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Awkward Silences and How to Prevent Them: 25 Tactics to Engage, Captivate, and Always Know What to Say
Struggle to hold people’s attention and keep them interested? Always feel stuck in boring interview mode? Whether you want to befriend strangers more easily, banter more smoothly with friends, or simply avoid the crushing tension of a never ending silence, Awkward Silences is the book you need to succeed. No more conversations that end prematurely – not by choice. Discover the subtle and nuanced tactics that allow you to seize control of any conversation and create social chemistry. This book will arm you with definitive tactics, maneuvers, and replies to whatever comes your way. This book is highly actionable, with step-by-step analyses of complex concepts like sarcasm, the ultimate witty comeback, conflict conversations, and storytelling. You’ll get exact words and phrases, NOT just “be confident and make eye contact.” Avoid those embarrassing, cringe-worthy moments. In Awkward Silences, you have renowned social skills and international bestselling author Patrick King showing you the ropes. Social interaction can be boiled down to a science if approached correctly, and he’ll do it for you. Never feel boring or uninteresting again. •How to set an engaging tone right off the bat.•The vocabulary and inflection details that make you attractive.•Storytelling essentials – unlike anything you’ve read before.•Elements of sarcasm, witty comebacks, and self-deprecation. Push people’s buttons that instantly make them responsive and interested. •How to introduce conversational diversity and break out of your patterns and routines.•Six types of responses you can summon in any situation.•Your habits that lead directly to awkward silences.•Common awkward situations and how to handle them correctly. Demonstrate social value and grace. Awkward silence signals social inability If you can instead demonstrate social ability and value, you will be have the types of conversations that benefit your career, love life, relationships, and friendships. People will be more drawn to you, old friends and strangers alike. You’ll not only always know what to say, you’ll know how to approach it in a clever and witty way. You’ll never leave a conversation feeling unsatisfied and annoyed that you said the wrong thing. Pick up your copy today by clicking the BUY NOW button at the top of this page.$0.00$12.99 -
Character: Empowering Yourself With Emotional Intelligence
Dive into Character and you will determine your strengths and weaknesses through introspective action-oriented exercises and journal opportunities. You will develop a vision for your best self and be provided with a clear path to developing greater integrity, better interpersonal and community relationships, and a tangible sense of personal direction. Book One from the Become Your Best Self series from New York Times Bestselling Author Dr. Jennifer Freed Ph. D ˃˃˃ Jennifer Freed, M.A., M.F.T., is a licensed marriage, family, and child therapist with twenty years of experience in psychotherapy. The founder of Astrological Counseling Seminars, an institute for astrological psychology, she is a professional astrologer who has been teaching the subject for eight years. Freed lives in Santa Barbara, California. Scroll up and grab a copy today.$0.00$19.95 -
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A Message from the Hyperian New World Order
The Hyperian New World Order will transform humanity into a society of the divine. Higher humans look to a new future, not to the old, dead past. The system is toxic. We must create a new system, one that brings us all together and actualizes our collective divinity. Hyperianism will create a new humanity and a new earth. It’s a new way of thinking: a new spirituality, a new science, and a new morality. It’s the Grand Unified Theory of Everything all based on logic and reason. We are the coming storm that will wash away ignorance and initiate real change. We are the Hyperian New World Order. Join us and create with us a new future. Hail New Terra.$0.00$0.99 -
A Message from the Hyperian New World Order
The Hyperian New World Order will transform humanity into a society of the divine. Higher humans look to a new future, not to the old, dead past. The system is toxic. We must create a new system, one that brings us all together and actualizes our collective divinity. Hyperianism will create a new humanity and a new earth. It’s a new way of thinking: a new spirituality, a new science, and a new morality. It’s the Grand Unified Theory of Everything all based on logic and reason. We are the coming storm that will wash away ignorance and initiate real change. We are the Hyperian New World Order. Join us and create with us a new future. Hail New Terra.$0.00$0.99 -
Irregular Unions: Clandestine Marriage in Early Modern English Literature
