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From best-selling Kindle Singles author Mishka Shubaly comes Cold Turkey, a step by step roadmap for approaching the harrowing first month of sobriety. Himself 10 years sober, Shubaly addresses the slippery nature of alcoholism, and the messy, anxiety-ridden process of making the decision to stop drinking once and for all.

No Calculator? No Problem! Mastering Mental Math , award-winning professor of mathematics and celebrated “mathemagician” Arthur T. Benjamin delivers 10 fun-filled lessons on how to do math in your head with confidence, accuracy, and speed - sometimes faster than a calculator. By the end of Professor Benjamin’s lessons, you’ll be able to add, subtract, multiply, and divide numbers faster than ever before. And with your newfound skills, you’ll soon find yourself amazing other people and, perhaps more important, yourself.

A política internacional está em constante movimento. Diariamente, somos testemunhas de guerras, crises, conflitos, eleições e golpes, o que pode nos fazer acreditar em um mundo imerso no caos. No entanto, esse aparente desordem esconde uma ordem subjacente e estruturada. Este curso desvenda as origens históricas da política internacional contemporânea, revelando como eventos passados moldaram a dinâmica global que conhecemos hoje.

Inspirado pelas reflexões do livro Se a Cidade Fosse Nossa, este curso examina como a ideia de desempoderamento das cidades compromete uma de suas funções essenciais: a de formar cidadanias.

Este curso é uma jornada pela riqueza e sabedoria dos povos indígenas, com foco na memória coletiva e na oralidade como pilares essenciais para a preservação da identidade cultural e da conexão com o mundo.

It’s not just you. Stress levels are at an all-time high—so much so that a recently convened panel of medical experts in the US has recommended that all adults under the age of 65 be screened for anxiety. In How to Release Anxiety, Gabby Bernstein offers simple, actionable steps for feeling better, living with more ease, and showing up for those around us. Gabby’s unusual advice: Rather than manage your anxiety, what if you befriended it? Gabby posits that what we befriend, we can ultimately be at ease with. So she invites us to get curious.

Education can be enriching and transformative. It can also be downright excruciating—even demoralizing. When it comes to learning, why are some of us lovers and some of us haters? Welcome to the world of educational psychology, which uses science to explore what causes people to engage and learn, and what we can do to make learning opportunities more enjoyable and impactful. Spoiler alert: Teachers can only do so much. Students, too, must take control of their learning. Unfortunately, many of us never, ahem, learned the skills to do just that.

How can we change our behaviours? The first step is understanding our habits. For better or worse, habits are the invisible building blocks of daily life. Research suggests that about 40% of what we do is repeated almost daily and yet most of the time we aren't really aware of what's happening.

We all fail. We all fall. We all need to know how to get back up. Few know this better than New York Times best-selling author Neil Pasricha. Before selling over a million copies of his Book of Awesome series and touring the world to teach Fortune 500 CEOs, Ivy league deans, and members of the royal family how to unlock a positive mind-set, Pasricha’s life hit rock bottom. In this Audible Original, you'll hear for the first time Neil's very personal story of failure and resilience - and you'll learn how you, too, can find the strength to get back up.

Work is often treated as an activity that enables happiness on holidays or weekends. But most of us spend a large portion of our lives working - to live a happy life we need to be happy at work, not just outside of it. Changing your habits to prioritise happiness at work is the key. Dr Tim Sharp introduces you to 10 simple habits you can adopt in your own work life.

In the six lectures of Cultivating Anti-Racist Communities, you’ll join Giovanna Fischer, PhD, of the Los Angeles LGBT Center to explore how each of us can contribute to building a fairer and more equitable world through community and connection. You’ll begin by gaining a better understanding of how racism operates on a systemic level, as well as what defines genuine anti-racist action. With this important foundation established, you’ll then move on to developing concrete strategies for transformation within your own reach and abilities.

Do you have a dream sitting on a shelf that you're ready to bring to life? Or maybe you've begun your journey of change but feel stuck, stalled, and uncertain about what to do next. The time has come for you to create your own path—not follow the one presented to you—and you could use a powerful dose of guidance to get you there. This is exactly where you need to be. In Pivot and Pursue It, reinvention expert Coach Pamela Mitchell delivers 90 minutes of concrete advice on how to envision your next destination and then get there.

The slap you in your face, stop you in your tracks, colour run from your face moment that changed everything.

Tavi Gevinson founded the online magazine Rookie in 2011 when she was fifteen years old. She wanted to create a space for teens that was free of messaging telling them who they should be and instead celebrated them for who they were. Rookie attracted a thriving community until it folded in 2018. Its now-grown readers still seek out its archive and book series today.

Apresentamos as facetas do consumo e espetacularização do horror a partir de referencial teórico de Freud e da Escola de Frankfurt, entre outros pensadores. Trata-se de debater o gosto e os significados culturais em torno da atmosfera sinistra presente nos filmes de terror, programas policialescos e a comoção gerada em em séries e documentários sobre assassinatos que relatam acontecimentos reais. A relação entre consumo, inconsciente, cultura de massas e o medo será abordada, enfatizando estes considerados estranhos comportamentos sociais.

Você tem aqui um convite para uma jornada transformadora de busca pelo sentido da vida. Cada aula é um passeio por mitologias e filosofias de diversas culturas para enriquecer seu entendimento sobre as experiências fundamentais que moldam nossa existência. A partir de narrativas e diálogos com pensadores de distintas épocas e continentes, você irá refletir sobre amor, aprendizado, escolhas, sabedoria e o processo de envelhecer.

Este curso é um mergulho nas engrenagens que movimentam nossas decisões financeiras, muitas vezes impulsionadas pelo piloto automático e pelas complexidades do dia a dia.

In The History and Future of HBCUs, Professor Crystal R. Sanders and Professor Reginald Ellis take you back to the pre-Civil War origins of some of the earliest HBCUs and walk you through the complex history of these institutions. As you witness their growth - and the power struggles that often came with the fraught political and racial landscape of the US in the 19th and 20th centuries - you will meet some of the great minds they produced. Uncover the indelible mark they have left on American education, the fight for Black liberation, and the Civil Rights movement.

Ever get the feeling that not everything is cool with school? Best-selling author Neal Pollack is dissatisfied with what his teenage son, Elijah, is learning in his studies. Neal wants to fill in the gaps, while Elijah just wants him to chill out a little. Together, they embark on the father-son field trip of a lifetime, which includes stops in New York's poetry-slam scene, a medical-marijuana dispensary, and a convention to discuss evolution with 1,700 biologists.

When you add Extra Credit to your library you will receive all 10 episodes, each with a runtime of approximately 20 minutes.

In their continuing father-son field trip to end all field trips, writer (and one-time Jeopardy! champ) Neal Pollack and his teenage son set out to explore the many topics not covered in his high school curriculum. Among them: what really constitutes a healthy lunch, why dress codes exist, and how the largely phased-out "home ec" class can be beneficial.