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Infinite Edge
TRUE HAPPINESS IS FOUND IN BECOMING WHAT YOU’RE CAPABLE OF. Performance is for everyone. When you unlock your potential, life gets easier, because you get better. Now, for the first time, James Vincent shares the timeless principles once reserved for Olympic athletes and world-class leaders. These principles are available to anyone who wants to think clearer, feel stronger, and live calmer – not sometimes, but consistently. Imagine a life where you …Control your mind instead of battling itTurn self-doubt into unstoppable beliefWake up driven – fuelled by purpose, not pressureBuild the mindset that changes everything: your outcomes, your resilience, your lifeMaster the habits and skills that elevate you to world classStay calm, clear and composed when pressure breaks everyone elseWhen you master the six forces, you discover your edge – and once you do, you’ll never go back. Infinite Edge will Inspire You, Move You and Change You.
With No Hat
Celebrating his 70th year, Tim Seibles presents With No Hat, a new collection with a long history. Energised and original, With No Hat also offers a retrospective of Seibles' life and career – including his signature sassy villanelles; pop up cameos of cartoon characters; meditations on ageing, death, identity, and at-one-ment with all beings; and leading the parade – the main character: the poem itself – lithe and mischievous – not only bareheaded, but in the full glory of his birthday suit. With No Hat enterprises – strides, sprints, gavottes, and tiptoes through a life work of forging imagination into unforgettable tableaus, spanning self and other, and embracing and assessing, with Seibles' empathic but cold eye, our culture and our lives in mortal crisis.
Aharen-san is Indecipherable (Omnibus) Vol. 1-2
Super quiet Aharen Reina isn’t great with personal space - she’s either inches from your face or too far to hear, leaving people totally baffled. But when Raido, the friendly guy seated next to her, helps retrieve a dropped eraser, Aharen suddenly wants to get closer to him. From that moment on, she’s constantly by his side. And surprisingly...he’s cool with it. This offbeat, sweet-natured rom-com proves that friendship - and maybe even something more - can bloom from the most awkward encounters.
The Revolution Will Be Internalised
Anouchka Grose, a leading psychotherapist specialising in climate anxiety, was in general happy with her London life which included a glamorous partner, a teenager, even a spare room. But, shaken by the apparent futility of Western activism in the face of inertia and corruption, she began to question her choices, both material and emotional. Instead of seeking outward answers she went inwards, creating an alternative Eat, Pray, Love for the polycrisis. Inner prepping, or altering your private, interior world as a form of civil resistance, is an oblique way of coming at the classic feminist idea that the personal is political. Grose takes us on an exhilarating, funny, erudite and ultimately uplifting tour of the practices she tried out, including ego-dismantling retreats, animal communication, and tantra, offering myriad ways to revolutionise ourselves and others.
The Art of Musical Ciphers, Riddles and Sundry Curiosities
Offers the first comprehensive account of a centuries-old tradition of encrypting covert messages into music, from the Middle Ages to the present day. What do J. S. Bach, beef cabbage, coffee, the SATOR Square, and Marlene Dietrich have in common? Composers have enciphered these and many other words into music. Since time immemorial riddles have intrigued us, partly for their mirthful manner of connecting incongruous ideas, partly for their arresting way of opening fresh perspectives on our shared human condition. When we think of riddles, we normally recall verbal conundrums from cultures around the globe. But riddles can penetrate non-verbal aspects of our existence as well. Masking messages in music so that they lurk beneath the sonorous surface is an august Western tradition spanning the Middle Ages to the present. Known as musical cryptography, these puzzling pursuits form the subject of this book, construed broadly enough to capture not just musical ciphers and codes but also a curiosity shop of related techniques, which arguably can advance the greater virtue. They entertain, edify, and enthral, but also bewitch and bewilder, and, when unsolved, perplex and perturb.