Katharine Cleland’s Irregular Unions provides the first sustained literary history of clandestine marriage in early modern England and reveals its controversial nature in the wake of the Elizabethan Religious Settlement, which standardized the marriage ritual for the first time. Cleland examines many examples of clandestine marriage across genres. Discussing such classic works as The Faerie Queene, Othello, and The Merchant of Venice, she argues that early modern authors used clandestine marriage to explore the intersection between the self and the marriage ritual in post-Reformation England. The ways in which authors grappled with the political and social complexities of clandestine marriage, Cleland finds, suggest that these narratives were far more than interesting plot devices or scandalous stories ripped from the headlines. Instead, after the Reformation, fictions of clandestine marriage allowed early modern authors to explore topics of identity formation in new and different ways. Thanks to generous funding from Virginia Tech and its participation in TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem), the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellopen.org) and other repositories.$0.00$19.95 -
The Middle East in Bible Prophecy
The publisher offers this ebook for free at ucg.org/booklet/middle-east-bible-prophecy The Arab Spring, the continuing Israel – Palestine conflict… why does the Middle East dominate the news headlines so often? One obvious answer is oil, the lifeblood of our modern world. The crucial importance of oil alone ensures that the Middle East will remain in the headlines for years. The Middle East is also the birthplace of the world’s three great monotheistic religions—Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It has also been the battlefield for each religion—trying to control the territory they consider holy. Nowhere are these conflicts more obvious than in Israel, and specifically in Jerusalem. Whether you understand it or not, events in the Middle East are destined to affect the lives of every person on earth! Bible prophecy gives us the clues to understand what will happen. This ebook, “The Middle East in Bible Prophecy”, will help you better understand the troubled history of the Middle East—and its tumultuous future. Chapters in this ebook: — Introduction: Worlds in Turmoil— The Middle East: Worlds in Collision— The Sons of Abraham— The Rise and Fall of Ancient Israel— The Four Empires of Daniel’s Prophecies— The Coming of Islam— The Jews: From the Dispersion to the Modern Israeli State— The Creation of the Modern Middle East— A Rising Tide of Arab Nationalism— Fundamentalist Islam Resurges— Anger Mounts Following Gulf War— Not Enemies Forever— “Why Do People Hate Us So Much?”— War and Peace in the Middle East— What Is the “Abomination of Desolation”?— Prophecy of an Arab Confederation— What Should You Do? Inside this Bible Study Aid ebook: “It’s impossible to understand the present Middle East without a knowledge of the three great religions that emanate from the area—Judaism, Christianity and Islam. These three faiths all trace their spiritual roots back to the same individual, Abraham.” “However, conflict between Christians and Muslims has been a constant theme of history for 14 centuries.” “Many other factors have contributed to the rise of Islamic fundamentalism and subsequent terrorism, including the Israeli-Palestinian problem and the domination of American culture.” “After so much death and destruction, and centuries of war and unrest in the Middle East, imagine what a difference the second coming of Jesus Christ will make.”$0.00$0.99 -
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Jesuits and Matriarchs: Domestic Worship in Early Modern China
In early modern China, Jesuit missionaries associated with the male elite of Confucian literati in order to proselytize more freely, but they had limited contact with women, whose ritual spaces were less accessible. Historians of Catholic evangelism have similarly directed their attention to the devotional practices of men, neglecting the interior spaces in Chinese households where women worshipped and undertook the transmission of Catholicism to family members and friends. Nadine Amsler�s investigation brings the domestic and devotional practices of women into sharp focus, uncovering a rich body of evidence that demonstrates how Chinese households functioned as sites of evangelization, religious conflict, and indigenization of Christianity. The resulting exploration of gendered realms in seventeenth-century China reveals networks of religious sociability and ritual communities among women as well as women�s remarkable acts of private piety. Amsler�s exhaustive archival research and attention to material culture reveals new insights about women�s agency and domestic activities, illuminating areas of Chinese and Catholic history that have remained obscure, if not entirely invisible, for far too long.$0.00$30.00 -
Orthodox Christianity and Gender: Dynamics of Tradition, Culture and Lived Practice
The Orthodox Christian tradition has all too often been sidelined in conversations around contemporary religion. Despite being distinct from Protestantism and Catholicism in both theology and practice, it remains an underused setting for academic inquiry into current lived religious practice. This collection, therefore, seeks to redress this imbalance by investigating modern manifestations of Orthodox Christianity through an explicitly gender-sensitive gaze. By addressing attitudes to gender in this context, it fills major gaps in the literature on both religion and gender. Starting with the traditional teachings and discourses around gender in the Orthodox Church, the book moves on to demonstrate the diversity of responses to those narratives that can be found among Orthodox populations in Europe and North America. Using case studies from several countries, with both large and small Orthodox populations, contributors use an interdisciplinary approach to address how gender and religion interact in contexts such as, iconography, conversion, social activism and ecumenical relations, among others. From Greece and Russia to Finland and the USA, this volume sheds new light on the myriad ways in which gender is manifested, performed, and engaged within contemporary Orthodoxy. Furthermore, it also demonstrates that employing the analytical lens of gender enables new insights into Orthodox Christianity as a lived tradition. It will, therefore, be of great interest to scholars of both Religious Studies and Gender Studies.$0.00$9.99 -
