California is at a tipping point. Severe budget deficits, unsustainable pension costs, heavy taxes, cumbersome regulation, struggling cities, and distressed public schools are but a few of the challenges that policymakers must address for the state to remain a beacon of business innovation and economic opportunity. City Journal has for years been cataloging the political and economic issues of our nation's largest metropolitan areas, and in this collection compiled and introduced by City J...

Since the original publication of this seminal work, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) has come into its own as a widely practiced approach to helping people change. This book provides the definitive statement of ACT--from conceptual and empirical foundations to clinical techniques--written by its originators. ACT is based on the idea that psychological rigidity is a root cause of a wide range of clinical problems. The authors describe effective, innovative ways to cultivate psycholo...

‘Abd al-Rahman b. ‘Amr al-Awza‘i (c.707–774) was Umayyad Syria’s most influential jurist, part of a generation of scholars who began establishing the first formal structures for the preservation and dissemination of religious knowledge. Following the Abbasid revolution, they provided a point of stability in otherwise unstable times.Despite his close ties to the old regime, al-Awza‘i continued to participate in legal and theological matters in the Abbasid era. Although his immediate...

How to remain fresh, focused, creative, productive, and healthy in the face of enormous stress is an important challenge facing leaders within the modern organization, regardless of the organization or the level of leadership. Providing a way to successfully address this challenge is the primary goal of this book. The book recognizes that stress can actually be a positive force for enhancing performance if it is managed effectively, offering an optimistic message for leaders facing ongoing...

This book supplies the evolutionary and genetic framework that Charles Murray, towards the end of Coming Apart: The State of White America 1960-2010, predicts will one day explain revolutionary change in American society. Murray’s Coming Apart documents 50 years of changed college admissions, government incentives, mating and migration patterns that have wrought national divisions across indexes of marriage, industriousness, honesty, and religiosity. The framework discuss...

Magic and adventure abound in this second book in the Dragon Lad trilogy.Tale of the Talisman follows our young dragon-hatched hero as he seeks his parents, his past and his destiny in Roman-ruled Britannia. A boy without a history—at least one that he can remember—Dirk turns to his shape-shifting friends for help. They launch him on a quest involving the one clue he has to his previous existence: a magic talisman.The wizard Beldor gives Dirk a ring that a...

The eleven-year collaboration between Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann is often called the greatest director-composer partnership in cinema history. Their eight films together include such classic thrillers as Vertigo, The Man Who Knew Too Much, North by Northwest, Psycho, and The Birds. In Hitchcock and Herrmann, Steven C. Smith delivers an intimate account of how the reserved, but deeply anxious, Hitchcock found his ideal creativ...

"Organized" and "innovation" are words rarely heard together. But an organized approach to innovation is precisely what America needs today. This book presents a blueprint for coordinating technology breakthroughs to advance America's global competitiveness and prosperity. That prosperity is at risk. As other nations bolster technology innovation efforts, America's research, development, and commercialization enterprise is falling behind. An "innovation gap" has emerged in recent decades, ...

The Myrrosil Chronicles follows Cyrus Farrington through a harrowing journey in another world. From beginning to end of this five-part tale, there is romance, treachery, adventure, and an ever-present mystery that revolves around our protagonist: the strange artifact known as Dawn's Touch. This series will take you through the depths and heights of a wondrous plane known as Myrrosil, ripe with magic and mystique. Prepare to find yourself questioning who is good, who is evil, and who is cau...

Now more than ever—it’s time to get out of your mind and into your life! This evidence-based ACT workbook can help you get started.If you’re struggling with painful thoughts and emotions, anxiety about the future, depression, the effects of trauma, job stress, or anger, this game-changing workbook—now in a special 20th anniversary edition—can help you build the psychological flexibility needed to reduce your suffering and commit to living your life based on what ma...

The fascinating, true account of the quest for one of the Old Testament’s most infamous cities.Like many modern-day Christians, Dr. Steven Collins struggled with what seemed to be a clash between his belief in the Bible and the research regarding ancient history—a crisis of faith that inspired him to put both his education and the Bible to the test by embarking on an expedition that has led to one of the most exciting finds in recent archaeology. Recounting Dr. Collins’s quest for Sodom in...

THE ULTIMATE RESPONSIBILITY OF CHANGING CULTURE LIES WITHIN US. THE MOST EFFECTIVE MEANS TO CHANGE CULTURE, OR CHANGE SOME OF THE SOCIALLY ACCEPTED NORMS WITHIN ANY SETTING, IS TO GET THE TRAINING TO INDIVIDUALS THROUGH SELF-AWARENESS, AS WELL AS TO MODEL AND ASSIST IN FACILITATING A POSITIVE BEHAVIOR CHANGE IN GENERAL. WE MUST CHANGE OUR THINKING BY PROVIDING A DRUG/ALCOHOL/BEHAVIORAL, AND SELF-AWARENESS PROGRAM WHICH PROMOTES WELLNESS OF THE MIND, BODY, AND SPIRIT OF EVERY PERSON. THIS W...