The Instant-Series Presents "Instant Friendship" How to Make Friends Instantly! It's the weekend...finally! You've made it! You've been working long and hard all week, and now you're ready to unwind. Just as you're about to enjoy yourself, that feeling of accomplishment turns into disappointment almost immediately as you get depressed. Why is that? It's because you have no friends! You have no friends to call up on. You have no friends to go out with or want to hang out with YOU. How come? It could be because you never really were the extroverted social type growing up with the opportunity to develop your social skills; you and your friends have grown apart due to time or new life priorities; or perhaps you have just relocated without knowing anybody and have to rebuild your social circle from scratch. As much as you would still like to go out, you're afraid to go out by yourself feeling the dreaded social anxiety and from not knowing how to meet and make friends! So rather than going out - you stay in being glued to Netflix, wasting time on Facebook looking at all the posted images of the wonderful nights others are having, and wishing you could be a part of that! Thus, the real questions we should be asking: Are you feeling sick and tired of being lonely not having anybody to hang out with? Are you jealous of other people who always seem to have fun when they're out? Are you secretly envious of the folks who always have exciting things to do with their friends? If you ARE, you can develop instant friendships now! Within "Instant Friendship": * How to determine your current friendability level in order to calibrate your social interaction in making friends. * How to meet new people and where to meet them with all the friendly tricks of the trade that you'll need. * How to cold approach random strangers and go from first meeting to progressing into a real friendship step-by-step. * How to be the social butterfly you always wanted to be to explode your social life exponentially to the next level. * How to maintain your friendships once they're established so all the effort put into them don't go to waste. * Plus, custom practical "how-to" strategies, techniques, applications and exercises on how to get friends. ...and much more. Now it's the time to STOP feeling like you're missing out on life, trapped indoor to your loneliness while everybody else is out being social, enjoying life, and having memorable great times with their friends. Experience that now! Reclaim and live the good life now! Time for you to make new friends!

Discover the essential thinking tools you’ve been missing with The Great Mental Models series by Shane Parrish, New York Times bestselling author and the mind behind the acclaimed Farnam Street blog and “The Knowledge Project” podcast. This first book in the series is your guide to learning the crucial thinking tools nobody ever taught you. Time and time again, great thinkers such as Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett have credited their success to mental models–representations of how something works that can scale onto other fields. Mastering a small number of mental models enables you to rapidly grasp new information, identify patterns others miss, and avoid the common mistakes that hold people back. The Great Mental Models: Volume 1, General Thinking Concepts shows you how making a few tiny changes in the way you think can deliver big results. Drawing on examples from history, business, art, and science, this book details nine of the most versatile, all-purpose mental models you can use right away to improve your decision making and productivity. This book will teach you how to: Avoid blind spots when looking at problems. Find non-obvious solutions. Anticipate and achieve desired outcomes. Play to your strengths, avoid your weaknesses, … and more. The Great Mental Models series demystifies once elusive concepts and illuminates rich knowledge that traditional education overlooks. This series is the most comprehensive and accessible guide on using mental models to better understand our world, solve problems, and gain an advantage.

At once a grand tour of the battlefields of North America and an unabashedly personal tribute to the military prowess of an essentially unwarlike people. • "[A] magisterial narrative history, enriched by an authorial voice."--The Washington Post Fields of Battle spans more than two centuries and the expanse of a continent to show how the immense spaces of North America shaped the wars that were fought on its soil.

Considered By Some As Science While By Others A Mere Blind Faith, Astrology Is A Complex Subject That Needs To Be Studied In Proper Perspective. In The Present Book, Astrology : A Science Or Myth, An Attempt Has Been Made To Unearth The Actual Basis Of The Astrological Principles Formulated By Our Ancient Sages, On Which The Whole Structure Of Astrology Is Erected, And To Blend The Primitive Knowledge With The Modern Concepts Related To Universe And Solar System. Thus, The Book Aims At Making The Astrological Principles Scientifically Logical And More Useful To The Mankind. All The Basic Astrological Principles Relating To Lord, Friendship, Aspect, Retrogade, Set, Exalted, Mool, Trikon, Vinshottary Periodicity, Ascendant, Forecast, Etc., Alongwith Review Of Krishnamurti System Have Been Studied In Depth In The Light Of Modern Concepts Of Astronomy. A Proper Knowledge Of The Effect Of Ayanansh And Also Other Planetary Impacts Paves The Way For Healthy Development Of The Society And Enables One To Mould His Destiny. The Present Book Would Prove A Great Help In Acquiring Such Knowledge.The Language Of The Book Has Been Deliberately Kept Simple So That Even An Average Reader Would Able To Understand It. The Lucid Style And The Well-Presented Diagrams Provided In The Book Make It All The More Accessible. It Is An Ideal Book For All Those Who Want To Enhance Their Knowledge Of Stars. The Students As Well As Teachers Of Astrology Will Find It Highly Informative And Useful. The Book Will Definitely Inspire The Learned Astrologers To Come Forward With New Research In The Field For Greater Benefit Of Human Civilisation.

During the beginning of the millennium, I wrote a dozen papers on civility and mailed fifty two-page letters to presidents and corporate CEOs. I recommended the initiation of Friendship Day every August 2 each year. President Bushs speechwriter used a mailed thirty-page treatise in the first part of his inauguration speech, with three references to civility. Unfortunately, the events of 9/11 reduced any impact the use of civility could have later. Various wars, terror, and disasters proved that greater issues of morality were to be dealt with for the next seventeen years. Friendships are the universal cures.

This book analyzes Coleridge's male friendships during the 1790s. It shows the poet's experience of relationship is structured by and contributes to contemporary debate about friendship. Examination of Coleridge's epistolary relations with Poole, Southey, Lamb, Lloyd, Thelwall, Wordsworth, and Godwin demonstrates that each friendship negotiates issues of relationship discussed throughout English culture of this period.

Almost 300,000 people 'officially' complete the journey to Santiago each year – hundreds of thousands more travel at least part of the way. In this book, Richard Frazer discovers on his pilgrimage to the shrine of St James the Great how a journey – wherever it is made – undertaken with an open and hospitable heart can provide spiritual renewal and transformation, filling what many people see as the spiritual void in 21st century life. This absorbing account reveals how the pilgrim journey can be nourishment for the human heart. It connects us to landscape and brings us to the mystery of what it is to be human and vulnerable and open to the kindness of strangers and the gift of the new and the unexpected.