Building on stories and illustrations from 3:16 The Numbers of Hope by Max Lucado, this 64-page evangelistic book leads the readers word-by-word through John 3:16, the passage that he calls the "Hope Diamond" of scripture. It's the perfect way to introduce the gospel to friends and acquaintances thr[...]
AN OBSERVER NEW FACE OF FICTION FOR 2017'An original and affecting coming-of-age novel' The Observer'Fuses life's big themes with daily minutiae ... A voice of the next generation' Stylist'A vibrant portrayal of estate life in the late nineties and an affecting story of friendship' The IndependentRa[...]
With much new evidence, this book advances on the provocative first edition, concluding that visual perceptions are reflexive manifestations of past behavioral success rather than the result of a logical processing of present stimuli. Individuals with no background in neuroscience can follow the arg[...]
Discusses how and why to learn about life, cope with problems, and achieve success and joy
In their new book, Why We Do What We Do: Four Pathways to Your Authentic Self, Caroline Hanstke, and Brian and Therese Emmanuel Grey introduce a breakthrough relationship model--The Inner Family Archetype Model--that has helped thousands of people get along better with their spouses, families, frien[...]
One year ago, `We're here because we're here' left a lasting impression on millions of people in the UK. A new book about the event is being released that records that remarkable day and details how it was produced by Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller, the National Theatre's Director, Rufus [...]
A groundbreaking book about how technological advances in genomics and the extraction of ancient DNA have profoundly changed our understanding of human prehistory while resolving many long-standing controversies. Massive technological innovations now allow scientists to extract and analyze ancient D[...]
A groundbreaking book about how ancient DNA has profoundly changed our understanding of human history. Geneticists like David Reich have made astounding advances in the field of genomics, which is proving to be as important as archeology, linguistics, and written records as a means to understand our[...]
In his second collection, including the iconic and much-referenced title story featured in the Academy Award-winning film Birdman, Carver establishes his reputation as one of the most celebrated short-story writers in American literaturea haunting meditation on love, loss, and companionship, and fin[...]
Get to know Grizz, Panda, Ice Bear and the rest of Cartoon Network's We Bare Bears crew The We Go Everywhere Handbook is jammed with games, activities, puzzles, doodles, writing prompts, and more It's the perfect book for We Bare Bears fans of all ages.[...]
In this classic collection of wide-ranging and interdisciplinary essays, Stanley Cavell explores a remarkably broad range of philosophical issues from politics and ethics to the arts and philosophy. The essays explore issues as diverse as the opposing approaches of 'analytic' and 'Continental' philo[...]
Why We Eat, How We Eat maps new terrains in thinking about relations between bodies and foods. With the central premise that food is both symbolic and material, the volume explores the intersections of current critical debates regarding how individuals eat and why they eat. Through a wide-ranging se[...]
A particular culture is associated with a particular community, and thus has a social dimension. But how does culture operate and how is it to be defined? Is it to be taken as the behavioral repertoire of members of that community, as the products of their behavior, or as the shared mental content t[...]
Future Journalism investigates where journalism has come from, where it is now, and where it might be going, through a range of case studies on organisations pushing the traditional boundaries of journalism practice, including Vice, Buzzfeed, Bellingvat, the Washington Post, the Guardian, Circa and [...]
"A middle class, Midwestern family in search of meaning uproot themselves and move to their ancestral village in Croatia"""We can look at this in two ways," Jim wrote, always the pragmatist. "We can panic and scrap the whole idea. Or we can take this as a sign. They're saying the economy is going to[...]
A collection of poems written in response to anonymously submitted secrets. Your stories as interpreted by a poet. Everything that happens to you is important.[...]
A counterintuitive analysis of marketing and culture in modern-day life reveals how consumers embrace marketing efforts to use brands to express their cultural, political, and artistic identities and examines how the relationship between consumer and consumed has become altered by marketers' ability[...]
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A young woman walks into a laboratory. Over the past two years, she has transformed almost every aspect of her life. She has quit smoking, run a marathon, and been promoted at work. The patterns inside her [...]
How can I be happy when so many are not? ? Is life about learning lessons or passing tests? Following your heart or taking what's served to you? ? What's real? What matters? Who says? Who cares?
Many of us ask ourselves these questions, and many more, as we go through our days and try to ma[...]