If you’ve ever left a doctor’s appointment with a prescription but no plan, a stack of “normal” lab results but no answers, or the feeling that no one actually listened, you’re not alone.In Beyond the Prescription, Dr. Lucy McBride explains why: Modern health care prioritizes transactions over relationships, screens over stories, and data over context. Into that void has stepped a massive wellness industry offering seductive promises of control—“optimize,”...

The greatest threat to our lives isn’t stress or failure—it’s distraction, and *Alive Again*shows us how to reclaim attention, presence, and meaning in an always-on world.Alive Again is for anyone who feels tired, stretched thin, and quietly wonders how life became so full and yet so hard to feel present inside.You may be successful, capable, and deeply committed to your work and your family. Yet beneath the full calendar and const...

Gut Cure 2 reveals the powerful hidden ecosystem inside your body—the microbiome—and shows how it drives digestion, immunity, metabolism, mood, and long-term health. With clear, accessible science and practical steps, this book explains how modern life disrupts gut balance and how simple, evidence-based strategies can restore it. Blending expert insight with the relatable journey of Craig Kim, Gut Cure 2 gives readers a proven roadmap to reduce inflammation, impro...

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 ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is described as the basis of a “fourth industrial revolution” with profound effects to science, industry, and various aspects of society. Rooted in philosophical and technological developments dating back to ancient times in both the West and China, AI has emerged as a powerful force transforming basic relations between humankind and machines.Historical Dictionary of Artificial Intelligence in China gives special attention to t...

In an era of increasingly adversarial geopolitical tensions, how can the United States restore its economic standing on the world stage?The United States and its liberal democratic allies have experienced a steady decline in global economic influence since the end of the Cold War. With the rise of China and other developing economies and against the backdrop of Russia's war of aggression in Ukraine, the United States has found itself less able to leverage trade rel...

In this ground-breaking study, Lyn Ossome offers an authoritative, interdisciplinary theory of how postcolonial capitalist democracies reproduce the gendered forms of violence essential to colonial rule.Focussing on postcolonial African states, and using an interdisciplinary methodology that combines insights from political studies, feminist political economy, historical studies, and literary studies, Ossome shows how postcolonial, capitalist democracies in Africa,...

A powerful exploration of how emotions like rage, grief, and pride drive ethnic conflict and shape political life.The Affective Forces of Ethnic Politics: But Look What They Did to Us! offers a bold intervention into the study of ethnic conflict, challenging the idea that fear, interests, or elite manipulation are the primary drivers of violence. Instead, it reveals how humiliation, grief, pride, and spite, or the affective forces of ethnic politics

This study of Dick Diver's acclaimed 2013 album, Calendar Days, discusses the work within its cultural and historical context.Critically acclaimed upon its 2013 release, Dick Diver's album Calendar Days was consistently praised for its “Australianness.” Across the album's 11 tracks, the group poeticize the banality of daily life and distil it into melodic pop music that leans on colloquial language and references sung in thick Australian accents, ...

A Classicist and long-time member of Alcoholics Anonymous explores how Roman Stoicism can illuminate and strengthen the practices of 12-step recovery. Drawing on years of teaching ancient philosophy and more than a decade of lived sobriety, Michael Mascio offers a deeply informed, accessible account of why Epictetus, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius speak powerfully to contemporary recovery. Roman Stoicism, he argues, is fundamentally therapeutic-a philosophy explicitly crafted...

In the first major book on the Senate of Pakistan since its creation in 1973, Dilawar Hussain explores its institutional history, membership, constitutional powers and key functions and how these have changed since the introduction of the Eighteenth Constitutional Amendment in 2010.This book provides empirical flesh to the assumption that, in a federal state, a second chamber is needed to accommodate regional concerns at a federal level. The author explores the ins...

Stephen Sharot traces the evolution of male stardom from its beginnings in 1909 through the United States' entrance into World War II in 1941, highlighting the influence of a changing American society on masculine identity and ideals.Drawing on conceptual frameworks from both sociology and film studies including hegemonic masculinity, the civilizing process, and star studies, Sharot analyzes the various masculinities adopted by male stars like Richard Barthelmess, ...