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The Information Trade: A Provocative Look at the Rise of Net States and Their Impact on Our Lives

A Timely and Compelling Exploration of the Digital Landscape

"The Information Trade" is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the powerful forces shaping our tech-driven world. Author Alexis Wichowski, a seasoned political insider and tech expert, dives into the unchecked rise of tech giants like Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Tesla - entities she aptly labels "net states." These digital behemoths, rivaling nation-states in their influence and capital, are weaving themselves into the fabric of our lives, often without our full awareness or consent.

Unveiling the Impact of Net States on Our Lives

Wichowski masterfully illuminates how net states are transforming the very way we interact with the world, challenging our notions of personal privacy and national security. Through original reporting and insightful interviews with key players in the tech and government spheres, including Microsoft president Brad Smith, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, and the former Federal Trade Commission chair, the book delves into the profound impact of these powerful entities.

A Call to Action: Reasserting Control in a Digital Age

"The Information Trade" goes beyond simply highlighting the challenges posed by net states. It offers a compelling call to action, urging readers to reclaim control over their digital lives and relationships with these powerful forces. Wichowski skillfully navigates the complex trade-offs we face, exposing the allure of a seamlessly connected existence while simultaneously reminding us of the potential dangers lurking within this digital utopia.

A Must-Read for Navigating the Digital Age

This book serves as an invaluable guide for navigating the increasingly intertwined world of technology and society. It provides a nuanced and thought-provoking examination of the forces shaping our digital future, empowering readers to engage in informed discourse and make informed choices in a rapidly evolving landscape.

<p>Finding Me: A Memoir</p>

<p>OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • A HARPERS BAZAAR BEST BOOK OF 2022 • A PARADE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • A MARIE CLAIRE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK</p>

<p>“It’s clear from the first page that Davis is going to serve a more intimate, unpolished account than is typical of the average (often ghost-written) celebrity memoir; Finding Me reads like Davis is sitting you down for a one-on-one conversation about her life, warts and all.”—USA Today</p>

<p>“[A] fulfilling narrative of struggle and success….Her gorgeous storytelling will inspire anyone wishing to shed old labels.”—Los Angeles Times</p>

<p>In my book, you will meet a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life-changing decision to stop running forever.</p>

<p>This is my story, from a crumbling apartment in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to the stage in New York City, and beyond. This is the path I took to finding my purpose but also my voice in a world that didn’t always see me.</p>

<p>As I wrote Finding Me, my eyes were open to the truth of how our stories are often not given close examination. We are forced to reinvent them to fit into a crazy, competitive, judgmental world. So I wrote this for anyone running through life untethered, desperate and clawing their way through murky memories, trying to get to some form of self-love. For anyone who needs reminding that a life worth living can only be born from radical honesty and the courage to shed facades and be . . . you.</p>

<p>Finding Me is a deep reflection, a promise, and a love letter of sorts to self. My hope is that my story will inspire you to light up your own life with creative expression and rediscover who you were before the world put a label on you.</p>

<p>The 5 Resets - Rewire Your Brain and Body for Less Stress and More Resilience</p>

<p>Discover how to rethink your relationship with stress and overcome burnout, depression, and anxiety with this accessible health-meets-self-help guide.</p>

<p>Drawing on years of experience as a renowned Harvard doctor and nationally recognized stress expert, Dr. Aditi Nerurkar has developed a science-backed approach to help us change our relationship with everyday stress. In her anticipated debut, Dr. Nerurkar offers both a mindset shift about stress and her simple yet powerful five resets—pillars of wisdom that bring together physiological and psychological coping skills and enable you to cope when things get hard.</p>

<p>For Dr. Nerurkar, the first step toward a healthier mind and body is overcoming a common misperception about stress: that it’s “bad.” Stress is actually good for us, she argues, because it is a driving biological force and an adaptive response to life’s many demands. We run into problems, however, when our stress is maladaptive and out of tune with the frequency of our lives, manifesting in burnout, fatigue, meltdowns, and depression. To keep stress at healthy levels, Dr. Nerurkar offers her five science-backed resets to help us in our challenging moments:</p>

