5/13/2023 0 Comments Atomic habits paperback![]() ![]() These small changes will have a revolutionary effect on your career, your relationships, and your life. Along the way, he tells inspiring stories of Olympic gold medalists, leading CEOs, and distinguished scientists who have used the science of tiny habits to stay productive, motivated, and happy. He uncovers a handful of simple life hacks (the forgotten art of Habit Stacking, the unexpected power of the Two Minute Rule, or the trick to entering the Goldilocks Zone), and delves into cutting-edge psychology and neuroscience to explain why they matter. In this ground-breaking book, Clears reveals exactly how these minuscule changes can grow into such life-altering outcomes. ![]() He knows that real change comes from the compound effect of hundreds of small decisions - doing two push-ups a day, waking up five minutes early, or holding a single short phone call. But world-renowned habits expert James Clear has discovered another way. He is the author of the 1 New York Times bestseller, Atomic Habits. People think when you want to change your life, you need to think big. James Clear is a writer and speaker focused on habits, decision making, and continuous improvement. A revolutionary system to get 1 per cent better every day. ![]()
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5/13/2023 0 Comments Emily nagoski ted talk burnout![]() ![]() ![]() Sometimes the brain activates a stress response and you can’t do the thing it's trying to tell you to do. Wellness is thus not a state of being ist is a state of action. Wellness is the freedom to move fluidly through the cycles of being human. Even if its just jumping up and down or a good old cry. Physical activity is the single most efficient strategy for completing the cycle. You have to deal with the stress to complete the circle. Just because you’ve dealt with a stressor, that doesn’t mean you have dealt with these tress itself. Here comes the lion, what do you do? You Flight. Its an evolutionarily adaptive response that helps us cope with things like being chased by a lion. Stress - is the neurological and physiological shift that happens in your body when you encounter one of these threats. Internal Stressors: self-criticisms, body image, identify, memories, The Future.These are external stressors: work, money, family, time, cultural norms and expectations, experiences of discrimination.Anything you see, hear, smell, touch, taste or imagine could do you harm. ![]() Stressors - are what activate the stress response in your body. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments The raven cycle the dream thieves![]() ![]() ![]() Ronan is falling more and more deeply into his dreams. Fans of the SHIVER trilogy will love this new quartet! The Dream Thieves Now that the ley lines around Cabeswater have been woken, nothing for Blue and Gansey will be the same. Blue Lily, Lily Blue The third book in the mesmerizing series from bestselling author, Maggie Stiefvater. She doesn't believe in true love and never thought this would be a problem, but as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she's not so sure any more. ![]() All her life, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love's death. Description:- The Raven King The fourth and final instalment in the spellbinding series from bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater. The Raven Cycle Series Maggie Stiefvater Collection 4 Books Set With Gift Journal includes titles in this collection :- The Raven Boys, The Dream Thieves, Blue Lily, Lily Blue, The Raven King. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Nona the ninth review![]() ![]() ![]() "Muir tackles a new perspective in this characteristically brilliant successor to Harrow the Ninth, which offers a much more personal and tightly framed focus than the rest of the Locked Tomb series.Muir's skill is such that readers will be desperate to find out the truth of Nona's background but will still savor the quiet moments with this heartbreaking character. Nona would prefer to live an ordinary life with the people she loves, with Pyrrha and Camilla and Palamedes, but she also knows that nothing lasts forever.Īnd each night, Nona dreams of a woman with a skull-painted face. Their leaders want Nona to be the weapon that will save them from the Nine Houses. Blood of Eden forces have surrounded the last Cohort facility and wait for the Emperor Undying to come calling. A monstrous blue sphere hangs on the horizon, ready to tear the planet apart. ![]() Six months ago she woke up in a stranger's body, and she's afraid she might have to give it back. She lives with her family, has a job at her local school, and loves walks on the beach and meeting new dogs. Tamsyn Muir's New York Times and USA Today bestselling Locked Tomb Series continues with Nona the Ninth. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments The Burning Plain by Michael Nava![]() Rios proves his innocence, but when two more gay men are brutally murdered, he is drawn unwillingly into the hunt for a serial killer and soon finds himself up against an unsympathetic DA, a gay-bashing cop, reluctant witnesses, and a conspiracy among Hollywood's power elite. ![]() In The Burning Plain, he's wrongly accused of murder after a male prostitute he spent an evening with is savagely murdered. ![]() Gay Mexican American lawyer Henry Rios has fought bigotry and prejudice, battled alcoholism, and watched his lover die from AIDS. Read Or Download The Burning Plain (Henry Rios) By Michael Nava Full Pages. