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Examining philosophical, evolutionary, and literary perspectives, this text explores imagination as a cognitive power and an essential dimension of human flourishing. It demonstrates how imagination plays multiple roles in human cognition and shapes humanity in profound ways, making possible our experience of a meaningful world.

• Introduction: what is political loss
• White grievance and anticipatory loss
• Black protest and democratic sacrifice
• Representing loss between fact and affect
• Maternal grief and black politics
• Conclusion: reckoning with democratic debts.

"In democracies, citizens must accept loss; we can't always be on the winning side. But in the United States, the fundamental civic capacity of being able to lose is not distributed equally. Propped up by white supremacy, whites (as a group) are accustomed to winning; they have generally been able to exercise political rule without having to accept sharing it. Black citizens, on the other hand, are expected to be political heroes whose civic suffering enables progress toward racial justice. In this book, Juliet Hooker, a leading thinker on democracy and race, argues that the two most important forces driving racial politics in the United States today are Black grief and white grievance. Black grief is exemplified by current protests against police violence--the latest in a tradition of violent death and subsequent public mourning spurring Black political mobilization. The potent politics of white grievance, meanwhile, which is also not new, imagines the United States as a white country under siege. Drawing on African American political thought, Hooker examines key moments in US racial politics that illuminate the problem of loss in democracy. She connects today's Black Lives Matter protests to the use of lynching photographs to arouse public outrage over post-Reconstruction era racial terror, and she discusses Emmett Till's funeral as a catalyst for the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s. She also traces the political weaponization of white victimhood during the Obama and Trump presidencies. Calling for an expansion of Black and white political imaginations, Hooker argues that both must learn to sit with loss, for different reasons and to different ends."--Provided by publisher.

"An intimate, illustrated collection of spells and stories to infuse our lives with ritual, history, and magic from the visionary artist and infamous witch Bri Luna, founder and creative director of "The Hoodwitch.""-- Provided by publisher.

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part 1. Understanding Your Social Anxiety
• Chapter 1. What Are Shyness and Social Anxiety?
• Chapter 2. Why Do You Have These Fears?
• Chapter 3. Getting to Know Your Social Anxiety
• Part 2. How to Overcome Social Anxiety and Enjoy Your Life
• Chapter 4. Creating a Plan for Change
• Chapter 5. Medications for Social Anxiety and Social Anxiety Disorder
• Chapter 6. Changing Anxiety-Provoking Thoughts and Expectations
• Chapter 7. Preparing to Face Your Fears Through Exposure
• Chapter 8. Confronting Feared Social Situations and Feelings
• Chapter 9.

• Coping with Social Anxiety Through Mindfulness and Acceptance
• Chapter 10. Communicating More Effectively
• Chapter 11. Maintaining Your Improvements and Planning for the Future
• Recommended Books and Videos
• Digital Resources: Websites, Online Treatments, Referrals, and Mobile Apps.

"The year 2020 emerged as a pivotal moment in modern history, in many overlapping and mutually reinforced ways. 2020 Dreams: Toward a New Understanding of the Dreaming-Waking Continuum is an interactive digital project that illuminates the dramatic and epochal events of that year as witnessed from the vantage of collective dreaming. Using innovative tools of digital analysis, 2020 Dreams follows the 2000+ dreams of ten avid dreamers and interweaves the data presented in their journals with thousands of survey responses gathered over the course of the year. The dreams--about environmental problems, the COVID-19 outbreak, racial justice protests, the immigration crisis, economic upheaval, social media anxieties, US electoral politics, and more--reflect people's shared emotional experiences during a year of immense social turmoil. Many of the dreams are nightmares, some are strangely amusing, and others offer creative visions of hope for a future beyond the dire challenges of the present. The project invites readers into an analytic dreamscape, reflecting the multiple dimensions of dream meaning through multilinear navigational paths and interactive data visualizations. Integrating digital methodologies with digital presentation, 2020 Dreams advances a new era of improved dream research methodology, and invites a wider range of people to participate in the field of dream analysis"--Publisher description

• Player one
• Life goes on
• Action!
• Life gets complicated
• The perceiving self
• Choosing
• The future is not written
• Harnessing indeterminacy
• Meaning
• Becoming ourselves
• Thinking about thinking
• Free will
• Epilogue : artificial agents.

