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From New York Times business reporter Nelson D. Schwartz comes a gripping investigation of how a virtual velvet rope divides Americans in every arena of life, creating a friction-free existence for those with money on one side and a Darwinian struggle for the middle class on the other side.

In nearly every realm of daily life–from health care to education, highways to home security–there is an invisible velvet rope that divides how Americans live. On one side of the rope, for a price, red tape is cut, lines are jumped, appointments are secured, and doors are opened. On the other side, middle- and working-class Americans fight to find an empty seat on the plane, a place in line with their kids at the amusement park, a college acceptance, or a hospital bed.

We are all aware of the gap between the rich and everyone else, but when we weren’t looking, business innovators stepped in to exploit it, shifting services away from the masses and finding new ways to profit by serving the privileged. And as decision-makers and corporate leaders increasingly live on the friction-free side of the velvet rope, they are less inclined to change–or even notice–the obstacles everyone else must contend with. Schwartz’s “must read” book takes us on a behind-the-scenes tour of this new reality and shows the toll the velvet rope divide takes on society.

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One simply has to look at news headlines, in the workplace, or into a classroom to find evidence of a troubling problem: bullying is affecting the lives of many people, causing severe emotional damage that can stay with them for life. There may never be a world completely free of bullies, but luckily there are ways to deal with this difficult issue: through awareness, understanding, and changing our beliefs about and reactions to bullying.

As a long-time educator and parent, Jeanie Cisco-Meth has dealt with bullying situations over and over, and in this easy-to-understand guide, she shares her very best secrets for bully proofing your life.

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In The Myth of Mirror Neurons, neuroscientist Gregory Hickok re-examines the mirror neuron story and finds that it is built on a tenuous foundation-a pair of co-dependent assumptions about mirror neuron activity and human understanding. Drawing on a broad range of observations from work on animal behaviour, modern neuroimaging, neurological disorders and more, Hickok argues that the foundational assumptions fall flat in light of the facts. He then explores alternative explanations of mirror neuron function while illuminating crucial questions about human cognition and brain function: Why do humans imitate so prodigiously? How different are the left and right hemispheres of the brain? Why do we have two visual systems? Do we need to be able to talk to understand speech? What’s going wrong in autism? Can humans read minds?

The Myth of Mirror Neurons not only delivers an instructive tale about the course of scientific progress-from discovery to theory to revision-but also provides deep insights into the organization and function of the human brain and the nature of communication and cognition.

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Cynthia Sue Larson is the best-selling author of several books including Quantum Jumps, Reality Shifts, and High Energy Money who helps people live more miraculous lives by accessing worlds of possibility. Cynthia has a degree in physics from UC Berkeley, an MBA degree, a Doctor of Divinity. She has been featured in numerous shows including Gaia, the History Channel, Coast to Coast AM, One World with Deepak Chopra, and BBC. To learn more about Cynthia Sue Larson and her work, visit www.RealityShifters.com To get your copy of Reality Shifts, please visit our Amazon.com affiliate link. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1461075211/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=ravintaylo-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1461075211&linkId=d084d82b6e32863f7c5c4605287042d2 To learn more about Provocative Enlightenment Radio, go to www.provocativeenlightenment.com

The Unconscious synthesizes the best scientific and clinical thinking about the range of unconscious processes that control our thoughts, feelings, motivation, and behavior. The data shows conclusively that the unconscious is integral to all conscious processes. If understanding yourself is important to you, then you will not want to miss this show! Joel Weinberger, Ph.D., is author of The Unconscious: Theory, Research and Clinical Implications, published by Guilford Press. His blogs on the unconscious appear in Psychology Today. He received the Ulf Kragh Award (University of Lundh, Sweden) for his work on unconscious processes. Dr. Weinberger completed Postdoctoral training in human motivation at Harvard University. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and of the Association for Psychological Science. His research has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health. He is Professor, with expertise in clinical, personality and motivation psychology at the Derner Institute, Adelphi University. He is the author of about 100 published articles and chapters. He has co-edited books on personality change and on the art and science of psychotherapy. His political and business commentaries have appeared in various venues in the media. Dr. Weinberger is also a practicing clinical psychologist. To learn more about Joel Weinberger, Ph.D. and his work, visit www.implicitstrategies.com To get your copy of The Unconscious, please visit our Amazon.com affiliate link https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1462541054/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=ravintaylo-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1462541054&linkId=52634515869045b94ac4eadfc6533bf0 To learn more about Provocative Enlightenment Radio, go to www.provocativeenlightenment.com

Mark Anthony the Psychic Lawyer®/Psychic Explorer® is the author of the award winning, critically acclaimed best-sellers Never Letting Go and Evidence of Eternity. He is a world-renowned fourth generation psychic medium who communicates with spirits. Mark is an Oxford educated attorney licensed to practice law in Florida, Washington D.C. and before the United States Supreme Court. Mark is featured regularly on Television, major talk radio shows and in print media.

