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The Happiness Policy Handbook provides a concise background on happiness studies and science, coupled with practical tools for formulating and integrating happiness policy at all levels of government. Essential reading for policymakers focused on making happiness and well-being the purpose of government.

Unfounded beliefs and hateful political and social divisions that can cascade into violence are threatening to pull the world apart. Responding to fear and aggression strategically and with compassion is vital if we are to push back against the politics of hate and live in greater safety and harmony. But how to do it? Are We Done Fighting? is brimming with the latest research, practical activities, and inspirational stories of success for cultivating inner change and spreading peace at the community level and beyond.

When Habiburahman was three years old, he became stateless in his own country when Burma's military leader declared that his people, the Rohingya, were not recognized as one of the eight "national races." Through the eyes of a child, we learn about the historic persecution of the Rohingya people and witness the violence Habiburahman endured throughout his life until he escaped the country in 2000.

This book is filled with inspiring true stories of women activists, artists, and entrepreneurs who launched some of the most famous companies, brands, and organizations today and changed the world. It is at once a collection of biographies and a testament of female empowerment.

After dozens of books and articles by anonymous sources, Doug Wead presents a history of the Trump White House with the President and his staff talking openly, on the record. This book contains interviews with the President in the Oval Office, chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, Jared and Ivanka Kushner, Donald Trump Jr., Eric and Lara Trump, and White House insiders.

An acclaimed historian gives voice to the thousands of women from different backgrounds, races, and religions whose local passion and protest resounded throughout the land.

This book offers sage wisdom for navigating race in a radically divisive America. Bombarded with media, music, and social media messages that enforce stereotypes of people of color, journalist Ed Gordon shows what black power and black excellence really look like today, and offers a way forward for all in a new age of black prosperity and pride.

In our current political climate, it seems impossible to have a civil conversation with someone of a different opinion. Here, Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay guide listeners through techniques necessary for every successful conversation, even with hardliners and extremists. This book is the manual everyone needs to foster connection and empathy with anyone.

At fourteen, Christian Picciolini was recruited by skinheads and encouraged to fight to "protect the white race from extinction." Soon, he had become a neo-nazi terror. By the time he left the movement and was finally able to see clearly, Picciolini found his life and the nation were in shambles. This book tells the inside story of how extremists have overrun our political discourse and a guide for how to win it back.

In his signature style, disinformation expert Peter Pomerantsev ventures behind the enemy lines of the endless, multinational information war and explores the contours of this new global order.