Critical Lives

Critical Thinking for Work & Everyday Life Sharpen your thinking. Spot misinformation. Make smarter choices—faster. Do you ever feel overwhelmed by conflicting information? Struggle to know what’s true, or second-guess your decisions at work, online, or at home? You’re not alone. In today’s world, most people are never taught how to think critically. This book makes it simple. Critical Thinking for Work & Everyday Life gives you clear, practical tools to cut through confusion and build lifelong skills you’ll actually use. Inside, you’ll discover how to: Spot fake news, myths, ...

She was twenty-nine, unmarried, and quietly dying of a life that was never hers. Then she found out she might be dying for real — and everything changed. From the author of Anne of Green Gables comes the most surprising novel L. M. Montgomery ever wrote — a book readers are rediscovering and falling in love with all over again. Valancy Stirling is twenty-nine years old and has never lived a single day for herself. Plain, poor, and endlessly belittled by a suffocating clan of relatives who correct her posture and ration her dreams, she escapes only into a private fantasy — the "Blue ...

The Critical Journey, at its core, is a description of the spiritual journey: our response to our faith in God with the resulting changes that follow. In this book, authors Janet O. Hagberg and Robert A. Guelich address the following issues: the struggle to find meaning and wholeness, the crisis of values and identity at mid-life, the quest for self-actualization, the healing of early religious experiences, and questions about the spiritual journey. Their goal is to help us understand where we are on our individual faith journeys and also appreciate where others are in theirs.

*With a foreword from Tim Keller* A bold vision for Christians who want to engage the world in a way that is biblically faithful and culturally sensitive. In Biblical Critical Theory, Christopher Watkin shows how the Bible and its unfolding story help us make sense of modern life and culture...

This annotated edition of Demons includes: • The suppressed chapter "At Tikhon's" — Stavrogin's confession, restored • A 14,000-word critical study, "The Arithmetic of the Absolute" • The real crime behind the novel: the Nechaev murder of 1869 • On the Gadarene swine — how the epigraph is the argument • A full life of Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881) A provincial Russian town, a cell of revolutionaries, and a murder meant to bind them in blood. In 1869 a student named Ivanov was killed by his own revolutionary circle, on the orders of a charismatic young agitator, to weld the ...

Two officers walk through an abandoned house in India and find a nine-year-old girl standing alone in a room — forgotten there when a cholera epidemic killed everyone else, because no one in the house had ever formed the habit of noticing her. That is how Mary Lennox enters her own novel. Twenty-seven chapters later, she has crossed the world alone, taught herself to dress, found a locked garden and a hidden invalid, and talked a boy out of believing himself dying. And then, in the final chapter, without a word of dialogue given to her again, the book forgets her a second time. This ...

This annotated edition of As I Lay Dying includes: • A 15,000-word critical study of Faulkner's method • On the fifteen narrators — and why no one of them sees the whole • A full life of William Faulkner (1897–1962) • The complete 1930 first-edition text (see the Note on the Text) • On the coffin, the river, and "My mother is a fish" A dead woman narrates a chapter of this novel. She is not the strangest thing in it. Addie Bundren is dying, and her family has promised to bury her forty miles away, in her own town. As I Lay Dying is the story of that journey — a decaying ...

Share the innermost feelings of emergency services workers as they encounter trauma, tragedy, redemption, and even a little humor. This audiobook details a progression from innocence to enlightened caregiver to burnout, glimpsing into each stage personally and professionally.

The only real-world safety and independence guide that grows with your child — from ages 5 to 12. How do you raise a child who is safe, confident, independent, and ready for the real world — without raising them to be afraid of it? Every parent knows the tension. You want your child to grow up capable, aware, and strong enough to handle life without you hovering over every decision. But the world they are growing up in is not the same world you knew. Today, “street smart” doesn’t only mean crossing the street safely or knowing not to get into a stranger’s car. It means knowing ...

In a fast-changing world of online risks, social pressure, financial traps, and growing independence, knowing how to think and respond matters more than ever. Raise Street-Smart Kids and Teens by Sofia Visconti delivers 500 practical lessons across two targeted audiobooks.

