What if Love holds the key to understanding both life and death?While walking the Camino de Santiago, Dr. Jacques-A. Frigault found himself reflecting on a simple but profound question: What does it truly mean to Love?In Love: Discovering God’s Meaning of Life and Death, he explores three foundations of a meaningful life: Believing, Loving, and Contributing. Drawing on decades of experience as a doctor of psychology, a lifetime of ...

Power does not corrupt everyone. Sometimes, it simply reveals who they already are.In a world where influence can be gained overnight, reputations can be destroyed in minutes, and personal interests are increasingly disguised as public service, leadership has become more dangerous-and more important-than ever.What happens when the people entrusted with influence forget whom they are supposed to serve?Responsible Leader confronts the uncomfortable realities of leader...

Today is a pretty good day to die.That was Marjorie Aunos' thought as her car hit black ice and spun toward an oncoming truck. Unable to feel anything below her neck, she pictured her sixteen-month-old son-and decided to live.A psychologist and single mother who had spent her career advocating for parents with disabilities, Marjorie suddenly found herself confronting those same barriers after a spinal cord injury.Rebuilding her life meant f...

Leading from Within is an invitation to rethink what leadership truly requires and where it actually begins. In a world that rewards visibility, performance, and external results, this book turns the focus inward, to the inner life of the leader, where beliefs are formed, emotions are regulated, values are clarified, and purpose is anchored. Drawing from psychology, spirituality, and lived leadership experience, Dr. Powell challenges the idea that leadership is primarily about managing oth...

Teach toddlers how to express their feelings about a new baby in the family!Toddlers are still learning how to speak, socialize, and react to new things. It's common for them to react with big emotions when a new baby joins the family. What to Do When There's a New Baby in the Family helps toddlers understand their feelings about having a new sibling and encourages them to be the best big brother or sister they can be!This colorful board book offer...

Every day your mind makes thousands of judgements before you are even aware a decision has been made. It decides who to trust in the first three seconds of a conversation, whether a plan is safe enough to try, and whether a nagging doubt about a colleague's motives deserves a second thought or should be dismissed outright. Most of us go through this process on autopilot, trusting the verdicts our minds hand down without ever asking how they were reached. Cultivating Metacognition: A Primer...

What happens when human suffering is close enough to see, yet easy enough to pass by?While moving through New York City, Shelia W. Gilbert witnessed people sleeping on cardboard, resting beneath makeshift shelters, sitting beside discarded food bags, and watching as pedestrians stepped around them. One man sat with his head in his hands while a small black cat remained nearby. Another hurried down the street carrying the crutch he should have been using. These were brief encounters...

Soul's Lessons: Reincarnation examines one of humanity's oldest and most enduring questions: what happens to consciousness after death, and why might the soul return? Written in a formal, reflective style, this nonfiction work explores reincarnation through a wide range of spiritual and philosophical sources, including Gnostic texts, the Book of Enoch, the secret teachings of Christ, Buddhist thought, Hindu traditions, and the metaphysical insights associated with Seth. Rather than reducin...

Life on Our Dynamic Planet explores the forces that shape our world-from weather systems and seasons to the intricate dance between climate and life. The engaging text offers readers keys to understanding how the interaction between atmospheric dynamics, the energy we receive from the sun, ocean circulation, and Earth's yearly journey in the solar system create and maintain the environments we inhabit with millions of other living things. Through clear and approachable writing, it...

The work reported in this book is practical and experiential in nature, rather than analytical or theoretical, and the results are applicable in a wide range of theoretical or philosophical contexts.Theories abound about the nature of gender differences, and of course these theories often contradict each other. For the present work, although we value this spectrum of perspectives, it matters little which theoretical, philosophical, or spiritual perspective the reader holds about th...

The first major work of Yoruba mythology, retelling hundreds of traditional tales of the Orisa, Yoruba Heroes, and Ijapa from West Africa, Cuba, and Brazil.Yoruba mythology is sacred to the religion and culture of the Yoruba people. A primarily oral tradition, its stories revolve around Olodumare, the Supreme Being, and a vast number of divinities or orisa, who govern all aspects of human life and nature.Yoruba Mythology is, to date, the most compr...

Arms control is eroding amid a rapidly changing and increasingly uncertain security environment. In addition to a spate of treaty withdrawals and demises that have occurred since 2002, major powers are militarizing space, and private actors are developing technologies at lightning speed. Thus, there is an urgent need for arms control agreements that incorporate multiple actors and weapons to mitigate uncertainty; yet conditions of increasing uncertainty make reaching such agreements extrem...