F*ck motivation porn.You know the feeling. You finish the book and walk away feeling like this time is different. Two weeks later you're back where you started, with one more failed attempt quietly adding to the pile.And still you bought another book or went to another seminar. Because the alternative (that something is fundamentally broken) is too uncomfortable to sit with.The self-help industry built its entire revenue model on that discomfort. Co...

Simple Principles for Life-Changing Success—From A to ZMost people dream of success, but far too many fall short, because they are held back by fear, doubt, or negative conditioning. Yet, international bestselling author, success coach and Hall of Fame speaker, Dr. Willie Jolley, believes that you were born to win! He believes that you can overcome those limiting fears, doubt and negative conditioning and go on to win each and every day! The key is...

Create Stronger Relationships and Deeper Faith with Your Kids and TeensDo you long to talk about faith with your kids but struggle to find the words, the time, or the right moment? Everyone is busy--with work, school, sports, screens--and somewhere along the way, the values you hoped would define your family fell out of sync with how you're actually living. So where do you begin?You can start by having meaningful conversations with your kids, creating space...

"There are very few times when I really want the audience to look at dance…Dance is just meant to be a framing device that matches emotionally what I want the audience to feel." - Andy BlankenbuehlerThree-time Tony Award-winner Andy Blankenbuehler is one of the most recognizable choreographers working on Broadway today. Known particularly for his work on the hit musical Hamilton, collaborating once again with Lin-Manuel Miranda following their wor...

Since first they emerged into the Victorian limelight, dinosaurs have fascinated generations of artists, scientists, and general readers. This book approaches their history from a literary-critical perspective, arguing that the enormous and enduring popularity of Mesozoic fauna offers a fresh way to understand the relationship between the arts and sciences. We tend to treat those two as opposites -- but dinosaurs, Will Tattersdill argues, cannot exist without an entanglement of both eviden...

This volume offers new insights into 1 Thessalonians by demonstrating how children and childhood are a key part of its social setting. Around one third of this first-century Macedonian society and community would be under 15 years old: a segment easily ignored by modern scholarship but essential to interpreting the social context and so Paul's letter itself. Based on new research, David E. Bell reveals how Paul transforms common ideas about early death in his response to t...

Chakrita M. Saulina offers an extensive examination of Luke's treatment of evil spirits and how they are related to many of Luke's theological agendas, such as his Christology, soteriology, and eschatology. Saulina offers a close reading of the Gospel within a broader view of narrative criticism, implementing a fresh method of character reconstruction to find the overall characterization and the roles of evil spirits in the Gospel.Saulina's examination utilizes mic...

A new cognitive approach to the representation of composition in literature that examines five women novelists of the late 18th century and how they use imaginative poetic practices to attain emotional, practical and political agency.During a backlash towards feminism in British politics at the turn of the 19th century, popular women's novels became saturated with heroines in dangerous situations who turn to composing original poetry. Thinking Through Poems

Audible Ancestors provides a new understanding of music performance and the inheritance of Indigenous epistemologies and methodologies in Greater Mexico.By examining the audibility of Indigenous ancestry in the negotiation of Mexican subjectivities through danza performance, author Luis Chávez-González amplifies muted Caxcan Indigeneity rooted in the sounds of Regional Mexican music through tamborazo-Zacatecano, a drum-centered style originating from north...

Revised and Updated Second Edition of the bestselling 2021 title Exceptional Me.Donald Trump has forged a unique relationship with American exceptionalism, parting ways with how American politicians have long communicated this idea to the American public. Through systematic comparative analyses, this book details the various ways that Trump strategically altered and exploited the discourse of American exceptionalism to elevate not the nation, but himself p...

Heated debates about teaching often occur around the word practice. When we consider practice as a keyword, it becomes clear that practice is about much more than what teachers do in the classroom. Discourses of practice are used to spread policy ideas, to claim expertise, to empower or disempower teachers, to discredit or support schools of education, and more.In this book, the authors demonstrate how impoverished notions of practice undermine teachers' work. They...

AI Afterlives offers the first empirically informed investigation of how algorithms and automation are being used to 'revive' media fragments from the past, from animating old photographs of our ancestors, to creating deathbots, or using the likeness of deceased actors in films. It draws on a series of unique and innovatively designed datasets to trace the ethical, emotional, mnemonic and political dimensions of creating synthetic pasts.Situated at the intersection of Digi...