Visionary Life

From Alec Nevala-Lee, the author of the Hugo and Locus Award finalist Astounding, comes a revelatory biography of the visionary designer who defined the rules of startup culture and shaped America’s idea of the future. During his lifetime, Buckminster Fuller was hailed as one of the greatest...

From the Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of How to Be an Artist: a deliciously readable survey of the art world in turbulent times Jerry Saltz is one of our most-watched writers about art and artists, and a passionate champion of the importance of art in our shared cultural life...

Erwin Schrödinger Explained: A Beginner’s Guide to Quantum Theory, Life, and the Mind of a Scientific Visionary Explore the life and legacy of one of the most fascinating minds in modern science with Erwin Schrödinger Explained — an accessible, in-depth guide to the revolutionary physicist whose ideas continue to shape the way we understand reality. From the groundbreaking Schrödinger equation to the world-famous “Schrödinger’s cat” thought experiment, this book unpacks the major contributions of a Nobel Prize-winning scientist whose curiosity reached far beyond the lab. Learn...

Yuki Hirano is just out of high school when his parents enroll him, against his will, in a forestry training program in the remote mountain village of Kamusari. No phone, no internet, no shopping. Just a small, inviting community where the most common expression is “take it easy.” At first, Yuki is exhausted, fumbles with the tools, asks silly questions, and feels like an outcast. Kamusari is the last place a city boy from Yokohama wants to spend a year of his life. But as resistant as he might be, the scent of the cedars and the staggering beauty of the region have a pull.

From the bestselling author of Learned Optimism and Authentic Happiness comes “a relentlessly optimistic guidebook on finding and securing individual happiness” (Kirkus Reviews). With this unprecedented promise, internationally esteemed psychologist Martin Seligman begins Flourish, his first...

Henry is a middle-aged, happily married man in the 20th century. After suffering a sudden heart attack, Henry finds himself in the unknown realm of the afterlife. Lost, alone, and confused, he meets Croton. As they embark on their journey together, Croton opens Henry’s eyes to all the beauty of his new reality and all the exploring that awaits him. But not everything is sunshine and rainbows. Henry eventually learns who Croton really is—and that’s when their adventure truly begins.

"Ryōma!" tells the life story of Sakamoto Ryōma, one of the great figures in the turmoil that engulfed Japan in the years before the 1868 Meiji Restoration. The novel is a masterwork by the prolific historical novelist Shiba Ryōtarō and has sold more than 24 million copies in Japan since publication in 1966—and still counting! The novel has everything: a winning main character, an action-packed plot, swordfights, and romance, but it is also a fascinating, easy-to-digest history lesson about Japan’s response to the shocking arrival of United States Commodore Matthew Perry’s “...

An electrifying biography of one of the most extraordinary scientists of the twentieth century and the world he made. The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Nuclear weapons and self-replicating spacecrafts. All bear...

Guru Nanak: The Life, Teachings, and Lasting Influence of Sikhism’s Founding Visionary is a clear and accessible guide to one of history’s most transformative spiritual figures. This book introduces readers to the world into which Guru Nanak was born, the experiences that shaped his vision, and the revolutionary ideas that became the foundation of the Sikh tradition. Drawing on historical accounts, poetic expressions, and the ethical principles he championed, it offers a compelling introduction for anyone seeking to understand Guru Nanak’s message of unity, compassion, and truth. ...

If you’re an entrepreneur, you already know the hustle. You’re spinning plates, managing teams, launching ideas, chasing opportunities—and somehow, you still feel stuck. You’re working harder than ever, yet your impact feels smaller than you expected. Sound familiar? You’re not alone—and you’re not broken. In Visionary, author Mark C. Winters unpacks the real reason so many high-achieving entrepreneurs feel frustrated: they’re doing too much of what they shouldn’t be.