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And the discomfiture of dull Inspectors by Holmes’ Sphinx-like utterances until the Great Detective finally explains everything has worn thin. ![]() Despite the skills and gravelly gravitas of reader Simon Prebble, I felt while listening that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was going through the motions to satisfy importunate fans or to make some money, dusting off things from previous tales like the Hidden Room, the Vengeful Brotherhood, and the American History. Shocking, Watson, shocking!” But finally the novel is disappointing. The Valley of Fear, the last Sherlock Holmes novel, begins promisingly, with Holmes and Watson trying to solve a murder mystery at a country manor and firing off some great lines, as when Holmes upbraids Watson with a dumbbell: “One dumb-bell, Watson! Consider an athlete with one dumb-bell! Picture to yourself the unilateral development, the imminent danger of a spinal curvature. An Uninspired Holmes & Garish American Gangsters ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Wombat divine![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 2012 WomBot is an exploratory robot for monitoring wombat burrows, and the press release for it included this rather disappointing video of WomBot discovering a wombat in its burrow. 2023 These included Megalibgwilia, an echidna the size of a sheep Procoptodon, a huge kangaroo more than twice the size of today’s reds Thylacoleo, a lion-like hunter with a bone-crushing bite Diprotodon, a hippo-sized wombat and a giant monitor lizard, even bigger than the Komodo dragon. 2021 Tigers and penguins are known for projectile excretion that shoots out a fire hose, whereas wombats poop in cubes, sloths only poop once a month, and some wood-boring clams use poop chimneys to build a home. Recent Examples on the Web The squarer the poop, the healthier the wombat. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Francis fukuyama political decay![]() This magisterial account is required reading for anyone wishing to know more about mankind's greatest achievements. Fukuyama pays the most attention to the United States, which represented the vanguard of political development throughout the twentieth century but is now beset by political decay, as Washington is losing its ability to govern and act in the public interest. Fukuyama argues that the key to successful government can be reduced to three key elements: a strong state, the rule of law and institutions of democratic accountability. Political Order And Political Decay From The Industrial Revolution To The Globalization Of Democracy By Francis. If we want to understand the political systems that dominate and order our lives, we must first address their origins - in our own recent past as well as in the earliest systems of human government. ![]() ![]() This is the story of how state, law and democracy developed after these cataclysmic events, how the modern landscape - with its uneasy tension between dictatorships and liberal democracies - evolved and how in the United States and in other developed democracies, unmistakable signs of decay have emerged. Here, he picks up the thread again in the second instalment of his definitive account of mankind's emergence as a political animal. ![]() In The Origins of Political Order, Francis Fukuyama took us from the dawn of mankind to the French and American Revolutions. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Book review leave the world behind![]() ![]() ![]() The inner monologues of the characters are not shocking but often appalling. Vacationers, Amanda and Clay, are a 40-something white couple escaping the closeness and buzz of the city with their teenage son Archie and pre-teen daughter Rose. ![]() works at a boutique equity firm, and his wife Ruth is a retired education administrator. The homeowners are an older Black couple in their 60s. The book takes on a lot. There’s the age-old theme of money and how it equates to power and ease. The haves and have nots if you will. Tie that in with prejudice, how we see ourselves versus reality, and this book is taking off more than it can chew. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments I have a dream speech text![]() When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. In a sense we have come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition. ![]() One hundred years later the Negro is still languishing in the comers of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. ![]() One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity.īut one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. ![]() I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. at the March on Washington on August 28, 1963, remains his most memorable oration. Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech given on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. ![]() |