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When it comes to making great decisions, the way you think about things is usually a lot more influential than what you actually think.
If you ever hired a person who ‘looks the part’, dated someone who ‘gives you a good feeling’, voted for the party that ‘speaks the most sense’ or got into an investment that ‘cannot be missed’, only to realise you made a horrible mistake, you might have wondered how you ever talked yourself into it. Yet, even with the bruises you’ve earned, you’re currently likely to make exactly the same decision, the next time around.
The beliefs that guide your ideas and the instincts that drive your actions, are all informed by your unconscious biases (and literally every single one of us has them), which irrationally tell us one thing is good, and another is bad; one thing is absolutely true and another is utterly false; and make you act less smartly than you actually are. But the good news is you can learn to see them, to manage them and ultimately to overcome them.
In Don’t Believe Everything You Think, Colin J Browne, the author of How to Build a Happy Sandpit, shows you how biases work, why they matter, and how to reframe your thinking to make well-founded decisions about life and work, relationships and investing, and much else in between, to vastly improve your chances of success.
Tommy Dees is in the weeds - restaurant speak for beyond
overwhelmed. He's been working at Sunset Estates Retirement
Community to get the experience he needs to attend one of the best
culinary schools in the world. And he also needs a letter of
recommendation from his sadistic manager. In exchange for the
letter, Tommy has to meet three conditions - including train
new-hire Gabriel. Gabe, with the dimples and kind heart, who Tommy
crushed on during summer camp at age ten and then never saw again.
Unfortunately, Gabe doesn't remember Tommy at all. The training
proves distracting as old feelings resurface, and the universe
seems to be conspiring against them. With the application deadline
looming and Gabe on his mind, can Tommy keep it all together or is
it a recipe for disaster?
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Conviction (English, French, DVD)
Hilary Swank, Sam Rockwell, Thomas D. Mahard, Owen Campbell, Conor Donovan, …
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Hilary Swank and Sam Rockwell star in this crime drama based on a
real case that took place in 1980s Massachusetts. Hilary Swank
stars as Betty Ann Waters, a working-class single mother whose
small-time troublemaker brother Kenny (Rockwell) is falsely
convicted of a violent murder in their home town near Boston and is
sent to prison for the crime, where in his frustration and anger he
attempts suicide. With no one to turn to and no money, Betty Ann
decides to put herself through college and law school and qualify
as a lawyer in an attempt to set her brother free. Juliette Lewis
and Minnie Driver co-star.
Find Hope, Joy, and Community as a Special Needs Mom For the
special needs mom who yearns for community and support on what can
be a lonely road, The Other Side of Special reminds you that you
are not alone, your best is good enough, and even on the hard days,
there are blessings to be had. As you pour your energy and
resources into raising a special child, it's easy to struggle with
feelings of isolation, competition, guilt, and overwhelm. Here's
the encouragement and practical help to navigate the emotional
reality of your situation. In The Other Side of Special, three
mothers raising children with physical, medical, mental, and
emotional special needs have joined forces and pooled their
experience and expertise to provide such a resource. They take a
deep dive into the most common emotions felt by special needs moms.
They acknowledge the hard things as those who have been there. They
celebrate the unique joys of being a special needs mom. And they
offer encouragement for the journey, remaining realistic about the
challenges special needs moms will continue to face.
