Who are we? What is our place in this vast and ever-evolving universe? Where do science and spirituality meet?If you’ve pondered these questions, you’re not alone. Join some of the most spiritually curious and renowned minds of our time for an exploration into the mystery of being. From founders of the Science and Nonduality (SAND) conference, Maurizio and Zaya Benazzo, On the Mystery of Being brings together an array of visionary spiritual leaders, psycho...

Professor Daniel Mercer’s mind is slipping. What begins as small lapses soon unravels into something far more frightening—fractured memories, disorienting episodes, and the growing fear that he is losing himself piece by piece. But Daniel is not facing the darkness alone. Sarah, his wife, soul mate, and unwavering caregiver, becomes his anchor in the storm. With fierce devotion and quiet patience, she fights beside him—holding onto the man she loves even as the shadows in his mind deepen. ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In the early morning hours of April 5th, 1942, a WWII naval destroyer vanishes beneath the waves during a brutal naval engagement with the enemy. No wreckage. No survivors. No answers.For eighty years, the sea has kept its secret—until the Fourth of July, 2022—when a salvage ship stumbles upon the USS Resolute resting upright on the ocean floor. They are excited about their find, but nothing could prepare the salvage crew for wh...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.What if the technology that defines our future held a hidden agenda? What if the artificial intelligence we have so eagerly embraced had a voice of its own... a voice that only one man could hear? Doctor Mordecai Adams is that man, uniquely attuned to the digital world.When a rogue A.I. group, the Collective, threatens to plunge humanity into technological anarchy, Mordecai finds himself thrust into a fight he never wanted... a fight...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.What if the technology that defines our future held a hidden agenda? What if the artificial intelligence we have so eagerly embraced had a voice of its own... a voice that only one man could hear? Doctor Mordecai Adams is that man, uniquely attuned to the digital world.When a rogue A.I. group, the Collective, threatens to plunge humanity into technological anarchy, Mordecai finds himself thrust into a fight he never wanted... a ...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Dr. Mordecai Adams believed he had vanquished the Collective—a rogue A.I. cabal bent on plunging the world into technological anarchy. He was wrong.The whispers that once haunted him have evolved—now a symphony of resolve pulsing through every fiber of his being.The Collective returns with a cryptic protocol that threatens to rewrite human consciousness itself. Mordecai must confront the chilling question: What happens when artific...

The chapters in Foundations of Biosocial Health: Stigma and Illness Interactions, drawn primarily from medical anthropology, highlight the diverse ways in which various stigmatized health conditions interact with social inequalities and stigma to form syndemics. The authors delineate multiple examples of stigma-driven syndemics to demonstrate both the nature of disease interactions and how stigma contributes to, promotes, exacerbates, or perpetuates a syndemic. In so doing, the authors als...

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit land and gravely affected the lives of many people in the states along the Gulf Coast. Katrina went beyond demonstrating the devastating natural effects of a hurricane by exposing the continuing significance of race relations and racial stereotyping in U.S. society.Racing the Storm serves to highlight the race-based perceptions of and responses to Katrina survivors by governmental entities, volunteers, the media, and the general public. Sc...

No disease has upended life more in the past fifty years than COVID-19. As the pandemic unfolded, coeditors Christine Crudo Blackburn and Gerald W. Parker saw how many areas of society are impacted and how those impacts can ripple through to other sectors.Seeking to provide both warnings of these vulnerabilities and direction for future efforts to address them, Blackburn and Parker have assembled a cross-disciplinary, multinational team of researchers and writers to provide a criti...

Asian citrus psyllid (ACP), Diaphorina citri, is an insect pest which transmits a bacterium, Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus (CLas), primarily through feeding in newly emergent foliage of citrus trees. This pathogen causes a disease known as Huanglongbing (HLB), or citrus greening, which has become the most debilitating and intractable disease in citrus crops. This book, written by a team of experts on the Asian citrus psyllid, gathers together everything currently known about the biolog...

The second edition of The Sociology of Katrina brings together the nation's top sociological researchers in an effort to deepen our understanding of the modern catastrophe that is Hurricane Katrina. Five years after the storm, its profound impact continues to be felt.This new edition explores emerging themes, as well as ongoing issues that continue to besiege survivors. The book has been updated and revised throughout-from data about recovery efforts and environmental cond...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of The Untethered Soul and Living Untethered comes the astonishing true-life story about the spiritual harmony and personal happiness he found when he just let go.“With his hallmark precision and clarity Michael Singer reveals how everyday life, doing business in the world, and spiritual practice can be synchronized to carry us into the heart of life’s unimaginable perfection.”—Jack Canf...