It was written to win one state's vote, on a printer's deadline, four essays a week, sometimes finished the night before it went to press — and it barely worked. Outside New York City almost no one reprinted it. The publisher was still sitting on unsold copies months after the vote that mattered was already decided. The book that Americans now treat as the authoritative explanation of their own Constitution was, in its own moment, a rushed piece of campaign literature that mostly failed to persuade anyone who wasn't already persuaded. This edition presents the complete text: all eighty-...

What happens when life hangs in the balance at 150 mph — and you're the only one who can save it? Operation Flight Nurse: Real-Life Medical Emergencies takes you inside the cockpit and the chaos of critical care transport. Written by David M. Kaniecki, DNP, APRN-CNP — a flight nurse practitioner with over 20 years of experience in emergency and critical care — this gripping collection of true stories reveals the life-or-death decisions that define flight nursing. Each chapter unfolds a real emergency: a massive heart attack mid-flight, a stroke racing against the clock, a trauma ...

Why can an irrelevant number alter what seems reasonable? Why can a habit survive after it stops helping? Why can a vivid memory feel certain even when some of its details are wrong? The Psychology of Everyday Life brings together 100 short, surprising facts about the patterns that influence ordinary decisions, reactions, relationships, and routines. Organized into five parts, it moves from thinking traps and habits to emotion, social influence, identity, memory, and perception. Established research provides the foundation, but the writing remains clear and no psychological tendency is ...

Everything Agatha Christie would become begins in these thirteen books. This annotated collection includes: • A 15,000-word critical study of the author's first decade • A full life of the author, from wartime dispenser to Queen of Crime • An introduction: how to read the early work • A Note on the Texts and their United States public-domain status • Thirteen complete works, 1920–1930, in one volume Everything the world's best-selling novelist would become begins in these thirteen books. Between 1920 and 1930 an unknown Englishwoman published the novels that invented modern ...

The classic biography of the founder of the Mormon church, this audiobook attempts to answer the questions that continue to surround Joseph Smith. Was he a genuine prophet, or a gifted fabulist who became enthralled by the products of his imagination and ended up being martyred for them? This...

This annotated edition of Sons and Lovers includes: • A 15,000-word critical study, "The Glow on the Horizon" • On the Oedipus complex — and the Freud that Lawrence refused • A full life of D.H. Lawrence, from colliery town to exile • A Note on the Texts: the 1913 first edition, and what it left out • On the mining-village world that made him The title promises love. The novel is about why one of its sons can never manage it. Paul Morel grows up in a Nottinghamshire mining village, between a coarse, drinking collier father he despises and a refined, disappointed mother who has ...

If you were raised by a narcissistic mother and are struggling with the lingering effects of a toxic upbringing, this is the road map you need to heal the past and thrive in the present and future.

Before The Great Gatsby, there was This Side of Paradise — the dazzling, autobiographical first novel that made F. Scott Fitzgerald famous overnight at twenty-three, and announced the arrival of the Jazz Age. When it appeared in 1920, it was like nothing American readers had seen: the story of Amory Blaine — handsome, vain, brilliant, and adrift — moving through prep school, through Princeton, through the First World War and a series of love affairs, searching for who he is in a country that has just thrown off the nineteenth century and does not yet know what will replace it. It ...

"Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven." No poem in English has cast a longer shadow than Paradise Lost — the war in Heaven, the fall of the rebel angels, and the loss of Eden, told on a scale no English poet had ever attempted and none has matched since. Its Satan is the great anti-hero of our literature; its Eden is the garden every later paradise remembers; its influence runs through Blake and Shelley, through Frankenstein, fantasy, and film. It is, by common consent, the greatest epic poem in the English language. It is also famously difficult — and that is the reason for ...

"I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire... I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it." It is one of the greatest novels in the English language — and one of the most demanding. This edition is built to help you read it. The Sound and the Fury tells the story of the fall of the Compsons, a once-proud Southern family rotting from within, through four narrators and across three decades. It opens inside the mind of Benjy, who cannot tell past from present; moves to his ...