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  How To Be a Lady Who Leaves

  Emma Heptonstall

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  Leaving your husband and getting divorced is a big deal, even when it's your idea. But how do you know if you're making the right decision for you, and if you are, what's the first thing you need to do?How to be a Lady Who Leaves answers all these questions and more. From understanding the divorce legal process in England and Wales, to getting to grips with your finances, this book shows you how. Worrying how your children will cope with your divorce and how to manage your own emotions? This book covers that too.With real life case studies from women with different experiences of divorce, this book takes you through the divorce process both practically and emotionally. Packed with hints, tips and action steps, this book is the perfect companion for any woman who is going through divorce.2022 UpdateThis edition of How To Be a Lady Who Leaves The Ultimate Guide to Getting Divorce Ready has been updated with the latest information on the new 'no-fault' divorce system introduced in April 2022.

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  Cyborg - The MIT Press Essential...

  Laura Forlano, Danya Glabau

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  This introduction to cyborg theory provides a critical vantage point for analyzing the claims around emerging technologies like automation, robots, and AI. Cyborg analyzes and reframes popular and scholarly conversations about cyborgs from the perspective of feminist cyborg theory. Drawing on their combined decades of training, teaching, and research in the social sciences, design, and engineering education, Laura Forlano and Danya Glabau introduce an approach called critical cyborg literacy. Critical cyborg literacy foregrounds power dynamics and pays attention to the ways that social and cultural factors such as gender, race, and disability shape how technology is imagined, developed, used, and resisted. 
   
   
   
  Forlano and Glabau offer critical cyborg literacy as a way of thinking through questions about the relationship between humanity and technology. Cyborg examines whether modern technologies make us all cyborgs—if we consider, for instance, the fact that we use daily technologies at work, have technologies embedded into our bodies in health care applications, or use technology to critically explore possibilities as artists, designers, activists, and creators. Lastly, Cyborg offers perspectives from critical race, feminist, and disability thinkers to help chart a path forward for cyborg theory in the twenty-first century.

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  The Globalization Myth - Why...

  Shannon K. O’Neil

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  A case for why regionalization, not globalization, has been the biggest economic trend of the past forty years 
   
   
   
  The conventional wisdom about globalization is wrong. Over the past forty years as companies, money, ideas, and people went abroad more often than not, they looked regional rather than globally. O'Neil details this transformation and the rise of three major regional hubs in Asia, Europe, and North America. Current technological, demographic, and geopolitical trends look only to deepen these regional ties. O'Neil argues that this has urgent implications for the United States. Regionalization has enhanced economic competitiveness and prosperity in Europe and Asia. It could do the same for the United States, if only it would embrace its neighbors.

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  True Facts That Sound Like...

  Shane Carley

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  Prove you are the smartest schmuck in the room with 500 true trivia facts that sound absurd. These facts are so far-fetched some might even say that they sound like bull$#*t! Give the gift that keeps giving to friends, family, fathers, or grads. 
  Knowledge is power! Crush the competition at trivia night, or start the most interesting conversation ever with real facts that are hard to believe. This book is loaded with mind-blowing facts that are sure to keep you wondering, "How are these even true?" while equipping you to outsmart everyone around and blow their minds. Topics include:ScienceAmerican SportsHistoryPop CultureNature 
    
  Put your game face on, and prove once and for all that you are the real know-it-all! Gather your friends and family 'round and get ready to learn some wild and crazy trivia and facts such as:True or False? A chicken once survived almost two years after having its head cut off.True or False? The dog that played Toto in The Wizard of Oz was paid a salary.How many baseballs does the MLB use every season?What state has jousting as its official sport?True or False? Most Canadians live south of Seattle. 
  Stump everyone with True Facts That Sound Like Bull$#*t!

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  The Discourses - A New...

  Epictetus, Vincent Rodrigo

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
  What does it truly mean to live a good life? 
  The Discourses of Epictetus is one of the most powerful and practical works of Stoic philosophy ever recorded. These teachings come from Epictetus, a Greek philosopher who lived nearly two thousand years ago and whose ideas continue to guide readers seeking wisdom, resilience, and inner peace. 
  Born into slavery in the Roman Empire, Epictetus later became a respected teacher of philosophy. His life itself was a powerful example of his central teaching: that true freedom does not depend on wealth, status, or external circumstances. Instead, it comes from mastering our thoughts, our choices, and our character. 
  The conversations in this book were carefully recorded by his student Arrian, allowing us to hear Epictetus speaking directly to his students. His teachings are practical, direct, and often challenging, encouraging listeners to examine their beliefs and learn how to live with discipline, courage, and clarity. 
  In The Discourses, you will discover timeless lessons on how to: 
  - Focus on what you can control and let go of what you cannot 
  - Develop self-discipline and strength of character 
  - Face difficulties and setbacks with calm and resilience 
  - Free yourself from unnecessary worry and frustration 
  - Live with purpose, wisdom, and integrity 
  Though these teachings were recorded nearly two thousand years ago, their insights remain deeply relevant today. Epictetus reminds us that while we cannot control the events of the world, we can always control how we respond to them. 
  The Discourses is more than a philosophical text—it is a practical guide for anyone seeking a calmer mind, stronger character, and a wiser way of living. 
  A timeless classic of Stoic philosophy and a powerful guide to mastering yourself.

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  James Joseph Walsh: The...

  James Joseph Walsh

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  It cannot but seem a paradox to say that the Thirteenth was the greatest of centuries. To most people the idea will appear at once so preposterous that they may not even care to consider it. A certain number, of course, will have their curiosity piqued by the thought that anyone should evolve so curious a notion. Either of these attitudes of mind will yield at once to a more properly receptive mood if it is recalled that the Thirteenth is the century of the Gothic cathedrals, of the foundation of the university, of the signing of Magna Charta, and of the origin of representative government with something like constitutional guarantees throughout the west of Europe. The cathedrals represent a development in the arts that has probably never been equaled either before or since. The university was a definite creation of these generations that has lived and maintained its usefulness practically in the same form in which it was then cast for the seven centuries ever since. The foundation stones of modern liberties are to be found in the documents which for the first time declared the rights of man during this precious period.

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