Literature & Ideas is the fifth volume in The Human Record. It turns from the world we discover to the words and ideas we use to make sense of it: 126 discussion cards arranged in six groups, from The Spoken and the Written through The Shapes of Story, How to Live How to Die, The Word and the World, and The Inner World, closing with How We Live Together. Each card is built around a single work or idea and the knowledge behind it, something worth knowing and worth talking about. Made for gu...

Art & Music is the third volume in The Human Record. It moves the series from the world's past into the world we make: 126 discussion cards arranged in six groups, from First Images & First Songs through The Sacred Arts, Masters, Makers & Patrons, The Performing World, and Breaking the Frame, closing with The Modern Eye & Ear. Each card is built around a single work, maker, or idea and the knowledge behind it, something worth knowing and worth talking about. Made for guides, families, clas...

Science & Wonder is the fourth volume in The Human Record. It turns the series from the world we make to the world we discover: 126 discussion cards arranged in six groups, from The Sky Above Us through The Living Earth, The Invisible World, Pattern & Proof, and The Body & the Brain, closing with The Method & the Frontier. Each card is built around a single discovery, instrument, or question and the knowledge behind it, something worth knowing and worth talking about. Made for guides, fami...

Culture Générale is the first volume in The Human Record, a series built to start real conversations. Inside are 260 discussion cards arranged in thirteen groups, moving from Wonder & Discovery and The Natural World through Words & Language, The Ancient World, Art & Beauty, Philosophy & Ideas, and Geography & Place. Each card opens onto something worth knowing and worth talking about. Made for guides, families, classrooms, and curious readers, the book treats general knowledge not as trivi...

People & Society is the sixth and final volume in The Human Record. It turns from the words and ideas we think with to the lives we actually share: 126 discussion cards arranged in six groups, from Kinship & Custom through Work & the Marketplace, Law & Judgment, Power & the State, and Movements & Change, closing with The City & the Commons. Each card is built around a single institution, struggle, or idea and the knowledge behind it, something worth knowing and worth talking about. Made fo...

Sawubona, a Zulu greeting, ‘I see you and welcome your presence.' A beautiful sentiment, the embodiment of paying attention, ‘I notice you. I am with you. You are not invisible.’ Inside this book are stories by writers who have done exactly that.They have opened their eyes and hearts to people, places, objects, joys, griefs and small acts of survival. Embraced what is broken, funny, tender, nearly invisible.No heroes in capes. No grand speeches. Just human beings on a share...

History & Place is the second volume in The Human Record. It carries the structure readers know from Culture Générale into new ground: 126 discussion cards arranged in six groups, from Origins & First Civilizations through Empires & Exchanges, Encounters & Upheavals, Revolutions & Industries, and Modern Crossroads, closing with an atlas of the places that made us. Each card is built around a single moment, figure, or place and the knowledge behind it, something worth knowing and worth talk...

When life applies pressure, you are not meant to break; you are meant to rise. This book is a guide to transforming every season of testing into a season of becoming.Life will test you through infertility, grief, career, love, the pursuit of happiness, and the search for identity and purpose, among countless other trials.Rise Above It, Rise In It is a masterclass in resilient living and purposeful becoming, blending hard-earned wisdom with practical mindset shifts. It shows...

This volume traces the historical development of Lutheran churches in southern Africa from colonial establishment through apartheid to contemporary unity efforts. The study examines mission-to-church transitions, responses to apartheid, and multiple attempts at achieving unity including the formation of FELCSA, LUCSA, and includes:Comprehensive historical analysis of Lutheran churches in southern Africa from colonial establishment to contemporary unity effortsExamin...

We live in a culture that produces hopelessness with astounding consistency. When everything seems chaotic and we are faced with a multitude of negative realities, we might be tempted to say that nothing makes sense anymore. But we are not alone—God walks with us and his presence fills us with hope. Because of this we are able to smile in the midst of our di culties. Despair is defeated because God is with us. Hope does not disappoint! What gives you hope? What are your hopes and dreams—fo...

**THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • A KIRKUS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR • In this intimate legal and historical detective story, the world-renowned lawyer and acclaimed author of East West Street traces the footsteps of two of the twentieth century’s most merciless criminals—accused of genocide and crimes against humanity—testing the limits of immunity and impunity after Nuremberg.“Though nearly a decade in the making, this book could...

Surprises await a clever Black French Canadian teen when he's forced to attend high school in Austin, Texas, in this hilarious contemporary YA novel.William C. Morris YA Debut Award Winner!"A witty debut with whip-smart dialogue that will find much love among fans of authors like John Green and Jason Reynolds." — SLJ (starred review)Meet Norris Kaplan. As a Black French Canadian who has been recently plunked i...