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...

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 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.

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.

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...

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.

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 ...

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...

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.

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."

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...

“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 ...

Why do some rodeo athletes consistently perform at their best when the pressure is highest while others struggle to execute when it matters most? The answer often lies in a powerful psychological state known as flow. In Flow State: The Mental Edge of Elite Rodeo Performance, professional barrel racer, coach, and author Marci Powell explores the science and psychology behind peak performance and shows rodeo athletes how to access it more consistently.

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 ...

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.

It has never been harder to focus than it is now. We live in a noisy, crowded, stressful world that changes so fast, we’re always running to catch up. Traditional education doesn’t give us the skills to manage. And if you live largely in your own head, techniques like mindfulness fall short. In extremes, we turn to external solutions like social media, alcohol, and recreational drugs, just to get some space from our own thoughts.

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.

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 ...

""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...