Jamie and Andrew are strangers, but they're two of the last people
left alive. They don't know what they'll find on their dangerous
journey ... but they may just find each other. A queer romance
about courage, hope and humanity for fans of They Both Die at the
End, The Hunger Games and Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda. When
the Superflu wipes out most of the population, Jamie finds himself
completely alone in a cabin in the woods - until an injured
stranger crosses his path. Life is dangerous now and, armed with a
gun, Jamie goes to pull the trigger. But there's something about
Andrew ... something that stops Jamie in his tracks. Jamie takes
him in, and as Andrew heals and they eventually step out into the
strange new world, their relationship starts to feel like more than
just friendship ... But trouble isn't far behind. As the boys make
a perilous journey south, they'll come face to face with a world
torn apart and society in ruins. And who, or what, will they find
waiting for them at the end of it all? "Tense, exciting, sometimes
heartbreaking and always romantic, All That's Left in the World
explores what it means to hold onto hope and humanity when the
worst case scenario becomes reality. With characters you'll adore,
and a fast-paced, mysterious plot that keeps you turning the pages
as fast as you can devour them, this book is not to be missed." -
Sophie Gonzales, author of ONLY MOSTLY DEVASTATED "Brown has
somehow achieved a book that is romantic, hilarious, warm-hearted,
hopeful, and page-turningly thrilling all at once. I was hooked
from beginning to end." - Dahlia Adler, author of COOL FOR THE
SUMMER "A timeless love story that could not be more appropriate
for this moment, All That's Left in the World is a thrilling,
heartfelt, and beautifully written debut." - Tom Ryan, author of I
HOPE YOU'RE LISTENING "Survival is core to the queer experience,
and in All That's Left In the World, Brown takes that to
apocalyptic extremes with the story of Andrew and Jamie. This is
quintessentially brave, dangerous-in-the-best-way queer
storytelling!" - Adam Sass, author of SURRENDER YOUR SONS "All
That's Left in the World is unfailingly riveting and hopeful. A
timely exploration of survival, trauma, and love stitched together
with sharp wit and bone-deep emotion. Erik J. Brown is an
invigorating voice to watch out for." - Julian Winters,
award-winning author of RUNNING WITH LIONS
Intrepid journalist Nellie Bly raced through a man's world' alone
and literally with just the clothes on her back to beat the
fictional record set by Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg in Around the
World in 80 Days. She won the race on 25 January 1890, covering
21,740 miles by ocean liner and train in 72 days, and became a
global celebrity. Although best known for her record-breaking
journey, even more importantly Nellie Bly pioneered investigative
journalism and paved the way for women in the newsroom. Throughout
her career, Bly's reportage gave voices to vulnerable people and
challenged oppression wherever she found it. Her steadfast
conviction that nothing is impossible' makes the world she circled
a better place. Adventurer, journalist and author, Rosemary J
Brown, set off 125 years later to retrace Nellie Bly's footsteps in
an expedition registered with the Royal Geographical Society.
Through her recreation of that epic global journey, she brings to
life Nellie Bly's remarkable achievements and shines a light on one
of the world's greatest female adventurers and a forgotten heroine
of history.
The FET College series is designed to meet the needs of students
and lecturers of the National Certificate Vocational.
She Took Justice: The Black Woman, Law, and Power - 1619 to 1969
proves that The Black Woman liberated herself. Readers go on a
journey from the invasion of Africa into the Colonial period and
the Civil Rights Movement. The Black Woman reveals power, from
Queen Nzingha to Shirley Chisholm. In She Took Justice, we see
centuries of courage in the face of racial prejudice and gender
oppression. We gain insight into American history through The Black
Woman's fight against race laws, especially criminal injustice. She
became an organizer, leader, activist, lawyer, and judge - a
fighter in her own advancement. These engaging true stories show
that, for most of American history, the law was an enemy to The
Black Woman. Using perseverance, tenacity, intelligence, and faith,
she turned the law into a weapon to combat discrimination, a
prestigious occupation, and a platform from which she could lift
others as she rose. This is a book for every reader.
It is clear by now that the label 'Arab Spring' has proven too
simplistic to describe the uprisings that upended the political
order of the Arab world in late 2010. Brutal crackdowns and civil
conflict in Syria, Libya, and Yemen dashed the hopes that peaceful
democratic revolutions would sweep the region. In other countries,
the departure of authoritarian leaders led to many false starts
without producing democratic conclusions. Societies that had
appeared united in opposition suddenly seemed fractious. Youth were
once again banished to the political margins. 'Reconstructing the
Middle East' examines the changes that happened within the region
from 2010 and the long-term challenges and opportunities they
present. Featuring the work of authors with a diversity of
perspectives, most of whom hail from the region, it addresses key
issues of political, economic and societal changes, the role of
young people and of the international community. In addition, the
book deals with the questions of both political and economic
reform, and the intertwined nature of the two. Political reform
that allows greater participation will fail to quell frustration if
Arabs continue to feel that their job prospects are bleak.
Similarly, Arabs will not accept economic reform that restores
growth but continues to fence off the political sphere. This book
offers a unique perspective on the uprisings by focusing on
specific issue areas where change is needed, and offering a roadmap
for the long road towards state building and new social contracts
based on political inclusion, respect for pluralism, and sustained
economic growth. As such, it will be a valuable resource for
students and scholars of Middle East Politics, as well as those
with an interest in the Arab Spring.
International contributors provide insight into Freud's last book.
Discusses themes including tradition, anti-Semitism, historical
truth and memory. Each author elaborates a contemporary perspective
of elements in Freud's volume.
