Love Has No Borders
Love Has No Borders is a nonfiction account of forty years of work with refugees and immigrants who have come to the United States to begin a new life.One can hear the desperation of many as they have crossed the desk of a social worker. Immigrants from Cuba, Russia, the Middle East and Asia, Latin America, and Mexico, have come through the doors looking for sanctuary in a country that is known for accepting the refugee. However, there are those who say no to the incoming families who are seeking a way to feed and educate their children in a safe and nonthreatening environment. What are we, the privileged, called to do for our neighbors in this global land of plenty?This book includes personal stories of Guatemalan women who have left home to work as servants in the cities in order to help their abused mothers. It speaks of the men and women of Cuba who came to the United States on rafts, with issues of mental illness and criminal backgrounds. It tells the story of the family who is assumed to have money because of relatives who live in the United States and then killed because they cannot pay the extortion fees. It will tell the story of the young women who are trafficked for sex, who then come into the community with babies to support.Individuals and groups of all ages and nationalities will be interested in this book. Remember, you could be a refugee someday.Phyllis Dodd brings a professional and personal perspective to an important issue in our nation, going beyond the headlines to tell the stories of refugees and immigrants from the inside. It's a thought-provoking resource for people of faith and people everywhere.---Walt Wiltschek Pastor, Easton (Md.) Church of the Brethren and At-Large Editor, Messenger magazine
Skh to Skh and Evolutionary Genesis
SKH TO SKH AND EVOLUTIONARY GENESIS: An African-Centered Research Method formally articulates African-centered methodological principles including ancestral dialogics, bio-phonic communication, noetic sensoria, Zaya discourse, and Divine Energy Made Manifest (DEMM). Central to this approach is the African-centered model of interconnecting rings of personhood, familyhood, and neighborhood, positioning wellness, meaning, and knowledge as communal, relational, and historically continuous. At the core of the text is the ancient Kemetic imperative sꜣḫw r sꜣḫw-to illuminate the illumined, reframed as both an ontological orientation and a methodological directive. Nobles advance inquiry as a culturally congruent, spirit-defined process that operates across visible and invisible domains of reality. Evolutionary genesis is presented as a recursive method of rescuing, reclaiming, refining, and regenerating African intellectual traditions as the genesis for contemporary research design, analysis, and interpretation. Vol. 4 in the Little Black Book Series establishes a foundational framework for African-centered research grounded in ancestral epistemology, spirit-defined being, and cosmological coherence. Designed for graduate students, faculty, researchers, and practitioners in Africana Studies, Black Psychology, Research Methods, Education, and related disciplines, SKH TO SKH AND EVOLUTIONARY GENESIS provides a durable methodological infrastructure for African-centered inquiry. Volume 4 in the Little Black Book Series in Methodology, Theory and Praxis, is a scholarly intervention, offering a disciplined pathway for advancing research that is culturally grounded and epistemically rigorous, a methodology for knowledge production within Africana and African-descended scholarship.
In Public Record
Acquitted in court. Convicted in public opinion.September 1990. In Shaker Heights, Ohio, teenage honors student Lisa Lee Pruett vanishes into the night. A boy calls 911 when she does not arrive for a secret late-night meet-up. Police soon find her nearby, stabbed to death and left exposed.Lisa had just passed an important test and earned her driver's license. She was a Girl Scout, athlete, musician, and lover of poetry. Then her life was cut short.Investigators quickly focused on a troubled young man who lived a few blocks away. His name leaked, the media swarmed, and the case became a spectacle. Two years later, he was indicted on controversial testimony, tried under national attention, and ultimately acquitted. His life never recovered.Decades later, the murder remains unsolved.Now a former police officer reopens the trail, determined to separate rumor from evidence and find the truth, if it is still there to be found.
It's Different For Women
In late January of 2012, I was twenty-nine years old and just beginning my first on campus college experience. While I had transferred into this private, fouryear institution as a junior, I had previously only attended courses online or on military bases for the past ten years. I had attended a handful of community college courses before joining the military, courses I could barely recall the subject of if it were not for the help of my college transcripts. I was excited for college. I was excited to be leaving the military. I purposefully wore sweatpants and tie-dyed arm warmers most of the first month of classes - simply because I could. I was less excited for some of the classes I was being asked to take, in particular, an arts course that was taught with a feminist theory framework.
The People Can Fly
What does it mean to be deemed promising in an unjust world? The award-winning poet and MIT Distinguished Chair of the Humanities interrogates this question--and offers a more expansive vision of giftedness--in this striking, original work. "The People Can Fly will levitate your mind and enrich your soul." --Lena Waithe What does promise cost in America? Especially when that promise is seen as grounds to separate us from the communities we cherish, and framed as the key to success, salvation, survival? In The People Can Fly, Dr. Joshua Bennett explores the complex position of black prodigies in a society that has, all too often, defined blackness as absence, as lack of intellect or inner life. Through this hybrid work of memoir and cultural history, Dr. Bennett shares how his own academic journey reflected the ebb and flow of being seen as both promising and as a problem. He turns to the childhood archives of Malcolm X, Stevie Wonder, Gwendolyn Brooks, James Baldwin, Nikki Giovanni, and others to further explore this theme: highlighting the role of cultural institutions, and loving communities, in shaping the lives of leading lights within African American culture. What's more, Dr. Bennett clarifies how these spaces--these mentors, teachers, friends, and kin--helped defend young people from a world that sought to exclude them from its vision of promise and possibility. With stunning prose and grace, The People Can Fly is an urgent reflection on what it means to be gifted, and to give one's gifts away, in the present day. It is a praise song for generations of black dreamers who dared to imagine another world--where miracles abound, and ascension is only the beginning.
