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Democracy in Retreat The Revolt of the Middle Class and the Worldwide Decline of Representative Government
pdf | 1.8 MB | Author :Kurlantzick, Joshua
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Since the end of the Cold War, the assumption among most political theorists has been that as nations develop economically, they will also become more democratic-especially if a vibrant middle class takes root. This assumption underlies the expansion of the European Union and much of American foreign policy, bolstered by such examples as South Korea, the Philippines, Taiwan, and even to some extent Russia. Where democratization has failed or retreated, aberrant conditions take the blame: ---sm, authoritarian Chinese influence, or perhaps the rise of local autocrats. But what if the failures of democracy are not exceptions? In this thought-provoking study of democratization, Joshua Kurlantzick proposes that the spate of retreating democracies, one after another over the past two decades, is not just a series of exceptions. Instead, it reflects a new and disturbing trend: democracy in worldwide decline. The author investigates the state of democracy in a variety of countries, why the middle class has turned against democracy in some cases, and whether the decline in global democratization is reversible.
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7 Mindsets for Success, Happiness and Fulfilment
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Thoughts and feelings that persist over time harden into an attitude. If you live with an attitude long enough, it becomes second nature-a mindset. The wrong mindset could lead you off the path of contentment, joy, enlightenment. The right one will point you to the road to success, to fulfilment and towards an extraordinary life.
Blending science with Vedic scriptures, and logic with spiritual insight, Swami Mukundananda unravels the secrets of the 7 mindsets-seven techniques of training the mind and intellect and unlocking the immense potential within. An alumnus of IIT and IIM, Swami-ji brings his decades-long mastery of Vedic scriptures to these powerful yet simple techniques for mind management and life transformation.
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In Sheets Of Rain - Nicola Claire
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How long would you keep fighting for something that keeps tearing you apart?
Emergency services worker Kylee Dunn has a life that looks perfect on the surface. A caring husband. A beautiful home. A large group of friends. And a job that feels more like a brotherhood than a workplace.
But scratch a little deeper and the truth starts to spill out.
Nightmares that never end. Responsibilities that seem reasonable but are anything but. And a heart and mind so abused by their experiences that Kylee can barely recognise the woman she's become.
And then hope appears in the form of a complete stranger, who starts to slowly put Kylee back together again.
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How the Other Half Banks Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy by Mehrsa Baradaran
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The United States has two separate banking systems today-one serving the well-to-do and another exploiting everyone else. How the Other Half Banks contributes to the growing conversation on American inequality by highlighting one of its prime causes: unequal credit. Mehrsa Baradaran examines how a significant portion of the population, deserted by banks, is forced to wander through a Wild West of payday lenders and check-cashing services to cover emergency expenses and pay for necessities-all thanks to deregulation that began in the 1970s and continues decades later.
"Baradaran argues persuasively that the banking industry, fattened on public subsidies (including too-big-to-fail bailouts), owes low-income families a better deal. How the Other Half Banks is well researched and clearly written.The bankers who fully understand the system are heavily invested in it. Books like this are written for the rest of us."
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" How the Other Half Banks tells an important story, one in which we have allowed the profit motives of banks to trump the public interest."
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Bad An Unprecedented Investigation into the Michael Jackson Cover-Up by Dylan Howard
epub | 28.82 MB | English | Author :Dylan Howard | Skyhorse
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An Inside View into the Dark Side of a Music Icon
He was the King of Pop, a superstar without equal, the idol of millions of young people around the world. But was Michael Jackson also a sexual predator without equal, someone who preyed on the very fans who adored him?
Bad is the revelatory untold true story of the strange and larger-than-life career of Michael Jackson, the King of Pop. In the wake of the controversial two-part documentary Leaving Neverland, which told the stories of two young boys who were befriended by the singer and have claimed they suffered years of agonizing abuse, Dylan Howard set out to investigate Jackson's life and death in unprecedented depth, to determine-as one lawyer suggested-that the pop star ran "the most sophisticated child sexual abuse procurement and facilitation operation the world has known."
After all the highly publicized trials and unfounded accusations, stunning new information has...
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Star Trek - Log Three (1975) by Alan Dean Foster
pdf | 5.85 MB | Author :Alan Dean Foster
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Celebrate the fortieth anniversary of Star Trek® with the original mission logs chronicling some of the crew's most bizarre missions and strangest encounters with alien races across the galaxy . . . where no man has gone before™.
