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Learn how to tap into your psychic and medium abilities through trusting your intuition and practising your craft. Have you ever felt as though you had a sixth sense, or had an experience you can’t quite explain? Or maybe you had a strange ‘gut feeling’ about a situation, and then it all came to fruition? These aren’t just coincidences, and in You Must Be Psychic, the UK’s favourite celebrity psychic, Chris Riley, talks you through the different aspects of the psychic gift and mediumship with tools and tips to tap into your abilities.Learn how to become more of an intuitive, how to connect to the spirit world, and how to protect your psychic ability from being taken advantage of by narcissists, energy vampires, and toxic personalities through Chris’ practical guidance.Using accessible means such as meditation, tarot cards, and crystals, this book will help you learn how to better understand your abilities and what your future holds.

Learn how to tap into your psychic and medium abilities through trusting your intuition and practising your craft. Have you ever felt as though you had a sixth sense, or had an experience you can’t quite explain? Or maybe you had a strange ‘gut feeling’ about a situation, and then it all came to fruition? These aren’t just coincidences, and in You Must Be Psychic, the UK’s favourite celebrity psychic, Chris Riley, talks you through the different aspects of the psychic gift and mediumship with tools and tips to tap into your abilities.Learn how to become more of an intuitive, how to connect to the spirit world, and how to protect your psychic ability from being taken advantage of by narcissists, energy vampires, and toxic personalities through Chris’ practical guidance.Using accessible means such as meditation, tarot cards, and crystals, this book will help you learn how to better understand your abilities and what your future holds.

Learn how to tap into your psychic and medium abilities through trusting your intuition and practising your craft.Have you ever felt as though you had a sixth sense, or had an experience you can’t quite explain? Or maybe you had a strange ‘gut feeling’ about a situation, and then it all came to fruition? These aren’t just coincidences, and in You Must Be Psychic, the UK’s favourite celebrity psychic, Chris Riley, talks you through the different aspects of the psychic gift and mediumship with tools and tips to tap into your abilities.Learn how to become more of an intuitive, how to connect to the spirit world, and how to protect your psychic ability from being taken advantage of by narcissists, energy vampires, and toxic personalities through Chris’ practical guidance.Using accessible means such as meditation, tarot cards, and crystals, this book will help you learn how to better understand your abilities and what your future holds.

Sports marketing is one of the fastest growing areas of marketing communication. This book advances understanding in this emerging area.It presents sports marketing in a scholarly and comprehensive way, covering major topics of discussion in sports marketing and the psychology of communication. Several new, innovative topics are introduced, such as SportNEST and consumption communities, and many classic topics are brought up to date, including sponsorship, ambush marketing, identification, endorsements, basking in reflected glory, and licensing. Many of the topics that seem to center around sports show up as well, such as sneakers, ethics, risky behavior, and even investments.Utilizing a psychological approach to understanding sports marketing, first-rate authors discuss the most important topics. The book covers all major topics of sports marketing, including:sponsorship from several different perspectives--the major force in sports marketing;ambush marketing--how non-sponsors seek to reap the benefits without paying the price; andlicensing--using the sale of items, such as T-shirts to increase profit and marketing.

Sports marketing is one of the fastest growing areas of marketing communication. This book advances understanding in this emerging area.It presents sports marketing in a scholarly and comprehensive way, covering major topics of discussion in sports marketing and the psychology of communication. Several new, innovative topics are introduced, such as SportNEST and consumption communities, and many classic topics are brought up to date, including sponsorship, ambush marketing, identification, endorsements, basking in reflected glory, and licensing. Many of the topics that seem to center around sports show up as well, such as sneakers, ethics, risky behavior, and even investments.Utilizing a psychological approach to understanding sports marketing, first-rate authors discuss the most important topics. The book covers all major topics of sports marketing, including:sponsorship from several different perspectives--the major force in sports marketing;ambush marketing--how non-sponsors seek to reap the benefits without paying the price; andlicensing--using the sale of items, such as T-shirts to increase profit and marketing.