Thinking Under Observation
What happens to the human mind when it knows it is being watched?In Thinking Under Observation: The Hidden Psychology of Control, this gripping and thought-provoking exploration uncovers how modern systems of visibility-surveillance, social monitoring, digital tracking, and psychological conditioning-are quietly reshaping the way people think, choose, and define themselves. This is not a book about cameras alone. It is about how awareness of being observed alters human behavior, suppresses originality, encourages self-censorship, and replaces genuine freedom with silent compliance. Drawing from psychological insight and social analysis, the book reveals how control today rarely looks like force-it looks like normal life.Through powerful chapters such as The Age of Being Watched, Control Without Force, and The Psychology of the Watching Eye, the reader is guided into the unseen mechanisms that influence thoughts before actions even occur. You will discover how fear becomes subtle, how self-regulation replaces enforcement, and how people internalize invisible expectations that shape their identity, emotions, and imagination. Modern power does not demand obedience-it designs environments where obedience feels like choice THINKING UNDER OBSERVATIONThis book is for readers who sense that something fundamental has changed in human freedom but cannot yet name it. It is for thinkers, seekers, psychologists, technologists, and anyone who wants to understand how control now operates through anticipation rather than punishment, design rather than domination, and comfort rather than chains. Thinking Under Observation does not tell you what to believe-it teaches you how belief itself is shaped.If you've ever wondered why people silence themselves, why creativity feels dangerous, or why modern freedom feels strangely limited, this book will change the way you see your own thoughts.
Spiked by the System
This book is a direct, unflinching invitation for men into the conversations women have once they're safely out of earshot. It isn't an accusation. It's a guided tour through the invisible rules, unspoken expectations, and systemic imbalances that shape women's daily lives. With a voice that is equal parts warm, candid, and sharply observant, the author reveals how privilege, communication gaps, the mental load, and restrictive masculinity collide in modern relationships.Drawing on personal experience, cultural analysis, and relatable examples, the book dismantles defensiveness, reframes common misunderstandings, and makes visible the unseen labour women carry. It explains not only what these dynamics are, but why they persist, how they impact intimacy and connection, and what awareness can make possible.Across fourteen chapters, the reader is taken from foundational concepts of privilege, through behavioural patterns like weaponised incompetence and #NotAllMen defensiveness, into deeper explorations of emotional work, beauty standards, and communication breakdowns. The book also examines how traditional masculinity harms men themselves, and closes with a practical, achievable blueprint for everyday allyship and raising the next generation with healthier expectations.Balancing empathy with clarity, this book offers men a way in rather than a way out - showing that awareness is not about blame, but about building relationships rooted in safety, equality, and genuine partnership. It is both a mirror and a map, inviting the reader to see the system clearly, and then choose differently.
Thinking Under Observation
The System That Never Blinks takes readers inside the hidden architecture of modern monitoring, where observation is no longer an act but an environment. In this world, surveillance does not rely on force, threats, or visible authority. It works quietly-through psychology, design, normalization, and self-regulation-until control feels indistinguishable from everyday life.This book explores how constant observation reshapes human behavior long before any rule is enforced. It reveals how people learn to censor themselves, soften their opinions, and regulate their emotions simply by knowing they might be watched. Over time, the external observer becomes internalized. Individuals begin monitoring their own thoughts, choices, and identities, adapting not because they are ordered to-but because deviation feels unsafe.Moving beyond cameras and technology, The System That Never Blinks examines surveillance as a social structure. Monitoring becomes embedded in work, communication, platforms, relationships, and even imagination. Algorithms replace judgment. Visibility becomes currency. Convenience disguises control. The result is a society where people feel free, yet behave predictably-guided by anticipation rather than coercion.Drawing on psychological insight rather than speculation, this book explains: Why observation no longer feels like controlHow fear, compliance, and self-regulation replace forceHow creativity, dissent, and private thought quietly erodeWhy modern power prefers prediction over punishmentThis is not a conspiracy narrative. It is a sober examination of how control matures when it no longer needs to announce itself. The greatest danger is not being watched-but forgetting how deeply watching changes thinking.Written for readers who sense that something fundamental has shifted in modern life but want clarity instead of panic, The System That Never Blinks offers awareness as the first step toward reclaiming mental autonomy in a world designed to observe without appearing to threaten.
Woke
Critical Social Justice or wokeism is a relatively new phenomena that has dominated the recent culture wars since the antiracism movement intensified in the wake of George Floyd's death. In this volume, internationally acclaimed cultural critics, social political theorists, psychologists, philosophers, behavioral scientists, and scholars of humanities examine contemporary issues in social critique that address a myriad of topics including critical race theory (CRT), identity politics, decolonialism, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) movements, whiteness theory, gender critical feminism, transgenderism, cancel culture, antizionism/antisemitism, postmodern epistemology, the free speech debate, and political authoritarianism. This is the first book of its kind to offer a scholarly critique of the social justice ideology that has saturated our modern times, stoked by polarization and societal division, fomenting discord, radical politics, censorship, and new forms of fascism.Woke: A Critique of Social Justice Ideology will be of interest to cultural theorists, philosophers, political scientists, journalists, media studies, psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, psychoanalysts, religious studies, popular culture, and those generally interested in the humanities and social sciences.
Privacy Is Dead - And Freedom Is Next
There was a time when privacy was the default state of human existence. Conversations faded when spoken. Movements disappeared once completed. Thoughts belonged to the individual alone. That world no longer exists.Privacy Is Dead - And Freedom Is Next exposes how modern surveillance has quietly transformed everyday life into a system of continuous observation, prediction, and behavioral control. This book reveals how freedom does not disappear overnight-it erodes gradually, disguised as convenience, safety, efficiency, and technological progress.Drawing from political psychology, surveillance studies, and real-world systems already shaping society, this book explains how power has evolved. Control no longer relies on force or visible authority. It operates silently through data collection, algorithms, digital identities, financial monitoring, and behavioral prediction. When privacy disappears, freedom becomes conditional-managed rather than owned.Inside this book, you will discover: How surveillance shifted from targeted monitoring to permanent, systemic observationWhy digital footprints and metadata are more powerful than content itselfHow big tech corporations became private surveillance empiresThe psychological impact of constant observation on thought, behavior, and dissentWhy anonymity has become a myth in the modern worldHow freedom survives briefly after privacy dies-before quietly following itThis is not a book driven by fear or nostalgia. It does not argue against technology itself. Instead, it provides clarity-clarity about the systems shaping human behavior, the trade-offs rarely explained, and the freedoms slowly being redefined without public consent.Privacy Is Dead - And Freedom Is Next is for readers who sense that something fundamental has changed but want a deeper understanding of how and why. It challenges the assumption that surveillance is harmless, inevitable, or neutral-and asks the most urgent question of our time: What happens to human freedom in a world where nothing is truly private?
