Social Movements

Now, more than ever, young people are motivated to make a difference in a world they're bound to inherit. They're ready to stand up and be heard - but with much to shout about, where they do they begin? What can I do? How can I help? How I Resist is the response, and a way to start the conversation. To show listeners that they are not helpless, and that anyone can be the change. A collection of essays, songs, and interviews about activism and hope, How I Resist features an all-star group of contributors.

New York Times best-selling author and award-winning broadcaster Tavis Smiley recounts the final 365 days of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life, revealing the minister's trials and tribulations - denunciations by the press, rejection from the president, dismissal by the country's Black middle class and militants, assaults on his character, ideology, and political tactics, to name a few - all of which he had to rise above in order to lead and address the racism, poverty, and militarism that threatened to destroy our democracy.

Rediscover the "most important book on black-white relationships" in America in this special 50th anniversary edition.

Presenting a corrective to the popular notion of Rosa Parks as the quiet seamstress who, with a single act, birthed the modern civil rights movement, Theoharis provides a revealing window into Parks’s politics and years of activism. She shows listeners how this civil rights movement radical sought—for more than a half a century—to expose and eradicate the American racial-caste system in jobs, schools, public services, and criminal justice.

Los secretos de la psicología subliminal esconden poderosas formas de influir en la psique de otras personas. La psicología subliminal tiene usos cotidianos, y aprender esos secretos puede ayudarte a mejorar las relaciones con las personas que te rodean. Puedes aprender a sacar lo mejor de ti y ser más persuasivo y agradable.

Do you wish to unleash the psychological magic of psychology to become a master manipulator? Perhaps you are interested in learning how to read the delicate body language cues, which betray the real emotions of people? If that’s the case, this audiobook bundle is suitable for you! This audiobook bundle will provide you a highly efficient and proven way of making yourself more persuasive. Allow this audiobook to breakdown down the psychology behind influence and persuasion.

In This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed, civil rights scholar Charles E. Cobb Jr., describes the vital role that armed self-defense played in the survival and liberation of black communities in America during the Southern Freedom Movement of the 1960s.

This riveting historical narrative reconstructs the armed resistance of Black activists, their challenge of racist terrorism, and their fight for human rights.

You’ve probably heard of neurolinguistic programming, or NLP. But how much do you really know about it? This audiobook will give you a broad overview of the entire field of NLP, with a special focus on its persuasive power. You will find lots of practical techniques and exercises so that you can start applying NLP at once, without having to dig through long theoretical explanations.

As you listen to The Art of Manipulation, you'll find yourself thinking in new ways and applying the techniques to your own personal challenges and opportunities for greater satisfaction. No matter how shy you are, no matter if you often feel as a loser while negotiating, no matter if people don’t bother to listen to what you have to offer, you too can learn the art of manipulating (without exploiting) others and get what you want.

Would you like to be able to influence people in such a way that you can always turn situations at your convenience, and discover how to analyze people to see if they deserve your trust? This guide is perfect even for those who have never studied dark psychology before because it is packed with information, tips, tricks, and techniques that will make you a pro in analyzing people in no time, so what are you waiting for?

How to Read Anyone Instantly provides proven psychology facts that will help you to improve your people skills and influence anyone in minutes without saying a word! Did you know that people who can look further than where they usually put their attention, have 93 percent higher success rate at influencing others? We actively receive over 55 percent of information through nonverbal communication.

Aldous Huxley (July 26, 1894 - November 22, 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. He was best known for his novels Brave New World and The Doors of Perception. This recording is from a speech he gave, "What a Piece of Work Man Is". Earlier in his career Huxley edited the Oxford Poetry magazine, wrote travel articles, film stories, and scripts. He later became interested in spiritual subjects such as parapsychology and philosophical mysticism, including universalism. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in seven different years.

You are about to experience an overload of awesome information! Manipulation is everywhere. It’s part of our lives. And in some cases, it gets completely abused. Our human psychology involves so many things. Our everyday interactions are complicated and intricate. Therefore, this short audiobook can only contain a fraction of everything, but a myriad of topics will be cover.

Over the summer of 2013, the Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II led more than a 100,000 people at rallies across North Carolina to protest restrictions to voting access and an extreme makeover of state government. These protests - the largest state government-focused civil disobedience campaign in American history - came to be known as Moral Mondays and have since blossomed in states as diverse as Florida, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Ohio, and New York.

Diane Ravitch, America's foremost historian of education, says that public education in the United States is one of the pillars of our democratic society. In this eloquent book, she explains that our public schools have been wrongly criticized for low achievement, when federal data show that test scores and graduation rates are at their highest point in history - for black students, Hispanic students, white students, and Asian students - and dropout rates are at their lowest point in history.

Escriben: Aristóteles, Augé , Roland Barthes, Benjamin , Cioran , Deleuze , Einstein , Eliade , Michel Foucault, Freud, Galilei, Hawking, Hegel, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Kant, Fredric Jameson, Hume, Heidegger, Newton, Nietzsche, Platón, Prigogine, Ricœur. Este libro no intenta explicar qué es el tiempo, sino presentar algunas voces que sobre esa cuestión nodal algo tienen para ofrecer. Motivos para preguntarnos por la ontología del tiempo hay muchos, empezando por la angustia a la que la misma idea nos expone.

In a world that often feels chaotic, Unlocking the Wisdom of Stoicism offers you the tools to find calm, resilience, and purpose. This audiobook takes you through the timeless teachings of Stoicism, helping you apply its ancient wisdom to today’s challenges.

Recognising Black British experience within the Black Lives Matter movement, 19 prominent Black figures explain why Black lives should be celebrated when too often they are undervalued. Drawing from personal experience, they stress how Black British people have unique perspectives and experiences that enrich British society and the world; how Black lives are far more interesting and important than the forces that try to limit it.

On 12th December 2019, the left died. That at least was the view of much of Britain's media and political establishment, who saw the electoral defeat of Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party as the damning repudiation of everything it stood for. Yet, just over four years previously, the election of Corbyn as Labour leader seemed like a sea-change in politics: reanimating not just a party in apparently terminal decline but a country adrift, with a transformative vision based on a more just, more equal society and economy.