The Pastor’s Sins
Cyril Traynor worked hard to live the life he currently lives, but honestly, the life of a pastor isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Everything isn’t what it seems to be, especially when Cyril is holding many secrets. What’s done in the dark will come in the light but can Cyril rein it all in before his world and the life he built comes crashing down? Find out what happens in part one of The Pastor’s Sins.$0.00$0.99 -
The Emergence of Modern Hinduism: Religion on the Margins of Colonialism
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. The Emergence of Modern Hinduism argues for the importance of regional, vernacular innovation in processes of Hindu modernization. Scholars usually trace the emergence of modern Hinduism to cosmopolitan reform movements, producing accounts that overemphasize the centrality of elite religion and the influence of Western ideas and models. In this study, the author considers religious change on the margins of colonialism by looking at an important local figure, the Tamil Shaiva poet and mystic Ramalinga Swami (1823–1874). Weiss narrates a history of Hindu modernization that demonstrates the transformative role of Hindu ideas, models, and institutions, making this text essential for scholarly audiences of South Asian history, religious studies, Hindu studies, and South Asian studies.$0.00$11.42 -
Writing a Vision Statement and Setting Goals: Step by Step Strategies for Reaching Your Dreams
Everybody has a dream. Some wish to someday have an ideal house. A job we adore. Others dream of a family. Some dream of taking exciting trips to exotic locations. Those few who have been so worn down by life that their dreams feel lost, take heart. A dream lurks in there, even if it is simply the dream to be able to dream again. The key to achieving nearly every dream is planning. It’s about taking those steps to get you to your goal. This book takes you step by step through the process. You’ve already taken the first step – you’re examining this book! Now keep putting those feet one in front of the other and move forward toward your dreams. You can get there! I support battered women’s shelters.$0.00$0.99 -
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All for Anna
An empowering love story about letting go of guilt and holding on to hope. When Tori Sales, a 23 year-old trauma nurse returns home, she’s determined to escape the painful memories that haunt her still…two years after the loss of Anna. But not even the distraction of a new job, an overbearing family, or a therapist who won’t take no for an answer can lessen the guilt trapped inside her. After a chance encounter with a compassionate fireman, Tori sets out on a journey to find closure where she needs it most. But when a shocking revelation threatens the relationship she’s come to rely on, Tori is forced to make another life-altering decision. Will she stay with the man she loves or will she choose the escape she knows best… This is the first book in the Letting Go series. Be sure to check out All She Wanted (Book 2) and All Who Dream (Book 3).$0.00$10.99 -
Revival Praying: Connecting Our Prayers to God’s Purpose
Is revival possible in our generation? The Lord Jesus Christ said, “with God all things are possible” (Matthew 19:26). God is able to do more in a moment than we could in a lifetime. The problem is not with His lack of power but with our lack of preparation.Revival cannot be manufactured or manipulated. Spiritual awakenings come when God’s people connect their prayers to God’s purpose. In Revival Praying you will discover how one of the great prayers of the Bible can serve as a pattern for our prayer. The God who is a consuming fire will work if we will build the altar.$0.00$9.99 -
A Popular Dictionary of Hinduism
A multi-purpose reference work which should become an indispensable companion for anybody who comes into touch with Hinduism. Includes a dictionary of Sanskrit and vernacular terms; a glossary of terms and concepts; and a survey of the historical development of Hinduism.$0.00$12.99 -
Trusting the Truth
Ebony Russel has just broken up with her ex after months of being in a relationship and is trying to get back on her feet emotionally. It should be easy, with her paintings to keep her busy, but she quickly runs into an attractive waiter who’s everything she’s been looking for in a romantic partner. But nobody’s perfect, and even Darius has secrets. Oman isn’t so quick to let Ebony go, and he hatches a plan to get her back. With the help of Ebony’s roommate and long-time friend Dina, they seek to break up Ebony and Darius with secrets from his past. Can Ebony persevere when she learns the truth?$0.00$0.99
