“I found this book amazing. I read it through quickly because it was so interesting, then turned around and read much of it again.”—Daniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and bestselling author of Thinking Fast & Slow“I've been recommending A Brief History of Intelligence to everyone I know. A truly novel, beautifully crafted thesis on what intelligence is and how it has developed since the dawn of life itself."—Angela Duc...

A heart-warming and deliciously funny story about the world’s worst behaved dog and how he trained his human how to love herself again.Through the haze of vodka and self-loathing, Hazel Roundtree saw the poor creature lying in a ditch.One brown eye. One blue.Covered in mud and crying from pain, the puppy was desperately trying to free itself from a hopeless situation.She almost kept walking by. She had her own problems and besides… no one had ever st...

This book is part of a course that covers hundreds of life-enhancing topics that they don't teach in high-school or most colleges, but should. This is more than a course on self-improvement; it is a course on mastering life. If life had an instruction book... this would be it.This is book seven of the Life Mastery course: Being Diplomatic. The topics include:- Control the Conversational Climate- Three Rejections = Success- Learn How to Say NOBy the end...

Today, something is going to happen to an innocent child. Tomorrow, that child will walk into their school. What happens next will impact the rest of their life.What is this powerful event? Childhood trauma. Most students will experience some form of emotional, physical, or sexual abuse, neglect, family dysfunction, racism, homelessness, or poverty by their eighteenth birthday. If left untreated, their traumatic experience may have lasting implications on ...

***** 2017 Kindle Book Awards WINNER - Literary Fiction *****New York Times bestselling author Sawyer Bennett has written her most gripping and poignant tale yet. Provocatively heart-breaking, audaciously irreverent and romantically fulfilling, The Hard Truth About Sunshine exposes just how very thin the line is between a full life and an empty existence.Despite having narrowly escaped death's clutches, Christopher Barlow is grateful for nothing. His capacity to lo...

As a follow-up to the successful Connecting Paradigms, Talking about Trauma & Change: A Connecting Paradigms’ Supplement provides analogies and models to help people understand the complexity of changing behavior and healing psychological trauma. Talking about Trauma & Change presents the approaches that Matthew Bennett has used in his training and clinical work in a format that is easily integrated into individual or group conversations. Change and trauma are se...

Connecting Paradigms: A Trauma-Informed & Neurobiological Framework for Motivational Interviewing Implementation provides an innovative approach to helping those struggling with past trauma to make critical life changes and heal from their pain and suffering. Scientific understanding of the brain, the impact of trauma, and research around behavioral change has grown exponentially over the last several decades. This knowledge is challenging and transforming thinking around how we provide me...

Centralized and Automatic Controls in Ships provide a non-mathematical basic introduction to the subject of control engineering applied in the marine field. This book is composed of 20 chapters that cover the basic principles of the equipment in ships. The opening chapters deal with ship components, construction, and commissioning routine for certain automated plant. The next chapters consider the basic principles of automatic control and controllers. These topics are followed by discussio...

Henry Mann thought his toughest battles were behind him. A veteran scarred by war, his only mission now was to provide a safe life for his wife Dani and their daughter, Kalee. But when a brutal drive-by shooting rips through his family, Henry is left broken, bleeding, and burning with a rage that refuses to die.In the underworld of Boston, gangs thrive on fear and chaos. The African Lords, the Piranhas, the Hell's Gentlemen-all predators feeding on the weak. And now, Henry has noth...

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ended in ambiguity: the creature vanishing in the Arctic darkness. fate unknown. But stories do not die, they echo. Frankenstein's Legacy-Frankenstein 2025:The Modern Prometheus Rewired is a new interpretation of Shelley's Gothic masterpiece, re-imagined for the twenty-first century. The Being endures-not immortal, but resilient, scarred by grief and driven by the need for recognition.After being freed of the tether of Victor Frankenstein, he must confront a wor...

Megaverse City's The Little Mermaid reinvents the classic fairy-tale with a powerful narrative of rebirth, sacrifice, and self-discovery. In a world where the sea is not ruled by myth alone, but by the grip of old empires and emerging technologies, a young mermaid makes a choice that reshapes her identity forever.Born into the Final Kingdom of the Maravyn, she is one of many daughters beholden to silence, duty, and the Sea King's code. But when she glimpses the surface world-and th...

A single gunshot. A dead teenager. A city ready to explode.When a U.S. Marshal fatally shoots a young suspect during a tense fugitive operation, the city braces for impact. The incident sparks public outrage, political finger-pointing, and a high-profile court case that puts the justice system itself on trial. At the center of the storm: U.S. Marshal Laila Aurora Wright and her partner, Carolyn Pryme - both sworn to uphold the law, both called to testify.But telling the tru...