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Think smarter, better, and faster. Clear thinking is the key to truth, wisdom, and knowledge.Whether it’s from ourselves or others, we rarely see the world as it really is. We aren’t able to think clearly. We build our beliefs on lies, assumptions, and deceptions. This ends now.Practical methods to never be fooled, stop making mistakes, and avoid traps. The Art of Clear Thinking takes an in-depth look at the everyday illusions we come across, and how to defeat them once and for all. What makes us jump to conclusions, evaluate incorrectly, and consistently make errors when we should know better? Why do we act against our own interests so frequently?It’s just how we’re wired. But it doesn’t have to stay that way. This book gives you the tools to clear the fog from your eyes and simply think smarter. Practical methods to instantly be quick-witted, more insightful, and think more critically. Patrick King is an internationally bestselling author and social skills coach. He has sold over a million books. His writing draws of a variety of sources, from research, academic experience, coaching, and real life experience. Discover and avoid biases, blind spots, and poor logic.•The key to intellectual honesty and the biggest obstacle (that you control).•Just how flawed and biased your perceptions, perspectives, and feelings are.•Real logic and the fake logic people try to use to fool you.•How to think independently without being influenced by others.•Principles from some of history’s greatest thinkers: Descartes, Darwin, Einstein, and more.Scroll up to and click BUY NOW to take your blinders off and become the smartest person around.This is the second book in the “Clear Thinking and Fast Action” series as listed below:1. The Science of Getting Started: How to Beat Procrastination, Summon Productivity, and Stop Self-Sabotage2. The Art of Clear Thinking: Mental Models for Better Reasoning, Judgment, Analysis, and Learning. Upgrade Your Intellectual Toolkit.3. 10-Minute Philosophy: From Buddhism to Stoicism, Confucius and Aristotle - Bite-Sized Wisdom From Some of History’s Greatest Thinkers4. Practical Intelligence: How to Think Critically, Deconstruct Situations, Analyze Deeply, and Never Be Fooled5. Relentless Focus: 27 Small Tweaks to Beat Procrastination, Skyrocket Productivity, Outsmart Distractions, & Do More in Less Time6. Take Rapid Action: Get Productive, Motivated, & Energized; Stop Overthinking & Procrastinating

Deep in the Amazonian Rainforest trouble is brewing.The “big logging company” are tearing down everything in their path and this includes the village of the Iwaya tribe.The leaders of the village are faced with destruction or conflict.Thousands of miles away, Ellie, ican and friends learn of the plight of the rainforest people and are determined to do anything they can to help.Back in the rainforest things are getting worse. There appears to be no way for the Iwaya people to survive.The Shaman of the village turns to his ancestors and spirits of the rainforest for guidance.What will the spirits of the ancestors tell him to do?What omens and signs will the villagers receive?In a bizarre twist of fate, a life hangs in the balance.How can ican and his friends help the native people?Who holds the key to life and death in the village as anger turns to confrontation?Balance and harmony must be restored, but how will this be achieved?Read “Spirit of the Rainforest” to uncover the answers in this nail biting adventure.

A collection of four stories by Peter Crowther with individual introductions by Ian McDonald, Joe Hill, Elizabeth Hand and Lucius Shepard.On a windswept corner of Manhattan, just a stone's throw from the weathered facade of the legendary Chelsea Hotel, there's a small two-flight walkdown bar called The Land At The End Of The Working Day. Stop in and rest awhile... you'll meet the most fascinating people.There's Jack Fedogan, widowed these past few years and still carrying a torch for his beloved Phyllis while he plays smooth jazz on the barroom's battered PA system. And the wonderful triptych of regular imbibers... Edgar Nornhoevan, Jim Leafman and McCoy Brewer, meeting up to escape the world outside or to have a drink with like-minded souls or maybe just to share a few jokes.And meet one-off visitors. Folks like Gandalph Cohen, the magical caretaker of the City's welfare; Front-Page McGuffin, who, it has to be said, has been in better health; Bernard Boyce Bennington, who carries a torch for a woman who loved him and left him (with a bizzarely magical memento); and Horatio Fortesque and Meredith Lidenbrook Greenblat, scholars of the works of the great Jules Verne and hot on the trail to a doorway to another world... a doorway that could just be situated in a backroom of one of Manhattan's strangest watering holes.So do come visit - you'll never want to leave!

