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, ...

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.

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 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 ...

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 book that taught America how to wake up. In 1845, Henry David Thoreau walked into the woods near Walden Pond and built a cabin with his own hands. He stayed for two years, two months, and two days. What he wrote there became one of the most influential works in American philosophy — a radical manifesto for living deliberately in a world that demands conformity. Walden; or, Life in the Woods is not a nature book. It is an experiment in existence. Thoreau asks what happens when you strip life to its essentials — when you refuse the quiet desperation that passes for modern living and ...

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.

This annotated edition of The Pickwick Papers includes: • A 13,000-word critical study, "The Innocent Abroad" • On Sam Weller — the character who made the book a sensation • On the accident that turned a picture-book into a novel • A full life of Charles Dickens (1812–1870) • A reader's guide to Regency inns, coaches, and the law In 1836 an unknown twenty-four-year-old was hired to write the words beneath another man's comic drawings. Eighteen months later he was the most famous writer in the world. The Pickwick Papers is the book that invented Charles Dickens — and, very ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 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 ...

This annotated edition of Hamlet includes: • A 16,000-word critical study, "Frighted With False Fire" • A Note on the Text naming which early text each passage comes from • A full life of Shakespeare — and the thin record behind the legend • The complete, unabridged received text: all five acts • On the three Hamlets of 1603, 1604, and 1623 — and why they differ There is no such object as Hamlet. There are three early printed texts, they disagree, and the play everyone knows is a hybrid of two of them, stitched together by editors in the eighteenth century. No version ...

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 ...

This annotated edition includes: • A critical study, "The Card Index and the Open Range" • On the two Hopalongs — Mulford's original and the one TV made • A full life of Clarence E. Mulford (1883–1956) • Nine complete Bar-20 novels, 1907–1922, in one volume • A reader's map of the saga and its reading order Everyone knows Hopalong Cassidy. Almost no one has met the real one. The Hopalong most people half-remember is a clean-cut, black-clad, teetotal hero of 1950s television — silver-haired, courtly, safe. Clarence E. Mulford's original, the one who came first and the only ...

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.

The Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, Biblical Critical Theory Audio Lectures, Part 1 includes high-quality live recordings of college-level lectures that cover the...

Chip and Dan Heath, the bestselling authors of Switch and Made to Stick, tackle one of the most critical topics in our work and personal lives: how to make better decisions. 　 Research in psychology has revealed that our decisions are disrupted by an array of biases and irrationalities...

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 ...

This annotated edition of White Nights includes: • A critical study, "A Whole Moment of Happiness" • On the Dreamer — a life lived more in imagination than in fact • A full life of Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881) • The complete novella in the classic Garnett translation • On the last lines everyone quotes, and what they cost "My God, a whole minute of bliss! Is that too little for the whole of a man's life?" For four white nights in St. Petersburg — those luminous northern nights when the sun barely sets and the city cannot quite sleep — a lonely young man who has never so ...