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.

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.

In Critical Connections, renowned sociologist and author Dr. Tracy Brower delivers inspiration and pragmatic new insights on community and connection that you can use in your own life to build belonging, find and make friends, and create a happier life. The author explains how you can avoid bad friendships, reconnect with old friends, deepen existing friendships, and start a new friend group.

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 ...

The Wisdom of Socrates: Understanding and Applying Socratic Philosophy to Everyday Life is a clear, accessible introduction to one of history’s most influential philosophers. Whether you're new to philosophy or seeking practical wisdom for everyday life, this book helps you explore and apply the timeless teachings of Socrates in modern times. Through engaging chapters, you'll discover: The life and legacy of Socrates How to use the Socratic Method to think clearly and challenge assumptions What "Know Thyself" really means—and how it can transform your life How to live ethically and ...

*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...

Critical Thinking for Everyday Decisions Uncover the power of clear thinking with Critical Thinking for Everyday Decisions—a practical, beginner-friendly guide designed to help you think smarter, solve problems faster, overcome cognitive biases, analyze information more effectively, and make confident decisions in your personal and professional life. Whether you’re dealing with everyday challenges or complex decisions, this book teaches simple critical thinking methods that anyone can learn—including students, professionals, leaders, parents, and anyone who wants to improve their ...

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 ...

This isn't just about self-esteem; it's about equipping your teen to navigate both mental and physical challenges, laying a foundation for a fulfilling life. This guide goes beyond textbooks, offering essential life skills like effective communication, decision-making and problem-solving. From cooking to cleaning and driving a car, we've got it all covered.

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.

This compelling #1 New York Times bestseller examines the legacy of slavery in America—and how both history and memory continue to shape our everyday lives. Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks—those that...

Fooled by Randomness is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are The Black Swan, Antifragile...

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...

The most important literary biography in the English language — written by a novelist about a novelist, by a friend about a friend, and published four months after Charlotte Brontë's death. When Elizabeth Gaskell sat down in 1855 to write the life of Charlotte Brontë, she faced a problem no biographer had faced before: her subject was both a woman and a genius, in an age that was uncertain whether those two things could coexist. The woman who had written Jane Eyre — who had scandalized reviewers, been accused of coarseness and immorality, been suspected of being a man — needed to be...

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...

Davidsons Audiobooks presents: Basic Life Support (BLS) Audio Study Guide When every second matters and every breath counts, the knowledge of Basic Life Support is more than a skill—it's a lifeline. Whether you're a healthcare professional renewing certification, a student entering clinical rotations, or someone determined to be ready when it counts, this BLS audiobook study guide delivers the clarity, repetition, and reinforcement you need—wherever life takes you.

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 ...

The definitive guide to healing medical trauma—weaving together scientific research with patient stories and evidence-based therapies—from James C. Jackson, PsyD, a Vanderbilt University-trained licensed psychologist specializing in neuropsychology and cognitive rehabilitation. Medical...

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 ...