Clinical neuropsychologist and learning disorder expert Dr. Katie Davis offers a new, illuminating approach to child development, helping you to support your child through their challenges—without leaping to a diagnosis.As parents, we want nothing more than our child to thrive in each stage of development. Seeing them struggle in that process can be difficult, but sometimes, it’s normal. After years of research, Dr. Davis suggests that a diagnosis isn’t al...

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...

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...

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...

“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...

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...

Feminist Apocalypse explores how the post-apocalypse is best seen as a narrative mode rather than genre, and its use in cinematic narrative began in the 1950s, largely fueled by the Cold War and fear of nuclear annihilation.In this book, Ezekiel Crago argues early post-apocalyptic films were primarily concerned with the plight of their usually white male protagonist, but this changed in the 1980s, as films and television shows started focusing instead on w...

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...

A literary-historical study of one of the most recurrent motifs in French and Francophone literature – the arrival in Paris – focusing on how it has been employed to explore the idea of Paris as a site of liberation.For centuries, people have attached various dreams to Paris. It is the capital of light, love, intellectualism, fashion, gastronomy, and revolution. Paris is also associated with freedom – whether sexual, social, intellectual, individual, or political. ...

The first detailed discussion of Richard Rorty's understanding of literature and aesthetics, which engages with a broad range of writers, including Emerson, Nietzsche, and Proust.For most of his career, at least since the publication of Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature in 1979, Richard Rorty called his readers' attention to the importance of the poet's work. Indeed, Ulf Schulenberg argues that Rorty's version of pragmatism should be regarded as a poetic...