Selected Myths
''Once upon a time there were just the gods; mortal beings did not yet exist.''We are used to thinking of myths as stories, and modern myths as made up and fictitious. For the ancient Greeks, however, a myth was a story that unveiled reality, and for Plato, myth-maker as well as myth-teller, a myth could tell us something important about ourselves and our world. The ultimate purpose of Plato''s myths is to help us live a better life, and to teach philosophical truths in a form we can most easily understand. This volume brings together ten of the most celebrated Platonic myths, from eight of Plato''s dialogues ranging from the early Protagoras and Gorgias to the late Timaeus and Critias. They include the famous myth of the cave from Republic as well as ''The Judgement of Souls'' and ''The Birth of Love''. Each myth is a self-contained story, prefaced by a short explanatory note, while the introduction considers Plato''s use of myth and imagery.These myths are thought-provoking and profound, and together they provide an ideal introduction to Plato''s philosophy. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful
''Pain and pleasure are simple ideas, incapable of definition.''In 1757 the 27-year-old Edmund Burke argued that our aesthetic responses are experienced as pure emotional arousal, unencumbered by intellectual considerations. In so doing he overturned the Platonic tradition in aesthetics that had prevailed from antiquity until the eighteenth century, and replaced metaphysics with psychology and even physiology as the basis for the subject. Burke''s theory of beauty encompasses the female form, nature, art, and poetry, and he analyses our delight in sublime effects that thrill and excite us. His revolution in method continues to have repercussions in the aesthetic theories of today, and his revolution in sensibility has paved the way for literary and artistic movements from the Gothic novel through Romanticism, twentieth-century painting, and beyond. In this new edition Paul Guyer conducts the reader through Burke''s Enquiry, focusing on its place in the history of aesthetics and highlighting its innovations, as well as its influence on many subsequent authors from Kant and Schiller to Ruskin and Nietzsche. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
100 Questions & Answers About Borderline Personality Disorder For Dummies
Everything You Want to Know About Borderline Personality Disorder: A Q&A Guide If you or a loved one are seeking expert advice on borderline personality disorder (BPD), look no further than 100 Questions & Answers About Borderline Personality Disorder For Dummies. With this helpful resource, you'll learn about the symptoms of BPD, explore research-based treatments and therapies, and find out how BPD impacts your relationships with others and yourself. Designed to be straightforward, this book features short, easy-to-absorb sections that allow you to quickly find the information you need to support your health and well-being. Whether you prefer to read all the Q&As or jump to specific topics, this guide is structured to expand your knowledge efficiently. Find answers to questions like: Is BPD hereditar? an medication help with BPD symptom? ow does BPD affect my decision makin? hat should I tell my partner about my BPD? For anyone coping with BPD or helping someone else with this mental health condition, 100 Questions & Answers About Borderline Personality Disorder For Dummies is a dependable and low-pressure starting point.
Oxford Reading Tree TreeTops inFact: Level 14: William Kamkwamba: Bright Spark
William Kamkwamba: Bright Spark examines the inspiring life of the inventor William Kamkwamba to see how his work has benefited the lives of people in his native Malawi.TreeTops inFact is a non-fiction series that aims to engage children in reading for pleasure as powerfully as fiction does. The variety of topics means there are books to interest every child in this compelling series. The series is written by top children''s authors and subject experts. The books are carefully levelled, making it easy to match every child to the right book.
Elizabeth and Ruth
Manchester 1849. Elizabeth Gaskell, newly famous author of Mary Barton, visits a young Irish prostitute in Manchester’s New Bailey prison. The girl is about to be discharged onto the Manchester streets, where her old life of poverty and violence await her. Elizabeth is determined to help her, but few people will employ an ex-prostitute from prison. In desperation, Elizabeth writes to Charles Dickens for advice. Inspired by the real correspondence between Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Dickens, Elizabeth and Ruth tells the unforgettable story of two very different women whose lives become inextricably intertwined.
My First BIG Book of WHALES and DOLPHINS
Perfect for learning about marine mammal lives and life cycles, this big book of 96 info-packed pages introduces kids to non-fiction reading with a fun question and answer format. Were there prehistoric whales? How do whales give birth to their calves underwater? Are dolphins smarter than humans? And much, much more! The fantastic photos and quantity of information will have kids returning to this book again and again, making it a valuable resource for classrooms and libraries.
Capitana
A captivating and swashbuckling romantasy for fans of DAUGHTER OF THE PIRATE KING and TO KILL A KINGDOM.
