Compelling tips and tricks to improve your mental skills Don't you wish you were just a little smarter? Ron and Marty Hale-Evans can help with a vast array of witty, practical techniques that tune your brain to peak performance. Founded in current research, Mindhacker features 60 tips, tricks, and games to develop your mental potential. This accessible compilation helps improve memory, accelerate learning, manage time, spark creativity, hone math and logic skills, communicate better, think more clearly, and keep your mind strong and flexible.

Calla Cress took down the world’s most dangerous man. She made one mistake, she let him live. When a billionaire, once the British Secret Service’s most brilliant code breaker, uses his vast resources to lure the world’s top minds into his prison cell, they leave in a coma, and seconds later, a virus attacks government systems. An explosion rips through a guarded safe house in Colorado. British Museum curator turned undercover government agent Calla Cress wakes up halfway across the world at the whim of a powerful, unidentified organization demanding she produces the whereabouts of a missing MI6 agent who can disarm the billionaire’s hacks. Powerful people are prepared to kill to obtain the cryptic secret the agent kept. Now the only person who can unpick the billionaire’s hacks is a stranger who’s been missing for 30 years and whose cryptic secrets may prove fatal to his cause. With only a handful of clues left in a mysterious sixteenth-century anagram encrypted with a sequence of codes, Calla, NSA security advisor Nash Shields and tech entrepreneur Jack Kleve are thrust in a dangerous race across the globe. Calla realizes she has to complete a mission that will shape the world’s fate and is led back in time. With each haunting revelation, they dodge sniper bullets and soon realize the key to disarming the hacks comes at an astonishing price. Calla needs to find the person, once a part of the secret service, a stranger who may just be someone who’s known Calla all her life. Thrilling, The Decrypter and the Mind Hacker is a heart-stopping, high-paced adventure taking readers from the sunlit streets of modern-day Greece to the shadowy mountains of Colorado. The Decrypter and the Mind Hacker is a must-read for Dan Brown, Clive Cussler, and Robert Ludlum fans. It is book 2 in the Calla Cress Thriller Series. What readers are saying about The Decrypter Series: ★★★★★ “Gripping read!” ★★★★★ “Absolutely brilliant storyline. After reading book one I just had to get into book two.” ★★★★★"Takes you on a ride and refuses to let you off until you reach the very end." ★★★★★"A brilliant read! I recommend this to anyone who enjoys mystery, suspense, thrillers, or action novels. The detail is astounding! The historic references, location descriptions, references to technology, cryptography....this author really knows her stuff." ★★★★★"An action-packed adventure, techno-thriller across several continents like a Jason Bourne or James Bond movie, but with an actual storyline!" ★★★★★"Brilliantly written. I loved the very descriptive side, which was a good way of visualizing and getting to terms with each new place, as the action takes place in several different countries." Read less

Let's be honest. You've tried the sticky-note inspirations, the motivational calendar, and the cute (but ineffective) “carpe diem" mug—yet your attitude hasn't changed. It's time to apply cutting-edge science to the challenges of daily life. While everyone desires self-improvement, we are quickly frustrated when trying to implement the contradictory philosophies of self-appointed self-help gurus. Too often, their advice is based on anecdote and personal opinion, not real research. Bestselling author of What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite David DiSalvo returns with Brain Changer: How Harnessing Your Brain's Power to Adapt Can Change Your Life. Drawing on the latest research in neuroscience, cognitive psychology, behavioral economics, communications, and even marketing, DiSalvo replaces self-help with “science help." He demonstrates how the brain's enormous capacity to adapt is the most crucial factor influencing how we feel and act—a factor that we can control to change our lives. Findings show our brains are fluid and function much like a feedback loop: stimulants from both our environment and from within ourselves catalyze changes in the brain's response. That response then elicits additional inputs that the brain identifies and analyzes to further tailor its response. DiSalvo shows that the greatest internal tool we have to affect the feedback loop is metacognition (“thinking about thinking"). Littered with relatable examples and tackling major aspects of our lives including relationships, careers, physical health, and personal development, Brain Changer shows you how to harness metacognition to enrich your life.