Privacy Is Dead - And Freedom Is Next
There was a time when privacy was the default state of human existence. Conversations faded when spoken. Movements disappeared once completed. Thoughts belonged to the individual alone. That world no longer exists.Privacy Is Dead - And Freedom Is Next exposes how modern surveillance has quietly transformed everyday life into a system of continuous observation, prediction, and behavioral control. This book reveals how freedom does not disappear overnight-it erodes gradually, disguised as convenience, safety, efficiency, and technological progress.Drawing from political psychology, surveillance studies, and real-world systems already shaping society, this book explains how power has evolved. Control no longer relies on force or visible authority. It operates silently through data collection, algorithms, digital identities, financial monitoring, and behavioral prediction. When privacy disappears, freedom becomes conditional-managed rather than owned.Inside this book, you will discover: How surveillance shifted from targeted monitoring to permanent, systemic observationWhy digital footprints and metadata are more powerful than content itselfHow big tech corporations became private surveillance empiresThe psychological impact of constant observation on thought, behavior, and dissentWhy anonymity has become a myth in the modern worldHow freedom survives briefly after privacy dies-before quietly following itThis is not a book driven by fear or nostalgia. It does not argue against technology itself. Instead, it provides clarity-clarity about the systems shaping human behavior, the trade-offs rarely explained, and the freedoms slowly being redefined without public consent.Privacy Is Dead - And Freedom Is Next is for readers who sense that something fundamental has changed but want a deeper understanding of how and why. It challenges the assumption that surveillance is harmless, inevitable, or neutral-and asks the most urgent question of our time: What happens to human freedom in a world where nothing is truly private?
Humans, Temporary Absolutes
Albert Piette chose to "note", regretting that he was not an artist who could express "time". As an anthropologist, he has transformed his fear of time into acts of noting that have become central to his own work. His father, his daughters' childhoods, the moments of a day and his experience of a blocked nose are "noted". The author's main aim is to show how, on the basis of such daily notes on his own life, it is possible to carry out anthropology. In so doing, he debates with artists, philosophers and anthropologists. Above all, he offers a radically different perspective on anthropology as a theoretical reflection on the "resistance" of being - the absolute being - from which he draws out the elementary laws of functioning. The book concludes with proposals for an ethics of noting as an antidote to violence.
Wild Partners
Wild Partners traces the history of the Maututu Nakanai of West New Britain, Papua New Guinea. According to a Maututu ontology, or worldview, they are surrounded by a forest filled with threatening wild forces. It is believed that outstanding men and women pioneer ways to engage these forces to bring benefit to their village community. In recent times, the Maututu have had to engage with human outsiders, including government officers, church administrators, industrial managers and migrant settlers, who like their mythological counterparts have threatened to disrupt the established world.This study captures Maututu approaches to the threats and challenges they have faced over the last hundred years-the proclamation of the Christian world, the dislocation of the Pacific war, the development programs of the colonial and independent governments and the industrial expansion of oil palm. The challenges have at times threatened the very essence of their being through the destruction of forests, loss of land, competition for schooling and health care, marginalisation within the oil palm industry and the emergence of 'big shot' individuals who ignore community obligations.Maututu have adapted to these threats, becoming successful oil palm producers and prominent professionals throughout Papua New Guinea while seeking to rejuvenate Christianity, protect forest and marine environments and build partnerships that benefit their village communities. Central to these efforts has been partnership with outside forces.
Woke
Critical Social Justice or wokeism is a relatively new phenomena that has dominated the recent culture wars since the antiracism movement intensified in the wake of George Floyd's death. In this volume, internationally acclaimed cultural critics, social political theorists, psychologists, philosophers, behavioral scientists, and scholars of humanities examine contemporary issues in social critique that address a myriad of topics including critical race theory (CRT), identity politics, decolonialism, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) movements, whiteness theory, gender critical feminism, transgenderism, cancel culture, antizionism/antisemitism, postmodern epistemology, the free speech debate, and political authoritarianism. This is the first book of its kind to offer a scholarly critique of the social justice ideology that has saturated our modern times, stoked by polarization and societal division, fomenting discord, radical politics, censorship, and new forms of fascism.Woke: A Critique of Social Justice Ideology will be of interest to cultural theorists, philosophers, political scientists, journalists, media studies, psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, psychoanalysts, religious studies, popular culture, and those generally interested in the humanities and social sciences.
Bitcoin for Women
Money is not neutral. It determines who can act quickly, who must wait, and who is required to explain themselves when systems tighten. For women, those dynamics are not theoretical. They appear during moments of care, responsibility, transition, and pressure, when access, timing, and discretion matter most. Bitcoin for Women examines how modern financial systems are structured around permission, surveillance, and institutional control, and why those structures often fail women quietly rather than dramatically. It explains how inflation, account restrictions, compliance rules, and behavioral monitoring operate in practice, not in theory. These mechanisms are treated as infrastructure, not ideology, with attention to how authority is enforced and where burden is shifted downward. Bitcoin is introduced as a contrasting structure, not a solution or identity. Its design, limits, risks, and tradeoffs are addressed directly, including environmental cost in context and the responsibilities that come with ownership. Written in clear, non-technical language, this book equips readers to understand when traditional systems function as intended, when they do not, and how to evaluate alternatives without belief, urgency, or abstraction.
Was My Cousin a Triple Agent?
Maxwell Nasmyth Wilcocks was born in 1921, a man who seemed ordinary on the surface but harboured a lifetime of secrets. To his family, he was a Walter Mitty character, spinning tales of exotic travels and claiming diplomatic immunity, yet never revealing the truth about his mysterious work.Those who met him could not forget his towering presence and commanding charisma. He often called from far-off places like Brazil or Russia, with stories that seemed impossible at the time. After his death, reality was revealed. Wilcocks had been an MI6 operative, living multiple lives under false names and high-ranking titles, a world far beyond anything his family had imagined.Now the question remains: Who was the real Maxwell Nasmyth Wilcocks, and can his hidden Faberg矇 egg ever be found?
