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Universal Wisdom
You get a billionaire, civil rights activist, freedom fighter, humanitarian, pope, disabled person and saint, through BIOGRAPHY, ESSAY, SPEECHES and QUOTES sharing the idea that powered their own life - their uncompromising commitment to Universal Wisdom.
What makes life great ? How do I begin to understand what the great do differently?
What do they know that I don't ?
These are the questions to which Brett Kelly has been seeking answers to.
Through the lives of 7 people that have changed the world, are some of the answers to life's "ultimate questions".
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The Gift of Fear
True fear is a gift. Unwarranted fear is a curse. Learn how to tell the difference.
A date won't take "no" for an answer. The new nanny gives a mother an uneasy feeling. A stranger in a deserted parking lot offers unsolicited help. The threat of violence surrounds us every day. But we can protect ourselves, by learning to trust - and act on - our gut instincts.
In this empowering book, Gavin de Becker, the man Oprah Winfrey calls the nation's leading expert on violent behaviour, shows you how to spot even subtle signs of danger - before it's too late. Shattering the myth that most violent acts are unpredictable, de Becker, whose clients include top Hollywood stars and government agencies, offers specific ways to protect yourself and those you love, including ... how to act when approached by a stranger ... when you should fear someone close to you ... what to do if you are being stalked ... how to uncover the source of anonymous threats or phone calls ... the biggest mistake you can make with a threatening person ... and more. Learn to spot danger signals others miss. It might save your life.
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Tactics (The Art and Science of Success)
What does it take to succeed in today's competitive world? Is it luck? Talent? Why do some people emerge as successful while others - who seem to work just as hard - never make it? Are special skills required?
Tactics is based upon fifty interviews conducted for the book with men and women who have been outstandingly successful in a variety of fields. With his usual perceptiveness Edward de Bono, one of the great
revolutionary thinkers of our time, analyses their different paths to success, revealing that underneath their different styles and their greatly different personal qualitites are a small number of characteristics which are common to all successful people.
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50 things you want to know about world issues
In an increasingly complex world it's easy to feel that only the experts understand global issues. In 50 things you want to know about world issues ... but were too afraid to ask, Dr. Keith Suter cuts through the jargon and diplomatic talk to answer the questions you always wanted to ask about current affairs. And just for good measure, he'll also answer questions you never even thought to ask, like what the McDonald's Golden Arches Theory of World Peace is, why Britain went to war over an ear and why the next Elvis will sing in Spanish.
Well known for his "Global Notebook" segment on the popular national breakfast TV show Sunrise, Dr. Suter makes sense of even the most complex issues to give you a better understanding of what's going on in the world and Australia's place in it.
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Affluenza (when too much is never enough)
Our houses are bigger than ever, but our families are smaller. Our kids go to the best schools we can afford, but we hardly see them. We've got more money to spend yet we're further in debt than ever before. What is going on?
The Western world is in the grip of a consumption binge that is unique in human history. We aspire to the lifestyles of the rich and famous at the cost of family, friends and personal fulfilment. Rates of stress, depression and obesity are up as we wrestle with the emptiness and endless disappointments of the consumer life.
Affluenza pulls no punches, claiming our whole society is addicted to over-consumption. It tracks how much Australians overwork, the growing mountains of stuff we throw out, the drugs we take to 'self-medicate' and the real meaning of 'choice'. Fortunately there is a cure. More and more Australians are deciding to ignore the advertisers, reduce their consumer spending and recaptulate their time for the things that really matter.
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The Power of Intention
Intention is generally viewed as a pit-bull kind of determination, propelling one to succeed at all costs by never giving up on an inner picture. In this view, an attitude that combines hard work with an indefatigable drive toward excellence is the way
to succeed. However, intention is viewed very differently in this book.
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer has researched intention as a force in the universe that allows the act of creation to take place. This book explores intention – not as something you do – but as an energy you’re part of. We’re all intended here through the invisible
power of intention. This is the first book to look at intention as a field of energy you can access to begin co-creating your life!
Part I deals with the principles of intention, offering true stories and examples showing how to make a connection. Dr. Dyer identifies the attributes of the
all-creating universal mind of intention as creative, loving, beautiful, expanding, endlessly abundant, and receptive, explaining the importance of emulating this source of creativity.
In Part II, Dr. Dyer offers an intention guide with specific ways to apply the co-creating principles in daily life.
