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The 5-minute Stoicism Journal

Create Space for Joy, Positivity, and Reflection

By: Matthew J. Van Natta

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The 5-minute Stoicism Journal

Create Space for Joy, Positivity, and Reflection

By: Matthew J. Van Natta

Quiet mind, happy heart--master the virtues and disciplines of stoicism. Want to remain focused, content, confident--even joyful--no matter what challenges life throws your way? The 5-Minute Stoicism Journal can show you how to develop emotional resilience and cultivate a positive mindset by focusing your attention on what you can control in your life. Complete with a basic overview of stoicism, thought-provoking quotes from philosophers, and plenty of space to write, this guided journal has all you need for your stoic journey. Relieve short-term stress while working toward consistent, long-term contentment with The 5-Minute Stoicism Journal. This book includes: Take 5--Each activity is designed to take only five minutes each day, so you can pick up and start journaling whenever. Engaging exercises--From decisions you've made, to activities you've enjoyed, reflect on your life's experiences so you can grow into the best version of yourself. Philosophical perspectives--From Epictetus to Marcus Aurelius and beyond, get historical stoicism quotes with contemporary applications. Focus your feelings and find greater happiness with the quick yet effective meditations and writing exercises in The 5-Minute Stoicism Journal.

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Althea Press

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164152748X

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The Beginner's Guide to Stoicism

Tools for Emotional Resilience and Positivity

By: Matthew Van Natta

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The Beginner's Guide to Stoicism

Tools for Emotional Resilience and Positivity

By: Matthew Van Natta

Optimize joy, overcome obstacles—discover the calm of stoicism Being a stoic means embracing positivity and self-control through the ability to accept the uncertainty of outcomes. With this stoicism guide, the beginner stoic will learn how to take charge of their emotions on the path to sustained happiness and satisfaction. This easy-to-navigate stoicism guide gives you the emotional tools needed to let go of the things you can't control and find joy in what you have. Through thought-provoking strategies and exercises, this book helps you find contentment so you can build closer relationships and become an active member of society. The Beginner's Guide to Stoicism includes: Evolution of stoicism—Discover the history of stoicism and how its principles can help you find peace. Complete the mindset—Find acceptance using an essential emotional toolkit based on the disciplines of Desire, Action, and Assent. Time to reflect—Apply what you've learned to your own life with ethical questions, quotes, and exercises. Change your perception, focus on positivity—become the best version of yourself with The Beginner's Guide to Stoicism.

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Sourcebooks, Inc.

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1641527226

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9781641527224

Enough for One Lifetime

Wallace Carothers, Inventor of Nylon

By: Matthew E. Hermes

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Enough for One Lifetime

Wallace Carothers, Inventor of Nylon

By: Matthew E. Hermes

This is a story of invention and chemistry and the ineluctable fate of the inventor of nylon. Wallace Carothers was hired by DuPont in 1928 to lead a program called basic research. Carothers brought a passion to his work, and wanted to synthesize large molecules that would challenge Emil Fischer's largest molecule of 4200 molecular weight. In a burst of creativity in the spring of 1930, Carothers gave us our first truly synthetic rubber and fiber. The rubber quickly became neoprene; the fiber, in time, led to nylon. Carothers took an infant science called polymer chemistry, defined it, and guided it toward its present maturity. He gave us condensation polymerization. Hermes tells Carothers' story - his sudden, dramatic research successes and his relentless slide into depression, alcohol, and suicide - through Carothers' revealing letters to his professional colleagues (Roger Adams, C. S. Marvel, John R. Johnson) and his family and college classmates. At the end, Carothers' habit was to hide himself from his co-workers and friends. Hermes' narrative searches for the shrouded heart of the inventor's story by using stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald and other contemporaries as parables from which Carothers' truth may be drawn.

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374

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Chemical Heritage Foundation

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0841233314

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9780841233317

Players

The Story of Sports and Money, and the Visionaries Who Fought to Create a Revolution

By: Matthew Futterman

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Players

The Story of Sports and Money, and the Visionaries Who Fought to Create a Revolution

By: Matthew Futterman

“Provocative…terrific stories” (The New Yorker) of the people who transformed sports—in the span of a single generation—from a job that required even top athletes to work in the off-season to make ends meet into a massive global business. It started, as most business deals do, with a handshake. In 1960, a Cleveland lawyer named Mark McCormack convinced a golfer named Arnold Palmer to sign with him. McCormack simply believed that the best athletes had more commercial value than they were being paid for—and he was right. Within a few years, he raised Palmer’s annual income from $5,000 to $500,000, and forever changed the landscape of the sports industry, transforming it from a form of entertainment to a profitable and fully functioning system of its own. “A remarkable saga…filled with insights not only into sports, but also into human nature” (The Dallas Morning News), Players features landmark moments, including the multiyear battle to free Palmer from a bad deal with the Wilson Sporting Goods Company; the 1973 Wimbledon boycott, when eighty-one of the top tennis players in the world protested the suspension of Nikola Pilic; baseball pitcher Catfish Hunter’s battle to become MLB’s first free agent; and how NFL executives transformed pro football from a commercial dud to the greatest show on earth. “An entertaining, illuminating read” (New York Journal of Books), Players is a riveting, fly-on-the-wall account of the rise and creation of the modern sports world, and the people who made it happen. “No part of the media and entertainment industry has seen a more substantial economic transformation than sports….A half-century tour spanning a variety of widely recognized and lesser-known sports figures and competitions that have played roles in the industry’s development….Players could not be more timely” (The New York Times).

