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  Personality Disorders -...

  Coral Nunez

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  Personality disorders are complex mental health conditions that affect the way individuals think, feel, and behave, often leading to difficulties in relationships, work, and daily life. Unlike temporary mood swings or behavioral patterns influenced by stress, personality disorders are deeply ingrained and persistent, typically emerging in adolescence or early adulthood. These disorders shape a person’s worldview, emotional responses, and interactions with others, often resulting in distress for both the individual and those around them. 
  Personality is a unique combination of traits that influence how a person perceives and responds to the world. In individuals with personality disorders, these traits become rigid and maladaptive, making it difficult to function in a socially acceptable or emotionally stable way. The severity of symptoms can vary, but in many cases, individuals struggle with emotional regulation, self-image, and interpersonal relationships. Some may withdraw from social interactions due to deep-seated mistrust, while others may exhibit erratic or impulsive behaviors that create conflict. 
  Personality disorders are categorized into three clusters based on shared characteristics. Cluster A includes disorders that involve odd or eccentric thinking and behavior, such as paranoid and schizotypal personality disorders. Cluster B consists of dramatic, emotional, and erratic conditions, including borderline and narcissistic personality disorders. Cluster C encompasses anxious and fearful disorders, such as avoidant and obsessive-compulsive personality disorders. While these clusters help in understanding the broad patterns of personality disorders, individual experiences can differ significantly.

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  Hearty - On Cooking Eating and...

  Andrea Bennett

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  Thoughtful, wide-ranging essays exploring food as a source of pleasure, practical creativity, and sustenance
  		 
  Food is the primary way andrea bennett connects with the world. They worked in the restaurant industry for a decade, and though they don’t eat much meat and can’t eat gluten, they take as much pleasure in food as Jeffrey Steingarten, Anthony Bourdain, or Guy Fieri. When they want to show someone they care, they cook them a meal. The essays in Hearty offer a snapshot of the North American cultural relationship to food and eating. Hearty dives deep into specific foods, such as chutney, carrots, and ice cream, but also explores appetite and desire in food media, the art of substitution, seed saving and the triumphs and trials of being a home gardener, how the food system works (and doesn’t), and complex societal narratives around health and pleasure. Combining journalism, cultural commentary, and personal reflection, Hearty follows bennett’s curiosity into kitchens, gardens, fields, and factories, offering a compassionate and compelling perspective on food from seed to table.

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  Deconstructing Racism - A Path...

  Barbara Crain Major, Joseph Barndt

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  Barbara Crain Major and Joseph Barndt bring ninety combined years of experience as community organizers, teachers, and anti-racism trainers in community and church settings to this book. In Deconstructing Racism, they propose the deconstruction of racism's roots within systems and institutions that have been created, both structurally and legally, to serve white people. 
   
   
   
  The authors seek to unmask the complexities of racism and the invisible patterns that keep it in place. There is no quick fix, but they believe racism can be deconstructed and undone. In order to do this, they identify and address race-based identity, history, and cultural issues rooted in current systems. 
   
   
   
  Three chapters specifically address societal systems and provide anti-racism strategies for community organizers. Three chapters address racism as rooted in systems in the church and challenge people of faith to seek racial healing through understanding, honest confession, true reconciliation, and reconstructed church institutions. A final chapter outlines a way forward to and through a new era of anti-racist reconstruction. This way forward includes a new anti-racist mission statement, a new model of decision-making power, and new processes for accountability.

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  Secrets of Dynamic Communication...

  Ken Davis

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  What's the best way to make a speech or presentation go smoothly? A person’s voice has more power than they realize. 
  Professional speaker and author Ken Davis is frequently hired by individuals and companies around the world to bring his humor and expertise to others in the speaking field, and now he’s bringing those concepts to the wider community as well. Whether you are one who speaks only on rare occasions or you find yourself addressing an audience every day, this book will be an invaluable tool. 
  Beneficial to the experienced pro as well as the new beginner, this practical and effective handbook will help you deliver powerful presentations of all kinds. It takes the listener through the process of selecting and developing a theme, giving it focus, fleshing it out, and communicating well with the audience. The first half is devoted to preparation, the second to delivery. 
  In Secrets of Dynamic Communication, Davis provides you with speaking tips such as:Multiple methods for improving your speechesIdeas for preparing for presentationsGuidelines and examples on how to involve humorOutlines and templates for creating titles that draw interest 
  This guide does not have abstract theories, only step-by-step help in preparing and delivering speeches that get results. You’ll soon develop the dynamic speaking skills associated with the very best in the field. 
   

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  Rise of the American Navy -...

  John William Ptolemy

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  Journey through one hundred years of heroism, patriotism, and endurance… fought from the sea. 
  In its two centuries of existence, America has seen more than its fair share of momentous events. 
  Through it all, the American Navy has not only been a witness, but an active and key participant to the creation and progress of the country. 
  It has grown and strengthened its capabilities – from having zero ships and zero expertise to becoming one of the largest fleets in the world. 
  Whether you’re a history buff or military enthusiast, this chronicle of the Navy’s early history is a must-read. 
  From monumental battles and memorable speeches, to groundbreaking developments and personal accounts, you’ll find it all here. 
  In The Rise of the American Navy, you will discover: 
   ● How George Washington finally got the Continental Navy created... after years of indecision in Congress 
  ● One of the most fascinating figures of the Revolutionary War – now remembered as the father of the American Navy 
  ● The resourceful strategy that helped make the newly formed navy a formidable opponent, despite being greatly outmatched by the British 
  ● The two-hour naval battle that led to American victory against Britain – and it didn’t even involve any Americans! 
  ● How pirates resurrected the US Navy and started its gradual ascent to power 
  ● First-hand accounts from those on the front lines that provide an up-close and personal view of the hardships of war 
  ● How the Civil War contributed to a new era in naval warfare that made every other navy in the world obsolete 
   And much more. 
   The US Navy’s history is inextricably linked to the history of America as a nation. After all, its creation was tied to the colonies’ fight for independence

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  The MEDITATIONS of Marcus Aurelius

  Marcus Aurelius

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  Written in Greek by an intellectual Roman emperor without any intention of publication, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius offer a wide range of fascinating spiritual reflections and exercises developed as the leader struggled to understand himself and make sense of the universe. Spanning from doubt and despair to conviction and exaltation, they cover such diverse topics as the question of virtue, human rationality, the nature of the gods and the values of leadership. But while the Meditations were composed to provide personal consolation, in developing his beliefs Marcus also created one of the greatest of all works of philosophy: a series of wise and practical aphorisms that have been consulted and admired by statesmen, thinkers and ordinary readers for almost two thousand years.

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