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  Breaking the Social Media Prism...

  Chris Bail

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  A revealing look at how user behavior is powering deep social divisions online ? and how we might yet defeat political tribalism on social mediaIn an era of increasing social isolation, platforms like Facebook and Twitter are among the most important tools we have to understand each other . We use social media as a mirror to decipher our place in society but, as Chris Bail explains, it functions more like a prism that distorts our identities, empowers status-seeking extremists, and renders moderates all but invisible. Breaking the Social Media Prism challenges common myths about echo chambers, foreign misinformation campaigns, and radicalizing algorithms, revealing that the solution to political tribalism lies deep inside ourselves.Drawing on innovative online experiments and in-depth interviews with social media users from across the political spectrum, this book explains why stepping outside of our echo chambers can make us more polarized, not less. Bail takes you inside the minds of online extremists through vivid narratives that trace their lives on the platforms and off ? detailing how they dominate public discourse at the expense of the moderate majority. Wherever you stand on the spectrum of user behavior and political opinion, he offers fresh solutions to counter political tribalism from the bottom up and the top down. He introduces new apps and bots to help readers avoid misperceptions and engage in better conversations with the other side. Finally, he explores what the virtual public square might look like if we could hit "reset"Providing data-driven recommendations for strengthening our social media connections, Breaking the Social Media Prism shows how to combat online polarization without deleting our accounts.

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  The Emotional First Aid Kit - A...

  Cynthia L. Alexander PsyD

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  The second edition of this book is written for anyone who wants to change his or her life through bariatric weight loss surgery. Learn realistic and practical strategies for dealing with emotional difficulties encountered before and after your weight loss surgery that help you:● Relieve stress without using food● Modify unhealthy behavior● Overcome hurdles to establishing a consistent exercise program● Deal with negative reactions by friends, family, and spouse to your weight loss● Prevent relapse . . . and more.

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  Asthma: The Natural Remedies for...

  Dr. Dale Pheragh

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  Are you aware that respiratory diseases like asthma can be managed effectively and controlled to impede the level of an asthma attack and symptoms?Are you aware that unmanaged asthma symptoms could be detrimental to your health at a time of pandemic or outbreak that attacks the respiratory system?Knowing what to do and what to avoid is crucial at a time like this. When you have severe asthma, as well as your standard medications are not providing the relief you will need, you might be curious whether there are other things you should do to handle your symptoms.The symptoms of asthma often occur with periodic attacks or signs of tightness in the upper body, wheezing, difficulty breathing, and coughing.Some natural treatments might be able to ease your symptoms, decrease the amount of medication you will need to use, and generally enhance the quality of life you will ever have. These remedies work best when taken alongside your usual prescribed asthma medications.This book will teach you the simplified things you can necessarily do from home for managing, avoiding the occurrence of an asthma attack and symptoms effectively. It is an excellent resource for asthmatic patients who is conscious of the detrimental effect of unmanaged asthma symptoms during a pandemic that attacks the respiratory system.Asthma isn't curable; nonetheless, it is controllable. For all those with severe and stubborn symptoms, a new generation of therapies - and specific treatments coming - would finally offer more relief.Untreated asthma attacks can result in hospitalization and may even come to be fatal. It isn't a problem that needs to be neglected or handled with levity during an outbreak or pandemic like this.As you read further, you would be accustomed to ways and therapeutic measures to help manage and control the symptoms as well as reduce your risk of having a more deadly respiratory disease.

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  Yoga Minds Writing Bodies:...

  Christy I. Wenger

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  In Yoga Minds, Writing Bodies, Christy Wenger argues for the inclusion of Eastern-influenced contemplative education within writing studies. She observes that, although we have "embodied" writing education in general by discussing the rhetorics of racialized, gendered, and disabled bodies, we have done substantially less to address the particular bodies that occupy our classrooms. She proposes that we turn to contemplative education practices that engages student bodies through fusing a traditional curriculum with contemplative practices including yoga, meditation, and the martial arts. Drawing strength from the recent "quiet revolution" (Zajonc) of contemplative pedagogy within postsecondary education and a legacy of field interest attributable to James Moffett, this project draws on case studies of first-year college writers to present contemplative pedagogy as a means of teaching students mindfulness of their writing and learning in ways that promote the academic, rhetorical work accomplished in first-year composition classes while at the same time remaining committed to a larger scope of a writer's physical and emotional well-being.
  
   
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  Whatever You Say You Aren't with...

  Robert Anton Wilson

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  In this lecture Robert Anton Wilson speaks of how we think we all know who we are. You are living in your own reality that you are creating. Everybody has a vision of themselves that they have created. Where in relationships the other person has an entirely different vision of you are as a person. Strangers see you completely different from how you view yourself. Which is the real you? Certainly not the you that you know. Our knowledge of ourselves is usually tremendously delusional and most people don't actually know the real them.

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  Suspicious Minds - Why We...

  Rob Brotherton

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  Conspiracy theorists do not wear tin-foil hats (for the most part). They are not just a few kooks lurking on the paranoid fringes of society with bizarre ideas about shape-shifting reptilian aliens running society in secret. They walk among us. They are us. 
  Everyone loves a good conspiracy. Yet conspiracy theories are not a recent invention. And they are not always a harmless curiosity. In Suspicious Minds, Rob Brotherton explores the history and consequences of conspiracism, and delves into the research that offers insights into why so many of us are drawn to implausible, unproven and unproveable conspiracy theories. They resonate with some of our brain's built-in quirks and foibles, and tap into some of our deepest desires, fears, and assumptions about the world. 
  The fascinating and often surprising psychology of conspiracy theories tells us a lot—not just why we are drawn to theories about sinister schemes, but about how our minds are wired and, indeed, why we believe anything at all. Conspiracy theories are not some psychological aberration—they're a predictable product of how brains work. This book will tell you why, and what it means.

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