'Masterful' GEORGE AINSLIE'A fascinating tour of risk taking in the natural world' ADAM KUCHARSKI'A sweeping and page-turning story' NICK CHATER'A fascinating and challenging explanation of how the secrets to human success may be our downfall' PSYCHOLOGY TODAYEvolution is a series of bets, and no animal gambles the way humans do. This has led us to unprecedented ecological dominance...

It is widely believed that economic development in much of the world is not happening quickly enough. Indeed, the standard of living in some parts of the world has actually been declining. Many experts now doubt that the solution can be purely technical and economic; it must also be political and moral.This book brings together contributions from leading authorities, such as Joseph Stiglitz, Jean-Jacques Laffont and Daniel Hausman, on economics and political philosophy to survey cu...

"An elegant, convincing, and deeply humanist approach to understanding our resistance to change" (David A. Kessler, MD, author of The End of Overeating).Why do we refuse to change habits and behaviors we know are harmful to us?Clinician and thought leader in the mental health and addiction fields Dr. Ross Ellenhorn suggests that we're often looking in the wrong direction when we try to decipher the factors that support change. In his research and wor...

CRIME AND MYSTERY STORIES BY20 VENDORS OF VILLAINYMystery Writers of America is pleased to present this sinister volume of larceny, deception, and murder, brought to you by the very finest purveyors of perfidy.Donald E. Westlake tells a tale of a cheating wife who tries to turn the tables on her blackmailer, only to find herself caught in a bigger web of lies than she could have imagined. From Robert Bloch comes a story of a man whose ve...

Miguel de Cervantes' "Don Quijote" gilt als Wegbereiter des modernen Romans und entführt die Leser in die Welt eines von Ritterromanen besessenen Bauern, der beschließt, selbst zum Ritter zu werden. Der Text ist reich an satirischen Elementen und stellt die Ideale des Rittertums in einer sich wandelnden Gesellschaft in Frage. Cervantes nutzt einen innovativen narrativen Stil, der zwischen den Ebenen der Realität und der Phantasie oszilliert, wodurch er tiefgreifende Themen wie Identität, W...

This book teaches a way of approaching storytelling - restraint. The writer no longer asks how much to show. They ask where to direct attention.This is the point at which the reader truly becomes a collaborator. Not because the writer has abdicated responsibility, but because they have learned where responsibility ends.A confident, restrained narrative does not feel incomplete. It feels spacious. It allows the reader to move, to interpret, to remember.And perhaps mo...

"High-fantasy storytelling in the style of His Dark Materials or Lord of the Rings," this Polish legend retelling is "truly thrilling" ( Booklist).A fierce young queen, neither human nor lynx, who fights to protect a forest humans have long abandoned.An exhausted young soldier, last of his name, who searches for the brother who disappeared beneath those trees without a trace.A Golden Dragon, fearsome and vengeful, whose wi...

In Don't Take This the Wrong Way, Magowan and Ross probe the stories we tell each other and ourselves. The characters in these 25 stories deceive and manipulate, they scrutinize and admonish, but also, they earnestly seek to draw meaning from the flotsam of their lives. Two friends mocking the needy, sancitmonious co-worker they call "the Kindness Woman,'' confront their own painful longing for someone to accept them. A woman who developed unusually acute vision during the last st...

The final instalment in the Ross O'Carroll-Kelly series* * *It looked like it was Game Over for the Rossmeister General.I was staring down the barrel of the big four-oh! And what did I have to show for it?I was an out-of-work rugby coach who was soon to be divorced. My old dear was sliding away in a nursing home in a certain suburb of West Dublin. And my old man had brought the country to the verge of, like, nuclear a...

Music does not make itself. It is made by people: professionals and amateurs, singers and instrumentalists, composers and publishers, performers and audiences, entrepreneurs and consumers. In turn, making music shapes those who make it—spiritually, emotionally, physically, mentally, socially, politically, economically—for good or ill, harming and healing. This volume considers the social practice of music from a Christian point of view. Using a variety of methodological perspectives, the e...

Explore the creative ways music educators across the country are approaching emerging practices in music teaching and learning. Outlined in twenty-five unique case studies, each program offers a new perspective on music teaching and learning, often falling outside the standard music education curriculum. Find innovative ideas and models of successful practice to incorporate into your teaching, whether in school, university, or community settings. Close the gap between music inside and outs...

A paradigm-shifting, instant classic in the making that challenges our assumptions about change by encouraging us to understand and embrace our resistance to it.We all have something we want to change about ourselves. But whether it's quitting smoking, losing weight, or breaking some common bad habit or negative behaviour pattern, we feel a sense of failure when we don't succeed. This often sets off a cascade of negative feelings and discouragement, making it even ...