Where Murder Lies
Justice is, in this day, bewailing its plight...The murder of a retired Los Angeles school teacher in 2004 never made the evening news, yet within hours arrests were made, charges filed, and a speedy conviction sent to prison Jimmy Kitlas, an incredibly shy, special needs teenager with no criminal history whatsoever. 20 years after the murder, a woman named Kelley Leigh asked Burl Barer and Frank C. Girardot to investigate. She believed that the case's rapid resolution concealed a deeper, more troubling narrative-one marked by deception, manipulation, dishonesty, and a profound disregard for truth and justice.She was right. Of the last three people to see the victim alive, only one had both the motive and the opportunity to strangle him to death, and it wasn't Jimmy Kitlas.What begins with a dead body on the bed leads to a bizarre scheme to steal a fortune in gold, a plot to smuggle MDMA, and an incredible joint effort by the American Mafia and the Russian Mob to defraud the United States Government out of billions of dollars. "Tautly written and deeply reported, the authors have created a gripping page-turner...A masterwork of true crime-and an unforgettable study of injustice."--Kerrie Droban, true crime author of Running with the Devil
Killer on the Run
Run, Bucky, Run!On April 2, 2006, Ralph James "Bucky" Phillips-a notorious criminal who was arrested for parole violation of a burglary conviction-made a spectacular escape from Erie County Correctional Facility by using a can opener to cut through the metal roof of a kitchen. The manhunt for Bucky became one of the most extensive in New York State history. While on the lam, Bucky shot three state troopers, one of whom died from his injuries. Bucky became something of an unlikely folk hero with one restaurant featuring a "Bucky Burger" on the menu for those "On the Run." T-shirts were marketed saying, "Run, Bucky, Run!" Killer on the Run is a searing account of Bucky's escape and gruesome killing spree, featuring never-before-revealed details, photographs, and documents.
Where Murder Lies
Justice is, in this day, bewailing its plight...The murder of a retired Los Angeles school teacher in 2004 never made the evening news, yet within hours arrests were made, charges filed, and a speedy conviction sent to prison Jimmy Kitlas, an incredibly shy, special needs teenager with no criminal history whatsoever. 20 years after the murder, a woman named Kelley Leigh asked Burl Barer and Frank C. Girardot to investigate. She believed that the case's rapid resolution concealed a deeper, more troubling narrative-one marked by deception, manipulation, dishonesty, and a profound disregard for truth and justice.She was right. Of the last three people to see the victim alive, only one had both the motive and the opportunity to strangle him to death, and it wasn't Jimmy Kitlas.What begins with a dead body on the bed leads to a bizarre scheme to steal a fortune in gold, a plot to smuggle MDMA, and an incredible joint effort by the American Mafia and the Russian Mob to defraud the United States Government out of billions of dollars. "Tautly written and deeply reported, the authors have created a gripping page-turner...A masterwork of true crime-and an unforgettable study of injustice."--Kerrie Droban, true crime author of Running with the Devil
The Right of American Slavery
The Right of American Slavery is a controversial nineteenth-century political and philosophical tract by T. W. Hoit that presents an argument in defense of the institution of slavery in the United States. Written during the height of national debate over slavery, the work reflects the ideological positions used to justify bondage on legal, moral, and social grounds.Hoit constructs his case by appealing to constitutional interpretation, historical precedent, and prevailing racial theories of the era. The text provides modern readers with a clear example of pro-slavery reasoning, offering insight into the arguments that abolitionists sought to dismantle and the moral conflict that divided the nation.As a historical document, The Right of American Slavery is valuable for understanding the intellectual landscape of nineteenth-century America. Preserved as a public domain work, it serves as an important primary source for scholars studying slavery, political ideology, and the roots of sectional conflict.
Carrie Carolyn Coco
An NPR Best Book of the Year ● An Oprah Daily Best Book of the Summer ● A Chicago Review of Books Must-Read Book of the Month Acclaimed author Sarah Gerard turns her keen observational eye and penetrating prose to the 2016 murder of her friend Carolyn Bush, examining the multi-faceted reasons for her death―personal and societal, avoidable and inevitable. "Sarah Gerard redefines true crime in this poignant tribute to her friend . . . using in-depth reporting to expose the privilege and misogyny at the heart of this case." --NPR"Astonishing. . . . What stuns about Carrie Carolyn Coco is . . . the intricate ways in which Sarah Gerard unravels poison in the dark corners of Carolyn Bush's world: a fancy liberal arts college with a chilling history of violence; the violence in Bush's everyday existence; the web of people who are willing to stand up for Bush's murderer, some with dubious motives." ―Esm矇 Weijun Wang, New York Times bestselling author of The Collected SchizophreniasOn the night of September 28, 2016, twenty-five-year-old Carolyn Bush was brutally stabbed to death in her New York City apartment by her roommate Render Stetson-Shanahan, leaving friends and family of both reeling. In life, Carolyn was a gregarious, smart-mouthed aspiring poet, who had seemingly gotten along well with Render, a reserved art handler. Where had it gone so terribly wrong? This is the question that has plagued acclaimed author Sarah Gerard and driven her obsessive pursuit to understand this horrific tragedy. In Sarah's exploration of Carolyn's life and death, she spent thousands of hours interviewing Carolyn's and Render's friends and family, poring over court documents and news media, reading obscure writings and internet posts, and attending Carolyn's memorials and Render's trial. What emerged from Sarah's relentless instinct to follow a story and its characters to their darkest ends is a book that is at once a striking homage to Carolyn's life, a chilling excavation of a brutal crime, and a captivating whydunit with a shocking conclusion.
Social and cultural psychoimmunology
Systems theory, ecologic anthropology, the understanding of humankind and its environment in an organic unit or the interpretation of humankind and its inanimate environment in one unit, as a human/non-human hybrid, all help to understand psychosomatics as a part of human ecology.The disease is a coded message from fate. However, the patient is the protagonist of their fate, and fate is shaped by the dramatics played out on a socio-psychological stage. Disease happens in the body's evolutionary structure, but this story is locked into the microecology of the inner world and the natural and sociocultural macroecology of existence. It is this eco-logic that creates the context for signals of socio-psychoimmunology. When pursuing the discovery of information on disease events, the neuroendocrine and immunology signals turn into reporting signals, psychoimmunology becomes a multi-dimensional semiotic problem, the evolutionary background of signals turns into etymology, and stress and its consequences become a narrative.Life events are in the center of attention of cultural psychoimmunology and offer an area where the social psychophysiology recognitions observed in the sociocultural atmosphere of a given world and life provide strategic information for psychosomatics and narrative medicine.
