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26.09.2023

“Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts” by Bill O’Reilly

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🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "With over 19 million copies in print and a remarkable record of #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestsellers, Bill O'Reilly's Killing series is the most popular series of narrative histories in the world. Killing the Witches revisits one of the most frightening and inexplicable episodes in American history: the events of 1692 and 1693 in Salem Village, Massachusetts. What began as a mysterious affliction of two young girls who suffered violent fits and exhibited strange behavior soon spread to other young women. Rumors of demonic possession and witchcraft consumed Salem. Soon three women were arrested under suspicion of being witches—but as the hysteria spread, more than ...>>

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26.09.2023

“Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech” by Brian Merchant

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🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year, this "rich and gripping" true story of the first time machines came for human jobs—and how the Luddite uprising explains the power, threat, and toll of big tech and AI today. The most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley but two hundred years ago in rural England, when workers known as the Luddites rose up rather than starve at the hands of factory owners who were using automated machines to erase their livelihoods. The Luddites organized guerrilla raids to smash those machines—on punishment of death—and won the support of Lord Byron, enraged the Prince Regent, and inspired the ...>>

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26.09.2023

“Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough” by Michael Easter

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🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "Are we hardwired to crave more? From food and stuff to information and influence, why can’t we ever get enough? Michael Easter, author of The Comfort Crisis and one of the world’s leading experts on behavior change, shows that the problem isn’t you. The problem is your scarcity mindset, left over from our ancient ancestors. They had to constantly seek and consume to survive because vital survival tools like food, material goods, information, and power were scarce and hard to find. But with our modern ability to easily fulfill our ancient desire for more, our hardwired "scarcity brain" is now backfiring. And new technology and institutions—from dating and entertainment apps to our food ...>>

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26.09.2023

“Regenerative Business: How to Align Your Business with Nature for More Abundance, Fulfillment, and Impact” by Samantha Garcia

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"What kind of impact could your business make if you integrated the most powerful systems on Earth: the systems of Nature? Since the Industrial Revolution, much of human history has revolved around conquering Nature. But just as species have been hunted to extinction and forests have been leveled to create farmland and factories, the wildness inside you, too, has been suppressed. You’ve been taught that your wildness is unsafe. You’ve distanced yourself from the untamed parts of your soul: your creativity, your prolific ideas, your truest life. But to become the business owner you long to be, you need to unleash your wildness. Regenerative business creates fertile ground within you to unearth and express your ...>>

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26.09.2023

“Awe: The Transformative Power of Everyday Wonder” by Dacher Keltner

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"From a foremost expert on the science of emotions, a groundbreaking exploration into the history, psychology and meaning of awe Social psychologist Dacher Keltner has spent his career speaking to different groups of people, from schoolchildren to prisoners to healthcare workers, about the good life. These conversations and his pioneering research into the science of emotion have convinced him that happiness comes down to one thing: finding awe. Awe allows us to collaborate with others, open our minds to wonder, and see the deep patterns of life. In his new book, Keltner presents a radical investigation into this elusive emotion. Drawing on his own scientific research into how awe transforms our brains and bodies, alongside ...>>

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