Political Self

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, the Mistborn series is a heist story of political intrigue and magical, martial-arts action. Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is now on the verge of modernity, with railroads to supplement the...

“Bracing; Jones presents a vision of America as “fallen into... apostasy.” But he remains hopeful, noting that 'backsliding is not irreversible,' as 'repentance is possible...with confession' and the 'acknowledging of difficult truths.' It’s a potent reckoning."—Publishers Weekly From...

In searing dispatches, Love, Me is a timely affirmation for Black women in a world that has undervalued them for centuries. "Thee Black woman’s story for this era. It is both political and personal. It is both timely and, quite frankly, overdue." —Sunny Hostin, Emmy Award-winning journalist...

The first in a sweeping, multi-volume history of Abraham Lincoln—from his obscure beginnings to his presidency, death, and the overthrow of his post-Civil War plan of reconciliation—“engaging and informative and…thought-provoking” (The Christian Science Monitor). From his youth as a...

The words held within these pages, written over two and a half thousand years ago, ring just as true today as they did in fifth century BC China. Bestselling author and master storyteller James Clavell (Shōgun) brought The Art of War to greater prominence in the West in the 1980s and showed how...

The groundbreaking work on trauma that remains a “classic for our generation” (Bessel van der Kolk, MD, author of The Body Keeps the Score) Trauma and Recovery is the foundational text on understanding trauma survivors. By placing individual experience in a political frame, psychiatrist...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER You’re not the man you want to be. Because none of us are. It's a quest, not a destination. Whether you're young and still learning or seasoned but always trying to improve, this book is a list of hard lessons learned through marriage, fatherhood, war, business and...

From politics and religion to workplace negotiations, ace the high-stakes conversations in your life with this indispensable guide from a persuasion expert. "The world would be a better place if everyone read this book." —Richard Dawkins, author of Science in the Soul and Outgrowing God In our...

Psychotherapist and author of Already Enough, Lisa Olivera blends her own personal experience of living with depression with therapeutic wisdom in a moving exploration of the emotional pain each of us lives with to offer readers guidance on holding the ache alongside the beauty. Emotional pain...

Unlock 100 profound quotes from Plato on knowledge, justice, and the examined life. Explore the Theory of Forms, the Allegory of the Cave, and essential political wisdom. Start your philosophical journey today!

In our current cultural moment, we are fractured by political polarization, performative religiosity, consumerism, nationalism, and deepening inequality. Christians need to resist these forces with the alternative spiritual and theological vision of the Jesus Way. Ten Movements of the Jesus Way...

Barbara Ehrenreich's Bright-sided is a sharp-witted knockdown of America's love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realism Americans are a "positive" people—cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat: this is our reputation as well as our self-image. But more than a...

By the year 2094, humanity has won every war it ever waged against itself. Disease, poverty, violence, the slow humiliations of the flesh, all defeated. Not with courage. With a machine, and with a second world raised inside it. Nearly everyone now lives in the Continuum, a civilization of light and consent where cities rearrange to your mood, weather falls only when you approve it, and every citizen wears a flawless second body that never tires, never ages, never fails. Far below, in silent habitation towers, their real bodies rest, breathing on a schedule they did not choose. Two selves ...

This book offers a realistic critical view of certain areas of our society, gives viable options and solutions needed to create a better Society. The reader will be facing a direct language that avoids political correctness or “feel good” semantics. The book is designed to point out weakness in various areas of our society, and provide ways to establish an environment where all citizens will enjoy and reach their maximum human potential. Without sincerely finding and pointing out our present Society’s shortcomings, we will never be able to design the methods by which these ...

Bloomsbury presents On Augustine by Rowan Williams, read by Gordon Griffin Since his retirement as Archbishop of Canterbury and his return to academic life (Master of Magdalene College Cambridge) Rowan Williams has demonstrated a massive new surge of intellectual energy. In this new book he...

Born into slavery in 1818, Frederick Douglass rose to become one of the nation's foremost intellectuals - a statesman, author, lecturer, and scholar who helped lead the fight against slavery and racial oppression. Unlike other leading abolitionists, however, Douglass embraced the US Constitution, insisting that it was an essentially anti-slavery document and that its guarantees for individual rights belonged to all Americans, of whatever race. Douglass spoke in his most popular lecture, "Self-Made Men", of people who rise through their own effort and devotion rather than privilege.

In summer 1968, Anna Rossi flees a burning America with nothing but a restless hunger and a Eurail Pass. She crosses an ocean to escape a country falling apart at the seams, never expecting to find herself on the other side of the world. A trip with a friend through Western Europe transforms into a solo adventure through the landscapes of Cold War Eastern Europe— a descent into culture and memory, and a longing that reaches into the marrow of who she is. Drifting deeper into the region, Anna moves through ancient cities and mountain villages, dances in kafanas, and collects strangers and ...

Epistemic vices are character traits, attitudes, or thinking styles that prevent us from gaining, keeping, or sharing knowledge. In this book, Quassim Cassam gives an account of the nature and importance of these vices, which include closed-mindedness, intellectual arrogance, wishful thinking, and prejudice. In providing the first extensive coverage of vice epistemology, an exciting new area of philosophical research, Vices of the Mind uses real examples drawn primarily from the world of politics to develop a compelling theory of epistemic vice.

In the aftermath of war, a Navy SEAL finds faith, hope, and love. Howard Wasdin, author of SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper (twenty-two weeks on the New York Times best-seller list), survived the firestorm made famous in Black Hawk Down only to return to a world without...

From widespread unemployment and mounting international hostilities, every day we are swept into more political chaos—so one brave man looks to the Star Wars universe for answers to our most urgent problems. “You can’t stop the change — anymore than you can stop the sun from setting.”...