<p>Get Clear on What Matters Most</p>

<p>Find Quiet in a Noisy World</p>

<p>Sync Your Brain and Your Body</p>

<p>Come Up for Air</p>

<p>Bring Your Best Self Forward</p>

<p>Like any good doctor, she prescribes real solutions. Some of her bite-size techniques include adopting the rule of two (because research shows that making more than two large decisions at a time is overwhelming), rejecting the myth of multitasking (it just doesn’t work!) and experimenting with her Bookend Method (find a ritual to start and end each workday to create boundaries between your professional life and everything else).</p>

<p>With these small, smart adjustments, we can change our relationship with stress, nurture our mental health, and live better every day.</p>

<p>Silenced No More - Surviving My Journey To Hell And Back</p>

<p>For the first time ever, a survivor tells the shocking inside story of her time trapped in Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking ring.</p>

<p>Sarah Ransome moved to New York at the age of 22 with hopes for a better life, an education, and a career in fashion. Her dreams were destroyed almost overnight when she met Jeffrey Epstein and was invited to an island paradise disguising her personal hell.</p>

<p>“By sharing my testimony…I hope to see both minds and laws changed. More than anything, I want to encourage a culture in which women, even if they haven’t led the perfect lives, even if they’re not proud of every one of their choices, still feel the right to stand in their truth.”</p>

<p>This story is her day in court.</p>

<p>The Wild Unknown Pocket Tarot</p>

<p>A compact, portable version of Kim Krans’ blockbuster&nbsp;New York Times&nbsp;bestselling tarot deck and guidebook, featuring her lush four-color illustrations.</p>

<p>&nbsp;Kim Krans is not only a vanguard of the new tarot movement, but the visionary who is redefining it for the twenty-first century. For a legion of contemporary seekers all over the world,&nbsp;The Wild Unknown&nbsp;is more than a tarot deck; it’s become a resonant life guide, inspiring them to share countless images of their readings, tattoos, and art prints from the deck.</p>

<p>&nbsp;Now, Krans’ beloved tarot is available in a pocket-sized edition, packed in a beautiful eco-friendly tin, that can go anywhere. Each of the seventy-eight cards in&nbsp;The Wild Unknown Pocket Tarot&nbsp;is a work of art that explores the mysteries of the natural world and the animal kingdom. In addition, this gorgeous travel deck features an original bonus Justice card that speaks to the social movements of our time.&nbsp;</p>

<p>&nbsp;Hand drawn in her iconic, mystical style, the deck’s striking images invite deep contemplation.&nbsp;The Wild Unknown&nbsp;guidebook is a condensed version of the original—a hand-lettered and fully illustrated guide that leads readers through the steps of a reading, from shuffling and cutting the deck to creating spreads to reading the tarot, including accessible interpretations for all seventy-eight individual cards.</p>

<p>&nbsp;Infused with all the mystery, glamour, and allure that made her original deck a cult sensation,&nbsp;The Wild Unknown Pocket Tarot&nbsp;will introduce a new audience to the magic of the tarot and is a keepsake collectible sure to delight Krans’ longtime fans.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Two Awesome Hours: Science-Based Strategies To Harness Your Best Time And Get Your Most Important Work Done</p>

<p>Feeling overwhelmed with work and life demands? Rushing, multitasking, or relying on fancy devices and apps won't help. The answer is to create the conditions for two awesome hours of peak productivity per day.</p>

<p>Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience, Josh Davis, director of research at the NeuroLeadership Institute explains clearly that our brains and bodies operate according to complex biological needs that, when leveraged intelligently, can make us incredibly effective. From what and when we eat, to when we tackle tasks or disengage—how we plan our activities has a huge impact on performance. Davis shows us how we can create the conditions for two awesome hours of effective mental performance by:</p>

<p>- Recognizing when to effective flip the switch on our automatic thinking;

- Scheduling tasks based on their “processing demand” and recovery time;

- Learning how to direct attention, rather than avoid distractions;

- Feeding and moving our bodies in ways that prep us for success;

- Identifying what matters in our environment to be at the top of our mental game.</p>

<p>We are capable of impressive feats of comprehension, motivation, thinking, and performance when our brain and biological systems are functioning optimally. Two Awesome Hours will show you how to be your most productive every day.</p>

