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"What the world needs now, is you leading with a quiet mind!" We are living in testing times. Complexity, uncertainty, and disruption are the new normal, and ever-evolving artificial intelligence just upped the ante!To navigate the choppy and muddy waters of rapid change, we need a fresh new way of thinking about leadership. One that goes beyond the rigidity of the traditional command and control model and cultivates a mindset of agility, resilience,...
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One of the most significant sources of suffering comes from our human tendency to avoid difficult emotions. We are not taught how to face these unpleasant, often daily inner experiences (mind-body energies) and so we tend to push them away, ignore them, or become unwittingly overwhelmed by them. Yet how we meet and greet these difficult emotions has everything to do with our well-being, resilience, and ability to connect with ourselves and others....
3) Cyborg
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A concise introduction to cyborg theory that examines the way in which technology is situated, political, and embodied.
This introduction to cyborg theory provides a critical vantage point for analyzing the claims around emerging technologies like automation, robots, and AI. Cyborg analyzes and reframes popular and scholarly conversations about cyborgs from the perspective of feminist cyborg theory. Drawing on their combined decades...
This introduction to cyborg theory provides a critical vantage point for analyzing the claims around emerging technologies like automation, robots, and AI. Cyborg analyzes and reframes popular and scholarly conversations about cyborgs from the perspective of feminist cyborg theory. Drawing on their combined decades...
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Through trial and error, tears and triumph, Keith "Temple" Trotter has lost over 150 pounds and kept it off for close to three years. "100 Small Steps" tells his personal story from the vantage point of his private journal notes. As people began to notice "Temple's" transformation, he wrote down the Steps that made sense and worked for him so as to be a catalyst for them. "Temple" freely and openly shares his pain and triumph. His amazing story has...
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From marital infidelity to global war, the world is obviously broken, leaving people desperate to find an explanation for our universal sin problem. In the latest addition to the Theology in Community series, Christopher Morgan and Robert Peterson have assembled an interdisciplinary team of evangelical thinkers to explore the biblical doctrine of sin from a variety of angles. Among other contributors, popular scholar D. A. Carson discusses the contemporary...
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As COVID-19 gripped the world, Cassandra Thomas-Clark found herself in an unparalleled vantage point: a packaging buyer for a global food firm. The New Normal: Madness in the Making is her chronicle of a world in chaos.
At first, it was a tale of unity and perseverance, but soon the narrative twisted into one of crises, governmental decisions, and the human psyche's desperate response. This memoir isn't just about facts and timelines; it's an intimate...
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*Shortlisted for the BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography 2015*
This book follows the global trail of one of the world's most unremarkable and ubiquitous objects - flip-flops. Through this unique lens, Caroline Knowles takes a ground level view of the lives and places of globalisation's back roads, providing new insights that challenge contemporary accounts of globalisation.
Rather than orderly product chains, the book shows...
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Over seven decades, John McPhee has set a standard for literary nonfiction. Assaying mountain ranges, bark canoes, experimental aircraft, the Swiss Army, geophysical hot spots, ocean shipping, shad fishing, and dissident art in the Soviet Union, among myriad other subjects, he has consistently written narrative pieces of immaculate design. In Tabula Rasa, McPhee looks back at his career from the vantage point of his desk drawer, reflecting wryly upon...
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Walking tours inspired by famous figures of France, from artists to chefs to historic leaders.
Take a stroll through Édith Piaf's Belleville, dine at Napoléon's favorite restaurant, and explore the late-night haunts of Ernest Hemingway, Josephine Baker, and Pablo Picasso. From the author of the best-selling City Walks: Paris, this lively collection of walking adventures follows in the footsteps of more than twenty-five of the city's iconic former...
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What has been seen cannot be unseen, what has been learned cannot be unknown.-C.A. Woolf
In an era where answers seem just a click away, yet soul-deep satisfaction remains elusive, a deeper yearning stirs. Enter "The Challenge of Truth"-not a book of answers, but a catalyst for your awakening. From any vantage point, it offers a paradigm shift that resonates. For seekers, a toolkit; for the wounded, a balm. These pages beckon you to reconsider your...