Democratising spy watching
Digitisation has provided intelligence agencies with the capabilities to conduct surveillance at an unprecedented scale. Using a range of digital surveillance technologies and practices, and unprecedented public-private collaborations, intelligence agencies have extended their ability to collect, store and analyse data for intelligence purposes. Effective oversight is required to limit the potential for abuse. However, across Southern Africa - where digital surveillance is expanding - official oversight institutions typically lack the power and resources to monitor and review surveillance capabilities in order to ensure that intelligence agencies behave effectively and lawfully. Consequently, oversight in these countries typically is conducted by the public, through, for instance, challenging unjustifiable secrecy, publicising abuses and organising campaigns to rein these agencies in.Through comparative case study research exploring lessons from key moments in the region, this volume explores public oversight of intelligence-driven digital surveillance in eight Southern African countries and examines cases where this oversight either succeeded, failed, or achieved mixed outcomes. Authored by researchers and journalists from the fields of law, communication and media studies, this book offers lessons for academics and activists, suggesting that a new model of public oversight of surveillance is possible, and, arguably, functions better than extant approaches to surveillance. It will be of global significance, as surveillance abuses are a worldwide problem, as is the problem of oversight failing to keep pace with expanding surveillance capabilities.
The Acquisition of L2 Sociolinguistic Competence
This reprint brings together cutting-edge research on the acquisition of sociolinguistic competence by speakers of additional languages. Acquiring an additional language involves not only knowledge of structures and pronunciation but also knowledge of what is appropriate in different situations. This knowledge permits speakers to generate and manage social interactions and involves knowing intricate patterns which permit the more subtle aspects of human language interaction. The research situates itself squarely at the juncture of second language acquisition and variationist sociolinguistics. Variationist approaches focus on the factors, linguistic and social, which influence the production of variation patterns where alternative speech forms have the same referential meaning but carry different social weight. Knowledge of this is crucial in effective communicative competence. Chapters cover a wide range of language pairs including L2 Chinese, English, French, German, Korean and Spanish. They investigate previously underexplored aspects of L2 sociolinguistic competence such as learner attitudes and perception. They cover novel methodological and technical approaches such as social network analysis, L2 identity construction and usage-based linguistics. The volume represents an important evolution in our understanding of how, when and in what contexts L2 sociolinguistic competence develops and the linguistic and social factors which impact this development.
The Final Reckoning
In the vibrant yet unforgiving streets of Panaji, young Leo Carlos grows up amid the scents of spice markets, the weight of poverty, and the unpredictable moods of the Arabian Sea. When his father vanishes in a violent storm and ruthless collectors close in, Leo is thrust into a world far harsher than his years. Racing through alleys, docks, and markets, he survives hunger, street fights, and heartbreak-guided only by the desperate need to protect his family.As the boy becomes a man, strength becomes both his weapon and his curse, pulling him into the very shadows he once feared. When a long-buried secret resurfaces, Leo is forced to confront the truth behind his family's ruin and the powerful forces that shaped his destiny.Gritty, emotional, and relentless, THE FINAL RECKONING follows a life shaped by poverty, betrayal, and resilience-and the moment every survivor must face their reckoning.
Thriving and Leading in the Intelligent Age
What does it take to lead-and to thrive-when intelligence itself is the new frontier of power?In Thriving and Leading in the Intelligent Age, Professor Klaus Schwab, Founder of the World Economic Forum and architect of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, distills half a century of global experience into a strategic framework for leadership in an era defined by AI, biotechnology, robotics and quantum innovation.With clarity and constructive optimism, Schwab invites readers to reflect on how intelligence can serve humanity rather than replace it.In this paradigm-shifting book, readers will discover how to: Apply "integrated intelligence" to make smarter, faster, more ethical decisionsRedesign organizations around agility, inclusion, and continuous learningAnticipate the next wave of technological convergence before competitors doStrengthen emotional intelligence to inspire trust and purpose in uncertain timesThrive personally by cultivating resilience, curiosity, and balance in a hyperconnected worldIf you want to future-proof your leadership and impact, this first volume in the Intelligent Age Series will become your essential blueprint to thrive in times of change.Remember: The future is not something that happens to us. It's something we create.
The Age of Manufactured Reality
Truth is no longer discovered-it is engineered.We live in an era where reality itself is curated, optimized, and manipulated. Facts compete with feelings. Evidence is overshadowed by emotion. Algorithms quietly decide what we see, believe, and ignore. In The Age of Manufactured Reality, this powerful and unsettling book exposes how truth is being systematically distorted-and why most people don't even realize it is happening.From the rise of fake news and clickbait to the emergence of deepfakes and synthetic media, this book reveals how modern information systems no longer report reality-they shape it. Media incentives reward outrage over accuracy. Social platforms weaponize attention. Algorithms function as invisible editors, constructing personalized realities that fragment society and erode shared truth.Inside this book, you will discover: How fake news evolved from simple propaganda into a sophisticated system of influenceWhy engagement has replaced accuracy as the dominant measure of truthHow algorithms personalize perception and create fragmented realitiesThe psychological mechanisms behind virality, outrage, and misinformationWhy deepfakes signal the collapse of visual proof and objective evidenceHow trust in institutions is declining-and what replaces itWhy truth is disappearing not through censorship, but through competitionThis is not a book about conspiracy-it is a book about systems. It explains how economic incentives, behavioral psychology, and technology combine to manufacture perception at scale. It shows how reality becomes negotiable when visibility matters more than verification, and why societies struggle to agree on even the most basic facts.Yet this is not a message of despair.The Age of Manufactured Reality is ultimately a call for awareness. By understanding how modern reality is constructed, readers can begin to reclaim critical thinking, resist manipulation, and choose truth deliberately in a world designed to obscure it.If you are concerned about misinformation, digital manipulation, deepfakes, media power, and the future of truth itself, this book is essential reading.Reality is not disappearing-but it is being rewritten.
The Age of Manufactured Reality
Truth is no longer discovered-it is engineered.We live in an era where reality itself is curated, optimized, and manipulated. Facts compete with feelings. Evidence is overshadowed by emotion. Algorithms quietly decide what we see, believe, and ignore. In The Age of Manufactured Reality, this powerful and unsettling book exposes how truth is being systematically distorted-and why most people don't even realize it is happening.From the rise of fake news and clickbait to the emergence of deepfakes and synthetic media, this book reveals how modern information systems no longer report reality-they shape it. Media incentives reward outrage over accuracy. Social platforms weaponize attention. Algorithms function as invisible editors, constructing personalized realities that fragment society and erode shared truth.Inside this book, you will discover: How fake news evolved from simple propaganda into a sophisticated system of influenceWhy engagement has replaced accuracy as the dominant measure of truthHow algorithms personalize perception and create fragmented realitiesThe psychological mechanisms behind virality, outrage, and misinformationWhy deepfakes signal the collapse of visual proof and objective evidenceHow trust in institutions is declining-and what replaces itWhy truth is disappearing not through censorship, but through competitionThis is not a book about conspiracy-it is a book about systems. It explains how economic incentives, behavioral psychology, and technology combine to manufacture perception at scale. It shows how reality becomes negotiable when visibility matters more than verification, and why societies struggle to agree on even the most basic facts.Yet this is not a message of despair.The Age of Manufactured Reality is ultimately a call for awareness. By understanding how modern reality is constructed, readers can begin to reclaim critical thinking, resist manipulation, and choose truth deliberately in a world designed to obscure it.If you are concerned about misinformation, digital manipulation, deepfakes, media power, and the future of truth itself, this book is essential reading.Reality is not disappearing-but it is being rewritten.