"An evolutionary case for the existence of free will. Scientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions. As we probe ever deeper into the mechanics of decision making, many conclude that agency-or free will-is an illusion. In Free Agents, leading neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell presents a wealth of evidence to the contrary, arguing that we are not mere machines responding to physical forces but agents acting with purpose. Traversing billions of years of evolution, Mitchell tells the remarkable story of how living beings capable of choice emerged from lifeless matter. He explains how the emergence of nervous systems provided a means to learn about the world, granting sentient animals the capacity to model, predict, and simulate. Mitchell reveals how these faculties reached their peak in humans with our abilities to imagine and to introspect, to reason in the moment, and to shape our possible futures through the exercise of our individual agency. Mitchell's argument has important implications-for how we understand decision making, for how our individual agency can be enhanced or infringed, for how we think about collective agency in the face of global crises, and for how we consider the limitations and future of artificial intelligence.An astonishing journey of discovery, Free Agents offers a new framework for understanding how, across a billion years of Earth history, life evolved the power to choose and why this matters"-- Provided by publisher.
"Scientists are learning more and more details of how patterns of brain activity control behaviour; how animals - including humans - make decisions, how neural circuits accumulate evidence, weigh alternatives, and instigate actions. But as that decision-making machinery is being revealed, it seems harder to escape the conclusion that we really are just machines. Indeed, according to Mitchell it is fashionable among many scientists to declare that we do not in fact have free will - that there is no way that we could. In this book, Mitchell argues against this notion, instead contending that we really are agents: we make decisions, we choose, we act - we are causal forces in the universe. But Michell's goal here is not merely to lob another bomb into the free will debate; it is to show how, over billiions of years, life actually evolved the power to choose. Mitchell traces how agency evolved from the origin of life and the invention of nervous systems to the elaboration of decision-making and the eventual emergence of the kind of conscious cognitive control in humans that we call "free will." As Mitchell shows, over billions of years life evolved the power to choose, and this view is very much compatible with the laws of physics and new scientific discoveries. What emerges from this book is a new framework for understanding agency. This has important implications for how we think of who we are as humans, how we understand our decision-making processes, how our individual agency can be enhanced or infringed, and how we think about collective agency, particularly in light of global scale crises. More fundamentally, we see how the story of agency is the story of life itself"-- Provided by publisher.

• A case of rapidly aging society and its dementia population / Jeanyung Chey
• Social network positions and health status in older adults / Yoosik Youm and Junsol Kim
• Social brain and how it links social intelligence and well-being / Sunhae Sul and Isu Cho
• Genomics of cognitive aging in social isolation / Sung-Ha Lee and Seyul Kwak
• Life course approach to cognitive aging and dementia / Jeanyung Chey and Seyul Kwak
• Enriched social network and brain function / Seyul Kwak, Jeanyung Chey, Yoosik Youm
• Psychoneuroimmunology linking social isolation with cognitive aging / Sung-Ha Lee
• Loneliness and brain health in late life / Hairin Kim & Jeanyung Chey
• Social relation and cognitive function in older adults / Hoyoung Kim
• Social network and the brain / Yoosik Youm & Junsol Kim
• Origins of individual differences in social behavior and social brain / Isu Cho & Sunhae Sul
• Preventing dementia with social connection / Jeanyung Chey, Isu Cho, Hairin Kim, Hoyoung Kim, Seyul Kwak, Sunhae Sul, Sungha Lee, Yoosik Youm.

"This book examines how social interaction and relationships influence the brain in aging. Using a case study on the elderly population in a rapidly aging society, the authors effectively integrate different levels of data from social connection to socioeconomic information, psychological functioning, and cognitive and brain measures"-- Provided by publisher.

"This book offers a revisionist approach to categories, arguing that the standard philosophical approach is substantially correct in some respects, but markedly mistaken in others. The result is a distinctly pragmatic approach to categories and categorization, with implications regarding philosophical problematic and paradox in philosophy of mind, epistemology and metaphysics, philosophy of science, social philosophy and ethics"-- Provided by publisher.

