Yes, it's you against your 30 billion fat cells! They stay with you forever and can expand to store as much fat asyou choose to stash in them. Fat Wars: 45 Days to Transform Your Body isn't another diet book. Instead, it's the book that will tell you how your body works: how it makes energy, how it stores fuel (fat), how it moves fat around and how to get it to burn that fat instead of putting it into storage. Then Fat Wars will tell you how to take that knowledge to craft an eating and ac...

A beautifully unique feature of Catholic life in the Diocese of Tulsa and Eastern Oklahoma is the presence of the sons of Saint Benedict at Clear Creek Monastery. How they came to be in our midst and what they do for us and with us is a very interesting story. Ted and T. Gavin King have done us a good service in collecting much of that story so we can read it and thank God for Clear Creek and the life of prayer they give us.—Bishop David Konderla,Bishop of the Diocese of Tuls...

They say you love three people in your lifetime, and each of those people teach you a lesson. I’ve only loved one person, and he taught me all the lessons I ever had to learn. Five years ago, my brother died in a car accident and my boyfriend up and left me without as much as a goodbye.To deal with the grief, I moved to Maine and uprooted my career in the only place where I felt at home. I lived a quiet life with my job, my dog, and my best friend, finally coming to terms with the ...

Unleash Your Entrepreneurial Potential with "Darrel J. King: Your Ultimate Guide to Successful Business OwnershipBegin a transforming journey into the core of business with "Darrel J. King." This leading-edge book is something other than another business handbook; it's a guide for acquiring, growing, and flourishing in the domain of business more than ever.Complete Guidance: Explore every facet of the entrepreneurial experience, from develo...

A delightful A-to-Z menagerie of the sea—whimsically illustrated, authoritative, and thought-provoking.For millennia, we have taken to the waves. And yet, for humans, the ocean remains our planet's most inaccessible region, the place about which we know the least. From A to Z, abalone to zooplankton, and through both text and original illustrations, Ocean Bestiary is a celebration of our ongoing quest to know the sea and its creatures.Focusing on i...

Winner of the Bath Novel Award 2020When lonely and socially isolated translator, Gareth, takes up traditional Japanese archery in 1990s Bristol, he learns that to study Kyudo is to reach out, to another culture, another time, other people… But when one of them reaches back, two lives that should never have touched become strangely entangled.In wartime Tokyo, Tanaka Mie finds herself wandering the burned-out ruins of her dead parents' fire-bombed home with onl...

"King's Animals' Best Friends is the most comprehensive exploration I've read of the complex relationship between the human and nonhuman, full of great insights and practical information."—Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times Book Review, "By the Book"Finalist for the 2021 Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental LiteratureAs people come to understand more about animals' inner lives—the intricacies of their thoughts and the emotions ...

In this "invigorating study," a maritime historian delves into the environmental and scientific concerns beneath the surface of Melville's epic tale ( Nature).One of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is also a landmark of nature writing. In conversation with the works of Emerson and Thoreau, this epic of the sea draws on Melville's own travels to the Pacific. The author spent more than three years...

". . . a very important contribution to contemporary debates on economic and political reform in developing countries. Based on interviews King conducted himself, this is an honest, unvarnished examination and critique of propositions that are treated like gospel." —Lisa AndersonIn Liberalization against Democracy, Stephen J. King argues that, in contrast to prevailing views, pro-market economic reforms in Tunisia did not foster democratization. Instead, state-led economic liberali...

A study of the dynamism and persistence of authoritarian rule and the prospects for democracy in Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, and Algeria."[T]his book is important for our understanding of authoritarian persistence, the political economy of economic liberalization and the current breakdown of authoritarian upgrading in the Middle East." — Perspectives on PoliticsStephen J. King considers the reasons that international an...

The author of How Animals Grieve "contends that religion . . . is a consequence of primate evolution" in this "brilliant book" ( Booklist, starred review).Religion has been a central part of human experience since at least the dawn of recorded history. The gods change, as do the rituals, but the underlying desire remains—a desire to belong to something larger, greater, most lasting than our mortal, finite selves.But where did that desire c...

"A touching and provocative exploration of the latest research on animal minds and animal emotions" from the renowned anthropologist and author ( The Washington Post).Scientists have long cautioned against anthropomorphizing animals, arguing that it limits our ability to truly comprehend the lives of other creatures. Recently, however, things have begun to shift in the other direction, and anthropologist Barbara J. King is at the forefront of that movement,...