Unringing the Bell
When Jacob Gillis returns to Goose Bend, PA as an adult he wants to atone for a horrific accident he accidentally caused as a 12-year-old. Instead, he finds himself enmeshed in a murder investigation when he becomes enamoured with the beatiful sister-in-law of the victim. The prosecutor, taking advantabe of Jacob's involvement, threatens Jacob with loss of career and reputation if he doesn't play by his rules. Only by outwitting the prosecutor can Jacob save his future.
Trumping the Race Card
In Trumping the Race Card-A National Agenda: Moving Beyond Race and Racism, author and diversity consultant Rodney Patterson provides a thought-provoking examination of race and racism in the United States, which invites us to consider several questions, including: - Are racism and prejudice the same or are they supporting ideologies?- If a person is prejudice, does that make them racist as well?- What makes a person a racist in the true sense of the word?Mr. Patterson provides the Anatomy of an Ism to show how biases can evolve and transition into acts of racism by individuals, ultimately becoming institutionalized within systems. He encouraging each of us to avoid the inclination to "look the other way" and provides 10 strategies aptly designed as action steps. He also covers a broad spectrum of concepts, each designed to move us beyond race and racism, and closer to the idea of living as a true community.
The House Of Murdaugh
A dynasty built on power. A family destroyed by greed. The murders that shocked America.For 86 years, the Murdaugh name meant justice in South Carolina. Three generations controlled the prosecutor's office. Their law firm dominated the Lowcountry. Nobody questioned them.Until June 7, 2021.That night, Alex Murdaugh called 911. His wife Maggie and son Paul were dead-shot execution-style near the dog kennels of their sprawling estate. As investigators dug deeper, they uncovered something far more sinister than murder.Inside this book: The staged suicide plot with Curtis Eddie Smith. Gloria Satterfield's suspicious fall and the $4.3 million theft from her sons. Nearly $9 million stolen from vulnerable clients. The six-week murder trial that gripped the nation. Judge Newman's devastating sentencing remarks.Plus the latest developments: Becky Hill's 2025 arrest and guilty plea for jury tampering. Stephen Smith's exhumed body and the ongoing homicide investigation. The current state of Moselle estate. Where everyone is now.Drawn from trial transcripts, court documents, police reports, and verified sources. Complete timeline from 1920-2025. Victim profiles honoring those who were lost. Financial crimes breakdown. Cast of characters with current status.From the century-long dynasty to its violent collapse-this is the complete story.Scroll up and click "Buy Now" to read the full account of the Murdaugh family scandal.
Trojan Horse
This politically-incorrect book not only reveals the most critical problems facing Black America, if offers real solutions, and a blueprint for total economic and psychological transformation.(NON-FICTION/CURRENT EVENTS/BLACK HISTORY)
In Search of the Stone of Destiny
When the curator at Westminster Abbey is bludgeoned to death one fateful night, it sets into motion a string of events that will alter the world forever. The Stone of Destiny, has fired the passion for the coronation of Irish, Scottish, and English monarchs for centuries, has been stolen. According to legend, the Patriarch Jacob used the Stone of Destiny as a pillow and saw God in a dream who promised Jacob that many kings would come out of his legacy through King David. Detective Smithe, a rational and cold-hard-facts type of man, is thrown into the investigation of his lifetime. Together, he, archaeologist Robert McNair, and the curator's daughter Sara Flanders embark on a journey all over Europe to get to the bottom of the brutal murder and to locate the Stone of Destiny. As they race against the clock and unearth a powerful secret of the true perpetrator of evil and deception culminating in a world despot, the past and present collide. Will they have enough time to stop him and triumph over evil before it's too late?
Black Love Is a Revolutionary ACT
This politically-incorrect book reveals the most critical problems facing black male and female relationships, and provides a blueprint for healing our relationships, families, marriages, and ourselves.
Journalism in Africa
Journalism in Africa: New Trends Special Issue is a collection of nine essays about the production, performance, and the role of creative expressions in an environment of changing political, technological, and media landscapes in Africa. The published articles explore the dynamics and interplay of forces that are shaping news audiences and citizen engagement with journalism, the state, and society. The empirical studies in this publication reveal that the emergent trends for journalism in Africa are complex, multifaceted, and defy simple explanations. A major point of inquiry concerns how to make sense of citizen engagement or disengagement with journalism; trust in journalism; news avoidance; and selective attention with journalism in an environment of shifting authoritarian state controls, and a fragmented digital media landscape. The findings from the studies published herein show that the nexus of journalism, citizen trust in journalism, state narratives on media platforms, and the responses of citizens to media narratives may not be unique to Africa. These dynamics have implications when drawing global comparisons. The multiple mythological approaches employed in the studies offer templates for comparative research in other cultural contexts. Whether comparative research can accurately portray the African experience or not remains to be ascertained.
What's Up?
Black America is in a state of crisis! Black society boast the highest unemployment rates, highest poverty rates and highest incarceration rates of any ethnic or racial group! Blacks in America suffer from more chronic diseases, have more single parent homes, have a higher mortality rate, and are punished more severely by the justice system than any other racial or ethnic group in America.These actions are not by coincidence, but by design! Black America has been summarily targeted for destruction by white society and these are only some of the problems Black America must face and overcome if it is to be a viable, vibrant, independent race now and into the future. What's Up? A Definitive Guide To Surviving Life In Black America asks the question: Can Black America be saved? The book addressess all of these and various other social problems and offers concrete well planned and thought provoking solutions to confront and combat hundred of years of racial suppression and subjugation by Black America at the hands of a dominant white society. What's Up? challenges the reader who is serious about combating racial inequalities in America to read, research, and react to the problems that continue to divide America as a county and effectively combat a system of racial oppression that has left Black America fighting for its own relevancy and survival!