Once Upon a Planet
Ready for a holiday, the Enterprise crew returns to the planet of fantasies expressly designed to make every wish come true. But the resort has become a mad dream world where nightmares are hideously real.
Mudd's Passion
When space scoundrel Harry Mudd is arrested and brought aboard the Enterprise, he subjects the crew to a liquid-crystal love potion-with devastating results.
The Magicks of Megas-tu
After penetrating the very heart of the galaxy, Kirk and his crew confront a strange half-man, half-goat creature, who introduces the Enterprise to a fantastic world of good . . . and evil.
The Terratin Incident
A garbled distress signal leads the Enterprise to certain doom in a fiery mass of radiant particles-as all living matter begins to shrink to nothingness, including Kirk and his crew.
Time Trap
A Klingon attack on the Enterprise causes both ships to disappear into the Delta Triangle, a dead-end time warp of lost ships. Escape is impossible-unless sworn enemies Kor, the Klingon leader, and Kirk work together.
More Tribbles, More Troubles
After saving a Federation scout ship from Klingon attack, Kirk also rescues Cyrano Jones and a pile of tribbles. Jones insists that these tribbles don't multiply-but they do grow bigger, and bigger, and bigger.
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Requiem of Stars (1996) by Tracy Hickman
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Will truth and virtue triumph over the deadly darkness of an all-consuming evil?
The war against the dragon minions of Queen Takhisis rages on. Armed with the mysterious, magical Dragon Orbs and the shining, silver Dragonlance, the Companions of the Lance lead their people in a desperate final battle. Knight and barbarian, warrior and mage, dwarf and kender-no one has reckoned how high the price of defeat, or even victory, might be.
But now, in the dawn of a new day, the dark secrets that have long shadowed the hearts of the Companions come to light. If they are to truly defeat the five-headed dragon goddess, they must find a way to overcome their own personal conflicts and doubts. From betrayal and treachery to fragility and weakness, the greatest battle now lies within each of them.
Dragons of Spring Dawning is the third book in the Dragonlance Chronicles.
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Escape from Earth - New Adventures in Space by Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois (Eds )
pdf | 7 MB | Author :Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois (Eds.)
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"Hip, violent and funny vignettes of the mean streets of southeast London tie together this rowdy set of short novels" from the Irish crime writer (Publishers Weekly).
At sixty-two, Chief Inspector Roberts is nearly too old to be a cop, but he makes up for his age with a ferocity that the younger detectives cannot match. After four decades on the force, he has a daughter who hates him, a wife who cheats, and a bank account that gro emptier every year. But on London's darker streets, Roberts is a force to be reckoned with. With his partner, the gleefully brutal Detective Sergeant Brant, Roberts looks for every security officerman's dream: the White Arrest, a high-profile success that makes up for all their past failures. In A White Arrest, their target is a bat-wielding lunatic who knocks off drug dealers. In Taming the Alien, they hunt a mysterious hit man who earned his nickname by carrying out a hit while watching Ridley Scott's sci-fi classic. And in The McDead, Roberts and Brant set their sights on a cunning kingpin ruling London's southeast side. Gripping and gritty, Ken Bruen's White Trilogy is an unforgettable noir portrait of London's seedy underworld.
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Fantastic Creatures (1981) by Isaac Asimov, Martin H, Greenberg and Charles Waugh (Eds )
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The Southern Reach Trilogy begins with this Nebula Award-winning novel that "reads as if Verne or Wellsian adventurers exploring a mysterious island had warped through into a Kafkaesque nightmare world" (Kim Stanley Robinson).
Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; the second expedition ended in mass suicide; the third expedition in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another. The members of the eleventh expedition returned as shado of their former selves, and within weeks, all had died of cancer. In Annihilation, the first volume of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, we join the twelfth expedition.
The group is made up of four women: an anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and our narrator, a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain, record all observations of their surroundings and of one another, and, above all, avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.
They arrive expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers-they discover a massive topographic anomaly and life forms that surpass understanding-but it's the surprises that came across the border with them and the secrets the expedition members are keeping from one another that change everything.
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Best Laid Plaids (Kilty Pleasur - Ella Stainton
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In 1920s Scotland, even ghosts wear plaid.
Welcome to a sexy, spooky new paranormal historical series from debut author Ella Stainton.
Scotland, 1928
Dr. Ainsley Graham is cultivating a reputation as an eccentric.
Two years ago, he catastrophically ended his academic career by publicly claiming to talk to ghosts. When Joachim Cockburn, a WWI veteran studying the power of delusional thinking, arrives at his door, Ainsley quickly catalogues him as yet another tiresome Englishman determined to mock his life's work.
