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"An entertaining and enlightening collection of ancient writings about the philosophers who advocated simple living and rejected unthinking conformity. The Cynics were ancient Greek philosophers who stood athwart the flood of society's material excess, unexamined conventions, and even norms of politeness and thundered 'No!' Diogenes, the most famous Cynic, wasn't shy about literally extending his middle finger to the world, expressing mock surprise that 'most people go crazy over a finger.' When asked why he was called Diogenes the Dog, he replied 'because I fawn on those who give, I bark at those who don't, and I bite scoundrels.' How to Say No is a delightful collection of brief ancient writings about Cynicism that captures all the outrageousness, wit, and wisdom of its remarkable cast of characters-from Diogenes in the fourth century BCE to the column-stander Symeon Stylites in late antiquity. With their 'less is more' approach to life, the Cynics speak urgently to our world of climate change, economic uncertainty, and psychic malaise. Although the Cynics weren't writers, their memorable utterances and behavior were recorded by their admirers and detractors, and M. D. Usher offers fresh new translations of appealing selections from this body of writing-ranging from street sermons and repartee to biography and snapshots of Cynics in action.Complete with introductions to the volume and each selection as well as the original Greek and Latin on facing pages, this lively book demonstrates why the Cynics still retain their power to surprise us and make us laugh-and to make us think and question how we live"--

Lies My Gov't Told Me offers a comprehensive look at the coronavirus pandemic–where we are today, how we got here, and what's on the horizon.

Democratic Situations places the making and doing of democratic politics at the centre of relational research. The book turns the well-known sites of contemporary Euro-American democracy - elections, bureaucracies, public debates and citizen participation - into fluctuating democratic situations where supposedly untouchable democratic ideals are contested and warped in practice. The empirical cases demonstrate that democracy cannot be reduced to theoretical schemes of conflict, institutions or deliberation. Instead, they offer an urgently needed renewal of our understanding of democratic politics at a time when conventional ideas increasingly fail to capture current events such as Brexit, Trump and Covid19.

Do you ever think you're the only one making any sense? Or tried to reason with your partner with disastrous results? Do long, rambling answers drive you crazy? Or does your colleague's abrasive manner rub you the wrong way?You are not alone. After a disastrous meeting with a highly successful entrepreneur, who was genuinely convinced he was 'surrounded by idiots', communication expert and bestselling author, Thomas Erikson dedicated himself to understanding how people function and why we often struggle to connect with certain types of people.Surrounded by Idiots is an international phenomenon, selling over 1.5 million copies worldwide. It offers a simple, yet ground-breaking method for assessing the personalities of people we communicate with - in and out of the office - based on four personality types (Red, Blue, Green and Yellow), and provides insights into how we can adjust the way we speak and share information.Erikson will help you understand yourself better, hone communication and social skills, handle conflict with confidence, improve dynamics with your boss and team, and get the best out of the people you deal with and manage. He also shares simple tricks on body language, improving written communication, advice on when to back away or when to push on, and when to speak up or shut up. Packed with 'aha!' and 'oh no!' moments, Surrounded by Idiots will help you understand and communicate with those around you, even people you currently think are beyond all comprehension.And with a bit of luck you can also be confident that the idiot out there isn't you!

From an acclaimed Harvard professor and one of TIME's most influential people comes a paradigm-shifting book that shows how almost everything people think they know about aging is wrong. He offers a front-row seat to the amazing global effort to slow, stop, and reverse aging, and calls readers to consider a future where aging can be treated.