Part III is an exhilarating description of Dr. Dyer’s vision of an individual connected at all times to the universal mind of intention.
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Right & Wrong (how to decide for yourself)
What should I do? How should I live?
What's the point of trying to do the right thing?
As our lives become more complicated, we face a growing number of moral choices. Happiness and peace of mind depend upon knowing we have made the right choices - but how can we decide what's right and wrong, especially when there is no one to guide us ?
How can we know, for example, if it is right to leave a relationship? Or if it is ever right to tell lies? Are the moral rules different at work, depending on what the boss expects of us? If something is "legal", does that make it right? Even when there are no clear-cut absolute answers, it is our responsibility to discover the best answer for us, in each situation.
Renowned psychologist and social researcher Hugh Mackay shows how you can achieve your own moral clarity, and why making the right moral choices is the right thing to do. In an engaging, conversational style, he navigates the moral minefield of contemporary life and suggests some personal disciplines and strategies that will make it easier to decide what's right and wrong for you.
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
A Short History of Nearly Everything, is Bill
Bryson's quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us. The ultimate eye-opening journey through time and space, revealing the world in a way most of us have never seen it before.
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The Sense of Being Stared At
An accessible new approach to the nature of the mind and of perception.
Have you ever had the feeling of being watched?
Over 80% of the population have experienced the sense of being stared at. Conversely, most people have found they can make others uneasy by looking at them, even from behind. Recent experiments have provided hugely significant evidence for the reality of this sense. Somehow our intentions, and our attention, reach out to touch what we are looking at. Our minds are not confined to our brains.
Once the infuence of the mind is admitted to extend beyond the head, other seemingly mysterious phenomena begin to make sense, such as telepathy, phantom limbs and mind over matter effects.
Sheldrake shows that telepathy depends on social bonds. He traces its evolution from the connections between members of animal groups such as flocks, schools and packs. In the modern world telepathy occurs most commonly just before telephone calls. Sheldrake summarizes startling new experimental evidence for the reality of telephone telepathy, and shows how readers can do tests for themselves.
Drawing on his own experiments and extensive research, Sheldrake puts the overwhelming evidence for these unexplained abilities in the context of what he calls "the extended mind" which he suggests is fundamental to our perception. Above all, the hypothesis of the extended mind provides a refreshingly new way of thinking about ourselves and our relationships with other people, with animals, and with the world around us.
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You'll See It When You Believe It
"Our thoughts are a magic part of us, and they carry us to places that have no boundaries, and no limitations".
In this best selling, thought provoking book,
Dr. Wayne Dyer stretches beyond self-help to
self-realization. To do so, he embarks on a journey to activate our minds and show us how to transform our lives by using our thoughts constructively: in other words, how to focus on a belief and see it.
Using anecdotes and examples, writing with wit and compassion, and drawing on his own amazing life story, Dr. Wayne Dyer has, once again, written an inspiring book that explores the way to personal transformation through the visualization of thought - and teaches us that believing is seeing.
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Bill Gates Speaks
Insight from the world's greatest entrepreneur.
The world listens when Bill Gates speaks.
"I'm not competent to judge his technical ability, but I regard his business savvy as extraordinary. If Bill had started a hot dog stand he would have become the hot dog king of the world."
- Warren Buffet
"It is still possible to be a Vanderbilt, an Astor, a Rockefellor. You can still do that, you can be Bill Gates."
- David Geffen
"Love him or hate him, but you can't ignore him".
- Fortune
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The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize
Is it possible to be passionate about politics, football or R&B and still be a creative scientist? In this entertaining and inspiring account , Nobel Prize winner Peter Doherty offers readers an insider's guide into discovery science and the individual's who work in it.
Starting with the story of his own career - its improbable origins in the outer suburbs of Brisbane, and its progression to a breakthrough discovery about how human immunity works - Doherty explores the realities of a life in science. How research projects are selected; how discovery science is resourced and organized; the big problems it is trying to solve; and the rewards and pitfalls of a career in scientific research; all these are explored in "The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize".
Doherty gives readers an insight into the issues that make him tick - including his belief that the mission of science is to help make the world a better place to live in. He also essays answers to some of the great questions of our age. Are Nobel Prize winners exceptional human beings or just lucky? Are GMO crops really dangerous? Why can't scientists and born-again Christians get along?
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