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Quicklet on TED Talks: Dan Gilbert: Why Are We Happy?

By: Seth Leeper

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Quicklet on TED Talks: Dan Gilbert: Why Are We Happy?

By: Seth Leeper

ABOUT THE BOOK If you can’t shake the feeling that you’re stuck in the circumstances that surround you, you’re frustrated with the stagnation of your career’s momentum, or you yearn for something more than you already have, Dan Gilbert’s Why Are We Happy? lecture may help you gain perspective in unexpected ways. The resolution to your existential crisis won’t be found through fleeing the country or overhauling your entire existence. It can be found in your mind. We live in a society that wants a lot and perpetuates subconscious entitlement and the expectation of a life that’s gluttonously filled with riches, and insists on incessant forward movement until you get everything you desire. Gilbert’s lecture suggests you may be happy if you don’t get those things, or even happier still if you succeed in accumulating your every wish and then lose everything. Some of his key points may be hard for the cynical to swallow at first, but Gilbert presents a strong piece of media that affirms the often uttered but rarely practiced adage that the true path to happiness is through ourselves. MEET THE AUTHOR Seth Leeper is a professional writer, blogger, and singer. He has written fashion columns and feature articles for AND and Xpress Magazines, maintained his own fashion blog at yourdailyfashionfix.blogspot.com, and contributed stories and poetry to Outspoken! e-zine. He has a B.A. in Creative Writing and Fashion Journalism from San Francisco State University. When he's not setting word to processor, he swims, jogs, and sings Linda Ronstadt classics. EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK Think you’ll be a happier person as an instant millionaire rather than someone who just lost their right arm? Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling On Happiness, begs to differ. In a twenty-minute lecture on TED Talk, Gilbert asserts his position that happiness isn’t just found, but can be manufactured by our very own brains. Gilbert opens with a look at the evolution of the human brain, which he says has tripled in mass in the last two million years to make room for new structures. Our ancestor, homo habilis, had a brain weighing one and a quarter pounds, but modern human brains weigh about three pounds. This is because the human skull evolved to make room for the prefrontal cortex, which has been referred to as the “CEO of the brain,” by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. It presides over cognitive and abstract functions and moderates how we socialize, helping to discern proper forms of communication from inappropriate outbursts. Buy a copy to keep reading!

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1484006380

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Lady Gaga

By: Seth Leeper

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Lady Gaga

By: Seth Leeper

ABOUT THE BOOK Lady Gaga is an enigmatic pop star with a large following of fans that essentially (and rightfully) fawn over everything she does. Equal parts distant and vulnerable, Gaga is known for songs that are intimate and catchy, but she retains a wall of mystery behind her avant-garde fashion and flashy musical style. Lady Gaga rose to pop prominence in 2009 when her debut single, Just Dance, reached number one on the charts in five countries. A platinum blonde pop starlet upon hitting mainstream success, Gaga has since experimented with several incarnations of her image. A natural brunette, she started donning blonde wigs to distinguish herself from Amy Winehouse, whom she was often mistaken for early in her career. [Back] then everyone had dark hair and I used to wear my hair big and wear lots of eyeliner before Amy came out and then [she was everywhere and] I thought: 'Oh s**t.' So I dyed my hair," (MetroLyrics). MEET THE AUTHOR Seth Leeper is a professional writer, blogger, and singer. He has written fashion columns and feature articles for AND and Xpress Magazines, maintained his own fashion blog, and contributed stories and poetry to Outspoken! e-zine. He has a B.A. in Creative Writing and Fashion Journalism from San Francisco State University. When he's not setting word to processor, he swims, jogs, and sings Linda Ronstadt classics. EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK After graduating from Convent of the Sacred Heart, Gaga was enrolled in New York Universitys Tisch School of the Arts, in their Collaborative Arts Project 21 program, but left by the age of 19 to pursue her music career. The week before the end of a year-long deal she made with her father to support her while she focused on music, Gaga was introduced to Rob Fusari, a producer who had had success with songs written for Destinys Child and Will Smith. After a false start with the Def Jam record label, Gaga met Lady Starlight, a performance artist who would become influential in forming Gagas evolving sound and look. Gaga focused on performing with Starlight, go go dancing, and immersing herself in a niche culture that still celebrated 80s hair metal. Fusari managed to get Gaga a meeting with Jimmy Iovine, the head of Interscope Records, who agreed to give her a shot... Buy a copy to keep reading! CHAPTER OUTLINE Wikipedia+: Lady Gaga + Introduction + Origins of Gaga + Music Career + Music Tours + ...and much more

