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 2 hours 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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Reflections on Consciousness: Mathematical Model Mimicking Consciousness by Vitali Milman (1 Review)    Price verified one hour ago

Through a blend of theoretical musings and mathematical models, this book delves into the enigmatic realm of consciousness. Mathematician Vitali Milman aspires to demystify consciousness. He aims to initiate an understanding of consciousness by proposing a mathematical model that mirror key aspects of conscious processes. Mathematical knowledge is NOT required to fully understand and enjoy this book. The author also suggests that consciousness manifests not only within individuals but also within larger collectives, intensifying as the system's complexity grows. The text highlights the potential for collective consciousness to overshadow individual awareness and cautiously explores the implications for the emergence of thinking machines. This work is a thought-provoking journey through the intricacies of consciousness, merging philosophical insight with mathematical rigor.

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My Personal History of Philosophy to it's External Things: Intensively Real Human Sufferings in the Way of Life by Ken | Brilliant Ghostwriter Guimond | Brilliant Ghostwriter (Ken Guimond - #07253098 | Brilliant Ghostwriter) (7 Reviews)    Price verified 21 minutes ago

About The Book: The pain we get from life and the moments of happiness we weaved into memories are all connected to one number that defines us. The science of numerology can explain where we are coming from and what we will face. My life experiences are proof of what Numerology holds for us. I did not live a simple life; all betrayed me, leaving me hopeless. Those heart-wrenching moments drive me reconnect to myself, aiming to find reason for failing so much. My curiosity brings me to aiming to find reason for failing so much. My grandchildren, my wife, and my sons' traumas were and are already predestined! My Personal History Of Philosophy To Its External Things could explain how my life was and is related to one number that shook me to the core. The book is record of my experiences that make you find the connection between every tinniest thing and the complex things and its ability to maneuver it.

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WTF! A Celebration of the Popular Arts in Sociology by Robert Khoury (6 Reviews)    Price verified 21 minutes 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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Cabin in the Woods: The Man, the Myth, the Fairytale... (Dastardly tales of modern day toilings! Book 6) by D.David Croot (4Qproductions) (11 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Authors note This story is unusual. A rather long prose-poem if you will... It is not meant for the usual rabble of people. If you have a literary bent, stick with it, if you find people confusing then prepare to be enlightened with the story of: THE MYTH, THE MAN, THE FAIRYTALE! Man cannot be an island unto himself... but if he was, here's how it might go...

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Probing Freewill: A Story of Autonomy and Inevitibility by Waleed Mahmud Tariq (7 Reviews)    Price verified 21 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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Flesh and Blood of Putin's Russia by Sergei Biziukin (1 Review)    Price verified 4 hours ago

Sergei Biziukin is a Russian historian, journalist, and activist. He has been working as a journalist in Russia for 10 years. In November 2016 I started a petition to rename "Godless Street" in the Russian city Ryazan to "Donald Trump Street". The reason was to try and make Russia-United States relations better. On 14 December 2016, Bizyukin was announced as the independent candidate for the Russian presidential election in 2018. Sergei Biziukin: "At that time I hadn't realized, that less than 2 years later, I had to escape from Russia, from the very Trump street, to save my life and the freedom of my family and me. In 2016 I was announced as an independent candidate for the Russian presidential election. The purpose of my nomination was to show that everyone has the right to participate in elections, and this right is vested in the Constitution of the Russian Federation. Unfortunately, many politicians were very frightened after potential presidential candidate Boris Nemtsov ...

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Seeking Intercultural Competence by N. Ferdinandt (Sebastian Gorman) (1 Review)    Price verified 21 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 5 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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The Loop of Reality: A Graphical-Logical Approach to Reality driven by Eastern- and Western- Philosophy by Cedric Greenfield (2 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

"The Loop of Reality" is the graphical-logical expression of a unitary and interconnected reality. The readers of "The Loop of Reality" will enjoy how the Loop's innovative spirituality and logic emerge from Eastern- and Western- philosophy. "The Loop of Reality" describes in what way positive- and negative- feedback loops are models of information that explain the construction and destruction of any form of reality. The Loop illustrates, furthermore, with its four colour-coded states, how our Macro-physical existence emerges via its interconnections with the Virtuality and Wholeness of the Collective Unconscious, Quantum Physics and Emptiness. The philosophical logic of "The Loop of Reality" enables the comprehension of Humankind's destiny through the evolution of perception, emotions, sentiency and free-will. "The Loop of Reality" explains, in the end, in what way Humanity reaches the highest level of consciousness via a regenerative design on every level of Civilisation.

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Silent Hill: The Terror Engine (Landmark Video Games) by Bernard Perron (University of Michigan Press) (130 Reviews)    Price verified 3 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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We, Israel by Abbie Goldfarb (1 Review)    Price verified 2 hours ago

I am Isreali-American. I've lived in both the USA and Israel. And, I love both these countries. I love the determination and drive of the Israelis and I love how the US supports Israel. Here are some poems I wrote during this current, ongoing war between Israel and the surrounding Arab countries and terrorist groups.