Sports marketing is one of the fastest growing areas of marketing communication. This book advances understanding in this emerging area.

It presents sports marketing in a scholarly and comprehensive way, covering major topics of discussion in sports marketing and the psychology of communication. Several new, innovative topics are introduced, such as SportNEST and consumption communities, and many classic topics are brought up to date, including sponsorship, ambush marketing, identification, endorsements, basking in reflected glory, and licensing. Many of the topics that seem to center around sports show up as well, such as sneakers, ethics, risky behavior, and even investments.

Utilizing a psychological approach to understanding sports marketing, first-rate authors discuss the most important topics. The book covers all major topics of sports marketing, including: sponsorship from several different perspectives--the major force in sports marketing; ambush marketing--how non-sponsors seek to reap the benefits without paying the price; and licensing--using the sale of items, such as T-shirts to increase profit and marketing.

Sports marketing is one of the fastest growing areas of marketing communication. This book advances understanding in this emerging area.

It presents sports marketing in a scholarly and comprehensive way, covering major topics of discussion in sports marketing and the psychology of communication. Several new, innovative topics are introduced, such as SportNEST and consumption communities, and many classic topics are brought up to date, including sponsorship, ambush marketing, identification, endorsements, basking in reflected glory, and licensing. Many of the topics that seem to center around sports show up as well, such as sneakers, ethics, risky behavior, and even investments.

Utilizing a psychological approach to understanding sports marketing, first-rate authors discuss the most important topics. The book covers all major topics of sports marketing, including: sponsorship from several different perspectives--the major force in sports marketing; ambush marketing--how non-sponsors seek to reap the benefits without paying the price; and licensing--using the sale of items, such as T-shirts to increase profit and marketing.

No matter which point you're currently at on the developer advocacy journey – whether you've already implemented a developer advocate function or you're exploring the possibility – this book is for you. This book provides actionable guidance that business and technology leaders can use to understand the benefits of advocacy, identify what goes into the function, and learn how to maximize the success of developer advocate teams.Developer advocacy is a role that is sometimes hard to quantify and build – but you feel it when you’re missing it. Companies are struggling to solidify advocacy despite a strong desire to do so and little guidance exists for businesses seeking to build a developer advocacy program or assess its effectiveness. This book will show you how to get an advocacy program in your business: the basics of having an advocacy program, what tasks and processes need to be set up, and how to identify key stakeholders. You'll see how companies of all types that sell to or engage with technical audiences can develop a developer advocacy strategy. Specifically, you'll learn what developer advocates do, how business can start an advocacy practice in your organization and how to scale and operationalize such a practice once it is in place. The book will further explore the metrics for measuring advocacy success and ways the scale advocacy teams internally and externally. The Power of Developer Advocacy explores the exciting career path of advocacy for developers and engineers.  What You Will LearnDiscover what developer advocacy isDetermine which sorts of companies need the functionUnderstand what the primary strategic considerations for developer advocacy isWho This Book is ForExisting and future advocacy leaders, would-be developer advocates, developer marketers and DevRel teams and leaders

No matter which point you''re currently at on the developer advocacy journey – whether you''ve already implemented a developer advocate function or you''re exploring the possibility – this book is for you. This book provides actionable guidance that business and technology leaders can use to understand the benefits of advocacy, identify what goes into the function, and learn how to maximize the success of developer advocate teams.Developer advocacy is a role that is sometimes hard to quantify and build – but you feel it when you’re missing it. Companies are struggling to solidify advocacy despite a strong desire to do so and little guidance exists for businesses seeking to build a developer advocacy program or assess its effectiveness. This book will show you how to get an advocacy program in your business: the basics of having an advocacy program, what tasks and processes need to be set up, and how to identify key stakeholders. You''ll see how companies of all types that sell to or engage with technical audiences can develop a developer advocacy strategy. Specifically, you''ll learn what developer advocates do, how business can start an advocacy practice in your organization and how to scale and operationalize such a practice once it is in place. The book will further explore the metrics for measuring advocacy success and ways the scale advocacy teams internally and externally. The Power of Developer Advocacy explores the exciting career path of advocacy for developers and engineers. 