"The seven rules to follow to realize your true purpose in life-distilled by Arnold Schwarzenegger from his own journey of ceaseless reinvention and extraordinary achievement, and available for absolutely anyone. The world's greatest bodybuilder. The world's highest paid movie star. The leader of the world's sixth largest economy. That these are the same person sounds like the setup to a joke. But this is no joke. This is Arnold Schwarzenegger. And this did not happen by accident. Arnold's stratospheric success happened as part of a process. As the result of clear vision, big thinking, hard work, direct communication, resilient problem-solving, open-minded curiosity, and a commitment to giving back. All of it guided by the one lesson Arnold's father hammered into him above all: be useful. As Arnold conquered every realm he entered, he kept his father's adage close to his heart. Written with his uniquely earnest, blunt, powerful voice, Be Useful takes readers on an inspirational tour through Arnold's toolkit for a meaningful life. Arnold shows us how to put those tools to work, in service of whatever fulfilling future we can dream up for ourselves. He brings his insights to vivid life with compelling personal stories, life-changing successes and life-threatening failures alike-some of them famous, some told here for the first time ever. Too many of us struggle to disconnect from our self-pity and connect to our purpose. At an early age, Arnold forged the mental tools to build the ladder out of the poverty and narrow-mindedness of his rural Austrian hometown, tools he used to add rung after rung from there. Now he has shared that wisdom with all of us. As he puts it, no one is going to come rescue you-you only have yourself. The good news, it turns out, is that you are all you need"-- Provided by publisher.

"The seven rules to follow to realize your true purpose in life-distilled by Arnold Schwarzenegger from his own journey of ceaseless reinvention and extraordinary achievement, and available for absolutely anyone. The world's greatest bodybuilder. The world's highest paid movie star. The leader of the world's sixth largest economy. That these are the same person sounds like the setup to a joke. But this is no joke. This is Arnold Schwarzenegger. And this did not happen by accident. Arnold's stratospheric success happened as part of a process. As the result of clear vision, big thinking, hard work, direct communication, resilient problem-solving, open-minded curiosity, and a commitment to giving back. All of it guided by the one lesson Arnold's father hammered into him above all: be useful. As Arnold conquered every realm he entered, he kept his father's adage close to his heart. Written with his uniquely earnest, blunt, powerful voice, Be Useful takes readers on an inspirational tour through Arnold's toolkit for a meaningful life. Arnold shows us how to put those tools to work, in service of whatever fulfilling future we can dream up for ourselves. He brings his insights to vivid life with compelling personal stories, life-changing successes and life-threatening failures alike-some of them famous, some told here for the first time ever. Too many of us struggle to disconnect from our self-pity and connect to our purpose. At an early age, Arnold forged the mental tools to build the ladder out of the poverty and narrow-mindedness of his rural Austrian hometown, tools he used to add rung after rung from there. Now he has shared that wisdom with all of us. As he puts it, no one is going to come rescue you-you only have yourself. The good news, it turns out, is that you are all you need"-- Provided by publisher.

• Prologue: growing roses from concrete
• I. Skills of character: getting better at getting better
• Creatures of discomfort: embracing the unbearable awkwardness of learning
• Human sponges: building the capacity to absorb and adapt
• The imperfectionists: finding the sweet spot between flawed and flawless
• II. Structures for motivation: scaffolding to overcome obstacles
• Transforming the daily grind: infusing passion into practice
• Getting unstuck: the roundabout path to forward progress
• Defying gravity: the art of flying by our bootstraps
• III. Systems of opportunity: opening doors and windows
• Every child gets ahead: designing schools to bring out the best in students
• Mining for gold: unearthing collective intelligence in teams
• Diamonds in the rough: discovering uncut gems in job interviews and college admissions
• Epilogue: going the distance.

