Social Control

Shrouded with feelings of abandonment, inferiority, and self-loathing throughout adolescence Nan turned to food to ease her pain. She developed an eating disorder that would stay with her throughout adulthood. In Aging Powerfully, she explains the steps she took to not only break free, but to step out on a path to aging with power

The Social Media Detox brings clarity to a world lost to faceless suggestion software and unaccountable corporate giants. Developed from ten years training hundreds of clients in wellness goals, A Buddhist upbringing focused on meditation and mindfulness, and half a decade working at two of Silicon Valley's largest tech companies. Log Off & Reconnect with new awareness, better habits, and the self-ownership required for Health & Happiness in the Here & Now.

Express Your Big Emotions with No Hitting is a book with a difference: It’s not a children’s book, and it’s not a parenting book.... It's a book designed for both you and your child to help you navigate this challenging time together. Your child will be made aware of their behavior. Through a simple, relatable story, your child will learn everything they need to know about why they sometimes hit people and what they can do instead.

At the heart of being human is the desire to belong. It can make us unspeakably vulnerable to the manipulations of others. Cult leaders prey on this desire, but so do many unscrupulous operators hiding in plain sight. Sarah Steel, the creator of the popular 'Let's Talk About Sects' podcast, has researched the cults you've heard of—and dozens you haven't. What strikes her most are not the differences between bizarre cult behaviour and 'normal' behaviour but the depressing similarities. Her work reveals that we are all susceptible to the power of cult dynamics.

Have you ever felt manipulated or taken advantage of? Have you ever fallen victim to someone's charisma only to realize later that you had been scammed or ripped off? People are manipulated every single day, and the crazy thing is that most of the time they aren’t even aware of it. Subliminal messages, hypnotic trance inductions, and mass psychological brainwashing are just some of the techniques that are ceaselessly employed to the advantage of these manipulators. Learn to use the powerful psychological knowledge to your advantage, and stop being manipulated by others.

When our founding fathers secured the Constitutional “right of the people to keep and bear arms”, they also added the admonition that this right shall not be infringed. It is the only time this phrase appears in the Bill of Rights. So why aren’t more people listening? History has proven that guns are essential to self-defense and liberty - but tragedy is a powerful force and has led many to believe that guns are the enemy, that the Second Amendment is outdated, and that more restrictions or outright bans on firearms will somehow solve everything. They are wrong.

When the stories that lead our daily news involve momentous constitutional questions, present-minded journalists and busy citizens cannot always see the stakes clearly. In The Constitution Today, Akhil Reed Amar, America's preeminent constitutional scholar, considers the biggest and most bitterly contested debates of the last two decades. He shows how the Constitution's text, history, and structure are a crucial repository of collective wisdom, providing specific rules and grand themes relevant to every organ of the American body politic.

Miriam was raised in a society without children. To offset the devastation of climate change, state-of-the-art birth control has made daycares and playgrounds things of the past. As tempting as the government inducements are to remain child-free, Miriam’s curiosity about the people who “drop out” of society to become parents grows. When she finds a like-minded partner, she must choose between the rewarding comforts she knows and the unknowable mysteries of being a mother.

Have you ever found yourself in a room, feeling their eyes on you but unsure how to break the ice? Ronald Gill spills the beans in "13 Forgotten Mind Control Secrets." Navigate the complex details of language with Gill's complete guide to persuasion, tapping into hidden techniques, emotional manipulation, and the untapped potentials of the human mind.

Are you struggling to be effective? Does procrastination keep you at bay? Do you wonder what habits you can bring into your life to help you be successful? Diving into aspects such as positive thinking to setting of goals, Top 5 Habits of Highly Effective People dives deeply into the art of adding effective habits into your life that can radically change the way you think, move, as well as vastly improve your chances of succeeding. It also tackles the bad habits that keep these five habits at bay.

Worried that learning how to analyze people and protecting yourself against manipulation might be unethical? Don’t fret! This book provides you with the tools to read people effectively while also ensuring that you use this knowledge for good.

Dark psychology is used to describe a variety of techniques and tactics people use to control others, such as manipulation, mind control, and persuasion. Narcissists and sociopaths are incredibly subtle in their manipulative ways. They can persuade you to do something that will benefit them, and they prey on your weaknesses to get what they want.

People all over the world have changed their lives by mastering the art of public speaking. This one skill can create life-changing career and social opportunities.

You're about to discover a proven strategy on how to overcome your shoplifting addiction for the rest of your life. Millions of people suffer from a shoplifting addiction and throw away their personal and professional success because of these issues. Most people realize how much of a problem this is, but are unable to change their situation, simply because it's been a part of their mindset for so long.

Birth control offers women the opportunity to prevent pregnancy, plan and space their births, or have no births at all. And yet, in the United States, half of all pregnancies remain unintended, and access to birth control is beset by inequities in education, access, and coverage. Birth Control: What Everyone Needs to Know will offer more than a user's guide to available means of contraception: it will examine how supported family-planning infrastructure impacts society as a whole.

From her office in the University of Minnesota's Health and Eating Lab, professor Traci Mann researches self-control and dieting. And what she has discovered is groundbreaking. Not only do diets not work, they often result in weight gain. Americans are losing the battle of the bulge because our bodies and brains are not hardwired to resist food - the very idea of it works against our biological imperative to survive.

Do you feel overwhelmed by anxiety? Have you experienced a panic attack not knowing how to deal with it? Can't stop worrying about your life? In order to overcome the anxious mind and to get rid of this emotional burden you need to identify your anxiety profile first, recognize the problem, and start to act before it gets worse. Learn how to: define your anxiety profile and understand the cause of it; understand the thinking process of anxiety; and much more.

Author Anderson Silver has compiled teachings from Stoicism and other schools of thought in this third volume of a three-book series to help you identify what it is you can control and how you can take absolute control over it.

Interpreting people by understanding the verbal and non-verbal cues they give us can provide something beyond a superficial reading of their behavior. Adding psychology to a sociological analysis of human behavior provides a broader, deeper pool of information, especially when seen through the lens of communication. When we're able to interpret people where they stand, it's possible to exploit the information they freely offer and steer them toward our desired outcome.

When Amanda Montei became a parent, she struggled with the physicality of caring for children, but even more with the growing lack of autonomy she felt in her personal and professional life. The conditions of modern American parenthood—the lack of paid leave and affordable childcare, the isolation and alienation, the distribution of labor in her home, and the implicit demands of marriage—were not what she had expected. After #MeToo, however, she began to see a connection between how women were feeling in motherhood and the larger culture of assault in which she had grown up.