But Joachim is tenacious and openhearted, and Ainsley's intrigued despite himself. He agrees to motor his handsome new friend around to Scotland's most unmistakable hauntings. If he can convince Joachim, Ainsley might be able to win back his good name and then some. He kno he's not crazy-he just needs someone else to know it, too.
Joachim is one thesis away from realizing his dream of becoming a psychology professor, and he's not going to let anyone stop him, not even an enchanting ginger with a penchant for tartan and lewd jokes. But as the two travel across Scotland's lovely-and definitely, definitely haunted-landscape, Joachim's resolve starts to melt. And he's beginning to think that an empty teaching post without the charming Dr. Graham would make a very poor consolation prize indeed.
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Impersonation by Heidi Pitlor
epub | 707.53 KB | English | Author :Heidi Pitlor | Algonquin Books
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"Smart, funny, and provocative. As page-turningly readable as it is relatable." -Jessica Shattuck, author of The Women in the Castle
TOGETHER, THEY MAKE THE PERFECT FEMINIST MOTHER
Allie Lang is a professional ghostwriter and a perpetually broke single mother to a young boy. Years of navigating her own and America's cultural definition of motherhood have left her a lapsed idealist. Lana Breban is a high-profile lawyer, economist, and advocate for women's rights with designs on elected office. She also has a son. Lana and her staff have decided she needs help softening her image in the eyes of the public and that a memoir about her life as a mother will help.
Allie struggles to write Lana's book as obstacles pile up: not enough childcare, looming deadlines, an unresponsive subject, an ill-defined romantic relationship on the verge of slipping away. Eventually, Lana comes to require far too much of...
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The Annihilation Protocol by Michael Laurence
epub | 829.7 KB | English | Author :Michael Laurence | 9781250158529 | St. Martin's Press
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Michael Laurence delivers The Annihilation Protocol , the follow-up to The Extinction Agenda , in a series described as "Jack Reacher falling into a plot written by Dan Brown" (James Rollins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Crucible ).
For centuries, a mysterious syndicate known as the Thirteen has staged a silent coup, infiltrating governments and manipulating the course of world events. It's more powerful than any nation, deadlier than any army. The time has come for it to emerge from the shado and claim the entire world as its own. And only FBI Special Agent James Mason and his longtime friends stand in its way.
After narrowly preventing a global pandemic, Mason and his team discover an even deadlier threat has already been set into motion. An unknown adversary has produced enough of a lethal nerve gas to wipe every major city off the face of the world, and their only clue to finding it lies in a cryptic message written in the blood of a man found entombed behind a concrete wall. It isn't until another victim appears--right in the heart of Central Park--that Mason realizes the murders are personal in nature, and figuring out the connection between them is the key to averting catastrophe.
Eight million lives hang in the balance and their only chance of surviving lies in the hands of Mason, his old friends, and a new partner he's not entirely sure he can trust. Can his team track down a sinister agent codenamed Scarecrow before toxic gas fills the streets of New York City, or will the true power pulling the strings from behind the scenes--the Thirteen--succeed in enacting its genocidal agenda?
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"An exciting page-turner that will keep a fan awake long past bedtime." ―New York Journal of Books
"With a hero facing enough twists and turns to make James Bond look like a piker....A nail-biting thriller." ―The Denver Post
"The mixture of science, history, and conspiracy echoes the work of James Rollins and Steve Berry. The pacing never lets up." ―Booklist
"Think The X-Files by way of Michael Connelly...a refreshing switch from the usual, tried-and-true run-and-gun, non-stop action formula thrillers of this type tend to go for. Instead, The Extinction Agenda relies more on intelligently twisted machinations and a smart conspiracy that slowly unravels over the evolution of Mason's investigation." ―High Fever Books
"The character of James Mason joins all the other bad asses out there like Bond, Jason Bourne, Jack Ryan and Jack Reacher....The story is full of twists and turns and is non-stop action. I for one cannot wait for the next chapter with Mason and company." ―Red Carpet Crash
"Michael Laurence's The Extinction Agenda blew me away. Not only is the story riveting and engrossing, but imagine Jack Reacher falling into a plot written by Dan Brown, and you might get some hint at the rollercoaster of a ride found in this book. Don't miss the start of what I hope will be a long series featuring Special Agent James Mason." ―James Rollins, New York Times bestselling author
[b]About the Author [/b]
Michael Laurence was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado to an engineer and a teacher, who kindled his passions for science and history. He studied biology and creative writing at the University of Colorado and holds multiple advanced certifications in medical imaging. Before becoming a full-time author, he worked as an x-ray/CT/MRI technologist and clinical instructor. He lives in suburban Denver with his wife, four children, and a couple of crazy Labrador Retrievers.