Your mind doesn't have to be a minefield. Constant chatter is unhealthy; find a better way and see a brighter life.A distracted and non-present mind is the biggest cause of unhappiness. It prevents us from seeing what possibilities lie before us. Life turns into a minefield rather than a set of new opportunities.The key to a happy life is your internal dialogue. Remain your own master.The Overthinking Cure is a book that understands where you've been through, the exhausting situation you've put yourself into, and how you lose your mind in the trap of anxiety and stress. Acclaimed author Nick Trenton will walk you through the obstacles with detailed and proven techniques to help you rewire your brain, control your thoughts, and change your mental habits.What's more, the book will provide you scientific approaches to completely change the way you think and feel about yourself by ending the vicious thought patterns.Keep your thoughts from spiraling out of control.Nick Trenton grew up in rural Illinois and is quite literally a farm boy. His best friend growing up was his trusty companion Leonard the dachshund. RIP Leonard. Eventually, he made it off the farm and obtained a BS in Economics, followed by an MA in Behavioral Psychology.A day without worry, rumination, or anxiety. That could be yours.-Simple ways to shift your perspective to positivity and opportunity-The anti-anxiety superweapon of going META-A new approach on how to destroy the toxic habit of rumination-How to change your world one cognitive distortion at a time-Seeing the world in shades of grey - and not black and whitePsychologically-proven tips to get out of your head and into your life.No more self-deprecating talk. No more sleepless nights with racing thoughts. Free your mind from overthinking and achieve more, feel better, and unleash your potential. Finally be able to live in the present moment.

When it comes to working with dysregulated children, sometimes the biggest behaviors come in the smallest containers. From tantrums and defiance to self-injury and withdrawal, even the most skilled professionals find themselves focused on extinguishing the troubling behavior rather than stepping back to ask: What is the underlying emotional need? In Big Behaviors in Small Containers, you'll find 131 practical, fun, and ready-to-use play therapy interventions that shift the paradigm around problematic behaviors to allow for therapeutic growth and healing. Based on TraumaPlay®, a treatment approach that prioritizes attachment, co-regulation, and the science of the stress response system, the interventions inside will help kids: ¿ Develop a sense of safety and security ¿ Expand their window of tolerance ¿ Cope adaptively with anger, anxiety, and other strong emotions ¿ Enhance their emotional literacy ¿ Strengthen social skills and self-esteem ¿ Challenge and overcome unhelpful thoughts ¿ Develop a coherent narrative around trauma and other difficult experiences ¿ And more! Whether you're a therapist, teacher, doctor, caregiver, or trusted grown-up in a child's life, the tools inside will allow you to become the co-regulating, nurturing, and consistent presence that your "small container" needs to remain grounded in the face of stress, big feelings, and difficult situations.

The perfect gift for any dad, this keepsake legacy journal is a special place to record special moments, stories, and advice that you want to pass down to your children one day.Dad’s Story is a guided life story journal thoughtfully designed to help dads of all ages write down memories that they want to preserve and share with their children and family. Designed by best-selling artist and author Korie Herold, this memory journal provides dads with thoughtful writing prompts and plenty of journaling pages to record memories from their childhood, school years, early adulthood, and more. Show dad that you love him and want to hear more about his life with this timeless gift that’s ideal for Father's Day, birthdays, or any time of year.Sections and writing prompts include:Early Childhood: What was your house like growing up? What were your favorite toys or playtime activities?School Years: What did you think you wanted to be when you grew up? What were you like as a teenager?Work and Travel: What was your first job? What family vacations do you remember the most?Love and Family: What's your best relationship advice? How did you feel when you found out you were going to be a dad?Character and Values: What do you value most in life? What family values do you hope to pass down?Hypotheticals and Curiosities: What's something you wish you had done differently? What's the best advice you ever received?Words of Wisdom: Additional space to write letters to your familySpecial features include:Elegant linen with gold foil coverAcid-free and archival paperLayflat design allows you to easily write in the bookCarefully developed designs and prompts allow to you reflect and remember

"A 52-week interactive devotional that helps families and friends discover God enfleshed in the world. Seasons of Wonder is designed to allow you to gather together weekly with your loved ones and expand your understanding of divinity, specifically the radical but faithful idea that everything is sacred. This devotional is designed around weekly contemplative activities as well as interactive and transformative practices that connect us to surprise, awe, and wonder"--

"Big Thrift Energy will teach you everything you need to know about shopping for affordable vintage home decor and styling it in a modern home. Antiquing can be intimidating: how do you know if a piece is worth salvaging? How do you navigate the piles of merchandise at a thrift store or estate sale? Part resource, part inspiration, Big Thrift Energy is a comprehensive guide that offers tips for thrifting that you never knew you needed: How to shop for the good stuff, how to upcycle and style vintage treasures in your home, and even advice for flipping your most-coveted items to turn a profit."--Provided by publisher.