All the branches of the animal kingdom - birds, fish, crustaceans,
reptiles, mammals, insects, and even slime moulds undertake great
journeys across water land or air. This is a glorious celebration
of the mysteries and marvels of migration. Migration is one of the
great mysteries of the natural world. With no compass or GPS
devices, birds fly thousands of miles from Europe to their African
feeding grounds, salmon cross oceans so that they may return to the
rivers in which they were born and monarch butterflies spend their
entire adult lives traveling from the grasslands of the Midwest to
the forests of Mexico. This book takes a close look at how and why
different animals migrate. The science of migration is broken down
into clearly understood texts, and then brought to life in case
studies of individual species. Simple text packed with fascinating
facts and details are accompanied by eye-catching illustrations
that illuminate the fragility and wonders of our extraordinary
planet and the species that inhabit it.
Presenting a follower-centered perspective on leadership, this book
focuses on followers as the direct determinant of leadership
effects because it is generally through follower reactions and
behaviors that leadership attempts succeed or fail. Therefore,
leadership theory needs to be articulated with a theory of how
followers create meaning from leadership acts and how this meaning
helps followers self-regulate in specific contexts. In this book,
an attempt is made to develop such a theory, maintaining that the
central construct in this process is the self-identity of
followers. In developing this theoretical perspective, the authors
draw heavily from several areas of research and theory. The most
critical constructs do not come directly from the leadership
literature, but from social and cognitive theory pertaining to
follower's self-identity, self-regulatory processes, motivation,
values, cognitions, and emotions and perceptions of social justice.
Leaders may have profound effects on these aspects of followers and
it is by analyzing such indirect, follower-mediated leadership
effects that most ideas regarding leadership theory and practice
are developed.
Due to its broad theoretical focus, this book is relevant to a
number of audiences. The authors' principal concern is with the
development of leadership theory and the practice of leadership
making the book relevant to audiences in management, applied
psychology, and social psychology. They have tried to clearly
define key constructs and provide practical examples so that the
book could be accessible to advanced undergraduate students.
However, the diversity of the underlying theoretical literatures
and the complexity of theframework developed also make the book
appropriate for graduate courses in those disciplines, and for
readers with a professional interest in leadership theory or
practice.
International contributors provide insight into Freud's last book.
Discusses themes including tradition, anti-Semitism, historical
truth and memory. Each author elaborates a contemporary perspective
of elements in Freud's volume.
In our modern day and age, when satellite imagery and GPS services
like Google Maps, offer strikingly accurate images of the world, we
can easily forget that for most of human history the world was an
unknown tabula rasa on which cartographers, scientists, men of god,
and kings imprinted their own dreams and ideals. This new extended
edition, with the addition of about 15 maps, explores changing
perceptions of the world map through the centuries and across
multiple vastly different cultures. We will juxtapose 18th century
Buddhist cartography in Japan with European mercantile maps of the
same period. We will travel with speculative cartographers and they
argue in the scientific academies of Paris, London, and St.
Petersburg over theories about what `must' fill the great unknown.
We will observe the emergence of the modern world view through the
cartographic lens. We will see how, much like reading a long lost
childhood diary, old maps are touching earnest reminders that our
former selves' knowledge and perception of the world are rich and
limited at the same time.
Waiting for the End of the World? addresses the archaeological,
architectural, historical and geological evidence for natural
disasters in the Middle Ages between the 11th and 16th centuries.
This volume adopts a fresh interdisciplinary approach to explore
the many ways in which environmental hazards affected European
populations and, in turn, how medieval communities coped and
responded to short- and long-term consequences. Three sections,
which focus on geotectonic hazards (Part I), severe storms and
hydrological hazards (Part II) and biophysical hazards (Part III),
draw together 18 papers of the latest research while additional
detail is provided in a catalogue of the 20 most significant
disasters to have affected Europe during the period. These include
earthquakes, landslides, tsunamis, storms, floods and outbreaks of
infectious diseases. Spanning Europe, from the British Isles to
Italy and from the Canary Islands to Cyprus, these contributions
will be of interest to earth scientists, geographers, historians,
sociologists, anthropologists and climatologists, but are also
relevant to students and non-specialist readers interested in
medieval archaeology and history, as well as those studying human
geography and disaster studies. Despite a different set of beliefs
relating to the natural world and protection against environmental
hazards, the evidence suggests that medieval communities frequently
adopted a surprisingly 'modern', well-informed and practically
minded outlook.
Challenging established views and assumptions about traditions and
practices of filmmaking in the African diaspora, this three-volume
set offers readers a researched critique on black film. Volume One
of this landmark series on African cinema draws together
foundational scholarship on its history and evolution. Beginning
with the ideological project of colonial film to legitimize the
economic exploitation and cultural hegemony of the African
continent during imperial rule to its counter-historical formation
and theorization. It comprises essays by film scholars and
filmmakers alike, among them Roy Armes, Med Hondo, Fèrid
Boughedir, Haile Gerima, Oliver Barlet, Teshome Gabriel, and David
Murphy, including three distinct dossiers: a timeline of key dates
in the history of African cinema; a comprehensive chronicle and
account of the contributions by African women in cinema; and a
homage and overview of Ousmane Sembène, the "Father" of African
cinema.