The Rainmaker Effect
The belief that rainmakers bring rain is a superstition, but they are able to create cohesion among the people who believe in their powers. Stefan K羹hl describes how the rainmaker effect works in the model of the learning organization. Many of the modern management principles that are billed as formulas for success - e.g., clear objectives, employee identification, participation, and continuous learning - fail to deliver on their promises. However, they do have other beneficial effects. They ensure that organizations keep evolving.
Pinched
Pinched is a gripping masterpiece that tells the electrifying true story of Marco, a poor adolescent Colombian fishermen who dreams of wealth and who's ambitions result in his forced servitude to the A.U.C, a ruthlessly violent Narco Para-military organization who operate at the height of Colombia's war torn, drug fueled civil war.The adventure thrusts the reader into the mind and soul of Marco, who's charged with the dangerous responsibility of moving millions of dollars in cash and thousandths of kilos worth of cocaine through the treacherous jungles of Central and South America and the Gulf of Mexico's unforgiving waters.Throughout the journey Marco must endure and survive bitter betrayal, unrelenting greed, forbidden romance, and adrenaline fueled battles bursting with bloody violence, all while maintaining the essential wisdom of remaining true to yourself and above all, following your heart. Pinched, promises to keep you on the edge and change the lives of the reader forever.
Hope in the Hood
"Colleen Adams is saving lives." - Todd Bass, Miami Dade State Attorney's OfficeA raw and emotional account of one woman's dream to offer a path out of poverty and crime, proving that one drop, even in the ocean, creates an expanding ripple.Imagine a world where children's role models are drug addicts and criminals. Where attending funerals of their friends seems as commonplace as hanging out at the mall and taking out the trash might result in being shot to death. Where electricity and functional plumbing aren't guaranteed.Is this some war-torn country or maybe a struggling third world nation? No. Such is the life of poverty-stricken inner city AMERICA.By stark contrast, Colleen Adams hailed from the racially segregated south in the 1940's and climbed her way to the elite end of the social scale. But after accomplishing hollow success as a fashion and publishing marketing executive, Colleen heeded her life's calling to tackle the hopelessness and despair of disenfranchised inner-city young men.But could one person provide the means for youth from the most crime-ridden and poverty-stricken neighborhoods to actually achieve the American Dream?With incredible insight and determination, Colleen carved an innovative path of hope by establishing Empowered Youth USA, but was ultimately forced to choose between the young men she had come to love and the financial security of her lucrative career. Would she turn her back on the boys?Hope in the Hood is the inspiring true story of one woman's improbable dream to offer a brighter future for struggling inner city young men. Author Shirley Alarie conveys the raw and emotional struggles and successes through the voices of the young men, and the magic as seen through their mentors and judicial system experts.˃˃˃ Accolades from Criminal Justice ExpertsValuable judicial insight is provided by criminal justice experts Carlos Martinez, Chief Public Defender, Miami-Dade County; Todd Bass, Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office: Juvenile Division; and Marie Osborne, Chief Assistant Public Defender.˃˃˃ Foreword by Dave Lawrence, Jr.Insightful foreword contributed by nationally recognized children's advocate and retired Miami Herald publisher.˃˃˃ Check out the book trailer!https: //youtu.be/-x2HRVLOGKE
Melanin Monologues
Melanin Monologues documents the journey of a Black woman's struggle to regain her self-esteem and cultural pride in British society. The chronicles provide some insight into the ways that racial classifications and stereotypes have influenced Black British communities. Natreema Adjaye strives to project a voice that has been obscured and ignored for the longest time. The monologues presents an honest account of what it means to be Black and British in a society where African identity has been defined from a Eurocentric standpoint.
Developing Strategies
Hardly any other management concept is as overused as strategy, yet at the same time hardly any other concept is as vaguely defined. As a means of escaping the conceptual jumble, this monograph suggests a systems-theoretical definition which makes it possible to sort out the various threads of the strategy discussion. Strategies are "search programs" used for finding the means to achieve previously defined goals. With these, we let classical ideas about strategy confront modern organizational theory, and demonstrate how strategy development in organizations can look beyond purpose-rational constraints.
Managing Projects
The linear, goal-oriented approach to projects that is so popular in management literature is only appropriate if you are dealing with well-defined problems. For projects that address poorly defined problems, however, the principles of classic project management don't work; project managers attempt in vain to maintain a linear approach, even if targets, people affected and framework conditions cannot be determined precisely. We propose a fundamentally different approach based on current organizational theory: to start out with experiments, without predetermined conclusions. Projects are not evaluated by comparing the current status to the target, but rather by assessing whether stagnation has been overcome, conflicts put aside, and shared understanding about new opportunities has been created. Project groups and steering committees are not set up at all. Power "games" are harnessed and put to use, rather than prohibited.
Boston's Bloody Marathon
April 15, 2013. Before the Boston Marathon was over, few people cared who won or lost. Patriots Day, a day of festivities to celebrate the American Revolution, was about to become the latest nightmare in America's ongoing war on terrorism. "The pungent smell of gunpowder hung in the air while shrapnel, ball bearings and nails littered the streets near the blast sites. Spectators left behind backpacks, cell phones and handmade signs with runners' names. Doctors at Brigham and Women's Hospital later treated one patient whose body had been pierced by 12 carpenter's nails." Although this book focuses on the bombings at the Boston Marathon, the victims and the prosecution of the prime suspect, it is equally about "lone wolf" terrorists. Lone wolves refer to terrorists who plot their attacks alone, usually with no organization to support them and no official links to violent groups. There is almost no way to know their next target until they strike. U.S. intelligence agencies call them perhaps the biggest terrorist threat to the United States and its allies.
Against Relationalism and the Tyranny of Context
This book deals with anthropological ideas, which it confronts with what seems to be a difficulty in anthropology: the human being, each singular human being, taken in themselves. Following this line of reading, the authors take us from Benedict to Radcliffe-Brown or Strathern. They focus particularly on contemporary theories of ecological, psychological, phenomenological and existential anthropology. It is this last direction that the authors wish to emphasise, devoting a final chapter to what would be an anthropology of the human being. Radically critical of the relationalism and the tyranny of context in anthropological theories, this book combining text and drawings is a necessary document for researchers and students, as well as for all those interested in understanding the singularity of each being. Perhaps, after this book, readers will no longer consider anthropology in the same manner...
