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  In the Shadow of Diagnosis -...

  Regina Kunzel

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  A look at the history of psychiatry’s foundational impact on the lives of queer and gender-variant people. 
    
  In the mid-twentieth century, American psychiatrists proclaimed homosexuality a mental disorder, one that was treatable and amenable to cure. Drawing on a collection of previously unexamined case files from St. Elizabeths Hospital, In the Shadow of Diagnosis explores the encounter between psychiatry and queer and gender-variant people in the mid- to late-twentieth-century United States. It examines psychiatrists’ investments in understanding homosexuality as a dire psychiatric condition, a judgment that garnered them tremendous power and authority at a time that historians have characterized as psychiatry’s “golden age.” That stigmatizing diagnosis made a deep and lasting impact, too, on queer people, shaping gay life and politics in indelible ways. In the Shadow of Diagnosis helps us understand the adhesive and ongoing connection between queerness and sickness.

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  Brain Wars - The Scientific...

  Mario Beauregard

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  The brain can be weighed, measured, scanned, dissected, and studied. The mind that we conceive to be generated by the brain, however, remains a mystery. It has no mass, no volume, and no shape, and it cannot be measured in space and time. Yet it is as real as neurons, neurotransmitters, and synaptic junctions. It is also very powerful.—from Brain WarsIs the brain "a computer made of meat," and human consciousness a simple product of electrical impulses? The idea that matter is all that exists has dominated science since the late nineteenth century and led to the long-standing scientific and popular understanding of the brain as simply a collection of neurons and neural activity. But for acclaimed neuroscientist Mario Beauregard, Ph.D., along with a rising number of colleagues and others, this materialist-based view clashes with what we feel and experience every day. In Brain Wars, Dr. Beauregard delivers a paradigm-shifting examination of the role of the brain and mind. Filled with engaging, surprising, and cutting-edge scientific accounts, this eye-opening book makes the increasingly indisputable case that our immaterial minds influence what happens in our brains, our bodies, and even beyond our bodies. Examining the hard science behind "unexplained" phenomena such as the placebo effect, self-healing, brain control, meditation, hypnosis, and near-death and mystical experiences, Dr. Beauregard reveals the mind's capabilities and explores new answers to age-old mind-body questions. Radically shifting our comprehension of the role of consciousness in the universe, Brain Wars forces us to consider the immense untapped power of the mind and explore the profound social, moral, and spiritual implications that this new understanding holds for our future.

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  Elephants & Kings - An...

  Thomas R. Trautmann

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  Because of their enormous size, elephants have long been irresistible for kings as symbols of their eminence. In early civilizations—such as Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus Civilization, and China—kings used elephants for royal sacrifice, spectacular hunts, public display of live captives, or the conspicuous consumption of ivory—all of them tending toward the elephant’s extinction. The kings of India, however, as Thomas R. Trautmann shows in this study, found a use for elephants that actually helped preserve their habitat and numbers in the wild: war.             Trautmann traces the history of the war elephant in India and the spread of the institution to the west—where elephants took part in some of the greatest wars of antiquity—and Southeast Asia (but not China, significantly), a history that spans 3,000 years and a considerable part of the globe, from Spain to Java. He shows that because elephants eat such massive quantities of food, it was uneconomic to raise them from birth. Rather, in a unique form of domestication, Indian kings captured wild adults and trained them, one by one, through millennia. Kings were thus compelled to protect wild elephants from hunters and elephant forests from being cut down. By taking a wide-angle view of human-elephant relations, Trautmann throws into relief the structure of India’s environmental history and the reasons for the persistence of wild elephants in its forests. 

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  War Peace & All That Jazz - Book...

  Joy Hakim

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  From woman’s suffrage to Babe Ruth’s home runs, from Louis Armstrong’s jazz to Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s presidential terms, from the finale of one world war to the dramatic close of the second, War, Peace, and All That Jazz presents the story of some of the most exciting years in U.S. history.  With the end of World War I, many Americans decided to live it up, going to movies, driving cars, and cheering baseball games aplenty.  But alongside this post-WWI spree was high unemployment, hard times for farmers, ever-present racism, and, finally, the Depression, the worst economic disaster in U.S. history, flip-flopping the nation from prosperity to scarcity.  Along came one of our country’s greatest leaders, F.D.R., who promised a New Deal, gave Americans hope, and then saw them through the horrors and victories of World War II.  These three decades—full of optimism and despair, progress and Depression, and, of course, War, Peace, and All That Jazz--forever changed the United States.

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  Instagram Influencer - The...

  Arianna Hardy

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  Instagram Influencer: The Ultimate Guide on How to Be a Successful Instagram Influencer, Learn the Proven Influencer Marketing Methods to Increase Your Visibility and Grow a Massive FollowingThe initial premise and intent of various social media sites is the connection. It connects friends, families, colleagues, celebrities to their fans, and so on. It can connect us to anyone all over the world. Companies and brands have realized the great potential in this and that is how digital and influencer marketing came about. Influencers are individuals with massive followings online that’s why most brands make use of them to promote their products and services. But becoming a successful influencer is not easy and you would need a guide to teaching you how. This audiobook is the perfect guide for you.This audiobook will teach you everything you need to know about influencer marketing and how to be a successful Instagram influencer. You will learn effective strategies and useful tips on how to gain followers and how to make your opinion matter to your target audience. You will learn the secrets and best practices on how to achieve success from being an Instagram influencer.This audiobook will discuss the following topics:- Influencer Marketing- Choose Your Niche- How Instagram Works- Get a Business Account for Instagram- Consistency is Key- Using the Right Hashtags- Writing Captions- Analyze Your Audience- Connect With Other Influencers- Interact With Followers- Contact BrandsBecoming a successful influencer would require a lot of learning, hard work, perseverance, and dedication on your part. To learn more on how to be a successful influencer, scroll up and click “add to cart” now.

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  The Smart Home Manual - How to...

  Marlon Buchanan

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  Do you want to make your home smart, but aren't sure where to begin? Are you worried about hackers taking control of your smart devices? Do you want to make a smart home that keeps your family entertained, comfortable, and safe? 
  When you are done reading The Smart Home Manual you'll know:What a smart home is and what it can do for youHow much smart homes costHow to start building your smart home from scratchHow to pick the right smart home devicesHow to plan for the future of the smart homeHow to secure your smart home 
  After reading this book, you'll be equipped with all the tools and information you need to plan, design, and implement the smart home you've always wanted.

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