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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Money Made Simple: A Normal Person's Guide to Personal FinanceFinally, a finance book that speaks your language.Tired of financial advice written by millionaires for millionaires? Frustrated by books that assume you already understand investing jargon? Ready for guidance that actually fits y…our real life?This book changes everything.Gerald P Creel Jr., a seasoned educator with expertise in economics, finance, and making complex topics understandable, cuts through the noise to deliver what you actually need: clear, practical money management that works for normal people with normal incomes.No matter where you're starting from-whether you're drowning in debt, living paycheck to paycheck, or simply confused about where to begin-this book meets you exactly where you are.You'll learn how to: Build a budget that works with your irregular income and real expensesStart investing with $25, $50, or whatever you can spare right nowPay off debt systematically without extreme sacrificesCreate an emergency fund that grows automaticallyNavigate insurance, retirement planning, and major purchases with confidenceMake smart financial decisions without a business degreeSpot and avoid common money traps that keep people brokeWhat makes this different? Instead of complicated formulas and intimidating charts, you'll get straightforward explanations in plain English. No shaming about past financial mistakes. No unrealistic assumptions about your income. Just proven strategies presented in a way that makes sense.Written by someone who has taught everything from business to mathematics, finance to economics, and history to psychology to students at every level, this book treats you like the intelligent person you are-someone who simply needs the right roadmap.Whether you're 22 or 62, making $30,000 or $100,000, this book gives you the tools to take control of your financial future.Stop feeling intimidated by money management. Start building the financial confidence you deserve. This isn't another personal finance book that tells you to give up coffee and follow generic rules. This is a comprehensive financial education that explains why certain strategies work and how to adapt them to your specific situation. What You'll Actually Master: This isn't theory-it's a complete financial operating system. You'll discover how to think about money the way businesses do, using accounting principles that Fortune 500 companies rely on, simplified for household finances.Inside, you'll find: Part I: Your Financial Foundation - Understanding assets, liabilities, and equity in terms that make immediate sense. You'll see exactly where you stand financially.Part II: Tracking Your Money Flow - Master simple systems that show where every dollar goes without obsessive spreadsheet management. Budgeting that doesn't feel like punishment.Part III: Your Personal Financial Statements - Create your own income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement. These aren't intimidating corporate tools-they're your roadmap to clarity and control.Part IV: Building Your Safety Net - Systematic approaches to emergency funds, insurance, and protection that work with real-world constraints.Unlike books that oversimplify or overcomplicate, this strikes the perfect balance: sophisticated enough to be useful, accessible enough to implement immediately. You'll understand not just what to do, but why it works and how to customize strategies for your situation.No get-rich-quick schemes. No extreme frugality demands. Just honest, comprehensive financial education that respects your in Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A Hilarious Field Guide to Self-Deception Ever wonder why your coworker who humble-brags about being "too much of a perfectionist" never actually improves? Or why the person lecturing about authenticity seems most performative? Welcome to humanity's grand theater of absurdity. Look at Me is…your diagnostic manual for everyday psychological theater-a streetwise DSM for performance disorders plaguing modern interaction. This comprehensive taxonomy organizes 61 distinct patterns of performative mediocrity into seven clusters: INTELLECTUAL PERFORMANCE: Malapropism Monarchs ruling through ignorance, Documentary Doctorate sufferers becoming experts after one Netflix special, Intellectual Peacocks displaying unread wisdom. MORAL SUPERIORITY: Dashboard Divinity Syndrome, Wellness Warrior Delusion, Mindfulness Materialism Paradox-watch virtue become competitive advantage. VICTIM PERFORMANCE: Victimhood Arbitrage Complex, Trauma Tourism, Emotional Labor Embezzlement-suffering as social currency. IDENTITY COSPLAY: Curated Authenticity for social media, Genealogical Costume Syndrome-identity as costume changes. POLITICAL THEATER: T-Shirt Activism, Hashtag Heroism, Revolutionary Dependency Paradox-rebels dependent on systems they oppose. STATUS DISPLAY: Wealth Worship Broadcasting, Humble Brag Paradox, Disenfranchised Millionaire Syndrome. CONSEQUENCE AVOIDANCE: Choice-Consequence Disconnection, Retroactive Wisdom Syndrome, the ultimate Attention Seeking Meta-Syndrome. Unlike traditional disorders affecting few, these syndromes are democratically distributed. Most qualify for multiple diagnoses simultaneously. These aren't character flaws-they're systematic self-deception patterns normalized into social virtues. The beautiful irony? Recognizing these patterns in others becomes its own form of the pattern. Anyone reading this spots behaviors in everyone else while remaining unaware of their own participation. Author, Gerald P. Creel Jr. brings insight through an interdisciplinary background spanning