Development State

Read by Esther Perel “Perel is a master at what she does.” ?The New Yorker “[Perel] knows the depth of your shame and the vibrancy of your lust.”- The New York Times From iconic couples’ therapist and bestselling author of Mating in Captivity comes a provocative and controversial look...

Ward of the State: A Memoir of Foster Care tells what happened to a little Black boy from the inner city of Detroit. This is the story of Karlos Dillard, who was severely neglected by his mother, who often left him and his siblings at home alone for weeks to fend for themselves. Enduring severe neglect and abuse, the boy was removed by the State of Michigan and put into foster care. Karlos was removed from his mother's care just to end up in foster homes that treated him worse. Karlos was told he was not loved, he was not wanted, and he was nothing but a ward of the state.

This book has no pretension about it whatever -- it is neither a Manual of Rhetoric, expatiating on the dogmas of style, nor a Grammar full of arbitrary rules and exceptions. It is merely an effort to help ordinary, everyday people to express themselves in ordinary, everyday language, in a proper manner.

Comprehensive Training in Shamanic Techniques for Insight and Transformation Everything is alive, everything has a spirit—and wisdom to share. Shamans throughout history have known that we all have the capacity to connect with plants, animals, natural forces, and helping spirits for guidance...

From the winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize for Economics and the authors of the international bestseller Why Nations Fail "Why is it so difficult to develop and sustain liberal democracy? The best recent work on this subject comes from a remarkable pair of scholars, Daron Acemoglu and James A...

Learn how to overcome your fight-or-flight response and create a state of flow. The Flow Factor from New York Times bestselling author Christy Whitman equips you with the tools to effortlessly enter a flow state in any situation, especially during the challenging triggers of everyday life, empowering you to navigate obstacles with ease.

In an era where constant noise and distractions make concentration, mindfulness, and focus ever more challenging, the Binaural Beats for Focus Collection offers a serene refuge. These ground-breaking auditory tools will guide you to a state of heightened concentration, creativity, and cognitive clarity, providing a much-needed respite from the chaos of everyday life.

American author, scholar, and satirist H.L. Mencken wrote The American Language in 1919, intending to defend American speech from prescriptivist critics. "America itself is unutterably vulgar. But vulgarity, after all, means no more than a yielding to natural impulses in the face of conventional inhibitions, and that yielding to natural impulses is at the heart of all healthy language-making."

In 1999, Texas passed a landmark clean energy law, beginning a groundswell of new policies that promised to make the US a world leader in renewable energy. As Leah Stokes shows in Short Circuiting Policy, however, that policy did not lead to momentum in Texas, which failed to implement its solar laws or clean up its electricity system. Examining clean energy laws in Texas, Kansas, Arizona, and Ohio over 30 years Stokes argues that organized combat between advocate and opponent interest groups is central to explaining why states are not on track to address the climate crisis.

Unlike most editions of Poor Richard, this one includes essentially all of the text, not just the aphorisms and sayings. This gives you, Courteous Listener, a much better appreciation of how Franklin wrote and thought. In particular, you will find that the full body of the Poor Richard almanacs contains a great deal of religious and spiritual thought in which Franklin laid out and propounded his understanding of Christianity as it stood in his day.

Not everyone thinks Leah has a gift… Leah Mast and her family have always considered her to have a healing touch and a special gift for reflexology — treating people’s ailments by massaging certain places on their feet. But others scoff at the notion, saying the very idea of curing people...

In 1811, while escorting members of John Jacob Astor’s Pacific Fur Company up the Columbia River, their Chinookan guide refused to advance beyond a particular point that marked a boundary between his people and another indigenous group. Long before European contact, Native Americans created and maintained recognized borders, ranging from family hunting and fishing properties to larger tribal territories to vast river valley regions.

This is one of the most comprehensive guides you will find on how to start, run and grow a 501© nonprofit organization. I worked 23 years as a consultant for many small to medium size nonprofit organizations. My primary job was to show them the actual step-by-step process on how to open such charitable organizations properly and legally. Many nonprofit organizations run into various legal and tax problems if and when they don’t take the right steps when opening and filling their paperwork with their state and Federal government.

Ten tabs open. Half a coffee gone cold. Nothing shipped. Deep concentration and hyperfocus are skills you can build. You were busy all day. Meetings. Slack. Email. By five o'clock, the one task that actually mattered is still sitting there, untouched. You know what to do. You just keep not doing it, and more willpower hasn't fixed that. Most advice tells you to wake up earlier or write a better to-do list. This book shows you why your brain pulls away from the work that matters. Then it gives you a system that holds up on a real day, with real interruptions. It comes from a colonel who ...

The author describes the easy to learn InnerEthics Ethical Awareness Tools that a practitioner can use to identify their own motivations and conflicts of interest and recognize common precarious ethical situations. The Tools also help the practitioner assess the balance of safety, encouragement, and connection within the therapeutic container. and rebalance these elements as needed. The book is a guide to maintaining ethical awareness by means of self-supervision, formal supervision, or peer consultation groups. It explains the special structure of an InnerEthics peer consultation group ...

Gunnar Myrdal Explained: Institutional Economics, An American Dilemma, Welfare State Theory, Social Inequality, Development Economics, Cumulative Causation, and the Political Economy of Modern Society Gunnar Myrdal was one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century, yet his ideas remain underexplored by general readers. In this comprehensive and accessible guide, discover how Myrdal reshaped economics, sociology, and public policy through groundbreaking concepts such as cumulative causation, institutional analysis, and the role of values in social science. This book unpacks ...

Imagine yourself lying on a pillow of peace, where each breath you take carries you deeper into a world where time slows, and your mind drifts like a feather on a gentle breeze. Welcome to the Esdaile State, a realm where sleep transcends the ordinary and becomes a powerful journey into the deepest levels of hypnosis. The Esdaile State, first discovered by Dr. James Esdaile in the 1800s, is a hypnotic state so profound that it transports you into a realm of comfort and serenity that defies the ordinary.

Forget the darkened room and the sudden collapse. Real trance mediumship is quieter, more disciplined, and far more human than the myths suggest. Helen DaVita has taught mediumship for over thirty-five years, including years as a tutor at the Arthur Findlay College. In Trance Mediumship: An Authentic Guide, she sets aside the drama and gives you what four decades in the room actually teaches: a clear, repeatable process for developing genuine trance mediumship — grounded in honesty, discernment, and ethical practice, not performance. This is not a book of vague inspiration. It is a ...

Conflict Resolution builds on positive approaches to support other people and build bridges to reach a satisfactory solution for all parties. This audio book encourages you to accept conflict as a normal part of everyone’s life so you can move on productively to deal with it, rather than get depressed by the presence of conflict in your life and work.

""GRIPPING. ... One of the greatest polar rescue efforts ever mounted."" —Wall Street Journal The riveting true story of the largest polar rescue mission in history: the desperate race to find the survivors of the glamorous Arctic airship Italia, which crashed near the North Pole in 1928...