"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again illuminates how we can elevate ourselves and others to unexpected heights. We live in a world that's obsessed with talent. We celebrate gifted students in school, natural athletes in sports, and child prodigies in music. But admiring people who start out with innate advantages leads us to overlook the distance we ourselves can travel. We underestimate the range of skills that we can learn and the amount of ground that we can gain. When opportunity doesn't knock, there are ways to to build a door. Hidden Potential offers a new framework for reaching aspirations and exceeding expectations. Realizing potential isn't about being a workaholic or a perfectionist. What matters most is not how hard we work, but how well we learn. It's not about being a genius-growth depends more on developing character skills than cognitive skills. The character skills that propel progress include the proactivity to absorb and adapt to new information, the courage to embrace discomfort, and the determination to find the beauty in imperfections. Mastering those skills doesn't require us to find the one perfect mentor or expert coach to guide us. Often we just need to borrow a compass to begin charting our own path. And we can clear the path for more people by building better systems of opportunity in our schools, teams, and workplaces. Many writers have chronicled the habits of superstars who accomplish great things. This book breaks new ground by revealing how anyone can rise to achieve greater things. The true measure of your potential isn't the height of the peak you reach, but how far you climb to get there"-- Provided by publisher.

• Prologue: growing roses from concrete
• I. Skills of character: getting better at getting better
• Creatures of discomfort: embracing the unbearable awkwardness of learning
• Human sponges: building the capacity to absorb and adapt
• The imperfectionists: finding the sweet spot between flawed and flawless
• II. Structures for motivation: scaffolding to overcome obstacles
• Transforming the daily grind: infusing passion into practice
• Getting unstuck: the roundabout path to forward progress
• Defying gravity: the art of flying by our bootstraps
• III. Systems of opportunity: opening doors and windows
• Every child gets ahead: designing schools to bring out the best in students
• Mining for gold: unearthing collective intelligence in teams
• Diamonds in the rough: discovering uncut gems in job interviews and college admissions
• Epilogue: going the distance.

"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again illuminates how we can elevate ourselves and others to unexpected heights. We live in a world that's obsessed with talent. We celebrate gifted students in school, natural athletes in sports, and child prodigies in music. But admiring people who start out with innate advantages leads us to overlook the distance we ourselves can travel. We underestimate the range of skills that we can learn and the amount of ground that we can gain. When opportunity doesn't knock, there are ways to to build a door. Hidden Potential offers a new framework for reaching aspirations and exceeding expectations. Realizing potential isn't about being a workaholic or a perfectionist. What matters most is not how hard we work, but how well we learn. It's not about being a genius-growth depends more on developing character skills than cognitive skills. The character skills that propel progress include the proactivity to absorb and adapt to new information, the courage to embrace discomfort, and the determination to find the beauty in imperfections. Mastering those skills doesn't require us to find the one perfect mentor or expert coach to guide us. Often we just need to borrow a compass to begin charting our own path. And we can clear the path for more people by building better systems of opportunity in our schools, teams, and workplaces. Many writers have chronicled the habits of superstars who accomplish great things. This book breaks new ground by revealing how anyone can rise to achieve greater things. The true measure of your potential isn't the height of the peak you reach, but how far you climb to get there"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction: what is political loss
• White grievance and anticipatory loss
• Black protest and democratic sacrifice
• Representing loss between fact and affect
• Maternal grief and black politics
• Conclusion: reckoning with democratic debts.

• The importance of context
• The structure of context
• Examples of context
• Modeling context
• Ideas & projects
• The challenge of creativity
• Guiding conceptions introduced
• Examples of guiding conceptions
• Guiding conceptions in greater depth
• The model of guiding conceptions & the benefits of guided search
• Guiding principles introduced
• Examples of guiding principles
• Modeling guiding principles & how they function in tandem with guiding conceptions
• A core model of creativity
• Creative journeys
• Modeling richer creative processes
• The creative development of fields
• Supporting creativity
• Conclusion : the path forward.

• The black dragon : the infernal forces subject to man
• The Enchiridion of Pope Leo III.

"Crossed Keys is a chimeric binding of both The Black Dragon and the Enchiridion of Pope Leo III in a fresh translation by grimoire magician Michael Cecchetelli who was compelled to undertake this work in unorthodox circumstances. They are complementary grimoires, spanning the very earliest example of the genre to the late bibliotheque bleue period. Together they comprise a wealth of spells, spirits, lore, talismans and psalm magic, with their head in the highest heavens and their feet in the deepest hells. This is the first time they have been bound into one volume." -- Amazon.com