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Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Have you read that certain people shouldn't practice yoga or cook Chinese food? Or been told that being obese is healthy, that there is no such thing as biological sex, or that only White people can be racist? Are you confused by these ideas, and do you wonder how they have managed so quickly to challenge the very logic of Western society? In this probing and intrepid volume, Helen...
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Every month seems to bring a trendy new diet or weight-loss fad - and yet obesity rates continue to rise and with it, a growing number of diseases and health problems. It's time for a different approach.
Enter Dr. Michael Greger, the internationally renowned nutrition expert, physician, and founder of Nutritionfacts.org. Author of the mega-best-selling How Not to Die, Dr. Greger now turns his attention to the latest research on the leading causes...
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The insights from Daniel J. Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson's No-Drama Discipline. Sample Insights:
1) Fear and punishment can be effective in disciplining our child in the moment, but they don't work over the long term. Using fear and punishment as primary motivators for children teaches them that power and control are the best tools to achieve the desired outcome.
2) It's completely normal to just react when our child misbehaves. However, there are...
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It took me a lifetime to have the courage and the clarity to write my memoir. I want to tell the story of the moments - the ups and downs, the triumphs and traumas, the debacles and the dreams - that contributed to the person I am today. Though there have been countless stories about me throughout my career and very public personal life, it's been impossible to communicate the complexities and depths of my experience in any single magazine article...
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Listen now to get the insights from Timothy Ferriss's The 4-Hour Workweek. Sample Insights: 1) Power is not determined by money, but by the options you have in your life. If someone makes $500,000 a year, but cannot travel and must work 80-hour weeks to afford rent, are they really powerful? 2) To begin living a life with endless possibilities and with substantially fewer work hours, you have to change your assumptions about life.
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Now updated with a new afterword by the author, The Madness of Crowds examines the rise of woke culture and identity politics as the great derangement of our times
Are we living through the great derangement of our times? In The Madness of Crowds Douglas Murray investigates the dangers of 'woke' culture and the rise of identity politics. In lively, razor-sharp prose he examines the most controversial issues of our moment: sexuality, gender, technology...
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Realer than the most real conversation you've ever heard on the topic, Michael Todd's honest, heartfelt, and powerful teaching on relationships has already impacted millions of people in all seasons of life around the world. Now, in Relationship Goals, Michael tells his own story of heartache and healing, unpacks explosive truths from God's Word, and tells it to you straight to help you win at relationships in every part of your life. Where did the...
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Listen now to get the insights from Jordan Peterson's Maps of Meaning. Sample Insights: 1) Most people believe we live in a purely objective world, governed by science and matter, but this is not the truth. The world we live in is both objective and spiritual. 2) We often overlook the spiritual aspect, or fail to acknowledge it completely, because it is impossible to talk about spiritualism in a scientific context. The fact that spiritual reality...
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I've been in this life for 50 years, been trying to work out its riddle for 42, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last 35. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. How to be fair. How to have less stress. How to have fun. How to hurt people less. How to get hurt less. How to be a good man. How to have meaning in life. How to be more me.
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Listen now to get the insights from Christie Tate's Group. Sample Insights: 1) At twenty-six years old, Christie Tate found herself contemplating suicide, yet she had no good reasons for it. She was alarmed, and didn't know whether she wanted to act on those thoughts or not. 2) Something about the way she was living made her want to stop living. She just wanted to cease existing, not actively kill herself. She couldn't tell her loved ones, because...
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Insights from Nadine Burke Harris's The Deepest Well. Sample Insights:
1) Nadine Burke Harris, a pediatrician, was running a free clinic in a poor neighborhood in San Francisco when she realized there was a harrowing connection between trauma and medical problems for her child patients.
2) It has been widely documented that poor communities lead to poor health.
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For more than 20 years, All You Need to Know About the Music Business has been universally regarded as the definitive guide to the music industry. Now in its tenth edition, this latest edition leads novices and experts alike through the crucial, up-to-the-minute information on the industry's major changes in response to today's rapid technological advances and uncertain economy. Whether you are - or aspire to be - a performer, writer, or executive,...
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Marc Brackett's Permission to Feel. Sample Insights:
1) We often catch ourselves wondering: Am I even aware of how I'm feeling? Have I given myself permission to ask? Have I ever really asked my partner, my child or my colleague?
2) Today, while Siri, Google, or Alexa can instantly answer almost any question, we're losing the habit of stopping to look inward or to each other for answers. But even Google doesn't know everything, and even Siri can't...
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Insights from Erik Larson's The Splendid and the Vile. Sample Insights:
1) In 1940, Adolf Hitler's armies had invaded much of Europe, which led to a rebellion in the British House of Commons against the prime minister of the United Kingdom, Neville Chamberlain.
2) The rebels believed Chamberlain was not up to the task of leading his country during World War II. Chamberlain later resigned and Winston Churchill, the first lord of the Admiralty, took...
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Black Americans have long been shackled to the Democrats. Seeing no viable alternative, they have watched liberal politicians take the black vote for granted without pledging anything in return. In Blackout, Owens argues that this automatic allegiance is both illogical and unearned. She contends that the Democrat Party has a long history of racism and exposes the ideals that hinder the Black community’s ability to rise above poverty, live independent...
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Insights from Fareed Zakaria's Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World. Sample Insights:
1) This book is about what our world will look like as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and our response to the virus. This book will discuss the consequences of the current and future pandemics.
2) COVID-19 may be a novel disease, but pandemics and plagues are not new. Our past has been filled with plagues and diseases far deadlier than this one, which have...
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Insights from Seth Godin's The Practice. Sample Insights:
1) All journeys, whether to go to a doctor or to achieve a dream, follow a certain pattern. Courage and creativity must be found to go on such journeys and to get over the invisible forces that stop people from working and achieving great things. The practice leads to change.
2) We are used to following a path set for us in order to achieve a certain outcome. However, the new practice focuses...
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Francesco Cirillo developed his famed system for improving productivity as a college student 30 years ago. Using a kitchen timer shaped like a pomodoro (Italian for tomato), Cirillo divided the time he spent working on a project into 25-minute intervals, with 5-minute breaks in between, in order to get more done, without interruptions. By grouping a number of Pomodoro together, users can tackle a project of any length, and drastically improve their...
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Molecules of Emotion (1997), by neuroscientist Candace B. Pert, is an account of her life in the lab and beyond. After she made a major scientific breakthrough as a graduate student, Pert's long career mapped mysterious connections between the mind and the body despite serious pushback from the scientific community...