Control Theory

What if peace of mind didn't depend on getting your life in order... but on how you look at it? Your mind is racing at a million miles an hour. You overthink a conversation, a bill, or a message left on read with two blue checkmarks and no reply. You snap over a comment and later regret it. You compare yourself to others, feel overwhelmed, and carry the weight of a loss you don't know how to let go of. And deep down, you just want one thing: to stop feeling so overwhelmed by everything. Two thousand years ago, three men as vastly different as an emperor, a wealthy advisor, and a freed slave...

Plague. Infection. Death. Undeath. Control Theory puts our luckless hero several years into the zombie apocalypse and he's still making the same dumb mistakes. Kidnapped because of his immunity to the worst disease in history, he is learning that being immune may not be the best thing...

The most simple definition of manipulation might be this one: manipulating is handling people at will to achieve our goals. The manipulator is an artist of language and appearance; their words and their actions are apparently true, honest and generous, but their intentions are others and they remain hidden. The victim debates between reality and the fiction that their manipulator has created for them. Learning the different modus operandi that the manipulator uses to control their victims, will protect you so you don't fall into the hands of these kinds of individuals again. Do you intend ...

What if the key to happiness, success, and love was as simple as two words? If you've ever felt stuck, overwhelmed, or frustrated with where you are, the problem isn't you. The problem is the power you give to other people. Two simple words—Let Them—will set you free. Free from the opinions, drama, and judgements of others.

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What if the gifted program wasn’t just about intelligence? What if it was about something else entirely? In the 1970s and 80s, thousands of children across North America were quietly enrolled in specialized programs for the “gifted and talented.” But decades later, many of those children—now adults—are waking up to disturbing memories, missing time, and psychic experiences that can no longer be ignored. Author Desta Barnabe was one of them. From the mysterious "Green Group" in her Winnipeg elementary school to unexplained “nap times” and psychic testing with puzzle games, ...

What if UFO disclosure isn’t being withheld… What if it’s being engineered? In The Ambiguity Engine, Rob Roden examines the modern UFO phenomenon not as proof of extraterrestrials—or as mass delusion—but as a structured system of controlled ambiguity. From classified technology rumors to abduction narratives, from reverse-engineering myths to congressional whistleblower hearings, the phenomenon repeatedly advances… but never resolves. Evidence surfaces, tension rises, and just as clarity seems within reach, the signal stabilizes. The mystery persists. This book proposes a ...

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Discover the revolutionary ideas of Michel Foucault in this accessible and comprehensive guide to one of the most influential thinkers of the modern era. Michel Foucault Explained: A Complete Guide to Power, Knowledge, and Social Control in the Modern World is the essential companion for anyone curious about Foucault’s groundbreaking work on power structures, social institutions, identity, and truth. Designed for general readers, students, and lifelong learners, this clear and engaging book breaks down complex theories from Discipline and Punish, The History of Sexuality, Madness and ...

This audiobook was created based on Michael Porter's landmark book Competitive Strategy. This was Mr. Porter's synopsis of his book for the Harvard Business Review.

From David Graeber, the bestselling author of The Dawn of Everything and Debt—“a master of opening up thought and stimulating debate” (Slate)—a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs…and their consequences. Does your job make a meaningful contribution to...

Who are you? When you start to explore this question, you find out how elusive it really is. Are you a physical body? A collection of experiences and memories? A partner to relationships? Each time you consider these aspects of yourself, you realize that there is much more to you than any of...

Propaganda Explained: Jacques Ellul on Mass Influence, Media Control, and Psychological Manipulation is a practical introduction to Ellul’s account of how propaganda works in modern societies. Ellul did not treat propaganda as simple lying or crude political messaging. He saw it as a system of influence built into mass society itself, working through news, education, administration, public relations, social groups, and the constant flow of information. This book explains his ideas in plain language, showing why propaganda depends not only on messages but also on the habits, institutions, ...

THE CATCHER IN THE RYE ENIGMA unearths the mysteries surrounding the 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger – arguably the most controversial book of all time. Nicknamed the 'Bible of teenage angst', the classic novel, which is frequently labeled immoral by different groups, has been banned in various parts of America over the decades. However, the main controversy, and indeed the most common reason for it being banned, was that it either inspired or was associated with some of the most infamous crimes of the 20th Century. These crimes include the murder of John Lennon and ...

For most of your life, you have been told a story. A story about politics. Culture. Media. Education. Activism. News. Social movements. Public opinion. A story that claims the chaos around you happened naturally. This book challenges that assumption. What if the anger consuming society was not spontaneous? What if the division was cultivated? What if generations of psychological research, propaganda techniques, behavioral engineering, intelligence operations, and ideological warfare have shaped modern society far more than most people realize? And what if the evidence has been sitting in ...

"A groundbreaking 2-in-1 book that offers the dynamics of human relationship and Treatments to Psychiatric disorder results from traumatic events." -- Bestselling Author, Greg Watson. The first Book “THE ATTACHMENT THEORY” is crafted to help you discover the basics of Your Actual Relationships by your Attachment Style using the Emotional Focused Therapy. Also treats childhood abuse or neglect, anxiety, eating disorders, Borderline personality and interpersonal issues. The second book “THE PSTD WORKBOOK” is designed to provide you with the skills and techniques to overcome Trauma and...

Control is not imposed. It is installed. Most people think control looks like force: the guard, the wall, the checkpoint, the punishment. They are wrong. Those are its crudest instruments. The most visible control is usually the weakest. In Control: Who Watches, Who Decides, and What We Lose, Joel Thomas examines control not as tyranny, conspiracy, or a defect of bad governments, but as a structural force: the management of behavior toward predictability, and the machinery that turns power into something permanent. Across five thousand years, enforcement has migrated in one direction only, ...

A riveting, real-life thriller about 1983--the year tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union nearly brought the world to the point of nuclear Armageddon The year 1983 was an extremely dangerous one--more dangerous than 1962, the year of the Cuban Missile Crisis. In the United...

The E-CENT theory of anger says that anger is one of our basic emotions. It’s innate. It was selected by nature for its survival value. We would not survive for long without an innate sense of angering in response to abuse or neglect. We also would not survive for long if we did not quickly learn how to moderate our anger as young children. My anger is a two-edged sword. It can help to protect me, and it can attract hostile reactions from others. My basic emotion of anger is elaborated into a higher cognitive emotion through modelling by my mother and father and significant others in the ...

Your anxiety isn’t irrational. Your pain isn’t imaginary. Your exhaustion isn’t a personal failure. Your brain is doing exactly what it was designed to do—predict the future and protect you from danger. The problem is that many of those predictions are wrong. In YOUR BRAIN IS LYING TO YOU, you’ll discover a startling scientific truth: Most of what you feel—stress, fear, pain, fatigue, even motivation—is not caused by reality itself, but by your brain’s predictions about reality. Those predictions are called beliefs, and they operate far below conscious thought, shaping your ...