Inspiration is the positive energy that comes from positive people, places, things, and ideasincluding yourself, your experiences, and your relationships with family, friends, and support systems. It is vital for overcoming the lethargy and depression that affect human beings all over the world. Musology 101: Muses Are among Us seeks to educate muses all over the globe about the transforming power of inspiration, as well as its benefits and implications for numerous fields. It presents three approaches to understanding inspiration: poetic, philosophical, and scholarly. Part 1 features original verse intended for readers of all ages. Part 2 focuses on arguments and logic statements designed to reveal the philosophy of inspiration, while part 3 consists of author John D. Evanss doctoral dissertation, a qualitative study of the impact and importance of inspiration. It also introduces the science of inspiration, which Evans calls musology. Through these examinations, we can come to understand that muses are among usthat we are muses. This three-part self-help resource considers the topic of inspiration from various perspectives, addressing it both as a positive construct and essential phenomenon.

Inspiration is the positive energy that comes from positive people, places, things, and ideas--including yourself, your experiences, and your relationships with family, friends, and support systems. It is vital for overcoming the lethargy and depression that affect human beings all over the world. Musology 101: Muses Are among Us seeks to educate muses all over the globe about the transforming power of inspiration, as well as its benefits and implications for numerous fields. It presents three approaches to understanding inspiration: poetic, philosophical, and scholarly. Part 1 features original verse intended for readers of all ages. Part 2 focuses on arguments and logic statements designed to reveal the philosophy of inspiration, while part 3 consists of author John D. Evans's doctoral dissertation, a qualitative study of the impact and importance of inspiration. It also introduces the science of inspiration, which Evans calls musology. Through these examinations, we can come to understand that muses are among us--that we are muses. This three-part self-help resource considers the topic of inspiration from various perspectives, addressing it both as a positive construct and essential phenomenon.

A newsbreaking memoir that tackles head-on the toughest challenge in the world today. When a dying King Hussein shocked the world by picking his son rather than his brother, the longtime crown prince, to be the next king of Jordan, no one was more surprised than the young head of Special Operations, who discovered his life was in for a major upheaval. This is the inspirational story of a young prince who went to boarding school in America and military academy in Britain and grew up believing he would be a soldier. Back home, he hunted down terrorists and modernized Jordan's Special Forces. Then, suddenly, he found himself king. Together with his wife, Queen Rania, he transformed what it meant to be a monarch, going undercover to escape the bubble of the court while she became the Muslim world's most passionate advocate of women's rights. In this exceptionally candid memoir, King Abdullah tackles the single toughest issue he faces head-on- how to solve the Israeli-Palestinian standoff- and reveals himself to be an invaluable intermediary between America and the Arab world. He writes about the impact of the Iraq war on his neighborhood and how best to tackle Iran's nuclear ambitions. Why would a sitting head of state choose to write about the most explosive issues he faces? King Abdullah does so now because he believes we face a moment of truth: a last chance for peace in the Middle East. The prize is enormous, the cost of failure far greater than we dare imagine.

Spanning 25 years of serious writing on hip-hop by noted scholars and mainstream journalists, this comprehensive anthology includes observations and critiques on groundbreaking hip-hop recordings.

During the Cold War, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy’s most cherished possession—but such freedom was put in service of a hidden agenda. In The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders reveals the extraordinary efforts of a secret campaign in which some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom in the West were working for or subsidized by the CIA—whether they knew it or not. Called "the most comprehensive account yet of the [CIA’s] activities between 1947 and 1967" by the New York Times, the book presents shocking evidence of the CIA’s undercover program of cultural interventions in Western Europe and at home, drawing together declassified documents and exclusive interviews to expose the CIA’s astonishing campaign to deploy the likes of Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, Robert Lowell, George Orwell, and Jackson Pollock as weapons in the Cold War. Translated into ten languages, this classic work—now with a new preface by the author—is "a real contribution to popular understanding of the postwar period" (The Wall Street Journal), and its story of covert cultural efforts to win hearts and minds continues to be relevant today.

Joseph Skizzen's family fled from Austria in 1938 to London where his father disappeared, he and his family then relocated to small town Ohio and Joseph grows up to be a decent piano player with a deeply fractured sense of identity.

Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity’s future, and our quest to upgrade humans into gods. Over the past century humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein in famine, plague, and war. This may seem hard to accept, but, as Harari explains in his trademark style—thorough, yet riveting—famine, plague and war have been transformed from incomprehensible and uncontrollable forces of nature into manageable challenges. For the first time ever, more people die from eating too much than from eating too little; more people die from old age than from infectious diseases; and more people commit suicide than are killed by soldiers, terrorists and criminals put together. The average American is a thousand times more likely to die from binging at McDonalds than from being blown up by Al Qaeda. What then will replace famine, plague, and war at the top of the human agenda? As the self-made gods of planet earth, what destinies will we set ourselves, and which quests will we undertake? Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century—from overcoming death to creating artificial life. It asks the fundamental questions: Where do we go from here? And how will we protect this fragile world from our own destructive powers? This is the next stage of evolution. This is Homo Deus. With the same insight and clarity that made Sapiens an international hit and a New York Times bestseller, Harari maps out our future.