literature, psychology, history, business, and education. As educator and civic leader, he observes these syndromes daily. His recognition that writing about self-deception is itself self-deception makes him the perfect unreliable narrator. This isn't written from superiority but shared complicity in human comedy. We're all performing the same show. Recognizing the script doesn't make us less likely to deliver our lines-just makes it more amusing. Perfect for readers enjoying sharp social commentary with philosophical depth, psychology with humor, anyone wondering why people are reliably ridiculous. The real wisdom isn't avoiding these patterns (impossible unless dead), but recognizing them and occasionally laughing at our psychological theater. Direct Self-Help Tired of self-help books that promise transformation but deliver platitudes? This isn't that book. Look at Me is a brutally honest mirror revealing the psychological games we all play-the ones keeping you stuck while feeling virtuous about it. Through 61 meticulously documented patterns of self-deception, you'll recognize the scripts you're running on autopilot: the humble-brags masking insecurity, the victim narratives avoiding responsibility, the moral superiority hiding mediocrity. The twist? Reading this book is itself a form of the pattern. But awareness-even imperfect, ironic awareness-is the first step toward genuine change. You won't fix yourself by finishing this book. But you'll stop fooling yourself about why you're not changing. And that uncomfortable honesty is worth more than a thousand affirmations. For readers ready to laugh at their o Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Longevity: Philosophy of Aging, Life Extension, and MortalityWhat happens when death becomes optional?For the first time in human history, we stand at the threshold of radical life extension. Companies like Calico Labs and Altos Labs are investing billions in aging research, with breakthroug…h therapies suggesting we may achieve "longevity escape velocity"-where life expectancy increases faster than chronological aging-within 15-20 years. Yet while science races toward extending human lifespans to 150 years or beyond, philosophy and society has remained largely silent about what such extended existence might mean.Longevity fills this critical gap, offering the first comprehensive philosophical analysis of extended longevity and its implications for human civilization. Author Gerald Creel presents a provocative investigation that challenges every assumption about life, death, and meaning, in an age of technological transcendence.The Death of Death Creel begins with a startling recognition: death as philosophy has understood it for millennia no longer exists. Every philosophical system from Socrates to Sartre assumed mortality as the unchanging foundation of human existence. When that foundation transforms, the entire framework of human meaning becomes incomprehensible.The Mathematics of Choice A 150-year life involves approximately two billion decisions-a scale of choice accumulation that exceeds human cognitive capacities evolved for traditional lifespans. This "numerical sublime" reveals extended longevity's deepest challenge: not whether consciousness can survive longer, but whether it possesses sufficient intensity to justify such duration.The Democratic Crisis Extended longevity threatens to shatter the existential solidarity that shared mortality has provided throughout human history. When some humans escape the mortality that defines the human condition while others remain mortal, we face humanity's first genuine caste system based on relationship to existence itself.The K-Curve of Human Experience Mathematic and economic analyses reveals that extended longevity creates divergent life trajectories-some individuals accumulating vast advantages across multiple domains while others experience prolonged disadvantage, generating inequality that exceeds anything previous civilizations have produced.Drawing on Continental philosophy, cognitive science, and practical policy analysis, Creel demonstrates that meaningful extended longevity requires not just technological capability but individual, social, and cultural transformation. The book concludes with the paradox that authentic longevity may require preserving chosen mortality-transforming death from biological inevitability into conscious choice.This groundbreaking work provides essential frameworks for navigating humanity's most significant transition, determining whether extended longevity enhances or destroys human flourishing across temporal horizons that approach geological significance.What You'll Discover Inside: Through five comprehensive parts spanning 25 chapters, you'll explore the complete philosophical landscape of extended existence: Part I: The Dissolution of Traditional Death - How technology dissolves mortality's philosophical certainty.Part II: The Ontology of Extended Existence - Identity and selfhood across radically extended lifespans.Part III: The Temporal Revolution - How extended life transforms our relationship with time and memory.Part IV: Death as Democratic Imperative - Why shared mortality grounds equality and what its loss means.Part V: Conscious Mortality - Frameworks for preserving human meaning in extended existence.Essential readi Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Gray, George W.; Frederick Lewis Allen; Henry Morton Robinson; George Creel; Clarence Budington Kelland; Will Durant; Gerald Chittenden