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1614642230

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Disillusions

By: Seth Margolis

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Disillusions

By: Seth Margolis

A woman fleeing an abusive relationship is entangled in a shocking crime in this thriller by the bestselling author of Perfect Angel and President’s Day. Gwen Amiel had only wanted a job, a haven, a fresh start—and the nanny position seemed to offer exactly that. But inside a wealthy family’s elegant home, a crime is committed that is so shocking—so seemingly random—that a tiny upstate New York town will never be the same. Gradually, evidence will lead the authorities to the family’s new nanny, a woman whose past is shrouded in mystery . . . and violence. Now, with a police investigation swirling around her and no way to prove her innocence, she turns to the one person who seems to believe her, and the one place she feels safe. But as Gwen struggles to find answers, she’ll discover that nothing is what it seems, that no one can escape from the past, and that trusting the wrong person can destroy your sanity . . . and your life.

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Diversion Books

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1626818584

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9781626818583

Technology and (Dis)Empowerment

A Call to Technologists

By: Aaditeshwar Seth

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Technology and (Dis)Empowerment

A Call to Technologists

By: Aaditeshwar Seth

This timely work draws attention to the varying factors by which technology often leads to disempowerment effects. Seth makes a call to technologists to burst the technology positivism bubble, build an ethos for taking greater responsibility in their work, and engage with the rest of society to strengthen democracy.

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Emerald Group Publishing

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1803823933

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9781803823935

Fantasy Scroll Magazine Issue #4

By: Cat Rambo,Rachel Pollack,William Meikle,Charity Tahmaseb,Seth Chambers

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Fantasy Scroll Magazine Issue #4

By: Cat Rambo,Rachel Pollack,William Meikle,Charity Tahmaseb,Seth Chambers

Fantasy Scroll Magazine is an online, quarterly publication featuring science fiction, fantasy, horror, and paranormal short-fiction. The magazine’s mission is to publish high-quality, entertaining, and thought-provoking speculative fiction. With a mixture of short stories, flash fiction, and micro-fiction, Fantasy Scroll Magazine aims to appeal to a wide audience. Issue #4 includes 12 short stories: "Circus in the Bloodwarm Rain" — Cat Rambo "Forever" — Rachel Pollack "The Dragonmaster's Ghost" — Henry Szabranski "Restart" — William Reid "Feeling All Right" — Richard Zwicker "Universe in a Teacup" — Seth Chambers "Skipping Stones" — Erin Cole "Incriminating Evidence" — Charity Tahmaseb "Posthumous" — James B. Willard "Your Cities" — Anaea Lay "Seaside Sirens, 1848" — Anna Zumbro "#Dragonspit" — William Meikle In the non-fiction section, this issue features: -Interview With Author Cat Rambo -Interview With Author Charity Tahmaseb -Interview With Author William Meikle -Interview With Editor Lynne Thomas -Artist Spotlight: Kuldar Leement -Book Review: Half a King (by Joe Abercrombie) -Movie Review: Interstellar (2014) (Christopher Nolan) The magazine is open to most sub-genres of science fiction, including hard SF, military, apocalyptic & post-apocalyptic, space opera, time travel, cyberpunk, steampunk, and humorous. Similarly for fantasy, we accept most sub-genres, including alternate world, dark fantasy, heroic, high or epic, historical, medieval, mythic, sword & sorcery, urban fantasy, and humorous. The magazine also publishes horror and paranormal short fiction.

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Fantasy Scroll Press LLC

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0991661931

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9780991661930

Fantasy Scroll Magazine Issue #1

By: Ken Liu,Seth Chambers,KJ Kabza,Alex Shvartsman

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Fantasy Scroll Magazine Issue #1