The Mind Control Matrix
How Entertainment, News, and Technology Are Programming BeliefWhat if the greatest form of control today doesn't feel like control at all?We live in an age of endless information-constant news updates, limitless entertainment, and technology woven into every moment of daily life. We are told this is freedom. Choice. Progress. Yet beneath the surface, something quieter and far more powerful is taking place: the systematic shaping of belief, perception, and behavior-without force, censorship, or visible authority.The Mind Control Matrix exposes the invisible systems that influence how we think, what we fear, and what we accept as "normal." This book reveals how entertainment, news media, and digital technology work together to guide belief-not by telling us what to think, but by shaping how thinking itself occurs.Rather than presenting a simplistic conspiracy, this book examines a psychological and cultural system-one built on repetition, emotional conditioning, narrative framing, and algorithmic reinforcement. It shows how modern influence operates through comfort and convenience, not oppression; through saturation, not silence; through personalization, not persuasion.Inside this book, you will discover: How entertainment quietly normalizes values, behaviors, and worldviews through storytelling and emotionHow news framing and repetition manufacture reality without altering factsHow algorithms learn your fears, desires, and reactions-then feed them back to youWhy control today feels like choice, personalization, and convenienceHow beliefs form beneath conscious awareness through emotion, identity, and repetitionWhy modern control is invisible-and therefore more powerful than any historical systemHow fear, outrage, and distraction are engineered to replace reflection and critical thoughtMost importantly, The Mind Control Matrix is not a call to paranoia or withdrawal from modern life. It is a call to awareness. The book equips readers to recognize influence, reclaim attention, and re-establish mental sovereignty in a world designed to think for them.This is a book for readers who sense that something is wrong-but struggle to articulate what. For those who question why beliefs feel inherited rather than chosen. For anyone seeking clarity in an era of manipulation disguised as freedom.The matrix exists. But awareness is the exit.
Soulful Brands
Soulful Brands is a transformative invitation for leaders, entrepreneurs, and professionals who aspire to build authentic brands in a world where true differentiation lies in human connection. In this book, Maria Brasil unveils the secrets behind brands that successfully align authenticity, strategy, and impact. Blending theory, practice, and real-life stories, she offers valuable insights for business owners and professionals looking to turn their brands into strategic assets. Through the innovative Brand Anatomy framework, the book explores the essential pillars of authentic brands. In a practical and inspiring way, Maria bridges theory and reality, demonstrating how businesses-both big and small-can align purpose, values, and results to transform not only companies but also communities and markets.
The Mind Control Matrix
How Entertainment, News, and Technology Are Programming BeliefWhat if the greatest form of control today doesn't feel like control at all?We live in an age of endless information-constant news updates, limitless entertainment, and technology woven into every moment of daily life. We are told this is freedom. Choice. Progress. Yet beneath the surface, something quieter and far more powerful is taking place: the systematic shaping of belief, perception, and behavior-without force, censorship, or visible authority.The Mind Control Matrix exposes the invisible systems that influence how we think, what we fear, and what we accept as "normal." This book reveals how entertainment, news media, and digital technology work together to guide belief-not by telling us what to think, but by shaping how thinking itself occurs.Rather than presenting a simplistic conspiracy, this book examines a psychological and cultural system-one built on repetition, emotional conditioning, narrative framing, and algorithmic reinforcement. It shows how modern influence operates through comfort and convenience, not oppression; through saturation, not silence; through personalization, not persuasion.Inside this book, you will discover: How entertainment quietly normalizes values, behaviors, and worldviews through storytelling and emotionHow news framing and repetition manufacture reality without altering factsHow algorithms learn your fears, desires, and reactions-then feed them back to youWhy control today feels like choice, personalization, and convenienceHow beliefs form beneath conscious awareness through emotion, identity, and repetitionWhy modern control is invisible-and therefore more powerful than any historical systemHow fear, outrage, and distraction are engineered to replace reflection and critical thoughtMost importantly, The Mind Control Matrix is not a call to paranoia or withdrawal from modern life. It is a call to awareness. The book equips readers to recognize influence, reclaim attention, and re-establish mental sovereignty in a world designed to think for them.This is a book for readers who sense that something is wrong-but struggle to articulate what. For those who question why beliefs feel inherited rather than chosen. For anyone seeking clarity in an era of manipulation disguised as freedom.The matrix exists. But awareness is the exit.
The Eternal Sleep Program
How Entertainment, Social Media, and Technology Keep Humanity DistractedWe live in the most connected age in human history-yet never before has humanity been so distracted, mentally exhausted, and disconnected from itself.The Eternal Sleep Program is a penetrating exploration of how modern entertainment, social media, and technology have quietly reshaped human consciousness. This book argues that control in the modern world no longer relies on force or censorship, but on comfort, stimulation, and endless distraction. Minds are not silenced-they are occupied.This is not a conspiracy theory. It is a systemic reality.Through a deeply psychological, cultural, and philosophical lens, this book reveals how distraction evolved into an invisible operating system-one that rewards passivity, replaces meaning with amusement, and conditions people to choose comfort over truth. From dopamine-driven habit loops to algorithmic control of attention, from digital validation to the erosion of critical thinking, The Eternal Sleep Program exposes the mechanisms keeping humanity mentally awake but spiritually asleep.Inside this book, you will discover: How mass distraction became a system rather than a side effectWhy entertainment now functions as a substitute for meaning and purposeHow social media creates the illusion of connection while deepening lonelinessThe psychological role of dopamine, habit loops, and behavioral addictionHow algorithms quietly shape belief, perception, and attentionWhy comfort is consistently chosen over truth in the modern ageHow technology reshapes identity, memory, focus, and inner lifeWhat it truly means to awaken from the Eternal SleepThis book does not argue that technology or entertainment are inherently evil. Instead, it asks a more unsettling question: Who is in control when tools become masters? When distraction replaces reflection, stimulation replaces stillness, and noise replaces wisdom, something essential is lost-not through force, but through neglect.The Eternal Sleep Program is both a diagnosis and an invitation. Awareness is the first act of resistance. Conscious choice is the second. Awakening does not require rejecting modern life-but reclaiming agency within it.If you have ever felt informed yet empty, connected yet isolated, busy yet unfulfilled, this book will help you understand why.The question is no longer whether we are distracted- but whether we are willing to wake up.
