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Anthony Bourdain lived loud, fast, and brilliantly—until, abruptly, he didn’t. Burnt Ends: Anthony Bourdain and the Beautiful Despair of Living Loudly is a searing biography that dismantles the public image and reconstructs the private chaos of the world’s most unlikely philosopher-chef. This is not a sanitized celebration nor a voyeuristic exposé. It’s a meticulous, emotionally rigorous autopsy of a life devoted to the restless pursuit of sensation, meaning, and escape. From the privilege of his New Jersey childhood to the junk-sick nights behind kitchen doors, from the explosive ...

What if your mood wasn’t something that just happened to you—but something you could control, calibrate, and flip, on demand? Positive Switch offers a no-fluff, science-backed framework for emotional regulation in real life. This book doesn’t sell inspiration—it teaches infrastructure. You’ll learn how to shift emotional tone through micro-adjustments that take seconds, not hours. No therapy speak. No storytelling. Just actionable rituals, nervous system tools, and cognitive reframes designed to help you reset—hourly, if needed. Inside, you’ll discover how to: Break mood ...

If you're a software project manager still clinging to Gantt charts, manual status reports, and legacy rituals, this book is your last warning. Artificial Intelligence has already taken over half the job—and the other half is under review. The Software Project Manager's AI Survival Guide is the unflinching roadmap to reinventing your role before someone else writes you out of the org chart. Forget the buzzwords. This book gets brutally honest about what AI can already do, what it’s coming for next, and how project managers can stay not just employed, but essential. It shows you how to ...

Let’s skip the sugarcoating: today’s kids are drowning in praise, cushions, and participation trophies—and it’s making them weaker. Your Kid’s Not Special is a blunt, unsentimental manifesto for parents who are done playing the emotional butler. If you’re tired of tiptoeing around tantrums, negotiating chores like you’re handling a hostage crisis, and watching other people’s kids treat adults like waitstaff, this book is your rallying cry. This isn’t about being mean. It’s about being honest. Each chapter dismantles a modern parenting myth—like the cult of self-esteem,...

The Default Mode Life is a ruthless psychological dissection of the modern man trained to obey, perform, and disappear. Raised on praise for being "a good boy," shaped by systems that reward silence over truth, and applauded for success defined by conformity, he awakens—too late—to a life that was never truly his. This book follows the internal unraveling of a man who never rebelled, never questioned, and never claimed his own voice. Each chapter slices through the cultural scripts—education, masculinity, work, marriage, parenthood—that quietly program men to mistake applause for ...

What began as a throwaway acronym on Wall Street is now a global force challenging the foundations of Western dominance. BRICS: The Rising Bloc Redefining Global Power is a searing, unsentimental look at how five wildly different nations—Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—are leveraging economic scale, geopolitical friction, and institutional fatigue to rewrite the rules of the global order. This is not a motivational fable. It’s a forensic breakdown of a power shift in progress. Across 30 methodical chapters, this book tracks the BRICS journey from speculative concept to ...

The Growth Fallacy is a clear-eyed examination of the world’s most dangerous economic illusion: that perpetual growth is possible on a finite planet. With scalpel-like precision, this book dissects the structural dependence of modern capitalism on constant expansion—and what happens when that expansion stalls. From GDP worship and corporate mandates to ecological ceilings and demographic contractions, each chapter reveals how growth isn't just a byproduct of capitalism—it's the engine. And when the engine fails, everything built around it begins to fracture: pensions, public services,...

This Is How Money Works is not a guide to budgeting or investing, nor a motivational sermon wrapped in recycled aphorisms. It is an unapologetically lucid anatomy of financial influence—written for the strategist, not the spectator. With prose that slices through conventional wisdom and narrative illusions alike, this book dismantles the mythologies surrounding money and reframes it as what it actually is: a behavioral lever, a psychological weapon, a quiet machine of control. You won’t find tactics here for getting rich quick. You’ll find something more dangerous—an entirely new ...

Trickle-down economics is the most persistent lie in modern history—a fraud dressed up in policy-speak, peddled by billionaires, and swallowed whole by a public too exhausted to push back. Trickle Down, My Ass is a surgical dismantling of that lie and every economic con job that came after it. Written by a seasoned, battle-scarred expert who’s seen every market cycle, policy pivot, and failed reform scheme, this book doesn't ask politely for your attention—it grabs you by the collar and tells the truth. This is not a feel-good finance book. There are no affirmations, no manifesting, ...

