Direct and brutally honest, Rafa Conde debunks the myth of toxic masculinity, redefining what it is to be a 21st Century Man. Men have lost their warrior spirit and have become soft. They have abdicated their roles and failed to lead themselves, their families and businesses. Conde is on a life mission to change this paradigm. He makes a compelling case for the modern revival of the ancient warrior codes. This book explores the strategies and philosophies of ancient warrior cultures and their commanders. Throughout history, leaders like Marcus Aurelius, King David and King Leonidas exhibited manly courage. Their ability to influence others and to embody the warrior spirit was unquestionable. Spartans, Samurais and Knights lived by an exemplary code of conduct and exhibited fearlessness in combat. Zen and Stoicism played vital roles in forging mental toughness and courage. Today, the influence of these mindsets are seen in successful entrepreneurs, high achievers and champion athletes. These long lost principles, states of mind and strategies have been consolidated into 25 FORGING DISCIPLINES with direct application in the modern world. By embodying these disciplines in your life you will emerge a stronger leader, visionary, father and husband. Essentially a 21st Century Man.

Are you tired of hiding who you are and what you believe? Are you ready to shine for all the world to see? Do you want to unleash your X factor as an influential speaker and leader to positively impact others? Davide Di Giorgio knows what it's like to hide your true identity. He spent years repressing the truth that he was gay. But one day he found the courage not only to own his truth, but also to build a life for himself with a wonderful husband. For more than a quarter of a century, he has been helping high achievers like you to become visionary leaders, speakers and influencers. Now, in Being Unapologetic, Davide shares a lifetime of experiences and the tools he offers his clients so they can embrace their identities, develop their gifts, and become the leaders the world needs. Joined by eighteen influencers who share their own stories of living unapologetically, Davide presents a goldmine of wisdom, hope, courage, and confidence for his readers.

This is the ultimate self-improvement book. Why? The three subjects of this book are Thinking, Learning and Communicating. We must improve these three core capabilities before we can have self-improvement. For that matter, we can't have child-improvement or business-improvement for the same reason. If it can't be defined, it can't be improved. What is your definition of each of these basic human qualities of Thinking, Learning and Communicating? This book has definitions that are short (under 12 words) simple sentences. The book goes on to see how applying these definitions we can develop each from infancy on through our older years. If any books or websites that offer us methods to improve thinking, learning or communicating skills and do not offer these basic definitions, how effective can they be? More at www.thehumankey.com

Once celebrated for connecting people and circulating ideas, social media are facing mounting criticisms about their anticompetitive reach, addictive design, and toxicity to democracy. Known cumulatively as the “techlash,” journalists, users, and politicians are asking social media platforms to account for being too big, too engaging, and too unruly. In the age of the techlash, strategies to regulate how platforms operate technically, economically, and legally, are often stacked against individual tactics to manage the effects of social media by disconnecting from them. These disconnection practices—from restricting screen time and detoxing from device use to deleting apps and accounts—often reinforce rather than confront the ways social media organize attention, everyday life, and society. Reckoning with Social Media challenges the prevailing critique of social media that pits small gestures against big changes, that either celebrates personal transformation or champions structural reformation. This edited volume reframes evaluative claims about disconnection practices as either restorative or reformative of current social media systems by beginning where other studies conclude: the ambivalence, commodification, and complicity of separating from social media.

OC The authors argue that queer, black, brown, and foreign bodies, and the so-called threats they represent, such as immigration reform and same-sex marriage, have been effectively linked with terrorism. These awful conflationsOC are enduring and help to explain the contradictions of contemporary U.S. politics. We are far from a post post-9/11 world.OCO Ronald R. Sundstrom, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, The University of San Francisco, United StatesOC If you want to understand how a new biopolitics of citizenship is containing bodies of the nation by re-inscribing sex and race into it and how this new biopolitics is being resisted you must read this book.OCO Engin F. Isin, Professor, Department of Politics and International Studies, The Open University, United Kingdom"

A ten-year navy seal veteran, Richard “Mack” Machowicz was trained to complete every mission assigned to him, under any condition, because failure was not an option. Drawing from this experience, Unleash the Warrior Within (more than 25,000 copies since 2002, largely through word-of-mouth) offers Mack's original program for mastering the arts of focus, discipline, and determination under any circumstances. In this newly revised edition, Mack shows readers how to use his seven principles of combat—such as Create an Action Mind-Set, The Critical Keys to Conquering Anything, and Guarantee the Win—in order to conquer fear and turn ambitions and dreams into reality.

Unleash the Warrior Within shows you how to think and act like the warrior you are so that you can conquer your fears and reservations and get the results you want—in any situation.