A GROUND-BREAKING EXPLORATION INTO ANOTHER WORLD Visionary encounters have been reported by people throughout history. Abraham Lincoln saw prophetic apparitions that foretold his assassination, Thomas Edison envisioned inventions using these ancient techniques, Salvador Dali used visioning techniques to capture hallucinatory dreams for his art, and General George Patton reported encounters with deceased relatives that inspired him on the battlefields of France. Raymond Moody, MD, the father of near-death studies, rediscovered these ancient techniques, using them to help grieving patients ...

"With the original unabridged text of Supernatural, I offer the reader an investigation that explores the human experience with psychedelics from the Stone Age to the Space Age and the role of these extraordinary plant medicines as tools to investigate the nature of reality itself."—Graham...

Born in an era of rising violence, Black Elk killed his first man at Little Big Horn, witnessed the death of his second cousin Crazy Horse, and traveled to Europe with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show. Upon his return, he was swept up in the traditionalist Ghost Dance movement and shaken by the massacre at Wounded Knee. But Black Elk was not a warrior, and instead chose the path of a healer and holy man, motivated by a powerful prophetic vision that haunted and inspired him.

Described as the "ultimate engineer" during his career at NASA, George M. Low was a visionary architect and leader from the agency's inception in 1958 to his retirement in 1976. As chief of manned spaceflight at NASA, Low was instrumental in the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs. Low's pioneering work paved the way for President Kennedy's decision to make a lunar landing NASA's primary goal in the 1960s.  

Ryōma! tells the life story of Sakamoto Ryōma, one of the great figures in the turmoil that engulfed Japan in the years before the 1868 Meiji Restoration. The novel is a masterwork by the prolific historical novelist Shiba Ryōtarō and has sold more than 24 million copies in Japan since publication in 1966--and still counting! The novel has everything: a winning main character, an action-packed plot, swordfights, and romance, but it is also a fascinating, easy-to-digest history lesson about Japan's response to the shocking arrival of United States Commodore Matthew Perry's "Black Ships" ...

Discover the secrets to transforming chaos into calm , even if your ADHD brain has always rejected traditional organizing methods. I know what it's like to drown in endless clutter that multiplies overnight. Like you, I struggled with executive functioning challenges that made conventional organizing advice feel impossible. Then I discovered something life-changing: our ADHD traits can become our greatest organizational allies rather than obstacles. In "Organizing Solutions for ADHD Decoded," I'll show you how I transformed my ADHD characteristics into organizational superpowers.

In one afterlife you may find that God is the size of a microbe and is unaware of your existence. In another, your creators are a species of dim-witted creatures who built us to figure out what they could not. In a different version of the afterlife you work as a background character in other people’s dreams. Or you may find that the afterlife contains only people whom you remember, or that the hereafter includes the thousands of previous gods who no longer attract followers.

My name is Yeshua. You will know me as Jesus the Christ. But nobody called me that when I was alive. This is my true story. Not the one that was written about me, not the one told in churches, not the one passed down through centuries of interpretation. Mine. My Story: the Life of Yeshua is a metaphysical novel narrated in the first person by Yeshua himself from his birth in the Holy Land, through his ministry and crucifixion, to his escape with his band of brothers to England and then Scotland. He was not the serene, untouchable figure of stained glass. He was brilliant and eccentric, ...

She died in the middle of a sentence. Aurora is fifty-one, and she is winning. In a glass room above Lake Geneva she stands at the head of a table, arguing — for the last time, though nobody there knows it — against the one man alive who could take the Work she has guarded her entire life and hand it to the world. She does not finish the sentence. And the light she has been all her life breaks into sixty-three pieces and falls, burning, across the sleeping earth. A woman beside a frozen sea feels the water go quiet. A midwife in Kildare delivers a child who looks at her. In Hokkaido, a ...

The Seer's Journey explains the importance of having seer prophets in your life and how to become equipped, empowered and provoked to go deeper in understanding the operations of the unseen realm. As you grab ahold of the wisdom in this book you will: *Open your eyes to see with keen sight. *Learn the responsibility of operating as a seer. *Launch into the seer's journey. God created seer's to comprehend times and seasons. Therefore, they walk between the heavens and the earth to convey and speak on behalf of heaven. Even Jesus understood this faucet when he stated, "I only do what I see ...