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If you are overwhelmed by intense and fluctuating emotions, have difficulty with relationships, and constantly struggle with troubling thoughts and behaviors, then this audiobook is for you! These symptoms can be especially difficult to treat, though there are ways to gain control over your emotions and live a happier, healthier life. All you have to do is take the first step. Then, take another and another. Manage Personality Disorder shows you the exact right steps to take to overcome those fears and worries, once and for all!

The Senate Intelligence Committee Summary Report on Torture is a public document belonging to the American people, arising from the Senate investigation into the CIA’s Interrogation and Detention Program. Commonly known as The Torture Report, the document was made public, with redactions, on December 9, 2009. The events surrounding its investigation, writing, and publication are now the subject of Scott Z. Burns’ film The Report, an Amazon Original (in theaters on 11/15; on Amazon Prime 11/29 from Amazon Studios). Here, you can hear the report in its entirety.

Prospect the Sandler Way shares 30 core principles for mastering stress-free lead development by phone and over the Internet, in accordance with the selling system developed by David H. Sandler. Includes updated strategies on 21st-century topics like conducting effective online pre-call research, and using LinkedIn to generate referrals.

Establishing clear personal boundaries is essential to creating and nurturing mutually respectful relationships based on equality. Setting limits can also protect you from getting involved in exploitative relationships, and help you avoid toxic personalities who don't have your best interests at heart. This evidence-based workbook will show you how to set healthy boundaries across all aspects of life - without sacrificing your kindness or compassion for others.

The High Cost of Good Intentions is the first comprehensive history of these federal entitlement programs. Combining economics, history, political science, and law, John F. Cogan reveals how the creation of entitlements brings forth a steady march of liberalizing forces that cause entitlement programs to expand. This process - as visible in the 18th and 19th centuries as in the present day - is repeated until benefits are extended to nearly all who could be considered eligible, and in turn establishes a new base for future expansions.

For over 3,000 years, practitioners of Chinese medicine have known that food is health-giving. Now, path-breaking nutritionist Linda Prout synthesizes the basic principles of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) with the science of Western nutrition. With a clear focus to help listeners achieve balance, Prout introduces the concept of balance and describes the signs and symptoms of various patterns of imbalance from a TCM perspective.

Are you a parent, counselor or educator looking to equip your teens with the resilience and grit necessary to conquer life's inevitable challenges? Or perhaps you're a young adult, wrestling with self-doubts and hurdles, craving to unlock your full potential? Here's a harsh reality - The lack of a growth mindset can breed a fear of failure, damage self-esteem, and even limit problem-solving capabilities. Simply put, without a growth mindset, teens are holding themselves back from reaching their true potential.

Brenda Wilhelmson was like a lot of women in her neighborhood. She had a husband and two children. She was educated and made a good living as a writer. She had a vibrant social life with a tight circle of friends. She could party until dawn and take her children to school the next day. From the outside, she appeared to have it all together. But, in truth, alcohol was slowly taking over, turning her world on its side.

Becoming a Distinguished Physical Education Teacher: Creating a Rigorous and Standards-Based PE Program That is Safe and Welcoming For All Students is a complete guide to teaching Physical Education. Part One focuses on strategies to establish a safe and welcome learning environment for all students in physical education classes. In it you'll find strategies for promoting inclusivity and engagement in PE, how to establish class rules and communicate high expectations for student behavior and how to optimize space and resources to ensure a safe and orderly learning environment.

Each year thousands of young adults deemed out of control - suffering from depression, addiction, anxiety, and rage - are carted off against their will to remote wilderness programs and treatment facilities across the country. Desperate parents of these “troubled teens” fear it’s their only option. The private, largely unregulated behavioral boot camps break their children down, a damnation the children suffer forever.

Roger Fouts fulfilled humankind's age-old dream of talking to animals by pioneering communication with chimpanzees through sign language. Now, in Next of Kin, Fouts tells the dramatic story of his odyssey from novice researcher to celebrity scientist and caretaker of a family of chimpanzees, to his impassioned awakening as a crusader for the rights of animals.

No matter whether your self-esteem is just a bit bruised or entirely torn apart, this audiobook can help you begin to develop a clearer picture. You may feel like you are unsure if an audiobook can help you fix something that has been broken for years, but if you are willing to give it a try, you will find that your self-esteem can be repaired.

When the US Supreme Court announced its landmark 6-3 decision to take race out of the equation for college and university admissions, it did more than just bring Affirmative Action in higher education to a screeching halt. It also fired a warning shot across the bow of businesses and governmental agencies across America: the days for workplace diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs that violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment have an expiration date.

Can’t get over your ex? We’ve all been there. Throwing your ex’s new girlfriend over a banister when you are drunk. Sleeping with randoms just so you don’t have to be alone. Crying incessantly in public. Can’t eat. Can’t sleep. Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah. Now, get the f--k over it! In Sarah Melland’s debut self-help satire, she rips off a 12-step program and caters it to a breakup, all while sharing her personal catastrophic stories of how she tried to get her ex back multiple times and failed miserably.

Major revelations about the US government's drone program - best-selling author Jeremy Scahill and his colleagues at the investigative website The Intercept expose stunning new details about America's secret assassination policy.

Meticulously formatted, this is a highly listenable edition of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation of Central Intelligence Agency interrogation and detention programs launched in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.

This young listeners edition of the worldwide best seller Three Cups of Tea has been specially adapted for younger listeners and updated by Greg Mortenson to bring his remarkable story of humanitarianism up to date for the present.

Some people are talented at speaking before audiences, some at writing books, some at leading others, some at starting businesses. We're just talented in different ways. If you want to succeed, you must first identify the areas in which you are talented and then commit to developing those talents to the fullest. This audiobook will help you do just that with 12 proven strategies for uncommon achievement, including substantiated studies and unforgettable tips.

Problems facing the transition from discharge from outpatient and residential treatment to home life or another program are prolific. This article reviews the most pronounced problems patients and their caregivers encounter along the precarious path of recovery in the natural environment.

You absolutely can reverse your diabetes. At last, a breakthrough program that's been proven to work better, faster, cheaper, and safer than prescription drugs. If you or someone you love is struggling with diabetes, then this audiobook is for you. It will provide you with the practical answers you have been looking for. A proven step-by-step plan to normalize your blood sugar within days (that’s right, days) and reverse your diabetes in three weeks or less.