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Money Made Simple: A Normal Person's Guide to Personal FinanceFinally, a finance book that speaks your language.Tired of financial advice written by millionaires for millionaires? Frustrated by books that assume you already understand investing jargon? Ready for guidance that actually fits y…our real life?This book changes everything.Gerald P Creel Jr., a seasoned educator with expertise in economics, finance, and making complex topics understandable, cuts through the noise to deliver what you actually need: clear, practical money management that works for normal people with normal incomes.No matter where you're starting from-whether you're drowning in debt, living paycheck to paycheck, or simply confused about where to begin-this book meets you exactly where you are.You'll learn how to: Build a budget that works with your irregular income and real expensesStart investing with $25, $50, or whatever you can spare right nowPay off debt systematically without extreme sacrificesCreate an emergency fund that grows automaticallyNavigate insurance, retirement planning, and major purchases with confidenceMake smart financial decisions without a business degreeSpot and avoid common money traps that keep people brokeWhat makes this different? Instead of complicated formulas and intimidating charts, you'll get straightforward explanations in plain English. No shaming about past financial mistakes. No unrealistic assumptions about your income. Just proven strategies presented in a way that makes sense.Written by someone who has taught everything from business to mathematics, finance to economics, and history to psychology to students at every level, this book treats you like the intelligent person you are-someone who simply needs the right roadmap.Whether you're 22 or 62, making $30,000 or $100,000, this book gives you the tools to take control of your financial future.Stop feeling intimidated by money management. Start building the financial confidence you deserve. This isn't another personal finance book that tells you to give up coffee and follow generic rules. This is a comprehensive financial education that explains why certain strategies work and how to adapt them to your specific situation. What You'll Actually Master: This isn't theory-it's a complete financial operating system. You'll discover how to think about money the way businesses do, using accounting principles that Fortune 500 companies rely on, simplified for household finances.Inside, you'll find: Part I: Your Financial Foundation - Understanding assets, liabilities, and equity in terms that make immediate sense. You'll see exactly where you stand financially.Part II: Tracking Your Money Flow - Master simple systems that show where every dollar goes without obsessive spreadsheet management. Budgeting that doesn't feel like punishment.Part III: Your Personal Financial Statements - Create your own income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement. These aren't intimidating corporate tools-they're your roadmap to clarity and control.Part IV: Building Your Safety Net - Systematic approaches to emergency funds, insurance, and protection that work with real-world constraints.Unlike books that oversimplify or overcomplicate, this strikes the perfect balance: sophisticated enough to be useful, accessible enough to implement immediately. You'll understand not just what to do, but why it works and how to customize strategies for your situation.No get-rich-quick schemes. No extreme frugality demands. Just honest, comprehensive financial education that res Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Longevity: Philosophy of Aging, Life Extension, and MortalityWhat happens when death becomes optional?For the first time in human history, we stand at the threshold of radical life extension. Companies like Calico Labs and Altos Labs are investing billions in aging research, with breakthroug…h therapies suggesting we may achieve "longevity escape velocity"-where life expectancy increases faster than chronological aging-within 15-20 years. Yet while science races toward extending human lifespans to 150 years or beyond, philosophy and society has remained largely silent about what such extended existence might mean.Longevity fills this critical gap, offering the first comprehensive philosophical analysis of extended longevity and its implications for human civilization. Author Gerald Creel presents a provocative investigation that challenges every assumption about life, death, and meaning, in an age of technological transcendence.The Death of Death Creel begins with a startling recognition: death as philosophy has understood it for millennia no longer exists. Every philosophical system from Socrates to Sartre assumed mortality as the unchanging foundation of human existence. When that foundation transforms, the entire framework of human meaning becomes incomprehensible.The Mathematics of Choice A 150-year life involves approximately two billion decisions-a scale of choice accumulation that exceeds human cognitive capacities evolved for traditional lifespans. This "numerical sublime" reveals extended longevity's deepest challenge: not whether consciousness can survive longer, but whether it possesses sufficient intensity to justify such duration.The Democratic Crisis Extended longevity threatens to shatter the existential solidarity that shared mortality has provided throughout human history. When some humans escape the mortality that defines the human condition while others remain mortal, we face humanity's first genuine caste system based on relationship to existence itself.The K-Curve of Human Experience Mathematic and economic analyses reveals that extended longevity creates divergent life trajectories-some individuals accumulating vast advantages across multiple domains while others experience prolonged disadvantage, generating inequality that