Mark Anthony is also known as the Psychic Explorer. The media has referred to him as the “Psychic Indiana Jones” due to his extensive background in science, quantum physics, survival of consciousness and near-death experiences, history, archaeology, philosophy and theology. One day Mark may be lecturing at an Ivy League University about Quantum Physics and the next off to mystical locations in remote corners of the world to explore Ancient Ruins and Supernatural Phenomena.

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In the last few decades, a wealth of new information has emerged about who animals are—intelligent, aware, and empathetic. Studies show that animals are astounding beings with intelligence, emotions, intricate communications networks, and myriad abilities. In Animalkind, Ingrid Newkirk and Gene Stone present these findings in a concise and awe-inspiring way, detailing a range of surprising discoveries: that geese fall in love and stay with a partner for life, and so much more. Ingrid Newkirk is the founder and president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)—the largest animal rights organization in the world, with more than 6.5 million members and supporters worldwide. She is the author of more than a dozen books that have been translated into several languages, including her latest, Animalkind: Remarkable Discoveries About Animals and Revolutionary New Ways to Show Them Compassion. Newkirk, a former Washingtonian of the Year, has been featured for her work for animals in The New Yorker, Time magazine, People magazine, Forbes, the Financial Times, and numerous other publications. She has appeared on TV shows and podcasts all over the world, including on Real Time With Bill Maher, The Rich Roll Podcast, and Here’s the Thing With Alec Baldwin. She is the subject of a BBC special and the HBO documentary I Am an Animal To learn more about Ingrid Newkirk and her work, go to www.peta.org To get your copy of Animalkind, please visit our Amazon.com affiliate link. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1501198548/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=ravintaylo-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1501198548&linkId=3baa80813b8ce3b01cebf40f242a5182 To learn more about Provocative Enlightenment Radio, go to http://www.provocativeenlightenment.com

Is a Young Earth Possible? argues for a youthful world from history and science. In the 1970’s, Australian doctors Robin Warren and Barry Marshall proposed that the bacteria Helicobacter pylori caused ulcers. It took two decades before their conclusion was justly recognized by the scientific establishment. Has Big Science misdated the earth? Is a Young Earth Possible? relates to a number of key issues in the public square such as climate change, homeschooling, government funding of science, bullying, depression, fake news, net censorship, and free speech. To learn more about Prof. Jay Hall and his work, visit www.YoungEarthScienceBook.com To get your copy of Is a Young Earth Possible?, please visit our Amazon.com affiliate link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1088860788/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=ravintaylo-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1088860788&linkId=e7a93737665036e4f7947ec18147a7a8 To learn more about Provocative Enlightenment Radio, go to http://www.provocativeenlightenment.com

The first research-cluster focuses on motivating and developing new non-reductive models of The Unconscious synthesizes the best scientific and clinical thinking about the range of unconscious processes that control our thoughts, feelings, motivation, and behavior. The data shows conclusively that the unconscious is integral to all conscious processes. If understanding yourself is important to you, then you will not want to miss this show!

Joel Weinberger, Ph.D., is author of The Unconscious: Theory, Research and Clinical Implications, published by Guilford Press. His blogs on the unconscious appear in Psychology Today. He received the Ulf Kragh Award (University of Lundh, Sweden) for his work on unconscious processes. Dr. Weinberger completed Postdoctoral training in human motivation at Harvard University. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and of the Association for Psychological Science. His research has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health. He is Professor, with expertise in clinical, personality and motivation psychology at the Derner Institute, Adelphi University. He is the author of about 100 published articles and chapters. He has co-edited books on personality change and on the art and science of psychotherapy. His political and business commentaries have appeared in various venues in the media. Dr. Weinberger is also a practicing clinical psychologist.

To learn more about Joel Weinberger, Ph.D. and his work, visit www.implicitstrategies.com

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The Incomplete Universe: The central claim of this powerful philosophical exploration is that within any logic we have, there can be no coherent notion of all truth or of total knowledge. Grim examines a series of logical paradoxes and related formal results to reveal their implications for contemporary epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of religion. He reaches the provocative conclusion that, if the universe is thought of in terms of its truths, it is essentially open and incomplete. The Incomplete Universe includes detailed work on the liar paradox and recent attempts at solution, Kaplan and Montague’s paradox of the knower, the Gödel theorems and related incompleteness phenomena, and new forms of Cantorian argument. The emphasis throughout is philosophical rather than formal, with an eye to connection’s with possible worlds, the notion of omniscience, and the opening lines of the Tractatus: “The world is all that is the case." To get your copy of The Incomplete Universe please visit our Amazon.com affiliate link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262519119/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=ravintaylo-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0262519119&linkId=052652ec5577aec7930a036d8b3f940e To learn more about Provocative Enlightenment Radio, go to www.provocativeenlightenment.com