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  Insights into Cognitive...

  Rebecca Lawson

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  "Insights into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Transforming Thoughts for Positive Change: Approach to Overcoming Challenges and Enhancing Well-being." is for any person who wants CBT to promote mental health and personal development. This comprehensive book considers some core concepts in CBT and gives tips on how a person can apply such concepts in meeting everyday challenges. 
  The first part of the book expounds on the basic concepts of CBT and the nexus between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. The authors present the science behind cognitive-behavioral treatment. This runs through in sufficient detail with ways through which cognitive processes impact mental health. Readers will learn how to identify and challenge negative thought patterns, reframe unhelpful ideas, and make significant changes in their behaviors by going through detailed explanations and hands-on exercises. 
  This book does not confine itself to the theory and methodology of CBT but goes on to include all practical applications of the same in stress management, relationship enhancement, and sustenance of general well-being. It gives case studies and success stories that prove the effectiveness of CBT in different settings, making difficult ideas comprehensible and of use. 
  This book is a valuable tool for the mental health professional and for anyone seeking a path of self-improvement to incorporate the ideas of CBT into everyday living. Whether you are seeking to improve your therapy practice or looking for personal transformation, this guidebook gives your ideas and resources to make meaningful and lasting changes.

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  The 'Hood Comes First - Race...

  Murray Forman

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  The 'Hood Comes First looks at the increasingly specific emphasis on real neighborhoods and streets in rap music and hip hop culture as an urgent response to the cultural and geographical ghettoization of black urban communities. Examining rap music, along with ancillary hip hop media including radio, music videos, rap press and the cinematic 'hood genre, Murray Forman analyzes hip hop culture's varying articulations of the terms "ghetto," "inner-city," and "the 'hood," and how these spaces, both real and imaginary, are used to define individual and collective identity.Negotiating academic, corporate, and "street" discourses, Forman assesses the dynamics between race, social space and youth. Race, class and national identification are recast and revised within rap's spatial discourse, concluding with the construction of "the 'hood," a social and geographic symbol that has become central to concepts of hip hop authenticity. Additionally, the book analyzes the processes within the music and culture industries through which hip hop has been amplified and disseminated from the 'hood to international audiences.

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  Empowerment: Rethinking Gender...

  Dr(Major)Meeta Tyagi

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  Empowerment was never meant to create conflict. 
  It was meant to restore balance. 
  Despite decades of laws, policies, and awareness campaigns, gender inequality continues to persist—quietly, deeply, and often in unexpected ways. Working women carry invisible burdens. Men remain confined by rigid expectations. Families and workplaces struggle to translate intention into equality. 
  In Empowerment: Rethinking Gender Roles for a Balanced Society, Dr. (Major) Meeta Tyagi offers a thoughtful, lived exploration of why empowerment efforts often feel incomplete—and what must change for progress to become real. 
  Drawing from real experiences across homes, marriages, workplaces, hospitals, schools, and communities, this book moves beyond slogans to examine how conditioning, silence, misplaced guilt, and distorted narratives sustain imbalance. 
  At its core lies a practical four-step framework for genuine empowerment: Awareness, Boundaries, Discernment, and Action—guiding change without destroying dignity. 
  This is not a book about women versus men. It is about partnership, responsibility, and balance. 
  ABOUT THE AUTHOR 
  Dr. (Major) Meeta Tyagi is a medical professional and administrator whose work spans clinical practice, institutional responsibility, and public service. Her experiences within hospitals, families, and workplaces shaped her reflective engagement with gender roles and empowerment—not as ideology, but as lived reality. 
  She believes empowerment is not endurance or dominance, but balance grounded in dignity and shared responsibility.

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  Aotearoa an unbiased AI synopsis...

  Toni Spellmeyer

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  This synopsis is an invitation to see New Zealand’s history through an A.I. lens, unclouded by judgement, aiming to respect all perspectives. From the arrival of the Polynesians to the colonial era and beyond, this book delves into the rich heritage, significant events and key figures that have shaped the nation. Through an objective lens, readers gain insight into the land’s Māori origins, European settlement, the Treaty of Waitangi, socio-economic developments and contemporary challenges. You are invited to join in this exploratory journey, armed with curiosity and an open mind as we navigate through the annals of New Zealand history; to re-examine historical accounts, providing a narrative both expansive and inclusive, avoiding political and cultural bias. It has been inspired especially for New Zealand history students of all ages, travellers and aficionados.

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  Decentering Whiteness in the...

  Janice Gassam Asare, Layla Saad

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  Your DEIJ efforts are stagnating because you continue to center whiteness. Creating a truly anti-racist organization requires learning how to identify and rectify the systemic, and often unconscious, centering of white culture and values in the workplace. 
   
  Corporate America continues to struggle with racial equity in a post-George Floyd world. As the United States becomes more diverse and the public consciousness continues to shift, successful racial equity efforts in the workplace are needed now more than ever. 
   
  Decentering Whiteness in the Workplace exposes the ways that white culture and expectations are centered in the modern American workplace and the fears within corporate spaces about talking candidly, openly, and honestly about whiteness, white supremacy, and anti-Blackness. 
   
  Readers will discover: 
  -	A direct and straightforward analysis about what white-centering is 
  -	An evaluation of the different ways that whiteness is centered in the workplace, such as bereavement and holiday policies and dress codes 
  -	A guide on how to recognize and decenter whiteness within oneself and at work 
  -	Solutions for people to contribute individually and systemically to anti-oppression 
   
  Decentering Whiteness in the Workplace provides a crucial guidebook with practical solutions for leaders, DEIJ practitioners, and anyone hoping to truly create an anti-racist workplace.

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  Larry Simply Larry - The story...

  Elias Masilela

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  Larry – Simply Larry tells the story of Fr Larry McDonnell, an inspiring Irish Salesian Priest and the Headmaster of Salesian High School in Manzini, Swaziland. For more than two decades, Larry was instrumental in the growth and development of hundreds of Swazi boys, as well as many from South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe who sought refuge in Swaziland during the apartheid era. Many of the boys whose lives he touched, directly and indirectly, are now prominent policy, political and business leaders in South Africa and the region. He also played a crucial, though largely unsung, role in the liberation of South Africa. Salesian was also an academic refuge for many South African, Namibian and Zimbabwean teachers. At various times the school harboured operatives of uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), Swapo and the PAC; such as Stanley Mabizela and General Keith Mokoape of MK – a most recent Luthuli Awardee in Silver, both ANC; Arthur Pickering of Swapo as well as Rosette ‘RB’ Nziba and Dini Sobukwe of PAC, respectively. The key period in this account is from 1970, when Larry arrived at the School, to the mid-1990s, following his tenure as Headmaster and his retirement to technical education. As a deeply religious person, caught up in struggle politics while trying to give the boys, in his care, the best possible start in life. Larry’s roots in the Irish struggle for liberation from British rule and in the trauma of the 19th-century Potato Crisis, gave him an acute consciousness of South Africa’s liberation process. See more: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0796101345.

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