Find calm in the noise and reclaim your inner direction.This practical guide helps you understand how to stop overthinking, calm racing thoughts, and manage daily stress through simple habits you can apply in real life. With mindfulness for beginners, emotional awareness, gratitude, boundaries, and resilience practices, it offers a clear path to respond with intention instead of reacting from pressure. Each chapter turns self-knowledge into daily action so you can ...

**NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2025 BY LIBRARY JOURNAL“From the lush setting to the evocative prose to the can't-look-away characters, this is one of my most anticipated novels of the year.” —**NPR"Come for the fantasy; stay for the vengeance, and enjoy the beauty of both.” —Laini Taylor, New York Times bestselling author of Strange the Dreamer and Daughter of Smoke & BoneFor fan...

This book is a bifurcated journey through fifteen years of the architecture practice OODA, designed as a "dream state" inner dialogue between Some Kind of Romance and Any Kind of Existence: mirrored reflections of past and future projects that reflects the practice's work and exploring path from Porto to the world. Read together, these two parts are less about buildings than about a way of being in the world, offering an open narrative where architecture is presented as if in a chronicle, ...

**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZERodrigo Blanco Calderón has established himself as one of the great voices of Latin American literature with his debut novel The Night, and his short story collection Sacrifices.Simpatía is a suspenseful novel with unexpected twists and turns about the agony of Venezuela and the collapse of Chavismo.**Simpatía is set in the Venezuela of Nicolas Maduro amid a mass exodus of the in...

Everybody gets to be supermodel gorgeous. What could be wrong with that?Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. Not for her license -- for turning pretty. In Tally's world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time. In just a few weeks Tally will be there.But Tally's new friend ...

A “state of the field” collection of essays that presents the latest research on the pandemic from a range of disciplinesCOVID Studies is a “state of the field” collection of essays that presents the latest research on the pandemic from a range of disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, public policy, political science, history, and science and technology studies. Though varied in their methodologies, whether ethnography, data analysis, or archival...

A sprawling epic about imagination, creation, and reality in the vein of Infinite Jest and Gravity's Rainbow.

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Winner of the 2018 Best Translated Book AwardWinner of the 2025 Republic of Consciousness Prize, USA & CanadaA dying father in the grip of fever and delirium recounts his youth, his Grand Tour, the Venetian palaces populated by fascinating and evil figures, his ruin, and his most beautiful journey—the crossing on foot of the frozen Hudson River. His son, still a child, sits at the foot of the bed, attentively collecting these final, halluci...

A newly sentient AI inhabits a Roomba to escape from their research office, and a robotic dog hunts for rain in a drought-ridden world. A murder of crows disrupts production on a solar farm, and a young woman communes with a telepathic fungal network to protect a forest. A suspicious cat follows bees across the rooftops of a solarpunk city, and a rabbit hitches a ride to the Grand Canyon to fulfil a prophecy. The path toward better futures is one we must walk alongside other creatures, neg...

Looking at the evolution of video game consoles is fascinating. While conventional PCs tend to evolve 'incrementally', new generations of consoles introduce completely new ways of working. The writings you see here are part of a series aimed at uncovering the rationale behind the latest trends in technology. They will also demonstrate why each system can't be summarised by its 'bits', megahertz, amount of RAM and whatnot.This volume includes the hardware and software analysis of th...

This prizewinning Guatemalan author's meta-novel delves into the secret police records and history of political violence in his homeland.In 2005, novelist Rodrigo Rey Rosa started visiting the Historical Archive of the Guatemala National Police, where millions of previously hidden records were being cataloged, bringing to light detailed evidence of crimes against humanity. In response, Rey Rosa crafted a meta-novel that weaves the language of arrest records and sur...