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Want to explore the least talked about positive and negative effects of social media?
Experts on psychology and sociology view social media as a double-edged sword. It certainly has improved our life in terms of how we can get information in a matter of seconds. On the other hand, it has become an agent for disinformation, reduced productivity, and unhealthy screen time habits.
Like all swords, people must know how to wield social media to their advantage. The first step is knowing what entails its use–the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Free yourself from the ball and chain of the Internet and social media with Calvin Robbins' Unsocial Media!
Unsocial Media sheds light on the negative and positive impacts of social media, addictions, and privacy concerns. Get a nuanced grasp on how these platforms are intended to catch your attention, latching on to your life, and sucking you into a deep abyss of addictive behaviours.
This book explores the science and logic behind social media platforms. It also covers these sites' effects on mental health, particularly its destructive effects on emotional well-being. Discover why and how smartphone addiction happens and how social media exacerbates this problem.
Robbins also enlightens the readers on security and privacy concerns. Know how to recognise advertisements that blur the line between bespoke content and predatory surveillance. Our book also contains a relevant discussion on how the Internet and social media shape public opinion.
In this book, you’ll encounter:
✅ Tips on how you can manage your screen time
✅ Learn the red flags indicating phone fixation, internet abuse, and internet compulsion issues
✅ Comprehensive yet easy-to-digest topics around social media
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Social media has exploded, not only for individuals but for businesses too. Today, more than 83% of small business owners say they believe social media is essential for their companies. Make Your Business Social provides actionable solutions for business owners to create and sustain a successful social media presence.
In this book you will learn how to: build or expand a social media audience for your business; create graphics, even if you're not a designer; choose the right platforms for your business; cultivate strategies for present and future social media; and use real-life experience from current business owners.
Award-Winning Executive Mirza Barlas, MBA, achieved early business success by implementing transformational change in world leading companies via breakthrough capabilities improvement. And when this success didn’t result in the accompanying happiness he’d anticipated, Barlas turned to his proven expertise in transformational change to personally develop the breakthrough capabilities for happiness. Along the way, he learned unexpectedly that while success does not always lead to happiness, as was his case, happiness consistently leads to or enhances success. Relying on conclusively proven, groundbreaking scientific research and proven facts, often illustrated by fascinating parables of self-evident timeless wisdom, Barlas distills down 25 years of research and study into 6 Mega Life-Transforming Hacks: Maximize Your Life Satisfaction, Experiences, and Results. Each mega hack comprises a scientifically proven breakthrough capability to achieve transformational change, something Barlas has excelled in during his extensive, ongoing award-winning global business career. Effortlessly moving between grit, expertise, positivity, mindfulness, happiness, and medically-proven self-administered cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for clear perception and better judgment, Barlas invites his readers to create happier, more productive lives through 6 Mega Life-Transforming Hacks. Success may not automatically lead to happiness, but you can soon discover both.
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This book will
– Teach you the mind-set needed to cope with the competitive, aggressive, and sometimes cut-throat nature of coworkers;
– Direct you toward finding a niche that will make you of immeasurable value across all departments, making you an indispensable asset to your company;
– Give you an upper hand in retaining your job during a job reduction;
– Inform you of the top skills needed to be a success in your career;
– Show you how to find and utilize mentors that will be instrumental in building your career;
– Give you the secrets about how to be an effective leader—secrets contrary to the norm;
– Help you develop the skill of managing your boss;
– Enlighten you to the principles that will guarantee you a long-lasting, happy, prosperous, and accomplished life.
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Master William and The Finman By Robert P. Arthur
A Supernatural Sea Story set in the Days of the Golden Age of Piracy
During The Golden Age of Piracy, twelve-year-old Master William, leaves his dead mother, thought to be a Selkie, to sail the sea lanes of the world and evade conscription in the British Navy, He is shipped out of his home on the rocky islands of the Orkneys to become a pirate.
He is followed, unseen, by a Finman, a mythical sorcerer of the sea, who directs him by blowing him through time and space, if need be, for a secret end. The Finman follows William’s ship in a kayak, able to cross vast seas with three “thwarts” (strokes) of a paddle, now and then opening the bag of winds around his neck to blow William through time and space to learn a mastery of the sea and men.
Young William must travel to the age of the most notorious female pirate of history, the older Anne Bonny, with whom he falls in love, and is directed to achieve his destiny among such rogues as Blackbeard, Henry Morgan, and Calico Jack Rackham.
When Master William’s search for Anne Bonny nears its end and he learns she is waiting for him to come:
“Thy wedding party,” whispered the old man, nudging me in the ribs with an elbow.
“Thy bride, Anne Bonny, awaits ye in the village.”
At these words, I assured myself I was dreaming. I had imagined a number of possible first meetings with Anne that ranged from romantic and tearful reconciliations to me abducting her in a wheat sack. But marching into an Indian village at the head of a wedding party of savages to claim her willing and regal hand had never crossed my mind.
( Arthur 437)
It’s a huge “Sot Weed Factor” of a novel, filled with charm and comedy, as well as violence and lore of the sea. The book was five years in the making and won first place in fiction at the Virginia Writer’s Conference.
Like the author's internationally acclaimed Hymn to the Chesapeake, Master William displays the author's encyclopedic knowledge of the sea combined with his stunning gift for lyrical language that instantly transports readers to experience a different time and place and makes them reluctant to leave.
Robert Peebles "Bob" Arthur (born 1943) is a poet, a novelist, a short story writer, a playwright, a critic, a director, and a professor. He has written and published over twenty books and plays and 1,500 articles on the arts. A finalist for Poet Laureate of Virginia in 2008 and 2010, he remains best known for his book of poems, Hymn to the Chesapeake, the best-selling book in the history of Road Publishers, on which one reviewer commented:
“It makes me nostalgic for places I've never been.”
Mac MacKinney, Virginia Pilot
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Colorado Springs authors Delilah Harris, Jacquie Abram, and Deborah Harris chronicle the story of a resilient Black woman fighting systemic racism in Corporate America in their new book “HUSH MONEY”
Local authors Delilah Harris, Jacquie Abram, and Deborah Harris, recently released an amazing new book in “HUSH MONEY,” where they narrate the story of a twenty-eight-year-old Black woman and her struggles with systemic racism in her workplace. Inspired by true events, “HUSH MONEY: How One Woman Proved Systemic Racism in her Workplace and Kept her Job” is currently available on Amazon.
The issue of racism has been a century-long problem that unfortunately seems unresolvable. And although several initiatives have been put in place to address this scourge due to the Black Lives Matter movement and the racial reckoning occurring around the world, the systemic nature of racism has made it even more difficult to effectively address the issue and its inherent problems. In “Hush Money,” the authors shine more light on the issue with the case study of Ebony, a strong, resilient Black woman who was living in poverty with her mother, struggling to make ends meet, and longing for a chance to live the American dream.
After years of working dead-end jobs, Ebony obtained employment with an organization that put her on the path to accomplishing her goal of living the American dream. But things quickly took a turn for the worst when Ebony's boss resigned unexpectedly and was replaced with a racist one, and the American dream, the dream that made her believe she would have the same opportunities as everyone else, became a living nightmare as she was abused, humiliated, and stripped of all dignity, confidence, and strength year after year.
Eventually, Ebony found courage, learned how to fight back through trial and error, and made the transition from racial discrimination victim to racial discrimination victor.
In writing “HUSH MONEY: How One Woman Proved Systemic Racism in her Workplace and Kept her Job”, the authors seek to inspire readers to rise above any challenge and fight every form of injustice.
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