how influence begins before a word is spoken, to how it is exercised during conflict, and finally to how it is sustained after victory. Presence precedes argument. Silence often outweighs explanation. Frames determine outcomes long before facts enter the room. Control emerges not from dominance, but from managing pace, environment, emotional temperature, and the costs attached to action and resistance.Historical episodes, political leadership, corporate crises, and cultural case studies are used not as inspiration but as evidence. From constitutional conventions to boardrooms, from financial rescues to reputational collapse, the pattern repeats: those who shape perception, structure choice, and preserve dignity after conflict accumulate durable power. Those who rely on being right, loud, or righteous do not.The book is neither motivational nor confessional. It does not promise fairness, nor does it advocate manipulation. Its argument is narrower and colder: influence is already being applied, whether acknowledged or not, and refusing to understand it merely ensures subordination. Responsibility begins when one stops mistaking outrage for strategy and explanation for leverage.Written for readers who are tired of watching inferior strategies win, No One Cares That You're Right offers a framework for acting with clarity under pressure, maintaining control without theatrics, and securing outcomes without burning the ground behind them. Influence, as presented here, is not performance. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The Economy of Blame is an examination of how grievance replaced responsibility as the dominant moral currency of modern life.Across politics, media, institutions, and private relationships, blame now travels faster than truth, louder than evidence, and safer than accountability. Pain confers authority. Identity shields conduct. Outrage substitutes for action. The result is a culture rich in accusation and poor in repair.This book traces that transformation with precision rather than polemic. It follows the rise of strategic victimhood, moral narcissism, identity leverage, and cost-free virtue. It shows how systems become hiding places, how standards dissolve into comparisons, and how empathy fractures into tribal loyalty. Each chapter reveals not a conspiracy, but an incentive structure; one that rewards grievance, punishes growth, and treats responsibility as naivete.Yet the argument does not stop at diagnosis. The second half turns inward, where systems end and selves begin. It challenges the reader to abandon moral outsourcing and reclaim agency without applause. Integrity reappears not as performance, but as posture. Contribution replaces identity as the durable measure of worth. Quiet standards reassert themselves against noise.The Economy of Blame does not promise comfort. It offers clarity. It does not flatter the reader. It respects them enough to demand more. In an age addicted to outrage and allergic to responsibility, this book makes a restrained, unfashionable claim: cultures recover only when individuals stop waiting to be rescued and start living as though their choices matter. No slogans. No saviours. No one is coming. And that is precisely why the work can begin. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Intelligence does not protect against error. The modern world rewards speed, confidence, and narrative coherence. Decisions are expected to arrive fully formed, defended with fluency, and executed without visible hesitation. Under these conditions, intelligence becomes a liability when it outruns judgment. The sharper the mind, the more convincingly it can rationalize instinct, suppress doubt, and mistake momentum for mastery.This book examines why capable people make decisions that later appear indefensible, avoidable, or quietly destructive. The failures explored here do not stem from ignorance or malice. They arise from predictable distortions in human cognition, compounded by pressure, hierarchy, and poorly designed systems. Bias bends judgment in consistent directions. Inconsistency scatters it without warning. Together, they erode fairness, accuracy, and trust.Drawing from decades of behavioural science, safety engineering, and real-world decision failures across medicine, aviation, government, and enterprise, the book advances a simple claim: good judgment is not a personality trait. It is an engineered outcome. Where structure is absent, even the most capable minds default to comfort, familiarity, and self-protection. Where discipline is present, ordinary people routinely outperform brilliance.Leadership, in this account, is not about superior intellect or force of personality. It is about governing attention, emotion, and pace. It is about creating environments where dissent is safe, standards are visible, and power is restrained by design rather than virtue. The book argues that fairness is not an aspiration but an architecture, and that ethical judgment begins long before outcomes are known, at the moment trade-offs are acknowledged, and evidence is allowed to argue back.The final sections confront the moral dimension of decision-making. Every major decision allocates risk, dignity, and consequence to people who often lack voice or recourse. Careless judgment is not abstract; it leaves victims. Precision in thought becomes a civic duty when institutions claim authority over others' lives, livelihoods, and futures.Smart People, Stupid Decisions is written for those who carry responsibility and feel the weight of getting it wrong. It does not promise perfect outcomes. It offers something rarer and more durable: a way to slow certainty just enough for wisdom to arrive, to replace instinct with proportion when the stakes demand it, and to build systems that keep intelligence from turning against itself.Judgment is not improved by believing you are right. Judgment improves when you design for the possibility that you are not. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. We don't ridicule a first grader for failing a math problem - we teach them. Yet in public discourse, cultural conflict, and political debate, we often treat adults who "get it wrong" not as students, but as enemies. Why We Don't Mock First Graders (And Shouldn't Expel Adults Either) confronts this contradiction at the heart of modern intolerance. Spanning racial bias and religious difference to online outrage and political polarization, this is not a demand to agree with everyone. It's a call to stop giving up on people. Because just as we give children the chance to learn what they haven't yet been taught, adults - in all our stubbornness, missteps, and untapped potential - deserve the same grace. At its heart, this book is about the long, unfinished lesson of being humans. How can we challenge without condemning? How do we teach without shaming? And how can we disagree without erasing one another? This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Across millennia, civilizations have surged with the discovery of new sources of energy, widened their influence through innovation, amassed incredible levels of wealth, built powerful institutions, and then found themselves collapsing as a result of the factors that once made them powerful. The names change. The flags change. The stories change. Yet the underlying patterns do not. In The Cycles Within Civilizations, Michael Reijnierszen follows those patterns, while abstaining from the noise of current events. Drawing on history, politics, economics, and systems thinking, Michael traces how societies accumulate and compound micro-pressures until the system must adapt, break, or transform. There is no intention of being prophetic, only to explore why recurring patterns appear in wildly different eras, and what they can teach us about the present. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…