**A short, practical guide to Philippine animism—how to rediscover an embodied relationship with the living world and each otherKapwa: who you are is inseparable from, and owed to, the living world around you.**Psychologist and Sikodiwa author Carl Lorenz Cervantes offers a contemporary manual to Philippine animism, bridging Indigenous wisdom, psychology, and cultural roots. Climbing the Sacred Mountain’s psychospiritual model and practica...

Mois�s lives with his father and sister in a Brazilian village dominated by the local monastery. His mother having died mysteriously, Mois�s is raised by his sister Luzia, a young woman rumored to be a witch and despised by the villagers. Luzia seeks protection from the monastery, where she gets a job as a laundress and where Mois�s receives an education. In time, something triggers her brother to rebel and run away from home. Luzia finds herself wholly alone, fighting for the family's lan...

Transform the devastating pain of grief into a sacred journey of spiritual healing and quiet inner peace. Whether mourning a death, navigating a painful breakup, or facing a life-altering illness, this comforting audio companion offers a safe harbor for your sorrow. It shifts away from forced positivity, allowing you to honor your rawest emotions while moving gracefully through profound life endings.Instead of treating heartbreak as a problem to fix, these compassionate teachings i...

Bridge the gap between spiritual dryness and profound peace by experiencing Catholic grace as God’s living, healing touch. Whether you are navigating daily family challenges or seeking a quiet meditation for your morning commute, this reassuring journey turns abstract theology into an intimate friendship with the Creator.Step into the role of a beloved child rather than an exhausted, struggling servant. By exploring the profound, everyday gifts of the Eucharist and Reconciliation, ...

Have you planned for the life that comes after the success you worked so hard to build?By mid-life, many people have already reached the version of success they once imagined.The house. The career. The family. The savings. The independence.But what happens next?How to Be a Successful Ninety-Year-Old is not a book about getting older as much as it is a book about preparing to live well for as long as life allows. Marguerite Lorenz, a Professional Trustee and ...

Luck or Control is a practical and deeply personal guide to understanding estate planning as more than paperwork. Marguerite Lorenz shows that an estate plan is not just about money, death, taxes, or legal documents. It is about love, dignity, preparation, and making sure the people you care about are not left guessing when you can no longer speak for yourself.If your wishes are not written down in a meaningful legal way, you are relying on luck. If your preferences, people, assets...

What if the future of humanity wasn’t driven by Silicon Valley’s vision?At the edge of its dissolution, European humanism faces profound challenges as AI, biotechnology and posthuman theory reshape what it means to be human. The classical ideals of truth, goodness, and beauty — once the moral and aesthetic compass of the European tradition — are being twisted.This book introduces the reader to Euro-Transhumanism—a distinctive, philosophically rich alternative to the individ...

'A terrific history of the online creator economy.' The New York Times'This book is about a revolution. It has radically upended how we've understood and interacted with our world. It has demolished traditional barriers and empowered millions who were previously marginalized. It has created vast new sectors of our economy, while devastating legacy institutions. It is often dismissed by traditionalists as a vacant fad, when in fact it is the gre...

Konrad Lorenz was the author of some of the most popular books ever published about animals, including the best-selling Man Meets Dog and King Solomon's Ring. On Aggression is one of his finest works, as well as the most controversial. Through an insightful and characteristically entertaining survey of animal behaviour, the Nobel Prize winner tracks the evolution of aggression throughout the animal world. He also raises some startling questions when he applies hi...

Comparative Studies on the Behaviour of Anatinae is Konrad Lorenz's work on the study of the Anatinae family which is a subfamily of the family Anatidae (swans, geese and ducks). Lorenz studied instinctive behavior in animals, especially in greylag geese and jackdaws. Working with geese, he rediscovered the principle of imprinting (originally described by Douglas Spalding in the 19th century) in the behavior of nidifugous birds. In later life his interest shifted to the study of humans in ...

Solomon, the legend goes, had a magic ring which enabled him to speak to the animals in their own language. Konrad Lorenz was gifted with a similar power of understanding the animal world. He was that rare beast, a brilliant scientist who could write (and indeed draw) beautifully. He did more than any other person to establish and popularize the study of how animals behave, receiving a Nobel Prize for his work. King Solomon's Ring, the book which brought him worldwide recognition,...

First published in the 1960s, On Aggression has been the target of criticism and controversy ever since. It is not Lorenz's careful descriptions of animal behaviour that are contentious, but his extrapolations to the human world that have caused reverberations resulting in a statement adopted by UNESCO in 1989 and subsequently endorsed by the American Psychological Association that appears to condemn his work. But does On Aggression actually make the claims implicit in th...