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Wilhelm Reich's classic study, written during the years of the German crisis, is a unique contribution to the understanding of one of the crucial phenomena of our times-fascism. Reich firmly repudiates the concept that fascism is the ideology or action of a single individual or nationality, or any ethnic or political group. He also denies a purely socio-economic explanation as advanced by Marxist ideologists. He understands fascism as the expression...
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"A compassionate and eye-opening examination of evolving attitudes toward mental illness throughout history and the fight to end the stigma. For centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining many to asylums. In Nobody's Normal, anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker chronicles the progress and setbacks in the struggle against mental-illness stigma-from the eighteenth century, through America's major wars,...
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An entertaining and insightful exploration of schadenfreude: the deliciously dark and complex joy we've all felt, from time to time, at news of others' misfortunes.
You might feel schadenfreude when...
the boss calls himself "Head of Pubic Services" on an important letter. A cool guy swings back on his chair, and it tips over. A Celebrity Vegan is caught in the cheese aisle. an aggressive driver cuts you off - and then gets pulled over. Your co-worker...
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Get the Summary of Chip Heath and Dan Heath's Made to Stick in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Made to Stick" by Chip Heath and Dan Heath explores why some ideas thrive while others die. The book introduces the concept of Commander's Intent (CI) used by the U.S. Army to empower soldiers to adapt to changing circumstances while still achieving the overarching objective. This principle of simplicity is central to...
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Learn the secrets of self-esteem with 365 tips from the UK's number one confidence expert Gael Lindenfield. Dip into this comprehensive self-help handbook as and when you need it or use it as a personal development plan. Includes advice on social life, work issues, relationships and much more.
Poor self-esteem can sabotage relationships and careers, cause self-destructive behavior and hold us back from achieving our true potential.
In this comprehensive...
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Survivism reveals itself primarily within attempts to solve an unsolicited problem and other accompanying encounters thereof. Secondarily, a movement arises, resulting from intelligences deemed necessary to process a vast array of complexities engulfing this otherwise ancient yet modern symbolic Parthenon structure representation, hence dynamically riddled with existential change infiltrated throughout a range of time and space. What manifests deeply...
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We live in a world in which we are invited to change-to become our best selves through politics, or fitness, or diet, or therapy. We change all the time-growing older and older-and how we think about change changes over time too.
We want to think of our lives as progress myths-as narratives of positive personal growth-at the same time as we inevitably age and suffer setbacks.
Adam Phillips's sparkling book On Wanting to Change explores the stories...
9) How We Are
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We live in small worlds.
How We Are is an astonishing debut and the first part of the monumental How to Live trilogy, a profound and ambitious work that gets to the heart of what it means to be human: how we are, how we break, and how we mend.
In Book One, How We Are, we explore the power of habit and the difficulty of change. As Vincent Deary shows us, we live most of our lives automatically, in small worlds of comfortable routine-what he calls...
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Everything depends on what, if anything, we find interesting: on what we are encouraged and educated to find interesting, and what we find ourselves being interested in despite ourselves. There is our official curiosity and our unofficial curiosity (and psychoanalysis is a story about the relationship between the two).
Based on three connected lectures by Adam Phillips, this compact book is a lucid and memorable introduction to the concept of our...
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¿Alguna vez te has preguntado por qué las personas actúan de manera tan diferente en grupos grandes? ¿O cómo ciertos líderes, marcas o movimientos capturan la mente colectiva y son capaces de mover a las multitudes en la dirección que quieren? Vivimos en una era donde la información fluye más rápidamente que nunca, y donde las masas, ya sea en redes sociales, manifestaciones o incluso en la cultura popular, tienen un poder sin precedentes...
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It has been a long time since that day in July of 2001 when a friend and I and I were having a conversation about making a difference when I jokingly said "I should write a book!" and my friend replied "Why don't you?" Suffice it to say that this book would not be here today had it not been for the invaluable support and encouragement I received from the only 2 people who believed in me, and believed I could write a book that may, just may create...
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Get the Summary of Robert Greene's Mastery in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Mastery" by Robert Greene explores the journey to achieving mastery in one's field, emphasizing the importance of following one's natural inclinations and the Life's Task. Leonardo da Vinci's relentless pursuit of art and science, driven by curiosity and an inner force, serves as a prime example of mastery. Greene argues that careers...
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To talk about getting better-about wanting to change in ways that we might choose and prefer-is to talk about pursuing the life we want, in the full knowledge that our pictures of the life we want, of our version of a good life, come from what we have already experienced. (We write the sentences we write because of the sentences we have read.)
How can we talk differently about how we might want to change, knowing that all change precipitates us into...
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Influence ...in 30 minutes is your guide to quickly understanding the important lessons on influencing human behavior covered in the best seller, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion. In Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Dr. Robert B. Cialdini uses decades of research and experiments to offer insight into the psychology of human decision-making, and the world of influence and persuasion. In Influence, Cialdini reveals invaluable tools for...
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Dieses Handbuch wurde potentiellen Mitgliedern der IRA zur Verfügung gestellt. Es sollte auf Gefängnisaufenthalt und Verhöre vorbereiten. Ebenso wird Mind Set und Struktur einer konspirativen Organisation abgebildet. In der vorliegenden Deutschen Übersetzung ist das green book als historisches Dokument jüngster Irischer Geschichte zu verstehen. Mittlerweile ist es aber auch Lektüre von Demokratie Bewegungen, deren Mitglieder psychischer und...
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A concise, straightforward book on how to handle difficult people in your personal or professional life.
• Tips on how to work with different personality types (agressive, negative or lazy).
• Techniques for effective communication through body language and spoken and written communication.
• A simple, step-by-step guide to help readers learn how to say 'no'.
• Case studies make this a lively
• The author is frequently called upon for...
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¿Te has preguntado alguna vez por qué algunos líderes políticos, figuras públicas o incluso personas en tu círculo social parecen incapaces de reconocer sus propias limitaciones?Todos conocemos a personas que creen saberlo todo sobre todos los temas imaginables (¿has visto alguna vez algún tertuliano en televisión?). Son esas personas que, en medio de una conversación, tienen la respuesta perfecta para cualquier pregunta, la solución infalible...
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Intelligence officer Ryan Evans, having spent time in Fallujah as the captive of insurgents who forced him to learn to kill by breaking bones and leaving victims to die, returns to Texas only to find himself under suspicion when a serial killer who employs the same method of murder begins abducting young girls--including Evans' own estranged daughter.
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