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Yours to Keep - Lauren Layne
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An irresistible baseball star and a resistant hometown girl stumble into love in a flirty romance by New York Times bestselling author Lauren Layne.
Pro baseball shortstop Carter Ramsey is about to be Citizen magazine's Man of the Year, but the only title that matters to him is out of reach: World Series MVP. Benched by a recent injury, Carter retreats to his hometown to recover. His ten-year class reunion and a potential reconciliation with the sweetheart he left behind could be perfect distractions. Until another old acquaintance thro Carter a curveball.
Olive Dunn admits that her former high college science partner is still a handsome charmer. But she wasn't swayed then, and she won't be swayed now. Because Olive remembers Carter's little shortcoming: he tends to bail the moment it suits him, without a backward glance. Best to keep her feelings strictly platonic while he's in town.
Except the entitled boy she knew is a changed man: solid, reflective, and generous. As they ease back in to their familiar friendship, things take a surprising turn, and Carter and Olive must decide if what they have is a passing flirtation or a real shot at love.
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Dark Song (Dark Carpathian) - Christine Feehan
epub | 740.41 KB | English | Author :Feehan, Christine | Little, Brown Book Group
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Two Carpathians find hope in the bond that ties their souls in this passionate novel in Christine Feehan's #1 New York Times bestselling series.
Stolen from her home at a young age and tormented for centuries, Elisabeta Trigovise is scared to show herself to anyone. Even though she has been rescued and is now safe within the Carpathian compound, she has lived in fear for so long she has no idea how to survive without it. She wants to answer the siren call of her lifemate-but the very thought terrifies her.
Before he found Elisabeta, Ferro Arany was an ancient warrior without emotion. Now that his senses have come alive, he kno it will take more than kind words and soft touches to convince the fractured woman that they are partners, not master and prisoner. For now, he will give her his strength until she finds hers, allowing the steady rhythm of his heart to soothe Elisabeta's fragile soul.
But even as she learns to stand on her own, the vampire who kept her captive is desperate to claim her again, threatening the song Elisabeta and Ferro are writing together.
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Liberating Histories
pdf | 1.28 MB | Author :Norton, Claire; Donnelly, Mark;
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Liberating Histories makes an original, scholarly contribution to contemporary debates surrounding the cultural and political relevance of historical practices. Arguing against the idea that specifically historical readings of the past are necessary or are compelled by the force of past events themselves, this book instead focuses on other forms of past-talk and how they function in politically empowering ways against social injustices.
Challenging the authority and constraints of academic history over the past, this book explores various forms of past-talk, including art, films, activism, memory, nostalgia and archives. Across seven clear chapters, Claire Norton and Mark Donnelly show how activists and campaigners have used forms of past-talk to unsettle 'common sense' thinking about political and social problems, how journalists, artists, curators, filmmakers and performers have referenced the past in their practices of advocacy, and how grassroots archivists help to circulate materials that challenge the power of authorised institutional archives to determine what gets to count as a demonstrable feature of the past and whose voices are part of the 'historical record'.
Written in a lucid, accessible manner, and combining insightful critical analysis and philosophical argument with clear consideration of how different forms of past-talk influence the narration of pasts in a variety of socio-political contexts, Liberating Histories is essential reading for students and scholars with an interest in historiography and the ethical and political dimensions of the historical discipline.
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Milady Standard Haircutting System, Spiral Bound Version
pdf | 70.46 MB | Author :Milady
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The Milady Standard Haircutting System is a formalized system designed to make teaching and learning the foundational principles of haircutting easier, while ensuring a solid understanding of the technical and creative aspects of haircutting that will set students up for success throughout their career. The system teaches fifteen haircuts, each delivered via brief, segmented pieces of content, that allow for the information to be easily understood and retained. It then builds and strengthens the skills that are presented by means of repetition, revision, and exploration. The system also provides students with a conceptual understanding of the components involved, teaching them to clearly communicate their creative ideas to their guests and the ability to adapt the learned techniques to ensure their approach to each individual patron will yield equally successful results. Additionally, through extensive training materials available to the instructor to integrate and teach the system, colleges can feel confident that the Milady Standard Haircutting System will foster a rich classroom environment for both student and instructor.