The author assimilates information about ladybirds, discussing their structure, life histories, food, enemies, habitats, colours and patterns, genetics and evolution. He also sheds light on the phenomenon of cannibalism in ladybirds and the recent discovery of a "feminist" bacterium that kills eggs destined to produce males, but not those destined to produce females. Finally he discusses the use and potential use of ladybirds as biological control agents, how they are under threat from man, and what we can do to conserve them.

Serwa lives in a small village deep in the heart of Africa. Each day she rises before dawn and walks many miles to the water hole to gather the water for the days’ meals and chores.It is a long and dangerous journey that she must undertake everyday just to ensure survival.Thousands of miles away, Ellie, ican, Gadget, Chip and Bill are playing the “where in the World game”. They pick a letter and try to find out more about a country and its culture beginning with the letter they have chosen.Coincidentally, that day, they pick the letter “Z” for Zambia. Then they learn the plight of the women of the remote villages in Zambia, who walk every day for many hours just to collect water.They know they must do something to help these poor people.How can ican and friends solve this challenge?Can they improve the lives of these native people?To do so, they will have to think of something pretty special. Do you think they can do it?All will be revealed in this tale of the “Magic Roundabout.

From the award-winning and highly acclaimed author of Ella Minnow Pea comes Mark Dunn's most ambitious novel to date. American Decameron tells one hundred stories, each taking place in a different year of the 20th century.A girl in Galveston is born on the eve of a great storm and the dawn of the 20th century. Survivors of the Lusitania are accidentally reunited in the North Atlantic. A member of the Bonus Army find himself face to face with General MacArthur. A failed writer attempts to end his life on the Golden Gate Bridge until an unexpected heroine comes to his rescue, and on the doorstep of a new millennium, as the clock strikes twelve, the stage is set for a stunning denouement as the American century converges upon itself in a Greenwich nursing home, tying together all of the previous tales and the last one hundred years.Zany and affecting, deeply moving and wildly hilarious, American Decameron is one America's most powerful voices at the top its game.

There are places we’ve all wanted to go to at some point in our lives: on a spaceship, to the wild west, on an old ship in a great expansive ocean... we’ve all thought about it. There are stories we’ve all wanted to know more about: What was Goldilocks’ side of the story? What made the Big Bad Wolf so bad? And the giant Minotaur from Greek mythology, what was his story? There are powers we’ve all wanted to experience: wouldn’t it be great to wish you were somewhere and WHOOSH, you were there? Wouldn’t it be great to fly around the world in seconds? Or to have your drawings come to life?You will experience all of this and more within the pages of IMOGEN THE DREAMER AND OTHER STORIES. You will open the door to a world of pirates and princesses and aliens and wizards, werewolves, ghosts, dinosaurs, animals, superheroes, magic, fairy tales, chases, ships and dreams…There are 75 tales to choose from. What are you waiting for? Dive in!About the AuthorJack Green has worked on some of the most popular television programmes in the UK including Casualty, Holby City, Doctors, 37 Days and From Darkness. His children’s script ‘Imogen the Dreamer’ was recently shortlisted for a BAFTA writing prize and was long-listed by the BBC Writers Room. He has also worked on Crimewatch, Dickinson’s Real Deal, Front Row, Night Waves and the BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival. His favourite colour is blue, despite being a colour-blind Manchester United fan. His favourite Doctor is Jon Pertwee, and his dream is to play football for England one day but he fears he’s missed the boat on that one.

Since Bruce Lee died in 1973 his art has spread and grown. From a few guys training in an LA backyard it has flourished all over the world. Along with it the Filipino Martial Arts have grown as well. Punching Above My Height is one person's view of the history of the arts incorporating tales from Bruce Lee as told by those who were there with him as well as the development of the arts across Britain and the world. No dry history book this tackles the background and characters of Jeet Kune Do and tells the story of martial arts before the internet, before the UFC and when you had to have trained more than five years to be a 10th Dan.Informative, sometimes hilarious and always passionate this is the story that has never been told.