Meghan Markle: The Rebel Royal (Meghan Markle Biography) by Harrison Davis (2 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

** IN "MEGHAN MARKLE: THE REBEL ROYAL" RENOWNED HISTORIAN AND BIOGRAPHER HARRISON DAVIS OFFERS A COMPELLING EXAMINATION OF MEGHAN MARKLE'S UNPRECEDENTED JOURNEY INTO THE BRITISH ROYAL FAMILY. ** From her early days as a determined actress and advocate in Los Angeles to her transformative role as the Duchess of Sussex, Davis explores how Meghan's modern ideas and relentless advocacy for social justice clashed with centuries-old royal traditions. Through meticulous research and exclusive interviews, this biography uncovers the challenges Meghan faced within the palace walls, and how these led to her and Prince Harry's dramatic decision to step back from royal duties. Davis presents a nuanced portrait of Meghan as a woman who refuses to be defined by tradition, inspiring change in an institution steeped in heritage. "Meghan Markle: The Rebel Royal" is an insightful, inspiring account of courage, identity, and the quest for authenticity in a world bound by convention.

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Freedom from the Monkey Mind: Learn 22 activities to reduce or stop the persistent, incessant, constant, obsessive, compulsive, racing, ceaseless ... by Vishal Gupta (34 Reviews)    Price verified 31 minutes ago

Mind is the root problem of all the problems. Millions around the world are suffering from overthinking, negative thinking, compulsive thinking, and depressive thinking. For these people, their mind is a curse, as it is constantly playing havoc on their health and happiness. This book is divided into 2 parts. The first part introduces the reader to 20 characteristics of the mind and the second describes 20 activities that will help the reader to break the continuous chatter of the mind giving them relief and freedom from the incessant rant of the voice in the head. • Do you suffer from a chattering mind? • Do you feel that your thoughts are racing so fast that you cannot slow or stop them? • Do you feel sometimes that a thought has got stuck in your mind and you can't seem to get rid of it. • Do you suffer from a lot of negative thinking including thoughts of anger, regret, revenge and hate? • Do you have a lot of anxiety and stress and fear of the future? If your ...

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The Four Powers: Assessments of Democracy, Abuses of Centralized Power, and Blockchain-Based National Security (Technodemocracy) by Jason M. Hanania (4powers.com) (27 Reviews)    Price verified 31 minutes ago

What is power? How does it become centralized or decentralized? These questions are at the heart of understanding how governments work. Humankind has barely scratched the surface of what it takes to provide for democracy, equality, and reduced social risk. History has taught us that centralizing power in one group member creates maximum power inequality and typically results in abuse of power. Whether done consciously or unconsciously, that group member will inevitably make decisions that serve personal rather than public interests. It's human nature. In The Four Powers, Hanania provides a fast-paced historical assessment of centralized power. From World War I to crypto, Hanania explains the emerging trend toward technodemocracy: a decentralized system of governance whereby power-centralized institutions (such as churches, banks, political parties, campaign donors, Amazon, and the CIA) become obsolete. ABOUT THE AUTHOR From the author of Architecture of a Technodemocracy ...

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WTF! A Celebration of the Popular Arts in Sociology by Robert Khoury (6 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

Sociology celebrates the popular arts! TV, Sunday comics, monster movies, professional wrestling, dumpstering, college football, bathroom graffiti, strippers, telephone pranksters, Peeping Toms, class clowns, the college sorority, the streetcorner preacher, the drive-in movie, good and evil, and more -- see familiar, everyday people and things in an offbeat, surprising way, and blow your mind to what sociologists have discovered about how you shape the world, and how the world shapes you.

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Probing Freewill: A Story of Autonomy and Inevitibility by Waleed Mahmud Tariq (7 Reviews)    Price verified 31 minutes ago

"Probing Freewill: A Story of Autonomy and Inevitability" is a comprehensive exploration of the concept of free will, its implications, and the debates surrounding it. This book is structured into five distinct parts, each delving into different aspects of free will: • Tracing the Origins of Free Will: This section examines the evolutionary foundations of free will, the role of genetics and the environment, the concept of nature via nurture, and the cognitive machinery driving our choices. • The Neurobiology of Choice: This part focuses on the brain's role in decision-making, including brain regions, neural networks, neurotransmitters, hormones, and the impact of cognitive biases and external constraints on our choices. • Morality, Responsibility, and the Lack of Freewill: Here, the book explores the relationship between free will, morality, and responsibility. It discusses the impact of the absence of free will on moral judgments, laws, and societal structures. • The ...

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Seeking Intercultural Competence by N. Ferdinandt (Sebastian Gorman) (1 Review)    Price verified 31 minutes ago

Seeking Intercultural Competence presents the essential knowledge for those unfamiliar with the field, moving from understanding the most basic concepts to developing an advanced, personally relevant learning plan for a lifetime of seeking intercultural competence. The book establishes a first principle for intercultural competence and a set of definitions to help the novice. The text also presents practical theories and approaches for any person seeking to become more interculturally competent. N. Ferdinandt argues for seeking intercultural virtues to wage peace in intercultural and international spaces. Ferdinandt draws from years of personal experience traveling abroad and working with international students from all over the world. His anecdotes, mostly humorous cross-cultural failures, help to illustrate the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary for developing intercultural competence for oneself. Throughout the book, a road map for developing a lifelong learning approach ...

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Flight From Syria: Refugee Stories by Hugh Eakin (Pulitzer Center) (75 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Flight from Syria: Refugee Stories features the writing and photography of nine Pulitzer Center grantees- journalists who reported on Syrian refugees between 2012 and 2015. Their travels took them from Syria to Sweden, and from crowded camps to cramped apartments in city suburbs. Each of the journalists- Hugh Eakin, Lauren Gelfond Feldinger, Stephen Franklin, Joanna Kakissis, Alia Malek, Holly Pickett, Alisa Roth, Alice Su, and Selin Thomas- lends a unique perspective. Originally published in Al Jazeera, BBC News, Guernica, In These Times, Marketplace, NPR, The Atlantic and The New York Review of Books, these stories tell of an abandoned homeland, an indifferent world, and an uncertain future. They trace the history of one of the biggest displacements of modern times- providing a testament to the suffering and courage of those who fled. Edited by Kem Knapp Sawyer Designed by Evey Wilson

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Silent Hill: The Terror Engine (Landmark Video Games) by Bernard Perron (University of Michigan Press) (130 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Silent Hill: The Terror Engine, the second of the two inaugural studies in the Landmark Video Games series from series editors Mark J. P. Wolf and Bernard Perron, is both a close analysis of the first three Silent Hill games and a general look at the whole series. Silent Hill, with its first title released in 1999, is one of the most influential of the horror video game series. Perron situates the games within the survival horror genre, both by looking at the history of the genre and by comparing Silent Hill with such important forerunners as Alone in the Dark and Resident Evil. Taking a transmedia approach and underlining the designer's cinematic and literary influences, he uses the narrative structure; the techniques of imagery, sound, and music employed; the game mechanics; and the fiction, artifact, and gameplay emotions elicited by the games to explore the specific fears survival horror games are designed to provoke and how the experience as a whole has made the Silent Hill ...

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