Modern life rewards people who can pivot. The Frugal Survivalist is the field guide for anyone who feels inflation nibbling away at every paycheck, sees supply chains hiccup after every storm, or simply wants more control over daily costs. In thirty concise, insight-packed chapters, this book dismantles the myth that preparedness is expensive and shows how strategic spending, skill fluency, and community reciprocity convert scarcity into opportunity. You will learn how to: Harden your budget so it bends—never breaks—under sudden bills. Turn bulk staples, balcony gardens, and zero-waste ...

What if resilience wasn’t about staying positive—but staying intact? Unwritten Laws: The Secret Principles of People Who Don’t Fall Apart is a field manual for emotional endurance, written for people who are capable but exhausted—focused, but fraying at the edges. It dismantles the myth that stability is about having it all together and replaces it with something far more usable: quiet systems, daily discipline, and radically practical habits that work even when everything feels like it’s falling apart. This isn’t a book about mindset shifts or inspirational breakthroughs. ...

Tired of waiting for one big break that never comes? Hustle Stacking is the no-fluff manual for building multiple, low-maintenance income streams that actually pay. No hype, no fake gurus, and absolutely no MLM garbage—just practical, repeatable tactics for stacking $100, $500, and $1,000 micro-incomes until your day job becomes optional. This isn’t about chasing six-figure fantasies or quitting your job on a whim. It’s about building a layered income system that survives market shifts, algorithm changes, and client ghosting. From flipping physical products on weekends to selling low-...

What if inflation wasn’t just a side effect of economic turbulence—but a story, crafted to mislead you? The Inflation Lie dismantles the comforting myths that surround rising prices and stagnant wages, revealing how the system is built to confuse the public while enriching the few. This isn’t your typical economic analysis. It’s a scalpel taken to the narratives that dominate headlines—and a blueprint for understanding who’s really pulling the strings. Prices go up. Wages don’t. Meanwhile, billionaires frame supply chains and interest rates as natural disasters, all while ...

You’re Not Poor—You’re Playing by the Rules is a sharp, unsparing examination of the modern financial myths that keep millions stuck in cycles of spending, debt, and scarcity—despite working harder, earning more, and following every piece of advice handed down by schools, parents, banks, and media. From the illusion of budgeting as control to the toxic grind of hustle culture, from the glamorization of gig work to the false promise of homeownership, this book dismantles the economic scripts we’ve been taught to perform. It doesn’t just critique the system—it reveals how the ...

Agile isn't a framework problem—it's a leadership one. In The Real Work of Agile Coaching, seasoned coaches and change agents will find a brutally honest guide to what it actually takes to shift organizations from within. Forget glossy frameworks, post-it notes, or agile theater—this book dives into the reality of guiding teams and leaders through ambiguity, resistance, politics, and burnout. Drawing on hard-won experience across complex environments, this book delivers clear, direct guidance for building influence, navigating conflict, creating sustainable change, and developing the ...

Step into a supermarket, and you're not just shopping—you’re being studied, steered, and subtly coerced. Don’t Buy the Cheese pulls back the curtain on the hidden architecture of modern grocery stores, revealing the psychological traps, sensory manipulation, and behavioral economics engineered into every aisle, scent, and shelf. From oversized carts that trick you into buying more, to scent machines that simulate fresh-baked bread, this forensic exposé shows how stores convert your attention into profit—without you ever noticing. This isn't about conspiracy. It's about design. ...

You weren’t born to make minimum payments. You were conditioned to. The Debt Assassin is not a feel-good guide. It’s a full-scale tactical manual for people ready to end the debt game with lethal precision. No affirmations. No budgeting apps. Just ruthless, calculated strategies designed to kill what’s killing your financial future. Inside this unforgiving playbook, you’ll uncover how to dismantle the entire debt ecosystem—credit cards, payday loans, lifestyle creep, emotional spending, consolidation traps, and the obedient psychology that keeps you locked in. You’ll learn how ...

What Happens When You Abandon the Herd is not a guide—it’s a confrontation. It’s for the misfits who walked away from comfort, applause, and curated lives to ask the question most people spend their entire lives avoiding: what happens when you stop pretending? With thirty unsparing chapters, this book strips down the myths of modern life—career identity, consumer validation, family expectations, and the illusion of belonging—and exposes what lies beneath when you walk away from all of it. The author, with surgical clarity and dry precision, charts the psychological collapse and ...

What happens when the promise of upward mobility becomes a trap? In Unclaimed Promises, a sharp and unflinching analysis of America’s most enduring myth, this book traces the slow erosion of the American Dream—from its Enlightenment-era origins to its current form as a hollow performance of success backed by debt, burnout, and disillusionment. Through thirty tightly structured chapters, the author dismantles the illusion that hard work leads to security. From Jefferson’s contradictions and industrial labor exploitation to Reaganomics, student debt, and the gig economy, each chapter ...