From the soul of the streets comes a voice you can't ignore.GHETTONOMICS: A Poetic Therapy is a powerful collection of spoken-word style poetry that brings raw emotion, unfiltered truth, and spiritual resilience from the heart of urban America.Melvin Smith shares his journey through pain, poverty, fatherhood, injustice, faith, addiction, love, and survival in the ghettos of New York. These poems are a mirror held up to society-bold, unapologetic, and brimming with ...

You're trying to help—but is it working?Helping others is a good thing. Often, as a leader, manager, doctor, teacher, or coach, it's central to your job. But even the most well-intentioned efforts to help others can be undermined by a simple truth: We almost always focus on trying to "fix" people, correcting problems or filling the gaps between where they are and where we think they should be. Unfortunately, this doesn't work well, if at all, to inspire sustained l...

You're trying to help--but is it working?Helping others is a good thing. Often, as a leader, manager, doctor, teacher, or coach, it's central to your job. But even the most well-intentioned efforts to help others can be undermined by a simple truth: We almost always focus on trying to "fix" people, correcting problems or filling the gaps between where they are and where we think they should be. Unfortunately, this doesn't work well, if at all, to inspire sustained ...

In the early 20th century, explorers navigating the desolate Taklamakan Desert in western China stumbled upon a discovery that shattered the conventional timeline of human migration. Buried in the arid sands were hundreds of perfectly preserved mummies—but they did not look Chinese. These bodies, dating back 4,000 years, possessed light hair, angular cheekbones, and were dressed in finely woven tartan wool resembling Celtic fabrics. They were buried in wooden boats, upside down in a sea of...