I Dare You to Be in the Top 20%


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Praise for I Dare You I Dare You is one of the most inspiring books I have ever read. If you want to be successful in business, family and life, it is a must read. Chapter seven and Life's 7 F's says it all. Jeanne Evans CMA (Certified Medical Assistant). This book is amazing! It will help you remember why you started your journey to be in the Top 20%. Believe in yourself, set goals, achieve your goals, invest in yourself, follow your dreams, and most of all WORK HARDER is the theme of I Dare You! Charles Russell Walker III, Entrepreneur Something happens when you get absorbed by a book, and you love it so much that you will write your thoughts in the margins. Becoming a student of "I Dare You" is about learning and achieving results when you are active in the process. When you make notes in the margin and underline a sentence, you can hear yourself talking with the author, in this case me. When you are so excited about a sentence or paragraph because of how it relates to you, and you decide to write a note on the inside cover or in the margin, you can not only see and feel my ideas taking shape, but more importantly, your thoughts. You can even argue with me the author under your breath, or I hope out loud and come up with your theories, ideas, and explanations as to what is happening in your life or business concerning the ideas in this book. In all of these ways, you become a co-author of my book entitle "I Dare You." "I Dare You' is an experience that cannot be taught in a classroom. It is all about absorbing the ideas, making them your own, and aspiring to be in the Top 20%.







The Politics of Laughter in the Social Media Age


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The Politics of Laughter in the Social Media Age: Perspectives from the Global South brings to critical and intellectual attention the role of humour in the digital era in the Global South. Many citizens of the Global South live disempowered and precarious lives. Digital media and humour, as chapters in the volume demonstrate, have empowered these citizens through engagement with power and their peers, enabling a pursuit of a better future. Contributors to the volume, while alive to challenges associated with the digital divide, highlight the potentials of social media and humour to engage and seek redress on issues such as corruption, human rights violations, racism and sexism. Contributors expertly analyse memes, videos, cartoons and other social media texts to demonstrate how citizens mimic, disrupt, ridicule and challenge status quo. This book caters for academics and students in media and communication studies, political studies, sociology and Global South studies.




The Covid


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The Covid 19 Pandemic: A Review of the Social, Economic and Environmental Issues/Challenges’ presents the COVID-19 pandemic as the most crucial global health calamity of the century and the greatest challenge that the humankind faced since the 2nd World War. The book embraces five sections. It emphasizes a systematic analysis of the impact of Covid 19 on economic aspect. The book also explores an account ofthe influence of Covid 19 pandemic on education and society. It also highlights the effects of Covid19 pandemic on environment. Some sustainability issues of Covid 19 pandemic have also been discussed in the book. The book is an essential core reference book for the students, academics, planners and administrators.




COVID-19, Inequality and Older People


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EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book provides new insights into the challenges facing older people in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. It draws upon novel qualitative longitudinal research which recorded the experiences of a diverse group of people aged 50+ in Greater Manchester over a 12-month period during the pandemic. The book analyses their lived experiences and those of organisations working to support them, shedding light on the isolating effects of social distancing. Covering 21 organisations, as well as 102 people from four ethnic/identity groups, the authors argue that the pandemic exacerbated existing inequalities in the UK, disproportionately affecting low-income neighbourhoods and Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities. The book outlines recommendations in relation to developing a 'community-centred approach' in responding to future variants of COVID-19, as well as making suggestions for how to create post-pandemic neighbourhoods.




Judith Butler, Michel Foucault, and the Theology of Freedom


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This book explores how Judith Butler’s work on gender and the shaping of the human subject and Michel Foucault's notion of parrhesia, ‘speaking the truth’, can be made fruitful for a theology of freedom. The volume illustrates the importance of three concepts - freedom, gender (body) and power (critique) - and how this triad provides the foundational categories and structural elements of a theology of freedom. By starting from an analysis of power and the performative potential of gendered embodiment, freedom can be thought of as the basis of creative and critical human action and thereby implemented in theology. The chapters feature several theological-historical case studies that are representative of topics that continue to shape contemporary Catholic norms and thought. In particular, the author reflects on the 13th century with the idea of personal sin and confession, and the 19th century with a gender ideology that has led to the marginalization of difference and dissent. The book shows how Butler and Foucault can provide essential insights for Catholic theology and is valuable reading for scholars of religion, philosophy, and gender and sexuality studies.







Crises and Integration in European Banking Union


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Crises and Integration in European Banking Union builds a theory of how the combination of crisis severity and origin indicates whether a crisis will produce deep reform, modest reform, or a persistence of the pre-crisis status quo.




Insights in Dermatology: 2021


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