Social Control

We live in the Age of the Gun. Around the globe, firearms are ubiquitous and define countless lives; in some places, it's even easier to get a gun than a glass of clean water. In others, it's legal to carry concealed firearms into bars and schools. In The Way of the Gun, Iain Overton embarks on a remarkable journey to understand how these weapons have become an integral part of 21st century life, beyond the economics of supply and demand.

Are you tired of feeling overwhelmed because you can't say "no"? Have you ever felt guilty just for putting your own needs first? Do you wish you could set boundaries without feeling like a bad person? If so, it's time to take back control with "The No-Nonsense Art of Saying No" by Jeffrey C. Chapman. This isn't just another self-help book. It's your guide to mastering boundaries, overcoming people-pleasing tendencies, and reclaiming your life. Imagine what it would be like to confidently say "no" without the guilt, to spend your time how you want, and to finally prioritize yourself.

Maeve struggles to live up the ideals of the strong, independent, successful businesswoman and guru whose books and classes are the gold-standard for woman entrepreneurs. All Maeve has ever wanted is to design red carpet attire for Hollywood’s brightest stars. But her Midwestern family and friends have nothing but discouragement for her. Get real. Get a real job. Get back to real life. Frustrated by the clannishness of the fashion industry and the lack of support in her own life, Maeve decides to start her own online company making custom garments from her own designs.

Almost everyone is doing it. Aimlessly scrolling through their social media feeds. From presidents to the postmen, most people you know and probably even yourself. Mindlessly, your fingers move across the screen, and content, from selfies to memes, flickers by at a blistering pace. Why is it that the screen sometimes seems more important than looking up and being present in real life? And what does it mean that more and more people are turning into so-called "Scroll Zombies"? Sven Rollenhagen thoughtfully discusses social media use and how it affects us both psychologically and physically.

Feeling anxious about middle school’s academic challenges? Struggling to balance school, friends, and personal interests? If you’re nodding “yes,” you’re not alone. Many middle schoolers face similar struggles, but this guide is here to help. Welcome to the ultimate survival guide for middle schoolers, parents, and educators.

By letting go of your ego, you will not only feel like a completely different person, but will also empower your life in every way possible. There are many misconceptions about the human ego. Some tie an over-reaching ego to success, arrogance, and other behaviors. Is it that simple? Ego is really the sum of the false ideas that we have about self. These beliefs are formed early in life, reside in the subconscious, and have an incredibly strong influence on our thoughts, actions, and emotions.

Losing Control is a vivid history of the past half century of immigration politics and policy. It is also a dramatic ground-level account of how the story took shape. Kammer describes the economic and cultural forces that both pushed millions of migrants from home communities in Latin America and pulled them northward to the US. He shows how the backlash gradually emerged from the frustrations of American workers and communities who felt overwhelmed by the influx and betrayed by their government.

Practice a manipulator game, so they can't play it with you. The detection for implicit emotional manipulation is difficult. You sense that something is wrong, but you can't really put your finger on the issue. This insightful book will prove to you that deceit is at play in your relationships. Covering emotional manipulation is a deceptive and abusive way of controlling relationships. Once you learn how to use underhanded mind game manipulators, you will be able to free yourself from emotional abuse and control.

In this ground-breaking analysis, author James Kurth (a Harvard student of Samuel Huntington) explains that the roots of America's current foreign policy crisis lie in contradictions of an American empire which attempted to transform traditional American national interests promoted by Presidents like Teddy Roosevelt and FDR into a new American-led global order that has unsuccessfully attempted to promote supposedly universal, rather than uniquely American, ideals.

Bestsellerautorin Rebekka Endler wagt sich in ihrem neuen Werk an die große Frage nach den Ursachen des Patriarchats und untersucht misogyne Mythen, die bis heute unser Denken und Handeln bestimmen. Die Erklärung "Männer und Macht" greift aus Rebekka Endlers Sicht viel zu kurz, und so fragt sie: Was bringt so viele Frauen dazu, auch heute noch von einem rettenden Märchenprinzen zu träumen? Was steckt hinter der Mommy-Blogger-Welle und welche Funktion haben Frauenbilder wie Zicken, Witches, Bitches und It-Girls?

Anger is a perfectly normal and healthy emotion. But when it's not managed properly, it can lead to problems—both for you and for those around you. You might say or do things you later regret, or you might get so angry that you hurt yourself or someone else. Many of us struggle with the inability to control our anger. Even though it happens to many people, few of us know how to stay calm and relaxed. Calm Your Anger Now is here to show you how.

Cómo la policía nos pone en peligro y por qué necesitamos encontrar una alternativa. En los últimos años se ha producido una explosión de protesta contra la brutalidad y la represión policial, sobre todo en Ferguson, Misuri, donde estallaron quejas de larga data en violentas manifestaciones tras el asesinato policial de Michael Brown. Entre activistas, periodistas y políticos, la conversación sobre cómo responder y mejorar la policía se ha centrado en la rendición de cuentas, la diversidad, la capacitación y las relaciones comunitarias.

Homework horrors, chores, and not-so-friendly friends - that’s enough to make any kid’s brain hurt. The secret to staying cool is easy: It’s called mindfulness - and this book gives kids fun activities to practice it on their own. Mindfulness for Kids applies mindfulness exercises to stories and real-life scenarios that kids go through at home, school, and with friends. Shared through the voices of five children.

Metabolism, behavior, sleep, mood swings, the immune system, fighting, fleeing, puberty, and sex: these are just a few of the things our bodies control with hormones. Armed with a healthy dose of wit and curiosity, Randi Hutter Epstein takes us on a journey through the unusual history of these potent chemicals and their discovery, from the London laboratory where the concept of hormones was identified to a basement filled with jarred brains to a canine sex lab.

Den brutalen Überfall Russlands auf die Ukraine konnte die NATO trotz ihrer Bemühungen nicht verhindern: Die Folgen des Krieges werden Europa und die Welt noch jahrelang erschüttern. Nicht nur Russland, sondern auch sein enger Partner China stellt den Westen in Zukunft vor enorme strategische Herausforderungen – und die NATO darf ihre Fehler nicht wiederholen. Die Strategieexpertin Dr. Stefanie Babst gewährt Einblicke in das Innere des transatlantischen Bündnisses.

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!

This audiobook presents a fundamental reinterpretation of changes to crime control in the age of the new police. It breaks new ground by providing a highly detailed, empirical analysis of everyday crime control in Victorian provincial cities - revealing the tremendous activity that ordinary people displayed in responding to crime - alongside a rich survey of police organization and policing in practice.

Based on a review of research literature from sociology, organizational psychology, and behavioral economics, this audiobook develops a theory of consent generation and distinguishes three groups of consent-producing mechanisms: socialization, incentive mechanisms, and participation and interest representation.

A timely primer on the conflict between the United States and Iran by scholars of Middle Eastern politics who advocate diplomacy and de-escalation.

Blankenship identifies three factors that determine the severity of this burden-sharing dilemma and how it is managed: the latent military power of allies, the shared external threat environment, and the level of a patron's resource constraints. Through case studies of US alliances formed during the Cold War, he shows that a patron can mitigate the dilemma by combining assurances of protection with threats of abandonment and by exercising discretion in its burden-sharing pressure.