Academic analysis has not always kept pace with the dramatic
changes that have occurred in the USSR since Stalin's time, for
objective study has often been overshadowed-especially in the
1980s-by publicity concerning the negative aspects of the "Evil
Empire." Recently, however, because of reforms initiated by
Gorbachev, the dynamics of the Soviet system have come into sharper
focus. This book provides a wide-ranging, detailed view of
economic, social, ideological, and literary aspects of the Soviet
system leading up to the Gorbachev era. The essays include both
historical and contemporary perspectives on the sources of
stability (and stagnation) in the post-Stalin years. Examining the
intricate fabric of Soviet society, the contributors provide
insights into the social and cultural motivations for Gorbachev's
"restructuring" policies. Their themes echo the work of Vera S.
Dunham, who for more than four decades has focused on diverse
aspects of Soviet society and culture, particularly on the
noncoercive means of social control that have often been overlooked
but that are a vital component of the Soviet system.
The One State Reality argues that a one state reality already
predominates in the territories controlled by the state of Israel.
The editors show that starting with the one state reality rather
than hoping for a two state solution reshapes how we regard the
conflict, what we consider acceptable and unacceptable solutions,
and how we discuss difficult normative questions. The One State
Reality forces a reconsideration of foundational concepts such as
state, sovereignty, and nation; encourages different readings of
history; shifts conversation about solutions from two states to
alternatives that borrow from other political contexts; and
provides context for confronting uncomfortable questions such as
whether Israel/Palestine is an "apartheid state."
Essays using feminist approaches to offer fresh insights into
aspects of the texts and the material culture of the middle ages.
Feminist discourses have called into question axiomatic world views
and shown how gender and sexuality inevitably shape our
perceptions, both historically and in the present moment. Founding
Feminisms in Medieval Studies advances that critical endeavour with
new questions and insights relating to gender and queer studies,
sexualities, the subaltern, margins, and blurred boundaries. The
volume's contributions, from French literary studies as well as
German, English, history and art history, evince a variety of modes
of feminist analysis, primarily in medieval studies but with
extensions into early modernism. Several interrogate the ethics of
feminist hermeneutics, the function of women characters in various
literary genres, and so-called "natural" binaries - sex/gender,
male/female, East/West, etc. - that undergird our vision of the
world. Others investigate learned women and notions of female
readership, authorship, and patronage in the production and
reception of texts and manuscripts. Still others look at bodies -
male male, female, neither, and both - and how clothes cover and
socially encode them. Founding Feminisms in Medieval Studies is a
tribute to E. Jane Burns, whose important work has proven
foundational to late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century Old
French feminist studies. Through her scholarship, teaching, and
leadership in co-founding the Society for Medieval Feminist
Scholarship, Burns has inspired a new generation of feminist
scholars. Laine E. Doggett is Associate Professor of French at St.
Mary's College of Maryland, St. Mary's City; Daniel E. O'Sullivan
is Professor of French at the University of Mississippi.
Contributors: Cynthia J. Brown, Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner, Kristin
L. Burr, Madeline H. Caviness, Laine E. Doggett, Sarah-Grace
Heller,Ruth Mazo Karras, Roberta L. Krueger, Sharon Kinoshita, Tom
Linkinen, Daniel E. O'Sullivan, Lisa Perfetti, Ann Marie Rasmussen,
Nancy Freeman Regalado, Elizabeth Robertson, Helen Solterer
This book is a collection of papers by leading contemporary
psychoanalysts who comment on the continuing important relevance of
Freud's (1911) paper, Formulations on the Two Principles of Mental
Functioning. The contributors gathered here represent current
European, Latin American, and North American perspectives that
elaborate the continuing value of Two Principles for present-day
psychoanalytic thinking. Each author examines Freud's paper through
a personal lens that is coloured by the psychoanalytic culture from
which he or she comes. In each instance, the writers' chapters
demonstrate the heuristic value of Two Principles for twenty-first
century psychoanalytic theory and technique. A common thread that
runs through all the chapters is the view that this brief paper by
Freud, which he humbly introduced by stating, "The deficiencies of
this short paper, which is preparatory rather than expository ...",
is a masterpiece that contains within it the seeds of much of his
later writing. The distinction he draws between the pleasure
principle and the reality principle are profound and raise
questions that still preoccupy analysis today.
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