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Simon and Schuster

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1476716978

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9781476716978

Hamas

Politics, Charity, and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad

By: Matthew Levitt

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Hamas

Politics, Charity, and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad

By: Matthew Levitt

How does a group that operates terror cells and espouses violence become a ruling political party? How is the world to understand and respond to Hamas, the militant Islamist organization that Palestinian voters brought to power in the stunning election of January 2006? This important book provides the most fully researched assessment of Hamas ever written. Matthew Levitt, a counterterrorism expert with extensive field experience in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza, draws aside the veil of legitimacy behind which Hamas hides. He presents concrete, detailed evidence from an extensive array of international intelligence materials, including recently declassified CIA, FBI, and Department of Homeland Security reports. Levitt demolishes the notion that Hamas’ military, political, and social wings are distinct from one another and catalogues the alarming extent to which the organization’s political and social welfare leaders support terror. He exposes Hamas as a unitary organization committed to a militant Islamist ideology, urges the international community to take heed, and offers well-considered ideas for countering the significant threat Hamas poses.

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Yale University Press

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0300129017

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9780300129014

The Bloomberg Way

A Guide for Reporters and Editors

By: Matthew Winkler,Jennifer Sondag

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The Bloomberg Way

A Guide for Reporters and Editors

By: Matthew Winkler,Jennifer Sondag

The ultimate guide to financial reporting, from the Editor-in-Chief of Bloomberg News The Bloomberg Way: A Guide for Reporters and Editors is the ultimate handbook for business and financial reporting. A compilation of more than two decades worth of wisdom and experience from one of the world's largest news organizations, the book contains the information and guidance reporters, editors, and students need to be first, fastest, and factual. Bloomberg News Editor-in-Chief Matthew Winkler guides readers through the entire reporting process, relating best practices and warning against common mistakes. More than ever before, accurate reporting is crucial, as increasing numbers of people and institutions are affected by what happens on Wall Street, and information can move global markets. The Bloomberg Way: A Guide for Reporters and Editors details both the preparation and production aspects that produce great news, and provides an inside look at the methods used by an elite financial reporting institution. The book goes well beyond "Journalism 101" to provide guidance specific to business and financial reporting, empowering reporters and editors to develop their own methods within the guidelines of solid, ethical reporting. Topics include: Style, voice, jargon, and why good writing matters Stocks, bonds, currencies, and covering markets Debt, earnings, M&A, and reporting on companies Government financing, opinion polls, and following the money The book also provides guidance on taking an idea from pitch to publication, and includes extensive information on public responsibility, libel, transparency, and other ethical issues. Between the 24-hour news cycle and the current economic climate, financial reporters need to break news accurately and informatively. The Thirteenth Edition of The Bloomberg Way: A Guide for Reporters and Editors is the definitive guide to reporting and editing the story of money and finance.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118842332

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9781118842331

Right-Wing Populism in America

Too Close for Comfort

By: Chip Berlet,Matthew N. Lyons

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Right-Wing Populism in America

Too Close for Comfort

By: Chip Berlet,Matthew N. Lyons

Right-wing militias and other antigovernment organizations have received heightened public attention since the Oklahoma City bombing. While such groups are often portrayed as marginal extremists, the values they espouse have influenced mainstream politics and culture far more than most Americans realize. This important volume offers an in-depth look at the historical roots and current landscape of right-wing populism in the United States. Illuminated is the potent combination of anti-elitist rhetoric, conspiracy theories, and ethnic scapegoating that has fueled many political movements from the colonial period to the present day. The book examines the Jacksonians, the Ku Klux Klan, and a host of Cold War nationalist cliques, and relates them to the evolution of contemporary electoral campaigns of Patrick Buchanan, the militancy of the Posse Comitatus and the Christian Identity movement, and an array of millennial sects. Combining vivid description and incisive analysis, Berlet and Lyons show how large numbers of disaffected Americans have embraced right-wing populism in a misguided attempt to challenge power relationships in U.S. society. Highlighted are the dangers these groups pose for the future of our political system and the hope of progressive social change. Winner--Outstanding Book Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America

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Guilford Publications

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1462528384

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9781462528387

Chemistry and the Environment

By: Sven E. Harnung,Matthew S. Johnson

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Chemistry and the Environment

By: Sven E. Harnung,Matthew S. Johnson

This textbook presents the chemistry of the environment using the full strength of physical, inorganic and organic chemistry, in addition to the necessary mathematics and physics. It provides a broad yet thorough description of the environment and the environmental impact of human activity using scientific principles. It gives an accessible account while paying attention to the fundamental basis of the science, showing derivations of formulas and giving primary references and historical insight. The authors make consistent use of professionally accepted nomenclature (IUPAC and SI), allowing transparent access to the material by students and scientists from other fields. This textbook has been developed through many years of feedback from students and colleagues. It includes more than 400 online student exercises that have been class tested and refined. The book will be invaluable in environmental chemistry courses for advanced undergraduate and graduate students and professionals in chemistry and allied fields.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139536710

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9781139536714

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The 5-minute Stoicism Journal

The 5-minute Stoicism Journal

The Beginner's Guide to Stoicism

The Beginner's Guide to Stoicism

Enough for One Lifetime

Enough for One Lifetime

Players

Players

Hamas

Hamas

The Bloomberg Way

The Bloomberg Way

Right-Wing Populism in America

Right-Wing Populism in America

Chemistry and the Environment

Chemistry and the Environment

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