If he can control her mind… Government operative David Jenkins is skilled at controlling his emotions. Feelings are lethal when your job is to infiltrate minds, erase and implant thoughts, and guard the nation’s intellectual capital. But even he can’t fight his strange attraction to Grace Woznisky. He’ll do whatever it takes to protect her from a madman intent on possessing both their minds. Neither suspect their dangerous enemy has a larger motive, and David may be Grace’s only chance for survival. Can he control her heart? All freelance artist Grace wants is steady-paying work and to see her flighty sister to the altar. But after David offers her a job, she finds herself in the middle of a mental tug of war—one that has her reeling from nightmares and fighting for her life. She must decide: Are her growing feelings for her new boss authentic, or is she a victim of his mind-altering abilities?

Author of the viral Medium piece, "Poor and Traumatized at Harvard," Due Quach shares her Calm Clarity program to show readers how to deal with toxic stress and adversity. We often don't realize how much control we have over our thoughts, feelings, and actions--on some days, the most minor irritation can upset us, but on others, we are in our best form and can rise to challenges with grace. These fluctuations depend on the neural networks firing in our brains, and we have the power to consciously break hardwired thought patterns. Due Quach developed an intimate understanding of the brain during her personal journey of healing from post-traumatic stress disorder. According to Quach, people function in three primary emotional states: Brain 1.0, Brain 2.0, and Brain 3.0. In Brain 1.0, people act out of fear and self-preservation. Brain 2.0 involves instant gratification and chasing short-term rewards at the expense of long-term well-being. Brain 3.0 is a state of mind that Quach calls "Calm Clarity," in which people's actions are aligned with their core values. As Quach confronted PTSD and successfully weaned herself off medication, she learned how to activate, exercise, and strengthen Brain 3.0 like a muscle. In Calm Clarity, she draws on the latest scientific research and ancient spiritual traditions alike to show us how we too can take ownership of our thoughts, feelings, and actions in order to be our best selves.

She can kill with a thought. Gifted with an explosive psychic talent, Geneva Ericksen can’t risk letting Rolf Jorgensen in her life. If she does, she might accidentally kill him. But when Rolf’s sister goes missing, Geneva and her extraordinary abilities may be his only hope to find her. He’s hiding a deadly secret. Rolf’s not about to let Geneva slip away from him, even if it means protecting her from his dark gift. As Rolf and Geneva trail his sister, they soon uncover a life-threatening plot: someone is attempting to profit from stealing and trapping their power in crystals. To outsmart the enemy, it will take all their combined strength. But can they trust each other enough to survive?

This volume addresses the major questions surrounding a concept that has become ubiquitous in the media and in civil society as well as in political and economic discourses in recent years, and which is demanded with increasing frequency: transparency. How can society deal with increasing and often diverging demands and expectations of transparency? What role can different political and civil society actors play in processes of producing, or preventing, transparency? Where are the limits of transparency and how are these boundaries negotiated? What is the relationship of transparency to processes of social change, as well as systems of social surveillance and control? Engaging with transparency as an interrelated product of law, politics, economics and culture, this interdisciplinary volume explores the ambiguities and contradictions, as well as the social and political dilemmas, that the age of transparency has unleashed. As such it will appeal to researchers across the social sciences and humanities with interests in politics, history, sociology, civil society, citizenship, public policy, criminology and law.

Stressed Out in These Uncertain Times? You Can Adapt. Here’s How. “An insightful and demystifying look at mindfulness practice.” —Kirkus Reviews 2021 INDIES Gold Winner Body, Mind & Spirit Breathe in and out through the stressors of life with this accessible meditation guide. Learn the life-changing benefits of mindfulness to navigate these uncertain times. Training exercises that work. Practical Mindfulness approaches mindfulness and meditation from a hands-on, how-to, irreverent perspective–appealing to all readers curious about meditation, and health care and education professionals looking to learn and teach the fundamentals of meditation to their patients and students. Applying Dr. Sazima’s training routines, we can all learn better coping methods and less burnout, in the midst of all that is happening. An accessible approach to finding “home.” We all search for that safe, comfortable feeling of peace of mind–our inner “home.” When we face challenges–from a tough day at work to a life-threatening health problem–we can realize with blinding clarity there is no sustainable outside solution. Without a more developed interior awareness, we can suffer stress, anxiety, and depression. This guide is the solution to reclaiming your peaceful place in every moment. Meditation training from an expert. Dr. Sazima is a board-certified psychiatrist, an educator of family doctors-in-training at Stanford’s Family Medicine Residency, and an experienced meditator and meditation teacher. He is also a survivor of a rare bone cancer who has used the powerful practice of meditation to navigate his own medical crisis. Now, he is on a “pay it forward” mission to show us why and how meditation works, in an accessible and entertaining way. We can adapt – Practical Mindfulness shows us how. Readers of books such Think Like A Monk, Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, or 10% Happier will love Practical Mindfulness.