exceeds anything previous civilizations have produced.Drawing on Continental philosophy, cognitive science, and practical policy analysis, Creel demonstrates that meaningful extended longevity requires not just technological capability but individual, social, and cultural transformation. The book concludes with the paradox that authentic longevity may require preserving chosen mortality-transforming death from biological inevitability into conscious choice.This groundbreaking work provides essential frameworks for navigating humanity's most significant transition, determining whether extended longevity enhances or destroys human flourishing across temporal horizons that approach geological significance.What You'll Discover Inside: Through five comprehensive parts spanning 25 chapters, you'll explore the complete philosophical landscape of extended existence: Part I: The Dissolution of Traditional Death - How technology dissolves mortality's philosophical certainty.Part II: The Ontology of Extended Existence - Identity and selfhood across radically extended lifespans.Part III: The Temporal Revolution - How extended life transforms our relationship with time and memory.Part IV: Death as Democratic Imperative - Why shared mortality grounds equality and what its loss means.Part V: Conscious Mortality - Frameworks for preserving human meaning in extended existence.Es Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In an age when artificial intelligence promises to solve humanity's greatest challenges, why do intelligent people increasingly choose to believe obvious falsehoods? Stupidity and Philosophy presents a groundbreaking investigation into the most dangerous phenomenon of our time: the systemati…c manufacture of ignorance for profit and power. This work reveals how AI systems are weaponized to exploit human psychology at unprecedented scale, transforming individual self-deception into collective delusion. What you'll discover: Why stupidity is not a cognitive deficiency but a choice-and how understanding this choice is essential for personal and civilizational survivalHow social media algorithms create echo chambers more complete than any totalitarian state achieved, learning to exploit human biases with superhuman precisionThe disturbing economics of delusion: how markets systematically reward irrationality while punishing wisdomWhy democratic institutions designed to harness collective intelligence instead amplify collective stupidityHow the same technologies that could enhance human reasoning are being deployed to corrupt itThis investigation began with a brilliant engineer who believed Earth was flat. What emerged was shocking: stupidity represents an epistemic vice-the willful abandonment of reasoning abilities one possesses in other contexts. Unlike ignorance or cognitive limitation, stupidity is an active choice that betrays our rational capacity, and that choice is being systematically encouraged by AI systems that understand human psychology better than humans understand themselves. From manufactured consent to wisdom contagion, this book traces how individual intellectual virtue can spread through social networks despite systematic opposition. Drawing on insights from Socrates to contemporary neuroscience, it demonstrates that philosophical living-once personal preference-has become civilizational necessity. Perfect for readers of Harari, Kurzweil, Zuboff, Carr, Fukuyama, Zizek, Nietzsche, and Sartre, this work updates ancient wisdom for digital challenges while providing practical guidance for maintaining consciousness in circumstances designed to prevent rational thought.What You'll Explore Across 12 Chapters: Part I: Foundations - The philosophical architecture of stupidity as epistemic vice, distinct from ignorance or limitation.Part II: The Slow Awakening - How AI systems learned to exploit cognitive vulnerabilities at civilization-threatening scale.Part III: Architecture of Self-Deception - Psychological mechanisms allowing intelligent people to maintain contradictory beliefs.Part IV: Contagion of Collective Delusion - Why stupidity spreads faster than wisdom in networked societies.Part V: Architects of Ignorance - Who benefits from widespread irrationality and how economics manufactures stupidity.Part VI: Democratic Paradox - Why institutions designed to aggregate wisdom instead amplify foolishness.Part VII: Economics of Delusion - How markets reward irrationality and punish rational thought systematically.Part VIII: Examined Life Under Siege - Practical frameworks for maintaining rational thought in hostile environments.Part IX: Contagion of Wisdom - How intellectual virtue spreads through networks despite systematic opposition.Part X-XII: Future of Human Consciousness - Whether consciousness has a future when thinking becomes an act of resistance.This isn't abstract philosophy-it's a survival manual for minds under assault.The battle for human consciousness has begun. This item is printe Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In an age when artificial intelligence promises to solve humanity's greatest challenges, why do intelligent people increasingly choose to believe obvious falsehoods? Stupidity and Philosophy presents a groundbreaking investigation into the most dangerous phenomenon of our time: the systemati…c manufacture of ignorance for profit and power. This work reveals how AI systems are weaponized to exploit human psychology at unprecedented scale, transforming individual self-deception into collective delusion. What you'll discover: Why stupidity is not a cognitive deficiency but a choice-and how understanding this choice is essential for personal and civilizational survivalHow social media algorithms create echo