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  A Clever Man

  Mike Blake

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  A Clever Man :: 
  This poem is a send up poem written about the insatiable drive that an over zealous 
  optimist has of self, that possesses boundless energy, and enthusiasm for life, without 
  fully realizing the implications and inherent mistakes that can come about. 
  It encapsulates Youthful exuberance in spades, without the experience that sets a calculus on 
  ones takeup of endeavours. This poem was written by myself sometime ago, and has only now 
  had the opportunity to be spoken of. 
  It incorporates a lot of the famous and the great from the past, in the speakers soliloquy he pits himself as on a par with their greatness and accomplishments. 
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  Dissidently Speaking - Change...

  Brent Hamachek

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  Mostly Americans need to take a fresh look at ourselves. To do that we need to apply critical thinking, add some skepticism, and be willing to replace answers with questions. 
  Compiled from a decade of writings and contemplation, and further aided by a forty-year career in the world of business dealing with hundreds of companies, this book represents a synthesis between the theoretical and the empirical. Each chapter stands entirely on its own, but each stands stronger when joined with the others. The author’s goal is simply to have the reader challenge their preconceived notions. 
  This book is for you if you feel confident enough to challenge everything you might think about the American political dynamic, how honestly and effectively you communicate with others, and how you process what you find in the news or on social media. Do you have what it takes to become a political dissident? Find out. Finally, and most difficult of all, are you up to taking a look into the mirror and asking yourself: Am I ethical? 
  Get ready to have your toy box dumped all over the floor. Prepare to check all your premises. Be willing to think!

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  The Midnight Special - The...

  Colin Asher

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  This innovative history explores the rich tradition of music behind bars and shows how policing and prisons have shaped our musical culture from blues to hip-hop. 
    
  In American popular music, we often glorify rebellious artists and “outlaws.” But in The Midnight Special, Colin Asher tells a deeper story about the criminal justice system’s impact on our musicians, explored through compelling portraits of five artists whose careers span the twentieth century. 
    
  Opening with folk and blues artist Huddie “Lead Belly” Ledbetter, who was made to perform wearing prison clothes, Asher traces the intertwined histories of music and incarceration, from Southern prison farms of the Jim Crow era, through the heroin-driven mid-century drug wars that villainized a generation of jazz artists, and to our present era of mass incarceration. 
    
  Asher shows how the suggestion of criminality has often benefited white artists, while prosecutions often hurt Black musicians. Comparing the divergent trajectories of jazz pianist Elmo Hope with country singer Johnny Cash, Asher examines how violent and discriminatory policing stifled Hope’s career and led to the creation of his album Sounds from Rikers Island (1963), while forgiveness and lenience brought us Cash’s masterpiece At San Quentin (1969). 
    
  With keen musical analysis and sociological insight, The Midnight Special examines key themes in culture and criminal justice, from the movement for prison reform that allowed soul musician Ike White to stage thrilling concerts while locked up and record his album Changin’ Times (1977), to the crushing cultural weight of mass incarceration a generation later. Closing with Tupac Shakur’s Me Against the World (1995) and stories of music in prisons today, The Midnight Special recounts how prisons occasionally incubate talent but more often shorten careers and distort the public’s perception of musicians and their value to society. 
    
  An urgent book about the ways music can affirm an individual’s sense of humanity in dehumanizing circumstances, The Midnight Special writes the history of prisons into American music—a story as important as it is overlooked. 
    
  "Asher creates rich, vivid portraits of all five of his subjects … He discusses at length these artists’ morally ambiguous songs about murderers and convicts, written with a touch of grace and a recognition of shared humanity. This chronicle is full of little epiphanies … A well-written and mesmerizing group portrait of five musical outlaws."—Booklist (starred review)

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  Small Shifts - How People...

  Ellis Marwood

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  Most people explain dramatic personal change with dramatic stories: a crisis survived, a mentor found, a sudden revelation. Ellis Marwood spent seventeen years interviewing the people behind extraordinary outcomes and found something far less cinematic. The real story was almost always smaller — a barely noticeable deviation from the norm, repeated quietly and consistently until it produced a result that looked, in retrospect, like a stroke of genius or luck.
  Small Shifts is a rigorous, readable investigation into the hidden mechanics of personal transformation. Drawing on neuroscience, behavioral psychology, and decades of research on habit, identity, and decision-making, Marwood reveals why the strategies most people use to change — willpower, motivation, dramatic resolutions — are the least reliable tools available, and what actually works instead.
  The book moves through the full architecture of lasting change. It explains why tiny improvements compound into extraordinary outcomes, why willpower fails and well-designed systems win, and why the most important shift is not in behavior but in self-concept. It unpacks the neuroscience of habit loops — cue, routine, reward, craving — and shows how the brain automates behavior, for better and for worse. It offers practical strategies for reducing friction, designing supportive environments, building habits that survive disruption, and gradually dismantling the ones that don't serve you.
  Marwood is equally attentive to the forces most self-help books overlook: the social networks that silently transmit behavior from person to person, the internal bodily signals that reveal what a craving is actually about, the psychological traps of streaks, perfectionism, and plateaus, and the special difficulty of building good habits in a digital environment engineered to capture attention and exploit the same dopamine pathways that sustain every habit loop.
  Each chapter integrates landmark research — from British Cycling's aggregation of marginal gains to Wolfram Schultz's dopamine experiments, from Daryl Bem's self-perception theory to Peter Gollwitzer's implementation intentions — with vivid real-world cases, including Michael Phelps, Twyla Tharp, and a series of composite portraits drawn from Marwood's years of interviewing. The final chapter synthesizes everything into a framework for a personal operating system: not a rigid ten-year plan, but a small, durable set of habits flexible enough to survive a decade of change.
  Small Shifts is for anyone who has tried to change and found that trying was not enough. It offers not inspiration but understanding — and the practical tools to quietly, steadily become someone new.

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  SAT Vocabulary AudioLearn -...

  AudioLearn Content Team

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  Improve your spelling. Gain a better understanding of sentence structure. Increase your SAT scores. SAT AudioLearn includes more than 500 words that commonly appear on the SAT, making it your indispensable study guide when it comes to SAT vocabulary! 
  Key Topics:SpellingSyntaxSentence UsagePronunciation 
  With its convenient format, SAT AudioLearn fits your busy lifestyle, enabling you to study anywhere, anytime. Best of all, you'll significantly increase learning and retention with AudioLearn's proven study format.

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  Trauma and Attachment - Over 150...

  PhD Christina Reese

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  Christina Reese has dedicated her life's work to helping those with trauma cope to live healthier, happier, and more fulfilling lives. In her book, Trauma and Attachment, she has created a resource to guide clients from a place of fear, anxiety, and trauma to healthy attachment. 
   
   
   
  In this comprehensive yet accessible book, Dr. Reese provides an attachment framework for treating clients who have experienced a multitude of traumas, ranging from abuse and neglect to medical traumas, natural disasters, and exposure to violence. Through a variety of worksheets, exercises, and activities, this book provides clients with the tools they need to develop a foundation for healing so they can find feelings of safety and security within relationships again. 
   
   
   
  Clinicians will find tools to help clients heal from the impact of: abuse by helping them establish safety and security within relationships; neglect by teaching them to find their voice and express their needs; medical trauma by helping them adjust to a new normal and better tolerate uncertainty; natural disasters by using mindful grounding techniques to navigate sensory triggers and cultivate mind-body awareness; and witnessing violence by restoring clients' sense of felt safety and helping clients identify what they can control to keep themselves safe.

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