"Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. Her name is Wild Woman, but she is an endangered species. Though the gifts of wildish nature come to us at birth, society's attempt to 'civilize' us into rigid roles has plundered this treasure, and muffled deep, life-giving messages of our own souls. Without Wild Woman, we become overdomesticated, fearful, uncreative, trapped."In her n...

The companion book to COURSERA®'s wildly popular massive open online course "Learning How to Learn"Whether you are a student struggling to fulfill a math or science requirement, or you are embarking on a career change that requires a new skill set, A Mind for Numbers offers the tools you need to get a better grasp of that intimidating material. Engineering professor Barbara Oakley knows firsthand how it feels to struggle with math. She flunked her way thro...

Ready to finally understand Italian without translating every word? Then Speak the World: Italian is for you! In her signature clear and engaging style, Margherita Berti PhD, brings the language to life with culture, stories, and real-world expressions.Through 200 selected words and phrases, along with cultural insights, real-life context, and memorable anecdotes, Margherita Berti, founder of Italian Matters and educator to millions worldwide, guides you i...

An invitation for any clinician wanting to adopt body-based therapies into their practice.This expansive guide is the harvest of Amber Gray’s three decades of experience as a somatic and dance/movement psychotherapist working with survivors of oppression, war, and other severe traumas. From this challenging work, Dr. Gray has sourced innovative pathways to healing, utilizing the emergent wisdom of Polyvagal Theory as a guidepost for somatic and movement-based psych...

Why do we speak the same language, use the same money, or trust a screw to fit every time?Everything on our planet is underwritten by standards. Behind every leap in human progress is a quiet agreement: a shared standard that lets us build on each other's work.In The Screw that Changed the World, Dr. Karl Turner journeys through time and technology, starting with the genetic codes that turned microbes into world-makers. Then, he examines the rise o...

This book provides an eleven-lesson Bible study in prophecy. Each class includes: a teacher's manual, student handouts, and scriptural references. "It is the glory of God to conceal a matter: to search it out is the glory of kings" (Proverbs 25:2). This book was written for all to discover His greatness in fulfilled and yet-to-be-fulfilled prophecies. Scripture tells us that God does not act without first revealing His purpose (Amos 3:7). Throughout the Bible, God invites His people to dis...

Theologian Ben Michael Carter embarks on a remarkable comparative study of two towering figures separated by centuries and continents: the Japanese Buddhist reformer Shinran Shonin (1173-1262) and the German Christian reformer Martin Luther (1483-1546). Dr. Carter explores how each, within his own tradition, wrestled through spiritual crisis to proclaim a revolutionary truth-that salvation is the unmerited gift of grace, received through faith alone.With clarity and depth, Dr. Ben ...

Our brains are doing our best to help us out, but they can be real assholes sometimes. Sometimes it seems like your own brain is out to get you—melting down in the middle of the grocery store, picking fights with your date, getting you addicted to something, or shutting down completely at the worst possible moments. You already told your brain firmly that it isn't good to do these things. But your brain has a mind of its own. That's where this book comes in. With humor, patience, and lots ...

Your mind spends most of its time dreaming. It's time to wake up.Our ability to think abstractly is humanity’s superpower. It gave us language, art, science, and civilization. Before a wheel was built, it was imagined. Before a law was written, it was conceived. Abstraction lets us plan, create, and transcend our immediate circumstances.But this gift has a shadow. The same mind that builds bridges also builds prisons—of worry, comparison, and endless mental chatter. We fret...

The Cold War never ended—because Communism was never defeated.For more than a century, the United States has been locked in an ideological war most Americans do not perceive. In America’s Hundred Years’ War, Dr. Bradley A. Thayer argues that the struggle against Communism did not end with the fall of the Soviet Union—it evolved, spread, and embedded itself within American politics, institutions, and culture, and Western civilization.Tracing the roo...

An indispensable, first-of-its-kind roadmap for parents and educators of neurodivergent children, packed with science-backed strategies and real-life stories to help every child thrive in—and beyond—the classroomYour neurodivergent child is growing up in a world that wasn’t built for them. A world that asks them to sit still, learn in the same way as everyone else, and thrive in a system that too often ignores their unique strengths. Because of the way their brain ...

From survival of the fittest to survival of the most conscious, discover a revolutionary scientific message of hope for humanity's future.For over a century, Darwin’s concept of “survival of the fittest,” or life as competition, has shaped the fate of civilization. Renowned cell biologist Bruce H. Lipton, bestselling author of The Biology of Belief, presents a paradigm-shattering synthesis built on three key fields unknown to Darwin: epigenetics, quantum p...