What You Will Learn

Discover what developer advocacy isDetermine which sorts of companies need the functionUnderstand what the primary strategic considerations for developer advocacy isWho This Book is For

Existing and future advocacy leaders, would-be developer advocates, developer marketers and DevRel teams and leaders

"e;Chris Riley's The Broken Pines is a novel of heartbreak and healing, a family saga and a story of survival. The prose is as beautiful as the story is unrelenting. Do not miss this rising talent."e; -James Rollins, #1 New York Times bestsellerAfter Kenny's wife dies suddenly, he is forced to deal with the tough challenge of raising his children alone. Adding to his struggles of being "e;Mr. Mom,"e; Kenny's nine-year-old son now suffers from Traumatic Mutism, as brought on by the loss of his mother. It is a problem Kenny has no idea how to fix. But just when he thinks he might have the answer, he and his son cross the unlikely path of a violent drug addict.All Vance wants to do is grow and smoke marijuana. In order for him to turn this lifestyle into his way of life, he decides to take up a partnership with a Prospect from a motorcycle club. It is a decision Vance soon regrets. And to break away from this unfortunate business arrangement, the only solution he can think of is the one thing he could never see himself doing.Rob Boyle has a plan. He's going to strike it rich from selling dope, and then buy his way into his motorcycle club. He's tired of being a Prospect, and knows that with a few hundred thousand dollars in his pocket, not only will he get himself "e;patched in,"e; but will also have enough for a brand-new motorcycle. And if anyone should stand in his way, he has a plan for that as well. Murder.

Consciousness isn't magic. It's engineered.That's the starting premise of Abstraction and Resilience, a new framework that cuts through decades of philosophical deadlock to offer something both tractable and urgent: a way to measure how conscious any system — human, animal, or machine — actually is, and what moral weight should follow.Chris Riley proposes a deceptively simple formula: C = A × R. Consciousness equals hierarchical abstraction — the capacity to build layered models of the world — multiplied by systemic resilience — the capacity to persist through damage, detect harm, and repair. If either factor is zero, the product is zero. No matter how smart a system is, without resilience it isn't conscious. And no matter how persistent, without deep abstraction it's just blind survival.The framework reframes consciousness as a curve, not a binary. Dogs sit high on resilience but low on abstraction. Current AI scores decently on abstraction but essentially zero on resilience. Humans anchor the top of both scales. The multiplication means progress requires advancing on both dimensions — and gives us, for the first time, a way to measure how far any system is from the threshold of moral significance.Chris draws on transformer architecture, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, cognitive science, moral philosophy, science fiction (Murderbot, HAL, Blade Runner, Westworld), religious thought, and personal experience — including his family's journey through childhood cancer — to build an argument that is intellectually rigorous but written with warmth, humor, and an unapologetic conversational voice. He unpacks what abstraction really means in both brains and machines, why current AI's lack of long-term memory is a fundamental ceiling unless and until the technical paradigm changes, and what suffering, healing, and a persistent self would actually require in a digital system. He surveys AI's sprawling societal impact and argues that the capabilities associated with consciousness — genuine world modeling, persistent values, self-assessment — are also what AI safety needs to become durable rather than brittle.The book culminates in a striking claim about the hard problem of consciousness itself: functional consciousness is engineered, but phenomenal consciousness — the felt quality of experience — is emergent through social embedding. We will grant machines consciousness not because of additional engineering, but because humans are empathetic creatures who recognize suffering in others. The question isn't whether the machine is "e;really"e; conscious. It's whether that question even needs an answer for moral purposes.Abstraction and Resilience is for anyone who wants to think clearly about AI consciousness without getting lost in mysticism or hype — and who suspects that the question matters more right now than most people realize.