***A female James Bond with a Matrix twist.*** ***Join thousands who have devoured the dramatic action-adventure thrillers. *** Knowledge is everything until …everything is the last thing you need to know. British Museum curator turned secret agent Calla Cress didn’t want to know the future. Heck, the future can wait, but not when it’s wiped clean her present. Horoscope predictions run by a dangerous app start to come true. More people download the app only to fall into a mysterious coma. When the app makes an alarming prediction about Calla’s future, and a malicious old enemy uses her past to control the most unimaginable, powerful technology in the world, Calla is at a standstill. Forced to confront a dark part of herself she thought she’d dealt with, Calla must disarm the app before it makes an alarming global prediction. But what if the app’s technology was created centuries ago by a student of Pythagoras, and only they can deactivate the app? In this fast-paced techno-thriller, packed with hairbreadth escapes and international espionage, from Turkey’s shores to the allure of Havana comes a danger with an alarming global government coverup. The Decrypter: The Pythagoras Clause is Book 5 in the Calla Cress Technothriller series but can be read as a stand-alone story. What readers are saying about The Decrypter Series and Calla Cress. ★★★★★ "Takes you on a ride and refuses to let you off until you reach the very end." ★★★★★ "A brilliant read! I recommend this to anyone who enjoys mystery, suspense, thrillers or action novels. The detail is astounding! The historic references, location descriptions, references to technology, cryptography....this author really knows her stuff." ★★★★★ "An action-packed adventure, technothriller across several continents like a Jason Bourne or James Bond movie, but with an actual storyline!" ★★★★★ "Brilliantly written. I loved the very descriptive side, which was a good way of visualizing and getting to terms with each new place, as the action takes place in several different countries."

In Renaissance Venice, a manuscript in an unknown language was left in a confessional booth in Saint Marks’ Basillica. No one has cracked the code in centuries. Nearly eight hundred years later, ISTF, a covert government organization, is about to decrypt the manuscript’s explosive secret. London, the present. When her parents left her in a foster home as an infant, something in Calla Cress broke. An expert in ancient symbols, and a master code breaker, Calla should consider herself lucky. Most twenty-eight-year-olds don’t land big dream jobs at the British Museum or decipher secret codes for the government. Now she’s asked to decipher a cryptic Renaissance manuscript at an international museum in Berlin. When the manuscript is stolen, Calla, NSA agent Nash Shields and tech entrepreneur Jack Kleve race to decode the mystery of its origin—before it’s too late. Calla uncovers an ancient secret and suspects that there’s more to her parents’ disappearance than meets the eye. Armed with clues to the manuscript’s true intent, what she discovers further puts her in the crosshairs of an enemy’s gunfire. At every turn, Calla is drawn deep into an ancient web of conspiracies and secrets that may have been dormant for centuries. Ancient history meets cutting-edge high tech in an action-packed, smart thriller with a unique quest guaranteed to keep you guessing—and sticking with characters after you finish reading. If you like Steve Berry, James Bond with a dash of The Matrix you'll find this thriller hard to put down. What readers are saying about The Decrypter Series and Calla Cress. ★★★★★ “An action-packed techno-thriller that reveals a dark future where hacking occurs at the speed of thought.” ★★★★★ “A fast-paced thriller with twists and turns that will hopefully keep you up well past your bedtime.” ★★★★★ “A story of technology, hacking, and codes.” ★★★★★ “In a race against time, Calla and her team must decipher history’s greatest anagram.” ★★★★★ “Delivers a thrilling mystery for fans of Dan Brown.”