The 10 Natural Laws of Success-AudioBook

Smith is CEO of Franklin Quest, a company that conducts time-management seminars for corporations, organizations, and government agencies, reaching as many as 20,000 persons per month. It also sells day-planner scheduling books as an integral part of the time-management system it touts. This highly successful company was founded by Smith a little more than 10 years ago and was modeled on the self-improvement system outlined in Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography. Smith argues that there is much more to managing time than getting things done. He preaches that only by understanding one’s own value system can one decide what matters most, set priorities, and accomplish one’s goals. The result is not only a better-organized life but a more fulfilling one. By focusing on time, Smith has provided a self-improvement book that almost everyone can use–and benefit from.

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Sex Crimes under the Wehrmacht

University of Nebraska Press | 2007-07-01 | ISBN: 0803243324 | 298 pages | PDF | 1 MB

In this groundbreaking work, David Raub Snyder offers a nuanced investigation into the German army’s prosecution and punishment of sex offenders during the Second World War. In so doing, Snyder restores balance to the literature regarding the military administration of justice under Hitler and to the historiography of sexuality and the Third Reich. Although scholars have devoted considerable attention to military offenses, the literature is largely silent about crimes punishable under civilian law.
In many cases, the Wehrmacht’s response to rape, sexual assault, homosexual “offenses,” child molestation, incest, “racial defilement,” and bestiality often depended on the willingness of the offender to continue to bear arms for his country. Snyder notes that, contrary to conventional wisdom, soldiers on the eastern front often received severe punishments for sexual assaults on Soviet civilians. He demonstrates how military expedience and military justice became entangled and conflicted during the war.
Snyder also analyzes the Wehrmacht's unique penal and parole system, the first treatment of this important topic in the English language. The Wehrmacht’s system functioned as a filtering mechanism that rechanneled willing soldiers back to the front while simultaneously channeling recalcitrant or “incorrigible” soldiers in the opposite direction—to concentration camps for destruction through work at the hands of the SS.
Supported by research in Germany and detailed accounts largely unavailable in English until now, Snyder offers new perspectives on justice under the Wehrmacht and the situations of homosexuals, women, and children during wartime.

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Michael Connelly - The Lincoln Lawyer - Audio Book

Michael Connelly’s The Lincoln Lawyer read by Vincent Marzello

Selected for Richard & Judy’s Book Club

Complete & Unabridged

Playing Time 14 hours and 9 minutes over 12 CD’s

Mickey Haller is a Lincoln Lawyer, a criminal defence attorney who operates out of the back of a Lincoln Town Car, traveling between courthouses of Los Angeles County to take whatever cases the system throws in his path. Mickey’s been in the business a long time and he knows how to work it, how to grease the right wheels and palms.

When a Beverly Hills rich boy is arrested for brutally beating a woman, Mickey has his first high-paying client in years. He might even be in the rare position of defending a client who is actually innocent. But, as Mickey knows, criminal cases can turn on a dime….

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