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Cosmic Ordering: How to Use Cosmic Ordering to Get Everything You Want in Life - (Using the Law of Attraction and Positive Thinking to Fulfill Your ... by Jade Pascales (49 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

If you're ready to learn how to get everything you want in life, then this book is for you! Today only, get this incredibly useful guide for only $2.99. Regularly priced at $4.99. Read on your PC, Mac, smart phone, tablet or Kindle device. Are you not happy with the way things are going in your life? Let's face it -- Who really is? But did you know that you can actually have everything you want, simply by choosing to? Want to know how? That's exactly what will be revealed to you in this book. But first, try to define in your own mind exactly what it is that you want. A job at a different company where you would make more money? What else? An amazing partner to share your life with? Or the ability to take your family on an expensive vacation like your boss does every year? Before you read on, close your eyes for a moment. Try to visualize yourself as you are now, and then picture who you should be, or who you want to be. Absorb the differences that you observe. You deserve those ...

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Preppers Guide for Busy People: 50 Quick And Easy Tips To Prepare Your Home For A Disaster (Preppers Guide, Preparing A Disaster Book 1) by Kathy Stanton (28 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

Discover 50 Quick And Easy Tips To Prepare Your Home For A Disaster! Have you ever wondered what would happen if your home should be the victim of an unforeseeable and devastating event? Being prepared for the worst can help you to handle these events without draining your pocketbook and stressing you out. Many people don't think that it can happen to them, but it can happen to anyone at any time. If you are prepared for anything, the disasters that can affect your home will not seem like as big of a crisis as they would have been had you not had preparations in place. This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to be prepared for the unexpected and unimaginable things that can happen to your home. In this book "Preppers Guide for Busy People," you will learn how being prepared for the worst can help you to handle these events without draining your pocketbook and stressing you out. Here Is A Preview Of What You'll Learn... • How to Prepare for Outside ...

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The Country Haven Diaries: Inside A Residential Care Facility by Dustin Hartley (3 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

They called it Country Haven. Venture inside a residential care facility in Iowa in this nonfiction account. I was meant to stay in the care facility for just a short while. I suppose it wasn't too long, though it was over a year, if I remember correctly. I was there to get my medications adjusted. I met some semi-normal people, and I met some very disturbed and disabled persons. These are my notes of what happened at Country Haven.

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Obama's Islamization of America by Will Clark (4 Reviews)    Price verified 11 hours ago

What are Barack Obama's plans for our great nation, America? His words, inclinations, and actions strongly suggest his plans are not the same as those who fought for and formed this nation designed for our happiness, opportunity, and protection. He leads us on a different and more dangerous path. America has been led by many leaders in our history. Some have been great leaders, and some not so great. Whether great or not, those leaders in our past were guided by one commonality. All those leaders professed, in larger or lesser degree, a belief in God as our Creator, and as the foundation of our nation of hope and promise for the betterment of humanity. That has been our history and our nation's foundation. Now that has all changed. Suddenly, Barack Obama came into power, from obscurity, and changed our fundamental guiding light. He erased that Christian and positive commonality by suddenly proclaiming, "We are no longer a Christian nation." Although he meekly claims to be a ...

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How to Analyze People: The TRUTH on How to Read Anyone Within Minutes by Angela Sterns (3 Reviews)    Price verified 12 hours ago

This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to read the cues that people are giving you and analyze their feelings and emotions quickly and effectively. Having the ability to analyze people can give you an instant sense of what they are thinking and feeling. By understanding the type of person you are dealing with, how that truly are socially, and being able to gauge the tone in their voice, to read their body language, and by watching their eye movement, you can gain a wealth of knowledge. By reading this book, you will learn how to show people that you care about what they are doing and saying. This comes naturally when you start analyzing them, because you do care about what they need and want. Otherwise you wouldn't be here. In addition, after reading this book, you will be equipped with the ability to analyze people and get to the truth about what they are thinking and feeling within minutes.

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Gender Dysphoria: An Essential Guide for Understanding and Dealing With Gender Identity Disorder by Eleanor Nye (62 Reviews)    Price verified one hour ago

If your emotional or psychological identity feels more in alignment with the opposite of your biological sex, then this book is for you! Read on your PC, Mac, smart phone, tablet, or Kindle device. Gender Dysphoria, better known as Gender Identity Disorder, can be confusing not only for those experiencing it, but also for those around them. Whether it's you or someone in your life who is going through a tough time while sorting through gender identity issues, this book aims to help you better understand the situation and be able to better cope with the resulting problems that often accompany Gender Dysphoria. In this book, you will come to understand what causes Gender Dysphoria, how to recognize the common symptoms, and how the condition can be identified or diagnosed. You will then learn what different options you have for dealing with the situation, which of course depends on your specific individual scenario, whether you're an adult making a personal decision, or whether ...

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