By: Ken Liu,Seth Chambers,KJ Kabza,Alex Shvartsman

Fantasy Scroll Magazine is an online, quarterly publication featuring science fiction, fantasy, horror, and paranormal short-fiction. The magazine’s mission is to publish high-quality, entertaining, and thought-provoking speculative fiction. With a mixture of short stories, flash fiction, and micro-fiction, Fantasy Scroll Magazine aims to appeal to a wide audience. Issue #1 brings you twelve short stories from authors such as Ken Liu, Seth Chambers, KJ Kabza, Alex Shvartsman, Hank Quense, and more. The magazine contains a well-balanced mix of original stories and reprints from new authors, bestsellers, and award-winning writers, plus a variety of nonfiction features, such as author and editor interviews, book reviews, and movie reviews. The magazine is open to most sub-genres of science fiction, including hard SF, military, apocalyptic & post-apocalyptic, space opera, time travel, cyberpunk, steampunk, and humorous. Similarly for fantasy, we accept most sub-genres, including alternate world, dark fantasy, heroic, high or epic, historical, medieval, mythic, sword & sorcery, urban fantasy, and humorous. The magazine also publishes horror and paranormal short fiction.

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Fantasy Scroll Press LLC

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0991661907

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9780991661909

The Obama Effect

How the 2008 Campaign Changed White Racial Attitudes

By: Seth K. Goldman,Diana C. Mutz

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The Obama Effect

How the 2008 Campaign Changed White Racial Attitudes

By: Seth K. Goldman,Diana C. Mutz

Barack Obama’s historic 2008 campaign exposed many white Americans more than ever before to a black individual who defied negative stereotypes. While Obama’s politics divided voters, Americans uniformly perceived Obama as highly successful, intelligent, and charismatic. What effect, if any, did the innumerable images of Obama and his family have on racial attitudes among whites? In The Obama Effect, Seth K. Goldman and Diana C. Mutz uncover persuasive evidence that white racial prejudice toward blacks significantly declined during the Obama campaign. Their innovative research rigorously examines how racial attitudes form, and whether they can be changed for the better. The Obama Effect draws from a survey of 20,000 people, whom the authors interviewed up to five times over the course of a year. This panel survey sets the volume apart from most research on racial attitudes. From the summer of 2008 through Obama’s inauguration in 2009, there was a gradual but clear trend toward lower levels of white prejudice against blacks. Goldman and Mutz argue that these changes occurred largely without people’s conscious awareness. Instead, as Obama became increasingly prominent in the media, he emerged as an “exemplar” that countered negative stereotypes in the minds of white Americans. Unfortunately, this change in attitudes did not last. By 2010, racial prejudice among whites had largely returned to pre-2008 levels. Mutz and Goldman argue that news coverage of Obama declined substantially after his election, allowing other, more negative images of African Americans to re-emerge in the media. The Obama Effect arrives at two key conclusions: Racial attitudes can change even within relatively short periods of time, and how African Americans are portrayed in the mass media affects how they change. While Obama’s election did not usher in a “post-racial America,” The Obama Effect provides hopeful evidence that racial attitudes can—and, for a time, did—improve during Obama’s campaign. Engaging and thorough, this volume offers a new understanding of the relationship between the mass media and racial attitudes in America.

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Russell Sage Foundation

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1610448243

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9781610448246

Greenfield's Neuropathology Eighth Edition 2-Volume Set

By: Seth Love,David Louis,David W Ellison

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Greenfield's Neuropathology Eighth Edition 2-Volume Set

By: Seth Love,David Louis,David W Ellison

Greenfield's Neuropathology, the worlds leading neuropathology reference, provides an authoritative, comprehensive account of the pathological findings in neurological disease, their biological basis and their clinical manifestations. This account is underpinned throughout by a clear description of the molecular and cellular processes and reactions that are relevant to the development, and normal and abnormal functioning of, the nervous system. While this scientific content is of paramount importance, however, care has been taken to ensure that the information is presented in a way that is accessible to readers working within a range of disciplines in the clinical neurosciences, and that also places the neuropathological findings within the context of a broader diagnostic process. The new eighth edition incorporates much new information, new illustrations and many new authors, while retaining the depth, breadth and quality of content so praised in previous editions. Each chapter opens with an introductory section designed to offer an integrated approach to diagnosis, taking account of clinical manifestations, neuroradiological and laboratory findings as well as the neuropathological and molecular genetic features of the diseases being considered. Strong emphasis has been placed on facilitating the retrieval of neuropathological information by non-neuropathologists grapping with differential diagnoses or seeking information on broad categories of neurological disease, and boxes and tables are used to present important symptoms and signs, patterns of disease and other features for ease of reference. High quality line and photographic illustrations, the majority in full colour, are all available on a companion CD, to complete the offering.

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