It's Time to Play the Long Game in Healing Family RelationshipsFamilies were never meant to be divided. Yet in today’s culture, differences in beliefs, values, politics, faith, and life choices can create painful distance between parents and their adult children. Conversations become arguments. Silence replaces connection. Relationships that once felt secure begin to fracture.In Parents vs. Adult Children, Dan Seaborn,Dr. Peter Newhouse, and member...

A powerful reimagining of the ancient Indian Ramayana epic.This retelling of the Ramayana is a deeply Javanese story, shaped by folklore and spiritual reflection. Rama's quest to rescue Sinta from the ogre Rahwana becomes a meditation on imperfection and the human struggle toward goodness. At its center is the anak bajang child—an unseen, mysterious being who restores balance to a world in chaos. Neither god nor hero, the bajang embodies innocence and quie...

The new mom's guide to recognizing what is and isn't normal after childbirthNew motherhood changes everything--your body, your brain, your emotions. But there comes a point when fatigue, brain fog, mood changes, hair loss, weight gain, and other notorious postpartum symptoms no longer fall under the category of "normal" and instead signal a deeper health issue. Many common postpartum symptoms are exactly the same as those of chronic health conditions that can be tr...

Tales from Vedas and Puranas for ChildrenIntroduce your child to the rich world of Indian mythology with this beautifully illustrated storybook. Illustrated Tales from Vedas and Puranas brings together stories of gods, demons, sages, and kings from India’s ancient scriptures. Children will read about Shukracharya’s quest for immortality, Garuda’s brave rescue, King Harishchandra’s honesty, and many more inspiring tales. Each story is written in simple language, filled with adventure...

“A timely reminder that we are not just our brains. Arm yourself against the forces of misinformation by reading this book!”—Gina Rippon, author of The Gendered BrainChallenge everything you think you know about your brain. Expose the myths. Embrace the complexity. Transform your understanding of human nature and behavior.Modern culture bombards us with seductive brain myths—from the "left-brain/right-brain" fallacy to dopamine bei...

Lioness is a comprehensive leadership guide for women who are ready to lead with confidence and reclaim their power at work.As an executive coach and training facilitator, Dr Mel Milton-Smith has worked with hundreds of women across industries and career stages. Time and again, she’s found the same pattern: capable women who have every reason to be confident, yet walk into rooms with quiet voices, minimized selves, and a tendency to play s...

Ko Woon Lee examines the ways in which the rule, or kingdom, of God is manifested and operates in the narrative of the Gospel of Mark. Lee presents an innovative approach by applying Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy, particularly their three abstract lines, to biblical hermeneutics. While traditional Markan scholarship has focused on secrecy and narrative structure, Lee argues that the rule of God should be understood as a dynamic force that operates across various planes...

Bad Faith and the Culture War retraces recent campaigns against “wokeness” to a convergence of colorblind ideologies that insidiously entrench traditional racism beneath a veneer of “common sense.”Probing interconnections between legal originalism, cultural invocations of “Western tradition,” and reactionary backlash to Critical Race Theory and antiracist activism, Amien Kacou devises an eclectic political psychology approach that exposes ...

An exploration of how contemporary horror films focusing on the internet engage with society's material, functional and ideological reorientation to new digital realities, this book shows how subjects can resist the age of data capitalism and the authority of the algorithm.Upending the notion that the horror genre – arguably the seismograph of cultural unease – has remained unresponsive to the unprecedented dangers of the digital age, The Post-Internet...

This book examines the experiences of West Virginia teachers on strike in 2018 and 2019. Sara Hardman employs a political-aesthetic framework to assess the impact of the embodied, affective, and aesthetic dimension of the strikes, rather than the tangible outcome of the strikes (e.g. pay conditions or redundancies). She argues that the intangible outcomes of teacher strikes comprise a political-aesthetic education that expands the possibilities for how teachers can live w...

A landmark and critical edition presenting the English translations of Cesare Pavese's film treatments for the first time along with complete correspondences with Hollywood actresses the Dowling Sisters and unearthed interviews.Offering a comprehensive collection of Cesare Pavese's film treatments, this volume includes the previously unpublished English translation of The Serpent and the Dove, translated by Pavese himself in collaboration with Doris Dowlin...

Melissa Beattie explores the promises and pitfalls of fabricated nations as a setting and subject of fictional narratives, interrogating the methods and motivations of their creation and, more importantly, who they purport to represent.Drawing upon aesthetics, industrial analyses, and postcolonial theory, Beattie argues that in (re)combining elements of real nations into constructed ones, we introduce the opportunity for existing perceived-stereotypes to be either ...