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Nightfall ushers in its own set of terrors. With every external light ablaze until dawn, I find solace in the illusion of visibility. But every creak, every rustle throws me into high alert, compelling me to scour the house for signs of the looming threat. The dining room becomes my vantage point, a silent sentinel observing the outdoors from three angles. The very shadows that were once familiar now become menacing.
Surprisingly, I find myself longing...
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A Year in the South is about four ordinary people in an extraordinary time. They lived in the South during 1865 -- a year that saw war, disunion, and slavery give way to peace, reconstruction, and emancipation. One was a slave determined to gain freedom, one a widow battling poverty and despair, one a man of God and planter's son grappling with spiritual and worldly troubles, and one a former Confederate soldier seeking a new life. Between January...
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An English journalist encounters dangerous hijinks on the Baltic Sea in this satirical novel by the author of A Dance to the Music of Time.
Written from a vantage point both high and deliberately narrow, the early novels of Anthony Powell nevertheless deal in the universal themes that would define his oeuvre: pride, greed, and the strange drivers of human behavior. Scathingly funny and insightful character studies, Powell's early works reveal the...
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Over the past four decades, the volumes published in the landmark History of Cartography series have both chronicled and encouraged scholarship about maps and mapping practices across time and space. As the current director of the project that has produced these volumes, Matthew H. Edney has a unique vantage point for understanding what "cartography" has come to mean and include.
In this book Edney disavows the term cartography, rejecting the notion...
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With charm and exuberance, The Object at Hand presents a behind-the-scenes vantage point of the Smithsonian collections. Veteran Smithsonian magazine editor Beth Py-Lieberman weaves together adaptations of the magazine's extensive and compelling coverage and interviews with scholars, curators, and historians to take listeners on an unforgettable journey through the Smithsonian museums.
Objects are grouped into the themes audacity, utopia, fierce,...
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The decades following the civil rights and decolonization movements of the sixties and seventies-termed the post-soul era-created new ways to understand the aesthetics of global racial representation. Daphne Lamothe shows that beginning around 1980 and continuing to the present day, Black literature, art, and music resisted the pull of singular and universal notions of racial identity. Developing the idea of "Black aesthetic time"-a multipronged theoretical...
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"Thoughtful, fair-minded, and learned, Cadava's eye-opening book will teach experts on American politics things they didn't even know they didn't know." - Rick Perlstein, bestselling author of Nixonland and The Invisible Bridge
"Geraldo Cadava's history...provides a unique vantage point on US politics; on the shifting terrains of foreign policy, labor, and religion; and on the changing nature of specific states, as well as on deeper ideological fights...
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An unending chain of surveillance crosses countless dimensions in this brilliant, disturbing, and groundbreaking "antinovel" by one of science fiction's greatest practitioners Mr. Mary and his wife are being observed from at least three vantage points as they go about their mundane home lives. G, the former gardener, watches them from a garden shed. Mr. Mary's dismissed secretary, S, watches them from the top room of a brick outhouse in the back....
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Former newspaper executive publishes new book Not Extinct Yet.
In his memoir of 44 years in publishing, Rick Rae talks about the ups and downs of the newspaper business from his unique vantage point. In a career spanning almost twenty locations in the United States and Canada, Rick has worked for, or managed over fifty newspapers. In this book he shares some of his experiences, such as butting heads with unions, dealing with employees who embezzle,...
20) Dynamic Alignment: The Power of Finding Your Purpose, Achieving Your Goals, and Living a Passion
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Why is it that some people wake up energized, raring to go, enthralled with all the challenges ahead? They encounter obstacles and enjoy overcoming them. And how do you bring this into your own life? Holly Worton and Brad Borkan approached these questions from two different vantage points. They both came to the same surprising, and quite simple, conclusion: Dynamic Alignment. By defining your own set of Dynamically Aligned multi-passionate goals,...