Addison nate (4 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From desolate wasteland to crumbling society to the deep, cold void of space, Respirator collects visions of the future that pierce the veils of time and space to show us an evolving, perseverant human grace as it faces off against the unknown. Across 28 short stories and poems, Addison Herron-Wheeler presents dystopian tomorrows, poisoned environments, and interstellar explorations through bold speculative snapshots and intimate portraits of human kindness, desperation, and deceit. With each, a common question is posed: Are we brave enough to confront the challenges of the future without losing ourselves along the way.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The nicest prison ever built has no bars, because the budget went into making sure you never want to check the door.A man holds proof in his hands that his whole world is a set. Minutes later he hands it back and drives to work. Not because he's stupid. Because an explanation arrived before his question could finish forming. You do this too. Your proof is just quieter.The Cage With No Bars is about one of the strangest facts in human psychology: a person can hold the truth in their hands, even admit it's true, and still go on living inside the lie. This book shows you the machinery behind that, and then hands you the small set of practices that actually gets a person out.Inside, you'll learn: - Why real cages are built from comfort, not walls, and why the 'no' in your life was never spoken, only arranged- How your own mind edits reality before you ever see it (your reality tunnel), and who trained the filter- Why the people who love you most often guard the door, sincerely and for free- The honest version of the famous 'doomsday cult' study, including what the textbooks leave out- How fear gets bundled with a ready-made solution to move you, and the ten-second check that lets you slow down- Three small, private practices (hunt seams, not villains; audit your own flinch first; break character in small doses) that no one can take from youWhat this book will never do is sell you a villain. No secret rooms, no corkboard and string. A pattern is not a plot, and the moment you go hunting for the villain, you stop seeing the mechanism, which is the only thing you can actually change.You won't have to blow up your life. You won't have to announce anything to anyone. You need one skill, and it starts with one small refusal: the refusal to set the evidence down so fast.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - You are not imagining it. A great deal of modern life does better when you are a little weaker: more distracted, more anxious, more divided, more alone.In 1984, a macrobiotic teacher and a Soviet defector, two men with no known connection who agreed on almost nothing, each described the same slide and pointed at the same fork in the road. The Engineered Weakness takes their warning seriously without taking either man on faith.This is an investigation, not a conspiracy theory. You do not need a room full of plotters when many powerful institutions have each, separately, found that they gain when people are easier to steer. The book follows the paper trail (internal research, court records, industry memos, clinical trials) through the food on your plate, the feed on your phone, the thinning of the institutions that once stood outside the market, and the politics of fear.Inside: - What a federal metabolic-ward trial found about why ultra-processed food gets overeaten- What social-media companies' own research said about teenagers and division, set beside what they told the public- How industries learned to manufacture doubt, from tobacco to fossil fuels- Why loneliness became a market, and what the commercial substitutes can and cannot replace- Why frightened, exhausted people start wishing for a strong hand- A practical method for becoming hard to addict, hard to frighten, hard to divide and hard to manageThroughout, the book marks what is established, what is only inferred, and what is merely suspected, so you can see exactly where the evidence ends and the argument begins.For readers who are done with both establishment complacency and easy conspiracy, and who want teeth and honesty in the same book.…