A history of American white male identity by the author of "So You Want to Talk About Race" imagines a merit-based, non-discriminating model while exposing the actual costs of successes defined by racial and sexual dominance. What happens to a country that tells generation after generation of white men that they deserve power? Oluo shows how, throughout the last 150 years of American history, white male supremacy has wrought devastating consequences...

"I loved-and to a slightly uncomfortable degree related to-this book." Charles Bethea, staff writer at The New Yorker Funny, perceptive, and deeply personal, Mediocre Monk follows Grant Lindsley's rocky journey toward spiritual growth-one that ultimately leads him to places he never imagined. After the sudden death of a friend, Grant Lindsley abandons his corporate job to train as a monk in one of the strictest Buddhist traditions on earth. Lost...

A book 37-years in the making, to help those, understand and gain clarity on where they are, who they are and ultimately, to help establish, where you want to go, and who you need to become to get there.

El hombre mediocre está integrado por las lecciones sobre psicología del carácter que dio José Ingenieros en la cátedra de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de Buenos Aires, durante el año 1910. En ellas se proponía comprender cómo funcionan las sociedades humanas. Para ello establecía y describía tres tipos o caracteres que según él era posible reconocer en cualquier comunidad de seres humanos: -el idealista, -el hombre mediocre -y...

Get the Summary of Ijeoma Oluo's Mediocre in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: What happens to a country that tells generation after generation of white men that they deserve power? What happens when success is defined by status over women and people of color, instead of by actual accomplishments? Through the last 150 years of American history - from the post-reconstruction South and...

Is your life filled with bad choices, weaknesses, fears, wishes, failures, mistakes, good and bad relationships, good days and bad days all rolled into one? Are you wishing to file down the jagged and bitter edges of your past and get rid of the gerbil ball that you're running on? Does your exhausted body still daydream about adventure? Readers will grow spiritually in a fast-paced and confrontational world while traveling to Alaska racing with huskies...

Doug, one a promising musician, decides to give it all away and focus on growing up. But what happens when in his spare time, he writes the best material of his life? See what happens when an indie musician decides to give it a try one more time-again.

Average is extraordinary. What if we, stopped measuring ourselves by the world's yardstick? What if we, pursued our own dreams and not the dreams we have been, fed by this culture? What if we, decided our lives are extraordinary just as they are? This manifesto is Kirsten Wreggitt's reminder to stop striving for the world's goals and dreams. It is, filled with touchstones that are her mental prompts to end her feelings of lack and get on with living....