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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...

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.

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...

This book explores how Yogic Meditation improves physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. *It highlights the importance of consistent practice, self-reflection, and selfless actions in achieving inner peace and awareness. Here are the key points covered in the book. *Learn how meditation helps resist distractions, calm the mind, reduce stress, boost the immune system, regulate sleep patterns, and manage chronic pain. * How to develop a positive outlook and self-awareness through meditation. *The spiritual benefits of meditation, inner peace, higher consciousness, and interconnectedness ...

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

The world is competing for Africa. But this time, the prize is bigger than territory. Africa possesses the resources, markets, energy systems, strategic corridors and demographic advantages that will shape the global economy of the twenty-first century. From the cobalt and copper of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia to Guinea's iron ore, the oil and gas of Nigeria and Angola, Ghana's gold, Zimbabwe's lithium, East Africa's ports and the continent's enormous consumer market, Africa has become central to a new era of global competition. China wants supply-chain access. America wants...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

These are the words of Parahamansa Yogananda—beloved Hindu yogi, guru, and monk, and author the international bestseller of The Autobiography of a Yogi. Yogananda was also one of the first voices to recognize the power of positivity with Scientific Healing Affirmations.

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.

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."

Despite the human race's extraordinary capacity for invention and progress, we clearly have a millennia-old blind spot in one all-important area: We don't understand evil -- what it is, how it works, and why it so routinely and effortlessly ruins our lives. Put another way, we don't understand ourselves.

You’re not broke because you don’t work hard enough. You’re broke because your identity is. And until that changes… nothing else will. Not another side hustle. Not another strategy. Not another late night watching “how to make money” videos. Because every dollar you make… your mind quietly pulls you back to what feels familiar. Read that again. Now imagine waking up one day… and that pull is gone. No stress when you check your bank account. No hesitation when opportunity shows up. No internal voice telling you to play small. Just calm certainty. Like money finally feels normal.

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.