Embrace the power of witchcraft with this spiritual collection of spells and rituals for new and seasoned practitioners.The Witchcraft Boxed Set combines two of Arin Murphy-Hiscock’s bestselling titles into one stunning collection: You will enjoy: The Green Witch: Discover the power of natural magic and healing through herbs, flowers, and essential oils in this guide to green witchcraft. The House Witch: Everything you need to know to create your very own sacred space—perfect for practicing home-based witchcraft including spells, rituals, herbalism, and more.

This book describes an entirely new way of conducting hypnotherapeutic interventions - Stephen Gilligan's generative trance. The first generation of trance work, the traditional hypnosis that still holds sway in most places, considers that both the conscious mind and the unconscious mind of the client are, to put it bluntly, idiots. So trance work involves first 'knocking out' the conscious mind and then talking to the unconscious mind like a 2-year old that needs to be told how to behave. Milton Erickson created the second generation of trance work. He approached the unconscious as having creative wisdom and each person as extraordinarily unique. Thus, rather than trying to programme the unconscious with new instructions, Erickson saw trance as an experiential learning state where a person's own creative unconscious could generate healing and transformation. At the same time Erickson, for the most part, carried the same low opinion of the conscious mind. Thus, Ericksonian hypnosis looks to bypass the conscious mind with indirect suggestions and dissociation and depotentiate it with confusion techniques.

Shame might be far from the first thing that comes to mind when you think about what's causing your problems. Shame is hidden, and rarely something we talk about, but it can underlie challenges that we deal with on a daily basis, including anxiety, depression and low self-esteem. This book will help you understand what shame is, how it arises and, in turn, how to overcome it. With exercises in each chapter, it provides tools to reflect on, confront and free yourself from shame. The book also includes a questionnaire to assess how much shame impacts you.Be kind to yourself and rediscover your empathy for yourself with Confronting Shame.

There are some things that many of us take for granted - such as knowing when we are hot or cold, feel hungry, or need to go to the toilet. But how do we know these things, and why do some people struggle to recognise them? Interoception - the ability to identify and act on physical sensations inside the body - is crucial to human well-being. It underpins physical developmental milestones, such as toilet-training, as well emotional ones, such as the ability to self-regulate. Research shows that Autism often co-occurs with poor interoceptive sense.This practical and informative book demystifies interoception and provides tools to help boost interoceptive abilities. It summarises the latest research, explores how interoceptive difficulties can be identified, suggests strategies to manage feelings and emotions, and explains how to support individuals in 'tuning in' to themselves.

'A must read' JAMIE WINDUST'A beautifully honest book' JUNO ROCHE'A superb and necessary book' BEN PECHEYAs a young, queer, plus-size person, Essie Dennis has spent a lot of time feeling like they weren't enough - not queer enough, not feminine enough, not perfect enough. When they took to social media to share how they felt, they were overwhelmed by how many others felt the same.I look too masculine to be non-binaryI look too feminine to be a lesbian Am I too fat for drag?Inviting you to challenge accepted beauty standards and the concept of 'the perfect body', Essie takes everything they have learned on their journey to self-acceptance and body satisfaction to help guide you towards loving your queer body. From gender, sexuality and reclaiming your body, through to food, politics, social media and fatphobia, this radical book starts a conversation about body image and mental health that queer people are so often left out of.Fiercely and unapologetically written, and with honest advice and powerful stories from a diverse range of queer people throughout, this is an inspiring and necessary book that will show you that you are enough.