Ximena Reale is certain of one thing: the only good pirate is a dead one.
Ximena has spent her life training to become one of the black-cloaked cazadores, seafaring hunters who capture the pirates pillaging the Luzan Empire. But although Ximena is the top candidate at la academia, that will not be enough for a daughter of the notorious Reales - pirate captains who were executed for their crimes against the Empire.
So when Gasparilla, the most infamous pirate in Luza's history, attacks the capital, Ximena offers to catch him in exchange for being named a cazadora. The Empire accepts, on one condition: she must compete for her cloak against Dante de León, the pompous and infuriating son of the High Minister.
Knowing this is her chance to prove herself once and for all, Ximena must set out on a dangerous quest across the archipelago to hunt Gasparilla. But no matter how far she sails, her family's pirate legacy continues to haunt her, and she soon has to question the very laws she's always fought to uphold . . .
Bonded by Evolution
A ground-breaking look at the science of love and connection - and an urgent corrective to some of our most fundamental assumptions about attraction.
'In a world saturated with cynical advice about dating and gender, this book is a revelation . . . Bonded by Evolution is rigorous science written with warmth and moral clarity.' DANIEL H. PINK, author of Drive and The Power of Regret
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We're told that what men and women desire from relationship is different and at odds - he's looking for novelty, she's looking for commitment; he's concerned with looks, she's concerned with status. We're told that we live in a hierarchy of romantic inequality, in which desirability is predetermined by a narrow set of characteristics and where some people are marriage material while others are wired for promiscuity. Such ideas have their roots in a branch of science called evolutionary psychology, and over the past few decades its ideas have permeated our culture and fuelled a narrative that inspires despair and anxiety - and, in its most extreme form, these ideas have been hijacked in the service of misogyny and violence.
But this narrative is unscientific. The truth about human attraction - and the way evolution plays out in our romantic lives - is much more interesting and optimistic.
Bonded by Evolution offers a radical new picture of the roots of enduring chemistry. Distilling evolutionary biology, anthropology and psychology and informed by his pathbreaking research and original experiments at the Attraction and Relationships Research Laboratory in California, psychology professor Paul Eastwick reveals how attraction is best depicted as a process of finding - and, often, creating - a compatible relationship. Once we understand how ancestral humans sought compatible partners in small networks, we can build a clearer - and brighter - picture of how attraction, sex and relationships really work.
Adaptation under Fire
A critical look into how and why the U.S. military needs to become more adaptable.Every military must prepare for future wars despite not really knowing the shape such wars will ultimately take. As former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates once noted: "We have a perfect record in predicting the next war. We have never once gotten it right." In the face of such great uncertainty, militaries must be able to adapt rapidly in order to win. Adaptation under Fire identifies the characteristics that make militaries more adaptable, illustrated through historical examples and the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.Authors David Barno and Nora Bensahel argue that militaries facing unknown future conflicts must nevertheless make choices about the type of doctrine that their units will use, the weapons and equipment they will purchase, and the kind of leaders they will select and develop to guide the force to victory. Yet after a war begins, many of these choices will prove flawed in the unpredictable crucible of the battlefield. For a U.S. military facing diverse global threats, its ability to adapt quickly and effectively to those unforeseen circumstances may spell the difference between victory and defeat. Barno and Bensahel start by providing a framework for understanding adaptation and include historical cases of success and failure. Next, they examine U.S. military adaptation during the nation''s recent wars, and explain why certain forms of adaptation have proven problematic. In the final section, Barno and Bensahel conclude that the U.S. military must become much more adaptable in order to address the fast-changing security challenges of the future, and they offer recommendations on how to do so before it is too late.
