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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...

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...

For nearly a decade, I’ve been channeling the Pleiadian Council in intimate gatherings around the world and in regular Zoom meetings with healers, spiritual practitioners, consciousness explorers, and seekers. I have been so blessed by the journey channeling has taken me on. After so many transmissions, I felt it was time to gather the most impactful teachings from the last several years into one book. Inside, you will also find links to the original YouTube sessions so you can listen along and feel the energy. By listening to the guided meditations from the channeling recordings, you can...

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...

Dart and Flutter Fundamentals A Practical Beginner’s Guide to Modern App Development, Programming Concepts, User Interfaces, and Cross-Platform Projects Want to learn how to build your own mobile applications from scratch? Wondering how Dart and Flutter work together to create beautiful, responsive apps? Looking for a beginner-friendly guide to programming fundamentals, interactive user interfaces, and cross-platform app development without getting overwhelmed by complicated technical terms? Ready to turn your app ideas into practical projects while building valuable programming skills? ...

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.

“Pakistan Economy: 1947–2025 – Political Economy of a Post-Colonial State: Volume 1” offers the first comprehensive study of Pakistan’s economic journey since independence. This first volume, Pakistan's Economy: 1947-2025, traces seventy-seven years of policy choices, institutional experiments, and economic strategies, set against both domestic politics and global shifts. It examines periods of growth and missed opportunities alike, not to assign blame but to understand the factors behind success and failure. By asking what worked, what went wrong, and why, the book provides a ...

Rot and Revival is one of the first scholarly works to comprehensively theorize and document how politics make American constitutional law and how the courts affect the path of partisan politics. Rejecting the idea that the Constitution's significance and interpretation can be divorced from contemporary political realities, Anthony Michael Kreis explains how American constitutional law reflects the ideological commitments of dominant political coalitions, the consequences of major public policy choices, and the influences of intervening social movements.

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.

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 ...

This book is required listening for everyone who has a mind. The mind is a powerful tool capable of great creativity and invention. But, when used improperly, the mind can also become an instrument of suffering. Beauty as a State of Being shows the listener how to use the mind well, so that peace can reign in the individual life and, by extension, the life of the world.

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.

"The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses" is a collection of Theodore Roosevelt's published commentaries and public addresses on what is necessary for a vital and healthy political, social and individual life. Roosevelt states the main point of his speech in the opening remarks: "I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife.

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.

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.

Your brain runs on dopamine — the molecule of motivation, focus, and flow. But when it’s overstimulated, drive turns to distraction, and potential turns to procrastination. This isn’t a lack of willpower — it’s a hijacked system. In a world engineered to fragment your attention, clarity has become the ultimate superpower. You weren’t built to process hundreds of notifications, messages, and dopamine spikes every hour. Yet, your nervous system adapts — until burnout, anxiety, & mental fatigue take over.

""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...

Pakistan's political history resists the simple narratives that have too often been imposed upon it. It is neither the story of a democracy repeatedly derailed by ambitious generals, nor the story of a security state that has occasionally, and ineffectually, permitted civilian interludes. It is something more structurally coherent and more analytically demanding than either of those framings allows. This book traces the logic of Pakistan's political order from the colonial inheritance of 1947 through the hybrid complexity of the present, arguing that beneath the surface turbulence of coups,...