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Nanotechnology in a Nutshell From Simple to Complex Systems
pdf | 31.94 MB | Author :Christian Ngô
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A new high-level book for professionals from Atlantis Press providing an overview of nanotechnologies now and their applications in a broad variety of fields, including information and communication technologies, environmental sciences and engineering, societal life, and medicine, with provision of customized treatments.
The book sho where nanotechnology is now - a fascinating time when the science is transitioning into complex systems with impact on new products. Present and future developments are addressed, as well as a larger number of new industrial and research opportunities deriving from this domain. An overview for professionals, researchers and policy-makers of this very rapidly expanding field. Brief chapters and colour figures with a contained overall length make the book attractive at an attractive price - a must for every professional's shelf.
Mihail C. Roco, National Science Foundation and National Nanotechnology Initiative, wrote the preface underlying the importance and weight of the present book to this exciting and epoch-awakening field of research and applications:
"Nanotechnology is well recognized as a science and technology megatrend for the beginning of the 21st century. This book aims to show where nanotechnology is now - transitioning to complex systems and fundamentally new products - and communicates the societal promise of nanotechnology to specialists and the public. Most of what has already made it into the marketplace is in the form of "First Generation" products, passive nanostructures with steady behaviour. Many companies have "Second Generation" products, active nanostructures with changing behaviour during use, and embryonic "Third Generation" products, including 3-dimensional nanosystems. Concepts for "Fourth Generation" products, including heterogeneous molecular nanosystems, are only in research."
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One Thousand Exercises in Probability, Third Edition
pdf | 7.72 MB | Author :Grimmett, Geoffrey; Stirzaker, David;
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This third edition is a revised, updated, and greatly expanded version of previous edition of 2001. The 1300+ exercises contained within are not merely drill problems, but have been chosen to illustrate the concepts, illuminate the subject, and both inform and entertain the reader. A broad range of subjects is covered, including elementary aspects of probability and random variables, sampling, generating functions, Markov chains, convergence, stationary processes, renewals, queues, martingales, diffusions, L�vy processes, stability and self-similarity, time changes, and stochastic calculus including option pricing via the Black-Scholes model of mathematical finance.
The text is intended to serve students as a companion for elementary, intermediate, and advanced courses in probability, random processes and operations research. It will also be useful for anyone needing a source for large numbers of problems and questions in these fields. In particular, this book acts as a companion to the authors' volume, Probability and Random Processes, fourth edition (OUP 2020).
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How To Overcome Anxiety And Be Confident
epub | 387.17 KB | English | Author :SIMARJEET SINGH
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THIS BOOK IS BASED ON PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL METHODS OF OVERCOMING ANXIETY AND GETTING CONFIDENT. THIS BOOK TALKS ABOUT HOW YOU CAN LOOK CONFIDENT BY PHYSICAL MEASURES AND PSYCHOLOGICAL MEASURES. IT ALSO INCLUDES THE WRONG GESTURES THAT NERVOUS PEOPLE SHOW AND PROVIDES PERFECT HAND GESTURES. AND IN THE PSYCHOLOGICAL PART THIS BOOK TELLS HOW TO TALK ,WHAT TO TALK AND WHAT NOT TO TALK. HOW TO DINT GET NERVOUS, HOW TO MAKE FRIENDS AND MAY OTHER TOPICS OF THIS KINDS ARE COVERED.
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we should discuss how a non confident person behaves in this context. This kind of person behaves in a very odd way. They sit silently in a group of people show poor gestures they fold and interlock their arm and start sweating on their hands. It became easy to check nervousness of a person. This makes other person to show dominance because you invited them by your non confident behavior.
Secondly, they also treat themselves badly. They have very low self worth. Most of the time they Downplays or ignores their positive qualities, Judges themselves to be inferior to their peers, Uses negative words to describe themselves such as stupid, fat, ugly or unlovable, Has discussions with themselves (this is called 'self talk') that are always negative, critical and self blaming, Assumes that luck plays a large role in all their achievements and doesn't take the credit for them, Blames themselves or situation when things go wrong, Doesn't believe a person who compliments them.
They are also unhappy or unsatisfied with themselves most of the time, and feel awkward or incompetent , they also tend to be hypersensitive. They have a negative perception of oneself can have serious consequences. They are more likely to avoid interactions with others and are quicker to react defensively, cynically, or even lash out.
There are multiple causes that cause nervousness and anxiety.