BWRT is a completely personalised therapy that is customised specifically to the way your brain and mind work. The technique has a strong foundation in science and evolutionary biology and is designed to work directly in the cognitive gap between the reptilian complex responding to a trigger (such as a stressful situation) and the individual becoming aware of what's happening. This enables the individual to overwrite whatever problem they're experiencing with new information and in this book Terence Watts details the steps of the procedures to help you achieve this outcome.You'll discover the 'how and why' of the technique's efficiency and, after an experiential exercise to whet your appetite, Terence then presents the procedures to help you tackle a range of different challenges, including:Preparing to get the very best out of the major changes you're going to make.Boosting your self-worth what you've been taught about yourself shapes what you think about yourself but a lot of it is fake news!Understanding anxiety in all its different forms, why we have it and why we just don't need it most of the time.Dealing with the simple phobia even when it seems far from simple, and getting rid of it for good.Performance enhancement harnessing the resources you thought you had but weren't sure how to find.BrainWorking Recursive Therapy (BWRT) is a registered trademark of Terence Watts.Suitable for anyone wanting to rewire their psychological responses to life's challenges.

'A beautiful, playful, intriguing book.' Nina StibbeEvery time you draw a card, you open up possibilities. What will appear and what will you see? What lessons could the cards offer up? What aspects of yourself might they reveal?Discover the tarot with Wild Card, a friendly, funny and straightforward guide to the seventy-eight cards, their stories and meanings.At its heart, the tarot is a storytelling device, a deck of symbols and narratives that can spark conversations, inspire ideas, and reveal new perspectives. And you don't need to be psychic to use it: it is a practice that is open to everyone. In this beautifully illustrated guide, tarot readers Jen Cownie and Fiona Lensvelt introduce each of the cards, drawing on literature, pop culture, and their own experiences, and encourage you to add your voice to this centuries-old tradition. Whether you are learning to read for yourself and others, refreshing your knowledge, or just curious, Wild Card will show you how the tarot can add a little bit of magic to your life.

Free yourself from self-improvement; find space for self-compassion In a world which can be hard to navigate, it's not surprising that sometimes we don't feel OK. In this compassionate book, therapists Jodie Cariss and Chance Marshall show us that when it comes to our mental health, there are no quick fixes. Instead they set out sustainable, realistic tools that will truly support you to feel more confident, hopeful and anchored through life's ups and downs.Using a practice they call 'mental maintenance', you'll learn how to: Embrace your real self, messy bits and all Unpick habits and attitudes that hold you back Navigate life's challenges with more ease and less strain Care for your mental health proactively, before things get difficultWith this book by your side, and a little curiosity and commitment, you'll soon find that you have the potential to thrive, just as you are.

Steve Zim has been a professional trainer in Los Angeles for nearly three decades. He has trained many professional athletes and A-list celebrities, helping them improve performance and get in shape to play challenging physical roles. During his career Zim has learned which nutrition strategies work best to help you get in shape quickly and maintain your new condition for life. Superhero Nutrition provides an easy-to-follow program that will allow you to get into the best shape of your life and maintain it.Superhero Nutrition is a two-part system: Part 1) You can integrate your current food choices into Superhero Nutrition. If you are vegan, Paleo, or follow Weight Watchers or South Beach etc., or if you have food allergies, intolerances or ethical or religious restrictions, your nutrition program will work with this system. Part 2) Zim also provides a detailed daily nutrition guide you can choose to follow, telling you what to eat and when. There is also a 54-page recipe guide that covers healthy breakfast, lunch, dinner and dessert options. Included is a chapter on exercise that provides you with a 3-day-a-week lifting and cardio program. The success of this program has already been demonstrated by BuzzFeed personalities, whose "We Trained Like Superheroes for 30 Days" video went viral.