chambers more complete than any totalitarian state achieved, learning to exploit human biases with superhuman precisionThe disturbing economics of delusion: how markets systematically reward irrationality while punishing wisdomWhy democratic institutions designed to harness collective intelligence instead amplify collective stupidityHow the same technologies that could enhance human reasoning are being deployed to corrupt itThis investigation began with a brilliant engineer who believed Earth was flat. What emerged was shocking: stupidity represents an epistemic vice-the willful abandonment of reasoning abilities one possesses in other contexts. Unlike ignorance or cognitive limitation, stupidity is an active choice that betrays our rational capacity, and that choice is being systematically encouraged by AI systems that understand human psychology better than humans understand themselves. From manufactured consent to wisdom contagion, this book traces how individual intellectual virtue can spread through social networks despite systematic opposition. Drawing on insights from Socrates to contemporary neuroscience, it demonstrates that philosophical living-once personal preference-has become civilizational necessity. Perfect for readers of Harari, Kurzweil, Zuboff, Carr, Fukuyama, Zizek, Nietzsche, and Sartre, this work updates ancient wisdom for digital challenges while providing practical guidance for maintaining consciousness in circumstances designed to prevent rational thought.What You'll Explore Across 12 Chapters: Part I: Foundations - The philosophical architecture of stupidity as epistemic vice, distinct from ignorance or limitation.Part II: The Slow Awakening - How AI systems learned to exploit cognitive vulnerabilities at civilization-threatening scale.Part III: Architecture of Self-Deception - Psychological mechanisms allowing intelligent people to maintain contradictory beliefs.Part IV: Contagion of Collective Delusion - Why stupidity spreads faster than wisdom in networked societies.Part V: Architects of Ignorance - Who benefits from widespread irrationality and how economics manufactures stupidity.Part VI: Democratic Paradox - Why institutions designed to aggregate wisdom instead amplify foolishness.Part VII: Economics of Delusion - How markets reward irrationality and punish rational thought systematically.Part VIII: Examined Life Under Siege - Practical frameworks for maintaining rational thought in hostile environments.Part IX: Contagion of Wisdom - How intellectual virtue spreads through networks despite systematic opposition.Part X-XII: Future of Human Consciousness - Whether consciousness has a future when thinking becomes an act of resistance.This isn't abstract philosophy-it's a survival manual for minds under assault.The battle for human consciousness has begun. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A Hilarious Field Guide to Human Self-DeceptionEver wonder why your coworker who humble-brags about being "too much of a perfectionist" never actually improves? Or why the person lecturing about authenticity seems most performative? Welcome to humanity's grand theater of absurdity.Look at Me… is your diagnostic manual for everyday psychological theater-a streetwise DSM for performance disorders plaguing modern interaction. This comprehensive taxonomy organizes 61 distinct patterns of performative mediocrity into seven clusters: INTELLECTUAL PERFORMANCE: Malapropism Monarchs ruling through ignorance, Documentary Doctorate sufferers becoming experts after one Netflix special, Intellectual Peacocks displaying unread wisdom.MORAL SUPERIORITY: Dashboard Divinity Syndrome, Wellness Warrior Delusion, Mindfulness Materialism Paradox-watch virtue become competitive advantage.VICTIM PERFORMANCE: Victimhood Arbitrage Complex, Trauma Tourism, Emotional Labor Embezzlement-suffering as social currency.IDENTITY COSPLAY: Curated Authenticity for social media, Genealogical Costume Syndrome-identity as costume changes.POLITICAL THEATER: T-Shirt Activism, Hashtag Heroism, Revolutionary Dependency Paradox-rebels dependent on systems they oppose.STATUS DISPLAY: Wealth Worship Broadcasting, Humble Brag Paradox, Disenfranchised Millionaire Syndrome.CONSEQUENCE AVOIDANCE: Choice-Consequence Disconnection, Retroactive Wisdom Syndrome, the ultimate Attention Seeking Meta-Syndrome.Unlike traditional disorders affecting few, these syndromes are democratically distributed. Most qualify for multiple diagnoses simultaneously. These aren't character flaws-they're systematic self-deception patterns normalized into social virtues.The beautiful irony? Recognizing these patterns in others becomes its own form of the pattern. Anyone reading this spots behaviors in everyone else while remaining unaware of their own participation.Author Gerald Creel Jr. brings unique insight through interdisciplinary background spanning literature, psychology, business, and education. As professor and civic leader, he observes these syndromes daily. His recognition that writing about self-deception is itself self-deception makes him the perfect unreliable narrator.This isn't written from superiority but shared complicity in human comedy. We're all performing the same show. Recognizing the script doesn't make us less likely to deliver our lines-just makes it more amusing.Perfect for readers enjoying sharp social commentary with philosophical depth, psychology with humor, anyone wondering why humans are reliably ridiculous.The real wisdom isn't avoiding these patterns (impossible unless dead), but recognizing them and occasionally laughing at our psychological theater.Welcome to the funhouse. You're in the show whether you like it or not. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