<p></p><p>New York Times Bestseller</p><p>In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be "positive" all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people.</p><p>For decades, we’ve been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. "F**k positivity," Mark Manson says. "Let’s be honest, shit is f**ked and we have to live with it." In his wildly popular Internet blog, Manson doesn’t sugarcoat or equivocate. He tells it like it is—a dose of raw, refreshing, honest truth that is sorely lacking today. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is his antidote to the coddling, let’s-all-feel-good mindset that has infected American society and spoiled a generation, rewarding them with gold medals just for showing up. </p><p>Manson makes the argument, backed both by academic research and well-timed poop jokes, that improving our lives hinges not on our ability to turn lemons into lemonade, but on learning to stomach lemons better. Human beings are flawed and limited—"not everybody can be extraordinary, there are winners and losers in society, and some of it is not fair or your fault." Manson advises us to get to know our limitations and accept them. Once we embrace our fears, faults, and uncertainties, once we stop running and avoiding and start confronting painful truths, we can begin to find the courage, perseverance, honesty, responsibility, curiosity, and forgiveness we seek. </p><p>There are only so many things we can give a f**k about so we need to figure out which ones really matter, Manson makes clear. While money is nice, caring about what you do with your life is better, because true wealth is about experience. A much-needed grab-you-by-the-shoulders-and-look-you-in-the-eye moment of real-talk, filled with entertaining stories and profane, ruthless humor, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is a refreshing slap for a generation to help them lead contented, grounded lives.</p><p></p>

<p>Fierce Love: A Memoir Of Family, Faith, And Purpose</p>

<p>Sonya Curry chronicles the never-before-shared story of raising her children and her lifelong devotion to education, family, and faith.</p>

<p>Sonya Curry’s journey, like those of her extraordinary sons and daughter, was filled with defeats and hard-fought victories, but hers took place out of the limelight, without the eyes of the world watching, cheering, or drawing inspiration from her example. Until now.</p>

<p>In this inspiring memoir, Sonya tells her story for the first time, beginning with her childhood in rural Virginia and moving through the peaks and valleys of an incredible life—from raising her immensely gifted but sometimes headstrong children, to becoming an educator and founding a Montessori school, to discovering a profound, life sustaining connection to God and faith.</p>

<p>Fierce Love, a wise and illuminating story of family, faith, and purpose, is sure to become a classic. With something for everyone—seekers, sports fans, people of faith, lovers of memoir— it’s one strong mother’s gift to all who wonder how, where, and whether they’ll find the strength.</p>

<p>Plays Well With Others: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Relationships Is (Mostly) Wrong</p>

<p>AN INSTANT USA TODAY and PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER</p>

<p>From the author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller Barking Up the Wrong Tree comes a cure-all for our increasing emotional distance and loneliness—a smart, surprising, and thoroughly entertaining guide to help build better friendships, reignite love, and get closer to others, whether you’re an extrovert or introvert, socially adept or socially anxious.</p>

<p>Can you judge a book by its cover?&nbsp;</p>

<p>Is a friend in need truly a friend indeed?&nbsp;</p>

<p>Does love conquer all?&nbsp;</p>

<p>Is no man an island?&nbsp;</p>

<p>In Plays Well with Others, Eric Barker dives into these age-old maxims drawing on science to reveal the truth beyond the conventional wisdom about human relationships. Combining his compelling storytelling and humor, Barker explains what hostage negotiation techniques and marital arguments have in common, how an expert con-man lied his way into a twenty-year professional soccer career, and why those holding views diametrically opposed to our own actually have the potential to become our closest, most trusted friends.</p>

<p>Inside you will learn:</p>

<p>The two things essential to making friends – and what Dale Carnegie got wrong.

What creates love, reignites love, and sustains love. (There’s no Build-A-Bear store for a happy marriage but this is close.)

The ethical and effective way to get your partner to change.

How social media can actually improve relationships.

The antidote to loneliness and why what we usually hear doesn’t work.

And so much more. The book is packed with high-five-worthy stories about the greatest female detective to ever live, the most successful liar to ever open his mouth, genius horses, thieving hermits, the perils of perfect memories, and placebos. Leveraging the best evidence available—free of platitudes or magical thinking—Barker analyzes multiple sides of an issue before rendering his verdict. What he’s uncovered is surprising, counterintuitive, and timely—and will change the way you interact in the world and with those around you just when you need it most.</p>