International Relations Theories
Unrivalled coverage of IR theories from leading experts, including historically dominant traditions such as realism, and liberalism, to theories such as postcolonialism and green theory. Featuring a new organisation to reflect the importance and focus on global IR as well as newly authored chapters on classical realism, liberalism, Marxism, and critical theories. A wide range of case studies show readers how theory can be applied to address concrete political problems. Key Features:· Expert line-up of contributors offer coverage of dominant and emerging theories and arguments from diverse perspectives· Includes coverage of historically marginalised theories, including postcolonialism and environmentalism· A case study in each chapter shows how theory can be used to explain real-world problems and dilemmas and additional questions to encourage students to analyse and evaluate the different theories for themselves· Boxes highlighting key books or articles introduce students to prominent works in the field to encourage wider reading and research interests· Spotlights on key books and articles encourage readers to go beyond the textbook and develop their research interests, exploring important works in the fieldNew to this Edition:· An enhanced ebook with author videos, self-test questions, and pointers to answering case study questions· Newly authored chapters on classical realism, liberalism, and Marxism provide students with fresh perspectives on these theories· Newly authored chapter on critical theories illustrates the intersectional nature of critical theories as it relates to gender, race, and decolonisation, while speaking to topical debates in the field· The global IR chapter has been moved to the beginning of the text, which encourages students to critically reflect on the context in which IR developed and appreciate the importance of viewing international relations theories from truly representative perspectives from the very start· Updated online resources include pointers on answering case study questions, supporting students to apply theories to real world issuesDigital Formats and Resources:International Relations Theories is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats, and is supportedby online resources.The enhanced e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with self-test multiple choice questions, functionality tools,navigation features, and links that offer extra learning support: www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks The digital version, available on Politics Trove, is also accompanied by online resources.These include:For students:- Self-test questions for every section of the chapter, to help you test your knowledge as you go- Author videos explaining concepts or going into greater depth into a case study- Pointers on answering the case study questionsFor lecturers:- Test Bank for each chapter- PowerPoint slides with a deck for each chapter to help build lecture materials
Oxford Reading Tree TreeTops inFact: Level 14: Explorers: Then and Now
Explorers: Then and Now compares today''s intrepid explorers with their historical counterparts to see how much things have changed.TreeTops inFact is a non-fiction series that aims to engage children in reading for pleasure as powerfully as fiction does. The variety of topics means there are books to interest every child in this compelling series. The series is written by top children''s authors and subject experts. The books are carefully levelled, making it easy to match every child to the right book.
Bimbo
Bossy. Frigid. Spinster. Sl*t. Mumsy. Milf. Bimbo. The English language has a seemingly infinite number of judgemental and hypocritical words to describe women and their life choices. We can't win, no matter what we do.
Whether it’s on the sofa of ITV’s This Morning or online, Ashley James is a fierce advocate for women. In Bimbo, she unpacks the labels that box women in, and the systems that keep them there. From 'bossy' little girls, 'tarty' teens, to mothers who 'let themselves go', and 'left-on-the-shelf' single women, Ashley dissects the systems that try to confine us and asks: what if we broke free?
Told through raw personal stories, humour and with a fierce feminist lens, this is a battle cry for every woman who’s ever felt too much ? or not enough. This is a call to women to stop shrinking, stop competing, and start rising ? together.
This is a book to be shared, discussed, and cherished, and a beacon of hope for a better future.
Wuthering Heights (Wordsworth Empress Collection)
Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine’s father. After Mr Earnshaw’s death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine’s brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years later as a wealthy and polished man. He proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries. The action of the story is chaotic and unremittingly violent, but the accomplished handling of a complex structure, the evocative descriptions of the lonely moorland setting and the poetic grandeur of vision combine to make this unique novel a masterpiece of English literature. This edition includes an afterword by Dr Sally Minogue.
Phaedrus
''Some of our greatest blessings come from madnessPhaedrus is widely recognized as one of Plato''s most profound and beautiful works. It takes the form of a dialogue between Socrates and Phaedrus and its ostensible subject is love, especially homoerotic love. Socrates reveals it to be a kind of divine madness that can allow our souls to grow wings and soar to their greatest heights. Then the conversation changes direction and turns to a discussion of rhetoric, which must be based on truth passionately sought, thus allying it to philosophy. The dialogue closes by denigrating the value of the written word in any context, compared to the living teaching of a Socratic philosopher.The shifts of topic and register have given rise to doubts about the unity of the dialogue, doubts which are addressed in the introduction to this volume. Full explanatory notes also elucidate issues throughout the dialogue that might puzzle a modern reader. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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