36 original essays on sports media and cultureSports are frequently romanticized as a pure escape from the daily grind, but in reality, the stadium is a mirror reflecting our most contentious cultural and political battles. How to Watch Sports disrupts the comfortable narrative of passive entertainment, presenting thirty-six original essays that challenge readers to critically engage with the global phenomenon of sports media.Moving beyond the high...

A New York Times bestselling mathematician reveals how math can take your game playing and puzzle solving to the next level.Imagine entering a bingo parlor where one thousand cards are in play. “I’ll bet that the winning card is horizontal instead of vertical,” a man says. Should you take the bet? Or suppose you’ve reached Final Jeopardy! with $7,000 to your opponents’ $8,000 and $4,000. What should you wager?Or im...

A culinary journey through the country of Georgia told through essays, cultural commentary, breathtaking photography, and over 75 show-stopping recipes.Georgia is a transportive and mouthwatering journey into Georgian food with evocative photography shot on location. At the crossroads of Europe and Asia along the Silk Road, the Caucasus nation fascinates food lovers because it fuses flavors and techniques from East and West—while keeping an identity all it...

Delivers both the 'why' behind pitching and the exact steps to make it work.Built on real investor logic, not guessworkHelps you not just present your project, but refine, test, and strengthen it from day one.WHY?Understand why certain pitches instantly capture attention and persuade, while others fail to create impact.Learn the psychological and strategic mechanisms behind effective pitching and decision-making.Dis...

Great strategy without heart is just a plan. Great heart without strategy is just good intentions. The best leaders master both.In Strategy with a Heartbeat, Nathaniel H. Benjamin uses the four chambers of the human heart as a framework for leadership that is both rigorous and deeply human. Leaders learn to Receive what their people and data are telling them, Process it into sound judgment, Inspire a vision that gives life, and

From top experts in the world of science comes this definitive guide to physics, published in partnership with the Institute of Physics**.**In Your Expert Guide: Physics, readers discover the wonders of the world - such as how the power of a throw can scatter ten bowling pins, or where a rainbow's colours come from - and will forever experience matter and motion with more amazement. From outer space to the centre of our planet, physics tells us what forces...

This book describes and illustrates the ground forces of the Republic of Korea and its United Nations allies during the Korean War, as well as the UN medical contingents in the conflict.The North Korean invasion of the Republic of Korea (ROK) in June 1950 prompted an enormous international response, as first the United States and then a host of allied countries contributed combat troops or medical personnel to the United Nations effort to support the South Koreans....

THE STARLITE IS UNDER ALIEN SPOTLIGHTS—AGAIN!When a mysterious stranger starts sniffing around the trailer park, Louis Rogan knows who to call—his big brother Alex Rogan, the Last Starfighter! But Alex has other problems. He’s just failed his first real mission as leader of the Star League—and against the Ko-Dan Blackstars, mistakes are deadly. Louis and life back home are calling for Alex, but if he doesn’t step up, more than one planet will be lost. And now everyone he loves, inc...

Winner of the 2025 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor's Choice Award, Arguments is an innovative collection that explores inner conflict, ethical action and the eroding ties between self, family, community and the land.In “Anima Hominis,” Yeats writes, “We make out of our quarrels with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.” Arguments by Benjamin Gucciardi takes that inner quarrel as its starting point. Written in a time of environmental ...

Meet the Marsupilamis! This first-ever early graphic novel based on the wildly popular mega brand introduces readers to Twister, Hope, Punch, and their new family.Get ready to swing into action with The Marsupilamis! This exciting original early-reader graphic novel features Twister, Hope, and Punch—three wild and lovable marsupilamis from the heart of the Palombian jungle—as they settle into their brand-new home with twins Jade and Mica.The twins ...

How a unique form of working together has built—and is critical to sustain—our age of information.Peer production describes a unique form of global collaboration that is responsible for creating some of the most vital parts of the internet. Information ecosystem powerhouses like Wikipedia and the Linux operating system were founded on principles of open cooperation, and only exist today due to the contributions of thousands, and in some cases, millions of people. I...

How do we engage in public debate with those who do not share our faith commitments? And how do we reason effectively about ethical and political issues that are not directly addressed by Scripture? Written at a level that all Christians can understand, Recovering Natural Law drawsfrom the history of Christian political thought to provide a rich resource for thinking about ethics, law, and government.Natural law recognizes that because this world has been created by God, w...