Family Problems: There are many unfamiliar things happen in family that cause nervousness and anxiety. This is not done in a day. It takes many months or years to get wired in your mind. This is caused by divorce or fight between parents make the child emotionally ill. In this scenario child:
•Being severely disciplined, Being screamed at and ordered around
•Being disregarded
•Being belittled and told you do everything wrong
•Being given high but impossible expectations
•Being told that fortune or luck produces results, so helplessness is the outcome
•Being told that if you fail, you're no good, Being compared unfavorably to siblings or other children, Being neglected
Lack of social interaction: In the childhood Non confident people does not get engage in social gatherings. They try to find some private space and like to escape from gathering. They are not very socially active. They merely like to meet someone. They do not like to engage in games and always stay busy in using digital gadgets.
Bullying: this happens mostly in college. Children who are healthier or have high social status try to bully the weaker one. It is also done by some bad people over cyberspace. Cyber bullying is the use of technology to harass, threaten, embarrass, or target another person. By definition, it occurs among young people.
There are many other causes but all of them move around of these three.
This book is divided in two parts which tells different measures to overcome anxiety and be confident.
1.Physical
a.Low Confidence Gestures
(I) Eye blocking
(II) Lip Compression
(III) Freezing
(IV)Nail Biting
and many more.
we will discuss about in briefly in this book
2. Psychological
(I) Live In Present
(II) Self selection of Living
(III) Work and Live for Yourself
(IV) Don't be too sophisticated about money
(V) Don't try to be liked by everyone
(VI) Set boundaries
COMMUNICATION PART
1.What to communicate?
2.What's not to communicate?
3.How to communicate?
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Introduction To Data Visualization And Storytelling - A Guide For The Data Scientist
epub | 2.47 MB | English | Author :Jose Berengueres, Ali Fenwick, Marybeth Sandell | Stokes-Hamilton
Book Description :
Used in universities and biz colleges in Finland, Barcelona, USA, Korea, Canada and the Middle East; and in executive trainings of companies like Halliburton TX, Agilent and PropertyFinder, this book will help you to transform data into not just information, but valuable knowledge.
In this book, you will learn by example how to visualize the fascinating topics of gender equality, inclusion, solar energy and bias. You will also learn, What is the role of a narrative in a graphic; The foundations of visual narratives and what is the relationship between data, information and knowledge. The authors (Kaggle masters, Bloomberg ex bureau chiefs and psychology professors) bring together concepts of Data Science, Design Thinking and Strategy to take the reader on a journey where the destination is nothing less than great visual storytelling.
You can be an MBA candidate, an instructor, a strategy consultant or an entrepreneur, this book explains the visual fundamentals for building graphics that convince decisively
Designed as a series of Socratic exercises, this book is for you if you work with Excel, SPSS, or Tableau; no data skills or special math skills are required.
*** What will you learn? (learning outcomes)
*Identify the role of a narrative in a graphic
*Transform data into information
*Synthesize knowledge from data
*Apply visual thinking tools to the decision-making process
*Select visual communication techniques to persuade
*Detect biases and lies in charts
*** Praise from the readers
"look at this tremendous contribution" - Juan Riquelme Díaz, Editor del Grupo Valparaíso en SoyChile
"I was going through the book and it looks great!" - Mauricio ZAnotti - Director ONG La ruta Solar
"Here in Argentina the community in data science is really growing, and I love visualizations and find the way to tell the story." - Agustin Blacker
"Along with greeting and thanking you for such a good contribution delivered through the book I am reading (now in its translated version)." - Rosa Velasques
"An eye opener" - Benjamin Jon, Wales.
"A holistic approach to how to create knowledge with classic rhetoric." - Birgitta Edberg
*** About the authors
Marybeth Sandell is a Swedish-American journalist and has been, among others, bureau chief of the Bloomberg London office. He has worked in Stockholm, Zurich and New York; and has taught at the University of North Carolina. She has a Masters in Communication and Technology from UNC Chapel Hill and his work focuses on creating data-driven stories for global corporations and non-profits.
Jose Berengueres is from Barcelona and a doctor in robotics by TokyoTech. Fluent in Japanese and a Kaggle competitions master, he is also an angel investor in edtech startup citationSy; since 2011 he works at the U.A.E University in the Emirates where he combines teaching design thinking and ethics in IT with mentoring startups.
Ali Fenwick is Dutch and is Professor of Organizational Behavior and Innovation at Hult International Business college in Dubai. Her research focuses on the psychology of organizations and administration, and explores how psychological interventions can be applied within the workplace.
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