Armah is a black British journalist, with a troubled soul and a questioning mind. Addicted to the need for approval, the desire for applause, bright lights and struggle, she's also on a quest: a place of comfort and acceptance of her identity; black, British, Ghanaian and Afrocentric. Can she find a place of refuge in her travels and her profession? Who would you be without your daily addictions? How did you get addicted to your drug of choice? Who would you be if there were no applause, disappointment, injustice, discrimination or rejection?

Are you worried that to be happy and true to yourself means leaving those you love and the life you have behind? One of the reasons becoming ourselves takes so long and is so hard is because we have a deep fear of speaking our own truths. We have been conditioned to feel badly about who we are and guilty about what we want from life. One Sunday afternoon something happened to Chental that changes her forever. “In The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle refers to this shift as “being in a “State of Grace.” Follow Chental as she takes you on her journey of self empowerment while including her husband and family. She learns to be a detective in her own life using her new abilities to detach, watch herself grow, and along the way explain what’s happening to those she loves, so that they are not afraid, threatened or confused by her new actions.

Why Can’t I Be Me? explores the mysterious and disturbing corporate work culture, focusing on why, as a job seeker and an employee, you feel pressured to “fake it to make it” to be hired and succeed at work, and how you can rise above it and thrive. Based on the author’s personal story, combined with her expertise in Human Resources management, Why Can’t I Be Me? will take you on an enlightening journey through the job interview process and the corridors of the typical corporate work environment, where you will learn exactly what goes on between those walls and why. You will then be taken on a journey “back home” to yourself. The result is a profound experience that provides the answers you have been searching for your entire career.

Human beings have the unique ability to view the world in a detached way, but at the same time each of us is a particular person in a particular place, each with his own "personal" view of the world. Thomas Nagel's ambitious and lively book tackles this fundamental issue, arguing that our divided nature is the root of a whole range of philosophical problems, touching every aspect of human life. He deals with its manifestations in such fields of philosophy as the mind-body problem, personal identity, knowledge and skepticism, thought and reality, free will, ethics, the relation between moral and other values, the meaning of life, and death.

This book is about being alone in our heads. It gives a rare glimpse of what other people feel like: to read it is to reflect on our own experience of being. People hide behind their appearance in order to get by in the world. In this book men and women alike of all ages reach beneath their skin to reveal their inner self. Am I the same person day to day, year to year? Is there an essential core as the layers of life are peeled away? And to what extent do the different stages of life beg different kinds of answers to the question what it feels like to be me? Readers will see how similarly Julie aged 85 and Nina aged 14 address the questions and how the themes thread through all the contributions. Brilliant poems by Dannie Abse and Peter Phillips look back and forwards in their lives. An Israeli artist looks at himself in two photographs. Three commentators give their views: a professional counsellor, a distinguished scientist and Dr Jonathan Miller.

Poetry that inspires, motivates keeping spreading the joy of laughter and life.

This book purports to devise a pattern of the self that accounts for the role that change and identity play in self-shaping. It focuses on the process through which we discover, know and shape ourselves and wonder whether there is a core of our individuality and how we should account for it. The core is described along with its range of possible variations and its constraints. This volume provides arguments on how individual essence – far from being something monolithic – is inherently dynamic. The text delves into the link between change and identity in self-shaping, arguably the fundamental issue of personal individuality. Different theories and standpoints are addressed and scrutinized. Descriptive phenomenology will enter along with Max Scheler’s stance on axiology, as well as the keystones that account for self-shaping. This book appeals to students and researchers working on the implications of phenomenology for self identification and personal individuality.

The Wondering Poet: Thoughts of a Lost Child, is a compilation of one hundred and five poems written by Stacy Hitoshi Okimura. Each poem represents a certain stage, thought or feeling in his young life. From trying to understand his purpose here on earth, to falling in love, this book is a journey through the mind of a young boy struggling to understand life as a child, while slowly becoming a man.

"A Piece of My Mind.." is the poetry collection that speaks to, and for the modern day female. It is raw with emotion as it explores love, sexuality, and social issues from objective and subjective points of view.

This has a little bit for all who like to read and who like to explore. It is humorous, inspiring, thought provoking. Some where inside you will find something to make you laugh, something to make you wonder, something to provoke your imagine and if that isn't enough then you will have to wait for the next addition.