Maybe you were born to Christian parents and raised as a Christian. Or maybe you are just a part of a Christian nation. You might have attended church regularly, or maybe just on special occasions. If asked, you say that you believe in God, but you really never thought about what that means exactly. You are a well-educated person who accepts the idea of Biblical miracles, but only the more "reasonable" ones. You have read some of the Bible, mostly just parts of the New Testament, but n...

With the help of a freakishly wise janitor, a newly-hired membership director struggles to keep a fitness center afloat while being given ridiculous tasks from an ethically-questionable owner. Take an opinionated and all-around diverse group of fitness trainers, add a sketchy owner, a genius janitor, and throw in an endearing but largely incompetent general manager, and you have the perfect recipe for riotous, chaotic hilarity. You have Squat! Set in a large fitness center in the Boston su...

This book is a crash course in effective reasoning, meant to catapult you into a world where you start to see things how they really are, not how you think they are. The focus of this book is on logical fallacies, which loosely defined, are simply errors in reasoning. With the reading of each page, you can make significant improvements in the way you reason and make decisions. Logically Fallacious is one of the most comprehensive collections of logical fallacies with all original examples ...

Prepare for a Bumpy Ride.Many of our ideas about the world are based more on feelings than facts, sensibilities than science, and rage than reality. We gravitate toward ideas that make us feel comfortable in areas such as religion, politics, philosophy, social justice, love and sex, humanity, and morality. We avoid ideas that make us feel uncomfortable. This avoidance is a largely unconscious process that affects our judgment and gets in the way of our ability to reach rational and...

A child of the 1980s relives a dysfunctional and hilarious childhood in the most difficult speech of his life.It's FORREST GUMP meets THE WONDER YEARS - but mostly true. Hysterically funny at times, heart-wrenching and heart-warming at other times, highly entertaining all the time.The story follows James Murphy, who lives an extraordinarily unique life learning ordinary life lessons to which everyone can relate through his many misadventures. James' misadventures feature ev...

The Clear Book Path is a practical guide for busy professionals, coaches, consultants, and first-time nonfiction authors who want to turn real expertise into a finished book without getting overwhelmed. Kara I. Lang shows how to move from scattered notes and half-formed ideas to a clear, workable manuscript using plain-language systems and AI tools. Instead of relying on inspiration or trying to solve the whole project at once, readers learn how to define the book before drafting, set a re...

Navigate the Trail of Self-Publishing with Ease: A Comprehensive Guide to Book MarketingSelf-publishing your book is just the start of your journey. The real challenge lies in promoting your masterpiece, making it visible to the right audience, and generating sales. "The 101 of Book Marketing: A Self-Published Author's Guide" has all the answers you've been seeking.This comprehensive guide deciphers the cluttered landscape of self-publishing, offering clear insights into its definition, be...

Unravel the Secrets of Your Mind: A Journey into Cognitive BiasesStep into the intriguing world of cognitive biases with this comprehensive guide that promises to transform the way you perceive yourself and others. Packed with fascinating insights, this book unveils the subtle but powerful ways our minds shape our understanding of reality.In The Biased Brain, you will delve deep into the heart of human cognition and discover hundreds of cognitive biases that influence our d...

This is a short story of a young man who desires to be a wizard. Within these pages, contain one of the most powerful, life-transforming, secrets ever revealed. If you find it, you are ready for "The Journey".

Positive humanism is an applied secular humanistic philosophy based on the scientific findings of positive psychology that focuses on personal, professional, and societal flourishing. As an applied philosophy its focus is on ideas that lead to increased well-being. As a secular humanistic philosophy, there are no appeals to the supernatural, the magical, or the mystical. The philosophy is founded on reason and critical thinking. The philosophy is science-based, meaning it is void of the un...

This is a collection of what I feel are some of the most important social/cognitive psychology experiments, studies, demonstrations, biases, and systematic reviews, presented in an entertaining way while adhering to academic standards. I have always been fascinated by how our behaviors, cognition (thoughts), and affect (how we feel) are greatly dependent upon our social environment and our imperfect brains. I find it fascinating--perhaps because I am an American who was raised in the typic...

Roughly 95% of Americans don't appear to have an ethical problem with animals being killed for food, yet all of us would have a serious problem with humans being killed for food. What does an animal lack that a human has that justifies killing the animal for food but not the human? As you start to list properties that the animal lacks to justify eating them, you begin to realize that some humans also lack those properties, yet we don't eat those humans. Is this logical proof that killing a...