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  Wandering the Wards - An...

  Andy Northcott, Katie Featherstone

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  Wandering the Wards provides a detailed and unflinching ethnographic examination of life within the contemporary hospital. It reveals the institutional and ward cultures that inform the organization and delivery of everyday care for one of the largest populations within them: people living with dementia who require urgent unscheduled hospital care. 
   
   
   
  Drawing on five years of research embedded in acute wards in the UK, the authors follow people living with dementia through their admission, shadowing hospital staff as they interact with them during and across shifts. In a major contribution to the tradition of hospital ethnography, this book provides a valuable analysis of the organization and delivery of routine care and everyday interactions at the bedside, which reveal the powerful continuities and durability of ward cultures of care and their impacts on people living with dementia. 
   
   
   
  Shortlisted for the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2021

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  Radionics and Life Force...

  Martin K. Ettington

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  Radionics is the term for machines which manipulate life forces. This is often for healing or increasing psychic perceptions.The Author is an engineer and has many decades of experience with the paranormal and well as time learning and experimenting with radionics devices from the 1970s.While radionics devices are often considered pseudoscience, those opinions don’t take into account the sensitivities of individuals who have incredible paranormal and healing abilities.In my first year of engineering school at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York I met a man who became my mentor in the Paranormal and other things too. This was in 1973.I learned to meditate and how to open my crown chakra to take in vital forces which allowed me to do many things including healing others.In addition I also met another middle aged guy at a Psychic Fair in Saratoga Springs, New York. He was a researcher in the arcane field of Kirlian Photography.In this book the history of radionics is discussed, some of the major influencers on that history, how these devices are used for healing, and even some plans for building radionics devices. My hope is that this book will give you a good grounding in radionics to learn to use it productively for your own efforts.

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  Peaky Blinders: The Real Story -...

  Carl Chinn

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  The Peaky Blinders as we know them, thanks to the hit TV series, are infused with drama and dread. Fashionably dressed, the charismatic but deeply flawed Shelby family blind enemies by slashing them with the disposable safety razor blades stitched in to the peaks of their flat caps, as they fight bloody gangland wars involving Irish terrorists and the authorities led by a devious Home Secretary, Winston Churchill.  
  But who were the real Peaky Blinders? Did they really exist?Well-known social historian, broadcaster, and author Carl Chinn has spent decades searching them out. Now he reveals the true story of the notorious Peaky Blinders, one of whom was his own great-grandfather and, like the Shelbys, his grandfather was an illegal bookmaker in back-street Birmingham.In this gripping social history, Chinn shines a light on the rarely reported struggles of the working class in one of the great cities of the British Empire before the First World War. The story continues after 1918 as some Peaky Blinders transformed into the infamous Birmingham Gang. Led by the real Billy Kimber, they fought a bloody war with the London gangsters Darby Sabini and Alfie Solomon over valuable protection rackets extorting money from bookmakers across the booming postwar racecourses of Britain.Drawing together a remarkably wide-range of original sources, including interviews with relatives of the 1920s gangsters, Peaky Blinders: The Real Story adds a new dimension to the true history of Birmingham's underworld and fact behind its fiction.

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  Raising Kids beyond the Binary -...

  Jamie Bruesehoff, Rebekah...

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  Dare to dream of a church and a world transformed by the bold celebration of transgender and gender-diverse children. 
   
   
   
  Drawing on the author's experience as a mother walking with and learning from her own transgender child, as well as working with hundreds of families across the country doing the same, this book helps parents navigate the emotional, spiritual, and logistical landscape of raising a gender-diverse child. 
   
   
   
  Grounded in the unequivocal truth of God's deep love and limitless creativity, this book compels listeners to move past "all are welcome" to loving and celebrating transgender and gender-diverse youth in the brilliance of their uniqueness, the wisdom of their self-awareness, and the joy of their authenticity. Faith leaders and adults who work with youth will also find the book a helpful tool for gaining insight and building safer and more welcoming congregations for these children. 
   
   
   
  Rich with personal stories, research, and practical steps, this book dares to dream of a church and a world transformed by the bold and joyful acceptance and celebration of transgender and gender-diverse children and youth. These children need us, and the world needs them.

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  The Closed Partisan Mind - A New...

  Matthew D. Luttig

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  American politics today can be defined by the intense and increasingly toxic divide between Democrats and Republicans. Matthew D. Luttig explores why so many Americans have endorsed this level of political conflict. 
   
   
   
  Luttig illustrates how the psychological need for closure leads people, regardless of whether they identify as Democrat or Republican, to express more polarized political attitudes. This association between closed minds and partisan polarization is a new phenomenon and can be traced to broader changes in American society, such as the creation of ideologically distinct political parties and a fragmented media environment. These developments have simplified politics into a black-or-white, us-versus-them, conflict—making politics appeal to those with closed minds. 
   
   
   
  Today, strong partisans do not just cheer for their political party to win elections. Instead, more akin to religious true believers, strong partisans use their affiliation as a means of understanding right and wrong, friend and enemy, true and false. The Closed Partisan Mind reveals that these dynamics have manifested in both a new type of partisanship and a new type of partisan. The emergence of this new closed partisanship illustrates the dangers that polarization has wrought on society, politics, and the minds of Americans.

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  The Enchiridion of Epictetus - A...

  Epictetus

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
  Are you feeling overwhelmed by the chaos, distraction, and uncertainty of modern life? Discover the timeless antidote in The Enchiridion (The Handbook) of Epictetus, the most direct and powerful guide to Stoic Philosophy ever created. This is not just a book; it's a practical operating system for the human mind. 
  Born a slave, Epictetus became one of the most influential Stoic philosophers in history by focusing on a simple but revolutionary idea: true happiness and freedom come from understanding the difference between what we can control and what we cannot. This short, powerful audiobook provides a clear blueprint for building an unshakable inner fortress against the adversities of life. 
  This premium audiobook production, brought to life through a clear and direct narration, makes these life-changing principles easy to understand and apply to your own challenges, from daily annoyances to major life crises. 
  This handbook of Stoic wisdom will teach you how to: 
  Master Your Mind: Learn the core of all Stoic practice—to separate what is within your control (your thoughts, judgments, actions) from what is not. 
  Build Unbreakable Resilience: Face adversity, setbacks, and misfortune with grace and mental toughness. 
  Achieve Inner Peace: Drastically reduce anxiety, anger, and fear by changing your judgments, not your circumstances. 
  Live with Virtue and Purpose: Align your daily actions with your values to live a more meaningful and fulfilling life. 
  Find Freedom in Acceptance: Learn to desire that things happen as they do, and you will find lasting tranquility. 
  This audiobook is an essential listen for fans of: Marcus Aurelius (Meditations), Seneca (Letters from a Stoic), and the modern Stoicism of Ryan Holiday. 
  Stop letting external events dictate your happiness. Download the ultimate handbook for a resilient mind and begin building your inner citadel today.

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